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*Sermon Type: Expository                                                                             
*Title*:    *Preeminent Godliness*                                                                                        
                                                                                                                       
*Passage: Colossians 4:2-6*
 
*Theme of Colossians:  In all things, Christ has Preeminence.
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*Subject Compliment:  Christ’s preeminence demand godly living.
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*Proposition*:  *Christ’s* *preeminence must drive us to godly living.*
*Introduction*
 
            In chapter one Paul began writing to the Colossians about Christ’s preeminence.
In that first chapter he proved Christ’s preeminence over all things.
In chapter two, Paul addresses the problems that the Colossians were having with false teachings.
Paul showed that Christ had preeminence over all those teachings.
In Colossians 3:5 Paul starts to show how Christ is preeminent in the Christians life.
Paul is now showing how Christ’s preeminence demands godly living.
His preeminence demands godly living in our prayer, our actions, and our speech.
Because Christ is preeminent, we don’t need anything more than what he has given us.
Christ completes us!
We have Christ, we do not need the pleasures of the world nor  the sins of our flesh, Christ completes us! 
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Preeminent Prayer.
4:2-4*
Verse two is started with “continue in prayer”.
The in the Greek, the word for continue- /προσκαρτερειτε// //–/ is a present active imperative.
This is usually used as a command.
It is a command that could mean: adhere to, to persist in, to busy oneself in, or to be devoted to.
Paul wanted the Colossians to realize the impact that prayer had on their lives.
Paul already told the Colossians that he spent much time in prayer in chapter one.
The Colossians were to realize that they to were to spend much time in prayer.
They were to preserver in prayer.
Even when God did not answer their request immediately, they were to persist in prayer.
Praying at all times is not necessarily limited to constant vocalizing of prayers to God.
Rather, it refers to a God consciousness that relates every experience in life to Him.
That does not, however, obviate the need for persistence and earnestness in prayer.
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With thanksgiving   v.
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Verse two says to “watch in the same”.
This could mean, being awake and watchful.
It means to physically stay awake unlike the apostles at Gethsemane when Jesus found them sleeping.
It has a deeper meaning though to stay alert for what we should pray.
We must stay alert during prayer.
We must also be concerned about what we are praying.
If we are not concerned about what we pray for we will never continue in prayer.
Verse two ends with “watch in the same /with thanksgiving”/.
This goes hand in hand with continual, fervent prayer.
If one is going to be in constant prayer, they must have a spirit of thanksgiving.
Christ’s preeminence was a definite reason to be thankful.
This was not the first time Paul mentions thankfulness in this book.
He also mentions it in 1:12, 2:6, 3:15, and 3:17.
Prayer and thanksgiving can never be separated.
If prayer is separated from thankfulness, our prayer will have no power.
Be watching for God to answer the prayer.
Be actively helping in the request.
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*Ill~/App:  *How many times have you woke up early in the morning and put off time with the Lord in prayer.
You say, “I’ll do it when I have a break.”
That break never comes.
You get home and get busy on a project or have some activity planned and never pray.
You say, “I’ll do it before I go to bed.”  Then you get in bed, pray for 20 seconds, and fall asleep praying about sheep jumping over a fence.
How do have any impact with God if you do not pray!
Praying is humbling yourself to tell God that you do not have sufficient power to do this.
A person without prayer is a person without influence with God and a person without power.
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*Application:*  What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.
The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men.
He does not come on machinery, but on men.
He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.
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*Quote:  *He who has the spirit of prayer has the highest interest in the court
of heaven.
And the only way to retain it is to keep it in constant
employment.
Apostasy begins in the closet.
No man ever backslid
from the life and power of Christianity who continued constant and
fervent in private prayer.
He who prays without ceasing is likely to
rejoice evermore.
— *A**DAM **C**LARKE*
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For opportunities  v.
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Paul then asks for prayer for himself and his co-workers.
Paul knew that he could not go on without the prayers of others.
This was a key to his ministry.
He knew the power of prayer.
The first request that Paul makes is for an “open door of utterance”; literally, “That God would open to us a door of discourse”.
The door that Paul was talking about was a door for preaching.
This was to be the subject of the prayer.
God was the only one that could open a door of opportunity up for them.
As Paul states in Acts 14:27 after he and Barnabas reported to the church “all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles”.
Of all people, Paul could give out the Gospel better than anyone could.
The reason for this was Gods hand on his life giving him opportunities to speak.
With this open door, he would speak “the mystery of Christ.”
Christ is the subject of this mystery.
As in Col. 1:26–27, the term /mystery/ refers to something hidden in the Old Testament but manifest in the New.
In the present context, it refers to the content of the gospel.
Paul asks the Colossians to pray that he would have an open door to speak the full truth of the gospel.
Paul was not just going to proclaim the message, but rather make it manifest (make it clear for people to understand.)
This was the reason that Paul had been placed in prison.
He had made known the mystery of Christ.
He had been imprisoned for preaching it, and continued to preach it in prison, and would preach it if he were released from prison.
This was a good reason for the Colossians to pray for Paul.
His place in the prison had hindered his ability to give out the Gospel.
He longed to be able to give out the Gospel.
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For clear speech v. 4*
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