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So here's the deal. We're going to start in verse 24.

We're going to read from Colossians 124 to chapter 2, verse 5.

Let me go and give you a heads up.

You might get lost in this text because it is loaded with meaning, potent words and phrases.

But after we've read through it, we're going to hone in together

on just seven words, seven simple, powerful, awe-inducing, life-changing words in this passage.

And I'm convinced most professing Christians are missing out in the magnitude of what

these words mean. And if you could just understand these words we're going to look at today,

it would utterly revolutionize your entire life. And that is not an overstatement or an exaggeration.

So, here we go.

Let's read this passage, starting in Colossians 1.24.

I'll read it out loud.

Paul's writing this from prison.

He says, I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake.

And in my flesh, I'm filling up

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