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The Model of Paul’s Ministry
Colossians 1:24-29 Well, we return to Colossians this morning, and I invite you to turn in your Bibles to Colossians 1:24. Colossians 1:24 starts this amazing section on Christ’s gift of Paul as the apostle to the Gentiles. And that makes Paul our apostle. And as our apostle, he has a lot to teach us about having joy in Christ even amidst trials and suffering. A lot to teach us about how to live a faithful life for God’s glory…
Filling Up Christ’s Afflictions
Colossians 1:24 Well, we return to our study of Colossians and come to a, a deeply encouraging portion of the letter and the ministry of the Apostle Paul. You can turn in your Bibles to Colossians 1 verse 24 and we will read the section that we’re going to be in for a next couple of weeks. After opening this letter with thanksgiving and prayer, Paul sets forth to put Christ to the Colossians, to set him forth before the…
Every Christian’s Testimony
Colossians 1:21-23 Please turn in your Bibles to Colossians chapter 1 as we come to verses 21 to 23, which is a text that really tells every Christian’s origin story. And also, this text predicts every Christian’s happy ending. So we might call this every Christian’s testimony. This is every Christian’s testimony, Colossians 1, verses 21 to 23. We have been in the classroom the last few weeks with the Apostle Paul learning in Paul’s three-week course on Christology in…
All Things Reconciled
Colossians 1:19-20 Well, turn to Colossians 1 in your Bibles, and we are studying the doctrine of Christ from Colossians 1:15-20 as Paul is portraying Christ in his unparalleled and universal supremacy. And as we are going to be looking today at the final two verses of this high and magnificent Christology, we need to stop at this point and ask why is Paul saying all of this about Christ? What’s the point? Paul has a point, an important point…
The Pinnacle of Christ’s Supremacy
Colossians 1:17-18 Well, you can open your Bibles to Colossians chapter 1, as it is our great privilege and joy to study in Colossians 1:15-20, this crystal clear teaching on the true nature of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Before we look at our text, I want to pose a question to you, give you something to think about as we consider the verses that we’re going to look at today. And here’s the question: What narrative has the…
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…
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…
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