So whenever you are in a time where you feel like you are really in a shadow,

it's like a darkness has been cast over you.

Whenever you are a time like that, you need to know

that you cannot be in a shadow that the light is not close by.

Because the only way that shadow is happening is that the light is causing it.

So on the other side of that shadow is happening is that the light is causing it. So on the other side of that

shadow, there is the light and the brighter and more intense the light than the more intense

the shadow. Would you turn with me to the book of Colossians chapter two?

The book of Colossians chapter two.

What I'd like to do with your permission is read

you 19 full verses before we ever get started. We're going to lock in on a theme that comes late

in our reading, but I want to give it some context. I'll tell you a little bit about Colossi in just a little

while as we go through the lesson, but I want to begin by reading it. Now, let me tell you something.

I intended to just teach chapter two. Well, let me tell you, it's so full by, I mean, you've got,

you've got you a whole theology lesson within the first

three verses, then another one in the next three and another one in the next three and another one in the

next three.

It's that kind of thing.

And so I thought, okay, we're going to go for a piece of it that the Lord has really led me

toward and then we're going to expand it from there.

So we're going thematically, but I want to read it to you first.

Now, listen, how I'm going to do this when it's a long reading,

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