We Are Different Part 2

Colossians 3:5-11

How do we embrace our new life in Christ?

1. Put off obvious sins

• Colossians 3:5

• Hebrews 13:4

• Colossians 3:6

• Colossians 3:7

2. Put off acceptable sins

• Colossians 3:8-9

• Ephesians 34:29-32

• Colossians 3:9

• Ephesians 4:25

• John 8:44

• Proverbs 6:16-19

3. Make no excuses for sin.

• Colossians 3:2-4

• John 10:10

• Colossians 3:2-4

• Ephesians 6:12

  
  

How do we embrace our New Life in Christ?

Application:

1.  Evaluate your New Life in Christ

2.  Repent and Follow the Lord 

We Are Different

Colossians 3:1-4

How do we embrace our new life in Christ?

1. Be born again

• Colossians 3:1

• John 3:3

• Ephesians 2:1-5

• John 9:39

2. Seek Him

• Colossians 3:1

• Matthew 6:33

• 1 John 4:7-21

3. Set our minds on Him

• Colossians 3:2-4

• John 10:10

• Colossians 3:2-4

• Ephesians 6:12

  
  

Application

Is Christ your life?

• Colossians 3:4

• Galatians 2:20

• Philippians 1:21

Why Should I Get Baptized?

1. It is a fruit of your salvation.

• Acts 2:41

• Acts 8:12

2. It is commanded by Jesus.

• Matthew 28:19-20

3. It unites all Christ followers as a body.

• 1 Corinthians 12:12-13

Introduction

Colossians 2:16-23

Where we've been so far in Chapter Two:

• Christ possesses all wisdom (2:3).

• Christ possesses all fullness of Deity (2:9).

• Believers have been filled in Him (2:10).

• Believers died with Him (2:12).

• Believers were raised with Him (2:12).

• Believers were forgiven in Him (2:13).

• Believers triumphed in Him (2:15).

  
  

Hold fast to Jesus!

1. What were the false teachers holding fast to?

• Observing the ceremonial laws (food, drink, festivals, Sabbath)

  • Colossians 2:16

• Religious asceticism ("don't touch", severe treatment of the body)

  • Colossians 2:18

  • Colossians 2:23

• Personal "spiritual" experiences (worshiping angels, visions)

  • Colossians 2:18

2. How were these people impacting the believers?

• Judging those who weren't observing their practices

  • Colossians 2:16

  • Judge (Krino [kree'-know) - judge, condemn, call into question

• Robbing the believers from delighting in Christ

  • Colossians 2:18-19

  • Condemn, defraud : katabrabeuō  (kat-ab-rab-yoo'-o) - to decide as an umpire against someone, to defraud (rob) of the prize of victory.

• Regulating the believers with human decrees

  • Colossians 2:20-22

3. What did Paul want his readers to hold fast to?

• The Head, Christ!

4. Why hold fast to Christ?

• Christ is the reality of the shadows

  • Colossians 2:17

  • Why hold fast to shadows when you can hold fast to the person, Jesus Christ!?

• Christ nourishes the believer with what they need to grow

  • Colossians 2:19

• Only Christ is able to save us from selfish, fleshly-indulgence (the flesh)

  • Colossians 2:23

  • Coplossians 2:11

  • Romans 8:12-13

  • Galatians 5:16

    
    

Application

• What am I holding onto that is keeping me from holding fast to Christ?

  • Psalm 32:3-5

  • Psalm 32:1-2

• Has something that was supposed to help me follow Jesus quietly become the thing I am trusting instead of Jesus?

What do we need to be aware of?

Colossians 2:8-15

Introduction

• Romans 8:1-2

• John 8:36

• Galatians 5:1

• Matthew 7:15-17

• Colossians 2:8

  
  

We need to be aware of...

1. The characteristics of secular wisdom.

• Colossians 2:8

• 1 Corinthians 1:20-23

• Colossians 2:8

• Mark 7:8-9

• 2 Timothy 3:16-17

2. The sufficiency we have in Christ.

• Colossians 2:9-15

• 1 John 4:1-3

  
  

Application

• Galatians 2:20

• Romans 8:1

• Galatians 2:21

Introduction

• Matthew 28:19

• Colossians 1:28-29

  
  

Paul's Heart for People...

