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  Colossians chapter one. Let us pray.
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  Our Father, who is in heaven, hallowed be thy name, Thy
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  Kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth just as it is in
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  heaven. Give us this day Our Daily
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  Bread. Forgive us for our trespasses,
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  as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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  Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
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  For yours is the power and the Kingdom and the glory forever
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  and ever. Amen.
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  Well let's start in verse one. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
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  by the will of God and Timothy our brother.
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  What's he talking about here? This was Pauls customary
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  greeting at the beginning of his letter.
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  And Paul wants the church here in Colossae, which he has never
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  met. He wants them to know that he is
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  writing to them by the authority of his apostleship.
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  And he did not choose this apostleship.
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  But God is the one that chose him out of the muck in the mire
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  and pulled him up by his bootstraps and told him what he
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  was to do and what he must suffer for his name's sake.
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  And he's got Timothy with him who was like a son to Paul.
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  And perhaps Timothy was writing the letter as Paul or rated it
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  to, to the Saints and faithful brothers in Christ which are at
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  Colossae, Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father and
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Paul is wanting them
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  to take hold of this grace and this peace, and not to be duped
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  by these Judaizers and these legalizers and by these Mystics
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  and this heretical teaching that's creeping in to the church
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  there in Colossae, where people are trying to present a deeper
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  level of understanding of God. And Paul here is going to paint
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  this beautiful picture throughout this book of
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  Colossians. He's going to let them know that
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  the gospel of Jesus Christ is simple, but it's too simple for
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  mankind. And so we try to complicate it
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  by adding all kinds of different requirements.
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  And I want you to know, friends, that the most learned man can
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  approach God and never exhaust the word of God.
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  But it it is also for the simple man who has a very low
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  intellect. They can come to God by the same
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  way, and they can understand the saving knowledge of our Lord
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  Jesus Christ. And they can be made right with
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  God through the spilled blood of Jesus.
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  And that's what Paul wants them to know, that we focus on Christ
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  and Christ alone, not on all the external workings, that we try
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  to measure our standing with God.
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  And then we also try to Lord over others because of how super
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  spiritual that we are in comparison to them.
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  This Vainglory that these false brothers here in Colossae were
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  trying to push upon the church at Colossians three, we give
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  thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
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  always for you. So even though Paul didn't
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  establish this church, he always made mention of them in his
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  prayers. What unity it is to belong to
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  the family of God. For since we heard of your faith
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  in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have to all the
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  Saints, that's what coming to the Lord Jesus Christ produces
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  is love for your fellow man, love for your brothers and
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  sisters. All this division and discord,
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  disunity is not from God. This is a deception of the enemy
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  that tries to push us into different camps, tries to push
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  us into different denominations. We need to take hold of the
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  simple gospel. We need to take hold of the
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  simple truths that there is only one way to the Father and that
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  is through Jesus Christ. We need to be rooted and
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  grounded in the Word of God, friends.
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  We need to be established in the Word of God, friends, so that we
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  don't fall for the counterfeit when it tries to slide across
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  the table. 5 for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven.
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  Where have you heard before in the word of the truth of the
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  gospel? That is what Paul wants them to
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  have is this hope. And we learned all the way back
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  in First Corinthians when he's talking about faith, hope and
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  love. And the greatest of these is
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  love. And you can see it intermingled
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  in Paul's teaching all throughout all the books that he
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  was writing is this theme of faith, hope and love.
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  And here we can see this hope which is laid up for them.
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  Listen, friends, we need hope now so much because this world
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  looks very hopeless when you stare at all the things that are
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  happening all around the world. It's easy to fall into despair.
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  It's easy to fall into discouragement and fear,
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  friends. But when you have this hope,
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  this hope that Jesus Christ is coming back, the hope that we
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  belong to God Almighty and that we are made right with Him, and
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  that this is not our home and that we are pilgrims passing
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  through a strange land, when you have the hope of heaven,
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  friends, when you have the hope of eternity, friends, then we
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  can get through all of the things that are happening all
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  around us today. 6 which has come unto you as it is in all
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  the world, and brings forth fruit as it does also in you,
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  since the day you heard of it and knew the grace of God.
