237: James Taylor – Exhortation: The Supremacy and Sufficiency of Christ (Col. 1)

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk

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for this week.
We’re listening to an excitation

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that was sent in.
As a suggestion, it was given by

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brother James Taylor, right?
At the end of 2021, he’s basing

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Education on Colossians chapter
1.

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So if you’d like to read through
that, that was the reading that

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they did before he gave this
excitation and the title of his

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expectation is the supremacy and
the sufficiency of Christ.

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And what I’ve found this to be a
really powerful excitation

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because it was a good reminder,
as brother, James was looking at

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the Ecclesia of colossi, how the
dangers in the ideas that Paul

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was warning the Colossians about
apply to us just as much now,

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Now, as they did, then looking
at those lessons is a good

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reminder to us and brother,
James did a fantastic job.

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He gets really passionate about
it, especially by the end of the

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excitation, which I found to be
particularly moving when I

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listen to it.
So I thought the situation was a

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really powerful one.
It was a good reminder of what

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we should be looking for.
As we’re going through things

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today, as well as the things
that we went through, with our

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brothers and sisters, in the
city of colossi back.

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When I was writing this letter
so I hope that you find it to be

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as powerful as encouraging as I
did as always, please continue

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to send in any suggestions or
talks or feedback that you might

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have.
We’re always open to those and

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just this week we’re talking
about how much we appreciate the

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suggestions and it makes finding
talks that we can share with all

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of you so much easier than it
used to be.

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And we greatly appreciate that.
So thank you as always and with

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that, I will turn it.
It over to brother James Taylor

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for his excitation the supremacy
and sufficiency of Christ.

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But why the exultation this
morning you want to take some

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time with our brothers and
sisters in the colossian, a

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closure?
There are smaller closure.

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In a relatively, small town,
tucked away in the beautiful

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luscious like us Valley.
There are two other occasions

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close by later to see her and
hire a palace both within

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relatively relatively easy
walking distance. but as a sort

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of small and somewhat isolated
achalasia, there are also new At

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the beginning of Paul’s, third
missionary journey, they weren’t

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yet in existence.
Then at some point in that

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period, the faithful fellow
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Epaphras returned to them,
bringing good news and

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establishing the Ecclesia there.
Basically, she was also somewhat

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divided because it was an
occasion of significant wealth

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inequality.
We had both slave owners and

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slaves as part of this Ecclesia.
We had people who were

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incredibly wealthy by the day so
it was known as sort of it was

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where all the Millionaire’s,
ended up living of that day and

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strabo, the ancient geographer
writes the country round blow to

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see if producers sheep.
That are excellent.

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Not only for the softness of
their wall in which they

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surpass, even the Malaysian wall
but also for its raven black

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color.
So that the laodiceans derive

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Splendid revenue from it.
As do all as do also, the

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neighboring polisseni.
So the residents of colossae, so

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this was a place of great
wealth, but it meant that you

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had the rich landowners and the
slaves were actually did all the

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work out in the field and we
know that we had both of these

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groups as members in the same
enclosure together meeting in

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the same house.
We also have a long established

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Jewish community in 2005 BC,
Antiochus, the third sent 2,000

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families of Jews into the
region.

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He said, because they were, they
were cooperating at the time so

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he sent them there to calm the
region down and said I’m going

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to set put you there and as a
treat to you because I’m I’m

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sending you there and you’re
doing this.

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Great favor for me.
You can have your own laws.

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So we’ve got this significant
Jewish Community.

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Also, in the region who are used
to having things their own way.

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Doing things according to their
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And all of these people are
coming together being pushed

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into this one smaller closure
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And we won’t have a
consideration of the challenges

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that that led to and what they
had to face in doing that.

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So if we come to chapter 2, we
see the reason why Paul wrote

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this letter.
Chapter 2 verse 4.

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Paul writes, I say this in order
that no one may delude you with

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plausible arguments.
So, there is a need in this.

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Ecclesia to hold on to the
truth.

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There were arguments coming in.
There were there are ideologies

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and philosophies coming in that
would have the possibility of

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leading this achalasia away from
the truth.

