Jesus Holds It All Together || Colossians 3 Part 3 || Pastor Jerel Hagerman

lord we thank you so much for this day and lord we pray that you would pour out your holy spirit in our lives we thank you for this time we thank you for the truth of your word and we thank you there is nothing that can stop you and that our lives are in your hands on this day in jesus name we pray and everyone said amen well we're going to finish the book of colossians today but i'm going to begin by highlighting just a little bit i'm going to start in colossians chapter 3 in verse number 4 and then highlight just a little bit out of colossians chapter 3 before we go on and finish in chapter 4. but it says this in verse number 4 of colossians 3 when christ who is our life appears then you also will appear with him in glory i love the scripture in first john chapter three and verse number two and three beloved now we are children of god it has not yet been revealed what we shall be but we know that when he is revealed we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure so my friends this is where we are jesus christ is coming again there is nothing that needs to happen before the rapture takes place jesus said we'd never know the hour or the day but we would know the times and the seasons and he gave us signs in which when we began to see those happen he gave us this instruction lift your head because your redemption draws near and jesus would describe the end times as labor pains on a pregnant woman and that picture is given throughout the scriptures all right it's all the way through so again what do we see happen in our world we see major spikes in catastrophes that end up happening just like 9 11. all right we just finished remembering that and then we we go for a relative period of time then there's something else that happens and then there's something else that happens and again i think all of us can agree on one thing we are now living in a world which none of us could have ever dreamt or imagined even a couple years ago right and the things that we have seen and again things will take place quickly once it begins the book of revelation says that they'll happen quickly it's like in rapid succession so with knowing that the bible makes it clear that everyone who really believes this is going to purify themselves we are going to live differently and so as you look through what he writes in that context of colossians chapter 3 i'm going to begin reading in verse number 14. but above all these things put on love which is the bond of perfection and let the peace of god rule in your hearts to which you also were called in one body and be thankful let the word of christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the lord and here's a litmus test for everything that we do in our life this is a litmus test if we can do this then it's a good thing that we can do and it's this whatever you do in word or deed do all in the name of the lord jesus christ giving thanks to god the father through him so can i have an affair in the name of jesus can i go out and smoke a joint in the name of jesus can i live a wild life in the name of jesus can i steal and cheat and murder so it becomes just a very simple litmus test that's not hard for us to remember that if i can do it in the name of jesus that's what he wants now my friends again in view that jesus is coming back a view that we live in a time in which we should lift our head because our redemption draws near he tells us how live it begins with wives submitting unto your own husbands now ladies how many wives do we have here now ladies you guys cheat you know how you cheat god made you so you could think with both sides of your brain at the same time men do not have that advantage so you can out argue a man and here's the other thing you can remember way more and besides that you ladies change your mind we men think we know what you're mad at and you change your mind and so we prepare our defenses for what we think it is and you come up with something different and find us unprepared [Music] so let me tell you something ladies you can manipulate and get what you want but i want to tell you you're not going to like what you get you can get what you want but you're not going to like what you get god has a plan and god has an order now the next thing that says is husbands love your wives that means and ephesians expounds on it you love your wife as christ loved the church now guys here's something about guys we're all selfish and self-centered i we don't spend hours looking at the mirror fixing our hair and wondering if what we put on looks good you know we spend like 20 seconds in front of the mirror and go what's not to love so we can make our decisions and and just you know make ourselves very happy but i want to tell you if you if you live your life selfish and self-centered and not loving your wife you're going to be miserable because what the bible says is very simple and very clear wives respect your husbands husbands love your wives it's one rule and when you live that way because here's the thing are we frustrated with the america we live in and the government that we have and all of that yes but in all reality is that where the worst things that happened to us come from no it happens within our own homes and by making decisions contrary to how god said to live so husbands rise to the position that god wants you to be you be the spiritual leader in your home don't wait for your wife to say well let's pray for the meal or we're going to church today or raise the kids in the in the way that's your job as a head of the household your job is as christ lay down his life for the church you need to lay down your life for your wife and love her and she's going to blossom and trust me marriage can get better and better or it can end up in a cold war someone very wise told me a long time