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Fuel Your Life! What It Really Means to Be Complete in Christ (Colossians 1) With Jayme Elizabeth · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Hey and welcome back to She Speaks Live podcast.
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  I am thrilled you are here listening to today's episode.
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  I want to start off by asking you some questions like how is
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  Jesus both God and human? Or what does it mean to be
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  complete in Christ? Or what does set your mind on
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  things above actually look like practically?
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  Or what does a Christ centered life really look like from
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  day-to-day? Or how do I live with wisdom and
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  intention? Or what does it mean to work as
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  unto the Lord? And what does it mean to be
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  rooted and built up in Christ? These are all questions that we
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  will be walking through as we go through the next 4 episodes of
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  Fuel Your Life series on the Book of Colossians.
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  You know, as I was praying about what God would have for us next,
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  He clearly put it on my heart to start with the Book of
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  Colossians this year. So here I am, obedient to this
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  assignment. Not sure where it will take us,
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  but He knows because He knows you by name.
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  He knows me by name and He knows why.
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  You hit this button to play this episode and I am thrilled that
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  you are here. You can follow along with me if
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  you want. I'll be reading out of the NLT,
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  which is the new Living Translation.
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  I will also be taking us through a verse to personalize and
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  reflect God's characteristic in the verse and how we can trust
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  Him with the promise He gives to us.
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  So let's begin with a brief overview about Colossians and
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  who is written to. Apostle Paul wrote this letter
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  to the Church of Colossae. One of the many reasons
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  Colossians is such a powerful book of the Bible is that it
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  focuses intensely on Jesus and encourages us to give Him first
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  place in our lives. Paul, at the time of writing
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  this letter, was imprisoned in Rome for his faith in Jesus
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  Christ and had heard about the spiritual growth of the
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  believers of Colossae and some difficulties that the church was
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  actually encountering such as exposed false teaching and doubt
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  on Jesus lordship. This is why throughout
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  Colossians Paul exalts Jesus over everything such as worldly
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  think, king, legalistic living and carnality and urges us to
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  keep Jesus 1st and we will live a joyful and peaceful blessed
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  life. OK so let's dive into Colossians
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  chapter 1 for this episode and we will go through some of the
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  greatest words of the Bible and how it applies to our lives.
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  So Colossians, One begins with Paul clarifying who he is in
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  Christ. It says this letter is from
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  Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ
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  Jesus, and from our brother Timothy.
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  I love that right away it shows that Paul knows where his
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  identity comes from. He says this letter is from
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  Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ
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  Jesus. Now apostle simply means one
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  sent out by God to preach the gospel.
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  And chosen means by the will of God, meaning that Paul was
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  appointed by God and it wasn't just a matter of his own
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  personal aspiration. I mean, how many of us can get
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  called to do something for God? And it clearly wasn't coming
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  from a place of something you wanted or that you were
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  comfortable with, but you did it anyway to obey God, knowing that
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  this is God's will for you. So Paul makes it clear that his
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  call comes from God to spread the good news and emphasizes
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  that the authority of his words came from God.
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  I also love that in verse one, Paul includes Timothy and
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  sending this letter to as it shows this deep bond of
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  brotherhood. And then moving on to verse 2,
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  it says we are writing to God's holy people in the city of
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  Colossae who are faithful brothers and sisters in Christ.
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  May God our Father give you grace and peace.
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  Now Paul addresses the people of Colossae as God's holy people
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  who are faithful brothers and sisters.
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  Right away we see that Paul is writing to the majority of
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  believers, not ones who haven't heard the good news yet.
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  So just in these two verses we see who is writing this Paul
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  inspired by the Holy Spirit, God's words, and then who he's
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  speaking to or writing to, which are us, Us that believe in Jesus
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  Christ. OK, so moving on to verse 3.
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  It says we meaning Paul and Timothy always pray for you and
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  we give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Now Paul right here is giving a great example of the way we
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  should always start out in prayer, giving God thanks like
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  the psalmist said, entering his gates with Thanksgiving and his
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  courts with praise. Now moving on to verse 4, For we
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  have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for
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  all of God's people, verse 5 says, which come from your
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  confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven.
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  You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the
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  truth of the good news. Now Paul is commending the
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  believers for their faith, love and hope.
