Sunday Notes: Colossians 1:12-14
- (Col 1:12 ESV) giving ____________ to the Father, who has ____________ you to share in the ____________ of the saints in light.
- It might take some practice daily to recognize God’s provision.
- Take a breath –
- Thank God for that ____________ – and all the systems in the world that allow you to take another breath and another.
- We live in fragile ____________ in a delicate world
- All sustained by the hand of a gracious ____________
- Take a breath –
- Prayer can all too often take a ____________ attitude
- God gimme this, do that
- Like Cinderella’s ____________-____________
- We can easily twist the relationship and treat God like our ____________ – which He is not
- Giving thanks turns that around
- Instead of a me first attitude it is a me ____________
- When we really boil it down this whole thing is a work of God – Top to bottom – Beginning to end
- It was God ____________ in ____________
- Even in our salvation, it is God who ____________ us
- Qualified you for what?
- To share in the ____________
- Qualified – To make ____________ for a job
- 2 Corinthians 3:5-6
- MacArthur: Light represents two things Biblically. Intellectually, it represents ____________. Morally it represents ____________.
- Truth
- Fixed
- ____________
- Unwavering
- Purity
- Pure
- ____________
- Without Defilement
- Truth
- As people who live in the light of Christ
- We should shine ____________
- We should shine ____________
- We should reflect the ____________ of God in all that we do
- 1 John 3:1-2
- Qualified you for what?
- It might take some practice daily to recognize God’s provision.
- (Col 1:13 ESV) He has ____________ us from the domain of darkness and ____________ us to the kingdom of his ____________ Son,
- He has delivered us from the domain of darkness
- We don’t like this idea: Every single person on the earth is in one of ____________ camps
- The light
- The ____________
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- We are either children of God
- Or we are children of the Devil
- Ephesians 5:6-11
- Delivered – Rhyomai
- To draw to one’s self, To deliver, To ____________
- This is not Fedex delivering what you ordered
- It is not Santa Claus bringing the toy you asked for.
- This is to be stranded, hopelessly ____________
- And someone coming along to pull you out.
- You are destitute and ____________ to save yourself
- Thus you must have a Savior.
- To draw to one’s self, To deliver, To ____________
- We don’t like this idea: Every single person on the earth is in one of ____________ camps
- And transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son
- That ____________ would deliver us
- And ____________ would transfer us
- Transfer – methistēmi
- To remove from one place to another
- Titus 3:3-7, John 5:24
- Transfer – methistēmi
- He has delivered us from the domain of darkness
- (Col 1:14 ESV) in whom we have ____________, the ____________ of sins.
- In whom?
- ____________ ____________ – this beloved Son of God the Father
- It is in Christ that we have redemption
- In Christ and Christ alone
- Solus Christus
- In Christ alone we are saved.
- Titus 3:5
- In Christ and Christ alone
- Until we land on this truth we are stuck in a cycle that we can never fulfill
- Every other religious system in the world is a system of works ____________
- That we must do these things
- And avoid those things
- And then ____________ will find favor on us
- That is a condition
- If ____________
- Then ____________
- Every other religious system in the world is a system of works ____________
- Until we understand this concept of God’s ____________
- His unconditional ____________
- God does not love us because of who we are
- He ____________ us in spite of who we are!
- In spite of our
- Sin
- Shortcomings
- Failures
- Every how many
- And how great they may be.
- God does not love us because of who we are
- God’s love is 100% unconditional
- Freely ____________ by His grace
- Because it brings Him ____________ to do it
- His unconditional ____________
- The forgiveness of sins
- In His redemption is where ____________ lies
- In Christ
- And Christ alone
- Apart from ____________
- There is no forgiveness
- Romans 3:21-25,
- In Christ
- In His redemption is where ____________ lies
- We are saved
- Through ____________ alone
- In ____________ alone
- By God’s ____________ alone
- According to His ____________ alone
- And for His ____________ alone.
- So where do you find yourself in that line
- Is God drawing you to Himself?
- Is God moving you from the dominion of darkness?
- Is God filling you with hope and security?
- In whom?