far better to be happy than to be right it goes on children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing in the lord the bible warns us in the last days there would be a rebellion and and children would be disobedient to parents and really it started in my generation really bad with the whole hippie movement and all of that and uh a a for positions of authority and people in authority i i still remember if i got in trouble at school there wasn't any conversation that it was the teacher's fault that wouldn't even have been brought up for a second all right no it's your fault and and so we've had an entire several generations raised up and anybody who's been a teacher for like 30 years has seen a major shift in what is going on in this day so again we got to be different the scripture goes on fathers do not provoke your children unless they become discouraged i remember something we had four little kids in five years and cindy was gone once and i was feeding them dinner which was a very scary thought after that they begged that their mother never left again i actually thought i did a good job i fried bologna that when you fry baloney it makes like a sombrero and then you can flip it over and fill it up with cheese and the fat from the bologna it's awesome you know and they were crying over having to eat this and i was going to make them and you know there came a time where when you have four little kids everyone spills at some point someone is gonna spill every single meal i think it was this time two of them spilled their milk and i can remember looking at them and going act your age and the lord said they are this this is what's going to happen so fathers don't exasperate your children do not provoke them lest they become discouraged servants obeying all things your masters according to the flesh not with eye service as men pleasers but in sincerity of heart fearing god and here's the other side of that sandwich bread because it comes back to this point and whatever you do do it heartily as unto the lord and not unto men my friends in the roman empire there were 60 million slaves and it's interesting because in the teaching of the new testament which did end up conquering slavery it just didn't focus on the social issues of the day and again my friends i want to tell you something you can argue and fight with people who believe differently on on social things like abortion or whatever you're not going to change their opinion you can prove that it's a life i we're not dumb we i i mean people now they get to see their baby before it's born i we we know exactly it's not some blob in there it's a human being you can listen to its heartbeat i mean we're not ignorant when it comes to these things and you can prove all of that to the people that believe but is it going to change your opinion it's not going to change your opinion you know people will say it's my body it's my right no it's not your body because if it was your body you would die in an abortion but the life that dies isn't your body it is a life that god has given but again are we going to argue with them to change there's only one thing that changes people and that is knowing jesus christ as lord and savior and my friends please that's where our efforts need to be is reaching the lost in these days that we live in now it goes on knowing that from the lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance for you serve the lord christ but he who does wrong will be repaid for the wrong which he has done and there is no partiality and again there were no chapter divisions so obviously verse 1 goes with this masters give your servants what is just and fair knowing that you also have a master in heaven and again my friends in our lifetime we have seen a major shift because the majority of businesses in america when i was a kid were owned by families i don't care whether you're talking about the hardware store the clothing store the shoe store the car dealership the lumber yard they were families but my friends we don't live in that america anymore do we and we have increasingly come to a place of the lords and the serfs you got jeff bezos really does he need to make any more money but yet he has a system set up to keep all of his employees at just a certain level walmart it's exactly the same way i don't care where you go and the thing is you can't can anybody open up a clothing store and compete with marshalls marshals can sell clothes cheaper than what you could buy the material and sew it for and so when we see all of these things that are happening we we got to understand the world goes in cycles these things happen over and over so now here's why we have so much problem we have all the money in the world that is in the hands of just a very very few people and everybody else is working somewhere around minimum wage or their bouts but as a christian we should be the best worker that there is we should be the ones that are not doing the least but doing how are we to work as to the lord not just i service when people are watching us but as to the lord now this is essential because again paul's wrapping up what he's saying here and he says but continue earnestly in prayer being vigilant in it with thanksgiving meanwhile praying for us also for us that god would open the door for the word to speak the mystery of christ for which i am also in chains my friends in the book of acts we have where persecution was beginning and it's interesting as as we look at this in acts chapter 12 james is arrested and he's killed we have the herod then arresting peter and what does the church do when peter is arrested they go into deep prayer right and i love this story because this if this isn't us in prayer i don't know what is because they're having a prayer meeting god miraculously opens prison doors peter is ushered out by an an angel the the chains fall off he