Teaching on Colossians (Page 3)

Teaching on Colossians (Page 3)

To articulate the supremacy and sufficiency of Christ in response to Epaphras’ report that false teachers were attempting to dilute the gospel of Christ with Greek philosophy, Jewish legalism, pagan superstitions, and other pre-Gnostic trends.

Five Steps to Walk Worthy

Colossians 1:9-10 All right, open your Bibles to Colossians. We’ve started into a study of this short little letter, but make no mistake, though it’s short, it punches far above its weight and delivers to the church of all the ages the first of several New Testament treatises on the supremacy of Christ. The, the other two treatises that deal with this same subject, on the supremacy of Christ, Hebrews, but also John’s Gospel, both Hebrews and John’s Gospel are…

Why We Give Thanks

Colossians 1:3-8 It is a good spirit of gratitude and thanksgiving that we find in our text this morning. Turn in your Bibles to Colossians chapter 1, as we start to make our way through this short epistle, just start making some progress into it. We’re at the very beginning of the letter, just past the greetings and the salutations in verses 1 and 2. We’re entering into a section of thanksgiving that begins the long introductory section that goes…

For Staying Stable and Steadfast

Colossians 1:1-2 We have an opportunity this morning to do something we don’t often get to do, which is to start a brand new study in the book of the Bible. So open your Bibles to the letter of Paul to the Colossians. Any introduction to a literary work, especially a book of the Bible, will involve several elements; talk about the title, Colossians; name for the people to whom Paul wrote; the date of the writing; the author, it’s…

Session 5: The Cross Marks the Minister

Colossians 1:24-2:7 Let’s take a moment and open in a word of prayer this morning. Our Father, we thank you for your holiness, and we thank you for this great gospel, that we have heard the proclamation of so faithfully through this weekend. We thank you for the gospel that saves us. We thank you for the Christ whom you sent to redeem us from our sins, to satisfy the demands of your perfect justice. It is death on the…

On Heavenly Mindedness

Colossians 3:1-4  Turn in your bibles to Colossians chapter 3, Colossians 3. I’d like to take you, you to a text that’s really been on my heart lately. One that I have found particularly helpful throughout my Christian life. And it’s a message that I think we all need to hear this morning. It’s found in Colossians 3:1-4. This is Paul’s exhortation to heavenly mindedness.  Back in April, Gary Brotherton preached a message out of Colossians and went through some…

The Fullness of God in Him

Colossians 1:15-20 The Bible clearly represents the birth of Jesus Christ as a momentous event, one of unparalleled importance of cosmic even significance as we see the angels break through the heavens. So important was the birth of this baby that on the night that he was born an angelic host opened up the sky in the night. They violated the barrier that separates the immaterial world from the material world. They shone glory down upon a group of lowly…

Dealing with Sin in the Body

Colossians 3:5 As we come to our time in God’s Word this morning, obviously, we’re mindful of the communion table prepared before us. The Lord’s table is a very good way, I think, to end the calendar year 2014. We celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior this last Sunday in anticipation of Christmas, and then this Sunday we want to remind ourselves that the Lord didn’t come to just live, but to die, and to die for our…