back to index2019-05-15: Wed Bible Study Final Overview (Session 16)
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Okay, all right, so today's Bible study, because it's an overview study, I'm going to just 00:00:09.760 |
kind of give you an outline and just a brief overview of what we studied and our goal, 00:00:14.880 |
and then we'll give you plenty of time with your small group, and then obviously we'll 00:00:20.160 |
So today is the last Bible study, and afterwards we're going to have a little bit over a two-month 00:00:26.000 |
Pastor Mark, did you have an announcement for today? 00:00:36.680 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the grace of allowing us to have Bible study with our 00:00:46.760 |
We pray that the study of Colossians would have caused us to have a deeper understanding 00:00:51.520 |
of who you are and Christ and what he has done. 00:00:55.000 |
And I pray that our review study will cause the things that we've learned, Lord God, to 00:01:00.040 |
be embedded much deeper in our conscience and our hearts. 00:01:03.840 |
And we ask, Lord, that you give us openness, and that even in a time of break, Lord God, 00:01:09.120 |
I pray that your name may be honored and there will be greater fellowship and interaction 00:01:16.600 |
Okay, so as I've mentioned at the beginning of the study, that our goal here is not to 00:01:21.200 |
simply go over Colossians, but to get you to learn to study the Bible on your own, right? 00:01:26.640 |
So if you've gone through the study of Colossians and you haven't been in the habit of jumping 00:01:31.440 |
to the word of God yourself, then we've missed the whole point, okay? 00:01:36.480 |
So obviously I prefer you here than not here, but again, our goal was to get you into the 00:01:43.600 |
Bible yourself so that you can interact with the word of God. 00:01:47.240 |
So you don't just come to the Bible study and say, "Well, tell me what it says," so 00:01:50.880 |
that you can actually see if what I'm saying is true or not true, right? 00:01:57.400 |
At some point, you should take something that I said and say, "Huh, I don't know if I see 00:02:04.320 |
If you've been studying carefully, you should at some point, I'm not talking about today, 00:02:08.760 |
I'm not talking about every week, but know enough about it so that you can look at it 00:02:13.240 |
and say, "Yeah, you know, I'm not sure how that came about," or at least to be able to 00:02:18.960 |
So I'm going to go over, again, the review of it. 00:02:31.440 |
So two texts that I'm looking at is 1 Timothy 4:16, where Paul tells Timothy, "Pay close 00:02:42.320 |
Persevere in these things, for as you do this, you will ensure salvation both for yourself 00:02:50.000 |
Second Timothy 2, 14, "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who 00:02:54.080 |
does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth." 00:02:57.520 |
So in both texts, the pastoral texts, the primary theme that Paul is trying to teach 00:03:03.680 |
Timothy is to make sure that he handles the word of God accurately. 00:03:07.360 |
Second Timothy, he says that, and in conclusion of his letter, he says, "Preach it in season 00:03:15.600 |
Whether they accept it or don't accept it, whether people come or don't come, whether 00:03:19.280 |
you feel like it's bearing fruit or don't bear fruit, God has ordained the teaching 00:03:24.560 |
and hearing of the word of God to bear fruit. 00:03:27.920 |
So again, this is not something unique to Berean community church. 00:03:32.560 |
Every church doesn't have the option to say, "Our church is going to be on missions. 00:03:41.960 |
No church has the right to pick and choose what the church is going to be about. 00:03:50.640 |
Who determines what the church needs to emphasize? 00:03:55.040 |
So the reason why we emphasize the word of God is because these are the words of Christ. 00:03:58.600 |
So if we do not diligently give ourselves to the word of God, we can easily pick and 00:04:03.720 |
choose what we want, all right, and emphasize things that we want, de-emphasize things that 00:04:08.480 |
we don't want, but in the end, we're not following what Christ says. 00:04:13.040 |
So the reason why we have such a high emphasis on God's word from the pulpit and from your 00:04:17.520 |
life is because we can easily be deceived in the church because you are active and spend 00:04:24.960 |
a lot of time in Christianity that you can easily be deceived to think that I'm following 00:04:30.520 |
Christ because I happen to be in the Christian circle. 00:04:32.840 |
