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So thankful to see everybody who
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that the things that we have to 
study tonight will be beneficial

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to the congregation here and 
edifying and we will be 

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finishing up our study in the 
book of Colossians tonight. and,

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I'm assuming we will probably 
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Thessalonians after this. 
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We're going to be considering 
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for tonight and Colossians and I
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beginning in verse 12 of chapter
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the chapter there. 
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epaphras epaphras, who is one of
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greets. 
You always laboring fervently 

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for you in prayers that you You 
that you may stand perfect and 

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complete and all the will of God
for. 

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I bear him witness that he has a
great Zeal for you and those who

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are in laodicea and those in 
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the Beloved Physician and Demas 
greet. 

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You greet the Brethren who are 
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church that is in his house. 
Now when this epistle is read 

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among you see that it is read 
also in the Church of the 

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laodiceans. 
And that you likewise read the 

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epistle from laodicea and SATA, 
archippus take heed to the 

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ministry, which you have 
received in the Lord that you 

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may fulfill it this salutation 
by my own hand, Paul. 

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Remember my chains Grace be with
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Amen. 
That barring any mistakes. 

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That reads the verses that we're
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consideration tonight. 
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question which deals with verse 
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And that question is at the time
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doubt of faithful servant what 
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Beloved Physician and Demas 
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So Dimas is actually mentioned 
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He's mentioned here in the 14th 
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Colossians. 
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124 where he was referred to as 
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second Timothy 4 verse 10, where
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me, having loved this present 
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thessalonica. the word forsaken,
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very strong word and it actually
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know, Dimas from what, from what
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turned his back on the work of 
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ministry, and the 
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friends. 
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who were fellow workers of 
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And there's no reason given why 
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why he left other than loving 
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There's no reason given to us 
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either he loved the present 
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to that is that he opposes 
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You know, the love of the world.
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That's all. 
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That's all we can assume. 
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enough for anyone to leave the 
ministry of Jesus and that is if

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we have a love of the world and 
there's not have to be, there 

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doesn't have to be specific 
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There doesn't have to be 
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someone away from loving and 
following Jesus. 

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You know, we kind of break that 
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Gospel gospel whether to choose 
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the world. 
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thought that we have in our Our 
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easier to make sometimes. 
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two categories. 
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whether we're going to follow 
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the world is Desiring is to do. 
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know, because we can sometimes 
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We can you know we could be a 
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the spread of the gospel and 
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checking the boxes of what a 
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But in the heart at the heart is
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Dimas is wasn't You know the 
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than the love of Christ. 
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Christ pretty quickly. 
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assumptions on why Dimas left 
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loving Jesus, more than things 
of this world, we can eventually

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be pulled away with the desires 
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Luke is mentioned as the Beloved
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course, as the same Loop that we
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and the Gospel of Luke, so it's 
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So, Demas was once faithful 
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world. 
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here. 
Question number two who was 

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Nimbus and what is meant by the 
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house and verse 15, says greet 
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and Memphis and the church that 
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in laodicea as Paul mentioned, 
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scriptures were an emphasis is 
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mentioned for something very, 
very simple. 

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The Simplicity we can we can 
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sometimes. 
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allowing the church to assemble 
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The congregation the assembled 
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we can be doing but Memphis was 
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Apostle Paul for that simple 
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And that was credit enough. 
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make sure that he was mentioned 
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That's pretty great. 
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of the Gospel by Simply Having 
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of Christ, or the general 
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Just like we are doing here 
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the general assembly of the 
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that is The specific place is a 
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by the members of the church or 
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where the assembly is going to 
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church is not the building. 
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people, the congregation that is
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translations. 
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Some older translations of this 
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Give Memphis a feminine 
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honestly think it really didn't 
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woman. 
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a building or where they had a 
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a woman's house or man's house, 
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So the fact that people want to 
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woman doesn't hold a lot of 
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matter. 
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was weaving together in a 
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In verse 16 says there. 
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among you see that it is read 
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laodiceans and that you likewise
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So what is the epistle from 
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I'm going to read this. 
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there's a couple names in here 
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So I just bear with me here says
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Several ancient texts 
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To be the missing quote-unquote 
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been known to have existed most 
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These were generally considered 
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modern scholarship to be 
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of a lost document. 
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unquote Epistle of the 
laodiceans which is Only a short

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compilation of verses from other
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Principally, Philippians and on 
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divided as to whether it is not,
it is the Lost Marconi a'ight 

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forgery or alternatively, an 
orthodox replacement of the 

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Marconi 8 text. 
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considered a clumsy forgery and 
an attempt to seek to fill the 

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gaps suggested by Colossians 
4:16. 

