Sermon Text: Colossians 2:6-15
Sermon Title: “Banging the Drum for Discipleship”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: To Mature as a Church and to Grow Up in Discipleship, We Must Remove Idols, and Put Jesus in Front.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Banging the Drum … Putting Jesus in Front (Col. 2:6-7)SLIDE 3 – Romans 5:6-8 – “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 2 – How Do We Mature? … By Removing Our Idols (Col. 2:8)SLIDE 5 – Judges 18:30 – “And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.”SLIDE 6 – Deuteronomy 28:36-37 – “The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.”SLIDE 7 – Matthew 15:6, 9 – “For the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God … in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”SLIDE 8 – Romans 1:21, 23 – “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened … [they] exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”
SLIDE 9 – Sermon Point 3 – How Do We Mature? … By Keeping Jesus in Front (Col. 2:9-15)SLIDE 10 – Colossians 1:19 – “For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.”SLIDE 11 – Matthew 3:16-17 – “And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for LifeSLIDE 13 – Don’t Be Captured by Idolatry, Be Captivated by Christ.SLIDE 14 – If Idols are Capturing You, Get Help Before You’re Led Into Captivity.SLIDE 15 – Discipleship is the Great Omission in the Great Commission.
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