15th Feb 2026 - VftY 4 ~ Delivered, Redeemed, Forgiven.

Entering into the kingdom of God's beloved son means entering a kingdom which is full of light in contrast to the darkness. It leaves you this wonderful place where you're free to have a really honest look at yourself, to see your own mistakes and your own character flaws, realizing they don't define ultimately who you are. The gospel is the only place really where you can admit your mistakes with the knowledge that behind you is the love of God. [00:23:16] (30 seconds)  #KingdomOfLight

Wonderfully, isn't it, that that Corrie ten Boom talks about the gospel being a place where your sins are cast into the sea of forgetfulness, and there's a sign up there saying no fishing. No pulling up. The devil wants to come and say, couldn't love you. Remember what you did. Jesus comes and says, I know what you did, and I love you. And the difference is profound. [00:24:26] (28 seconds)  #ForgivenAndLoved

And the wonderful reality is he will remove our sins and pay for them in full. He makes us right with God and clothes us in his righteousness. He makes us acceptable in his sight. And that's the great gospel message. That God loved us enough to do something to rescue us by refusing to compromise his own holiness and recognizing a need to deal with sin once and for all. [00:21:30] (30 seconds)  #RighteousnessThroughChrist

And from this place, like Epaphras, can we really keep this message to ourselves? Think of all the friends and the family that Epaphras could think of back in Colossae. Every day, as he was seeing the church in Ephesus grow, he's thinking, what about Colossae? And as Paul is pouring into him, as he joins Paul in his missionary work and is trained up, eventually comes to a place to say, I've gotta go back for the sake of Colossae. [00:26:31] (34 seconds)  #EpaphrasExample

Friends, it's not about having all the answers. It's about being able to say in your life the difference that Jesus has made to you. That might be the thing that we need to go home and really ask ourselves, in in what way has the Lord brought me from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, from sons and daughters of disobedience into the kingdom of his beloved son? What difference has Jesus made in your life? [00:27:10] (29 seconds)  #TellYourJesusStory

In what ways has God brought you from darkness to light? It's not about having every answer, but have an answer. And secondly to having an answer, it's being willing to move out your comfort zone in obedience to this command that Jesus gives. I'm excited for what God is doing here in Lossy Baptist Church, but I know that God isn't building this up for us to be more comfortable and secure. [00:28:42] (36 seconds)  #StepOutInFaith

Again and again, the New Testament shows, especially in places like Acts, but also this letter in Colossians, that the gospel spread and still spreads today by establishing healthy churches, and that those churches need to fight to remain healthy so that they can grow healthy churches themselves. They need to grow spiritually, numerically, and then send those healthy followers out just like they do with Epaphras. [00:13:28] (28 seconds)  #MultiplyHealthyChurches

How are we gonna become that kind of church? Because, ultimately, if you think about it, comfort and the gospel, going in mission, are gonna be two things that oppose each other. And we can pick one or we can pick the other, or we can try and hybrid one and hybrid the other. But one comes at the expense of the other. So how are we gonna do it? Well, I believe we will only do this by believing in the mission that Jesus set for us. [00:18:02] (37 seconds)  #ChooseMissionNotComfort