Nelsonville Assembly

In Week 1 of the Advent 2020 Season, Pastor Isaiah begins a new series focused the Kingdom of God and the reign of the True King - Jesus Christ - who came to save His people and establish His Kingdom in all the earth!

In the final week of our series in Colossians, Pastor Isaiah encourages us from his office to be thankful and focused upon the gift of being part of the Family of Grace - God's people who have experienced and been changed by His love and grace to us!

As we draw near the end of our study in Colossians, we are challenged to be "making the best use of our time" in our lives. This means being people who are constantly living wisely by focusing upon the Gospel and preparing ourselves to share the Good News with all who God has placed around us in our lives.

"You are serving the Lord Christ." Pastor Isaiah unpacks how these words spoken to a Christian should radically transform how we understand our work in this life, no matter what that is, because we know that God is sovereign over all and all that we do is intended to glorify and honor Him.

As we get closer to the end of this series in Colossians, God continues to give us practical commands for living that push back against our sinful natures to help us reflect Him well in our world. Submission, love, obedience, and intentional discipleship are not tasks that we do well on our own but by His power at work in us God's people do live radically different lives as we follow Him!

God has providentially called and placed each person in the specific time and location that they live. For the Christian, this realization should lead to thankfulness for the local body of believers that surround us to help push us closer to Christ and His Word through teaching, admonition and worship through song... and encourage us to shape our lives by the things that stir our affections for Christ so that we can do everything to the glory of God!

In this message, Pastor Isaiah unpacks the list of things a believer should "come to life in" as we are sanctified. From Colossians 3:12-14, we see a list of things that should mark every one of us who strive to be like Christ, because He Himself is the perfect embodiment of each of this things!

Pastor Isaiah discusses the reason why Mortification and Vivification are important concepts for the Christian to pursue in our daily lives. Unpacking the implications of taking off the old self and putting on the new self, we are challenged to respond to God by asking Him for deeper affections to help us truly grow in our sanctification as He desires for us.

Pastor Isaiah walks through Colossians 3:5-9 to discuss the importance of understanding the seriousness of sin and the responsibility of Christians to be at war with our sin. Following the example of the Puritans, understanding the call to work at the Mortification of Sin in our lives as a response to the Gospel is crucial to maturing and growing as the Lord desires for us.

The implications of being a Christian are vast. The saving work of God in His people to qualify, deliver, redeem, reconcile, forgive, and bring from spiritual death to life demand a response. Pastor Isaiah talks about how knowing all of these things will produce change and transformation as a Christian learns to set his or her mind upon Christ, who is our life!