Episodes
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Putting Christ First: Rooted, Built & Established: Colossians 2:4-7
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Putting Christ First: Rooted, Built, & Established
Colossians 2:4-7
Paul’s Concern (v. 4-5)
- Paul’s reason for laying out his love and ministry for the Church is to fight against:
- False teachings
- Pithanologia: “arguments that sound reasonable”
- But are not rooted in the truth of Christ
- False allegations
- Against Paul as a minister of the Gospel
- Pithanologia: “arguments that sound reasonable”
- False teachings
The Keep Walking (v. 6-7)
- Since we have received Jesus as:
- Christ: Savior
- Lord: King
- We need to live out that reality
- We live this out by being:
- Rooted in Christ
- A horticultural metaphor
- Like a tree needs to be rooted deeply in the soil
- We need to be rooted deeply in the person of Jesus in order to grow
- Built up in Christ
- A construction metaphor
- Adding to the firm foundation that has been laid
- Both the foundation and what is built upon it is centered in Jesus Himself (1 Cor. 3:10-15)
- Established in the faith
- A legal metaphor
- Like an argument with solid reasoning
- Unlike the false teaching which merely sounds reasonable
- All these metaphors are passive
- Meaning that it is God who is doing the work in us
- Our faith is built upon the person of Jesus
- And since this all comes as a gift
- It should lead us to thanksgiving
- Rooted in Christ
So What?
- Who we are is based in what and who we believe
- Our lives need to be found and defined in Jesus
- Are we rooted, built up, and established in Him?
Meditation Verse: Colossians 2:6-7
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday Feb 06, 2017
Putting Christ First, The New Age. Colossians 1:21-23
Monday Feb 06, 2017
Monday Feb 06, 2017
Putting Christ First: Christ, The New Age
Colossians 1:21-23
Out with the Old (v. 21)
- Paul describes our state before Jesus
- Alienate from God: Our standing
- With our minds against God: Our thinking
- Practicing evil: Our actions
- Paul connects evil actions with a hubris on our thinking
- Presuming that we know better than God
Enter the New (v. 22-23)
- Through His sacrifice, Jesus ushered in a new age
- Marked by reconciliation
- In which we are declared:
- Holy: Set apart for God’s use
- Blameless: Like the Old Testament sacrifices
- Above reproach: Legally innocent
- Not by our own merits, but by Christ’s work
- This declaration has a future-focused undertone
- It is something started on the Cross
- And something that Christ is working out in us even now
- Thus, the call to continue in the truth of the Gospel
- So that, when we stand before His Father, we will have in it fullness (Phil. 1:6)
- The work of Jesus has ushered in the Messianic era
- Marked by holiness, righteousness, and truth
- But, we await the full culmination of this new age
- Which will take place when Christ returns
Putting the Pieces Together
- Because Jesus is lord of all (v. 15-20)
- We can have confidence that God’s rescue mission (v. 13-14) will be successful
- Ushering us into the Messianic Age (v. 21-23)
So What?
- Have you trusted in Jesus’ work of reconciliation?
- Having peace with God
- Are we letting Him transform us now?
- Preparing us for eternity with Him
Meditation Verse: Colossians 1:22
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