And so we want to make sure that that's not the case, that individually and collectively 00:04:38.280 |
And the only way to do that is to hear his voice from his word. 00:04:44.160 |
There's three principles of observation that we talked about in the beginning. 00:04:47.760 |
There's observation, interpretation, and application, right? 00:04:55.340 |
If you do not give yourself to study of the Bible, what you end up doing is reading and 00:05:00.240 |
applying and oftentimes the application is completely off. 00:05:05.160 |
And if you hear of bad doctrines, usually it's because they've read something without 00:05:09.500 |
understanding it and applied it to church or applied it to their lives, right? 00:05:16.840 |
Observation is asking simple questions, who, what, where, why, when, and how. 00:05:26.520 |
If you just read it, right, even if you read three chapters a day, you'll be able to know 00:05:40.720 |
Better than just applying, but observation alone is not good enough because you can also 00:05:53.080 |
Yeah, you guys look like you just got off of 10 hours of work. 00:06:02.280 |
From observation, you have to go to interpretation. 00:06:21.520 |
And asking good questions, which leads to interpretation. 00:06:24.720 |
And only when you have done the observation and interpretation can you jump into application. 00:06:33.200 |
If you do the observation, interpretation without application, there's no point in 00:06:39.880 |
All it does is puff you up and say, "I know the Bible." 00:06:42.480 |
It's actually more dangerous to study the Bible without application because it causes 00:06:47.280 |
us to think that we're closer to God when we're not. 00:06:50.480 |
So those are three principles, observation, interpretation, application. 00:06:56.480 |
In the observation, you ask questions, who, what, why, when, or how. 00:07:03.120 |
How many of you are reading through the Bible? 00:07:07.400 |
Raise your hand if you're reading through the Bible a chunk at a time. 00:07:11.000 |
Maybe it's one chapter or three chapters at a time. 00:07:13.040 |
Okay, so a good chunk of you are reading through that. 00:07:15.600 |
So when you're reading that much of the scripture, you're not going to do a lot of interpretation. 00:07:21.680 |
It's important to have a broad view of the Bible. 00:07:25.560 |
Many people don't know the broad view of the Bible, so that's where a lot of bad interpretation 00:07:30.840 |
But having an overview of the study is not enough for you to make accurate application. 00:07:38.280 |
So this part of it in observing, you want to make sure that you're taking small chunks, 00:07:44.360 |
one chapter, two chapter, three chapter, or small chunks at a time. 00:07:48.520 |
The following, you want to ask in observation, what's the background? 00:08:04.280 |
Is God just saying this is what it is or is he telling us to do something? 00:08:16.640 |
Why is it important for us to know which genre it is for interpretation? 00:08:34.800 |
What are some dangers you get into if you don't distinguish the genres? 00:08:54.160 |
I had a roommate who wanted to evangelize at Cal State Fullerton when we were in college. 00:08:59.680 |
And so in order to conquer Cal State Fullerton, he ran around it seven times. 00:09:06.480 |
And then at the end of seven times, he blew a trumpet. 00:09:12.680 |
And the spiritual walls, the barriers that keep from evangelism is going to fall down, 00:09:24.400 |
So the narrative, if you take a narrative and apply it, like I actually read a story 00:09:29.320 |
of a lady a long time ago who was going up to the prayer mountain and there was a heavy 00:09:33.680 |
rain that came and it blocked her path to go to the prayer mountain. 00:09:39.280 |
So she thought, well, Peter walked on the water by faith. 00:09:44.000 |
I'm going to trust in God and walk in the water. 00:09:49.440 |
So this is a story that I read when I was younger. 00:09:55.760 |
So if you apply certain things to a narrative, which was never meant to be copied, that's 00:10:05.000 |
Somebody will read a certain text about David and Goliath and how he sharpened his skills 00:10:10.960 |
to defeat Goliath and how we need to sharpen our skills. 00:10:14.440 |
And is the point of the story that David practiced throwing stones and that's why he was able 00:10:23.080 |
So therefore, we need to really be faithful in practicing our skill? 00:10:30.280 |
A mighty God can use a scrawny man to kill a huge giant, right? 00:10:39.560 |
But a lot of bad interpretation comes from when you misapply your interpretation to the 00:10:48.160 |
Here's another thing that people get into trouble a lot. 00:10:55.280 |
