Colossians 1 v 9 - 14 - The Knowledge

v9-10
remember yesterday? yep good, cause todays is related to yesterdays. because of the new Christians in Colosse and their faith hope and love, Paul's continually praying for them , that God will help them to fully understand. And that they will have wisdom, understanding in spiritual stuff. Yes this is right, if you don't have a knowledge of God, then all other knowledge is useless. Because knowing V = IxR won't get you to heaven. Yes you still need to revise for exams, but God comes first, always. If the people have this knowledge then they'll live a kinda life that'll please God, they'll produce bananas (fruit) and keep growing (no short people in Colosse) all because they put God first, and have God wisdom. But it's no good just KNOWING, they have to put it into practise, like everything in life.
James 1:22  Do what God's teaching says; when you only listen and do nothing, you are fooling yourselves.
God wants us to have the fruits of the spirit; love joy peace patience kidness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control, but also that we convert people to becoming xians. Paul talks of growing, and , if your not growing in faith, you are backsliding, there's no middle ground. 

v11
"God will strengthen you with his own great power so that you will not give up when troubles come, but you will be patient." 
I love this verse so much, it's painted orange in my bible. 


v12-14
Paul here talks of three things that the Colossians (just twigged, they are Colossians, and the bible chapter is called Colossians. imagine a bible chapter called WP-ies. Weird.) 

1.  They should thank God cause we've been "qualified" to share in God's kingdom, we're part of his kingdom. 
2. They should thank God for rescuing us from darkness and from Satan and we're in the kingdom of God!
3. Thank God that they have redemption of sins through JC. 

Application

• Practice what you preach
• Put God first
• Keep growing, not backsliding
• Pray for faith in the power of God
• All our trials, we have God with us, you'll be able to do it through God, pray for endurance and patience and joy as well
• We need to thank God that he's chosen us, that we no longer belong to the devil, JC sacrifice