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What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions? Colossians 1:24–27, Part 3
9 juli 2023
What is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? The personal, bodily, costly presentation of his love to the elect through missionaries.
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The Amazing Apostolic Heart of Love: Colossians 1:24–27, Part 2
7 juli 2023
Paul understood his sufferings for the gospel as an essential means to bring about the salvation of the elect.
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Six Reasons to Rejoice in Suffering: Colossians 1:24–27, Part 1
4 juli 2023
The New Testament provides at least six reasons for why Christians embrace the trials they undergo with joy.
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Global Response, Personal Apostle: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 4
2 juli 2023
God is no tribal deity. He will see to it that his gospel reaches every tribe, people, language, and nation under heaven.
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Conditional Reconciliation and Eternal Security: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 3
30 juni 2023
God uses the warning passages of Scripture to stimulate us to fight for faith. And he uses that fight to keep us safe until the end.
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Reconciliation Accomplished and Applied: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 2
27 juni 2023
God achieves reconciliation at the cross and applies it to us through faith, and he does it all to bring the elect to himself.
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Our Minds Were Hostile to God: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 1
25 juni 2023
Alienated. Enemies. Evil. We won’t revel as we ought in the reconciling work of Christ unless we know who we were without him.
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Reconciliation of All Things by Blood: Colossians 1:19–20, Part 2
23 juni 2023
When God finishes his reconciling work, there will be nothing left unreconciled to him.
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All the Fullness of God in Christ: Colossians 1:19–20, Part 1
20 juni 2023
The central truths of the gospel of reconciliation are bound up in the mystery of the Trinity.
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Entranced by the Supremacy of Christ: Colossians 1:15–18, Part 3
18 juni 2023
The one who humbly stoops to save his people is the infinitely supreme Creator and Upholder of all things.
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Christ Created All Things to Display Christ: Colossians 1:15–18, Part 2
16 juni 2023
God created all things through the Son so that all might know the beauty and glory and supremacy of the Son.
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How Is Jesus the Firstborn of Creation? Colossians 1:15–18, Part 1
13 juni 2023
When Scripture calls Jesus “the firstborn of creation,” he doesn’t mean firstborn as part of creation.
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How Do We Become the Redeemed? Colossians 1:13–14, Part 3
11 juni 2023
Through faith, Christians are delivered from bondage to Satan and transferred to the kingdom of the Son.
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How Did Jesus Free Us from Satan? Colossians 1:13–14, Part 2
9 juni 2023
At the cross, Satan’s one weapon of damnation is taken away. Jesus’s sacrifice cancels our record of debt.
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Delivered from Satanic Authority: Colossians 1:13–14, Part 1
6 juni 2023
To be a Christian means God delivered you from the rule of Satan to live under the rule of God’s beloved Son.
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God Qualifies Us for Eternal Light: Colossians 1:9–12, Part 9
4 juni 2023
The Father has mercifully and freely adopted us into his family and placed us in the bright kingdom of his Son.
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Strengthened Through Joy for Endurance: Colossians 1:9–12, Part 8
2 juni 2023
What produces the kind of strength we need to patiently and joyfully endure? The glory of God.
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Knowing God by Bearing Fruit: Colossians 1:9–12, Part 7
30 mei 2023
The good works God brings about through our lives are a means he uses to increase our knowledge of him.
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How Does Our Walking Please God? Colossians 1:9–12, Part 6
27 mei 2023
How does one walk in a manner worthy of the Lord? Value him in your work, in your play, in your worship.
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How Are We Filled with the Knowledge of God’s Will? Colossians 1:9–12, Part 5
25 mei 2023
How can I know God’s will for my life? How can I live a life pleasing to him in everything I do?
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Does Paul Pray for Perfection in This Life? Colossians 1:9–12, Part 4
23 mei 2023
Pray for fellow believers that they might grow in Christian maturity, that is, that they would know God’s will and walk in a manner pleasing to him.
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God’s Will of Decree and Decree of Command: Colossians 1:9–12, Part 3
20 mei 2023
Understanding all the Bible says about God’s will requires one to think in two categories: the sovereign will of God and the moral will of God.
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Partnering with God in a Thousand Prayers: Colossians 1:9–12, Part 2
18 mei 2023
Through prayer, we participate in God’s ongoing work of strengthening the saints and bringing them to full maturity.
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Doctrinal Prayer, Prayerful Doctrine: Colossians 1:9–12, Part 1
16 mei 2023
Prayer and careful thinking about God aren’t separate activities. Prayer should precede theology; theology should inform prayer.
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Does Faith or the Spirit Produce Love? Colossians 1:3–8, Part 8
13 mei 2023
Faith in the promises of God overflows in love toward others by the gracious working of the Spirit in the heart.
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The Global Impact of the Gospel: Colossians 1:3–8, Part 7
11 mei 2023
The gospel is not static. It increasingly advances throughout the world and grows in the heart of believers.
