Colossians #1 - 4 Things You Gotta Know If You Wanna Grow

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🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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There are four things you gotta know if you wanna grow. Who will you learn from? How can you know God’s will for your life? What is your identity? Do you understand the Father heart of God? In the opening lines of his letter to the Colossian church, the apostle Paul answers these four massive questions that form our identity and frame our destiny. And, by calling God’s people saints, he reveals that when we know who we truly are in Christ we can truly begin to become more like Christ.

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0:00.0	Adi Pastor Mark Triscoll here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, really excited
0:05.1	to provide for you the series of sermons based on the Book of Colossians.
0:09.6	It's an amazing book of the New Testament where the Apostle Paul is writing from prison
0:15.6	to newly planted church and we took a few months here at the Trinity Church to go verse
0:20.6	by verse through this book of the Bible.
0:22.4	I've had the honor of preaching and teaching, perhaps a few dozen books of the Bible in
0:26.6	my career and this is the first time I've ever been through Colossians and I'm really
0:31.1	excited that you can join me.
0:33.6	All right, great day.
0:35.4	We're starting a brand new book of the Bible.
0:36.8	If you've got your Bible, go to the book of Colossians or find it on the fake Bible on
0:41.3	your phone either way.
0:42.7	Go to Colossians chapter 1 verse 1.
0:44.7	I'll start with a little story and we're going to spend three months in this book of the
0:48.6	Bible.
0:49.6	So start studying it, reading it, getting ready every Sunday and let me start with a story.
0:54.9	When I was a little boy, I was the oldest of five kids.
0:57.4	My dad was a construction worker and sometimes he'd work outside the town to make money and
1:01.4	send it back to take care of myself and my mom and then eventually the other kids joined
1:06.5	the family.
1:07.6	And my mom would get a little bit bored and she'd want to go exploring and up in the mountains
1:10.7	and off-roading.
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