Today’s Sermon Notes: 7-21-2024
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“The Supreme Life”
A Sermon Series in Colossians
“Jesus is Lord”
Colossians 2:6-15
Introduction
Prayer
How Does the Christian “Walk in Him?” (vv. 6-7)
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
- rooted
- built up
- established
- thankful
How Does the Christian Avoid Being “Taken Captive?” (vv. 8-15)
Cling to the Word of God – It Is Complete (v. 8)
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Colossians 1:13, “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son”
Mark 7:8-13 “You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
Cling to Jesus – He is Sufficient (vv. 9-15)
9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses[9] and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Romans 5:17 “For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.”
Hebrews 2:14 “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.”
Don’t Return to the Losing Side.
Romans 8:37-39, “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army
[2] Ephesians 3:11-12 “This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.”
[3] J.B. Lightfoot, St Paul’s Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon (Lynn, Massachusetts; Hendrickson Publishers, 1982) 176.
[4] Douglas J. Moo, The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (Grand Rapids, Michigan; William B. Eermans Publishing Company, 2008) 179.
[5] Moo, 183.
[6] Lightfoot, 177.
[7] Moo, 192.
[8] John MacArthur, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Colossians and Philemon (Chicago, Illinois; Moody Publishing, 1992) 102.
[9] See sermon on “dead in your trespasses and sin.” https://drewboswell.com/sola-gratia-grace-alone-ephesians-21-10/
[10] MacArthur, 7.
[11] Joshua W. Jipp, The Messianic Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan; William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020) 253.
[12] https://www.preceptaustin.org/colossians_illustrations_2
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