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  Now verse 6 it says the same good news that came to you is
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  going out all over the world, is bearing fruit everywhere by
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  changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day
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  you first heard and understood the truth about God's wonderful
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  grace. Now Paul is sharing about what
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  the good news does as it spreads throughout, it changes lives, it
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  produces spiritual growth and fruit to the body of Christ.
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  Now moving on to verse 7, it says you learned about the good
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  news from Epiphras, our beloved Co worker.
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  He is Christ's faithful servant and He is helping us on your
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  behalf. Verse 8 says He has told us
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  about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.
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  Now scholars have said that Paul never went to the city of
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  Colossae and Epiphras was the one that got converted to being
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  a Christ follower when Paul was preaching in Ephesus.
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  And then Epiphras went back to his hometown and founded the
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  church in Colossae. Now then continuing in verse
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  eight, it was mentioned the love that the Holy Spirit gave them
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  for each other. The the Christian love, it comes
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  from God, his Spirit. The Word of God speaks about
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  love as an action and attitude, not just an emotion.
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  Love is a byproduct of our new life in Christ.
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  We as believers should act on this love daily, looking after
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  each other, having this outward focus, not just looking inward
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  on our own self-interest. You know, so much of humanity is
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  what's in it for me and it can get so gross.
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  That's why I'm always at this heart posture of asking God,
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  what would you want for others to hear?
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  What do you want this podcast to be airing?
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  What do you want to be talked about on this podcast?
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  God for for others to encourage them.
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  And this is a perfect example this Colossians study, you know,
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  God told me to share this particular book of the Bible.
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  And do I have the full reason why?
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  No, but I do have some reasons why, which I'll get to in a few
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  minutes. So verse 9 says, so we have not
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  stopped praying for you since we first heard about you.
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  We ask God to give you complete knowledge of His will and to
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  give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.
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  Verse 10 says then the way you live will always honor and
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  please the Lord and your lives will produce every kind of good
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  fruit. All the while you will grow as
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  you learn to know God better and better.
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  I just love that verse. So one of the things here that
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  Paul was doing was he was addressing this issue where
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  people were just accumulating, accumulating knowledge, and they
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  thought by accumulating knowledge, that's what made them
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  accepted by God. So he was addressing this, this
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  false way of thinking, because knowledge itself is just empty.
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  It should always proceed with a changed life and right living.
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  God wants us to always be learning more about him.
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  And you use that knowledge not just to hoard it and keep it to
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  ourselves, but to help others. And as I was reading this, it,
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  it came to my spirit that I've got to watch it.
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  When I find myself consuming all this good teaching, all this
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  good teaching at these Christian conferences, I better put that
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  info, that knowledge into some use.
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  God is expecting me to use what I learned to encourage others to
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  not be just as the spectator, but be a participator for
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  growing His Kingdom, 'cause when I do, I'm doing what verse 10
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  says it. It brings God honor, it pleases
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  Him, and it will produce every good fruit and I will grow and
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  learning God better and better for my life.
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  Now jumping into verse 11, it says, we also pray that you will
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  be strengthened with all His glorious power, so you will have
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  all the endurance and patience you need.
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  Let me read that again. We also pray that you will be
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  strengthened with all His glorious power, so you will have
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  all the endurance and patience you need.
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  May you be filled with joy. Verse 12 says, always thanking
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  the Father. He has enabled you to share in
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  the inheritance that belongs to His people who live in the
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  light. Verse 13 For He has rescued us
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  from the Kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom
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  of His dear Son, verse 14, who purchased our freedom and
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  forgave our sins. Now Paul reminds us in verse 11
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  that strength comes from God's power and only by His strength
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  in US will give us all the endurance and patience we need.
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  We have all the power, all the endurance, all the patience we
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  need. I mean, what a powerful verse to
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  meditate on that God through his strength has given it all to us,
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  all endurance, all patience. So the next time we feel like we
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  can't go on, we're ready to quit.
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  It seems too hard or your patience is low, or maybe it's
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  just non existent. You're dealing with a difficult
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  family member or relationship or a timing of something like a
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  spouse or a baby. Remember that through His
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  strength we have been given all we need.
