Colossians 1 // Wednesday Night Service (September 15, 2021)

[Music] you're hidden glory in creation [Music] what a beautiful the night of jesus christ what a beautiful name it [Music] it is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] what a powerful name it is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well welcome to calvary chapel golden springs so good to see you all with us why don't you stand with me we're going to pray before we get into worship tonight i also want to always remind you of what's going to be taking place on october 2nd at 7 pm in san bernardino with franklin graham's god loves you tour if you want to be a part of that make sure that you stop by the information counter after service and we encourage you to get involved with that the world needs the gospel right now more than ever before so let's bow our hearts before the lord and ask his hand to be upon us now father we thank you for your grace in our lives lord for your spirit lord we pray that you'd prepare us to receive from you tonight lord that you would remove all distraction all hinderance lord father we pray for the children in the children's ministry junior high high school kids lord every um heart in this building lord that you would touch and minister to our lives lord we pray in jesus name amen [Music] it's your heart we're searching for we want [Music] it's your heart we're searching for [Music] [Music] see [Music] [Music] look [Music] is [Music] is [Music] on us [Music] [Music] on us [Music] [Music] [Music] what you want to do [Music] [Music] what you want to do [Music] [Music] fall on us [Music] [Music] where jesus prays [Music] [Applause] [Music] they laid [Music] messiah [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] again is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] the blazing sun shall pierce the light and i will rise [Music] my is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] um [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] hold me in closer close to your heart may i be a pure reflection of all you are love that is patient love that is [Music] make me like jesus make me like jesus [Music] is [Music] i'm [Music] faithful to find me right where i am even [Music] mercy receives me [Music] and lifts me [Music] [Music] unknown [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] say [Music] change whatever you want to change [Music] you want to say [Music] [Music] whatever you want to change [Music] [Music] is [Music] i am [Music] space [Music] yes jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] or i know [Music] run dry [Music] so i'll wait for you so i wait for you [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] restores my life so [Music] so [Music] [Music] jesus heart is [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] so jesus [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] is [Music] jesus [Music] oh i'm falling on my knees jesus [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] church we leave everything in the lord's hands we leave everything at the lord's feet tonight we know that the lord is a god of miracles who can do the impossible so right now we declare in faith we stand here in faith and we sing in faith that god can do all things amen [Music] you are here you're working in this jesus i worship you i worship you are here yes you are here [Music] here [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] is [Music] that is who you are that is who you [Music] is who are are [Music] you know [Music] is [Music] [Music] that is who you [Music] are is who you are [Music] for you [Music] yes and that is who you are and that is who you are [Music] and that is who you are [Music] father we thank you lord that you are the god of miracles that you can work in this nation you can work in our our state you can work in this county lord you can do all things father father we trust you right now lord we choose to believe in you lord [Music] father may we wrestle knowing [Music] and we are victorious [Music] god [Music] and we choose to have joy to have peace we ask now that as we enter into your presence lord as we open your word may you speak to us lord comfort our hearts god we love you lord we praise you and we thank you and we ask us all in jesus name awesome you guys can be seated and then turn your attention to the screens take a journey with us down route 66. the world has changed in this last year and a half but yet the need for the gospel hasn't changed i'm going to be traveling across america the route 66 tour is to remind people as we go across the country that god has not forgotten us this pandemic hasn't changed the need for the gospel and we followed route 66 all the way down to san bernardino going into eight different cities we have music preach the gospel give an invitation people get saved [Music] god loves you okay our prayer is for a spark of revival in this community it's really easy for people to say yes to a free concert and hopefully by the end of the night it's really easy for people to say yes to jesus i want the world to know that just walk up and bring a chair and sit and listen very important to be a volunteer for the very first training i went to to today it is a well-oiled machine to be a part of the teams is just like nothing but blessing upon blessing i want you to stand to your feet and accept christ by faith and by standing you're saying to god i believe jesus christ is your son i want to trust him as my savior and i want to follow him as my lord from this day forward i may not get another chance like this i got to give my life fully to christ which i've never done before i feel alive i feel clean i feel forgiven when i said that prayer i know god forgave me and all the things that i left here tonight it's not going on with me it doesn't happen just sitting in a pew this