the story of the new testament march 8, 2015. class objectives encounter the greatness of jesus...

The Story of the New Testament

March 8, 2015

Class Objectives

Encounter the greatness of Jesus Christ

Encounter the greatness and nature of the promised kingdom

Understand the implications for our lives as subjects of Christ and the kingdom

Understand our hope in the ultimate victory of Christ and the kingdom

Experience transformation

General Flow of NT Books

1 CorinthiansGeneral Structure (Constable)

Introduction (1:1-9)Conditions Reported to Paul (1:10-6:20)

Divisions in the church (1:10-4:21) Lack of discipline in the church (5-6)

Questions Asked of Paul (7:1-16:12) Marriage and related matters (7) Food offered to idols (8:1-11:1) Propriety in worship (11:2-16) The Lord’s supper (11:17-34) Spiritual gifts and spiritual people (12-14) The resurrection of believers (15) The collection for the Jerusalem believers (16:1-

12)Conclusion (16:13-24)

1 CorinthiansTheme #3 – The Implications of Being

Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to discipline other subjects

who refuse to repent of their sin“I am writing to you not to associate with

anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler-not even to eat with such a one.” (1 Cor. 5:11)

“If the morality of the church is no different from the world’s morality, how will the world see a distinction between itself and the church?” – Dever


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to live in light of the

brevity of life“[T]he appointed time has grown very

short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.” (1 Cor. 7:29-31)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to live in light of the brevity of

life“[F]or the time remaining Paul admonishes

them not to be overwhelmed by the social and material problems of the world but to live as for the Lord. By ‘those who have wives should live as if they had none’ he means, ‘Live for the Lord in marriage.’ If life brings sadness, live beyond it, do not be bound by it. If things are joyous, do not be engrossed in them. Those who are blessed with material possessions are not to cling to them, as though they were to have them always.” – Mare


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to be loving

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” (1 Cor. 13:1-3)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to be loving

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Cor. 13:4-7)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to be humble

“God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” (1 Cor. 1:28-29)

“God does not want the church to become a basis for human boasting. That is why he chooses us! He chooses people who at some point in their life have come to realize that they are desperate. That they are destitute. That they have no hope without God. That they have nothing to boast about apart from him.” - Dever


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to exercise their spiritual

gifts for the edification of the body“Now there are varieties of gifts, but

the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” (1 Cor. 12:4-7)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to confidently labor for

the Lord“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be

steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.” (1 Cor. 15:58)

1 CorinthiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have Through

The Victory of Christ & The KingdomHope in a Love That Never Ends

“Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. . . . For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” (1 Cor. 13:8-10, 12)

2 CorinthiansGeneral Introduction

“[2 Corinthians] is the emotional climax of his writing [where] we encounter Paul’s passion at its boiling point as he defends what God has called him to do.” – Dever

Certain “super-apostles” who had the appearance of strength and eloquence (in sharp contrast to Paul) had infiltrated the church at Corinth and were leading the church away from the truth of the gospel and Paul simply could not abide with that reality

2 CorinthiansGeneral Structure (Constable/Dever)

Introduction (1:1-11)Defense of Paul’s Ministry to the

Corinthians (1:12-7:16)Instructions concerning the collection for

the poor saints in Judea (8:1-9:15)Defense of Paul’s Apostleship (10:1-

13:10)Conclusion (13:11-14)

2 CorinthiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristJesus is the Fulfillment of All God’s

Promises“For no matter how many promises God

has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.” (2 Cor. 1:20) (NIV)

Jesus is our Source of Righteousness“For our sake he made him to be sin who

knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor. 5:21)

2 CorinthiansTheme #2 – The Greatness & Nature

of The Promised KingdomMany of the implications that we will

examine under Theme #3 could have been examined here


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to reveal their weaknesses and

struggles to magnify God’s strength “For we do not want you to be unaware,

brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” (2 Cor. 1:8-9)

“It is when God presses in on our lives through hardship that we tend to see the insufficiency of our strength and the sufficiency of his.” – Dever


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to reveal their

weaknesses and struggles to magnify God’s strength“[W]e have this treasure in jars of clay,

to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.” (2 Cor. 4:7)

“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” (2 Cor. 11:30)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to reveal their weaknesses

and struggles to magnify God’s strength“Three times I pleased with the Lord about

this [thorn], that it should leave me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. . . . For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Cor. 12:8-10)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to reveal their

weaknesses and struggles to magnify God’s strength“God has purposed for all those areas

of your life where you experience pain and suffering to be the very places where he displays his sufficiency and so brings glory to himself. And not just so that you can see it, but so that the people around you can see it.” - Dever


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to walk by faith and not by

sight“So we are always of good courage. We

know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Cor. 5:6-7)

Subjects are new creations“[I]f anyone is in Christ, he is a new

creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Cor. 5:17)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are reconciled and given the

ministry of reconciliation“All this is from God, who through

Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation . . . . Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. . . .” (2 Cor. 5:18, 20a)

2 CorinthiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have Through

The Victory of Christ & The KingdomThe hope of the resurrection

“[H]e who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.” (2 Cor. 4:14)

The hope of an eternal weight of glory“For this light momentary affliction is

preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison . . . .” (2 Cor. 4:17)

2 CorinthiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have

Through The Victory of Christ & The KingdomThe hope of a heavenly dwelling

“For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” (2 Cor. 5:1)

GalatiansGeneral Introduction (Constable/Grudem)

Paul wrote the letter to the churches in Galatia (the region currently known as Turkey) in about 48 AD

Paul founded these churches, it is believed, during his first missionary journey (46-47 AD)

