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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Tell Me Something Good: Jesus Blows My Mind Part 2: Colossians 1:18-23

 

 

Jesus is my…

1) Liberator – He sets me free
2) Reflector – He helps me see the heart of God
3) Creator – He made me with purpose
4) Sustainer – He holds me together

Jesus is my…

5) Leader – He guides me

He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
Colossians 1:18 (CSB)

6) Filler – He fills me

For God was pleased [to have] all His fullness dwell in Him…
Colossians 1:19 (CSB)

For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 1:20 (CSB)

7) Reconciler – He reconnects me

…and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Colossians 1:20 (CSB)

So What…

But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
Colossians 1:23 (NLT)

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Tell Me Something Good: Grateful & Prayerful: Colossians 1:14-17

 

Christ is my…

1. Liberator – He sets me free. 

In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:14 (CSB)

2. Reflector – He helps me see the heart of God. 

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:15 (CSB)

3. Creator – He designed me for a specific purpose.

…the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:15 (CSB)

For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him.
Colossians 1:16 (CSB)

4. Sustainer – He holds me together. 

He is before all things, and by him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17 (CSB)

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Tell Me Something Good: Thankful & Prayerful: Colossians 1:1-14

 

Three Gratitude Goals

1.   I Should Be Grateful Beyond My Circumstances

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints 5 because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. 
Colossians 1:3-5 (CSB)

2. I Should Be Grateful for the Growth of the Gospel

You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospel 6 that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s grace.
Colossians 1:5-6 (CSB)

3. I Should be grateful for Godly leadership

You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 1:7-8 (CSB)

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
Colossians 1:9 (CSB)

Eight Aspirations of Spiritual Knowledge

1) Live a Worthy Life

…so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God…
Colossians 1:10 (CSB)

2) Please the Lord

…so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God…
Colossians 1:10 (CSB)

3) Bear Fruit

…so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God…
Colossians 1:10 (CSB)

4) Grow in Knowledge

…so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God…
Colossians 1:10 (CSB)

5) Surge in Strength

…being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully.
Colossians 1:11 (CSB)

6) Develop Endurance

…being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully.
Colossians 1:11 (CSB)

7) Increase in Patience

…being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully.
Colossians 1:11 (CSB)

8) Give Thanks

…being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[a] to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. 
Colossians 1:11-12 (CSB)

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Rise Up: Get Crispy: Acts 18:8

 

1. WHO SHOULD BE BAPTIZED?

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
Acts 18:8 (CSB)

2. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF BAPTISM?

For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.
Colossians 2:12 (NLT)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

3. WHEN SHOULD I BE BAPTIZED

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
Acts 18:8 (CSB)

4. WHERE SHOULD I BE BAPTIZED?

Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all.
Acts 2:41 (NLT)

5. HOW SHOULD I BE BAPTIZED?

After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water…
Matthew 3:16 (NLT)

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