doesn't happen watching it on tv you gotta step up show up and live it [Music] [Applause] somebody asked billy graham one day how can we see revival here there's three things pray pray and pray and that is so true prayer is very important especially the days we're living in and frank has been a great friend of mine for a long long time and he's coming to san bernardino i just talked to him the other day he's really excited about what god is going to do here in the valley that we you know he hasn't been able to come here for a long time and you figure you know it's a time to take friends to hear the gospel it's a time to pray for your friends or loved ones family whoever it is and to go down that evening and hear the gospel of jesus christ and to see them get saved as the bible speaks about the holy spirit convicted them and coming to know christ you know back in 1990 in new york city uh franklin or billy graham was doing a crusade in new york city and the hotel the marriott was overseeing the central park and uh franklin came in the morning says hey let's go see my dad and my mom so we went up in the mirror to the last floor and he knocked on the door he said open the door and his mom and billy was in his pajamas and i thought wow simple guy you know he was in a three-piece suit nothing like that and then we went inside looking over down below it was central park and he turns to me he says raul you think anybody will come are you kidding me you've done all these crusades and you don't think people will come and he said pray for me so we prayed that day because they come to hear the word of god billy nikki cruz gave his his uh he gave his testimony that that afternoon and uh elizabeth elliot was there too and a bunch of other people and it was just a really time to see when the altar call was given all these people came forward to receive christ and those were the crusades that billy graham had he was a real real man of god and ruth was a real woman of god he gave his whole life to preach the gospel of jesus christ he went all over the world his wife stayed home with the kids and he paid a great price and most people that are in ministry really in ministry you pay a great price because of the preaching of the word of god jesus first family second and then whatever else god has for you and my wife she suffered a lot when i was young i went to china i went everywhere to preach the gospel of jesus christ to do not crusades but to do pastoral you know events having a not only a bible school but going there and doing conferences for pastors and watching all these pastors come and get taught the word of god and then for them to leave and take the gospel with them to their city that little city where they live and i guess we're living in a time that there's a lot of uncertainty today like never before where god not only wants to speak but he wants to bring us to a place in our lives that we can not only give ourselves fully completely to him your children your grandchildren you yourself that we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow the next day because we know one thing for sure jesus is coming and we don't have to be fearful perfect love casts out all fear it's a time to love people it's a time to really be concerned with your own personal life it's a time to spend time alone with god praying reading waiting upon god to speak so as god speaks to me you can speak to others what god has said to you and so also when god speaks through his word so tonight we're going to come back to the book of colossians chapter one if you have your bible a few points here that i wrote down number one the city of colossians the city of colossae was a hundred miles east of the church of ephesus or the city of ephesus the population was a mixture of jews and gentiles there probably was about 11 000 jews and by a.d 62 all of a sudden the church actually city began to grow with jews more jews and more jews now in order for them to have a synagogue they needed 10 jews to have a synagogue at this particular time by 62 a.d 11 000 jews had come to the city of colossae paul's profile jewish he was born in tarsus near the lebanese border close to the border of turkey he was a roman citizen which is just incredible to have him as a roman citizen he permitted not only high education as a jew very intellectual and yet such a simple person when he wrote the gospel of jesus christ he also was a pharisee and then also dramatically converted to christianity on his way to damascus the lord appeared to him knocked him off his horse and began to say saul saul why do you persecute me and he recognized there was a supernatural conference no a supernatural meeting with jesus christ and he accepted christ from the damascus road all the way to syria to damascus he not only was blind for three days in later three days paul actually the lord speaks to ananias and says ananias i want you to go and lay hands on paul on saul of tarsus and he said well you lord have you heard about him he persecutes people he puts people in prison he kills people he says i've touched his life go and pray for him so he came he lays on him and he begins to see once again you got us his way within each one of our lives i don't know how you came to know jesus christ as your lord and savior but i think that each one of us at one time with somebody was witnessing to you in the holy spirit begin to deal with your life and when god begins to deal with your life you could never be the same again believe it or not never again when god began to deal with my life and i began to see that the holy spirit was speaking to my life personally there was no escape no escape at all he had me corner at one time when i was getting ready to do my family in i was going to do myself in and what did he do he had a purpose for my life as he has a purpose for your life and how i