Thirteen - Edition #7

Colossians 4:5-6

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

OK, so Biblically, what is an outsider that they are refering to here?

Outsiders (adverb):
exō (pronounced: ex'-o):

• Out (side, of doors), literally or figuratively: - away, forth, (with-) out (of, -ward), strange.
• Without, out of doors.

Opportunity (verb)
exagorazō (Pronounced: ex-ag-or-ad'-zo):

• To redeem, by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off, metaphorically of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death, to buy up, to buy up for one’s self, for one’s use, to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own.
• To buy up, that is, ransom; figuratively to rescue from loss (improve opportunity): - redeem.

This is great! I love the definition on opportunity, the part of being free from Mosaic Law... I just have never thought of it that way. It's eye opening. Johnny Out.