Ikanoo

It was good to get back to class today. The group is blessed by two good leaders, and the men in the group are picking up where we left off. God truly is amazing, and is doing amazing things with our group of men.

So I started reading through Colossians today, and God put me in a box. The verse that got me is: Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[a] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

I started to wonder what he Paul meant by qualified. So I decided to do a word study on it.

Qualified comes from the Greek, ikanoo, meaning:
1. to make sufficient, render fit
a. to equip one with adequate power to perform duties of one

Also used in 2 Co 3:6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Digging deeper ikanoo comes from ikanoß meaning :
1. sufficient
a. many enough, enough
b. sufficient in ability, i.e. meet, fit

Because God qualified us through his Son, he gave us the Sprit so that we can be competent in the teaching of his word. He wants to equip us with is word, that is more the adequate, to be men of God.

MV Week 2: Eph 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.