Chris Regh - Colossians 2:8

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by Pastor Chris Regh

2 Reasons for Christ's Preeminence in Everything:

Current title: THE BEGINNING, FIRSTBORN OF THE DEAD

Future event: PREEMINENT, FIRST PLACE IN ALL THINGS

1. The reconciliation of EVERYTHING (1:19-20)

a) Full deity in the Son

b) Full reconciliation of everything

RECONCILIATION: God, at great personal cost, will gather the universe to Christ to make right the wrong.

by Pastor Chris Regh

8 Marks of Christ's Supremacy Over All Creation:

1. Jesus is fully God & MAN (v15)

2. Jesus' superiority to ALL CREATION (v15)

3. HIS DESIRE & HIS WILL motivated Jesus to create (v16)

4. Jesus created ALL THINGS (v16)

5. Creation's PURPOSE is Jesus (v17)

6. Jesus does not have a BEGINNING (v17)

7. Jesus holds the whole WORLDS in His hands (v17)

8. Jesus is the HEAD of the church (v18)

by Pastor Chris Regh

Three Beliefs that Direct Student Ministry's D-Groups:

1. Man's Sin

a) Total depravity (Rom 3:10-13)

b) Total inability (1 Cor 2:12-14)

c) Mixed condition (Rom 12:2)

2. God's Sovereignty

a) In an unbeliever's salvation (Rom 10:17; Col 1:13)

b) In a believer's sanctification (Phil 2:13)

3. God's Provisions

a) The Holy Spirit

i) Conviction of sin (Jn 16:9)

ii) Illuminator of Scriptures (1 Cor 2:11-12)

b) the Bible

i) Wholeness that transforms the soul (Ps 19:7a)

ii) Reliability that causes wisdom (Ps 19:7b)

iii) Uprightness that brings joy (Ps 19:8a)

iv) Clarity that illumines understanding (Ps 19:8b)

v) Purity that endures forever (Ps 19:9a)

vi) Truth that stands upright (Ps 19:9b)

c) The Church (Acts 20:28; 1 Tim 3:15)

by Pastor Chris Regh

by Pastor John Anderson