Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

 Good morning. And so how can He present us holy and blameless beyond reproach? By us continuing in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister. It is not an automatic thing that we will be presented holy and blameless and beyond reproach. Too many people start the race but do not finish it. It's like the seed that the sower sowed. The pressures of the world and the deceitfulness of riches turn peoples' hearts away from the Gospel. Paul then says he was made a minister to preach the word of God to tell the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations; but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory. It was right there in the Bible that we Gentiles were also to come into to the kingdom of God; but they couldn't see it. Those that did see it were ridiculed and ostracized. In the book of Acts even Peter was criticized for going to the Gentiles. It took a divine act of the Holy Spirit to convince them otherwise. Paul's desire for all: that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. All these treasures are in Christ, and He is in us. Even after becoming believers some Christians still keep searching for that special knowledge (remember the Gnostics). All the wisdom and knowledge that they need is within them – Christ Jesus! Father thank You that the reader is filled with the wisdom and knowledge of Christ. He/she has all he/she needs within him/her. He/she is more than a conqueror.