July 15

Episode 1558: Heard of this Hope

Inspired Stewardship Podcast, Spiritual Foundations

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Join us today for an episode about the reason we endure with joy...

Today's episode is focused on Colossians 1: 1-14...

In today’s Spiritual Foundation Episode, I talk about Colossians 1: 1-14. I share how we are called to call upon the power of God but not in force but instead to endure in patience. I also share how that is the call to the Christian Walk.

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{In today's spiritual foundation episode, I talk about Colossians chapter one, verses one through 14. I share how we are called to call upon the power of God, but not enforce, but instead to endure impatience and also share how that is the call to the Christian walk. Colossians chapter one verse one through 14 says, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God and Timothy, our brother to the saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ and OSI grace to you and peace from God our father.}

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{In our prayers for you, we always thank God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, you have heard of this hope before in the word of truth. The gospel that has come to you just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world.}

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{So it has been bearing fruit among }

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{ yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God. This you learn from a Ferus, our beloved fellow servant, he is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf. And he has made known to us your love in the spirit. For this reason since the days we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you may walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.}

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{May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, so that you may have all endurance and patience. Joyfully giving thanks to the father who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints and the light he has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son and whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.}

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{Just a few weeks }

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{ ago, I was working through the acts. This is again, a letter or an epistle that many people think is from Paul, though there is some debate about that, but it was written to a particular church. It starts with that dear children of God. It's a letter. It's a communication tool. Just like today, we use email and text messaging and voice apps and all of these things to communicate, and I would like to believe that if Paul was alive today, he would use all those same modes of communication to try to send out a message that is needed today.}

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{And just like email now seems regular. I'm old enough to remember when email was cutting edge and considered amazing. And so we have these 14 verses from this letter that was written to the Colossians. This letter is the beginning }

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{ of a series that we're gonna talk about that has to do with the dear children of God.}

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{And this message from Paul or whoever wrote it begins with a greeting and all of those normal things the letter might start with, and then it promises and begins to talk about prayer and a prayers for the call to live a life. Fruitfulness presence and hope in Christ. He seems to be saying, this is part of who you are.}

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{You know this already. You've walked in this and this hope, this is what motivates you and defines you. It is part of who you are. And then there's a reference to a minister who's a pastor who's leading there and caring and helping the community. There's some debate that perhaps this is even who actually wrote the letter, but then he transitions and begins to lay out the }

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{ purpose behind the letter.}

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{It starts for this reason. It's the beginning of the journey or the start of an adventure. It's the beginning of the message of the communication. It's also the continuing. Of that message, it's calling out that this has come before and this will continue to keep going for this reason means this is what Paul had heard about them.}

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{It says, I heard that you loved one another and that you loved him in the spirit. He heard that they were bearing fruit, that they had served and helped and healed and taught. He heard that they were living lives worthy of the gospel. And because of that, because of the love that lived in them and was observable from them, Paul then praises God for them and said, please, God continue to pour into them }

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{ all that they need to live.}

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{Paul praised for wisdom and understanding and the knowledge of God's will so that they would continue to keep growing and moving forward. And right there in the middle, there's a verse that says, may you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience while joyfully giving thanks to the father.}

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{Think about that. This is a, an encapsulation of the mess message of what it means to be an ordinary Christian. These words seem to put hope into action. They say, this is what hope is. First, it starts, Paul prays for them to be strong. May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and imagine that for a minute, he's calling upon the power of God.}

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{All of that power. That power }

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{ is made with the ability to change the world. That power is made for mighty deeds, fes of faithfulness, things that miracles, that take away your breath. Things that no person can do, and he's saying, we can be strong with that strength. But then it takes a little pivot. So many messages in the Bible do see immediately when you think about strength and think about the ability to change the world, you think about reaching out and telling people what they should do, telling people who they are, telling people what.}

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{It is that they should do it. It comes across as something to do with control and power and being on top. But then it says, may you have the strength to endure with patience. That's the left hand turn. Wait what? Not change. Not do something with it. Not force it }

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{ on others, but to endure. I've got all the glorious power of God, all that strength, and you want me to endure?}

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{Endure, sounds like a surrender. Endure, sounds put up with it. Outlast, tolerate, wade through stomach. I've got the ability to endure this sickness or this medicine or this pain. But then Paul makes it even worse and says, not just to endure, but to endure with patience. Don't even grumble and gripe about it.}

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{Instead, find joy in it and give thanks because it says endure with patience while joyfully giving. Thanks, endure, but do it with joy. That sounds, I don't know about you, but that sounds impossible. That sounds like something that would take the strength of God. 'cause I don't know if I have it in me. When I look out at the world and I see suffering and I see pain, and }

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{ I see mistakes, and I see things going wrong, I want to fix it.}

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{I don't want to endure it. And this isn't about enduring so that you get sympathy or look at woe is me or poor me. No, it's supposed to endure. But find joy not to dwell on the burden, but rather give thanks for life and give thanks for joy and give thanks for those moments. Give thanks when everything is going well and to give thanks when everything is not.}

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{And you have to do that by remembering whose you are, by remembering who is with us. Joyfully giving thanks to God means being aware of God and God's presence. It means remembering that there is always hope. It means knowing that we are not alone, not forgotten, not abandoned. And it also means }

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{ making sure that we reach out to others, not with strength of fear and pain, and anger and heart, but letting them know they're not alone, not forgotten, not abandoned, no matter what they have done or not done.}

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{Joyfully. Giving thanks to God means relationship, means reaching out to everyone. Lifting up your eyes and seeing that God is with us. Remembering that presence through the community of faith, through others, through the inheritance of the saints that came before us. Recognizing that is the walk that God is calling for us to walk.}

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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • Colossians 1: 1-14...  
  • How we are called to call upon the power of God but not in force but instead to endure in patience...
  • How that is the call to the Christian Walk...
  • and more.....

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, so that you may have all endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. – Colossians 1: 11-12

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