{"id":5407,"date":"2024-12-27T06:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T11:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2024-12-27T06:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T11:20:58","slug":"colossians-program-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=5407","title":{"rendered":"Colossians (Program #14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Colossians (Program #14) &#8211; Struggling According To The Operation Of Christ<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Paul the apostle as he speaks of his great struggle in Colossians 2:1-2 &#8220;For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those in Laodicea, even all who have not seen my face in the flesh, That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ.&#8221;  After unveiling Christ as the great mystery of God hidden from ages, he confesses that his great struggle for the believers was that their hearts could be comforted and knitted together.  From something so high and spiritual to something so seemingly shallow and human as a care for the comfort of the believers.  This was the Apostle Paul.  Today we will consider these two bookends and how they related one to another.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Colossians (Program #14)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-12-27T06:20:58-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Colossians (Program #14) - Struggling According To The Operation Of Christ\r\n\r\nListen to Paul the apostle as he speaks of his great struggle in Colossians 2:1-2 &quot;For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those in Laodicea, eve...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Colossians\/Col_14.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"14.9\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6422\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Colossians\/Col_14.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6422','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Colossians\/Col_14.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Colossians\/Col_14.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=5407-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Colossians\/Col_14.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Col_14.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians (Program #14) &#8211; Struggling According To The Operation Of Christ Listen to Paul the apostle as he speaks of his great struggle in Colossians 2:1-2 &#8220;For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those in Laodicea, even all who have not seen my face in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3645,4],"tags":[1285,27,25,26,7823,3725,29,3986,3987,2935,3988,3989,7807,3985,1454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}