Colossians 1:9-11

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All right So this morning, we're just gonna look at a few verses in Colossians spend some time together in Colossians Colossians chapter 1
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We went through Philippians and and now we're going through Colossians together Colossians chapter 1 verses 9 through 11.
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If you have your Bible if you want to look at your phone or whatever is comfortable
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For you. We just want to look at three verses this morning and See what the
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Lord has to say to us through his word this morning Let me read those verses for us
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Colossians chapter 1 verses 9 through 11 For this reason also since the day we heard of it
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We have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding
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So that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord to please him in all respects bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God Strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience joyously
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Just a small recap so we can remember the context of Colossians Colossians is a church that That Paul not only did he not start but he had never been to before So what we see is the the fruit of the gospel the the fruit
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Of Christ and his ministry and his working the work of the Holy Spirit through Paul and through others
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Increasing at this time because we're familiar with Paul being a missionary
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Paul starting churches But Paul didn't start this church and Paul had never been
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Excuse me. Paul had never been to this church at Colossae but someone who had become a
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Christian was familiar with Paul who who Probably heard the gospel from Paul was maybe a disciple of Paul's I need to do more more research on Epaphras But it was
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Epaphras who who Founded the church who was a leader in the church who was giving the message from Colossae the church at Colossae to Paul My throat is really dry this morning.
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I apologize So that's a wonderful testimony as we as we study the book of Colossians We we reflect on What God was doing at that time
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And And we spoke of this last time when we started
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Colossians we were we were looking at Paul's character Paul's attitude that He he was thankful.
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He was thankful and he was he was joyful and happy that that the fruit of the gospel was was growing and increasing and He wasn't he wasn't jealous
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It didn't hurt his pride that that other churches were popping up He was he was thankful.
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He was he says we give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ He is so thankful That that Christ is is working and and moving even
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Even apart from him physically and so that should be you know, our attitude as well if if there's a if there's a person if there's a ministry and we we know that Their aim is to to glorify
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God their their aim is to be Christ exalting and to be biblical and Their their doctrine is is on point
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We should rejoice when The fruit of the gospel is increasing wherever they're at We we don't have to be the center of attention.
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And in fact We may think we are a lot of times even even those of us who
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Those folks that have you know large churches or or large powerful ministries
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It's so tempting when you have a lot of influence it's so tempting to to think and believe that that you you are the center of things and That things can't move forward and things can't go on without your wisdom without your insight without your leadership
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But in in this case, we need to follow Paul's attitude that It's the
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Holy Spirit that is moving. It's the Holy Spirit. That's working. It's the Holy Spirit that is glorifying pointing to Christ and working in the hearts of other men and women
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In all kinds of places in every place and so It it keeps us
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To reflect on that it keeps us humble. It keeps us having the right perspective on Life and our relationship with God and our relationship with each other and so what a what a wonderful thing to reflect on when we when we look at Colossians and we look at the character of Paul in a ministry of Paul So this was this was not a church that he he
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Founded planted or had even visited but we see that Upon hearing of the work of the
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Holy Spirit the the fruit of the gospel He is Thankful and and the folks that are with him are thankful for what
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God is doing there in Colossae Starting in verse 9.
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He says for for this reason also, so The Sometimes I Explain things in such a way that when
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I was reading it It helped me to understand it. And so hopefully that will be the case for whoever may be listening so In in my version my translation
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In in verse 9, we're in Colossians chapter 1 verse 9 We have for this reason there's a comma and then there's you know a phrase within the commas and so what
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I what I did to help me understand what Paul is saying is is Take out those commas and that phrase just for a moment so I can understand what
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Paul is saying So I'm going to read it Would do that and read it as if that that comma and that phrase in the middle is not there
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It says for for this reason. Also, we have not ceased to pray for you
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And so what is he saying there? Why does he say for this reason also and it has to do with praying for them
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Well for this reason Goes back to everything that he just said that he's thankful for and what is he thankful for?