comes to the door he the angel gets him out of prison but can't get him into the prayer meeting because he knocks on the door and rhoda goes oh peter's at the door leaves him outside that's helpful and she goes back and tells him that peter's at the door no it's not it must be his angel you're crazy you know meanwhile peter is still knocking at the door but i have to ask you a question why did james die and peter get rescued and and does that still happen today i i want to read something to you the underground church in kabul africa afghanistan is now at home with the lord we have received news that the underground church in kabul afghanistan has been martyred our friends have been in contact and met together last night in deep prayer the last word she spoke were we feel your prayers because of the supernatural boldness came over us and we were singing even and we were singing in the spirit and even the kids said mom we will not deny jesus as they were on the phone they heard screaming and gunshots when i was flying to atlanta i saw wes bentley in the ontario airport and i said yes where are you going he's going to the border of afghanistan with far-reaching ministries rescuing afghan christians we're in the process of rescuing afghan christians and just this morning i was i was texting with the republic of georgia we we have people in process in all different places so we need to pray for them and their safety some of them are in countries where they're being held in underground churches if those people that have the underground churches get caught they're going to be killed as well we have those that are going to uh you know to jerk a stand and all these stan countries that i can't pronounce but anyway they're going to different places but let me tell you something something exciting one young christian afghan couple that ended up getting there and are now safe we're going to marry him next week and so sometimes and it's a hard thing for us to understand but we see it in jesus sometimes more is accomplished through our death than even our life but here's the point that we need to make a decision in our lives today that none of these things move me nor do i count my life as dear to myself that i may finish my race with joy and the ministry that i have received to testify to the gospel of his grace and again my friends we can hear this story about some christians in kabul and god i don't think i could do that there was once a guy who was going to be martyred burned at the stake and so the night before he tried to practice so he tried sticking his finger in a candle and and couldn't do it my friends i have wonderful news the wonderful news is our lord never leaves us and he gives us the ticket that we need at the time that we needed corey tim boom who lived through the holocaust her entire family was killed in the holocaust but as she lived through the holocaust she said her dad told her when she was a little girl with a train ticket i'll give you your ticket when the time comes and so if that day were to ever happen for us in our lives do you realize the lord lives within us he will give us what we need at the time that we need it so we can't try to pre-plan it we can't think of what we would say or do it that that's we just need to decide regardless of what happens in my life i'm going to go on i'm going to go on with the lord until that day in which he takes us home but here's what i do hope because the apostle paul writes this down that we need to be fervently praying we're going to read this several times in this scripture fervently praying exercising in prayer i'm not talking about oh lord bless all the missionaries i'm not talking about praying that way i'm talking about fervently praying and again i don't know why but god has chosen this church to do extraordinary things on that sunday two weeks ago when i shared about helping rescue afghan christians and it was a separate offering do you remember that do you know what you gave thirty thousand dollars in one sunday to be able to help and guess what we're helping i don't know whether we'll end up with 100 or 15 or whatever it is going to be but it's going to be the number that god has but the point is we need to be praying we can't stop in that raising up the next generation of calvary chapel pastors and leaders do you think the enemy is happy about that you know we're hoping by the end of september possibly into october sometime we're going to open up the bible college in uganda against all odds we just came back from peru god's doing an amazing work in peru in guatemala in israel in the philippines all over the world and we get to be a part so what did paul pray he prayed that an open door now when we go to the book of revelation we have the church of the open door which is philadelphia and philadelphia what does that name mean what's philadelphia mean and it is the city of brotherly love that we gotta love one another in view of these last days the last thing we need to be doing is fighting with one another all right trust me we have real enemies out there all right real enemies that hate every single thing about us so we are the the church of the brotherly love and we are the church that the lord says in the last days behold i've set before you an open door do you realize there are still thousands of churches that are not open that that did not stay open and again my friends god called us to stay open even if it meant going to jail and and let me tell you some other calvaries came very close to that i've been visiting with some people from the san jose calvary chapel let me tell you before they started cracking down on san jose calvary chapel they had 400 people attend i preached there during those days they have 400 people they have a massive building now they have thousands of people they have two services there their school is packed in the gills and