Conveyed From Darkness To Light

There’s a Spanish story of a father and son who had become estranged. The son ran away, and the father set off to find him. He searched for months to no avail. Finally, in a last desperate effort to find him, the father put an ad in the Madrid newspaper. The ad read: “Dear Paco, meet me in front of this newspaper office at noon on Saturday. All is forgiven. I love you. Your Father.”

On Saturday 800 young men named Paco showed up, looking for forgiveness and love from their fathers.

Colossians? ?1:9-14?????

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; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and long suffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”

1st Point “The Reason”

“The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.”

Why do we go through the things we go through? Why do we cry or laugh? Why do we work? Why do we rest, why do we fix things or let them go? Everything has a reason. And you beloved have been created to fulfill a wonderful plan of God and for that reason you were born, in other words beloved you have a purpose.

Beloved everything we do for God has a purpose, a reason, nothing is done without a definite purpose and plan to be fulfilled for the glory of Jesus Christ. For instance: there are reasons we do some of the things we do, there are reasons we act the way we act, there are reasons we think the way we think, it isn’t something we just thought of ourselves, there were events and situations that have shaped our lives and helped us form this into our everyday endeavors, beloved you were saved for a reason, it wasn’t by accident, it wasn’t for no other purpose then for the tremendous purpose of Gods plan for your life and everyone around you.

Jeremiah? ?29:11? ?NKJV?? ????????

11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

I desire by the grace of God to help you understand and grasp the purpose of God in your life.

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First, Paul prayed that they would have a knowledge of God’s will, informed by a true spiritual understanding. To know God and what He requires of us is our first responsibility.

“If you read this epistle through, you will observe that Paul frequently alludes to knowledge and wisdom. To the point in which he judged the church to be deficient he turned his prayerful attention. He would not have them ignorant. He knew that spiritual ignorance is the constant source of error, instability, and sorrow; and therefore he desired that they might be soundly taught in the things of God.”

Beloved the preaching of the gospel is not for entertainment but for the edifying of the soul, edifying of the church, and for enlargement of heart, it is the AHA moments of your life in the understanding of God’s word.

Hosea 4:6

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

When God's people are destroyed and waste away, it isn't because God has lost either His love or strength. It's because His people lack … knowledge.

It isn't that God says His people are completely ignorant. They have some knowledge, but not enough. They may have just enough to make them think they know it all. What kind of knowledge do they lack? In the context, the first answer must be they lack the knowledge of God(Hosea 4:1). They know God some - perhaps a little - but not enough. Perhaps they felt they knew God well enough already.

The second kind of knowledge they lack is the knowledge of God's Word (you have forgotten the law of your God). They know the Word of God some - perhaps a little - but not enough. Perhaps they felt they knew God's Word well enough already.

It should not surprise us that there is a connection between knowing God and knowing His Word. Some people think that Bible knowledge is boring and brainy and not necessary for a real walk with God. But God and His Word are vitally connected. Psalm 138:2 says, You have magnified Your word above all Your name. When God sought for a term to express His nature, He calls Himself "The Word" (John 1:1).