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Summary

“UHC: Be Filled, Walk Worthy, Be Strengthened, Give Thanks” - Colossians 1:3-8 Parents are always concerned for their children, no matter the age. So, we pray and teach. Pastors/Elders feel much the same way. One of the responsibilities is to protect. Do so in part by praying and teaching. 2012 Theme: “Until He Comes” - looking for Jesus to come and living according to that perspective. Until Jesus comes, we should pray for one another, teach one another, and heed the teaching of Scripture together. Colossians 1:9-14 Paul was concerned for the Colossian Church because of false teachers. So he prayed, then he taught them. I)Filled with the knowledge of God’s will - vs9 - “filled to the full” with “precise and correct knowledge” of “what God wishes to be done” (Strong’s) for us, in us, through us. - This requires wisdom and understanding, that we might know what to do with this knowledge and discern false teaching. - This knowledge, wisdom and understanding comes from the Word of God, illumined to us by the Spirit of God, who is the Spirit of Truth - John 14:17. - The will of God, according to Romans 8:29, is that we be “conformed to the image of” Jesus. If we are conformed to Christ, then we will walk worthy of Him. II)Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord - vs10. - Walk = conduct of life - Fully pleasing: A)Bearing fruit in every good work - Eph. 2:10, B)Increasing in the knowledge of God - II Pet.3:18 - Experiencing the truth of God. III)Be strengthened for endurance and patience - vs11. - Endurance - “In the New Testament, the characteristic of a man (or woman) who is not swerved from his/her deliberate purpose and his/her loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings” (Strong’s). - “According to His glorious might” - Eph. 6:10. IV)Giving thanks to the Father - vs12-13. He has: A)“qualified [us] to share in the inheritance of the saints in light,” We are “rendered fit” for the kingdom of God only by the death of Christ in payment for our sins and His righteousness being credited to us. B)“delivered us from the domain of darkness,” John 8:12, Eph. 5:8, I Pt. 2:9 C)“transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,” Rev. 1:5b-6 D)“in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” - Redemption - “releasing effected by payment of ransom” (Strong’s). - Forgiveness - “release from bondage or imprisonment,” “pardon of sins - letting them go as if they had never been committed, remission of the penalty” (Strong’s). Until Jesus comes, we should pray for one another and ourselves as Paul prayed for the Colossians, that we might be filled w/the knowledge of God’s will, walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, be strengthened for endurance & patience, and give thanks to the Father for His many splendored grace.