COLOSSIANS - The Journey Of Faith

03/02/2022 45 min Episodio 50
COLOSSIANS - The Journey Of Faith

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GOD’S WORD IS ENOUGH. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.2 Timothy 3:16-17 For in Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and YOU have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.Colossians 2:9 THE JOURNEY OF FAITH.Paul wrote because there were problems among the Christians in Colossae…DAVID GUZIKEVERY FAMILY NEEDS DIRECTION. EVEN HEALTHY FAMILIES.Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.1 Peter 5:8Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.1 Timothy 4:16  Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.2 John 1:8 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant.[b] He is a faithful minister of Christ on your[c] behalf 8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.Colossians 1:3-14PRAY. SAY.STAY. This letter – full of love and concern, written to a church Paul had neither planted nor visited – shows the power of Christian love. Paul didn’t need to see or meet or directly know these Christians in order to love them and be concerned for themDAVID GUZIKThe fullness is in Jesus Christ. Not in a church; not in a priesthood; not in a building; not in a sacrament; not in the saints; not in a method or a program, but in Jesus Christ Himself. It is in Him as a “distribution point” – so that those who wanted more of God and all that He is can find it in Jesus Christ.DAVID GUZIKOUR VEHICLE IS JESUS.Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the saints and faithful brothers[a] in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.Colossians 1:1-2OUR ROADMAP IS JESUS.15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.Colossians 1:15the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:26-27OUR DESTINATION IS MATURITY IN JESUS.28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.  Colossians 1:28