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Hi Michael, just read your post, very interesting, and good....I will study the scriptures more, before I do a comment.....ok..
Yes,we all can learn from each other, by the leading of the Holy Spirit......
God bless, as you work in HIS vineyard.....
With God's Love...........
2006-09-07 22:48:27 Posted by Lois ()
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I haven't spent much time on this, but through my own studies, I am starting to perhaps think that we have the same emotions and feelings that God and Christ had. How we feel when we are rejected, is the same why Christ would have felt. The way He asked "why have you forsaken me?" is the same why sometimes we might think God has abandoned us. The anger Jesus felt as he turned over the tables in the temple is the same anger we sometimes feel. Jesus had all the feelings and emotions we feel, I just think he handled them better. He surrendered it to God, he prayed. He knew how to renew his mind.
To me, His sufferings don't only refer to His cruxification, but the emotional side of being mocked, scorned, scoffed at, humilated etc etc throught his life.
Then, the other side is He lives in me, so, within me, I have what he has, but I also have His resurrection and the power that goes with it. I have the reason why He died living inside of me.
Now if only I knew how to make it all work (lol) - or should we rather sit back and wait for God to move us...................
Not studied, just thoughts, but wish I did have the answers
God bless
2006-09-08 03:37:50 Posted by Lee ()
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Hi Michael,
Paul's Afflictions!
3,4 - Blessed, a term of Adoration and Praise..
(The Father of Mercies) The mercies in view here include everything from deliverence from the world, sin and satan to participation in sonships, light and life..The stress is that the Father is Characterized by Mercy...
5. So our consolation also aboundeth by Christ: as the problem increase, so does the consolation(Comfort). Both in this case, are measured by this experience of Christ.
Col.1-24--The affliction of Christ: Since Paul is a member of the body of Christ, the Lord himself suffers when His Apostle suffers. These affliction are more of Christ's
than Paul--Rather than detracting from his ministry, Paul afflictions actually enchansed it, as they exist for His body's sake, which is the Church...
6-7- If we are afflicted it is for your good, or if we are comforted it is for your good--everything else in these verses is subordinated to these two main ideas...Paul does not glory in suffering in itself. But he knows that suffering for Christ identifies us with Him and with His Church.
Romans 8:17 --And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together......
All believers share all of the inheritance together, they also have the promise of glorification.
THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT!!!!
God's blessing!!!
With God's Love............
2006-09-08 23:46:34 Posted by Lois ()
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I want to thank the two ladies for your sincere and thoughtful responses to my query! Only two replies and that from two women. Where are the men of God? No wonder so many women are putting on the pants in the churches today.
I'll give my perspective on the topic soon, hopefully all the richer with the help of these blessed ladies. Thank-you, sisters!
2006-09-09 00:14:11 Posted by Michael ()
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Intellectually speaking comfort to me is to know the devils work constitutes man. And speaking of feelings comfort is to know Jesus stood up after having been crucified. That really constituted man. Any how we grow upon our sufferings. We understand more, and so we are more and more able to comfort others. Still the word in Col. 1:24 is a bit mysterious to me: How can one be perfect in Christ? How can any suffering do? An even so, maybe this is exactly what it means to be a Christian? Being about to be perfect?
2006-11-20 17:05:47 Posted by awellingsen ()
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