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well, they they heard and understood the the grace of God in truth and then they responded to the gospel
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In faith and then the fruit of the gospel working in their life was faith hope and love and That's basically a summary of what
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Paul was saying here The things that he was thankful for was that they heard and understood the gospel the truth they responded to it and then the gospel began to bear fruit and increase in their life and he was thankful for that and when he says
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Also Paul is Telling us that he is aware
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That they were praying for him as well So part of the message coming from Colossae was that this is what the
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Holy Spirit is doing and they are also praying for you, so Obviously obviously
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Paul's influence was Reaching through The folks that found and Started and are building up the church at Colossae Because they knew of him and they were thankful for him.
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So they they gave that information to the believers there at the church at Colossae of who
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Paul is and and His life his his testimony. And so whatever information they gave
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Which I'm sure it encompassed all that and much more They gave this information to the the believers there at Colossae and so They began to pray for Paul and then
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Paul through this message Not only heard of the fruit of the gospel in their lives
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But he heard that they were praying for him. And so he says also I'm praying for you and For the reasons that I'm thankful Since the day we heard of it.
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He said we did not cease to pray for you. So it's it's a continuing thing.
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Prayer is a Continuing Practice in the in the life and heart of Paul and and so it should be in Our life.
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Prayer is a fruit Of a fruit of the gospel a fruit of the
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Holy Spirit Evidence that that the Holy Spirit is working in our lives and We need to be aware of that we need to look look at our lives
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And and see the fruit and See if there's fruit and see what kind of fruit my wife is producing
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Is my life producing a life of prayer, you know, of course, there's so many others and and and You know, we can look at those and hopefully we can get back together with Pastor Jeff and and continue to look at the fruits of the
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Spirit But one of those one of those fruits
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That the Holy Spirit is producing in our life is a life of prayer prayer life that is
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That is You know Paul Paul commands us to pray without ceasing
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So that should be a mark of whether we are in Christ whether we are believer whether the
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Holy Spirit is working in us and I and I just want to Make this caveat.
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I want to say this because I I Felt this way
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This is this is how this type of teaching made me feel In in years past when when
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I would hear sermons when I would hear pastors talk about You know this this is a mark of a
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Christian. This is what this is what? Christians should look like this is this is evidence
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That should be in your life that you should see in your life it came across in in that teaching that Those those fruits those evidences that we should see in our life is something that we should drum up that in it and it become a
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Legalistic type thing a work righteous type thing that you know, you're
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You're not doing this and you're not doing that you need to be doing this or you need to not be doing that and in it became a legalistic type teaching a work righteous type teaching and so it
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That type of teaching puts a lot of a lot of weight on your shoulders and it gives us a bad theology in our relationship with God and And then how we communicate, you know our testimony to other people we don't want to communicate that bad theology to other people and we don't want to live that way underneath that weight of I've got to You know somehow in in my own efforts
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Correct, you know what I'm doing and and build myself up and and make myself righteous
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But that's the way that type of teaching comes across But in reality if we're following scripture we're following what
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God wants us to understand and know is that Fruit, that's why it's called fruit of the
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Holy Spirit. It's because it is produced by the Holy Spirit. Um, I think about Colossians Yeah, we're gonna be getting to this verse really soon
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Think about Colossians 1 15 and 16 We we use this first the other the other night when we were looking at Matthew and we're talking about the supremacy of Christ Listen to 15 and 16 and he is the image of the invisible
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God the firstborn of all creation for by him all things were created Both in the heavens and on earth visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or rules or authorities all things have been created
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By him and for him 17 and he is before all things and in him all things hold together
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So we've got to think about the supremacy of Christ There's a there was a conference that I watched recently and And I've contacted one of the speakers and hopefully one day soon
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I can interview that speaker about his talk during that conference, but he was talking about the
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Consistency in our theology, you know all our different Theologies and if you if you're not familiar with that language,
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I apologize Let me quickly try to explain what I mean so we have a we have a theology of God and and so what that simply means is
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This is what I believe the Bible teaches about who God is and then we have a theology
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About Jesus and that simply means this is what I believe the Bible teaches about Who Jesus is and the same thing with the
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Holy Spirit the same thing with the church the same thing with in times the same thing with Salvation, you know, and they have different names.