thank him for that for allowing him not only for him coming to my life and sharing his life with me and watching what he did for me i said well that's what he's done for you today and i guess we need to be sensitive to the holy spirit so that you can share with your loved ones share with your friends franklin is going to be preaching a simple message of salvation that's what he does he's been all over the world like his dad preaching the gospel of jesus christ he's helped more people than i can believe that anybody else have ever ever helped samaritan purse he's in every tragedy he lost up these airplanes with food and whatever is needed medical you know medical things and he takes them to that place where there was an earthquake or tornado or whatever it is he never is into himself like other pastors he's not into clothes he's not into being famous he's into helping people i like that helping people he's always done that he will continue to do that into the day that he passes away to be with jesus well let's look at chapter one verse one look at the greeting this morning or this evening here i think that's important that when we look at the greeting we have to understand that paul the apostle not only was called by the lord jesus christ but he had a burning heart as he starts out here in verse one paul an apostle of jesus christ an apostle means one that is sent out became you became a disciple of christ one that was learning how to be a disciple of jesus christ and once you learn to be a disciple the lord took 12 men one was a traitor paul became the 12th one and he pushed him out to become disciples of jesus christ and paul became an apostle of jesus christ one born out of season the bible says an apostle was one not only there was send out but god had given authority a position of authority not to lure over people but to demonstrate the love of jesus christ in his own personal life and god had given paul the apostle these young men by the name of timothy timothy came about where his mother and i'll read to you what he says here paul he was not notice he was not one of the twelve apostles but he became literally he took uh he took judas's place to become the twelve apostle secondly paul did not only see jesus christ risen from the dead on his way to damascus he wasn't there at the tomb but when jesus appeared unto him he appeared to him in that resurrected body that light that peter not only the apostle but paul the apostle he was not only a special a special person that god had chosen to take the message of jesus christ the world that was so dark timothy his character was a devout faithful balanced follower urged notice urge to get the gospel and to give it faithfully to people that needed it paul the apostle is in rome he's in prison and yet paul takes the time to share with timothy as he writes a letter and timothy not only had a jewish and grandmother that they were jewish and his father was not only uh you know not only a person that had the gospel of jesus christ but he was not a jew he was a gentile and here timothy his mother his grandmother took the time to teach him about jesus you know i've met a lot of mothers like that i've met a lot of grandmothers like that that because maybe the father doesn't want to share the gospel or maybe he's not a christian the mother will take the responsibility he will take the time out of her own time to share the gospel and to pray with those young kids that's what my wife did with my kids while i was gone preaching the gospel of jesus christ my wife would take the time at home in the evening to get down and pray with them and to share a little story for them before they went to bed and through that my kids today have come back to the gospel of jesus christ except for my middle one he's never ever backslidden he's been a christian so he was born tori loves jesus my second one excuse me my first one you know he went his way and you know about my third one ryan he went his own way for a long time and then god got a hold of his life and he came back but there's something about jesus calling you calling to be his disciple and hear paul to be an apostle of jesus christ the title here indicated a position of authority a position of authority when he says here an apostle of jesus christ by the will of god see it wasn't by his will it was the will of god they had called him the heart of his master god had called him to proclaim the gospel just like he called you he called me but when you are called by god to fulfill his will not your will the enemy will hate you will hate you because he doesn't really want you to share jesus with anybody hey what is the perfect will of god to know him to be obedient to him but most important to know the love of jesus christ in my life i want to be obedient i don't want to do my will any longer i came out of the world and now i want to dedicate my life to the perfect will of god and that's to know him as my lord and my savior how by faith by faith in jesus christ i love it the way paul brings about here he says in timothy our brother the glories of christ so here now we begin to see not only an apostle of jesus christ but the will of god but timothy our brother timothy was discipled by paul he was young and here is paul in prison writing to this young men exhorting him somehow in the second letter of timothy you begin to see that that paul is exhorting timothy somehow maybe he was heading in a different direction and paul says study to show thyself a a actually a man of god so that paul would not only love timothy as his own dear son but he knew that timothy would be used tremendously by god tremendous by god how has god called you personally what does he call you to do by the will of god of course have you ever stopped to think for your own personal life as you're standing back by yourself and asking god lord you saved me you