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And in verse 5, Paul gives us
the tone that is going to go at

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this issue with he’d never met
these brothers and sisters

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before.
And so he makes sure that when

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he’s dealing with them he does
it in a positive way.

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So he’s going to address these
plausible arguments these

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enticing words what he’s going
to do it.

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Assuring them that he is not
writing them off, he is there to

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work.
Alongside them for the.

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I am absent in body yet.
I’m with you in spirit rejoicing

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to see you all good order and
the firmness of your faith in

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Christ.
So that being the case, what

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were the issues that Paul had to
deal with in this achalasia?

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Well first of all, there was the
early Gnostic movement.

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The gnostics were a group of
people who had the idea that

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specific knowledge would be.
What would save you that if you

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had access to a secret that
would help you.

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And they, these ideas came out
of what to the Romans was

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Eastern philosophy.
So from the regions of Egypt and

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Persia, and they would have
these Colts and that’s a look.

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If you can find out the Bit of
information, then maybe the

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Angels, maybe the other Spirit
beings are going to help you and

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these ideas started coming into
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That old, maybe if we know a bit
more, maybe if we know this set,

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special secret thing, then we’ll
get extra help in our salvation.

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And we see that idea really
popping up in to verse 18.

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Let no one disqualify.
You insisting on a cetus ISM and

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worship of angels, which was a
key feature of the Gnostic

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movement and of going in details
about Visions.

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The receiving of secret, special
knowledge, and becoming puffed

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up without Reason by his
sensuous mind.

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And so the battle this idea Paul
focuses their mind on just what

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they’ve received in Christ.
And he sort of opens that in

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Chapter 2 is as he brings his
argument against all the things

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that were going wrong in the
colossian.

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Ecclesia, he starts off with an
introduction to that that really

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emphasizes that they’ve got
everything they need in Christ.

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And so he seemed to verse 2,
that their hearts may be

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encouraged being knit together
in love to reach all the riches

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of the full Assurance of
understanding and the knowledge

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of God’s mystery, which is
Christ in, whom are hidden all

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the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge and scene leading into

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this is saying, look the thing
you need to know is Christ.

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The thing you need to know is
the gospel message.

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There’s not some extra secret
thing that you’re going to get

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given just to you in a special
vision.

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That’s not going to happen.
That’s not going to help you.

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You can have the full Assurance
of understanding in Christ, and

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In Christ Alone.
Alongside these issues.

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As I’ve said there’s also Jewish
legalism the long-standing

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traditional traditional views of
the Jewish community.

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In particular we they we have
the there them saying there was

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a need to be circumcised and we
see that in verse 11, We’re

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Christ where Paul says in him.
Also, you are circumcised with

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the circumcision made without
hands by putting off the body of

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Flesh by the circumcision of
Christ.

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And so saying you don’t need to
worry about circumcision, you

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don’t need to worry about those
things.

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And then down in verse 16 we
have sort of a broader aspects

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of the law.
Therefore let no one pass

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judgment on you in questions of
food and drink or in God to a

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festival or a new moon or a
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These are a shadow of things to
come but the substance belongs

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to Christ.
This is one that I found

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interesting when we consider.
Because if you think about

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Romans 14, in Romans 14, Paul
specifically says, if someone

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wants to keep a day, Let them
keep it, they keeping it to God,

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don’t stop them from doing that.
If someone wants to eat certain

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foods or not eat certain foods,
let them, don’t let them go and

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do their thing.
They’re doing that with the

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right answer.
You, they’re doing it for their

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master.
But the problem in the colossian

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a closure is people were
bringing these things in and

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going right.
You know, we’re going to hold a

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special effort and if you don’t
turn up to the special effort,

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verse 8 and verse 16, therefore
let no one pass judgment on you

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and verse 18.
Let no one disqualify, you

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insisting on these things.
So, we’ve got people in the

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Ecclesia going, right?
I’m going to serve God this way,

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and if you don’t, you’re out.
That was the attitude they had

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instead of going here is a thing
that I find useful that, you

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know, a special effort, you
know, there’s any number of

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things that we could think of
that.