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  Now how do we get His strength? By consecrating on His word,
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  devoting our time in His word and being in His presence.
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  Paul says in the latter part of verse 11.
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  It says, may you be filled with joy, because when we are filled
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  with joy, we have the Lord's strength.
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  It says in Scripture, the joy of the Lord is my strength.
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  And where do we get joy? By being with Him.
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  It's actually a fruit. It's the fruit of the Spirit.
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  So it's in US and we draw it out by spending time with Him,
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  letting His words soak down deep into our hearts and minds.
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  You know, as I was doing this research and study on book of
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  Colossians is specifically in this verse.
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  The Lord just gave me this image picturing our hearts and minds
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  as these sponges and I'm talking these big sponges, these big
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  yellow fat sponges. And God's word is living water.
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  It symbolizes living water, God's word.
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  And as we devote more time in his word, our, our hearts and
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  minds are those sponges soaking it up his living water that it
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  says never runs dry. Jesus said it always satisfies.
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  So the only way we will, we will run dry is if we let those
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  sponges go dry by not participating or partaking in
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  his word on a daily basis. So which drenches our, our
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  spirits. It drenches our mind.
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  We we, our minds get renewed by the word.
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  The word washes through, washes our minds, washes in our hearts.
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  It's it's the sponges that soak up the word of God and it gives
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  us refreshment. It nourishes us.
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  And verse 12, it says be always thankful to the Father.
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  He has given an inheritance to those who belong to Him.
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  The benefits of who we are in Christ that are given to us is
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  our inheritance, which is eternal life, but also
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  everything Jesus paid for on the cross.
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  This includes freedom from sin and judgement giving us
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  spiritual physical healing stated in Isaiah 53, four
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  through 5, first Peter 224, Matthew 817 and we have
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  authority. Jesus said Luke 10/19.
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  He says I have given you all authority to trample over the
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  power of the enemy and in Jesus name Matthew 28 by the finished
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  work of the cross and resurrection, we are the body of
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  Christ and therefore we are seated with him Co heirs with
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  Christ and we find that in Ephesians 26 also inheriting the
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  blessings that I highly encourage everyone to read about
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  in Deuteronomy 28 when we obey and follow God's way.
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  So now let's jump into verse 13. It says he rescued us from
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  darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his Son Jesus.
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  Now that word transferred means to be removed.
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  We are removed from our old creation where we were walking
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  foolishly in darkness under enemies power to to to now being
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  a new creation walking in the light, having Jesus's power,
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  wisdom and direction. Now verse 4 says he not only
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  gave us freedom from sin, but he also forgave our sins.
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  So beautiful, so much to be thankful for.
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  And I can't see why Paul started out in that verse 12 with giving
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  the Father thanks for sending a son for our salvation and the
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  inheritance that we benefit benefit from as being his child.
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  Now here we are about to get locked into one of the strongest
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  statements about the divine nature of Christ found in the
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  Bible. This is where I said I'd share
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  later about why God set my heart on fire to talk about
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  Colossians. So I have been scrolling on
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  Instagram and came across this heretical sign.
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  This certain group of people are putting up these giant
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  billboards, these giant signs in certain States and having these
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  billboards say Jesus is not God. It made the news because a Jesus
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  follower was was committed to erasing the not word so it reads
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  the truth that Jesus is God. So as I saw this, something was
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  stirring in me. Something was happening inside
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  of me. I was sad for what these people
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  believe, that they didn't believe that Jesus was God.
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  And I got this small glimpse as to how Jesus must feel when
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  people don't believe who he is. When when Jesus was conceived in
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  his mother's womb, the Virgin Mary, Jesus was all God and all
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  human. Jesus was present before his
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  birth. He was with God and the Spirit
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  at creation. He was the word made flesh.
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  In fact, John 11 says the word was with God.
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  The word is Jesus and, and, and to back that up, Revelations
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  1913 says he wore Jesus, wore a robe dipped in blood, and his
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  title was the word of God. Now I'm going back to John 11
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  and it says the word was with God and the Word was God.
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  He existed in the beginning with God.
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  God created everything through him and nothing was created
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  except through him. The Word gave life to everything
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  that was created and his life brought light to everyone.
