The Letter of Paul to the Colossians (Page 3)
The Divine Agent of Creation
Colossians 1:15-16 Well, you can open your Bibles to Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and we’re coming into what is the defining passage of Colossians, what Colossians is known for. It’s the most comprehensive and yet condensed teaching on Christology really in all the New Testament, which is Colossians 1:15 through 20. We’re just going to get into the first couple of verses for our exposition this morning, but I can tell you it’s going to be theologically deep, christologically…
God’s Will to Save Us
Colossians 1:12-14 Well, we are in the opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and I invite you to turn there. Open, there, in your Bibles as we consider just a few verses this morning along this same theme of redemption. Colossians 1:12 to 14 will be our text and that will prepare our hearts to celebrate the Lord’s table. The theme this morning is redemption, or we could say gratitude for our redemption, just as we heard in…
What a Worthy Walk Looks Like
Colossians 1:10-12 Well, as we turn to God’s Word this morning, you can open your Bibles to Colossians 1, which is Paul’s prayer report for the Colossians. So encouraging, strengthening, aspirational, and really, it’s worth reflecting on the power of giving prayer reports like Paul has done here. It’s a good, profitable, deeply encouraging thing, when more mature Christians tell less mature Christians that they are praying for them and how they are praying for them. Now, if some Christian…
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…