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Some ancient sources sources 
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Modern Scholars. 
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laodicea was never a lost 
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one of his other letters. 
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this contemporary epistle to the
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Just as he asks for the copying 
and forwarding of letter to the 

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Colossians to laodicea and 
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Asian believe in that. 
God the father was different 

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deity than God the Creator. 
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find something more that was 
written word of God that we have

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already and doing some research.
I actually found what is 

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believed to be quote unquote. 
The epistle laodicea and 

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actually want to read that. 
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want you to I want you to think 
and we're going to be reminded 

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really of some other scripture 
that we already know. 

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And when he says this person 
that I got this from basically a

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clumsy for jury, will see why. 
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you. 
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so or 19 so let's go ahead and 
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from laodicea. 
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not for men. 
Neither by man, but by Jesus 

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Christ to Brethren which are at 
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peace from God, the father and 
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I think in every prayer, mine 
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Preserve in Good Works looking 
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the day of judgment, do not be 
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Speeches of anyone who perverts 
the truth that they may draw you

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And now may God grant that my 
comments May attain to a perfect

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knowledge of the truth of the 
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Will be bent, be beneficent and 
doing good works, which 

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accompany salvation. 
And now my bonds, which I suffer

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in Christ are manifest in which 
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know that this shall turn my 
salvation forever, which shall 

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be through your prayer and the 
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whether I live or die to me, I 
shall to me to me to live, shall

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be a Life of Christ to die will 
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Lord will grant His Mercy that 
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be like-minded. 
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have heard the coming of the 
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So think and act reverently and 
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for it is God who is working in 
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sin and what is best? 
My beloved rejoice in the Lord 

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Jesus Christ and avoid all 
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Let all your requests be made 
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the doctrine of Christ, and 
whatever things are sound, and 

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true, and good report and chase 
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Just and lovely these things. 
Do those things which you have 

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heard and received think on 
these things and peace shall be 

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with you all the saints. 
Salute, you let the grace of the

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Lord Jesus Christ be with your 
spirit, amen. 

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Cause us epistle to be read to 
the Colossians and the epistle, 

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the Colossians, to be read among
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Things are just fake sometimes, 
just by reading it, you can 

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understand a things are fake. 
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understanding the truth first, 
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says first. 
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I read this, I'm going man that 
does not sound like any kind 

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kind of thing that Paul would 
just spit out in those simple 

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short phrases that he did. 
There's usually a story or a 

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particular group of people that 
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And when I read this, there was 
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what I was reading. and this is 
not of course we want to make 

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sure that we understand that 
this is not the word of God that

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is quote unquote, the Epistle of
the laodiceans This is some 

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false doctrines and false 
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What is mentioned here in 
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So, we need to understand, we 
need to just know, and they're 

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saying, we've been given all 
that we need in the word of God.

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We've been told that and that's 
all we need. 

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The verse here that were 
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evidence and direction to that 
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The letter that Paul to the 
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the Colossians alone. 
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followed by all congregations of
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world. 
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Colossians, then they were to 
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congregations in the area. 
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laodicea that was believed to be
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So, whatever letter that is, 
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that that Paul told him to get 
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It could be the same thing. 
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the Colossians. 
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send it over to the laodicean so
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too. 
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it makes complete sense that if 
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the Ephesians, that was sent to 
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Latest hands could have the same
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onto the colossian congregation.
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all scripture and all letters, 
all Epistles are for every 

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congregation through all time. 
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understand applies to everybody 
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we are given here. 
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I was pretty difficult for me to
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and to try to explain exactly 
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So I hope I did some justice and
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it's pretty small on here, but 
one of the show kind of where 

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the three cities that are 
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Colossi hieropolis and laodicea 
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when you consider it I'm not 
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Maybe 75 miles radius within 
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So it's been very easy for them 
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from Paul and transfer it over. 
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take it over to the next Cara. 
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Question number four, which 
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cheapest? 
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Take heed to the ministry that 
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We're 17 and say to our 
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ministry, which you have 
received in the Lord that you 

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may fulfill it. 
So, Arch piss is mentioned here.