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  The light shines in the darkness and the darkness can never
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  extinguish it. So after experiencing this thing
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  that I saw on Instagram, I had a dream, which full disclaimer, I
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  am not a big dreamer and not one that takes dreams.
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  And I'm like, oh, it must have meaning all, you know, all the
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  time. In fact, I usually forget the
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  dreams that I do have. I don't even know what I dreamed
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  about. But this particular dream was
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  clear that God was showing me to dive into Colossians for this
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  next four weeks on the podcast. Because the next morning, as I
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  got this image of the book of Colossians in my dream, I, I sun
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  through it, of course, first thing in the morning and I
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  turned to Colossians. And I could see why God had me
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  there. The people in Colossians were
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  going through the same misconceptions from false
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  teaching and and Paul was refuting this directly with the
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  following verses that that we are about to read.
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  And just like Paul, we need to share with others that Christ is
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  supreme and that Christ is the visible image of the invisible
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  God. He is Lordship.
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  So let's dive into this passage I'm going to read in verses 15
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  through 20, it says Christ is the visible image of the
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  invisible God. He existed before anything was
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  created and it is supreme over all creation.
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  For through him God created everything in the heavenly
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  realms and on earth. He made the things we can see
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  and the things we can't see, such as Thrones, kingdoms,
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  rulers and authorities in the unseen world.
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  Everything was created through Him and for Him.
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  He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation
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  together. Christ is also the head of the
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  Church, which is His body. He is the beginning, supreme
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  over all who rise from the dead. So He is first in everything.
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  For God, in all His fullness, was pleased to live in Christ,
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  and through him God reconciled everything to Himself.
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  He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of
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  Christ's blood on the cross. Whoa.
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  Everything you want to know about Jesus Christ and what he
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  did there, it's all in that passage.
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  So first, Jesus is the visible image of invisible God.
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  He not only is God, he reflects God and he reveals God to us.
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  He is supreme over all creation. He has all priority and
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  authority. He came from heaven, not from
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  the dust of the earth. And He is word of all.
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  He is completely holy and has authority to judge the world.
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  Therefore Christ is supreme over all creation, including the
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  spirit world. We, like the Colossians, must
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  believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, that He is God.
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  This is the central truth of Christianity.
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  We must oppose those that say Jesus is merely a prophet or a
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  good teacher. And verse 19 and 20, it says God
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  in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ.
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  And through Christ God reconciled everything to
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  himself. He made peace with everything in
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  heaven and on earth by means of Christ's blood on the cross by
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  this verse made peace with everything through Christ's
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  blood. Paul was simply refuting thus
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  Greek ideology that Jesus cannot be human.
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  And God at the same time. Christ was fully human and fully
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  divine. He died on the cross as a human.
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  Christ has always been God and always will be God.
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  When we have Christ, we have all of God in human form.
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  Christ's death provided us a way to God.
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  It cleared away sin that keeps us from having a right standing
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  relationship with God. When we said yes to Christ, we
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  can have this peace knowing that Christ provided reconciliation
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  for us on the cross. Which brings us to this next
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  portion of scripture of what this reconciliation means to us
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  and where we were before we knew Christ as our Savior.
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  Verse 21 through 23, Paul says, this includes you who were once
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  far away from God. You were his enemies, separated
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  from him by your evil thoughts and actions.
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  Verse 22 says, Yet now He has reconciled you to himself
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  through the death of Christ and His physical body.
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  As a result, He has brought you into His own presence and you
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  are wholly and blameless as you stand before Him without a
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  single fault. Again Paul pins and says Christ
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  physical body making it known to any false teaching that Jesus
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  wasn't an Angel or only spirit or some mystical being, but that
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  Jesus suffered death fully as a human for us.
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  So let's though read that Part 1 more time where we brought,
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  where we are brought into his own presence.
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  We are holy and blameless as we stand before him without a
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  single fault. So when God Forgives our sins we
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  are wiped clean from his perspective.
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  It's as if we never sinned. When we approach Him and we
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  repent and ask for forgiveness, it is forgotten.
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  God sees us as holy and blameless, without fault.
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  Not by our perfection, but what Christ did on the cross to
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  reconcile us with God. That's God's grace.
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  It's this unmerited favor. We didn't have to earn it.
