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Knit Together In Love
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love… Colossians 2:1-3 ESV As Paul closed out what we know as Colossians chapter 1,…
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With All His Energy
“Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.” – Colossians 1:28-29 ESV As Paul closes out chapter one of his letter to the Colossians, he reminds us of the…
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Mystery Hidden For Ages
In Colossians 1:24, the apostle Paul speaks of his suffering for the body of Christ, which is the Church. He continues in verse 25: “Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for…
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Rejoice In Suffering
“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,” Colossians 1:24 ESV Throughout the New Testament, the apostles reminded believers to be joyful. Paul included these reminders in many of his…
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Holy and Blameless
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the…
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Reconciled To God
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace…
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In Him All Things Hold Together
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17 ESV Here in the middle of chapter 1 of Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae, we find a multi-verse discourse on the glory, majesty, and power of our Lord Jesus. As we saw in verses 15 and 16, Paul…
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Recap of Colossians 1:1-16
Here’s a quick review of what we’ve learned in the first 16 verses of our expository study of Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae: In Colossians 1:1-2 we saw how Paul, the author of this letter, represented himself as “an apostle of Christ Jesus.” This was important because apostles had very specific biblical qualifications,…
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Image of the Invisible God
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Colossians 1:15 ESV If anyone claims that Jesus Christ was only human, or simply a gifted teacher or a great prophet sent by God, yet not truly divine in nature, our passage today crushes that argument. As Paul continues a rather lengthy…
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Giving Thanks To The Father
As believers, we have so much to be thankful for that it’s sometimes easy to take these gifts for granted. It’s human nature for appreciation to wane over time as blessings become normality. This is why it is so important for us to take some time each day to consider just how much we have…