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We find useful in building us up
to the goal of establishing,

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shout establishing ourselves in
our faith, in Christ.

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That we can’t disqualify people
who go about a different way.

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And so that was the issue that
was coming up here that that

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people are coming up with the
things that they thought were

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useful.
The things that they thought

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were helpful, I’m going nuts.
If you don’t do things in the

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way that I think is useful and
helpful.

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You’re out the door.
Goodbye.

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And also attached with this
keeping of the law.

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We also have that there was
seems to be at least some pride

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in a Jewish identity because
over in chapter 3 verse 11 but

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we have to reiterate to them.
That here there is not Greek and

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Jew circumcised and
uncircumcised, Barbarian

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scythian, slave and free.
But Christ is all and in all.

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And so the people in these
different groups might have gone

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all, you know, I’m a Jew.
I’ve got, I’ve got this Heritage

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in the truth, obvious Heritage
in understanding the Bible.

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I’m God, must be willing to work
with me first before he works

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with you.
Gentile uncircumcised brother.

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And finally, the large other
large group is asceticism.

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Or is the King.
James has voluntary, humility?

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Most broadly sort of spoken of
down in verse 23, where it says,

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they’re these have indeed an
appearance of wisdom in

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promoting self-made, religion
and a cetus ISM and severity to

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the body.
But they are no value in

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stopping the Indulgence to the
Flesh.

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And this whole movement was was
doing things that were hard in

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order.
To praise God in there were

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thinking about it but the
problem was is that became this

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great movement and as sort of As
you move from this time into the

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early second century, they
became what was the early

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monastic movement?
The monks now out in the desert

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and people looked at them said,
athletes have God that these

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persons, you know, sitting out
under a rock in the middle of

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the desert, only eating bread
and water and people going,

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isn’t he amazing?
Okay.

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No, he’s sitting out in the
desert by himself.

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He’s doing nothing to strengthen
the Ecclesia but people looked

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to people doing hard things to
themselves and said oh isn’t

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this amazing?
And this has, I think like a

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real impact on our side that we
can see people.

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Doing difficult.
Things are high.

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Isn’t that amazing?
But if that difficult thing

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isn’t towards anything.
If that difficult things not

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actually trying to achieve
something and it’s just being

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difficult for the sake of being
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It isn’t actually going to be
doing anything instead that

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person by achieving that
difficult thing that hasn’t

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actually achieved anything.
The end of verse 23, they are of

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no value in stopping the
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And so they’re doing these
difficult things, and people are

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going, isn’t that person?
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So all of these Different issues
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We have the Aesthetics, we have
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circumcised, we have the
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want to have, feast days and
those who completely disregard

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that.
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trying to work out how they work
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they become one body and this
theme of one body runs

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throughout the book that they
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I went through. with a yellow
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yellow because in there’s ninety
five verses in Colossians and I

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found at least 40 different
places where it speaks about us

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being in Christ with Christ
through Christ and members of

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the one body that this idea, is
that, that we’re not in this by

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ourselves.
We’re in this Ecclesia in

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Christ, and that we are members
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It just comes up Time and Time
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Take for example, do you have
three verse 1?

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If then you have been, Raised
with Christ seek those things

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are above where Christ is
seated.

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At the right hand of God set
your mind on things above, not

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the things of the Earth for you
have died and your life is

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hidden with Christ, in God.
When Christ, who is your life

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appears, then you will appear
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That all that we need to be
doing is Building Together.

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There is only one body for us to
be a member of there is only one

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Christ.
And so for this occasion that

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was a challenge that we can’t
have the body going off in all

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different directions.
Oceans. but, They’re the list of

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rules that they had come up with
were not going to help because

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we see their into Verse 18.
Let no one disqualify, you

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insisting on a CD season and
worship of angels, going in

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details, about Visions.
Puffed up without Reason by

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sensuous mind, and not holding
fast to the Head from whom the

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whole body nourished and knit
together through its joints and

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ligaments grows with a growth
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And so these External forces
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thing they would do.
In the end of Verse 18 is Puff

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people up.
There’s no substance to that but

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he says no grow together be knit
together in one body and grow

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with a growth, a real growth in
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encouraging each other.
And he then blades and that.

