Sunday Notes: Colossians 2:1-7
- (Col 2:1 ESV) For I want you to know how great a ____________ I have for you and for those at ____________ and for all who have not seen me face to face,
- Struggle – Agon
- An assembly, A stadium, contention, anxiety
- 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:7, Hebrews 12:1
- For Paul the struggle was real in life both spiritually and ____________.
- Laodicea – a region containing ____________, Laodicea, Heirapolis
- Revelation 3:14-22
- This letter addressed to the church of Colossae was to be circulated to all those in the area
- And to be shared with ____________ throughout.
- Struggle – Agon
- (Col 2:2 ESV) that their ____________ may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is ____________,
- (Col 2:3 ESV) in whom are hidden all the ____________ of wisdom and ____________.
- Encouraged – parakaleō
- To call to one’s side, encourage, exhort, instruct
- A very similar word: Paracleat
- The ____________ Spirit, The great comforter
- A very similar word: Paracleat
- Forms of encouragement for the believer:
- Community
- ____________
- Prayer
- The Holy Spirit
- To call to one’s side, encourage, exhort, instruct
- Encouraged – parakaleō
- (Col 2:4 ESV) I say this in order that no one may ____________ you with plausible ____________.
- Paul writes so that the people will be in the truth, not fooled by whatever lies come along.
- James 1:21-24
- Such misleading arguments can came from both sides
- ____________ influences telling you lies
- Internal influences of your own ____________
- In the garden, ____________ mislead Eve with a plausible argument
- Genesis 3:1-6, Matthew 7:13-15, Jude 1:11-13
- May we instead be steadfast in the truth
- Paul writes so that the people will be in the truth, not fooled by whatever lies come along.
- (Col 2:5 ESV) For though I am absent in ____________, yet I am with you in ____________, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your ____________ in Christ.
- Paul shares a connection with believers beyond space and even time.
- That is the unity of the church.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20, 1 Peter 5:8-9
- That is the unity of the church.
- Paul shares a connection with believers beyond space and even time.
- (Col 2:6 ESV) Therefore, as you ____________ Christ Jesus the Lord, so ____________ in him,
- (Col 2:7 ESV) rooted and built up in ____________ and established in the ____________, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
- As the redeemed people
- The people of Christ – reborn in Him
- We are to live accordingly
- We walk in His Spirit – Colossians 1:9-12
- We walk in His Grace – Ephesians 5:1-2
- We walk according to His Word – Colossians 3:16-17
- We walk for His will – 1 John 2:4-6
- We walk for His glory – 1 Thessalonians 4:1
- ____________ alone
- He is the author and perfecter of our faith
- He is the alpha and the omega
- The beginning and the end
- Jeremiah 17:7-8, John 15:4-8, Ephesians 3:14-19
- As the redeemed people