First Tuesday November 2026 | Why I Need a Ministry
Colossians 4:17
📖 Colossians 4:17 ESV And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”
Every believer is for .
📖 Romans 12:4–8 ESV For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them…
📖 1 Peter 4:10 ESV As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace…
1. Ministry puts on God’s .
📖 Philemon 1–2 ESV Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
📖 Hebrews 6:10 ESV For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
📖 Colossians 3:23–24 ESV Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
2. Ministry me to .
📖 Colossians 4:17 ESV “Say to Archippus.”
📖 Matthew 4:18–19 ESV While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Being = .
📖 1 Corinthians 12:21 ESV The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
3. Ministry me to .
📖 Colossians 4:17 ESV “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”
4. Ministry me on the .
📖 Colossians 4:17 ESV “fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”
📖 2 Corinthians 3:5–6 ESV Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
📖 Luke 24:48–49 ESV You are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Sermon in a sentence:
When I’m involved in , I’m on God’s , to His , and by His Spirit.
