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 ____________
- 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
  - 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
(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 ____________
  - - 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.
- 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
(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
  - 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 ____________
  - 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’s love is 100% unconditional
      - Freely ____________ by His grace
      - Because it brings Him ____________ to do it
  - 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,
  - 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?

Sunday Notes: Colossians 1:12-14

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