Colossains 1:1-14

Colassians is very similar to the book of Ephesians: Ephesians was about the body of Christ, Colassians is more about the Head of the body of Christ. Colassians was written about 60-61 AD. Philemon was also written about the same time. Paul had never been to Colasse, the church was founded by Epaphras, who was one of Paul’s disciples. Because it was written about the same time as Ephesians, there are a lot of similar texts and people mentioned common to both epistles.

Colossians 1:1-2 Greeting to Colossians from the writer.
v3-8 Paul gives thanks for the Colossian believers their:
• faith
• love
• hope
• fruit
As they heard and believed the truth of God. The Word declared to them by Epaphras, a minister of the gospel.
Paul’s prayer for the Colossians:
v9 To be filled the knowledge of God’s will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
v10 That you Christian life would be pleasing to God, to be fruitful ( Eph. 5:22-23) in every good work AND grow in knowledge.
v11 strengthened with power and might to be patient and longsuffering.
v12 Giving thanks to the Father for enabling us to share in the inheritance with His chosen people (those who believe by faith).
v13 He rescued us from the powers of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His Son’s love.
v14 He purchased us with His blood, granting to us the forgiveness of our sins (Adam’s condition).

Colossians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.[a]
3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit,[b] as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; 7 as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood,[c] the forgiveness of sins.

In Christ we have:
• Knowledge of God’s will.
• Spiritual understanding.
• Strengthened with power to be patient and longsuffereing.
• Rescued from darkness.
• Transferred into the Kingdom.
• Purchased with Jesus’ blood, granting forgiveness for our sinful condition.