Tell Me Something Good: I’m Brimming Over: Colossians 2:9-15

 

In Christ…

1.  I Am Full

For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ, and you have been filled by him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
Colossians 2:9-10 (CSB)

2.  I Am New

You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.
Colossians 2:11 (CSB)

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 
Ezekiel 36:26 (CSB)

3.  I Am Alive

…when you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. 
Colossians 2:12-13 (CSB)

4.  I Am Free

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.
Colossians 2:14-15 (CSB)

5.  I Am Victorious

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.
Colossians 2:15 (CSB)

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Tell Me Something Good: Jesus Is My Treasure: Colossians 2:2-8

 

1.  Jesus Is The Source Of Every Spiritual Treasure

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of complete understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ. In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
Colossians 2:2-3 (CSB)

2.  Access Your Spiritual Treasure

So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him…
Colossians 2:6 (CSB)

3.  Guard Your Spiritual Treasure

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.
Colossians 2:8 (CSB)

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Tell Me Something Good: Good News When You’re Suffering: Colossians 1:24-29

When Christ is in me…

1) I CAN STAY JOYFUL WHEN I’M HURTING

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body, that is, the church.
Colossians 1:24 (CSB)

Three Reasons to Rejoice in Suffering

A. WHEN YOU SUFFER, JESUS SUFFERS. 

As he traveled and was nearing Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him. Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
Acts 9:3-4 (CSB)

B. WHEN YOU SUFFER THERE IS A PURPOSE

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to take my name to Gentiles, kings, and Israelites. 16 I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”
Acts 9:15-16 (CSB)

C. WHEN YOU SUFFER YOU MATURE SPIRITUALLY

…so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Colossians 1:28 (CSB)

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter 5:10 (CSB)

2) I CAN STAY PURPOSEFUL WHEN I’M STRUGGLING

I have become its minister, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known…
Colossians 1:25 (CSB)

The mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:26-27 (CSB)

We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Colossians 1:28 (CSB)

3) I CAN STAY STRONG WHEN I’M AGONIZING  

To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.
Colossians 1:29 (NIV)

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