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If you would turn to Colossians.

I'm going to throw you for another loop.

I say that.

So now you're prepared for it.

So I'm not thrown me for a loop.

Turn the Colossians chapter 1.

Trust me, only Colossians chapter 1.

I'm going to pray for us.

And then I'm going to do something like I said, something different.

I'm going to read the whole letter.

Okay, there's a reason why one the book of the letter to the Colossians is one of Paul's shorter letters.

So if we're ever going to do this, it would be with this letter.

That should be a good letter to do it with.

But the reason why I would do it is because what we're about to hear in some sense would have been the way the letter would have been communicated initially to the church.

That make sense.

The church didn't receive the letter and then make copies and pass it around everybody.

The church receive the letter.

Gathered together.

And then they heard somebody read the letter to them.

And so how cool would it be?

And now I'm going to read in the Greek cuz I wouldn't be able to but that's what we're trying to experience here together.

This is why I'm going to do it because this is how they would have heard the letter firsthand as it came to them.

But first, I would like to pray for us before I read.

Father, I think you got to thank you for your word then indoors there, all time.

I thank you that you are a God is not far from us.

But you have chosen to enter in to the world to reveal yourself through words on a page.

Then you've chosen to speak to us.

And yes, Lord, we recognize that this letter was written by Paul to them.

But we also know that this was this is your words to us today.

It's in the hearing of your word.

Lord, I ask for blessing.

That you would bless us.

That we would receive receive your grace and your peace that come from your word Jesus that we would be filled with the knowledge of Who You Are.

To the den, we would live lives reoriented around you.

Natore oriented around this world.

Help us.

Now in the reading every word.

I pray in your name, Jesus.

Amen.

Colossians 1, 1 the letter of Paul to the Colossians.

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God and Timothy our brother to the Saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Claus say grace to you and peace from God.

Our Father.

We always thank God the father of our Lord.

Jesus Christ.

When we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ, Jesus, and of the love that you have for all of the Saints because of the Hope laid up for you and Heaven of this, you heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel we just come to you is indeed in the whole world.

It is bearing fruit, and increasing.

As it also doesn't Hmong you since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

Just as you learned it from a pathless, our beloved fellow servant.

He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and is made known to us, your love in the spirit.

And so from the day we heard we have not ceased to pray for you asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Supposed to walk in a manner, worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

May you be strengthened.

With all power, according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy.

Giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the Saints in life.

He has delivered us from the Dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.

In whom we have Redemption.

The Forgiveness of sins.

He is the image of the invisible.

God, the firstborn of all creation.

For by him, all things were created in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible with a Thrones, or dominions or rulers or authority.

All things were created through him and for him and he is before all things, and in him all things, hold together.

And he is the head of the body, the church.

He's the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that and everything.

He might be pre-eminent for, in him.

All the fullness of God, was pleased to dwell, and threw him, to reconcile to himself, all things weather on Earth or in heaven, Making Peace by the blood of his cross.

And you who were alienated and hostile in mind doing evil Deeds.

He is now reconciled in his body of flash by staff.

In order to prevent you, holy and blameless and above reproach before him.

If indeed you continue in the face, stable and steadfast, but not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven and of which I Paul became a minister.

Now, I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and in my flash I'm filling up with his lacking in Christ afflictions for the sake of his body.

That is the Church of which I became a minister.

According to the stewardship from God, that was given to me for you to make the word of God fully known the mystery hidden for ages and generations, but now revealed to his Saints to them, God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in.

You the hope of glory him.

We Proclaim morning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom that we may present everyone mature in Christ for this.

I toil struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works Within Me.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face that their hearts baby encourage being knit together in love to read all the riches of the full Assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ in, whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible Arguments for the one absent in the body yet.

I am with you in spirit rejoice in to see your good order in the firmness of your faith in Christ.

So therefore as you have received Christ, Jesus, the Lord.

So walk in him, rooted and built up in him established in the faith.

Just as you were taught abounding in Thanksgiving.

See to it.

That no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty, deceit.

According to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ for in him, the whole fullness of diety dwells bodily and you have been filled in him.

Who is the head of all Rule and Authority in him.

You also were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands by putting off the body of flash by the circumcision of Christ.

Having been buried with him in baptism and what you were also raised with him through faith and the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

And you were dead and your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh.

God made a live together with him, haven't forgiven us, having for having forgiven us all our trespasses by canceling, the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands.

This he set aside nailing it to the Cross.

He disarmed, the rulers and authorities and he put them to open Shame by triumphing over them in him.

So therefore, let no one pass judgment on you and question of food, or drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon, or Sabbath.

These are only a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Letting no one disqualify.

You insisting on asceticism, and the worship of angels and going on, a detail about visions.

And puffed up without Reason by a, sensuous mind, for not holding fast to the Head who from from whom the whole body nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments grows with a gross.

That is from God.

So, if with Christ, you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why?

As if you were still alive, do you submit to regulations?

Do not handle.