Philippians 3:8-11
I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 4:7
The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19
My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:25-27
I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness,26 the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ
Colossians 2:9,10
In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
· Work for Christ has sometimes drawn away from Christ and taken the place of fellowship with Him. Work can sometimes give a form of godliness without the power. As you work, abide in Christ.
· The union with the Son of God is a life union; we are in very deed one with Him—our prayer ascends as His prayer. It is because we abide in Him that we can ask what we will, and it is given to us.
· His heart yearns after you, seeking your fellowship and your love. Were it needed, He could die again to possess you. As the Father loved the Son, and could not live without Him, could not be God the blessed without Him, so Jesus loves you. His life is bound up in yours; you are to Him inexpressibly more indispensable and precious than you ever can know. You are one with Himself. “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you.” What a love!
· Is it possible, can I always abide in His love? Listen how that love itself supplies the only means for the abiding in Him. It is faith in that love which will enable us to abide in it. If this love be indeed so divine, such an intense and burning passion, then surely I can depend on it to keep me and to hold me fast. Then surely all my unworthiness and feebleness can be no hindrance.
· If this love be indeed so divine, with infinite power at its command, I surely have a right to trust that it is stronger than my weakness and that with its almighty arm it will clasp me to its bosom and suffer me to go out no more.
· Know that you are one with Him, one in the unity of nature. By His birth He became man, and took your nature that He might be one with you. By your new birth you become one with Him and are made partaker of His divine nature. The link that binds you to Him is as real and close as bound Him to the Father, the link of a divine life.
· Soul, be still and listen; let every thought be hushed until the word has entered your heart too: “Child! I love thee, even as the Father loved me.”
· Believers are the revelation of Christ on earth. They cannot be this unless there be perfect unity, so that the world can know that He loves them and has sent them. But they can be it if Christ loves them with the infinite love that gives itself and all it has and if they abide in that love.
· Our union with Jesus Christ is not a thing of the intellect or sentiment, but a real vital union in heart and life. The holy life of Jesus, with His feelings and disposition, is breathed into us by the Holy Spirit.
· The progressive renewal of the Holy Spirit leads to growing like-mindedness to Christ; then comes a delicate power of spiritual perception—a holy instinct—by which the soul “quick of understanding (marg. quick of scent) in the fear of the Lord,” knows to recognize the meaning and the application of the Lord’s commands to daily life in a way that remains hidden to the ordinary Christian.