Sunday Notes: Colossians 1:20-23

    • (Col 1:20 ESV) and through _______________ to reconcile to himself _______________ things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the _______________ of his cross.
      • Reconcile – Apokatallassō
        • Ephesians 2:16
        • Apo – completely
        • Katallasso – to _______________
          • All things will be completely, utterly, totally reconciled.
      • Making peace by the blood of His cross.
        • 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, 1 John 4:8-10, Ephesians 1:7-12
        • Before the _______________ all things created by God were _______________
          • Genesis 1:31
  • But in short order everything _______________
        • Romans 8:18-25
      • God has always had the plan to _______________ the world 
        • Genesis 1, Isaiah 24:17-23, Isaiah 30:26, Isaiah 60:19-20, 2 Peter 3:8-13
      • There has been a plan for a very long time
        • That the earth would be redeemed
          • Humanity would be reconciled
        • It was perfect
          • It was allowed to fall
        • And will be returned to that _______________ state once more.
  • (Col 1:21 ESV) And you, who once were _______________ and hostile in _______________, doing _______________ deeds,
  • (Col 1:22 ESV) he has now reconciled in his _______________ of flesh by his _______________, in order to present you holy and blameless and above _______________ before him,
    • Alienated – apallotrioō – ap-al-lot-ree-o’-o
      • To _______________
      • To alienate
      • To be shut out from one’s fellowship and intimacy
        • Ephesians 2:11-12, Genesis 6:5, Matthew 5:20, 48, 
      • Romans 7:14-24
        • Paul was like a _______________-disciple.  If he could not overcome sin, what hope do I have?
          • Romans 5:9-10
          • Praise be to _______________
            • That He would send _______________ to fix what we could not
            • Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 10:10, Jude 1:24
  • (Col 1:23 ESV) if indeed _______________ continue in the faith, stable and _______________, not shifting from the _______________ of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under _______________, and of which I, Paul, became a _______________.
    • We can do anything for a little while
      • Include _______________ faith
        • But with your faith you cannot _______________ it until you make it.
        • You have it or you do _______________
          • And it will be proven in the _______________ if you continue.
        • Matthew 24:13-14, Hebrews 3:12-14