Colossians 2:10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. (NKJV)
Paul never ministered in or even visited Colossae, as he had Ephesus, though one of his converts, Epaphras, had planted the church (Colossians 1:7-8). Unique to Colossians is Paul’s attack against a local heresy that depreciated the person of Christ and promoted ritualism, asceticism, and special, hidden knowledge. To counter that, Paul praises Jesus as the center and substance of the universe. He presents the “deeper” life (Colossians 1:22-23), the “higher” life (Colossians 2:6-7), the “inner” life (Colossians 3:12,16), and the “outward” life (Colossians 4:5).
1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. (NKJV)
Addressed to one of Paul’s first churches in Greece, 1 Thessalonians encourages the young believers to endure persecution, resist false teaching, and live full and productive lives as they await Christ’s certain return. In fact, each of 1 Thessalonians’ five chapters ends with encouragement based on the Rapture.
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
11 Therefore, we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,
12 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. (NKJV)
(The return of Christ is mentioned 318x in the 260 chapters of the New Testament). To these troubled saints, Paul presents Christ as our Security when Suffering (1), when doubting (2), and when serving (3).
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