Colossians

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Words are powerful.
2. Words can make you laugh, or make you cry.
3. Words can motivate, or they can discourage.
4. Corporations spend millions of dollars each year looking for that memorable slogan, that catchy phrase, to brand their companies and sell their products.

ILLUS – Seven Famous Slogans

5. During tonight’s study, we are going to focus on seven words from the Bible which are better than any corporate slogan.
6. These seven words:
a. Reveal God’s eternal roadmap for our lives and
b. Reveal God’s desire for each of us to experience the fullness of Christ every moment of every day.
7. The truth of these seven words is so profound, that I believe our lives can be radically changed when we begin to explore and comprehend the depths of their meaning. They are truly “Seven Life-Changing Words.”

Transition – It is my prayer, that as we study these seven life-changing words, our hearts will be stirred to want more of Jesus because, as we will see, Jesus is all we need.

Colossians 1:24-29

Context
1. When the Apostle Paul wrote this letter to the church in Colossae he was in prison because of his faith in Christ and his proclamation of the Gospel to the Gentiles.
2. Paul never met the Christians in Colossae, but he had heard that they were under attack for their faith.
3. So, Paul sought to encourage them to stay the course and finish the race set before them; to stand strong in their faith, empowered by the Holy Spirit, doing all for the glory of God.

Transition – Without wasting time, Paul got to the heart of the matter in verse 27.
• Seven powerful words, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
• What is the significance of these seven words?

I. Christ is in You (27a)

• In Paul’s greeting to the church, he called them “the saints and faithful brethren in Christ.” (2)
• This is an important point. Christians are in Christ and Christ is in Christians.
• What does this mean?
• First, we must understand God’s heart and will behind these words, “Christ in you.”

A. Christ wants you, each of you
1. In Christ, God’s mystery was unveiled, “the mystery which had been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints.” (26)
2. What mystery has God revealed through Jesus Christ?
a. Jews are reconciled to God through Jesus.
b. Gentiles are also reconciled to God through Jesus.
c. Jews and Gentiles are one body, on equal footing, before God through Jesus Christ.

ILLUS – Sharing with the pastors in Mwanza, Tanzania that Christ has broken “down the dividing wall.”

Galatians 3:28, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave or free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

APPL – Oh how our lives will radically change when we realize how much God loves us and wants to heal our brokenness. It will give us strength for our todays and a great hope for our tomorrows.

B. Christ wants you, all of you
1. Through His death on the cross, Jesus paid the price to rescue us out of slavery to sin and the fate of eternal judgment so that we might become daughters and sons in God’s family.

Colossians 1:13-14, For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

2. How does Jesus’ death do all of this for us?

The moment we place our faith in Jesus and confess Him as our Savior:
a. Our sin is forgiven,
b. We are adopted into God’s family,
c. And through the Holy Spirit, Christ dwells in us and is changing us to make us look more like Jesus.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

What does it mean that Christians are a temple of the Holy Spirit?

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