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They have they have these big Fancy names like the the theology of salvation
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What we believe about salvation is soteriology Our theology of the of the church is called eschatology.
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No, whoa Nobody shoot me down Theology of the church is
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Ecclesiology Ecclesiology and then theology of in times, of course is eschatology and so they have fancy names, but it just simply means what we believe the
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Bible says about a Certain topic and so our theology
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I Lost my train of thought and I do that occasionally So our
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Our theology needs to be consistent. So if The supremacy of Christ we believe that we know that the
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Bible teaches that so In it needs to be true and it needs to be consistent with with our understanding of everything else
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So in in our life and the fruit that we produce or the fruit that's coming from our life
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When we look to see what kind of evidence What our what our life is producing
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It needs to be consistent with our understanding of the supremacy of Christ that He he made all things all things are for him and made by him and In him all things are held together
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He's before all things and in him all things hold together And he created all things.
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So when we think about the supremacy of Christ and we think about The fruit our the the good fruit the
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God -glorifying fruit the fruit of the Holy Spirit When we think about those things we need to think about them in such a way that they are consistent with our belief that Jesus is supreme over all things if he created all things and all things hold together
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Through by him and everything's for him then That's got to be true for the the fruit in our life
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Again, that's why it's called the fruit of the Holy Spirit So when we reflect on our lives and look at our fruit evidences of of who we are and where we are
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We need to see that It's not If we have a fruit if we have something good in our life
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It's not It's not there so that we can pat ourselves on the back It's there so we can glorify
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God and Give him credit and so if if if there's something lacking in our lives, we're looking for that evidence.
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We're we're speaking a prayer this morning and We're we're looking
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At our lives for that evidence of a prayer life That would be consistent with with what the
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Bible teaches us to to have and we don't see that Our reaction should be
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I need to do better you know, that's that's legalistic and that's putting a
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Works righteousness weight on our shoulders that we just can't bear and we can't carry We need to remember why
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Jesus came it's because we couldn't do it we couldn't We have an inability to do those things.
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We must rely on the Holy Spirit We must rely on Jesus to to work those things in us so if we're looking at our lives and there's a lack of speaking specifically a prayer then it's a
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Repentance and a submission to the Holy Spirit that he may work that fruit and grow that fruit and increase that fruit in our life and that takes the work righteousness away from it that takes the legalism away from it and It takes that weight off our shoulders.
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And so When that fruit is then produced we can glorify God because it is him
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Who has worked that fruit in us? And so Paul the the
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Church of Colossians were praying for him and he also was praying for them We're in Colossians chapter 1 verse 9
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Just as a reminder if you want to follow along with us If I can pray for you, just let me know.
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All you have to do is type me and this morning We definitely want to be praying for Families I address folks in in our community in my community earlier and there are
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Families in our community that lost loved ones this week And so we want to be praying for them
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We want to pray for them this morning and we want to as we as we bear the fruit of prayer in our life, we want to Pray for these families and And Pray that God will
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Glorify himself the gospel would would go forward and and move and increase in our community because it's tough this these are tough times and It's always tough to to lose someone
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Physically speaking Earthly speaking it's very very difficult
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So we want to pray for those families and if I can pray for you, just let me know Continuing in verse 9
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For this reason also since the day we heard of it We have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will
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Let me interject this before we move forward. So Paul is telling them that he is praying for them also
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Then he's going to tell them what he is praying for for them on their behalf
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And I think this is good because It is an example of how they then can be praying for him they can be praying for each other and it's a good example of how we can be praying for each other and Paul in his explanation of how he is praying for the folks in the church at Colossae He gives ten things and we're gonna you know, see and look at these ten things that he he prays for on behalf and for the folks there at the
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Church of Colossae the ten things in verses 9 10 and 11 and the first thing
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The first thing that he says that he's praying for is that they they may be filled With the knowledge of his will and I'll find it.
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I find it so interesting every time that Paul speaks of his desire for For his readers to have knowledge to be filled with knowledge to grow in knowledge to increase in knowledge
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I find that so Interesting in our day and time to read that because You will hear sermons.