they may have to buy more property but i want to tell you something the word on the street among high-powered lawyers is that big tech still wants to snuff them out so my friends we need to pray we have a big advantage out here we live in yucca valley we don't live in that big tech mega that they that they live in but i want to tell you we've got to pray because again the government is going to come after us and we have to understand that that's why personally i have voted for the recall and personally i have voted for larry elder to be the next governor of california because i want to tell you george soros gave a million dollars to newsom big tech has given millions of dollars to newsome the hollywood elites have given million dollars the new sim so whatever they're buying from him i don't want any part of again we got to understand things are way beyond politics this has nothing to do with politics anymore there are just forces at work that are amazing so christian please don't we live in america god has given us the privilege to be able to vote but i want you just to think about something the very same people that freak out that you would show an id to prove who you are to vote are the very same people who don't want you to eat in a restaurant unless you have a piece of paper does that seem a bit odd to you and again as we look at these sayings it's not politics the answer isn't going to be found in politics but the answer is going to be found as we as god's people pray and we seek the lord and that then we share the lord with other people can i hear an amen that's where the answer is going to be so we got to pray for that open door and here's the church in philadelphia the lord said i have set before you an open door and no man can shut it and then he says this he describes that church you have a little strength isn't that how you would describe us we have a little strength i want to tell you god has blessed us way out here in the desert because everything you see god has paid for can i hear hallelujah it's miraculous and we have generous people who help people that they will never meet in their life and my friends as we look at that here's the church in philadelphia they are not going to deny the word of the lord we're not going to deny the name of the lord right now there are all kinds of churches meeting in this country who do not not only don't teach the whole bible they don't believe the whole bible anymore and that is the church of laodicea which we're going to talk to about in a little bit later so look at this prayer that paul prays he says meanwhile well first verse two it's worth reading again continue earnestly in prayer being vigilant in it with thanksgiving that means continuing to be strong with thanksgiving we have a ministry here it's on the back of your bulletin watch and pray and again what we ask for is a minimum a minimum of one hour a week that you designate that you're going to be praying vigilantly and again if you're not a part of that why not because my friends in order for the church to move forward we have to realize this is the only way that's done and it's not being done because we're trying to convince a reluctant god the reason why we spend time in prayer is that he can communicate with us on his heart on his will on his strength and so my friends i i implore you if you're not in this get signed up for it call the office say what what day and hour we'll email you a prayer guide to be able to go through and every one of us can be a part fulfilling what the scripture here says to do in light that it's the last days and my friends the christians in paul's day were hated by the government do you realize that that that you're going to like this one do you realize that the romans blamed the christians for climate change no i'm not kidding because they had all these different gods if a place flooded or went into a drought or was too hot or too cold it was a christian's fault i'm serious and so they go you know off to the lines there's a flood yeah that's the christian's fault and again my friends as we listen do you realize there are people in our government who view us in the very same light as they view the taliban that we're on the danger watch list as born-again christians i mean that's that's bizarre in america isn't it i always tell people who want nothing to do with christianity go live in afghanistan there's never been a christian church above ground there there was only for a few days and they got bulldozed down so you want to live someplace where there's no christian influence have fun in afghanistan because that's exactly what it is but again everything gets twisted and it is the same thing that we start watching happening and it's unbelievable isn't it i want to tell you our founding forefathers prayed and fasted to come up with the constitution of the united states and look at us what are we 240 50 years old now it's worked but what's happening across our government they want to trample on the constitution of the united states of america and the constitution was never written to keep the citizens in line constitution was written to keep government in line and so the scripture goes on meanwhile praying also for us that god would open to us a door for the word to speak the mystery of christ for which i'm also in chains now we read what the mystery of christ was in colossians 1 verse 26 the mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from generations but now has been revealed to his saints to them god will to make known what are the riches of the glory of the mystery among the gentiles which is here's the mystery christ in you the hope of glory say it with me christ in you the hope of glory again christ in you the hope of glory my friends i want to ask you a question does it help to freak out over everything that's happening in our country does that help and and here's