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  In truth, God has to give you this grace in order for you to
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  take hold of the belief, friends, and have faith,
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  friends. And here Paul is celebrating
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  that this church in Colossae has been well established and that
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  Paul can look at the fruit that they are producing and see that
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  they are genuine in their approach to God.
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  And he wants to safeguard them from all the ravenous wolves
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  that desire to come in and tear them apart with all this New Age
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  thinking and all of this mysticism and this heretical
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  idea of asceticism where they need to abstain from all kinds
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  of things and they need to observe certain days.
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  And Paul saying, far be it from you.
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  Don't let them bewitch you. Don't let you start falling into
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  legalism whenever you were saved by grace.
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  Friends through Faith 7 as you, I also learned of Apaphras, our
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  dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of
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  Christ. This Apaphras perhaps was the
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  one who established the church there in Colossae, and it is
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  believed that this Apaphras had heard one of Paul's direct
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  teachings in the school of Tyrannus that we learned about
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  in the book of Acts. And then he went into Colossae
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  and established this church. And Paul is commending him and
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  giving him his denotion as a faithful minister of the true
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  gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul writes this short
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  little letter to encourage them and to give them sound doctrine
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  that they can hold on to, that they can bank on and build their
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  life upon the blood of Jesus Christ shed for them, and that
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  Jesus Christ is God. And if they'll just look to
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  Jesus Christ, they shall be saved.
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  A who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
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  So this Apophis was a go between.
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  He was a conduit and he was spreading Paul's message to the
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  church there in Colossae, but he was also sharing with Paul all
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  of the beautiful things that were happening within that
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  church. 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it,
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  do not cease to pray for you that and to desire that you
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  might be filled with the knowledge of his will and all
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  wisdom and spiritual understanding.
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  So Paul here is going to give them this rich tapestry of faith
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  and what it is that they can take hold of and what it is that
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  they can build their life upon. And what does he say?
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  Ever since he heard of the love that they have, then he has been
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  praying for them. And he desires that they will be
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  filled with the knowledge of Jesus's will, and that they will
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  be filled with the knowledge of all of Jesus's wisdom and all
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  the spiritual understanding that they can hold. 10 that you might
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  walk worthy of the Lord unto all, pleasing, being fruitful in
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  every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.
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  So what does Paul want for this church in Colossae?
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  He wants them to be strengthened, friends.
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  He wants them to increase in the knowledge of God.
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  He wants them to be fruitful in everything that they do.
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  He wants them to be pleasing to the Lord Almighty.
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  He wants them to walk worthy of the calling that has been placed
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  upon them and not to be debased and not to slip off into moral
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  sin and moral compromise. Friends 11 strengthened with all
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  might, according to his glorious power unto all, patience and
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  long-suffering with joyfulness. That is what you get when you
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  come to the Lord Jesus Christ. You get strengthened with Jesus
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  might, you get strengthened, and you have his glorious power.
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  You're strengthened and he gives you patience.
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  Jesus Christ gives you long-suffering, and he gives you
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  the joy that this world cannot take away from you. 12 giving
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  thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers
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  of the inheritance of the Saints in light.
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  Think about your inheritance, friends.
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  You're going to inherit eternal life with Jesus Christ.
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  You're going to be in the New Jerusalem.
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  You're going to have an immortal body, an uncorruptible body that
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  does not fade away. It does not pass away.
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  And when you have all of this in light, friends, you can live
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  victorious and valiantly here on this earth.
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  You do not need to be a victim, friends.
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  We do not need to have a victim mentality of woe is me and look
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  at all the things that are happening.
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  We need to know that we know that we know that we know that
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  when we die, we're going to bust heaven wide open, friends.
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  We're going to receive our immortal bodies, friends, and
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  you do not need to be afraid, friends.
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  Don't live in that. He wants you to have the
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  inheritance of the Saints in light.
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  He is there. He is the light friends, and He
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  wants us to give thanks and to enter into His courts with
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  praise and Thanksgiving friends and be joyful, have tons of joy
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  and tons of gratitude. And that is a sure mark of a
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  blood bought, born again believer who has all of his sins
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  covered and he does not need to worry about where he stands with
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  Almighty God 13 who has delivered us from the power of
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  darkness and has translated us into the Kingdom of His dear
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  Son. Have you been delivered and
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  translated friends, or are you still stuck in the muck and the
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  mire? Are you still stuck in the sin
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  repetition? Are you still stuck in the ways
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  of the world? Are you still stuck in the
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  carnality and the fleshy things? Are you still stuck in the love
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  of mammon or have you been delivered and translated
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  friends? Because if you have been robed
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  in His righteousness, then you can walk with Him in the light,
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  because He is in the light and He exposes all the darkness.
