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Introduction
Good morning and welcome to FCC, where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one book at a time, one verse at a time.
Thank you for that message of music and for you faithfulness and commitment to the Lord and our little tabernacle.
I pray y’all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that this was the year that you finally did not eat too much!
We have come as far as Colossians 4:9 so let us open our Bibles here
Read Colossians 4:7-18
Prayer
Lord, thank you for all the gifts, graces, and blessings in our lives.
Thank you for the cross, the forgiveness of sins, and for the gift of eternal life.
Lord as we open up this text this morning, we pray for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to permeate our hearts.
We ask that you would fill us with your Spirit and that you would make clearly known the nugget or nuggets that you would have us leave with and apply to our lives.
Help us Father to not be hearers only deceiving ourselves, bat rather doers of your Word.
Today, may You grow us in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and make us more like Jesus today, than you did yesterday.
In Jesus Name we love you!
Amen and Amen
Review
We are near the end of this power packed epistle that taught us that Jesus Christ must be Pre-eminent in our lives, if we are to truly walk it out.
We learned that false teachers were attempting to attack the simplicity that is in Christ and attempted to say that it is Christ plus this or that.
But it is not!
We learned to take off the grave clothes and to keep taking them off and put on the grace clothes.
And last week, we learned that Paul shared his burdens with his friends Tychicus and Onesimus.
And we are to do the same as the Holy Spirit leads us.
There will be times that we share our burdens with beloved brothers and sisters, faithful minsters, and fellow servants in the Lord.
And church, when we do this, they will often comfort our hearts!
Tychicus- fortunate and fateful and that he was:
He was a beloved brother
A Faithful Minister with Paul
And a Fellow Servant
How would you like to have friends like this in your life?
Onesimus-(on-ay'-sim-os)- profitable or useful
Onesimus was Philemon’s runaway slave that most scholars believe that he stole money form him.
He ran from Colossae to to the partying city of Rome only to run right into the apostle Paul:
So this man had a past, the person next to you has a past as well.
But did you notice that Paul did not bring up that he was a fugitive in prison or anything about his past here, but rather called him beloved?
Now when he writes the personal letter to Philemon this will all change church.
Do you hold people’s past against them?
Or do you look at who they are now and what God is doing in their lives?
It is important to remember that slaves could be put to death for running from there masters and it is even worse when they have stolen as well.
In fact, some scholars say that is a slave was could after running they would burn a large F on their forehead so they would never run again church!
How many of you ran from small town America to the big city to experience life?
How many of our kids have done this, only to come back?
How many of you are running from the master right now?
If you are running, if you are the prodigal son or daughter, know that two things are going to happen.
You are going to make a bad choice or bad choices that will bring you to your knees and hopefully to surrender!
God is going to create situations in your life where he will draw you back to Himself!
Somebody once told me that we only learn things or lessons two ways church:
The easy way
The hard way
How do you learn?
Just remember, the bigger the city church, the greater the sin.
Onesimus was a beloved and faithful brother as well.
It means that both these men were trustworthy and because of this shared his heart with them and they carried the letter of Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon back from Rome to Where Paul wanted them to go.
If your read the bulletins that Barbara Goodenough puts together week after week, you will find that we placed this text in it:
It is important for us to look at this verse in the context that it was written.
Solomon just finished up talking about the vanity of selfish toil and how when we toil for ourselves we are miserable, just plain miserable.
No matter how much we make or how mush we have, if we are not toiling for the Lord and others it is all vanity and grasping for the wind.
God wants us to labor, but to labor in the right spirit and for the right reasons.
Blessed are the balanced!
So much for the worker’s hands; what about his heart?
Church, the text we read before this is used often at weddings and it can be used for that, but it is also written in the context of friendship or the value of friendship church and that is what we are talking about today.
Let’s take a close look at this here in Ecclesiastes 4;9-11 to see what the Lord has in store for us.
First, I think it is important to for use to realize and understand that we are all on the highway and there are only two highways church:
Broad Way
Narrow Way
Here in just a few minutes you will understand why I brought up being on the highway church.
But in the meantime, just remember we are just pilgrims and sojourners passing through this life and heading to the next.
Why are two better than one?
Solomon’s experience with the independent man, the man who is absorbed with himself caused him to consider the importance of friendship and the value of people doing things together.
He may have recalled the Jewish proverb, “A friendless man is like a left hand bereft (deprived) of the right.”
Perhaps he watched some pilgrims on the highway as he was writing this letter and drew this conclusion, “Two are better than one.”
Church, are two better than one?
Absolutely!
Two are better than one church, but let us not forget that the devil is destroying families all over this great nation.
He is break church families apart for trivial things and convincing the multitudes that the grass is greener on the other side.
Think about the divorce rates, think about how many people today move form person to person, from church to church.
Think about how many clubs and organizations that used to cultivate relationships and now many of us are Lone Rangers.
So two are better than one because when it comes to working ( let’s remember this is written in the context of labor or toil) because we can simply get more done.
If two are better than one, then what about 3, 4, or 5? Can we get more done with more people?
Absolutely!
Church, even when they divide the profits, they still get a better return for their efforts than if they had worked alone.
Also, it’s much easier to do difficult jobs together because one can be an encouragement to the other.
Two are better than one when they are working!
For they have a good reward for their labor church.
Where is Solomon coming for here?
2. Two are better when it comes to walking (v.
10).
Roads and paths in Palestine were not paved or even leveled, and there were many hidden rocks in the fields.
It was not uncommon for even the most experienced traveler to stumble and fall, perhaps break a bone, or even fall into a hidden pit .
This is the person who is mature and has walked with the Lord for a longtime, but still can fall church, we can all fall.
How wonderful to have a friend who can help you up (or out).
But if this applies to our physical falls, how much more does it apply to those times when we stumble in our spiritual walk and need restoration?
With a little help from our friends!
Are you grateful for the friends that God has placed in your life to walk circumspectly?
Circumspectly- akribōs- “to watch or look carefully at how you live, to be vigilant and mindful of your behavior, to be on the lookout.”
To be circumspect is to be wary; the word comes from a Latin word literally meaning “look around.”
“Walk circumspectly” is Paul’s way of urging Christians to look very carefully at how they live and behave.
Church, we all have blind spots and need others to give us help, direction, and correction when we fall.
This fits wright in with husbands and wives, or parents and their children, but what about friends?
3.Two are better than one when it comes to warmth .
Two travelers camping out, or even staying in the courtyard of a public inn, would feel the cold of the Palestinian night and need one another’s warmth for comfort.
The only way to be “warm alone” is to carry extra blankets and add to your load.
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