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You will hear pastors in churches in today's context that will say if if you want any of that theology if you want any of that doctrine then then you can just Go on to another church and and stuff your face.
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I mean, this is literally what I've heard You can go over there and stuff your face with theology and doctrine
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That's not what we do here and and on and on and on It's that is it's so interesting that he would say that because if you're gonna preach
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Scripture If you're gonna read Scripture You're eventually gonna read this that contradicts exactly what you just told your congregation because the
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Apostle Paul wants us to Grow in knowledge be filled with knowledge increase in knowledge
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Because This is where we get our information on How we believe what we believe how we live we have to know so that therefore we can understand and live
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You have to have knowledge and you have to study It just it amazes me that this mindset and mindset and this concept is is in our churches, but We don't want to say to our congregation if you want theology if you want doctrine
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Just go to another church and stuff your face over there We don't want to say that to folks
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We want to say Here we will grow up in all aspects into Christ But we will also follow
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Paul's example Because as we will see in the ten things that Paul is praying for here that He does not separate knowledge from the effects or the fruit of that knowledge
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Because that you know, that's the ditch that they're in when they are proclaiming to their congregation
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We don't worry about doctrine we don't worry about theology which which is a lie because Even that type of preaching comes from a belief and an understanding
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So everything is theology and everything comes from Your understanding of who
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God is but um But Paul does not separate
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He that he is not in that in that ditch where And this is where that mind for those pastors that say those type of things and and I've not heard it as Much here lately.
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It used to be really really popular To speak that way towards a congregation
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And but and it wasn't too long ago that they did that but I don't hear it as much anymore but the reason that they were in that ditch is because It was it's reactionary.
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It was reactionary to to those and this is This is true
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I mean they saw something that was real and it and it deserves a reaction
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There are folks who did fall in the other ditch who said who wanted to only be academic who only wanted to study and and Know things and grow in knowledge and not let that knowledge produce fruit in their life
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But we don't want to fall in the other ditch like the the pastors that I'm speaking of that said well, we just want to do away with being academic and growing in knowledge all together and only worry about conduct
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Because that's not the example of Paul That's far from the example of Paul Paul Keeps those two things together and he he he does that in the very next few words and so Make sure that you are not falling in either ditch
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But make sure that you are holding to both Paul wants them to be filled with with the knowledge of his will and this is
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He's not speaking of you know Mysteries unknown mysteries that he has not revealed to us in his word basically
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Paula speaking of the Will of God about our conduct and our how we live
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And he says in all Spiritual and we can't take out the word spiritual there.
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We have to remember that the word spiritual is there just like we were talking about the looking at the evidences in our lives and and legalism and and everything that we said about that we remember that the fruit in our life comes from a certain source and that source is the
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Holy Spirit and so That's why this word or Paul adds this word here that we cannot skip skip over so he wants us to be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual so therefore
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It's from the Holy Spirit this knowledge and understanding comes from the
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Holy Spirit spiritual wisdom and understanding and this is um
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This is the way that I Have understood this to mean because wisdom and understanding just on a cursory reading here
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Often we think they They're very closely related and they sound familiar or similar and and we think
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Wisdom and understanding Don't they mean the same? Why is he being redundant?
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Why is he saying the same thing? But in reality he is
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He is showing us how to to live and Follow down the center of the road instead of falling in either one of those ditches so we don't want to be only academic and and Heady and only worry about knowledge and we don't only want to worry about conduct.
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And so that's what these two words Marry and put those two things together.
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So wisdom is the the gaining of that knowledge So we want to be that we want to do that.
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We want to rely on the Holy Spirit Trust in the Holy Spirit learn from the
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Holy Spirit Teaching us through his word knowledge knowledge from the
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Bible and then understanding is how to apply that knowledge correctly in our lives
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So we want to gain knowledge. We want to to soak it up like a sponge But then we want to also
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Seek spiritual understanding to know how to live out that knowledge correctly right and what's right and what's wrong the correct path to to follow and How to apply that knowledge correctly.
