The Ultimate Supremacy:

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The Ultimate Supremacy The Supremacy of Christ
and the Company We Keep Colossians 47 - 18
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The company we keep will have a tremendous impact
on what God wants to accomplish in our lives.
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Friends we can trust
Tychicus (7), Onesimus (9)
- Colossians 47 - 9
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Friends we can trust
Their trustworthiness pointed to the supremacy of
Christ in their lives.
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Friends who rise up out of conflict
Aristarchus
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Friends who rise up out of conflict
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is
born for adversity.
- Prov. 1717
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Friends who rise up out of conflict
Mark
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Friends who rise up out of conflict
As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the
countenance of his friend.
- Prov. 2717 NKJV
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Friends who rise up out of conflict
Justus
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Friends who rise up out of conflict
Their positive response to conflict and the unity
they possessed despite their diverse backgrounds
pointed to the supremacy of Christ in their lives.
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Friends who know us and pray for us
Epaphras
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Friends who know us and pray for us

• How did he pray?

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Friends who know us and pray for us

• How did he pray?
• Regularly- always

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Friends who know us and pray for us

• How did he pray?
• Regularly- always
• Passionately- struggling

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Friends who know us and pray for us

• How did he pray?
• Regularly- always
• Passionately- struggling
• For specific people- on your behalf

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Friends who know us and pray for us

• How did he pray?
• Regularly- always
• Passionately- struggling
• For specific people- on your behalf
• For a specific purpose- that you may stand
  mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
  

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Friends who know us and pray for us
The way he prayed pointed to the supremacy of
Christ in his
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Friends who are faithful to the end
Luke (14a)
- Colossians 414
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Friends who are faithful to the end
Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with
you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry.
- 2 Tim. 411
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A Friend of the world
Demas (14b)
- Colossians 414
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A Friend of the world
Demas, in love with this present world has
deserted me and gone to Thessalonica.
- 2 Timothy 410 - 11
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A Friend of the world
Do not love the world or the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.
- 1 John 215
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A Friend of the world
You adulterous people! Do you not know that
friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the
world (makes himself) an enemy of God.
- James 43 - 4
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A Friend that is warm and gracious
Nympha (15)
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Friends that finish well
Archippus (17)
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Friends that finish well
Fulfill the ministry that you have received in
the Lord.
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Friends that finish well
A friend who is passionate about fulfilling the
ministry God has given them is a friend who
points to the supremacy of Christ
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Friends that finish well
Greater love has no one than this, that someone
lay down his life for his friends. You are my
friends if you do what I command you. No longer
do I call you servants, for the servant does not
know what his master is doing but I have called
you friends, for all that I have heard from my
Father I have made known to you.
- John 1513 - 15