Clifton Church of Christ Sermons

In our last sermon on Colossians, we discuss Paul's final instructions to the church and his final greetings to the community of believers.

Paul wants you to put your old life to death and out on your new life. He applies this to the most central and fundamental part of our lives: our family.

Part of our new life in Christ means taking off our old life and putting on the new one. Here Paul uses the imagery of taking off and putting on clothes.

Life comes with lots of philosophies, and the Colossians are being taught a new philosophy. But Paul is encouraging that there is no secret philosophy, but only the wisdom that comes from knowing and living Christ. So set your hearts on him.

It's finally time to see the tensions the church in Colossae was facing. While they may seem irrelevant to us, I believe we can see we still face these challenges today. For Paul, the solution is simple. We have all we need in Jesus Christ.

There comes a point when you have all the training you need and it's time to go live Christ out in your life. This is what Colossians 2:6-7 is about.

Colossians 1:24-29. Paul prays that the Colossians will know Christ, and we can see in his life that knowing wisdom is a lifelong task.

One of the most famous Christ hymns of all time. "They live and or die according to the king that holds them and the kingdom to which they belong." - Arthur McGill

Colossians 1:9-14 is Paul's prayer for the Colossian believers, and a pattern we can follow in our own prayer life.

We begin our new series on Colossians by looking at Colossians 1:1-8.