the problem for those that are wanting to run to other states the last time i checked those states were still in the united states of america they're trying to to to even stop that aren't they but i want to tell you something here's what does help philippians chapter 4 verse number 6 be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god and the the what the peace of god which what surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in christ jesus so say it again with me be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god and the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through christ jesus again be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god and the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through christ jesus my friends throughout history the bible always has god's people outnumbered always facing impossible situations nehemiah was facing all kinds of opposition as he was rebuilding the wall and this is what he said nevertheless we made our prayer to god and because of them we set a watch against them day and night and then he says we're faced with discouragement and judah said the strength of the laborers is failing and there's so much rubbish that we're not able to build the wall and our adversary said they will neither know nor see anything till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease so it was when the jews who dwelt near them came that they told us ten times from whatever place you turn they'll be upon us therefore i position men behind the lower parts of the wall and at the openings and i set the people according to their families with their swords and their spears and their bows and i looked and arose and said to the nobles and the leaders and to the rest of them do not be afraid remember the lord it's like a battle cry of the alamo do not be afraid remember the lord say it with me do not be afraid remember the lord again do not be afraid remember the lord again do not be afraid remember the lord again do not be afraid remember the lord you're wasting your time worrying you're wasting your time if you feel your days every day with news it's a waste of time we need to be aware but my friends the only way that we're going to make it is by trusting in him and letting it guide us at the day that we need it i remember last year the target was always moving you know we'd we'd make one set of plans only to have next week new edicts come out and having to adjust and decide what we're going to do my friends it's still going to be that way but here's what we're going to do we are going to trust the lord we are not going to stop meeting together our school is going to continue to function cbi is going to continue to function we're still going into all the world and we're preaching the gospel regardless of what happens that's what we're going to do and and so my friends this is it's it's words for us today this is exactly what we need and the scripture goes on to say in verse number four that i may make it manifest as i ought to speak walk in wisdom towards those who are outside redeeming the time in the book of ephesians it says redeeming the time because the days are evil can we say amen to that we've got to redeem the time because the days that we live in are evil so we have to walk in wisdom we have to be gentle as doves and wise as serpents all right there you know i try to be very very careful about what i say how we respond what we do we we we're looking at everything because again do we have real enemies out there oh yeah they want they they hate us they they want to destroy us but our god is for us so we just have to trust him and i love and in fact that david shook has come up with a whole clothing line you know that we're not a cruise ship we're we're a battleship and we are in battle stations right now the scripture goes on to say this let your speech always be with grace seasoned with salt that you may know how to answer each one now jesus would talk about this exact same thing he said you are the salt of the earth but if the salt loses its flavor how shall it be seasoned is good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men first of all salt is white it's a picture of purity secondly salt hills did you know that salt heals that's why you know if you have a scratch or something and you go swim in the ocean it's salt water you you go to the dead sea you can't even shave the day that you're going to go into the dead sea because it's going to hurt you know because you've you you've done your face because it has the salt content but salt is also a preservative that's how food is kept it also creates a thirst so our our conversation should be seasoned with salt and the last thing it does it tastes good marilyn i have a funny story so merrily when the first time she comes down i take her to in and out and we're at in and out and she's salting her french fries and i'm salting my french fries and she says brent yelled at her for eating too much salt and i said cindy always yelled at me for eating too much salt i said they should ate more salt it wasn't going to be an issue and so i have a joke because i eat a lot of salt i i have a joke i always go yeah salt kills cancer you know i don't know so but here's the deal we even talk about people who are the salt of the earth right and so let our conversation always be seasoned with salt in the book of proverbs it says this in the multitude of words sin is not lacking now i got to give you a quote from the deep south all right one of the guys that was sharing again i believe it was sandy adams he said you know opinions are like belly buttons everybody has one but they're not good for anything isn't that the truth everybody has an opinion and you know it's always beneficial to us when we realize the world didn't care about our opinion for all you keyboard warriors out there anyway it goes on to