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  And we do not have to live a life of thieving and lying.
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  We do not have to live in deception.
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  Friends, you need to understand this is that when you come to
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  the Lord Jesus Christ and He gives you His Holiness and His
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  righteousness, that you can be in the light and you do not need
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  to be afraid of how God views you because He only sees what
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  Jesus did and nothing that you were doing.
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  That is being translated and being delivered.
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  And death has no hold on you and death has no claim on you and
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  sin has been completely covered and blotted out, friends.
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  And that is what it means to be completely translated and
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  delivered from the powers of hell and darkness.
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  And they cannot attach any of their despicable claims upon
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  you, because you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, 14 in whom we
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  have redemption through His blood.
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  Even the forgiveness of sins. Even the forgiveness of sins.
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  You owed a billion gazillion, trillion dollar debt that you
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  could never pay off in 100,000 lifetimes.
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  You could never pay off the sin debt that you incurred.
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  You racked up so much debt that you could never pay it back.
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  But Jesus Christ says paid in full by his perfect blood that
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  he shed on Calvary for you friends, and that is the only
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  way that we're ever going to stand before a holy God.
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  It is nothing that we do. And that is what Paul wants this
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  church in Colossae to understand, that these people
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  were creeping in saying hey, there's a whole lot more to
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  learn than what you've been given.
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  And also they wanted them to start to believe that they could
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  please God by these out workings of their religious activity.
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  And Paul says, far be it from you to fall for all of this
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  heresy. It is Jesus's blood and Jesus's
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  blood alone that makes us right with God Almighty.
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  It is not about the activity. It is not about the out workings
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  or what days you observe to worship God.
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  It is not about what food you eat.
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  It is not about what clothes you wear.
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  It is not about what version you read.
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  It is all about the blood of Jesus Christ covering you.
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  That's the only way that we're ever going to make it there,
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  friends. And we've made it about so much
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  more. We've made it about all of these
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  things, these traditions, these ceremonies, this pomp and this
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  circumstance. We've made it all about the
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  sacraments, and we've made it all about the steeple.
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  We've made it all about the color of the carpet.
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  We've made it all about what kind of attire we should wear.
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  And far be it from us to lose track of the simple gospel that
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  Jesus blood makes us at one with God Almighty, and that is the
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  only way that we're going to stand before God. 15 Who is the
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  image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature
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  that is Jesus Christ, friends. He is God, Jesus Christ is The
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  only way we can look at God is when we look at Jesus Christ.
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  We can see God when we see his son.
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  Friends And he came to this earth as a little baby, as a
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  human being, and he came as the child of a Carpenter, and he
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  came and he had Immaculate Conception, Friends and born in
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  a Manger, born and laid in a a feeding through.
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  And then he came and he lived a perfect sinless life.
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  And when we look at Jesus Christ and we look at his words, we
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  look at what he said, we see God Almighty, we can see the
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  invisible God made manifest through the life of Jesus Christ
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  and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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  If you want to know God, you just look at Jesus, friends, and
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  here you can see that he was the first born of every creature.
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  And this is talking about how he put on humanity, friends.
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  And the same resurrection power that raised Jesus Christ from
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  the dead will raise you and will raise me up on the last day. 16
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  four By him were all things created that are in heaven and
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  that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
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  Thrones or dominions or principalities or ours.
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  All things were created by him and for him.
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  This is a direct claim of Jesus Christ is God.
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  Jesus Christ created everything. Jesus Christ didn't just come
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  from God, but Jesus is God, friends, and he created all
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  things. He is uncreated friends.
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  It wasn't as if, and this is where the Colossae's were
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  getting mixed up and turned around by all these ravenous
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  wolves, that we're trying to come in and teach them.
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  All this new teaching is not as if when Jesus was born here on
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  this earth that He put on His deity.
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  No, He is preeminent. He is from everlasting and He
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  created everything and that is whenever, if you go back to
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  Genesis, it says let us make them in our image.