have a whole of my life now what do you want to do with my life he has a purpose for each one of us individually to accomplish the will of god there are so many people today they need jesus that's why franklin's coming so many people need jesus and i think that we really listen to the voice of the holy spirit that none of us here will ever miss that position on our knees so that god can speak to me and god can speak to you and then we can say amen lord i'm gonna do exactly what you've called me to do exactly lord and then in verse 2 he says to the saints plural we are saints hagio is we are the words say means to be separated you see when you come to jesus christ you got to separate yourselves from your friends from the world from anything that is going to bring you down for anything that's going to take you back to the world from anything that's going to keep you from developing and growing spiritually in jesus christ and that's why paul here he's talking about saying he's becoming noticed involved with jesus christ but also it speaks of ownership i am now owned by jesus christ as my lord and savior and then he says no the saints been faithfully brethren in christ who are in colossae the city of colossae i wrote a couple of things down here the word faithful here he's speaking about that the the actual the direction that god wants me to possess and of course that direction is a cross of jesus christ once i get to know the cross of jesus christ then my direction will be by the holy spirit leading me guiding where he wants me to be and to minister there where i am even to the present time which is here how about you today how about you tonight what does god want you to do how is he leading you guiding you in the kingdom of god are you faithful to the little things so that he can give you the bigger things that he promises to do in each one of our lives secondly here i wrote down which was important to me not only a faithful brethren in christ who are in colossae you know when he speaks about colossae this was a city that needed jesus every city that paul went to and even at the present time any city you go to everybody needs jesus especially in the days we're living in right now think about it maybe we're not in colossae and maybe we're not colossians but the things that we're facing at this present time things that we haven't seen into the present time ever like jesus is coming back soon in two years we've seen so many things happen not only in america the world the whole world is in that position where they're trying to bring us into a one world government one world government and that's what paul the apostle in sharing about being faithful and then at the same time being a saint of jesus christ that if we are saints of jesus christ and people are trying to force us to do anything as paul the apostle will share later we don't have to do what people say we need to do what christ is and that is to be obedient to the word of god could there be a time that the government will come along and say you got to do this and if you don't do this this is what's going to happen to you well we know for sure that's going to happen eventually but here in california what's happening and what's going to happen if you can't go shopping you can't go to school you can't go anywhere unless you have the vaccine that's a big issue a big issue in new zealand in israel in south america everywhere you go is the same tune same tune what's going to happen tomorrow what's going to happen next week next month next year that's why like paul the apostle we have to be not only saints but we really have to love jesus like never before if there was a time that we needed the voice of god it's a day every day so that can be led by the holy spirit and that's what paul did he was led by the holy spirit as he was inspired to write the book of colossians and they're imprisoned in rome he's still a touring tomb with jesus christ and as he would write the holy spirit would lead him and as he would write and as those letters would go out to people in the church those letters ministered to people just as we're released as we're here tonight as the letter of paul's ministering to us by the power of the holy spirit he says grace cares unmerited favor to you and shalom peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ their faith in christ our faith is in christ jesus faith is the key to salvation if you don't have faith then you can't be saved before you came to christ and somebody witnessed to you and you received the gospel all of a sudden the holy spirit is ministering to you convicting you of sin and then you actually surrender to jesus christ and you say lord i repent come into my life that takes faith faith to receive christ and when you when you receive jesus christ by faith what happened your name was written in the book of life you begin to get a bible to read it you go to bible studies and all of a sudden your faith begins to grow begins to grow and it's so cool to see people they have great faith great faith when you become a young christian it's very hard because the devil's coming after you and you're you're not rooted and grounded in god's word and you have all these doubts in your life but as you begin to go to bibles so you begin to read you begin to pray all of a sudden you're getting rooted and grounded in god's word and then the enemy can lie to you because you stand upon god's word upon god's word upon his grace upon his peace you cannot have peace before you have grace no possible way on merit of favor we deserve hell and god has given us heaven because of his grace and because of the amerity for the american favor that i have even tonight and the peace of god is over my life if i don't have the peace of god and i'm supposed to do something i'm not going to do it i'm going to wait on the lot i don't care how long