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Big Photo:
Colosse in the middle of nowhere
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COLOSSIANS
Correction
Epistle of _________
Martin Story: The
Perfect Snowball
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Poor Yui Watabe
Correction
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http://kyleabaker.com/photos/desktop-wallpapers/dual/wallpaper-world-map-2006-large/
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“The Whole World”
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France
Italy
Rome
Russia
Albania
Thessalonica
Greece
Corinth
Tunisia
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Macedonia
Philippi
Turkey
Colosse Galatia
Ephesus
Syria
Crete
Syrian
PAUL’s TRAVELS:
COUNTRIES of TODAY:
Antioch
Israel
1st Trip 2nd Trip 3rd Trip 4th Trip
Jerusalem
Libya
Egypt
“The Whole World” in 70 AD
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Plains near Colosse in modern-day
Turkey
Shelley's Ozymandias
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Plains near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's Ozymandias
Turkey
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
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Plains
near Colosse in modern-day
Shelley's
Ozymandias
Turkey
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
DATE WRITTEN:
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4:18: “Remember my Chains”
Imprisonment letter-- AD 60?
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AUTHOR:
1:1:
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Paul
RECIPIENTS:
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1:2 “To the holy and
faithful brothers in
Christ at Colosse”
PURPOSE:
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To Correct False Teachings in a Weird Church:
Ceremonialism
___________ (2:16-17, 2:11, 3:11),
Worship (2:18),
____________
(2:21),Angel
__________
Asceticism
Deprication
of Christ (1:15ff), ____________
Secret Knowledge
_____________
(2:2-3 “in whom are hidden...”),
Reliance on Tradition (2:23) (Zondervan)
_______________
New Testament Themes
Found in this Book:
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KEYS
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Key Chapter (Required Reading): 3
...Believers are to be tied to Christ--his death,
resurrection, and exaltation
verses 3: 1-2; “If then, you have been raised
with Christ, seek things that are above where
Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set
your mind on things above, not on things that
are on earth.”ESV
TCF #1
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Supremacy
___________
of Christ-Adequacy
“_____________”,
Exaltation
“_____________”
especially.
1:15ff
TCF #2
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Long Thanksgiving
______________ and
_________
in Opening
Praise
(1: 3-8)
TCF #3
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Lots of Rules for
_______________;
Lots of
Christian
Living
Instructions (Chapters 3 & 4)
____________
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TCF #4
Paul tells the
Colossians to ____
Pray
4:2-4
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TCF #5
Follow __________,
God’s Desires not
your neighbors (Chapter 2),
and focus on
____________,
heavenly things not sinful
desires (Chapter 3)
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TCF #6
_______________(1:7,
4:12) is
Epaphras
probably the founder of the
church; friend of Paul’s--fellow
servant and minister of Christ
(Philemon 23)
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Activity to
Remember
Wordfind
Christian Model of Correction
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LIFE LESSONS FROM
COLOSSIANS
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ITBOTB summarizes Colossians by saying, “Colossians is
very meaningful to us in today’s uncertain world. It
supports the simple faith expressed in the spiritual ‘He’s Got
the Whole World in His Hands’...
What?
How does knowing that the world is in God’s Hands give you
confidence as you live your life?
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