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  He is uncreated friends, and you can see that He has complete and
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  full power over every demonic entity, over all ranks of angels
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  fallen or those that are obedient.
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  He has full rank over every single molecule, every single
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  thing that is spoken, and it is all for him and to him and by
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  him. 17 And he is before all things, and by Him all things
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  consist, if we'll focus on the Lord Jesus Christ above.
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  Every single thing in the entire universe bows at the name that
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  is above all names, Jesus Christ. 18 And he is the head of
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  the Body, the Church, who is the beginning, the first born from
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  the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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  Friends, think about who we are attached to.
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  We are attached to the one who created everything, seen and
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  unseen, and that is who we serve.
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  And what great blasphemy and what great error we commit
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  whenever we try to intermingle the world into this amazing fact
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  that the Creator of everything, seen and unseen, is who we
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  belong to. Far be it from us to try to mix
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  in the systems of the world with the holiness of God Almighty.
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  And when you finally figure out the power that is available to
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  you from Jesus Christ, you will start to understand the purpose
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  for the church capital C, Not for the heretical church, the
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  apostate church that's intermingling all kinds of the
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  world system into it. Far be it from us to ever fall
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  for that trickery. And that is what Paul wants this
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  church at Colossae to understand.
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  Friends 19 For it pleased the Father, that in him should all
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  the fullness dwell. Every single thing in all the
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  entire universe was made by Jesus Christ, and it pleased God
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  that it would all point to Jesus Christ.
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  Friends And there was a time where it pleased the Father to
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  crush his Son. And now because of his
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  obedience, it pleases the Father for everything to point towards
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  Jesus Christ. 20 and having made peace through the blood of his
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  cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto himself, by him, I
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  say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.
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  So you can see this reconciling work of Christ and you can see
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  that there was this supernatural exchange on the cross, friends,
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  where Jesus Christ made us at one with God and Jesus Christ
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  bought us back paid in full. We were slaves to sin and self.
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  We were slaves to the devil, we were slaves to death.
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  And then here we can see that Jesus Christ, because of his
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  obedience and because of his innocent life, He bought us
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  back, friends, and he reconciled us to God, and we could be made
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  right with God. And we can stand before an
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  almighty God because of what Christ did, and nothing that we
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  21 and you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your
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  mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled.
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  So all that, friends, is under the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  When you come to Jesus honestly and openly, when you come to
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  Jesus, he takes your sin and you take his perfect life.
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  Friends, it is a scandalous exchange and that is what you
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  need to understand of this reconciliation.
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  We were dead and we were lost and Jesus was perfect.
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  But it pleased the Father for Jesus perfect life to be imputed
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  onto you and onto me so that we can one day stand before God and
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  He will not see our sin. He will not see our trespasses,
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  friends, He will only see the perfect life of Jesus Christ. 22
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  in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and
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  unblameable and unreprovable in His sight.
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  That is what it's going to look like when you stand before God
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  Almighty. When you finally catch a glimpse
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  of God's holiness and your sinfulness, this verse should
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  make you want to jump for joy. If you think that you can work
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  your way into heaven, then perhaps this verse doesn't mean
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  much to you because you think of yourself as a good person.
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  But I want you to know that all of your righteousness is filthy
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  rags in comparison to the perfect life that Jesus lived
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  and the holiness of God Almighty.
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  And one day you're going to stand before God.
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  If you will clothe yourself in Jesus's perfect life, his
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  righteousness, then one day when you stand before a holy God, he
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  will see you holy, blameless, unreproachable, as he looks upon
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  you. Friends, 23 If you continue in
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  the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the
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  hope of the gospel which you have heard, and which was
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  preached to every creature which is under heaven.
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  Whereof I Paul and made a minister.
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  So that is what you need to understand is the gospel of
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  Jesus Christ has gone out to the whole world and there have many
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  who have heard it. And they started to go that way.
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  But because of the bird that came and snatched the seed or
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  because of the shallow soil, or because of the tares that come
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  up and choke out the fruitfulness, they've gone back
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  to their own selfish vanity and prideful ways.
