Key Thought: Paul’s mission involved the use of time and resources to reach major centres in Rome, write letters teaching people, establish churches, and train and ordain workers for Christ.
March 14, 2026

1. Have a volunteer read Colossians 4:10,11.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. Besides emissaries bringing news back and forth, what other ways did Paul encourage connectivity?
3. Personal Application: How can you work to lessen the things that cause disunity? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What are some tensions in the local level churches? What can be done about these tensions?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Colossians 4:12,13.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What purpose is described, and how is it to be accomplished?
3. Personal Application: “What does it mean to stand and be perfect and complete? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “What are ways that we as individuals and as a church are influenced by the world around us? How can we be protected from the influences of the world?” How would you respond to your relative?

3. Have a volunteer read Colossians 4:14,15; 2 Timothy 4:10,11.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How is Luke described differently than Demas and why?
3. Personal Application: What specific things might Jesus be asking you to repent of in your life? What help are you in need of most to gain the victory? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “What does it mean to watch and be ready for Jesus to return? How about our daily activities, work, recreation, eating, sleeping? Are we just to be aware of current events? Look for Jesus’ signs to be fulfilled? Keep an eye out for antichrist and the mark of the beast? Study the Bible daily and live accordingly?” How would you respond to your friend?

4. Have a volunteer read Colossians 2:1-3; Colossians 4:16-18.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What connections do you find between Colossians and Jesus’ message to Laodicea in Revelation?
3. Personal Application: What choices can you make (or do) to stay faithful to God and the truth that He has given us? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared. ”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/10-living-with-christ-teaching-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-living-with-christ-teaching-plan

Daily Lesson for Sunday 8th of March 2026

From a mountaintop, it is possible to survey a vast landscape that is all around you. From time immemorial, mountains have been frequented by those seeking a closer experience with God (see Psalms 121:1-2). Even human-made mountains, called ziggurats, have been constructed by pagans for a similar purpose—to meet with the gods. Interestingly, the city of Ur, which Abram was called to leave, had a very large ziggurat visible from miles around. But changing one’s elevation will never by itself draw anyone closer to heaven in a spiritual sense. Human effort never could.

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Instead, only through a miracle of grace, whereby we died with Christ and were raised with Him (figuratively pictured by baptism [Colossians 2:12-13]), is it possible to draw nearer to heaven.

Notice that from the beginning of Colossians 3:1-25, the repeated emphasis on what is above, that is, what there is in heaven: “those things which are above,” “where Christ is,” “things above,” “with Christ in God,” “with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:1-4, NKJV).

Admittedly, there is much in the Christian life that defies explanation. How can a person really “die” and “be raised” when, to all ap­pearances, he or she is the same person and has had no such life-and-death experience? There is much that does not make sense to the natural mind, uninfluenced by the Holy Spirit. But to those who are spiritually-minded, because they have received the new heart promised by God, death to sin and being raised with Christ are genuine realities. As the hymn affirms: “You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.”

Nevertheless, Paul gives these commands because there is a constant need for this spiritual life to be renewed (see 2 Corinthians 4:16). We can, indeed, fall away and be lost! And we are never safe from temptation in this life.

We must, therefore, choose daily to “seek those things which are above” (Colossians 3:1). Our eternal life is safely “hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3, NKJV), but the outward expression of that life will be anything but hidden.

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