Teaching on Colossians

Teaching on Colossians

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.

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…