Prayer is a dialogue NOT a monolgue. God commands and encourages us to come and converse with Him without ceasing and that is the force behind Paul’s last words to the believers in Colossea.
Paul had just told them to allow Christ to dwell with understanding in their hearts and live out what they know of Him in their homes and at work. But ALL of this was impossible to accomplish in a way which is pleasing to God, if it is done FOR God rather than with and by Him.
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To the Colossian believers Paul describes what it looks like when a person has truly died with Christ.
After this, he goes on to describe the same regarding those who have truly risen with Him!
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The recurring theme of Paul’s letter to the Colossian believers was to stay centered on Jesus.
Our lives are hidden with Christ in the Father. This implies a need to seek Him, discover Him in growing and intimate ways.
The overall picture is very much like a young boy who imitates his father who he looks up to. He admires him and wants nothing more than to be just like him. He pays attention to what he does, where he goes, what he likes, what he wears and becomes SO influenced by him, that he begins to acclimate to his ways. This is not just by means of forced imitation, but through loving admiration – his find himself influenced by his father to the point that he is becoming like him without any real effort at all.
THAT is the gospel!
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:33 — 133.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/11/22 Message – Steak ain’t for babies Share this: Steak ain’t for babies Last week it was initially my intention to just introduce the simple truth that those who are Spiritual have “ear to hear” what the Spirit says, and that those who are carnal (babies) do not. Well, we DID do that, but we went a few places in more depth than I was expecting to go and as a result I left a few loose ends which need cleaning up. Difference between the Mind and brain If […]
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:30 — 99.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSSSunday 01/30/22 Message – I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me ***Video is HERE*** Share this: I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me Well last week we finished up chapter 16 in John as we’re working through Jesus’s last week on Earth with his disciples as a mortal man, and the lessons He was eager to teach them which He knew were the most vital lessons they needed to learn before His departure. I want to remind you that John 12-17 are somewhat sequencil in the way they are presented […]
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