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So Paul marries those two things and keeps us in the center of the road moving on verse 10 so that you may walk in a manner
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See he's pulling us out of that ditch of just being academic so that you may walk and of course if you're familiar with biblical language
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The Bible uses that that phrase often To walk and it just simply means that the conduct of your life
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How you live so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the
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Lord and and what that simply means is that The original language gives us an understanding of When it uses the word worthy of weighing the same so if in in my mind
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I'm thinking of a set of scales and and The the weightiness of Of our
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Of the weightiness of the Lord and our His worth and his example
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We should we should be on the other side of the scales being being equal in our
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Desire to to follow His example so so it's it's equally important for us to To follow
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Christ to to follow his example to live in a manner that is is pleasing to him
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So it gives us an idea and understanding of weightiness and and weighing the same
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To to please him in all respects. So of course it has a Purpose in a meeting we want to our conduct
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Should be such that the goal is is God's glory. It's it's pleasing to him
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Bearing fruit in every good work and had to read that twice to to kind of capture what he's saying there
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Is not Listen to the sentence bearing fruit in Every good work.
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So when I first read that I was like is
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I thought good works were fruit So, what does he mean if he does it
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It doesn't it at first reading. It doesn't sound right. I thought good works were fruits of the
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Holy Spirit Because we don't produce good works on our own So so what does that mean?
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So the conduct of our life Is that is the good works that the Holy Spirit produces?
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The good work is the fruit of the Holy Spirit but then our good works our fruit
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Can also Bear fruit and that's where he's going here with this. He wants he wants us to walk in such a way that it's worthy of the
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Lord and in and in how we walk it's pleasing to him and by doing this
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The the fruit that is work working in us and working out of us
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Will then also bear fruit in in other people in the lives of other people
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So that's another evidence that we want to see in our lives as a
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Christian that That the fruit that's being worked out in us is also producing fruit in in other people
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That's that's how the the Holy Spirit works. That's how the kingdom works.
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That's how the kingdom grows is that Fruit produces fruit and and Christ's kingdom continues to grow and build just like a mustard seed just like leaven leavens the whole lump
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But the Holy Spirit continues to work through his people
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And then the last part of verse 10 you you have to read that part a couple times too and kind of It's helpful to look at the the original language and get some help with that too to understand what he's talking about.
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So So we want to walk we want to walk this certain way so that our fruit is bearing fruit and It says increasing in the knowledge of God, but that's not what it means in in the
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English And I probably didn't even say that right Um so when
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I read that in my English translation, this is what I hear and Increasing in the knowledge of God.
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So he wants he wants two separate things here But this is what I'm hearing in the English. He wants two separate things
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He wants our fruit to be producing fruit and he wants us to be increasing in the knowledge of God but in reality
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It's it's a continuation Of Of the snowball, you know one thing builds upon another so He wants our fruit to be bearing fruit and if we read it if we use different other or if we use other
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English words or different English words and replace them and Put them in this sentence.
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It will help us to understand What Paul is trying to communicate so we're going to put We're going to add a few words in here to help us understand what
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Paul is trying to say, so bearing fruit in every good work and increasing by means of the knowledge of God so this bearing fruit and And our fruit bearing fruit has a source and That source is the knowledge of God and that's why he started off saying
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I pray that you are filled with The knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding
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He wants us to be filled with the knowledge of God's will so that that knowledge
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Holy Spirit can use that knowledge To then bear fruit and then bear fruit and then bear fruit from that fruit so So he's not he's not saying two separate things here
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He wants us to bear fruit and our fruit to bear fruit and then increase in knowledge He wants us to understand that our fruit has a source and that's the knowledge of God and I hope that was clear.
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I Apologize for stumbling up over that little part there, but I hope that was made more clear
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That it's not two separate things. He's telling us the source of our Fruit growing and fruit bearing and fruit reproducing and then then verse 11
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Strengthen with with all power and basically what he means here is the word strengthen and power are
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From the same stem in the original language say from the same word in the original language
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If you've heard anybody Speak of this word from the Greek from the original language.
