Sunday Notes: Colossians 3:9-17
- (Col 3:9 ESV) Do not _______________ to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
- (Col 3:10 ESV) and have put on the new self, which is being _______________ in knowledge after the image of its creator.
- The context here is internal: Paul the Apostle speaking to believers in the Christian _______________.
- Inside this body there should not be room for lies ,for _______________, for half-truths
- Rather honesty, truthfulness, transparency
- In our _______________ and regeneration
- We have put off the old self of this world
- Where sin is not only approved of but promoted and even _______________
- Our eyes are opened by the indwelling _______________ _______________
- Our minds are renewed by the transformed from Christ
- Ephesians 4:17-25, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 2:10
- We are called to walk in Christ in all our ways
- Not the _______________. which looks markedly different
- (Col 3:11 ESV) Here there is not _______________ and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, _______________, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
- Ultimately this verse destroys national privilege on every level of their society
- There is neither a Jew or a Greek
- In the church those lines of _______________ are done away with
- The physical act of circumcision was to signify the _______________ life of _______________
- This signified their set-apart. sanctified life
- Circumcision then means nothing in Christ
- And does nothing for _______________ membership
- In the Roman empire barbarians referred to _______________
- For the people living in Pauls day you had two elitist groups
- The Greeks (Greek speaking _______________ citizens)
- And the Jews (God’s chosen nation)
- All the rest were considered uncultured _______________
- The lowest of which were the _______________
- Scythian
- Barbarians were uncultured and uneducated
- Scythians were that plus unhygienic, _______________, and vile
- They were said to be murders, cannibles
- In _______________ the vileness of that old life is done away with
- And we walk in a new life of His will.
- Slave, free
- These would be the two ends of Greek society
- Like many others in history
- _______________ was real and is real today
- Your status in society meant nothing to your status in _______________
- But Christ is all and in all
- As the church today we too should be in this line removing _______________ that society would place between us.
- Romans 10:11-12
- The church was never meant to be a _______________ for the “holy”
- Rather it is a _______________ for the hurting.
- At the end of the day all of us are _______________ saved by the grace of _______________.
- (Col 3:12 ESV) Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
- (Col 3:13 ESV) bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
- Put on then – In light of this new life in Christ
- Where social stigmas are gone
- Where your status in society is erased
- You are new person so put on newness!
- As _______________ chosen ones holy and beloved
- Where you might have been before does _______________ matter you are the chosen of God
- You are beloved by God the Father
- Compassionate hearts – This is _______________
- _______________ – This is moral goodness
- Humility – This is looking at yourself in humbleness
- Meekness – Some translations say _______________
- And _______________ – Steadfastness, Perseverance, Endurance
- _______________ with one another – As the church we exercise these things
- Forgiving each other As the Lord has forgiven you
- Recognize this: That the Lord has forgiven you with great _______________
- We are all sinners saved by grace so you must also forgive showing the thankfulness in what _______________ has done for you
- (Col 3:14 ESV) And above all these put on _______________, which binds everything together in perfect _______________.
- Love that is the love of God – Love – agapē – ag-ah’-pay
- This is a _______________ love, A love of goodwill
- This is the love of God on us to give us what we need, not what we _______________
- (Col 3:15 ESV) And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
- The _______________ of Christ
- Christ who is in heaven, the author and perfecter of our faith, the sovereign Lord of all
- His peace _______________ over us
- Not the _______________ of a fallen world
- Not the trappings of a materialistic society
- Not the anguish of a fallen, hell-bent culture
- No, _______________ peace is what we put on.
- (Col 3:16 ESV) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and _______________ one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and _______________ and spiritual songs, with _______________ in your hearts to God.
- (Col 3:17 ESV) And whatever you do, in _______________ or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the _______________ through him.
- This is the code of conduct for the church isn’t it
- Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly
- That we take in the _______________ of Christ
- We live in His word _______________
- Teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom
- _______________ is to warn or exhort
- With thankfulness and your hearts to God.
- This happens when we recognize God and His _______________. We live in thankfulness for His grace and His mercy – And we can’t help but _______________ Him
- 1 Corinthians 10:31, Proverbs 3 (whole chapter)