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And so, the overall problem with
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puffing up.
And in, in the words of verse

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23, it has no value in stopping
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And that’s because all of these
things that these people looked

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at were things that they could
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You can go and get your list of
Sabbath days and you can happily

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Rock up to the upon the Ashley.
It’s established a staying home,

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not going anywhere.
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You’re staying home.
Every Sabbath day.

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You’re not doing.
You’re not going to do that new.

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You can quite happily tick that
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year and feel very pleased with
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But well, all that does is leads
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and the idea that you can do it
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And unfortunately this was
typical of the region we don’t

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have time to turn it up.
But in Revelation 3 verse 17

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where Christ some 30 or 40 years
later is writing to the

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laodicean, a closure the next
closure over, he says to them,

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your problem is you think to
yourself Girls, I’m rich.

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I’ve got everything I need.
I have need of nothing and

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that’s what these things in
Chapter 2 would achieve in US is

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that if we build up this list of
things, we go, here’s a nice

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easy things that we can do.
And that the example that I

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think of is, is Lent for the
Catholics and others is that

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people go over 40 days before
Easter.

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We’re not going to eat any
chocolate, you know, great, well

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done, don’t eat chocolate for 40
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You haven’t done anything to
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You’ve put this nice, easy
Target in front of yourself and

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go on tick, done.
It gold star for me an argument

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it says, no we’re not, in
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We’ve got time for this.
Another example of where this

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was typical of the region.
So Colossians, it seems was

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written about 62 to 64.
There’s good reason for thinking

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that and in the year, 60, so
only a couple of years prior

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there was a massive earthquake
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Knock down most of the buildings
and the Roman governors turned

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up and said oh you know, Here’s
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We’re here to help if you need
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laodiceans turned around and
said, don’t worry, we can

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rebuild our cities, we can pay
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They were a successful, but
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It’s all of that would have had
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have come into the Ecclesia.
So what then do we do?

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Because it seems quite nice to
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Okay, we’ve got rid of all of
the rules.

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We don’t need to worry about
anything.

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That suits me quite fine.
No one can tell me what to do.

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Well is that really what it’s
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but we see if we come back to
chapter 1, we have a bit of a

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problem when we considering
these sorts of things, says that

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one verse 10.
So as to walk in a manner,

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worthy of the Lord, fully
pleasing to him bearing fruit in

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every good work and increasing
in the knowledge of God now that

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unfortunately, but it’s the
reality, but doing good works

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and increasing in knowledge.
Seems to be a lot about what the

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ascetics wanted, and what The
gnostics Wanted, increasing your

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knowledge, right?
We’re going to do that bit.

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We’re really focusing on that
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We’re out there slaving away as
an ascetic, really damaging

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ourselves for the benefit of the
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And that these ideas, that these
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There’s a lot of overlap In what
we in what the reality of those

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actions are but the important
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them.
And so Paul in chapter 3, then

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gives them a list of tasks both
to not do and also to do the

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things to put off and the things
to put on this is the life that

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he wanted to see from them.
So see their 3 verse 5, put to

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death.
Therefore what is Earthly?

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In you sexual immorality
impurity passion, evil, desire

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covetousness, which is idolatry
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The wrath of God is coming verse
8, but now you must put them all

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away anger wrath.
Malice, slander obscene talk

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from your mouth do not lie to
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Another scene.
That seems you’ve put off the

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old self with its practices.
Now, for those who were saying

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donate these food and don’t
attend these festivals or do

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attend these things and don’t do
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But all of these things that
were told to put off, there is

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only a hundred percent success
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We either like it doesn’t say,
you know, only be a little bit,

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angry, only speak poorly of a
few of your brothers and

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sisters.
Know, it’s a complete thing.

