Scripture is in the CSB translation unless otherwise noted.
Vertical Life Church exists for the glory of God. Our purpose is to move people to a deeper “vertical life” by loving as Christ loved us, growing in grace and knowledge, and going to make disciples. We believe that everyone is built to Love, Grow, and Go.
// Grow
Colossians 1:9-12
For 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 knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so 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, being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
Colossians 1:9
…we haven’t stopped praying for you.
Greek : pauo = “stopped, ceased”
Paul’s prayer for the Colossians:
1) Be
with the
of God’s will
Colossians 1:9
We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Greek : epignōsis = “full and complete understanding”
John 15:14-15
You are my friends if you do what I command you. …I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.
// The better we know His
, the better we will know the
of God!
Colossians 1:9
…filled with the knowledge of the will of God
Greek : pleroo = “filling something until completely full”
2) Walk
of the Lord
Colossians 1:10
…so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him…
The Process of “Walking Worthy”:
– Wisdom –
– Work
3) Bear
through your
work
Colossians 1:10
…bearing fruit in every good work…
Greek : karpophoreō = “to be fertile”
4) Grow in your
of God
Colossians 1:10
…growing in the knowledge of God…
//
leads to
.
5) Be strengthened in
Colossians 1:11
being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might…
Greek : dynamis = “power, might”
6) Endure with
and
Colossians 1:11
…so that you may have great endurance and patience…
7) Give
to the Father
Colossians 1:11-12
…joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.