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Request for prayer

--- Please pray that the Gospel presentation document "How To Get To Heaven" in various languages on this website would be readily accessed, effectively understood, and instrumentally used by the Lord to bring countless numbers of people around the world to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
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An important coming reality:


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Upon the start of the Great Tribulation, believers can lose their salvation.  For details, see the document "End Times Speculations", which is located at the top of the 'Doctrines' web-page.
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? Did you know that:
- - God has assigned all true believers to be functioning as "priests", doing ministry work in a church or ministry.
(For more information, see the document "1 Peter 2:5 - Assigned To Be Ministering In A Priestly Fraternity" in the ' 1 Peter' Sermon or Lesson Outlines web-page.)


 Outlines - for Sermons or Lessons 
 - Colossians 

Outlines that are designed to be used as expository preaching sermons or as Bible study teaching lessons - for free download for the Book of Colossians in the New Testament, biblical, editable (in .rtf, .doc), printable, can be easily customized or projected, available in 4 file formats (.htm, .rtf, .doc, .pdf), NIV-based

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Book Of Colossians:

Synopsis of the Book of Colossians
(not a sermon-or-lesson)
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Colossians 1:1-2
Authoritative Teaching For All Believers
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Colossians 1:3-4,7-8
Having Faith That Produces Love And Then Inspiration
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Colossians 1:5-6
The Gospel Is Intended To Bear Fruit
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Colossians 1:9
Gaining Knowledge Of God's Will
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Colossians 1:10
That You May Live A Life Worthy Of The Lord
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Colossians 1:11
All Power For Great Endurance And Patience
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Colossians 1:12
Joyfully Thankful About Being Qualified And Blessed By God
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Colossians 1:13
Rescued From, Brought Into
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Colossians 1:14
This Redemption Buys The Forgiveness Of Sins
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Colossians 1:15
Jesus Is Invisible God In Visible Form
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Colossians 1:16
Jesus Is The Creator, Jehovah God
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Colossians 1:17
Jesus - Deity Supremacy Before And Within All Creation
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Colossians 1:18
Jesus Has Supremacy In Everything
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Colossians 1:19-20, with Philippians 2:6-8
Jesus - The Fullness Of God Through Which Is Available Reconciliation To God
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Colossians 1:21-22
Jesus - Switching Our Alienation To Reconciliation
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Colossians 1:23
Be Established And Firm In The Gospel And The Faith
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Colossians 1:24
Joy In The Midst Of Suffering For The Sake Of The Church And The Gospel
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Colossians 1:25-27
The Mystery, With Its Accompanying Glorious Spiritual Riches
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Colossians 1:28-2:1
Take On The Same Perspective, Mission, And Ministry Approach That Paul Has
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Colossians 2:2-3
Actively Facilitating New Believers And Immature Believers Towards Spiritual Maturity
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Colossians 2:4
Discern And Reject False Teaching
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Colossians 2:5
Dynamics That Can Thwart The Adopting Of False Doctrines
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Colossians 2:6-7
Comprehensively Orient And Anchor Your Life In Christ
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Colossians 2:8
Guard Yourself From Worldly Philosophies About The Things Of God
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Colossians 2:9-10, with 1 Corinthians 2:12-16 
The Fullness Of Deity In Christ Is Internally Present Within True Believers
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Colossians 2:11-12
A Spiritual Circumcision And Regeneration - For Newness Of Life
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Colossians 2:13-15
Beneficial Aspects Of Being Made Spiritually Alive
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Colossians 2:16-17
Mere Outer Religious Practice Replaced By Inner Religious Devotion
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Colossians 2:18-19
Engaging In False Doctrines Yields Substantial Adverse Consequences
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Colossians 2:20-23
Questioned Why We Practice Humanistic Religious Rules That God Rejects
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More sermon-or-lessons for the Book of Colossians are not available.


For a List Of Abbreviations used within these outlines, click here (to access the list on the "Abbreviations & Copyrights" page).

 

Recursos de ministerio en español.
(Ministry resources in Spanish.)
Recursos do ministério em português.
(Ministry resources in Portuguese.)

