Sermon Tone Analysis

God of all my days.

Another land just on a d.

Teach my heart.

Show me how

Dear.

You are my Lord, my God.

Faithful Friends.

Greatest.

May I want you greed.

Where is Lisa?

World leasing may.

I find my greatest.

Treasure kidding.

You.

Found in you.

Indian 9 moments.

Gladly trade.

All the games in the prize.

Greatest.

baby, I love you greater than Bridle Ridge.

May I speak my greatest pleasure.

From your hair from your head.

Cry.

Guy to show up and thank you for your patience.

Again, we only do that.

Once we do that fall, sign up to take a little bit of time, but it's great to see people involved in different activities or we're almost the end of our study through this.

Awesome put my favorite book in the New Testament, again till the next when I read but It really is a great book and through it all again, Paul's desire for The Clash on Believers, his desire for us, those are going to read this letter.

Besides I was that man we be growing and maturity as we saw a Colossians 1 9 to 12 and says man since the day, we heard about you and not stopped praying for you, we continue to ask God to fill you with the knowledge, with a knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the spirit gives so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord to please him in every way bearing fruit in every good work rolling, in the knowledge of God being strengthened with all power.

According to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience and giving joyful thanks to the father who qualified you to serenade inheritance of his holy people in the Kingdom of Light.

Again it's been a while since we went through chapter one but that was Paul's Prairie desire for them.

That's I hope our desire for ourselves that we would be growing in the knowledge of his will with all wisdom and power of the spirit gifts because don't you want to live a life?

That is pleasing to him.

I do, I think we all want that we want to be bearing fruit.

In every good work, we want to be growing in a gym.

We want to be having that great endurance and patience anybody else.

Feel like we need more great endurance and patient everyday.

We need to be giving joyful things.

Damn, these are the marks of a true Christian.

If these are the marks of Our Lives, we are not really living up to the name.

We claim.

We're not mature and that's Paul's desire.

He wants us to be true.

Christian doing these things and growing and maturity.

That's why he says, Jesus is the one we Proclaim and monitoring and teaching everyone with all wisdom.

So we may present everyone fully mature in Christ and that's my desire for us in the church that we were all about proclaiming Christ because we would have some people coming to maturity in him.

I want to know what our goal is our vision, that it that's why we do kids club.

The men's group in the women's groups, in the Bible studies in the small groups and the youth group.

Everything we do has that one purpose because if we don't grow to maturity in Christ, what's the point of life?

You can have all the dis World gives, but you know what?

You don't take it with you.

What are you going to have for eternity if not maturity in Christ?

This is all the accounts.

And so that's what Paul has been stressing to the Colossians.

He's been stressing us all Spirit again, is the one who inspired all, this is what God has for us.

He wants to screw maturity.

And that's we're coming down to the and some of the commands, some of the things that we need to implement Our Lives.

If we're really going to grow to maturity.

And that's what we find here.

Colossians chapter 4 verses 22 6.

A lot of these same themes that are in Colossians. 1 912, we're going to find here.

Colossians 4-2 to 6. Let's read it together.

He says devote yourselves to prayer being watchful and thankful and pray for us to the God, open the door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ for which I am in Chains.

Pray that I'm a claim it clearly.

As I should be wise in the way you act toward Outsiders, make the most of every opportunity and let your conversation.

Be always full of grace season with salt so that you may know how to answer everyone.

There are really three commands in there.

As far as devoting yourself to prayer acting with wisdom, and letting your conversation be seasoned with salt three commands, three things that.

If we want to be true Christians, if we want to be maturing, these are Essentials Essentials.

So what was the first one?

The first one, he says his devote yourselves to prayer being watchful and thankful what does he mean by the boat?

We use that word actually.

Today it's not a word it's uncommon.

How do we use it today?

If you talk of somebody being devoted, what would be the example,

Devoted to your family.

What does that mean to be devoted to your family?

What does what's that look like?

Being there with your family, doing things with your family being available.

And is it just like a once and done thing?

Now, it's a continuation of the continual thing house.

Do we use it?

devoted family devoted to your job.

Somebody is really devoted to their job.

What are they doing?

Working overtime.

And not necessarily being paid for it.

Yeah.

And I can't devote it to your job board voted against people.

Can remote into their sport right?

Somebody who's devoted their sport means that they're not just there.

When the team is practicing their practicing on their own as well.

They are putting in the extra time they're doing this continually That's the word Paul uses for prayer.

I guess that's the thing.

That's kind of convicting to me.

Am I devoted to prayer?

If somebody looked at my prayer life is hell.

Yeah, he prays at the meals.

He prays at the morning he prays at night.

What they say, I'm devoted to prayer.

or is that just like, If you had it all up a couple minutes out of the day, is that really devoted to prayer?