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.........By Dr Ogaga O.David
Col.1:21. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.
Alienated=apallotriow apallotrioo, ap-al-lot-ree-o'-o = to estrange away, i.e. (passively and fig) to be non-participant:-- alienate, be alien
Mind=dianoia dianoia, dee-an'-oy-ah = deep thought, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implic, its exercise:-- imagination, mind, understanding.
The conscious thought and desire . mentality.Mind is simply the faculty of reason.
Reprobate=miscreant, a person without moral scruples, depraved, immoral, perverse, perverted..marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right, proper or good.
Rom 10: 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word (RHEMA) of faith, which we preach;
= kardia, kar-dee'-ah = kar (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (fig) the thoughts or feelings (mind);
Col. 2:9. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Complete=plhrow pleroo, play-ro'-o = to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (fig) to furnish
Col.2:6 As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.
7 Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
8 See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men's ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).
9 For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature].
10 And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].
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Eph.1: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, {his mighty power: Gr. the might of his power}
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
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