Lesson 9 – The Vision of Christ in Colossians

Colossians 1:9 Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease praying and asking on your behalf that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light;

Colossians 2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

1. Christ as the focus of God’s will and economy, as the mystery of God, and as the portion of the saints ¹, ², ³
2. What Christ is toward God ⁴, ⁵, ⁶
3. What Christ is concerning creation ⁷
4. What Christ is in redemption ⁸, ⁹
5. What Christ is in the new creation ¹⁰
6. What Christ is as the body of all shadows ¹¹
7. The experience of Christ ¹², ¹³

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Bible References:

1. Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease praying and asking on your behalf that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, (Colossians 1:9)
2. Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; (Colossians 1:12)
3. That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, (Colossians 2:2)
4. Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation, (Colossians 1:15)
5. And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things; for in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell (Colossians 1:18-19)
6. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, (Colossians 2:9)
7. Because in Him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or lordships or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and unto Him. And He is before all things, and all things cohere in Him; (Colossians 1:16-17)
8. Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; (Colossians 1:13-14)
9. Wiping out the handwriting in ordinances, which was against us, which was contrary to us; and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. Stripping off the rulers and the authorities, He made a display of them openly, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:14-15)
10. And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all. (Colossians 3:10-11)
11. Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the Sabbath, which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ. (Colossians 2:16-17)
12. As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6-7)
13. And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which also you were called in one Body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:15-16)