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That’s and it’s something that
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Essentially almost impossible
for us to actually achieve that

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as we try and accomplish these
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We’re going to go, hang on.
I was doing really good at not

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being angry.
But the car in front of me

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pulling in front of me without
indicating, and that’s suddenly

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I’m furious.
He can’t hang on, no nice tick

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in the box for me this week,
that that the the end goal.

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Is almost impossible and in the
same way down in verse 12 when

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he tells us what we do need to
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He says they’re put on then as
God’s chosen ones holy and

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beloved compassionate, Hearts,
kindness, humility, meekness and

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patience bearing with one
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And if anyone has a complaint
against another forgiving one,

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another as the Lord has forgiven
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So you also must forgive and we
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I mean and that’s a good thing
to do but we haven’t there’s no

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tick in the Box for us because
we haven’t finished kindness.

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They were at all.
Yeah, every aspect of kindness.

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We have covered that off in our
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But all of these things that
we’ve, it now need to aim for in

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the things that we need to put
off in the things that we need

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to put on.
How do we maintain them

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motivation?
And how do we stay focused on

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actually accomplishing?
Those end goal things not

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serving in the means to the end,
but working together towards the

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end in itself, working together
towards the kingdom and bringing

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our brothers and sisters the one
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And that really comes to us.
I think in chapter 1, as Tim

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read it for us, it’s a truly
spectacular chapter.

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I there sort of Colossians 1 and
John one that really Elevate our

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thinking on who Christ was and
what our relationship to him is

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of just how significant he was,
what Christ is our what God has

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accomplished through him.
So we see in one verse 11 that

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we are called and qualified in
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May you be strengthened with all
power according to his glorious

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might for all endurance and
patience with joy.

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Giving thanks to the father who
has qualified you to share in

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the inheritance of the Saints of
life.

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He has delivered us from the
domain of darkness and

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transferred us into the kingdom
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In whom we have Redemption, the
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And I think this aspect of
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It’s Christ at the level, we can
understand Christ.

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The one who has died for us and
redeemed us and that we have

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forgiveness.
We we understand all of that.

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but then, Paul really just
Really goes for it but in just

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going you’d need to understand
that this one body that you’ve

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been called to be a part of
that.

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Just how significant the head of
that body is So he starts their

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verse 15, he is the image of the
invisible.

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God, Hebrews 1 verse 3.
Get the words right for turn.

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Their Hebrews 1 verse 3.
Speaking, a similar way says he

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is the radiance of the glory of
God and the exact imprint of his

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nature and he upholds, the
universe by the word of his

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power.
So that croc in Christ.

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We see exactly what God wanted
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Verse 6, in Genesis, 1 verse 26
where God said, let us make man

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in our image after our likeness
He’s crossed.

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The one who is actually being
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And it’s got the idea there in
images of imprint has a has in

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Hebrews 10 and it’s a coin where
you would have the stamp and

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then you’d have your nice plug
of metal and you’d go and hit

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the flag of metal in the stamp
into the plug of metal and then

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you would have the picture
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And in Christ, we have the proof
coin the one that is probably

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one that you look to know this
coin is exactly what this coin

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is meant to be.
But for all the rest of us the

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hammer came down on a bit of an
angle and things are not quite

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lined up as they’re meant to be
but in Christ, we see the

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perfect coin.
He is the firstborn of all

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creation if we just jump forward
to verse 18 He is the head of

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the body the Ecclesia.
He is the beginning the

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firstborn from the dead.
God’s purpose in creation wasn’t

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to create a dying breed of
creatures but to create people

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who are going to live forever in
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And so Christ is the first born
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And then this is section.
So good from verse six times.

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He’s got the whole purpose of
everything that God’s created

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from start to finish whether
it’s the physical natural world

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around us, whether it’s Kings or
rules, whether it’s the rise and

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fall of Nations.
All of those things have been

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done for the purpose of what
Christ was to accomplish.

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Everything that’s happened in
the world.

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Everything that’s lived and
moved.

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We see therefore by him Him, all
things were created in heaven

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and on Earth, visible and
invisible, whether Thrones, or

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dominions or rulers or
authorities.

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All things were created through
him.