Descriptive, again, it's just another way of saying it's just telling us it happened, 00:11:05.480 |
And there's a lot of people get into problems like, let's say, being filled with the Holy 00:11:12.680 |
They'll take Acts chapter 2, they prayed heavily to God and the Holy Spirit came and anointing 00:11:19.360 |
So therefore, when we pray, we need to receive tongues. 00:11:30.440 |
Descriptive, because it's just telling us what happened. 00:11:39.400 |
So in interpretation, if you do not know the genre, or you don't understand, or you misapply 00:11:47.360 |
it, then that's where very, very bad interpretation comes from, right? 00:11:52.880 |
So that's one of the big things I find all the time. 00:11:57.480 |
And a lot of times people will say certain things and say, "Well, I have the Bible," 00:12:01.680 |
and they'll open up a narrative part of the Bible and say, "This is where I got it," right? 00:12:07.080 |
The narratives are descriptive, not prescriptive, okay? 00:12:11.240 |
Purpose, words such as "for," "so," "then," right? 00:12:15.440 |
Those are words that we need to highlight because it's connecting thoughts, right? 00:12:34.660 |
So I say over and over again, what is one of the most important things that you need 00:12:47.640 |
In one context, it means something completely different in another context, right? 00:13:10.340 |
So you have to understand the historical context. 00:13:12.440 |
Don't read the Scripture and assume that's what it means. 00:13:21.400 |
We read, "God says something about the heart." 00:13:24.360 |
I mentioned this so many times, you should know, that the heart in the Bible doesn't 00:13:28.120 |
necessarily refer to emotion like the way we do, right? 00:13:33.400 |
The way that the word "heart" is used in the New Testament context is talking about 00:13:43.500 |
So if you don't understand the historical context, then you're going to read that and 00:13:49.040 |
just apply it, "Oh, don't trust your emotions." 00:13:52.840 |
Do not lean on your own understanding, don't trust your heart. 00:13:56.960 |
No, basically it's saying don't trust yourself. 00:14:00.760 |
It's not just saying don't trust your emotions. 00:14:06.280 |
Our Western culture has a tendency to think, "Don't trust emotion," but our intellect is 00:14:13.300 |
So if we can logically explain what the Bible says, then we're safe. 00:14:18.320 |
No, our ability to reason is just as tainted as our ability to feel, right? 00:14:26.000 |
So that's why the Scripture says, basically saying, "Don't trust your own judgment," to 00:14:33.280 |
Anyway, so you have to, the context, context, context. 00:14:41.200 |
When you apply the Word of God and you say, "I want to be a better Christian," right? 00:14:45.980 |
Did you not have that application before you read the Bible? 00:14:50.120 |
Was that not an application before you studied? 00:14:54.060 |
So if all you did at the end of it was, "Oh, I should do a better job," you know, it's 00:15:04.540 |
But if your application is not specific, if it is not personal, it is not practical, it 00:15:09.920 |
is not possible, most likely you're not going to apply it, right? 00:15:14.960 |
If you leave this room thinking like, "Oh man, I should pray more," right? 00:15:23.180 |
A lot of you will just leave feeling just guilty. 00:15:29.640 |
So a good application, right, is there an example to follow? 00:15:42.200 |
And what I apply, is it personal, is it practical, right? 00:15:46.600 |
If you're going to pray, when are you going to pray? 00:15:50.620 |
What is it that has inspired you to pray, right? 00:15:54.880 |
And to make an application so that you can measure that after and say, "This is what 00:16:01.680 |
So application has to be personal, possible, and practical. 00:16:06.440 |
Or else you just end up leaving with impressions in your heart that doesn't make any application, 00:16:12.920 |
So if you want to be holy, right, which every Christian ought to be pursuing holiness, what 00:16:19.080 |
does pursuit of holiness look like in your life? 00:16:23.080 |
Instead of just saying, "Man, I should be more holy," right, what does that mean? 00:16:28.440 |
Does that mean it should affect the things that you watch? 00:16:37.360 |
Does that affect the way, the things that you think, what you listen to, right? 00:16:43.580 |
So if you don't apply it in a very practical way, you end up thinking you're pursuing holiness, 00:16:49.640 |
but in reality, really, there is no application of it, right? 00:16:53.060 |
So again, application has to be very specific, personal, possible, and practical, okay? 00:17:00.400 |