it is i don't want to overstep my bounds i don't want to go ahead of jesus i want to make sure i'm next to jesus i want to make sure he carries me if he has to carry me or if i'm behind him i'll follow him but i think for these days of these days that we're living in we surely need the grace of god like never before but most important we have the grace of god we have the peace of god and then the faith in christ jesus that only comes through jesus christ our lord and our savior i wrote this down look at verse 3. we give praise to god then we pray we give thanks to god our father of our lord jesus christ listen praying always for you do you pray for me do you pray for that person on your left you're right behind you in front of you paul the apostle was a prayer warrior and like billy graham said in order to have a revival what do we need to do pray pray pray that's the only way for this church if we want to have this church pray pray for this church you want to pray for your loved ones pray pray pray everything is of a prayer as he says here praying always for you who's that christians first thessalonians 5 17 pray without stopping pray without ceasing in prayer is such an important factor in our lives the conditions for prayer is you have to what you have to have a pure heart number one number two we pray in the name of jesus number three as we spoke before we pray according to the will of god according to the will of god and if we do that every day and you teach your children to pray you'll blow your mind i remember visiting sharon's grandmother her father her actual grandpa was a pastor in l.a and what happened is that he began to go to israel so he went to israel and he became a pastor in israel among the jews helping the arabs helping the jews so then his grandson sheriff's custody just passed away he went to israel for 40 some years 40 some years and i remember grandma cop sitting by the window on her chair and she would be praying for me praying for sharon pray for neonatal pray for ed praying for everybody check this out when she died she was in bed and they found her with her bible open man what a way to go reading the word of god god was in her life 24 7 24 7. how do you take jesus as your lord and savior what priority does he have in your life what priority prayer is needed in order for me to have to have a salary in order to have enough money to buy food to pay my bills and if you're going through something in your life pray wait god answers prayer and as he not only answers you you'll be able to save and god is so awesome i came by faith and he answered my prayer by faith what he says he completes what he says he keeps his word verse 4. and since we heard of your faith are people listening to your faith can they hear about your faith are you came to christ and what are you doing for christ today because of the faith is given to you we heard of your faith in christ jesus notice in christ jesus of your love for all the saints i mean that's so important for the body of christ who have love for the body of christ agape love maybe you have something against someone you haven't forgiven them and the bible says that we are to forgive one another and when you love someone and you care for them then really nothing can get on your way nothing because the love of christ forgives everything and anything when you come to know him intimately in christ i wrote a couple things on here number one faith is a soul of looking upward to others secondly hope looks forward to the future thirdly faith rests on the past work of jesus christ love works in the present hope anticipates the future the title in christ jesus is found 34 times in christ jesus 48 times in the lord 50 times imagine all the way through paul's letters and when you speak about in christ jesus is speaking of my position in christ and then when he speaks about in christ jesus but also in christ that in the lord speaking of glorious is spending on the lordship of jesus christ in my life 50 times in the lord in the lord in christ jesus and then you think about what he talks about here he says he says of your love for all the saints and who are the saints hagos that's you and me and anybody outside of this church that's a christian we are saints in christ jesus verse 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven of which you heard before in the in it says in the word of truth of the gospel through the gospel of jesus christ because it is the good news of christ over satan over sin over death that hope has given to me a great faith i'm hoping to see jesus christ one of these days by faith verse six which has come to you as it has also in all the world and it's bringing forth fruit as it is also among you since the day you heard a new the grace of god in truth notice that paul praising god for the fruit that is given to him and you know that fruit that he speaks about here he says by by the gospel preaching and the getting saved and then growing in god's word then we bear fruit and we become fruitful people of god otherwise you're not a real fruitful person you need to know him intimately and to abide in him for 7 and as you also learn from epaphrodes they believe he's the one that wrote the letter from epaphidus our dear fellow servant who is notice who is a faithful minister of jesus christ on your behalf great testimony who also declared to us your love in the spirit he was bragging to them about the love of these people that they had for jesus christ i love that that people can see people can tell that you really love jesus christ as your lord and savior man we need more of that today the people you don't have to preach them you don't have to witness it the greatest witness is the love of jesus christ working in your life into your life that's what paul says verse 9 the preeminence of christ now he says for this reason