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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>PHILIPPIANS-COLOSSIANS
- OVERVIEW – T3801R</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>CHRISTIAN
LIVING: CHRIST THE CENTER</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>1. Phil 1:29
(1) RELATIONSHIP OF GOSPEL TO SUFFERING. “Because to you it has
been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only :to believe unto him,
but also :to suffer in his behalf.” </b><i>Hallowed be your :name.</i><b>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>2. Phil 2:1-4
(2-3) EXAMPLE OF CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS. “If therefore any
exhortation </b><i><b>is</b></i><b> in Christ, if any consolation of
love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any tender mercies and
compassions, </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>2</b></font><b>
make full my joy, that you think the same, having the same love,
being of one soul, of :one mind; </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>3</b></font><b>
</b><i><b>doing</b></i><b> nothing through faction or through
vainglory, but in :lowliness of mind counting one another better than
themselves; </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>4</b></font><b>
not looking each severally to his :own </b><i><b>things</b></i><b>,
but each severally also to th</b><i><b>os</b></i><b>e of others.”
</b><i>Your :kingdom come.</i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>3. Phil 4:4, 9
(4) JOY AND PEACE: FRUIT OF THE GOSPEL. “Rejoice in </b><i><b>the</b></i><b>
Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice. </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>9</b></font><b>
What </b><i><b>things</b></i><b> you both learned and received and
heard and saw in me, these do: and the God of :peace shall be :with
you.” </b>Joy comes from obedience. <i><b>Your :will be done, As
in heaven, so on earth.</b></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>4. Col
1:9-11(1:1-2:5) PRE-EMINENCE OF CHRIST: WORTHY OF SUFFERING. “For
this </b><i><b>cause</b></i><b> we also, from the day we heard </b><i><b>it</b></i><b>,
do not cease to pray and ask for you, that you be filled with the
knowledge of his :will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>10</b></font><b>
to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing in every good work
bearing fruit, and increasing in :knowledge of :God; </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>11</b></font><b>
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his :glory,
unto all patience and longsuffering with joy.” </b><i>Our :daily
:bread Give us this day.</i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>5. Col 2:8-19
(2:6-3:4) PRE-EMINENT CHRIST: REASONS FOR THIS. “Look out, lest
any shall be that makes spoil of you through the philosophy and vain
deceit, after the tradition of :men, after the elements of the world,
and not after Christ: </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>9</b></font><b>
for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>10
</b></font><b>and in him you are made full, who is the head of all
principality and power.” </b>Save us Father, from speculative
philosophy and theology. Keep us in Christ. <i><b>And forgive us our
:debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</b></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>6. Col 3:16
(3:5-17) RESURRECTION: LEADS US TO PUT ON CHRIST. “Let the word
of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and
admonishing yourselves with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with
:grace singing in your :hearts unto :God.” </b>Yes, we immerse
ourselves in the Word of Christ, and drink it in. We know that You
then Father, make us strong overcomers in Christ, and give us a new
and joyful song. <i><b>And bring us not into temptation.</b></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>7. Col 4:5-6
(3:18-4:18) RELATIVE DUTIES FOR CHRIST’S SAKE. “Walk in wisdom
toward th</b><i><b>os</b></i><b>e without, redeeming the season. </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>6</b></font><b>
Let your :speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you
may know how you ought to answer each one.” </b><i><b>But deliver
us from the evil </b></i><b>one.</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">There
are some students of the Word who think Galatians, Ephesians,
Philippians and Colossians, the 4 Prison Epistles of Paul, are the
acme of all his writings.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
There is no doubt that the lessons, teaching and insights in these 4
are so valuable, that if missing from the Canon of Scripture, would
leave a great hole. Nonetheless, I doubt if the Holy Spirit Himself
would make this judgment. Romans is the very basis of all that Paul
has written under His guidance, and here we understand the great
blessing of “Justification by Faith” that comes from the Finished
Work of Christ.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">But
Paul well understood that apart from </span></span><u><span style="">suffering</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
in this present life, we would fail to enter the insights and
blessing that came to Job because of suffering!</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">And
then Paul discovered that it is possible to live in </span></span><u><span style="">joy</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
in this life even in the midst of suffering and persecution. What a
state to achieve! If we fail to walk in the Joy of the Lord in this
present life, we have emotionally fallen from the high state of
church revelation in Ephesians.</span></span></p>
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And if we fail like the Colossians and slip into speculative
philosophy and theology, then doctrinally we have lost out from that
same high standing. Both Philippians and Colossians are correctives
to restore these believers to the goal as revealed in Ephesians. Many
a revival has lost out by falling into either of these two traps.
Ultimate Reconciliation and failure to understand the extremes in the
“Manifestation of the Sons of God,” led God to lift His blessing
from the 1948 Northern Canada Visitation. - J.A.W.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
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