Alright, so the rest of the time, I wanted to go over just the text itself in Colossians 00:17:10.760 |
Remember, we said that the Book of Colossians four chapters divided into two major parts, 00:17:20.480 |
Okay, so chapter one and two is primarily indicative, right? 00:17:30.600 |
It's about the gospel, it's about the identity of Christ, and then chapter three and four, 00:17:38.280 |
They are for, right, they are for you ought to apply what you've been taught in chapter 00:17:44.240 |
one and two, you ought to apply in chapter three and four, right? 00:17:48.160 |
And chapter three and four primarily is put off your old self, put on the new self, right? 00:17:54.960 |
And then it gets to chapter four where Paul begins to say goodbye, and we see all the 00:18:02.100 |
So that's how the Bible, that's how Colossians is divided. 00:18:05.120 |
In fact, next time you study a different epistle, I want you to see if you can see that same 00:18:12.420 |
I don't think you'll see it in every letter, but you'll see it in a lot of letters, the 00:18:17.120 |
same pattern, indicative imperative, indicative imperative, okay? 00:18:22.160 |
And so once you get that, once you get the broad outline, it's easier to remember, okay? 00:18:29.320 |
Because you got two chapters, introduction, right? 00:18:33.360 |
Paul's ministry, identity of Jesus, therefore live up to what you know, right? 00:18:39.320 |
Put off the old self, put on the new self, and then goodbye, right? 00:18:44.460 |
That's the broad outline of the book of Colossians, okay? 00:18:46.800 |
So I want to get into a little bit more detail, and then I'm going to give you the rest of 00:18:54.760 |
In the indicative side, basically he opens up with hello, okay? 00:19:00.200 |
And I'm not going to go into all the interpretation of these passages, but what we do know is 00:19:05.520 |
that he's writing a letter to the Colossians, to faithful ones, right? 00:19:10.720 |
He's not writing this letter to rebuke people necessarily, he's writing the letter to protect 00:19:15.040 |
them, that the faithful people will persevere in their faith. 00:19:19.720 |
And then verses three to seven, in his introduction, he reviews why he's writing this letter to 00:19:27.760 |
And in this text, if you remember, there are three things that stood out. 00:19:30.900 |
He says there, "Since we heard of your faith in Christ, love which you have for one another, 00:19:36.320 |
which is based on hope laid out for you in heaven," which summarizes the effects of the 00:19:40.480 |
gospel in the book of Colossians, to the Colossian church, right? 00:19:45.600 |
Every Christian ought to have love, faith, and hope, right? 00:19:52.960 |
Faith, which is the reason why we have love, right? 00:19:58.360 |
And hope is the reason why we persevere, right? 00:20:01.760 |
And every Christian has that in growing capacity. 00:20:13.960 |
In the indicatives, right, you'll see a lot of faith and hope. 00:20:20.600 |
In the imperatives, you will see a lot of love, okay? 00:20:42.920 |
Because when you study the New Testament, you're going to find a pattern, right? 00:20:52.540 |
And then it says, "Therefore," this is how you ought to live, practice of love, okay? 00:20:57.560 |
So verses 3 to 8 is the beginning of what the gospel is accomplishing in Colossians, 00:21:07.680 |
Verses 9 through 24, where Paul says, verse 9 through 11, "To have knowledge. 00:21:15.240 |
For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to 00:21:19.160 |
ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and his spiritual wisdom and understanding." 00:21:24.080 |
And so he repeats this idea of knowledge, right? 00:21:28.120 |
"I'm praying for you so that you may continue to grow, continue to practice what you profess 00:21:32.800 |
to believe," and he says that your knowledge, your wisdom and understanding will continue 00:21:40.000 |
So 9 through 11 is a projection of Paul praying for them to have this knowledge. 00:21:46.000 |
Well, what knowledge does he want them to have, right? 00:21:50.040 |
Verses 12 through 24, the knowledge of his son, Jesus Christ. 00:21:58.560 |
So he starts with the introduction, and then he says, "The effects of the gospel, love, 00:22:01.720 |
faith and hope to the Colossian church," says, "I'm praying for you so that you may have 00:22:05.480 |
knowledge and wisdom, that you may live the way that God called you to live," and then 00:22:10.280 |
he actually gets into this knowledge, and which knowledge is he referring to? 00:22:19.520 |
He doesn't use the word Jesus, but I've highlighted, right? 00:22:24.720 |
He, whom, he, by him, through him, for him, he, him, he, himself, him, himself, him, him, 00:22:42.200 |