we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you notice again prayer and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding the importance of prayer once again paul bringing all his problems to god to jesus by prayer to him being filled here with knowledge knowledge is you know knowledge of what of his will amount of knowledge needed knowledge in a different not only from wisdom for example knowledge you say you have let's say you uh illustration let's say you uh you have a car that goes 70 miles an hour wisdom tells you when you drive 70 miles an hour be careful and so you see the difference between knowledge and wish especially in the word of god the knowledge that god gives you as you read and then the wisdom it comes to the word of god so that we can become not only greater believers in jesus christ but people can see the love and grace of god in our lives verse 10 that you may walk worthy of the lord walking is fellowship walking worthy of the lord fully pleasing jesus being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god a life worthy of the lord jesus christ the word here fruitful spiritual fruit is the product of what of a righteous life in christ jesus that's important the great knowledge is to know god as our lord and savior the power of petition verse 11 strengthen with all might according to his glorious power for all patience and longsuffering with joy so we have power we have patience and then long-suffering with joy the power of the petition when we pray petition about waiting on god you ever wait up on god to speak it's very hard to wait upon the lord your phone rings somebody knocks at the door that is if you're in front of public or you're in the house you don't get rid of your phone or you got the tv on or you got your computer on whatever when you go to prayer you got to have nothing but you nothing between you and god god has to be the priority the priority number one so that when you get away from everybody you go outside or you're taking a walk or you're at home nobody's home and you get on your knees or your face or you say however you want to do it standing and all of a sudden you begin to pour yourself on god don't start right away asking hey praise and worship him lord i love you so much thank you lord for what you've done what you're doing and just begin to praise him and worship him and then all of a sudden you can begin to share with him and he can begin to share with you and then you can begin to asking for your needs for your needs and as you're asking for your needs you wait upon him as he will speak to you as he will lead you and guide you as he will not only bring things to pass in your life but you don't really pressure him he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't even pressure you but you come with a clean heart a clean conscience he said lord your am i lord use my life and many times you know that i've gone to pray and probably you the same that all of a sudden the holy spirit comes upon you and you begin to weep you begin to weep tears begin to fall i might be driving it's a very dangerous drug under the influence of tears of the holy spirit you may crash but it's so awesome the way the holy spirit works you might have come from work and you were all uptight what happened at work today you came here they were worshipping all of a sudden the lord just boom humbles you and you begin to glorify you begin to pray you begin to worship him in spirit and the truth as he says here in verse 11 strengthened with all might according to his glorious power for all patience long suffering with joy giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light notice that the qualification through the finished work of jesus christ according to john 3 16 for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son jesus christ that whoever believing in him should not perish but have everlasting life everlasting life the word here to qualify means to make sufficient to empower or to authorize to authorize imagine that empower and to make sufficient 13 he has delivered us from the power of darkness remember we used to be in darkness the word use here for delivery means to rescue from the power of darkness we used to serve darkness satan but when you came to jesus christ the light was turned on and when i wrote here the son of his love i wrote down we are children of the light because of what jesus christ has done for each one of us individually he came he died he rose and he's coming back again imagine he came to die on the cross out of all eternity for you for me when he didn't have to come but the father said jesus i'm going to send you you're going to be born of a virgin you're going to live for 30 years in nazareth and then on 30th birthday you're going to have to go now and you're going to go out and you're going to become the savior of the world you're going to go out and preach and teach and heal people and then they're going to take you and they're going to beat you and they're going to put a crown of thrones in your head and they're going to give you a cross and you're going to carry that cross and they're going to put nails in your hand and your feet and then they're going to lift you up and they're going to make fun of you you're going to say father forgive them because i love them he didn't have to go to the cross but he did because of you and because of me because he loved you so much that he gave himself what have you given to him out of love what have you given to jesus christ to become not only the children of the light but to understand that everything he did for me is so incredible i sometimes i really don't believe what he's done in my life and i look back and i go lord you're too much too much what you've done for me for my family for my friends then he says verse 14 in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins