You are listening to the Passion City Church DC podcast to learn more about

Passion City Church including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington DC.

Visit us online at passioncitychurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

You got a copy of your scriptures on you. We're in Colossians chapter 1. Let me

read to you a couple verses from Colossians chapter 1 starting in verse 24 and

this is the Apostle Paul and he says this. Now I rejoice in my sufferings for

your sake and in my flesh I'm filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions

for the sake of his body that is the church of which I became a minister according

to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you to make the word of God

fully known. The mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to

his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are

the riches of the glory of this mystery which is Christ in you the hope of

glory. Him we proclaim warning everyone teaching everyone with all wisdom that

we may present everyone mature in Christ for this I toil struggling with all

his energy that he powerfully works within me. When I was a college student at

Texas A&M University I decided to take a class on the New Testament at a

state school but I found out right before class was going to start that the

professor who normally teaches the class had a family crisis and had to not

teach and so they in a last minute substituted a professor from the

philosophy department who would never taught the New Testament was not a

believer in Jesus was not particularly familiar with the text of the New

Testament but he wanted to do honor to the course material he wanted to take it

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