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Claim: Hope in our future inheritance with Christ, fuels our faith in him and love towards other Christians.
Focus: Being sure of our inheritance, by the power of God, helps us to please Jesus in good works, obedience, endurance, patience and joy.
Function: To fix our eyes on our hope stored in heaven.
PRAY
Here is a picture of Gordon, on the screen.
If you went to the doctors
He doesn’t know what he needs - but we do - It’s pretty obvious - he needs sleep!
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But he does know why he is struggerling -
The game is, to guess why Gordon needs more sleep?
(Had a baby who doesn’t sleep, stress, ill, run an ultra-marathon, etc)
The answer is - I’ve no idea.
Well welcome to the book of Colossians.
The Colossian Christians, have some sort a problem.
We know that becasue Paul the Apostle, who is writing to them,
refers to a few problems in this letter,
but he doesn’t actually say what the problems are.
Paul knows the prpblem,
becasue a Pastor from Colosse called Epaphras
appears to have gone to Paul for advice about what to do.
And this letter is the solution, the antidote.
Paul who is writing to them, and Epaphras (who went to find Paul to report what was going on in Collosae, all know what they are struggling with.
1 - The Antidote
We’re not sure what city Epaphras found Paul in,
aphras found Paul in, but we do know he found Paul in a place he was all too familiiar with as a result of unswervingly declairing the good news about Jesus in a culture that didn’t want to hear it!
Paul is in prison in chains.
but we do know he found Paul in a place he was all too familiar with as a result of unswervingly declairing the good news about Jesus in a culture that didn’t want to hear it!
Paul is in prison in chains.
We also learn from the book of Philemon that Epaphrus also ended up in prison with Paul at some point!
Most likely, based on the type of Theology Paul is using in thsi book, and joiing a few dots about who he refers to in this letter, Paul was in his imprisonment in Rome towards the end of his life.
SO were are we going with all this.
Well, Normally, when we want to understand a NT letter,
But we, the ones eves dropping on this letter to them don’t know exactly what the reason for writting the letter was.
we first try to understand the reason for the letter,
so that we can understand how to apply the instructions in the letter to similar issues today.
But with no clear understanding of why Paul was writing,
it might be much harder to know how to apply it.
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But we have no specifics.
or false teaching was.
Normally we establish the problem so we can apply it well to us today.
It’s dangerous to decide it must have been this and therefore we apply it to us in this way or that - becasue what if we get tehta wrong?
It’s not in the letter or elswhere in the baible!
So we can;’t be sure.
But on the whole have to admit they can’t be certain.
So what do we do with this letter?
Well I think this rather unique situation
gives us a rather exciting prospect.
What we need to do is elevate our trust in God’s revelatory word the bible.
We trust that God intended for us to receive the letter in this way,
not knowing the background.
Which means, we trust God that we don’t really need to know exactly what the problem was in Collose to apply it to us today.
Otherwise God, in his wisdom, would have made sure we knew.
Just like Gordon, who we all know what he needed, we just didn’t know his syptoms,
Which means, the antidote Paul prescribes,
to a problem we don’t know about -
has to be useful for us today -
written to Christians, and say,
we know what they need, and therfore we trust God that what they need is beneficial to every Christian who has read the Bible since.
whatever we are experiencing as Christians.
It is, if you like, a one-size fit’s all antidote to help all Christians at all times in all ways.
What is this wonderful, all encompassing antidote?
But,
Well, it’s nothing less than our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Each week as we go though Colossians
we are going to see how Jesus is supreme in all things.
He is sufficient for all of life.
He is our motivation and joy.
He is our Lord.
Our series is called ‘It’s all about Jesus’ and More of Jesus is what we’re going to get week after week.
Whatever our problems are as Christians,
whatever we’re struggling with,
whatever theology we’re being tempted to elevate over another,
whatever distractions are being placed before and around us,
the answer is simple.
The answer is Jesus.
The passage before us today is what we
Each week we will explore a different and glourious aspect of JEsus.
Each week, we will see how more of Jesus, is the perfet antidote for doubts, for worldly living, for false teachings, for half-hearted faith - even for no faith at all.
What we will need is JEsus.
We KNOW WHAT THEY AND THERFORE WE ALL NEED!
The book of Colossians is like a Doctors prescription who doesn’t know what caused their problem, but knows what they need to fix it!
expect to find at the beginning of each of Paul’s letters in the NT.
He starts by introducing himself in verse 1.
Paul had never been to Colossae, but it seems Epaphras,
who took the Gospel to them origionally,
was converted by Paul,
perhaps in Laodiciea about 20 miles away.
SO, they would have known of Paul and his ministry.
He would have perhaps been like a Spiritual grandfather to them.
He would have perhaps been like a Spiritual grandfather to them.
Paul then addresses his recipeints in v2
Colossae historically was on 2 main trade routes, so had a large mix of cultures and traditions, both Jewish and Gentile (non-Jewish),
but more recently
the trade routes had bypassed the city,
causing it to be less significant in economically.
Whatever the problem in Colossae,
a city on an old trading route, made up of Jews and Non-Jews
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