say this he who has knowledge spares his word in the book of james which deals so much about our mouth and talking it says in james chapter 3 he said therefore my beloved or james 1 19 therefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear slow to speak and slow to wrath and he goes on the tongue is a fire my friends here's the deal we have the opportunity in the days that we live in that our conversation would be seasoned with salt talking about the lord making people thirsty being a preservative sharing what is right and what is true versus using our tongue for evil for for cursing for gossiping for causing division rather than unity we have we have the choice of how we do that and in view of the last days because i tell you out there they're terrified we at least know what's happening it's hard for us not to be filled with anxiety until we bring everything back to the lord and understand be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let our requests be made known to god and the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard our hearts and minds a very simple principle in these days that we live in the moment that our hearts start being filled with anxiety what should we do we should start praying right then and there because our anxiety is not going to help and the bible says that in the last days it's going to get so bad that people's hearts will fail them for fear but not us my friends and the scripture then goes on to say this and i love this now we're gonna go through a whole list of real people do you realize that in paul's epistle he names over a hundred names and we're gonna see some of those names here today because i wanna tell you what is the church is the church this building the worship center is the church the sanctuary what is the church the church is human beings setting here today we're we're the church and the church is those believers who are in the republic of georgia and the church is those afghans that are fleeing in all directions and all borders that are christians the church is uganda and the people that are building the bible college the church is the young venezuelan refugees down in peru and the peruvians the church is young people the church is older people you know i i loved our video announcements today first of all those two girls they are like two peas in a pod i mean they're they somehow have to be related to each other they were both in bible college and grace is serving with pastor chris and lydia up in tooele and so that's that's very exciting having her and besides that she's from kansas so and annika of course is from here and she's one of our own but i loved you know you got young people you got older people you got the church what color of the skin is the church it doesn't matter because there's only one race in the church it is the human race and we are together as one in the body of believers is that awesome can i hear a hallelujah that's the church and so the church is people that's all it is this building can come and go but the church will always be tychius this is a pastor from ephesus he was serving in ephesus he also took the letter to the ephesians he's also going to take this letter tychius who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and a fellow servant in the lord i want you to look at each one of these descriptions first of all a beloved brother or as in the case of some of you beloved sisters secondly a faithful minister which means you're never going to quit thirdly a servant of the lord this is what we've called to be to do we are called to serve one another in love a huge part of bible college is servanthood this morning the reason why you have a chair to set on is because a bible college student set it up for you and at the end of the day they're going to pick them up from you and then they're going to clean the floors and the reason why you have toilet paper which you're very happy about is because we have servants that make this all happen the scripture goes on a servant of the lord will tell you all the news about me i'm sending him to you for this very purpose that he may know of your circumstances and comfort your hearts with onesimus he was the runaway slave i love this story the whole book of philemon paul wrote a letter to philemon who lived in this area because a guy a slave ran away ends up finding paul in a rome paul leads him to the lord as he had led philemon to the lord and then he sends him back and i want to tell you it appears from history that onesimus becomes the pastor of that church and origin and then later on a bishop of that whole region there and so he says of onesimus and his name means useful a faithful and beloved brethren who is who is one of you they will make known the things to you all things which are happening here aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you aris starches was with paul in the riot in ephesus he was with paul on the ship that was driven at sea and then shipwrecked i you know what i found and i love this real friends walk in when everyone else walks out and this was a guy that wherever paul was in trouble and now he's in prison with him he he was hanging around with paul and he himself got arrested he's with him there and with mark the cousin of barnabas about whom you received instruction if he comes to you welcome you now my friends i love the story of mark because mark goes on the apostle paul's first missionary journey with barnabas barnabas name means the son of encouragement and that's what barnabas was and i want to tell you through the years as a pastor i've had barnabas's in my life who are just an encouragement to me you know i read statistic once do you realize that the average pastor quits because of seven people so you have to ask yourself do i want to be a person in the church that would make a pastor want to quit or do i want to be a person