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They often refer to it as where we get our word dynamite So so basically what he's saying here is that to be continuously
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Continuously strengthened by The the source of all strength
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Okay, continually being strengthened by the by the source of all strength According to his glorious might
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So it's it's not something that we muster up. It's not a It's not a strength that we we obtain or gain or grow
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It's not like a muscle that we can We flex and Exercise and grow ourselves this this continued strength from from all
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Possible sources of power Comes from according to and His glorious might and and the reason for that is is that This this strength is a manifestation of God.
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So when you think of when you think of God and his glory They they talk about the the
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Shekinah glory of God where he he feels Fills the the the room the area with with his light and So he he manifests himself
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To make himself known and so that's that's what Paul is community
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Communicating to us here. Is that it's it's according to his his glorious might so that the strength that's coming out of you and being built in you and it its source is
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God so that God may reveal himself in you
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God may manifest his self in you is his glory his power in you
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For the attaining of all so So we're getting this strength
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From God and remember it's so that God can manifest himself make himself known for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience and Here these two words in English We think they sound very similar.
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Why is he using? Two words that mean the same thing why is he being redundant?
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Kind of like wisdom and knowledge or wisdom and understanding but in the original language, we learned that it it teaches us that he's pointing in two different directions, so We're being strengthened
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So that God can reveal himself For the attaining of steadfastness and steadfastness points to our
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Our long -suffering with people and then patience points to our long -suffering with things or Circumstances, so that's why he uses the two different words in both areas of our lives
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God wants to manifest his strength in us when we have to endure people
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Persecution from people or whatever it may be Temptations and the same thing is true with Things Circumstances God wants to manifest
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Make himself known in his by giving us the strength so that we can have patience with things and circumstances in in in both aspects and then the last word there is
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It's one of the most Difficult to add in to this concept because he says joyously
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So when we think about having steadfastness With people is because it's a difficult circumstance
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When you something that you have to endure Is something that is not often pleasing
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But it's often difficult and the same thing is true when we have to have patience with circumstances or things
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They're not often Pleasant to go through and so What we often manifest what what people often see in us is a gloom a countenance of gloom
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While we're enduring these things But Paul is telling us That we are to have this
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Steadfastness and have this patience joyously So, how can we have how can we do that?
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How can we go through? Circumstances with people and Circumstances in general and do that joyously
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We can do that because This strength that we
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That we're gaining that we're given by God so that he can reveal himself and and part of that revealing is that Here's the strength.
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Here's the circumstance and then here's here's the joy that comes with it
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And and having that joy as part of that meant God manifesting himself And how who he is his character and how he works through his people but we attain that with with this knowledge that um when
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God gives us strength to endure People or strength to endure
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Circumstances it's not a It's it's not
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If I can put it this way just enough if you can understand what
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I'm trying to say, it's not Just enough to to get you by So that you you're you have enough
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Courage to take those steps, but yet you are you know, you are still being cautious and tiptoeing, but but you have
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Just enough Courage built up that you you make it across that that tightrope walking across the cavern
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That's not the type of strength That that God gives us
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God gives us strength From all sources of Who he is?
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It's it's an overfilling Of strength not not just enough strength but the the kind of strength that's that's all all consuming and It's it's more than enough
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Because its source is him He is the source and he is the source of all strength and all power
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And so because it comes from him, it's not It's not just enough strength
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We need to have in our mind this knowledge that the strength that he gives because Think about the situation with Peter and he sees
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Christ in the boat He's in the boat and he sees Christ walking on the water and and Jesus says, you know, come to me
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And Peter steps out of the boat and he begins to walk on water himself But then what happens?
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Paul begins to look at the waves and Then begins to sink
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So that's the same thing is true here, how do we How do we go through?
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Have steadfastness with people and patience with circumstance and do that joyously It's because we are looking at we are looking at God and the strength that he provides when we have that countenance of gloom when we're going through these circumstances
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It's because we we fail we take our eyes off him and we begin to look at the circumstance and I'm just as guilty of that and I need
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I need to Have this knowledge in my mind continuously so that I don't
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Fail in this area of Having this disposition or countenance of gloom this attitude of gloom.