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And for him, he is before all
things.

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And in him all things, hold
together.

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So Christ is the center point is
the Hub of the rest of creation

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00:28:23,000 –> 00:28:25,700
that that what he accomplished
had to be done.

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And then, you know, the Greeks
can come and go, the Romans can

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come and go this nation.
An rise and fall when as it has

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their things visible and
invisible things that we can’t

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00:28:36,300 –> 00:28:40,400
even comprehend that to happen
for Christ to be there.

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00:28:40,400 –> 00:28:47,600
And he’s the whole reason for it
and he is the head of the body,

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the Ecclesia?
that the one who is the head of

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this meeting is the central
character and the central point

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in all the created world, He is
the beginning, the firstborn

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from the dead that in
everything, he might be

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preeminent, he is right at the
top.

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For in him, all the fullness was
pleased to dwell.

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Verse 19 is one that all the
translators have a bit of a bit

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of difficulty with, and they all
seem to want to add either the

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father, or God in there,
somewhere, which in the Greek

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isn’t there.
So, the sense of that, the King

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James that she has, has it
quite.

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Well, if you take out the
father, That the it was pleasing

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that the fullness should dwell
in him, is the sense of that

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verse and what does it mean by
fullness?

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Well, it’s the completion and
this pairs with Verse 18, where

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he is, the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead.

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And the beginning, there is the
Greek word.

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RK, + RK in Greek thought is
linked very closely with a were.

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They were much more familiar
with logos.

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So logos is the plan and The RK
is the power.

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Or the means, it’s the idea of
the You’ve caused so, God had a

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plan logos and that plan was
accomplished and brought about

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through Christ.
So he is the beginning.

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His the active Force that’s
going to that’s going to bring

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all of this into being and in
him that task was completed that

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task was fulfilled.
Verse 20 and 3 him to reconcile

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to himself all things whether on
Earth or in heaven Making Peace

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by the blood of his cross.
That this perfect being this

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perfect, Son of God,
Accomplished all of that Making

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Peace by the blood of his cross.
And then we get to verse 21.

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Verse 21, really packs a punch
that in considering Christ at

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this supremum, exalted level, it
says there and you who are

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alienated and hostile in mind
doing evil Deeds.

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That’s where we are.
He is Christ, the beginning, the

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firstborn, the exalted, the
preeminent.

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And here’s us.
Alienated hostile in mind doing

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evil Deeds.
He says well, what amount of

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00:31:42,400 –> 00:31:46,900
sabbath-keeping is going to get
us out of that position of

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alienated hostile?
Separated from God doing evil

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00:31:51,100 –> 00:31:57,100
Deeds, but Christ the preeminent
one has done all of that.

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But then skipping forward to
verse 24 for the sake of time.

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Paul once again takes it a whole
step further.

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He says they’re now I rejoice in
my suffering for your sake and

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in my flesh.
I am filling up.

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What is lacking in Christ’s
Affliction for the sake of his

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body.
That is the Ecclesia.

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The King James there has that
what is behind in the sufferings

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00:32:30,100 –> 00:32:33,200
of Christ?
But it’s what is lacking in

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00:32:33,200 –> 00:32:36,500
Christ’s afflictions that what
Paul was accomplishing in his

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00:32:36,500 –> 00:32:41,100
life was building up the
Ecclesia and that when we

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consider our work that we do
together in strengthening the

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occasion in preaching and
teaching Sunday school and

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00:32:46,100 –> 00:32:51,400
whatever it happens to be that
what we’re doing is adding to

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00:32:51,700 –> 00:32:54,900
the work that was done in the
sacrifice of Christ.

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00:32:55,800 –> 00:33:00,800
God chose to feel this Earth
with people who reflect his

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00:33:00,800 –> 00:33:05,100
glory and his chosen us to be
those people.

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00:33:05,600 –> 00:33:09,000
And his chosen asked to find
more people like that to

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00:33:09,000 –> 00:33:12,400
actually go and build up the
body.

