Sunday Notes: Colossians 1:24-29
- (Col 1:24 ESV) Now I rejoice in my ____________ for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the ____________,
- Paul is in ____________ as he writes this
- Arrested and jailed because of his ____________ of the ____________.
- He had also been:
- Run out of many towns
- ____________
- Stoned
- ____________
- Slandered
- Yet Paul ____________ – in his suffering
- Philippians 3:8-11, 2 Timothy 1:6-12, Romans 5:1-5
- (Col 1:25 ESV) of which I became a ____________ according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the ____________ of God fully known,
- The same gospel ____________ preached is the same of you and I
- Paul, like Christ, recognized that the gospel belongs to God and is granted to us for a time while here on earth.
- Christ too suffered for the ____________.
- John 15:18-23
- Knowing we will meet suffering
- We must still strive for faithfully fulfilling the calling God has placed on our lives.
- Galatians 2:6-9
- Are you compelled to share the Word of God? Compelled to the point that you will suffer?
- (Col 1:26 ESV) the ____________ hidden for ages and generations but now ____________ to his saints.
- This mystery is the gospel – the ____________ of sinners by the grace of God through the work of Christ
- The gospel is not hidden now, but ____________ to the ____________
- Saints – those set apart for the work of God
- Luke 8:9-10, Romans 16:25-27
- (Col 1:27 ESV) To them ____________ chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is ____________ in you, the hope of glory.
- Redeemed and regenerated by His grace and mercy
- In Him we are the ____________
- And to us is revealed the glory of this mystery
- The hope of the glory of God
- That is why they don’t get it why the ____________ is lost in this
- Because it is a mystery until God reveals it!
- Romans 8:5-14, Ephesians 3:14-19
- (Col 1:28 ESV) Him we ____________, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone ____________ in Christ.
- It is Christ we proclaim
- In warning and teaching with all wisdom
- ____________ alone.
- Ephestians 4:11-16, Colossians 3:16-17
- (Col 1:29 ESV) For this I ____________, struggling with all his energy that ____________ powerfully works within me.
- We work with the energy of Christ, not of ourselves
- 1 Corinthians 15:9-10, 1 Corinthians 9:19-27
- We are called to a work higher than anything else
- With a reward greater than anything on earth
- May we say with Paul:
- And hear from the Lord:
