Jesus says that he will go with us in our
disciple-making journey, and he is already ahead of us as well, even at “the
end of the age.” Think
about that as you read these passages.
From the Epistles
So then, just as you
received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue
to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the
faith as you were taught, and
overflowing with thankfulness.
See to it that no one
takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the
elemental spiritual forces of this
world rather than on Christ.
For in Christ all the
fullness of the Deity lives in
bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. In him you were also
circumcised with a
circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with
him in baptism, in
which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God,
who raised him from the dead.
When you were dead in
your sins and in
the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the
charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he
has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the
powers and authorities, he made
a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Colossians
2:6-15
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