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 . .  . . .    "His good pleasure that all the fullness of deity dwells in His Son, Jesus" . . Col. 1:19 . . AMEN!!!!

What a glorious Spoken Word from our God!!

and so we cling to Jesus, and His Glorious Person, that, of "His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace" . .. John 1:16 .

. . . Holy Spirit speaks, above all, that God's Son is first place in all things!! Oh, How we need the Word of God to draw us near the Lord we adore!!!

'You shall love
the Lord your God
with all your heart,
and with all your soul,
and with all your mind.'
This is the great
and foremost commandment.
And a second is like it,
'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets." . . . Matthew 22:37-40
 

John Owen, the Puritan, expresses this, I think well,
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"The revelation made of Christ
in the blessed gospel
is far more excellent,
more glorious,
more filled with rays
of divine wisdom
and goodness
than the whole creation,

Without this knowlwdge,
the mind of man,
however priding itself
in other inventions and discoveries,
is wrapped up in darkness and confusion.

This therefore deserves
the severest of our thoughts,
the best of our meditations,
and our utmost diligence in them.

For if our future blessedness
shall consist in living where He is,
and beholding of His glory,
what better preparation
can there be for it
than a constant previous
contemplation of that glory
as revealed in the gospel,
that by a view of it
we may be gradually transfomed in the same glory?
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"-The Glory of Christ", John Owen