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Introduction
Good morning.....
Family Worship/Bow Tie
We will finally move into chapter 2 today of Colossians.
If you have your Bible go ahead and open to Colossians 1 and we are starting in verse 24.
Now this is a continuation of where we left off last week.
Paul has been making this grand declaration to open the book of Colossians, setting a tone and pace for what is to come.
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And we saw this culmination last week from Paul as he defended the person and deity of Jesus.
Who Jesus is is the foundation of our faith and if we don’t understand that, it doesn’t matter where we go from there.
So it was essential for Paul to make that clear since the false teachers were trying to skew who Jesus was.
So, we get to verse 24 into chapter 2 where Paul then begins explaining more of who he is and the importance of what He is doing and how that extends to the church.
Ministry Testimony
The reality is, whether we are called into full time ministry or we are serving the Lord with the gifts he gives us....
We are to serve the Lord sacrificially and joyfully.
Have you ever felt joyless?
And how you felt because of it?
Scripture warns us of this in Proverbs.
We must remain joyful....not because things are always good but because of the hope we share when we know Christ.
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Our lives must be lived out in accordance with what God has laid out for us in scripture.
So, we must sacrifice our needs and wants for His.
Paul goes on in 2 timothy....
This is the expectation for us as servants of His.
That we are properly doing the work so that we can present ourselves to God in a way that is accepting to Him.
And to this it means we are knowing, understanding and implementing the Word of God in our life.
That is what is meant by rightly handling the word of truth.
And it is these things Paul is pointing out to in our passage today....
The example of a servant of Christ and how we should respond to that as the church.
Stand
Pray
At first glance we can really question the motives of Paul and even call him a little crazy.
Why?
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