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                    What's New
                  
(free downloads):

_________ September, 2023 _________

- - A new counseling document, entitled "Recovering From Ministerial Abuse, Assault, Murder", has been added to the "Counseling" web-page.

__________ August, 2023 __________

- - A new session document, entitled "Session 00 - Overview", has been added to the "Biblical Counseling Training Series for Lay Counselors", which is located near the top of the "Counseling" web-page.

____ December, 2022 - June, 2023 ____

- - The new "Elder Training Series" has been completed, and is located near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

_____ May - October, 2022 _____

- - The document, "How To Get To Heaven", has been added in many other languages, as listed in the above box.  These translated documents enable you to share the gospel with people who speak one of these languages.

________ April, 2022 ________

- - New documents, that pertain to end-times events, have been added near the top of the 'Doctrines' web-page.


- - Running out of time:
We (servants of God) are running out of time to get everything done - all of our ministry work, because April 3, 2034 is coming quickly.
  As
" spoken of through the prophet Isaiah [40:4] : " A voice of one calling in the desert, `Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' ""  (Matthew 3:3)
- - A relating end times event to currently watch for: If the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem indeed will start in the middle of the year 2034, therefore it seems logical and necessary that Jehovah God would need to utterly flatten in an earthquake the Dome Of The Rock mosque years before 2034, which of course could occur any day now until then.
(written in September, 2023)

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- - Expect to increasingly incur property damage and losses of various kinds:
- - During our time, especially since about the year 2020, there has been occurring frequent news and scientific reports about how destructive weather events are becoming increasingly more frequent and more destructive.
- - Furthermore, reports document that there are significant overall increases in the occurrences and destructiveness of other kinds of events in nature, such as wildfires, droughts, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, famines, plagues, insect infestations, virus pandemics, and etcetera.
- - The world thinks that mankind's actions are contributing to many of these adversities that are increasingly coming upon the earth, which may to some degree be true.
- - But these increases in destructive phenomena may furthermore be due to God's actions, plan, and timing to bring discipline and judgment upon the accelerating wickedness of peoples and societies around the world.
- - In the same way that God causes the rain to fall on "the righteous and the unrighteous"
(Matthew 5:45), He causes destructive weather and catastrophic events in nature to befall the righteous and the unrighteous.
- - As a prime example, in Genesis chapter 19 is recorded that when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
(vv.19:24-25, 27-29) due to their wickedness (v.18:20), Lot lost his house (v.19:2), all of his property and belongings (vv.19:16-17), his wife (v.19:26), and his two future sons-in-law (v.19:14-16), but not his two daughters (v.19:16).
- - Even though Lot experienced huge losses in God's discipline and judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, God did "rescue Lot" from death, being "a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men"
(2 Peter 2:7)
- - As the wickedness on the earth during our time accelerates to perhaps surpass the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah
(Genesis 18:20), we should expect God to inflict more of these calamities, disasters, destructions, and losses.
- - Thereby, we should also expect that we true believers will nevertheless suffer various kinds of losses and incur property damage, albeit collateral damage, from these destructive and catastrophic events that God is now increasingly inflicting on the wickedness of the peoples on the earth. 
- - "The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord." 
(from Job 1:21)

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- - Permission To Translate These Documents Into Your Language:
- - I am hereby offering to grant permission to any true believer who is interested, that you can translate any of my documents in this website into your native foreign language, and then distribute them, or post them on the Internet.
- - I ask that you provide your translated documents for free, and not sell them.  However, you can provide a way for the recipients of your translated documents to extend a freewill monetary donation to you.
- - I ask that you take the time to translate each document as accurately as reasonably possible, and not pervert or adulterate the doctrines, concepts, and meanings of what I have written.
- - You can translate from the New International Version (NIV) the Scripture verses I use, thereby rendering no need for you to secure copyrights from the owners of any Scripture translations.
- - Perhaps you would prayerfully consider the possibility of your church, or Bible college / seminary, or ministry group pulling together a team of select persons with the skills to start and operate your own website ministry like mine here, in which these documents are translated into your native language and posted on your website for free download.   I am available for consultation to help you get this kind of website ministry going, and to provide you with clarification of the intended meaning of any words, phrases, or sentences that I used in any of these documents.

 

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