Rooted build up in Him

16 June 2007 – Rooted build up in Him

Colossians 2:6-7 (NLT)

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

Col 2:6-7 (NIV)

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

In the Bible Study today, I have read the Scripture that we should be rooted and build up in Christ! What is meant by rooted? How can we build up in Christ? This is the problem that we should study today.

At first, what is meant by rooted? Rooted, as you know, plant all have roots right? So what is the matter about saying we should be rooted? Let me put it like this, did you see a tree stayed at the garden of my house today has gone to the garden of my neighbor’s house tomorrow? Even if you see that, you have to consider a factor that you are in a sweet dream in that moment. The meaning of rooted in this Scripture is that we should ‘plant’ ourselves in a house of God and ‘suck up’ the ‘nutrients’ that the church provided.

In other words, we should stay in the house of God and be planted yourself in it to learn what God wanted you to learn! It is important that we should find a particular church which is primary for us. We shouldn’t have been a ‘jumping crickets’ of churches. We should have a specific church for us to learn the word of God.

Secondly, by doing the first thing, it should have no doubt that we can build up ourselves in Christ, we can strengthen in faith! You only can understand the objective of a church if you are a consistent member of the church, you can only know the direction of a church going if you are planted in a church. Thus, you also will be improved in terms of Spiritual life, experiencing growth to spiritual maturity!

As we understand these two points, we will have a mindset that we can be grow strong in faith and become a faithful servant and sons and daughters of God! As faith can move the mountain, and make a difference!

Franco