Introduction

• Colossians 1:24-29

Paul's Commission

1. To Preach Christ (1:25-27)

   1. Colossians 1:26-27

   2. Galatians 1:15-16

   3. Philippians 3:5-8

   4. Colossians 1:25-26

   5. "The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed." - St. Augustine

   6. Colossians 1:27

   7. Ephesians 3:4-6

2. To evangelize the lost and mature the saints (1:28)

   1. Colossians 1:28

3. To be a living sacrifice and suffer well (1:24, 29)

   1. Colossians 1:24

   2. Philippians 2:29-30

   3. Matthew 10🕙

   4. "I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might also lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable... Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister's library." - Charles Spurgeon

   5. Colossians 1:29

Application

A Christian's Commission

1. To Preach Christ

   1. Matthew 28:19-20

2. Mature the saints closest to you

   1. Ephesians 5:25

   2. Ephesians 5:26

3. To be a living sacrifice and suffer well for the local church

   1. Romans 12:1