Knowing More to Know More

February 25, 2024

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother: ²To the saints in Christ at Colossae, who are faithful brothers and sisters. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

³We always

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God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, ⁴for we have heard of your

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in Christ Jesus and of the

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you have for all the saints ⁵because of the

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reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the

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⁶that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s

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. ⁷You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, ⁸and he has told us about your love in the

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.

⁹For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the

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of his will in all

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and spiritual

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, ¹⁰so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God, ¹¹being

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with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great

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and

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, joyfully ¹²giving

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to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. ¹³He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. ¹⁴In him we have

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, the forgiveness of sins.

¹⁵He is the

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of the invisible God, the

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over all creation.
¹⁶For everything was

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by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷He is

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all things, and by him all things

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together. ¹⁸He is also the

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of the body, the church; he is the

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, the

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from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in

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-Colossians 1:1-18 (CSB)

Embrace Our Foundation of

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,

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, and

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Colossians 1:1-8

Romans 8:31-39

Eagerly Feed Our

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and

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Colossians 1:9-14

“The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.”

-Brother Lawrence

Emphasize Christ’s

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Colossians 1:15-18

Joey Malott
Children’s Pastor
The Church of the Good Shepherd Cherry Hill
(574) 286-5691