1. He has concern.

• Colossians 2:1

• Colossians 1:9

• Philippians 3:18

• 2 Corinthians 11:28

2. He wants to encourage.

• Colossians 2:1-2

• Philippians 4:4

• Philippians 4:11-13

3. He charges them to love.

• Colossians 2:1-2

• John 13:34-35

4. He challenges them to grow.

• Colossians 2:2-7

• 2 Peter 3:18

• Philippians 3:10

• Colossians 2:2-7

  
  

Application

Do you have a heart for people like Paul?

Who are you discipling?

The Apostle Andrew

Special speaker Louis O'Tool

• John 1:40-42

• John 6:8-9

• John 12:22-24

Introduction

• Colossians 1:24-29

Paul's Commission

1. To Preach Christ (1:25-27)

   1. Colossians 1:26-27

   2. Galatians 1:15-16

   3. Philippians 3:5-8

   4. Colossians 1:25-26

   5. "The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed." - St. Augustine

   6. Colossians 1:27

   7. Ephesians 3:4-6

2. To evangelize the lost and mature the saints (1:28)

   1. Colossians 1:28

3. To be a living sacrifice and suffer well (1:24, 29)

   1. Colossians 1:24

   2. Philippians 2:29-30

   3. Matthew 10🕙

   4. "I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might also lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable... Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister's library." - Charles Spurgeon

   5. Colossians 1:29

Application

A Christian's Commission

1. To Preach Christ

   1. Matthew 28:19-20

2. Mature the saints closest to you

   1. Ephesians 5:25

   2. Ephesians 5:26

3. To be a living sacrifice and suffer well for the local church

   1. Romans 12:1

Introduction

• Colossians 1:18-23

• "Few would deny the importance of Jesus.  They would simply dethrone Him.  They would give Him prominence but not preeminence."  - Warren Wiersbe

• Acts 5:41–42

• 2 Peter 3:18

  
  

Why Should Jesus Be First in our Lives?

1. He Reveals God to Us v.15a

2. He is Creator over All  v.15b-17

3. He is the Head of the Church v.18-19

   1. Colossians 1:18–19

   2. Ephesians 1:20–23

   3. John 14:16–17

   4. Acts 1:5

   5. Ephesians 1:13

   6. Matthew 16:16–18a

   7. Ephesians 4:4–6

   8. John 10:11

   9. Colossians 1:18–19

   10. Colossians 2:9–10

   11. Colossians 1:18–19

4. He is the Lord Period. v.20-23

   1. Colossians 1:20–23

   2. Ephesians 2:12

   3. Colossians 1:20–23

   4. 1 John 4:2

   5. Hebrews 2:17

   6. Colossians 1:20–23

   7. 1 John 2:1

   8. Colossians 1:20–23

Application:

1. Trust Him (He Reveals God to us, He is Creator, He is Head of church, He is Lord)

   1. Matthew 4:19

   2. Luke 14:27

2. Follow Him (What He says and does) 

   1. Galatians 5:19–21

   2. "Few would deny the importance of Jesus.  They would simply dethrone Him.  They would give Him prominence but not preeminence." - Warren Wiersbe

Colossians 1:15-17

Introduction

• Matthew 16:13–17

• 2 Peter 3:18

• Philippians 2:10–11

• Colossians 1:18

  
  

Why Should Jesus Be First in our Lives?

1. He Reveals God to Us v.15a

   1. Colossians 1:15

   2. 1 Kings 8:27

   3. Hebrews 11:27

   4. Colossians 1:15

   5. Hebrews 1:3

   6. John 14:9

   7. John 1:18

2. He is Creator over All  v.15b-17

   1. Colossians 1:15

   2. John 1:3

   3. Psalm 89:27

   4. Colossians 1:16

   5. Colossians 1:17

      
      

Application:

Trust Him (He is God,  He Creator of all things) 

• Proverbs 3:5–6

• Romans 8:29

• Colossians 1:14

• Malachi 1:6