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Verse 2, right alongside of 
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fellow Soldier one who is 
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gospel and we can deduce from 
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a disciple of Jesus working as a
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colossae. 
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Catholicism believes that 
archippus was actually put in 

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charge of these three 
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Colossi hieropolis and laodicea.
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scripture. 
Also, work, Catholicism is taken

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assumptions. 
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practices. 
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archippus a saint singing 
archippus and they actually have

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a day of the year where it's a 
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archippus and that is all based 
on assumptions that they have 

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made and there is nothing in 
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can read that archippus was put 
over charge of three. 

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Three different congregations 
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area. we know that that is a 
stretch because the Bible simply

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does not state or support such 
an idea, is that So when it says

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take you to the ministry, which 
you have received the Lord that 

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you may fulfill it. 
Paul was telling the members 

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that colossi to specifically 
tell our cheapest that exact 

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phrase and the word ministry. 
Here means service our service 

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to Jesus or service to spreading
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And if archippus was a Phyllis 
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Philemon, why would Paul direct 
this kind of phrase to a fellow 

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Soldier? 
So there are multiple thoughts 

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as to why Paul would have said 
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There's four reasons why that I 
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New, the ministry. 
He was faithful, but maybe 

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needed some encouragement to 
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Number two, Archbishop new. 
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but slacking, or stopped his 
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Number three, archippus new the 
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it. 
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did not know his ministry and it
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keep going. 
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Colossians are mostly thought to
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during Paul's, imprisonment, in 
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was even the same year. 
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sent them out. 
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would write one letter to 
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And then immediately writing 
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colossi telling Our cheapest to 
get his act together, if they're

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both written the same time. 
I don't understand why pie would

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probably do that. 
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us to say that this this 
statement by Paul was to be an 

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encouragement to our cheapest, 
and all of us need that 

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encouragement as well. 
But if Paul wasn't trying to 

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encourage our participants to 
continue in the faith or to get 

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his act together or take care of
some of these other assumptions 

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that were made. 
I think any of those lumps 

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assumptions would be appropriate
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So, for example, if our cheapest
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faithful, but needed 
encouragement, that phrase is 

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appropriate If Archbishop knew 
the ministry and was once 

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faithful, but it's lacked or 
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That phrase is appropriate. 
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but nothing about it that phrase
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Also, if Arch, pissed did not 
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prompted by Paul that statement 
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But I think we can all figure 
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The fact is that Paul was giving
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purpose to take heed to the 
service, which he had received 

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in the Lord. 
Paul was I think encouraging 

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archippus during this time, Hope
I got that right to. 

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There's a lot just in these few 
verses that I was not expecting 

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and it's just, it's amazing 
sometimes So it takes us the 

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verse 18. 
What is meant by the phrase? 

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The salutation by my hand, built
Verse 18, says this salutation 

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by my own hand. 
Paul, remember my change Grace 

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be with you, amen. 
This is basically Paul putting a

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stamp of approval on his letter 
to the to the church at 

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colossae. 
See some think that Paul 

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actually had a scribe that would
write out the letter and then 

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Paul would review it. 
And basically this is Paul 

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signature at the end of this 
epistle, colossi or Colossians, 

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it would affirm or approve the 
writings and saying that this is

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his own writing. 
This. 

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Is the inspired word of God that
I am approving to be sent to 

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Colossians. 
You could think of it as a 

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signature that Paul would place 
on a document. 

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Authenticating it to the church 
in colossae. 

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He not only did that here but he
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Corinthians, 16 and 21 and 
Galatians 6 and 11. 

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