Sermon Text: Colossians 3:22-4:1
Sermon Title: “Work as Witness”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: Since Jesus has Risen from the Dead, Our Work Must Also Rise with Him… Even if Our Circumstances Haven’t.
SLIDE 2 – Genesis 3:17-19 – “And to Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you … By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground …”SLIDE 3 – Romans 8:20-21 – “For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.”
SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 1 – Our Work in a Fallen World … Has Been Redeemed by the Risen Lord (Col. 3:22 and 4:1)SLIDE 5 – Galatians 3:28 – “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”SLIDE 6 – 2 Corinthians 4:5 – “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants [slaves] for Jesus' sake.”SLIDE 7 – 1 Corinthians 9:19 – “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.”SLIDE 8 – 1 Corinthians 7:22 – “For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.”
SLIDE 9 – Sermon Point 2 – Our Work in a Fallen World … Should be Motivated by the Risen Lord (Col. 3:23-25)SLIDE 10 – Galatians 1:10 – “For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.”SLIDE 11 – 2 Peter 1:10-11 – “Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”SLIDE 12 – Luke 16:10-12 – “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much … If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?”SLIDE 13 – 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 – “According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.”
SLIDE 14 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 15 – Employees: Our Danger is to Underperform and Fail to See Past our Earthly Bosses.SLIDE 16 – Bosses: Our Danger is to Overcorrect and Fail to See Past our Earthly Employees.SLIDE 17 – The Key to our Work is Not Earthly Success, but Godly Faithfulness.SLIDE 18 – Christians: The World is Watching our Work. Who is it Witnessing to?SLIDE 19 – Amid Work Injustice – God is Calling us to both Pursue Flourishing and Endure Persecution.SLIDE 20 – 1 Corinthians 7:21 – “Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)”SLIDE 21 – Romans 12:21 – “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
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