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Six Aspects of the Glorious Gospel: Colossians 1:3–8, Part 6
9 mei 2023
A gospel presentation that stops at the forgiveness of sins has missed the ultimate aim of the gospel, namely full and forever joy in God himself.
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The Gospel Is the Word of Truth: Colossians 1:3–8, Part 5
6 mei 2023
The gospel is not just a truth to know, but a truth to be embraced and loved and taught and proclaimed.
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Hope Awakens Faith and Faith Awakens Love: Colossians 1:3–8, Part 4
4 mei 2023
Faith that truly embraces the hope laid up in heaven reveals itself through good works that are done in love.
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How Does a Future Hope Awaken Faith Now? Colossians 1:3–8, Part 3
2 mei 2023
Moses could renounce the pleasures of Egypt because of his coming reward. In the same way, Christians reject the world and put all our hope in Christ.
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What Is Our Hope Laid Up in Heaven? Colossians 1:3–8, Part 2
29 april 2023
Our hope laid up in heaven includes forgiveness of sins, a dwelling in the kingdom of Christ, and an inheritance in light.
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We Are Not Sons of God Like Jesus Is: Colossians 1:3–8, Part 1
27 april 2023
Jesus’s sonship is not like ours. All the benefits we enjoy as sons come to us through the only-begotten, eternal Son of the Father.
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If God Is Your Father, Grace Flows Continually: Colossians 1:1–2, Part 5
25 april 2023
The people who have God as their Father are the recipients of his inheritance, namely, boundless grace and perfect peace.
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Productive Imprisonment and Beloved Partners: Colossians 1:1–2, Part 4
22 april 2023
Prison, for the apostle, was not a time for pity parties, but for productive labor on behalf of local churches.
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What Does It Mean to Be a Saint? Colossians 1:1–2, Part 3
20 april 2023
Every believer is someone who has already been made holy through his union with Christ by faith.
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The Relational Authenticity and Wisdom of Paul: Colossians 1:1–2, Part 2
18 april 2023
The apostle mentions his fellow ministers, in part, to show how important relational dynamics are in the exercise of Christian authority.
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A Persecutor of Christians Was Made an Apostle: Colossians 1:1–2, Part 1
15 april 2023
What we read in the apostles is not mere human wisdom, but wisdom taught by the Spirit.
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How Would You Summarize 2 Thessalonians? 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18, Part 2
13 april 2023
How might you summarize Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians? In this lab, Pastor John makes an attempt.
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Peaceful Relations Are Precious, Not Ultimate: 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18, Part 1
11 april 2023
Peace is precious. Peace is to be prized. But peace is not to be pursued at any cost.
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How Long Are We Patient with the Idle? 2 Thessalonians 3:11–16, Part 3
8 april 2023
The aim of holy ostracism is to cause shame in a fellow believer so that they might turn and walk in the light.
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Five Implications of ‘Eat Your Own Bread’: 2 Thessalonians 3:11–16, Part 2
6 april 2023
There are at least five significant implications from Paul’s command to the Thessalonian church to “eat your own bread.”
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As New Creatures, Eat What You Earn: 2 Thessalonians 3:11–16, Part 1
4 april 2023
God created mankind for good works. When he makes us new in Christ, his purpose remains the same.
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Does ‘No Work, No Food’ Mean No Mercy? 2 Thessalonians 3:6–10, Part 3
1 april 2023
When someone sins against us, Christians are not always called to turn the other cheek.
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Why Did Paul Refuse Gifts of Food? 2 Thessalonians 3:6–10, Part 2
30 maart 2023
Pastors ought to be paid for their labors, but they should never give the impression that they labor for money.
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Sometimes Ostracism Brings Reconciliation: 2 Thessalonians 3:6–10, Part 1
28 maart 2023
Christians must have a category for shaming other Christians so that they might repent and be reconciled.
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Prayer as an Answer to Prayer: 2 Thessalonians 3:1–5, Part 5
25 maart 2023
Hearts that remain firm through trials don’t depend on their own strength, but hang on the steadfastness of Christ.
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An Obedient Church Deals with Disobedience: 2 Thessalonians 3:1–5, Part 4
23 maart 2023
Disobedient churches deal lightly, if at all, with flagrant disobedience. Obedient churches consistently practice church discipline.
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What Is the Faithfulness of God? 2 Thessalonians 3:1–5, Part 3
21 maart 2023
The deepest ground of God’s faithfulness, to his word and to his people, is his faithfulness to his own self.
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God Is Decisive in Obedience — So Why Pray? 2 Thessalonians 3:1–5, Part 2
18 maart 2023
God works through prayer to establish and guard us in the faith. Prayer is the lifeline by which he holds us fast.
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Offense and Defense in Prayer for the Word: 2 Thessalonians 3:1–5, Part 1
16 maart 2023
Prayer is an offensive weapon and a defensive weapon. Do you utilize it in both ways?