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00:33:13,100 –> 00:33:15,000
And I don’t think we’re going
too far with that is if you just

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00:33:15,000 –> 00:33:17,600
consider Romans 10 verse 14, it
says there.

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How then will they call on him
in whom they have not believed

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00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:24,000
and how they too believed on him
of whom they have not heard and

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00:33:24,000 –> 00:33:26,800
how they do here.
Without someone preaching that

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00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:32,900
that real work is given to us to
do that, that Supreme exalted

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00:33:32,900 –> 00:33:37,000
Messiah, who you can’t put him
on any higher pedestal,

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00:33:37,800 –> 00:33:40,200
understand who he is.
And Paul says, and what we do in

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00:33:40,200 –> 00:33:44,200
our work Is part of that exact
same work.

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00:33:44,200 –> 00:33:46,500
It’s not just doing something
nice and because we do something

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00:33:46,500 –> 00:33:48,700
nice.
God’s going to reward us as we

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00:33:48,700 –> 00:33:52,600
work in the Ecclesia.
We are actually building the

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00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:56,200
body of Christ and how was Paul
confident in this.

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00:33:57,600 –> 00:34:01,700
If we come across to Paul’s own
conversion. of the relationship

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00:34:01,700 –> 00:34:06,600
of Christ to the body and our
involvement in a Paul’s own

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00:34:06,600 –> 00:34:12,400
conversion in Acts chapter 9.
We have soul, as he was at that

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00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:15,300
stage.
You know, if you want to get the

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00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:19,900
idea from Colossians 1, you who
were alienated and hostile in

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00:34:19,900 –> 00:34:23,900
mind doing evil Deeds?
Well, I don’t think you can get

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00:34:23,900 –> 00:34:29,500
any worse or any more hostile in
mind than Saul.

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00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:38,100
But so breathing out threats and
murder against the Disciples of

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00:34:38,100 –> 00:34:43,500
the Lord.
Went to the high priest and

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00:34:43,500 –> 00:34:46,400
asked of him letters to the
synagogue’s of Damascus.

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00:34:47,100 –> 00:34:49,699
Said if he found anyone
belonging to the way where the

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00:34:49,699 –> 00:34:51,500
men are woman who might bring
them bound.

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00:34:51,900 –> 00:34:54,300
So saws there, he’s got all the
vim and vigor in the world.

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00:34:54,300 –> 00:35:02,000
He’s going to go with murderous
intent to hunt down Our brothers

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00:35:02,000 –> 00:35:04,300
and sisters, that’s his
intention.

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00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:06,500
And the reason has to go all the
way from Jerusalem.

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00:35:06,500 –> 00:35:08,900
All the way out to Damascus is
because he’s done such a good

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00:35:08,900 –> 00:35:11,700
job of doing it in Jerusalem in
Judea.

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00:35:11,800 –> 00:35:14,000
He’s chased the Ecclesia out of
that region.

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00:35:16,700 –> 00:35:24,400
Her bright light comes on him.
and Christ says, So, so why are

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00:35:24,400 –> 00:35:27,800
you persecuting me?
Why are you doing this to me?

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00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:29,200
So what were you trying to
accomplish?

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00:35:29,300 –> 00:35:34,400
Why are you doing this to me?
This isn’t why you’re doing this

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00:35:34,900 –> 00:35:36,300
to my disciples.
Are you doing this to my

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00:35:36,300 –> 00:35:39,900
brothers and sisters?
Why are you doing this to me?

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00:35:41,500 –> 00:35:43,500
And Saul says, well who are you?
Lord.

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00:35:43,500 –> 00:35:49,300
And he said, I am Jesus.
Whom you are persecuting Christ.

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00:35:49,300 –> 00:35:52,400
Took Paul’s persecution of the
Ecclesia.

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00:35:53,300 –> 00:35:57,400
Absolutely.
Personally, And Paul is them

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00:35:57,400 –> 00:36:01,000
blinded and is led into the
City.

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00:36:01,700 –> 00:36:04,500
And it says there in verse 9
that he sits in this house for

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00:36:04,500 –> 00:36:08,900
three days without sight.
Not eating not drinking his just

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00:36:08,900 –> 00:36:11,200
sitting there and thing that
he’s got ring in his mind.