in the church that is a son of encouragement so barnabas takes his cousin mark with him whatever the cause we don't know mark turned his back now on the second missionary journey barnabas because he's son of encouragement wants to give mark another chance does the apostle paul nip he ain't coming with us you can read about it in acts 15. in fact the disagreement was so great that they parted ways but my friends i love love love love love the lord working in people's hearts because here he brings it all back around and and the apostle paul is saying hey welcome mark he is awesome did god have a plan for mark yeah obviously he wrote a gospel right and here's the thing today you may be setting out in the in this sanctuary you may have failed the lord at one time in your life i got great news god's not done with you god still has a plan for you he we serve a god who forgives so let's go on and jesus who is called justice these are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of god who are of the circumcision and they have proved to be a comfort to me so they were jews because paul had those jews that always were following him trying to cause him trouble and demanding that gentiles get circumcised these weren't that epaphras is the one who started the church in colossae he greets you a servant of christ greets you always laboring fervently for you in prayers do you hear what that's saying laboring fervently for you in prayers i how many of us need help praying i i if there's ever any time that i feel a lack it's i wish i was a better prayer warrior i wish i i could be as creative as david when he wrote the psalms and saying things and and that but i want to again my friends we're all in the same boat on that there isn't one of us that isn't but i'm telling you as i look across this room i know we have prayer warriors here i i know that we have pray people praying for us every day and i want to tell you we cannot make it apart from that you know there's a lot of times in the morning because i like getting up early and i like studying in the morning because once i go the office it's like black hole you know so i my time is in the morning before i ever see another human being but because of the time change there's often in the morning that i'm in the republic of georgia i'm in the republic of uganda i i in israel i'm in different places around the world before because of the time change it's the evening there as i was this morning with babic in the republic of georgia and here's the deal there are big things that are happening in each one of those that we are a part of here so here's the deal we got to be fervent laboring in prayer in these days that we live in can i hear it hallelujah now the scripture goes on to say for i bear it and prayers that you may and i love this stand perfect and complete in all the will of god we want all the will of god for i bear him witness that he has great zeal for you and those who are in laodicea and hieropolis luke the beloved physician why would paul need a beloved physician we read in the book of acts where they took paul's sweat bans and mailed them off to people not for a donation and they were healed my friends do you realize that god has given us the gift of medicine and doctors and how awesome for the apostle paul when we read the litany of things that he faced that there was a doctor who went with him do you have any idea how many times he helped the apostle paul and obviously again god had a great calling on his life because he writes the book of luke and the book of acts and then here's a sad one and demas greets you now my friends in in second timothy we read where demons forsakes the lord because he has a love for this world my friends i hope all of you have this heart i want to finish well i don't crash and burn at some point in my life and especially at this point in my life and demas is mentioned three times in the scripture as a faithful laborer as one who greets you and then as one that has turned away and my friends i don't think we have to think hard to know people who once walked with the lord who are not at this time now it goes on greet the brother in her in laodicea and memphis and the church that is in his house now when this epistle is read among you see that is read also in the church of laodicea laodicea was six miles away but some 30 years later jesus writes the church in laodicea that they become lukewarm and he's going to spit him out of his mouth my friends in the last days there's going to be a falling away the bible tells us in the last days there is going to be the church of laodicea and they're going to be the biggest churches out there but my friends we're going to be the church of philadelphia but i have great news about the church of philadelphia that's the church that gets raptured and it goes on and say to archipelas take heed to the ministry which you have received in the lord that you may fulfill it at this salutation by my own hand paul remember my chains grace be with you amen let's all stand i believe today all of us need to just look to the lord and say lord you are number one in my life i am going to follow you and i need you to guide me through these days and i want to stand in your perfect will can we all say amen to that let's pray it together lord jesus i give you my heart i give you my life i need you i need your strength it's so easy for me to be filled with anxiety but i want to be a person of prayer i want to answer that call to labor fervently in prayer in these days that the open door that is set before us that we will continue to walk boldly through and we're going to keep our eyes on you knowing that you're coming again and we want to live a life that's pleasing to you in jesus name we pray and everyone said amen god bless you have a great week

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Published: Sun Sep 12 2021