Relying Only upon Jesus, Our God

For what is the apostle willing to suffer and labor so much? Pastor leads his family in today's "Hopewell @Home" passage. Colossians 2:4–10 prepares us for the second serial reading in Morning Public Worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these seven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us Jesus is God: in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; in Him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily; He is the head of all principality and power. Because there are false hopes for knowledge and power that threaten to divert believers' attention from Christ, he is willing endure much in order to see them steadfastly walking by faith in the same One Whom they have received as Lord.