It's almost like Apostle Paul learned how to write a term paper in college, right? 00:22:46.720 |
And he's like, "You have the thesis, and then you have the sub-point, and then you have 00:22:50.800 |
to make your point," and that's exactly how he writes. 00:23:01.400 |
You know, I heard about your faith, love, faith, and hope. 00:23:04.160 |
I'm praying for you so that you will continue to know and have wisdom to live continuously, 00:23:09.240 |
and this is what you need to know about Jesus," right? 00:23:12.000 |
And that takes us all the way through verse 24. 00:23:17.120 |
And then Paul, after he introduces Jesus, he introduces basically himself, right? 00:23:25.280 |
This is what God called me to do, because why does he introduce himself to the Colossians? 00:23:34.340 |
He's only heard about them through Epaphras and through different people. 00:23:40.640 |
He's introducing Christ, and he's introducing his ministry, right? 00:23:44.360 |
Why does Paul need to introduce himself to this group? 00:23:58.760 |
He's sending it to them so that they can read it, and then they would have authority over 00:24:02.240 |
their lives, and then they're supposed to take that and then share it with other churches. 00:24:06.200 |
So this is not just an average person writing a letter and saying, "Hey, you guys don't 00:24:13.240 |
He's introducing what God is doing through him, right, in spreading the gospel and writing 00:24:18.720 |
So in verses 25 to chapter 2, verse 5, over and over, and you said, "I was made a minister," 00:24:26.480 |
"And God bestowed upon me the benefit that I might fully carry out the preaching," right? 00:24:34.080 |
I labor, striving, mightily working within me," over and over again, right? 00:24:42.800 |
"I am absent in the body, but I am with you in spirit," right? 00:24:46.400 |
So that's Paul introducing his ministry and God's authority through what he's doing, right? 00:24:53.880 |
So all of this is directly connected to the gospel, right? 00:24:59.120 |
The gospel is bearing fruit, love, faith, and hope. 00:25:01.800 |
Like the God, "I need you to know more and more of the gospel," and the Jesus of the 00:25:10.620 |
So the central theme is what God is doing through the gospel and the main person of 00:25:15.760 |
the gospel, Jesus Christ, and how Paul is playing a role in spreading of that gospel, 00:25:23.160 |
In chapter 2, 6, verse 3 to 4, you can look at all the different words that are used here, 00:25:30.640 |
and the theme here is union with Christ, right? 00:25:37.140 |
What did Jesus accomplish through the preaching of Apostle Paul? 00:25:43.140 |
I'm going to get into this in my next sermon, not this Sunday, but next Sunday. 00:25:46.700 |
But union with Christ is the primary product of the gospel, right? 00:25:55.860 |
Union with Christ is the primary fruit of the gospel, and that's what Paul leads us 00:26:02.180 |
So over and over again, he says, "To walk with him, you are built up with him, for in 00:26:05.660 |
him all the fullness, in him, in him, with him, with him, with him," right? 00:26:11.140 |
Through him, with Christ, over and over again, this union with Christ, okay? 00:26:17.920 |
So I'm going to keep reviewing so that you can have it in your head. 00:26:22.020 |
Introduction, fruit of the gospel, et kalase, and what fruits are there? 00:26:30.840 |
Paul prays that they would have knowledge, and which knowledge is he referring to? 00:26:39.920 |
Paul was called to preach this Jesus that he just preached to you, right? 00:26:47.300 |
Union with Christ, with Christ, walk with Christ, built up in Christ, right? 00:26:53.640 |
Because he died for us, covered our sins, now we are united with Christ, right? 00:27:05.680 |
And then chapter three is where we get into the imperatives. 00:27:09.320 |
"Therefore, since you are united with Christ," right? 00:27:13.880 |
And then chapter three is, "Put off your old self." 00:27:17.720 |
It doesn't belong with Christ anymore, right? 00:27:20.720 |
Your old life may have been perfectly fine when you were just in the flesh, you were 00:27:26.880 |
But now that you are united with Christ, right, what you cannot bring to Christ, you can't 00:27:33.120 |
bring to the temple, you can't have in your life, right? 00:27:37.200 |
To put off your old self, to put on the new self. 00:27:42.560 |
He says anger, wrath, malice, slander, abusive speech from your mouth, to put all the stuff 00:27:47.400 |
that's from the past off, and then to put on, put on the new self, right? 00:27:52.680 |
And what is the new self that he wants us to put on? 00:27:56.840 |
Heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, put on love, right? 00:28:05.600 |
When you're in the indicatives, like faith, right? 00:28:10.520 |
Knowledge of Jesus, faith, hope that we have because of what he has accomplished. 00:28:15.400 |
And because we have faith and hope, we have imperative. 00:28:27.560 |
Okay, I'm going to test you afterwards, how many of you are paying attention. 00:28:30.920 |
So I want you to, after, and say Colossians, that you say, "Okay, there's two big outlines, 00:28:36.960 |
chapter one and two, three and four, indicative, right? 00:28:48.520 |
Fruit, knowledge of Jesus, Paul's ministry, right? 00:28:55.040 |
In the imperatives, because of this union with Christ, put your mind on the things above, 00:29:00.160 |
put off your old self, put on the new self, right? 00:29:06.600 |
And then he goes into specifics of what does it mean to put on love in the context of being 00:29:10.920 |
a wife, a husband, child, father, slave, and masters, okay? 00:29:16.040 |
That's the imperatives in chapter three, or all the way to chapter four, verse six, okay? 00:29:24.720 |
Okay, some of you guys are getting it with your eyes closed. 00:29:31.360 |
And then the final greetings, chapter four, seven through 18, okay? 00:29:38.720 |
The first part, he's saying hello from his companions, right? 00:29:43.760 |
These are the people who are with him, and then he says, "These people," sends greeting, 00:29:47.720 |
and then at the tail end of it, he says, "Say hello to these people who are over there." 00:29:53.800 |
All right, let's see if we can do this without looking. 00:30:06.760 |
Chapter one and two, three and four, indicative, imperative. 00:30:24.720 |
And then he says, "I'm praying for you to have knowledge," and then what does he teach 00:30:33.000 |
He, him, he, him, through whom, him, him, him, him, he, he, he, right? 00:30:38.560 |
Everything about Jesus and what he has accomplished and who he is, right? 00:30:44.000 |
And then right after he says that, what does he say? 00:31:03.080 |
Union with Christ, built up with him, walk with him, right? 00:31:09.160 |
And as a result of our union with Christ, he says in the imperative, chapter three and 00:31:19.640 |
He says, "Since you have been united with Christ, set your mind to the things that are 00:31:24.000 |
above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God," right? 00:31:28.340 |
Since you are united, put off your old self and put on your new self. 00:31:32.600 |
And what's the new self that you're supposed to put on? 00:31:38.280 |
It doesn't just say love, but you can summarize it basically by love, right? 00:31:42.720 |
And then we go to chapter four, basically say, "Bye, my friends here says hello, say 00:31:56.760 |
Keep that in mind, those two things that I said, right? 00:31:59.800 |
Most of the letters are divided in that way, indicative and imperative, right? 00:32:04.520 |
And in the indicative, there's an emphasis on what? 00:32:11.200 |
In the imperative, the emphasis is on love, okay? 00:32:15.540 |
So if you forget everything tonight, at least remember that, okay? 00:32:19.800 |
So to help you when you study the other texts, okay? 00:32:22.880 |
So today's discussion is the discussion of what you guys were supposed to prepare for 00:32:32.200 |
Like, what new insights did you gain about God? 00:32:34.800 |
What new insight did you gain about Jesus and the gospel? 00:32:37.640 |
What new insight did you gain about yourself? 00:32:40.120 |
What new application did you make through the study of this letter? 00:32:43.240 |
And how faithful were you to the weekly exegesis? 00:32:45.400 |
So a couple of things that aren't in here is the key verse, right? 00:32:52.380 |
So hopefully you guys can take some time to share that. 00:32:54.600 |
And then if you were to rename, not Colossians, right? 00:32:58.700 |
If somebody says, "Give me one sentence description of Colossians," okay? 00:33:02.800 |
Which is in the previous instruction, but I don't have it here, okay? 00:33:07.400 |
So I'll give you guys some time to discuss that, but let me pray for us, okay? 00:33:19.680 |
And I thank you for my brothers and sisters that even after a long day of working and 00:33:24.320 |
various things that we're here each week, Lord God, just diving into your word. 00:33:30.240 |
I pray that your word would truly come alive, that it would affect our intellect, our heart, 00:33:35.600 |
our will in every way, Father, that our hungering for you would translate into hungering for 00:33:41.800 |
I pray for your blessing over the time of discussion.