noted that here the spirit of gratitude here he says again his blood the blood of what the blood of goats and sheep and the old testament now he comes along and he dies on the cross he takes his blood and wash us away every one of our sins every one of our sins we're in the old testament they would have to kill a lamb to kill the goat to lay hands on top of the goat's head take them out to the wilderness one of them and as long as they could see it they couldn't blow the jafar until that gold actually until that god was lost then they would blow the jafar and you couldn't see it anymore and then they believe hey my sins are forgiven but also they would take a goat and they would kill it or a lamb and they would take the blood and they would sprinkle it but jesus came and what does he do he lays on that cross and he gives his life for each one of us he says my blood is enough to wipe out every one of your sins as i write your name in the book of life write your name in the book of life the word redemption here means to deliver of the payment of the deity of jesus christ the payment that he made he gave for us because he was god and then he says verse 15 he is the image of the invisible god notice the firstborn of all creation of all creation the heresy that was threatening here in colossians in colossae was the church the denial of the deity of jesus christ from the agnostics of that time they didn't believe that jesus was god the deity they believed that you know he was just one of those regular persons or he was not only a phantom they literally would walk and live no footprints but jesus was not only human but he was god at the same time and when he says here the invisible god the first one of all creation which means what he not only was perfect but in the very form of god philippians 2 6 john 1 14 and 14 9 deity jesus christ for by him all things were created notice what he says here the only creator of the universe and the earth principalities and powers was that jesus christ nobody else in the beginning god created the heavens in the earth he did everything that we see today jesus christ is the one for by him all things were created that are in the heaven that are on the earth visible invisible were the thrones dominions principalities powers things that were created through him for all and for him everything was created by him and he is before all things and in him are all things are consistent the word consists of means that everything is being held together by jesus christ everything i mean you look at the universe you know when they went to the moon and they showed a picture of the earth and here is the earth you know held on nothing just rotating and you look out there all these galaxies they're way beyond our galaxy that we really don't know much about you know we don't know there's somebody living there or not living there but the lord says that everything is held by him and one day he's gonna come he's gonna create a new heaven and a new earth so it's incredible when you read the bible and you know that jesus christ is god he holds everything in his hand just like that everything it says in verse 18 he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that is all things that he may have the preeminence he has to be noticed number one not number two number one the goal of god's economy that he might become in all things what he is in himself pre-imminent preeminent he is supreme in the spiritual realm as well as in the material realm you see jesus 100 percent god a person 100 human and then he says verse 19 for it please the father that in jesus christ all fullness should dwell so god planned a god plan that his fullness would be what would be raised in christ jesus would reciting christ jesus and christ the only meteor between god and men second timothy 2 5 2 chapter 2 verse 5. by him to reconcile or to bring back into power or relationship to reconcile all things to himself by him with the things on the earth things in heaven having made peace through the blood of his cross there it is the cross of jesus christ the cross of jesus christ god removed the barrier between himself and sinful men by the death of jesus christ on the cross matthew 16 24-27 he did it for sinners that they not only may experience salvation but they may experience a living relationship with who with god a relationship with jesus christ who is god then he says and you who once were alienate you know alienated the enemies of your mind by wicked works yet now present tense yet now he has reconcile paul reminded the colossians here in a very straightforward manner in terms of their condition before their reconciliation in romans chapter 1 verse 8 18-32 for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of those who hold the truth in on righteousness it was because of jesus christ who we are today the wrath of god was in our lives but no longer the grace of god is in our lives now verse 22 in the body of the of his flesh to death to the press and us to present you holy and blameless above reproach in his sight when is that the second coming of jesus christ if indeed you continue in the faith ground in a steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard which was preached to every creature under heaven of which i paul became a servant notice that a servant of jesus christ this is who paul is a servant of jesus christ and i'll now rejoice in my suffering for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the affliction of christ for your sakes of his body which is the church can you imagine paul the apostle here speaking of the sacrificial service for christ he says again and i now rejoice in my sufferings for you i don't hold it against you i don't feel sorry for myself god called me to be an apostle god called me to be a servant but he also called you and me to suffer to suffer i wonder if