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intro
The Apostle Paul had never actually been to Colosians, his fellow minister Epaphras had, under pauls instruction, stared and pastored this church.
The church was doing well, but harships and preassures where slowing coming in.
And its in the face of these btroubles that God encourages them.
As you can see, they had faith, they had love, they had the gospel - they were doing well by God’s grace.
Paul then says:
What conflict?
The burden of knowing that his dear spiritual children were facing difficulties and hardships.
As parents, we care aboout the well being of our chiuldren, and we know that part of growing up if facing challanges, failing and learing to loose, but dispite this, we dont shelter them, but we comfort them.
And this is what God is doing to all his children - God cares for you, he loves you, he is concerned for you.
And while he gracuiously shields us from many hurts, he does not spare us from pain all pain and hardships, we must grow and we need them to growe - however, He is always with us, to carry and comfort us.
And this is what the message is all aboiut.
This amazing passages tells us how our hearts can be comforted.
The word comforted in the greek carries with it the power of encouragment.
God wants you to not only have his wonderful peace, but to never stop moning forward, to be comforted and encouraged.
Notice what happens next:
When your hearts are comforted by God, your hearts are knit together in love.
Horizontal peace always created vertical peace.
Then we are launched into an amaxing truth of God:
Lets break this down, step by step:
1: All riches of the Full assurance of Understanding
Lets start with that word “understanding”, in the greek its the word “prehensile” - its where we get out word prehensile - monkeys have a prehensile tail - which means that their tails and wrap around and hold on.
Thats the key, wrap around and hold on.
Assurance - Which means to have confidence in God’s grace.
- Assurance is ours when we can wrap our heards around and hold on to God’s Word.
Balls explanation
Small - easy - can hold on
Big - cant do it, you can get hold of it.
Hold Small - confident?
Hold Big - Confident?
How do we get grasp?
Our capacity to know morer of God and lay hold of bigger truths comes not with secular ability but spiriual devotion.
So many christians has no or little assurance of God’s grace in saving or presering them because they have a flimsly hoild of God’s triuth and promises.
we must:
If you spent half as much time studies your bibles as you do studing your ex’s facebook you would be twice as assured and at peace.
What is it that God wants us to understand?
His Word, but spicifically:
The Acknowledgment of the Mystery of God
col
God wants us to have comfort by having assuirance, through understanid His Word, so that we can acknowledge the mystery of God.
What is this mystery that God wants us to acknowldeg that ultimatly comforts our hearts?
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What is this mystery????
Well its a mystery that can only be solved by God himself.
It is that Jesus Christ is not a man - He is God in the flesh.
mat 16
That Jesus is God in the flesh is the end to all our fear and the begining of all our peace.
why?
Because Jesus, as God, prooves that God loves you, that he cares for you, that we longs for you.
This love is proved no where greater than on the cross:
passion pic.
Thats not some poor martyr, or a victem of hate, thats not a poor man who is powerless at the hands of the romans - thats God.
suffering because he wants, more than anythingm, to reconcile you to himself.
The mystery is that you cannot come to God, so God came to you.
That God is not an unknowible Spirit, but knowible and revealed.
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