TSK · Colossians 1:23

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.”

Planted in the LORD’s house, they grow in the courts of our God.

Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD’s heaven.

So let us search for him! Let us seek to know the LORD! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

The Apostles’ Ministry One should think about us this way– as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle– I am telling the truth; I am not lying– and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

Jesus Our Compassionate High Priest Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.