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Woe is me all the time Because I'm not looking at The strength that God is producing and the source of that strength and the all -consuming nature of that strength and That's how we can
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Live and walk through these circumstances with joy and The book that I'm studying to to help understand these these words and concepts when it speaks of When it speaks of doing this joyously
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It used this sentence and let me read it so I don't I don't mess it up or I don't paraphrase it wrong
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But it was such a beautiful sentence to me Speaking of going through these circumstances joyously
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It says the remedy the remedy for that That gloominess that that countenance that we have he said the remedy is that the
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Christians should be so filled with joy That he is able to meet all his trials with a buoyant
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Sense of mastery and I was like buoyant buoyancy
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Wow What a fault you know buoyancy is the idea of something being able to float and so if you are if you are on the bottom of the ocean floor your
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Circumstances are pushing you that people are pushing you down and Circumstances are pushing you down and and they're trying to get you down to the bottom of the ocean floor
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What joy does is it gives you buoyancy it causes you float to the ability to float all the way back up to the top and rise above the circumstance
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Joy gives you the ability to rise above the circumstance and when we
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Come out of the water We we are manifesting
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God's Word God is revealing himself through us and in us for his glory and The only way to be able to live this type of life because it doesn't matter who you are
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What we all have in common is that we go through circumstances because sin is in this world
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But there's only one true and living God there's only one true way to live and it is through the trying
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God that the Bible teaches And a relationship with Jesus Christ because of what he did he came
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To this earth lived a sinless life. He died on the cross to Take the punishment that we deserve and then he was raised from the dead and so now
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Scripture commands us Jesus commands us to repent of our sin
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Turn from apologize and turn from it and turn toward Jesus Christ putting our faith and trust in him and when when that happens the transaction that happens is
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God takes away our guilt God takes away what we deserve and what we're owed
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He it was applied to Christ on the cross. And then what we receive is
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The The the fruits of his life where we needed to be perfect to get into heaven we get
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Christ's perfection and where we needed punishment or consequences for our sin
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We get forgiveness because Christ was punished in our place. Isn't that glorious news and we can have joy in that This this knowledge produces joy in our lives so that we can rise above the circumstance and that can only happen in the life of a
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Christian That that kind of joy to make it through this life. I often hear it said
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I Don't know how people without Jesus make it through this life and I often tend to agree with them because without him there is no hope
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So if you do not know Jesus, please repent of your sins and turn to him in faith today
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And if I can pray for you, let me know that I can pray for you. All you have to do is type me and Wanted to reiterate what
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I said at the beginning This is for the folks in in my community. I want to lock arms with you.
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I want to lock arms with Pastors if there's anybody out there that wants to Do some videos with me in an effort to to glorify
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Christ to share the gospel To edify the
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Saints to to encourage people to build other people up Whether whether you want to talk about our our differences in theology or talk about things that we have in common or if you just want to have a
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Group video that we do live where we look at some verses in the
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Bible Reach out to me so that we can work together to do that let me pray and we'll we'll close and We'll go on with with our day
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Father we are so thankful that you've given us this time to spend in your word.
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I Pray that you would use it this knowledge that you you've given us through your
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Holy Spirit to produce fruit and that fruit would produce fruit and that Your kingdom would continue to grow through us
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That you would receive the glory Father we want to pray for those families that Have recently
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Lost a loved one. We pray that you would bless those families give them grace
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Would you give them strength? Would you give them courage? and Would you hold them fast as they make their way through the future without The one that they have loved these circumstances father remind me of The world that we live in so father we want the gospel to continue to move forward your kingdom to grow
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Because You are our only source of hope things are bad, but you are better and in you
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There are no more tears in you there are no more sorrow in you there's no more pain
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And so father we long We long for that day and father we pray that you would
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Use us and use this time to glorify yourself Father we do want to continue to pray for all all those in our community that serve with we thank you
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That you give them The desire and the courage to serve their community
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Our military our police Rescue and fire
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Father we thank you and we ask that you protect them and watch over them And we pray that You would be opening the eyes of your church that the church would arise and go and make disciples of all nations that we may glorify you then and and and proclaim
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The kingship of jesus And we we pray all these things in his name the name of jesus amen
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All right. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you for joining me Hope you guys have a good day and remember that jesus is king go live in that victory and Let's continue to go out there and proclaim the gospel.