INTRODUCTION:
- Geographical Background:
- Historical Background:
- Spiritual Background
NO NEED: PROSPERITY
- The earthly:
- The spiritual:
- The outcome:
NO ENTHUSIASIM: LUKEWARM
- The earthly:
- The spiritual:
- The outcome:
NO VISION: BLIND
- The earthly: Laodicea left Jesus out
- The spiritual:
- The outcome:
NO SHAME: NAKED
- The earthly: shameful to God
- The spiritual: righteous deeds that we do
- The outcome:
CONCLUSION:
- Hear the Lord
- Open the door
- East with them through the written Word
- Fellowship with us.
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OUR CALLING:
- We have received a ministry.
- We’ve been given responsibility to do something with the ministry.
- Evangelize
- Call sin for what it is. Stand up for truth.
- Instruct-give insight to truth.
OUR ACTIONS:
- We must take our calling seriously.
- We must give our best.
- We must finish the task.
- Acts 20: 24- The task of testifying the gospel of God’s grace.
GOD’S ROLE:
- We are accountable to God (2 Corinthians 5:10)
- We are His stewards. ( 1 Collosians 4:1-2)
- He provides all that is necessary to complete it [ the task.] ( Hebrews 13:21, Philippians 2:13, Colossians 1:29)
THE WOMAN: THE CHURCH
- We know nothing of this lady except hospitality.
- City of part of a triad in the Lucas valley.
- It was wealthy.
HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT IN HISTORY:
- The pattern of the early church
- The underground church.
- The cell church.
- House church movement.
- Emergent church.
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HOUSE CHURCH:
- It was orthodox in its gatherings.
- It was Word-centered.
- It was primarily relational not institutional.
- It was a way of life.
- It was out-reach directed.
APPLICATION: RADICAL REFORMATION
- We must maintain the core essentials.
- We must demonstrate love & deference.
- We must be discerning.
- We must have compassion.
- We must avoid three key deadly viruses. Popularity, Greed and Power
- We must never forget we may become the underground church.
STAGE ONE: DISCIPLESHIP
- Probably converted under Paul at Thessalonica
- possibly grew up in Thessalonica
- Part of Paul’s fellow laborer
STAGE TWO: DEFECTED
- Some point between Paul’s 1st imprisonment and his 2nd
- Paul is facing execution. See II Timothy 4:6-9
- He has been forsake and abandoned
STAGE THREE: DRIFT
- The condition of the heart.
- The contrast of the men.
STAGE FOUR: DEPARTS
APPLICATION: ROMANS 12- practice these principals
- Commit body, soul and spirit to God
- Renew the mind
- Be humble
- Church service
- Love
- Patience
- Prayer
- Compassion by meeting needs
- Hospitality
- Overcome evil with good
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HIS BACKGROUND:
1. Gentile: Hellinistic Jew
2. Grew up in Antioch or Phillipi
3. Physician by profession
4. Probably pastored the church at Phillipi
5. Traveled with Paul on most of his journeys
6. Traveled to Rome
7. One one at Paul’s final imprisonment – II Timothy 4:11
APPLICATION CONCLUSION OF HIS MINISTRY:
1. God uses the professional skills of people in His service.
2. Luke journals
3. He saw the details of history as significant
4. He had a heart for missions
5. He was committed and faithful until death
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HIS BACKGROUND:
1. Gentile:
2. Grew up in Colossie:
3 Probably founder & pastored the church.
4. Ministered in the Lucas valley.
5. Traveled to Rome and a prisoner with Paul.
HIS CONCERNS:
1. Infiltrations of false teachers
2. Steadfastness in the will of God:
- Maturity
- Confidence
HIS WORK:
1. Hard work
2. Prayer
APPLICATION:
1. Spiritual warfare is seeing the enemy as an enemy:
- We are discerning of the enemy:
- We see the deadly nature of the enemy:
- We are determined to root out the enemy
2. Spiritual warfare is warfare!
- We take territory
- We take back territory
- We defend territory
3. Spiritual warfare is painful & costly
- To our energy
- In our lives
- To our life
4. Spiritual warfare must involve prayer:
- Pray like Samuel
- Pray like Elijah
- Pray like Jesus
HIS BACKGROUND & CHARACTER:
1. Jewish and the cousin of Barnabas
2. Grew up in Jerusalem
3. Travels on Paul’s first mission trip
4. In Asia Mark drops out
HIS SHORT COMINGS:
1. Youthfulness, lacked maturity
2. High expectations
3. Facing the unexpected
4. Inexperience
5. Experiencing burn – out
APPLICATION:
1. The Role of God
2. The Role of others:
- Forgive
- Restored and discipled
- Reinstate
3. The Role we play: What holds us back:
- Pride
- Embarrassed: shame
- Guilt
- Others won’t let us forget
4. Second Chance and the end result:
- “Fellow worker and comfort”
- One of the very few to be with Paul in final days of prison: II Timothy 4:11
- Possibly visits the Lycus valley
- Writes the Gospel of Mark
- Serves in Egypt and founded Alexandria church
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HIS LIFE AND BACKGROUND:
1. Unknown
2. Jew
3. Circumcised Party
HIS CHARACTER:
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1. He remained faithful
2. He is called “faithful worker”
3. He brings comfort to me
HIS PURPOSE:
1. Serves Paul
2. Send greetings
APPLICATION: Issue of specialized ministries
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HIS LIFE AND BACKGROUND:
1. Unsaved slave living in Colosse.
2. He commits at least 2 major offenses.
3. Saved and discipled while Paul is in prison.
4. Sent back to his Christian master.
5. A letter-carrier to Ephesus and Colosse.
HIS CHARACTER:
1. He is called a “devoted brother”.
2. He is called “faithful”.
3. He is called “one of you”.
HIS PURPOSE:
1. To speak of Paul’s circumstance
2. To restore a relationship with his master.
3. To become an encourager in the church of Colosse.
APPLICATION:
1. God is in the business of using divine encounters to accomplish his work.
2. When there is genuine repentance God may demand one to do the hard stuff.
- To seek forgiveness
- To forgive
3. The preparation for that task is spiritual maturity.
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HIS LIFE AND BACKGROUND:
1. Possibly saved under Paul’s ministry at Ephesus.
2. Accompanied Paul on his visit to Jerusalem.
3. Considered to go to Crete to work with Titus.
4. Sent to Ephesus.
5. A letter carrier to Ephesus and Colossi
HIS CHARACTER:
1. He is called a “Beloved Brother”
2. A “Faithful Minister”
- Greek=deacon ( reliable)
3. A “Faithful Servant”
HIS PURPOSE:
1. To speak of Paul’s circumstances
2. To ascertain the spiritual health of the church.
3. To encourage and admonish the church.
APPLICATION:
1. God uses people to mold us for His work.
2. God moves us around to mold others.
3. God sometimes changes the tasks of service.
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