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  It's a gift given to us. This is deep and something we
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  can so easily forget or dismiss how God sees us.
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  So verse 23 it says, but you must continue to believe this
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  truth and stand firmly in it. Don't drift away from the
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  assurance you received when you heard the good news.
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  The good news has been preached all over the world and I, Paul,
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  have been appointed as God's servant to proclaim it.
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  We have been reconciled with God.
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  We can enjoy this new spiritual status and stay standing on the
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  good news, the truth of the Bible.
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  And so now we come to this last portion of the chapter, verses
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  24 through 29. Paul says I am glad when I
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  suffer for you and my body, for I am participating in the
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  sufferings of Christ that continue for His body, the
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  church. Paul is saying here that he is
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  participating in the sufferings of Christ, that that suffering
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  is those that oppose the redemption that Christ suffered
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  for us. It's the suffering that the
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  persecution of his people in a world that is hostile towards
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  the message of Christ. And then Paul continues and
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  says, God has given me the responsibility of serving his
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  church by proclaiming his entire message to you.
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  This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past,
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  but now has been revealed to God's people.
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  For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ
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  are for you Gentiles too. And this is the secret Christ
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  lives in you. This gives you assurance of
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  sharing His glory. Verse 28 So we tell others about
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  Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the
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  wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God,
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  perfect in their relationship to Christ.
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  Verse 29 That's why I work and struggle so hard depending on
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  Christ's mighty power that works within me.
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  Now I wanted to clarify going back to verse 28 where it says
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  we want to present them to God, perfect in the relationship to
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  Christ. This word perfect means complete
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  or mature. Paul is saying hey we want
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  others to have a spiritual mature relationship with Christ.
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  This is why we tell others about Christ and the wisdom that God
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  gives us so we can impart unto others.
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  And like Paul said, reminding us that it's based on Christ mighty
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  power that works within us. Now I would love to finish up by
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  pulling up one of these verses for us to personalize.
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  So let's go back to the verses 9 and 10.
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  So say this with me. God will give me complete
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  knowledge of His will and will give me spiritual wisdom and
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  understanding. Then the way I live will always
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  honor and please the Lord, and my life will produce every kind
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  of good fruit. All the while I will learn to
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  know God better and better. I mean, how beautiful is this
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  verse when we just personalize it?
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  We take heed, take this personal truth and stand on it, and then
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  we look for God's characteristics.
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  In the Scripture verse, I see God's wisdom.
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  In this verse. He will give me spiritual wisdom
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  and understanding, and He will give us knowledge.
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  He's a good father that God produces every kind of good
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  fruit. And so we got to remember that
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  God's word is his will, and we have all we need to get the
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  wisdom and understanding from it.
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  It says in James, you need wisdom.
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  Ask and he will give you all the wisdom you need.
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  God has given us believers a precious inheritance.
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  Through Christ, we have been forgiven.
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  We have been rescued from sin and darkness.
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  We've been given eternal life with Him.
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  Jesus is Lord and we are His to share in His glory.
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  So if you've never actually made the decision to follow Jesus
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  Christ, I can't think of a better time than invite you
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  right now. I want to take you through
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  Romans 10/9 through 11. It says if you openly declare
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  that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised
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  him from the dead, you will be saved.
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  For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right
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  with God. It is by openly declaring your
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  faith that you are saved. As the scripture tells us,
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  anyone who trusts in Him will never be disgraced.
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  Verse 13 says, for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
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  will be saved. So if you've never prayed this
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  prayer out loud and you want Jesus in your life and you want
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  him to be your Savior, then let's pray this prayer together
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  here. Say thank you Father, for I
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  declare that Jesus is Lord and I believe in my heart that God
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  raised Jesus from the dead. For as your scripture says,
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  believing in my heart and declaring my faith, I will be
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  saved. So I thank you that from here on
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  out, I'm made new from sending your son Jesus Christ to die and
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  be resurrected so I can live with you forever.
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  And Jesus mighty name, Amen. So stay tuned for the next
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  episode as we walk through chapter 2 of flashes together.
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  And as always, I love feedback. So let me know how you're loving
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  the study. Until next time, God bless you.
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  Hey there. Thank you for listening to this
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