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  But he's telling the church here at Colossae if they will
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  continue to break up fallow ground, if they'll continue to
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  be fruitful, if they'll continue on in it, it will prove that
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  they belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Who now rejoice in my
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  sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the
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  afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake, which
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  is the Church, that is the Church that is being persecuted,
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  that is the martyrdom, that is those that are being afflicted,
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  for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And what you do to his little children, you do to Him,
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  friends. But I want you to know that the
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  gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is complete, and nothing can be
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  added to it, and nothing can be taken from it.
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  It is finished to tell us, Thy friends, and it's paid in full
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  and we add nothing to it, friends, and we take nothing
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  from it. We just learn obedience and we
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  do whatever it is that He is calling us into, no matter how
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  scary it may be. You go and you charge the hill
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  and you go into the darkest places, and you tell every
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  single person that you meet about what the Lord Jesus Christ
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  has done for you, friends, and you share the good news with
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  those, regardless of the type of soil that it falls upon,
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  regardless of if they grow and mature into disciples.
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  You share it with them regardless.
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  Because we plant, we scatter, but the Lord gives the increase.
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  25 whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of
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  God, which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of God.
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  We are closer to Jesus's return today than we were yesterday,
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  and Paul here wants them to understand.
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  He has mentioned it twice here, that this ministry was revealed
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  to him and he is wanting to be an encouragement to this church
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  here. 26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from
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  generations, but now is made manifest to his Saints.
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  We know that it was hidden before, but through the ministry
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  of Paul the apostle. It was God's plan.
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  It was Jesus's pleasure to reveal it to the apostle Paul.
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  And we are the ones who are entrusted with the complete Word
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  of God from Genesis to Revelation.
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  And there were many prophets of old who longed to see this day.
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  And we know that the least in the Kingdom of God is greater
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  than any of the prophets born of woman.
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  And that is what you need to understand.
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  It pleased God to reveal all of these things to us.
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  And what a great responsibility you and I have to have the
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  completed work of God Almighty, His spoken word entrusted to us,
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  to go out into all the world and teach every single person that
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  we meet all about the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And we can see that the Gentiles and the Jews are coming in
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  together. And that is a beautiful picture
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  that was just revealed to Paul and now he is teaching it to the
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  church here in Colossae 27 to whom God would make known what
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  is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,
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  which is Christ in you, The hope of glory?
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  That is what we need to understand this mystery.
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  We was always there, but it was not the timing for it to be
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  revealed. And now with Paul coming on the
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  scene, this learned man, a Pharisee of the Pharisee, it
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  please God to reveal it to someone who could house it and
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  who could teach it in the ways that Paul did.
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  And we need to know that the hope that we have is Christ
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  living in US and it is God's glory all around us, friends.
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  And we can see it in part, but one day we will see it in full.
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  But it is enough to give us hope and it is enough to push us one
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  more day towards our eternal home, this hope of glory. 28
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  whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in
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  all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Jesus
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  Christ. That is the only way that we're
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  ever going to be presented. Perfect is in the blood of Jesus
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  Christ. And when you finally understand
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  the good news that one day you can stand before an Almighty God
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  and none of your sins will ever be counted against you.
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  When you find certainly understand that it'll make you
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  want to tell it to every single person that you meet.
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  You will not hold back. You will not hold the keys to
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  life back from any single person that you meet, no matter how
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  deplorable and despicable their background is, no matter how
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  lost they seem. We tell every single person that
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  we meet all about what Jesus has done for us.
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  We'll end on 29 whereunto. I also labor, striving according
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  to his working, which works in me mightily.
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  Can you say that today St. that the Lord is working mightily in
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  your life? Or do you feel as if you are
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  just a innocent bystander on the sidelines watching life pass you
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  by? Perhaps it is time, it is high
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  time, to put down the childish things and to mature and to grow
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  into the calling that God has placed on your life so that you
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  can see God working mightily through your life, your little
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  menial 100 years that you may get on this planet.
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  God desires to use you mightily to reach into the darkness and
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  pull people out of their hopelessness and despair and
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  their depression and anxiety, friends and all of the things
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  that plague this world. We have the answer in His name
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  is Jesus Christ, and it is high time for us as Christians to
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  wake up, O sleeper, to fill our lamps and to go out into the
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  harvest. Let's not be duped.
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  Let's not be LED astray. Let's stay rooted and grounded
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  and built up in the complete, infallible, inerrant authority
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  of God's Word. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.