complete in Christ Colossians 128 As recovering sinners the issue is WHAT or WHO we will worship not WHETHER we will worship Paul is writing to them to discipline their understanding and ultimate worship of Christ ID: 741674
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We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man
complete in Christ.
Colossians 1:28Slide3
As recovering sinners, the issue is WHAT or WHO we will worship, not WHETHER we will worship. Paul is writing to them to discipline* their understanding and ultimate worship of Christ.
*notice the same root as “
discipl
eship”Slide4
For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,
who is blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 1:25Slide5
The Preeminence of ChristSlide6
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Karl BarthSlide7
There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a study of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity.
Charles H. SpurgeonSlide8
Worship: Pray!Slide9
Worship: Proclaim! Slide10
Jesus Among Secular Gods
“Discover” Bible study for Men/Women; Mondays nights; Launch September 24 at 7:00 pm
Ruth
“Deeper” Bible study for Women; Friday mornings; Launch September 7 at 9:00 amSlide11
“As belief in the secular gods of atheism, hedonism, relativism, and humanism continues to grow, it’s more important than ever for believers to be able to defend and share the claims of Christ. Of course, this clash of worldviews is nothing new… Slide12
Throughout Paul’s writing in the New Testament are references to elemental forces that seek to separate believers from the love and truth of Jesus.”
Jesus Among Secular Gods
(Promotional Material)Slide13
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people,
and your God, my God”
…So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the land of Moab…
Ruth 1:16, 22Slide14
Worship: Persevere! Slide15
What does the “if” clause of Colossians 1:23 mean?Slide16
First class condition in Greek, indicating confidence and assumed true to reality
So the words in this sentence may be paraphrased: “At any rate if you stand firm in the faith—and I am sure that you will”…
P. T. O’Brien
Colossians, Philemon
; vol. 44
Word Biblical CommentarySlide17
We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man
complete in Christ.
Colossians 1:28Slide18
The presentation spoken of here is the key to unlocking this passage…Indeed, Paul mentions the same presentation again in the next paragraph in Col 1:28…Unless a
person realizes that there are two judgments, the Great White Throne Judgment for unbelieversSlide19
(Rev 20:11-15), and the Judgment Seat of Christ (Bema) for believers (2 Cor 5:10), he will be confused by passages such as this one that warn of a future judgment of believers.
Bob Wilkin
“Is Perseverance Required for Holy Presentation? Colossians 1:21-23”Slide20
If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
Luke 14:26