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February 22 - Colossians 4 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Thursday.
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  It's the 22nd of February and I hope you are going so well.
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  Me. Oh, thanks for asking.
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  Well, as you sit and while walk, bride, lie however you are and
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  listen to this. I am on retreat in the final
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  days before my ordination. Yeah, that's right.
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  You know, you couple of days I get a day and then become the
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  Reverend Sean. And that is still a terrifying
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  and very unfamiliar concept to me.
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  But this is what happens when we live lives of service.
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  We say God have your way with us and he does so boy, this is
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  where I find myself. So I would appreciate your
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  prayers that that God would continue to shape me and mould
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  me for this service so that this doesn't seem so foreign and
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  uncomfortable, but that I can claim God's call and step
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  forward in faith. That's me.
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  How are you going? I hope you're doing well.
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  I hope you're doing well. And although it feels like we've
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  just boarded the the boat with tickets and headed off to
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  Colossae to share this message from Paul.
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  But friends, it's time to leave. Colossa, today is the last of
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  the four chapters of Colossians. We're going to finish it off
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  today as Paul gives his standard encouragements and greetings to
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  the people of this community. Yeah.
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  To remind us that this ministry is not objective.
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  This ministry is subjective. It is about relationships.
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  It is about love, like we heard in yesterday's reading, and
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  about connecting into God's community.
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  What a great encouragement this is today for us.
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  So let's read it together, shall we?
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  Let's read together Colossians, Chapter 4.
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  Masters be just and fair to your slaves.
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  Remember that you also have a Master in Heaven.
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  Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful
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  heart. Pray for us too, that God will
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  give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan
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  concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains.
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  Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should.
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  Live wisely among those who are not believers and make the most
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  of every opportunity. Let your conversation be
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  gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response
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  for everyone. Tickets will give you a full
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  report about how I'm getting along.
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  He is a beloved brother and faithful helper who serves with
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  me in the Lord's work. I've sent him to you for this
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  very purpose, to let you know how we are doing and to
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  encourage you. I'm also sending an SMS, a
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  faithful and beloved brother, one of your own people.
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  He and Tikus will tell you everything that's happening
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  here. Aristocracy who is in prison
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  with me, sends you his greetings, and so does Mark,
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  Barnabas's cousin. As you were instructed before,
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  make Mark welcome if it comes your way.
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  Jesus the 1:00 we call justice also sends his greetings.
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  These are the only Jewish believers among my coworkers.
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  They are working with me here for the Kingdom of God, and what
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  a comfort they have been. Epaphras, a member of your own
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  fellowship and a servant of Christ, Jesus sends you his
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  greetings. He always prays earnestly for
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  you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully
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  confident that you're following the whole will of God.
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  I can assure you that he prays hard for you, and also for the
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  believers and Leo, Decia and Hieropolis.
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  Luke, the beloved Dr, sends his greetings, and so does Demus.
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  Please give my greetings to our brothers and sisters at
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  Laodicea. Enter Nympha and the church that
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  meets in her house. After you have read this letter,
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  pass it on to the church at Laodicea so they can read it
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  too. And you should read the letter I
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  wrote to them and say to Archippus, Be sure to carry out
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  the ministry the Lord gave you. Here is my greeting in my own
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  handwriting poll. Remember my chains.
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  May God's grace be with you and Lord, as Paul writes so
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  earnestly about his community. Lord, we pray for our community
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  that all those with their ears bent to you and their hearts and
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  a posture of prayer, that they would be made strong and
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  perfect, fully confident that they're following your whole
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  will for them in Jesus. Lord, I just pray that you bless
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  all of those praying together, that you hold us close to you,
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  that you grow your spirit in us, that you shape us to be more
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  like you. But most importantly, that our
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  hearts all rest in Jesus and everything that He has done for
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  us and that in Him we are complete and forgiven and Hull
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  and there is nothing else that we need but to rest in
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  everything that Jesus has done for us.
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  Holy Spirit, help that truth so deeply into the foundation of
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  our psyche so that we would never doubt it.
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  I just lift up all of us and place them in your loving care,
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  and it's in your name we pray Jesus.
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  Amen.