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00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:16,700
Is that one that I’ve been?
I’ve been going about putting

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00:36:16,700 –> 00:36:21,000
into prison capturing killing
that man’s disciples.

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00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:25,400
And now I’m stuck in this house.
I can’t see a thing and he’s

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00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:27,600
just said, go and sit in that
house and I’m going to tell you

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00:36:27,607 –> 00:36:30,400
what’s going to happen to you
and still sits there.

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00:36:30,600 –> 00:36:32,700
He sits there.
He gets a vision.

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00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:35,700
That says, okay, someone’s going
to come see you and restore your

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00:36:35,700 –> 00:36:38,800
sight.
He still sits there.

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00:36:44,900 –> 00:36:46,300
But then, I don’t know that’s
comes in.

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00:36:48,400 –> 00:36:52,100
It’s great faithful, brother
comes into this man who has

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00:36:52,100 –> 00:36:54,000
murdered his brothers and
sisters.

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00:36:56,000 –> 00:36:58,900
And says to him.
Brother.

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00:36:59,800 –> 00:37:03,200
So, like, see Santa retouching
rates and his brother.

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00:37:03,200 –> 00:37:08,800
So, The Lord Jesus.
I can’t read any of this.

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00:37:12,700 –> 00:37:16,400
I have to go from memory.
That solves that.

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00:37:18,500 –> 00:37:21,800
The Ecclesia.
And Christ sends this man to say

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00:37:21,800 –> 00:37:25,400
to him brother School.
Don’t worry.

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00:37:26,600 –> 00:37:28,900
It all has been doing is sitting
in his house for three days and

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00:37:28,900 –> 00:37:31,700
he says, don’t worry, you’re now
a brother.

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00:37:31,700 –> 00:37:33,400
You’ve been forgiven, you’re
going to be filled with the Holy

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00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:36,900
Spirit and you’re going to do
that for the purpose of going

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00:37:36,900 –> 00:37:41,900
out and spreading my name in a
positive way to the Gentiles.

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00:37:42,500 –> 00:37:44,500
So we just come back to
Colossians 1.

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00:37:45,500 –> 00:37:49,700
We see there that the I think
Paul had this well and truly in

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00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:55,400
his mind that there’s Christ the
exalted Messiah This pull a lie

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00:37:55,400 –> 00:37:59,100
and I didn’t hostile and mind
indeed, but he’s going to go out

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00:37:59,100 –> 00:38:01,800
and that body that had been in
the process of destroying.

579
00:38:02,300 –> 00:38:04,600
He was now going to be in the
process of building up.

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00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:12,200
So that Christ might be exalted.
Verse 26, the mystery hidden for

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00:38:12,200 –> 00:38:17,000
ages and generations but is now
revealed to his Saints to them,

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00:38:17,000 –> 00:38:21,200
God chose to make known how
great among the Gentiles are the

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00:38:21,200 –> 00:38:24,200
riches of the glory of the
mystery, which is Christ in.

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00:38:24,200 –> 00:38:29,500
You the hope of glory him, we
Proclaim warning, everyone and

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00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:32,200
teaching everyone with all
wisdom that we may present

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00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:35,600
everyone mature in Christ for
this.

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00:38:35,600 –> 00:38:40,700
I toil struggling with all his
energy that he powerfully works

588
00:38:40,700 –> 00:38:44,100
in me.
And so, the work that we do in

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00:38:44,100 –> 00:38:50,500
the Ecclesia Is to build up the
body of Christ not by anything

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00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:53,100
that we have done.
If it wasn’t for Christ, we

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00:38:53,100 –> 00:38:55,700
would still be hostile in mind,
doing evil Deeds.

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00:38:56,200 –> 00:39:01,600
But now we have the opportunity
to share in his body and as we

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00:39:01,600 –> 00:39:06,400
do, so to consider how to
provoke one another to love and

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00:39:06,400 –> 00:39:09,600
to good works.
As we see his great and Glorious

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