the church is going to suffer now with everything that's going on i wonder if these things are happening as god is going to separate the true church from the phony church very possible could happen we've never seen this a lot of people are concerned what's going to happen to my family what's going to happen to me what's going to happen to the church and i believe that this is part of god what god is doing not only to try us but to really test our faith are you in or you're out do you really trust me excuse me that i'm going to take care of you yes you're going to have to go through some trials and some things that you you might not want to go through but if you want to be in the kingdom of god then learn to be a servant and learn how to die to self and many man wants to come after and let him deny himself pick up his cross and follow me the cross of jesus christ verse 24 he says i now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the affliction of christ for the sake of his body which is the church that's us of which i became a servant a minister of the word servant there according to the stewardship and the word stewardship here is house manager a manager that's taking care of the business of which i became a minister or servant according to the stewardship from god which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of god protecting what he preached and giving him to the lord what god gave to me i'm protecting by the holy spirit and i became a manager a house manager from god which has given to me for you to fulfill the word of god verse 26. the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations but now has been revealed to his saints whatever was hidden in the past he says now you're seeing it you're seeing it fully completely that jesus christ came and died to them god will to make known what are the riches of the glory of the mystery among the gentiles which is christ in you notice the position in christ in you the hope of glory the glories of hope and notice is reserved for hope for those who receive jesus christ as the lord and savior him who preach jesus warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect or complete in christ jesus i love that in christ jesus to this end i also labor striving according to his working which works in me mightily so here is paul toiling in service for christ our savior christ enable to do his work he is the holy spirit nothing else can give us the boldness and energy to do it i can do all things through christ jesus who strengthens me i love that i can't do nothing apart from jesus christ but if you begin not only to read and to pray to wait god is going to empower you to share god is going to empower you not to sin god is going to empower you to rebuke the enemy so that god can use your life fully and complete because of the love that he has in your life father i pray in your name jesus that your holy spirit will be with us jesus and lord that everything that we do everything that we say god help us lord help us jesus but i pray i pray for these wonderful people lord that you would touch them that you would anoint them lord and lord that we would look at you as a great example and lord with all the things that are happening in the world here in america lord here in california lord i confess you lord we need your help i need your help lord will help us so that we can be obedient so that we can do what you want us to do lord god not what we want us to do not what other want us to do lord but you let i pray for every young person jesus every baby lord god every five-year-old every 12-year-old god every 17 year old are god every 20 year older god every 50 year old every 90 year old god lord we need you more now than we have ever ever need you are and father if you're coming soon lord god prepare us prepare us to be ready lord speak to all of us jesus as we as we spend time alone jesus with our bibles waiting a piece of paper pencil whatever it is lord so lord that we can know that you still speak loud and clear like this evening here lord and i pray for those that are sick here tonight jesus but you heal them lord pray for their families i pray for their jobs i pray lord god in every way that you would do a tremendous work in our lives and through our lives in jesus name we pray and everyone said amen let's all stand may the lord bless you may he keep you may he watch over you may we continue to know him intimately intimately please pray for one another especially the days we're living in please pray for me my family pray for these guys you know we need to really have a lot of prayer like never before today i i think it was three o'clock we went upstairs with the staff guys and we prayed three o'clock about three o'clock we prayed i pray for you we pray for everything that's going on so i want you guys to pray this week take one day whatever is one hour whenever you can and pray what i mean you can pray just don't close your eyes so may god bless you this week and we'll see you guys on sunday may he continue to pour himself unto you and the holy spirit just used your life in a powerful way one more song god bless you [Applause] [Music] do [Music] make his face shine upon [Music] is faced on you and give you peace [Music] the lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon and be gracious to you the lord turned his face [Music] amen lord bless make his face shine upon [Music] um [Music] [Music] pray this over our church over our nation over our state over your children [Music] your children and their children their children's favor be upon you and a thousand generations and your family and your [Music] [Music] and rejoicing is for [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] the lord bless [Music] you gracious [Music] god bless you all i'll see you back you

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