Galatians is Paul’s first letter and was written to the churches in Galatia to “stem the tide of the Judaizing heresy,” respond to the criticisms of those who were setting forth the “Judaizing heresy,” and clearly set forth the gospel of Jesus Christ and the freedom that the gospel brings

GalatiansGeneral Introduction (Constable)

The “Judaizing heresy” can be summarized as the teaching that salvation required compliance with certain components of the Mosaic Law in addition to faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ

Or, more simply . . . Jesus + ___________ = Salvation“Paul is engaged in a battle for the

gospel in this letter . . . .” - Schreiner

GalatiansGeneral Structure

(Constable/Grudem)Introduction (1:1-10)Defense of Paul’s gospel (1:11-2:21)Substance of Paul’s gospel – salvation by

faith (3:1-4:31)Implications of Paul’s gospel (5:1-6:10)Conclusion (6:11-18)

GalatiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus Christ

Jesus is Our Deliverer“Grace to you and peace from God our

Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age . . . .” (Gal. 1:3-4a)

“The cross of Christ represents the intrusion of the new age, or . . . the new creation [but] the old age has not vanished entirely. Believers live in the interval between the already and not yet.” - Schreiner

GalatiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristThe One Who Justifies

“[A] person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ . . . .” (Gal. 2:16)

“The point is never what you do. The point is what God has done. The point is for him to get the glory. We do not fight our way into heaven by faithful religious observance. It is God who, in his great love in Christ, reached down low to find you.” - Dever

GalatiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristJesus is The Center and Focus of

History“But when the fullness of time had

come, God sent forth his Son . . . .” (Gal. 4:4a)

“So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.” (Matt. 1:17)

GalatiansTheme #2 – The Greatness & Nature

of The Promised KingdomThe Kingdom is for Jews & Gentiles

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:28)

“Christians now belong to each other in such a way that distinctions that formerly divided them lose significance.” – Boice

Race, social status, gender no longer divide us!

GalatiansTheme #3 – The Implications of Being

Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects are to live by faith and out of our

union with Christ“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no

longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Gal. 2:20)

“What does it mean to be ‘in Christ’? It means to be so united to Christ that all the experiences of Christ become the Christian’s experiences.” – James Montgomery Boice


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Transformed from Slaves

to Sons & Heirs“And, because you are sons, God has

sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.” (Gal. 4:6-7)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Live in Freedom

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” (Gal. 5:1)

Subjects Are to Use Our Freedom to Love“For you were called to freedom,

brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” (Gal. 5:13)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Battle Against the

Flesh by the Spirit“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you

will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other . . . .” (Gal. 5:16-17a)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Bear the Spirit’s Fruit

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Gal. 5:22-23)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Live in “Intentionally

Intrusive, Christ-Centered, Grace-Driven, Redemptive Community” – Tripp“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any

transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness . . . . Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal. 6:1-2)

GalatiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have

Through The Victory of Christ & The KingdomThe Hope of a New Creation

“For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” (Gal. 6:15)

“The new creation has been inaugurated in Christ and will be consummated at [Christ’s return], when the groaning that characterizes the old creation will pass away.” - Schreiner

EphesiansGeneral Introduction

Paul wrote this letter to the church at Ephesus around 62 AD while under house arrest in Rome

The book of Ephesians doesn’t appear to be written to correct a “glaring problem” that existed within the church, but the letter “clarifies the heart of the Christian faith, explores the dynamics of a personal relationship with Christ, sets forth God’s overall plan for the church, and draws out the implications of what it means to live as a Christian.” – Clinton E. Arnold

“If the letter to the Galatians is like a bomb, the letter to the Ephesians is like a jewel.” - Dever

EphesiansGeneral Structure (Constable)

Greeting (1:1-2)The Christian’s Calling (1:3-3:21)

Individual Calling (1:3-2:10)Corporate Calling (2:11-3:19)

The Christian’s Conduct (4:1-6:20)Spiritual Walk (4:1-6:9)Spiritual Warfare (6:10-20)

Conclusion (6:21-24)

EphesiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus Christ

The Center of God’s Redemptive PlanThe Lord graciously made “known to us the

mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” (Eph. 1: 9-10)

The promised restoration of all things will come through Jesus Christ

More revelation related to how the restoration would come about has been made known to us (e.g., we know the name Jesus, for both Gentiles and Jews (Eph. 3:6), and already but not yet)

EphesiansTheme #2 – The Greatness & Nature

of The Promised KingdomThe Kingdom is For Jews & Gentiles

“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off [Gentiles] have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one [Jews & Gentiles] and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility . . . .” (Eph. 2:13-14)

EphesiansTheme #3 – The Implications of Being

Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Blessed With Every Spiritual

Blessing in Jesus“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places . . . .” (Eph. 1:3)

Sets forth the blessings in Eph. 1:4-14, including that: (1) he chose us in Christ that we would be holy, (2) he predestined us for adoption as sons through Christ, (3) he redeemed us through the blood of Christ, (4) we have obtained an inheritance, (5) sealed with the Holy Spirit


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Dependent Upon God’s

Illumination“I pray that the eyes of your heart

may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” (Eph. 1:18)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Saved By Grace

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Eph. 2:8-9)

“We are not made right with God by what we do, because what we do is sin. We are made right with God as a privilege God extends to us through faith in Christ.” - Dever


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Saved For Good Works

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 2:10)

“Paul has just repudiated the role of good works for earning salvation (2:8-9), but he now extols their role as a necessary outgrowth of that salvation.” – Clinton E. Arnold


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are To Be Equipped & Grow Up

“And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ . . .” (Eph. 4:11-12)

“[S]peaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ . . .” (Eph. 4:15)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are To Reflect the Gospel in Their

Relationships Submit to one another out of reverence for

Christ (Eph. 5:21)Wives submit to your husbands as to the

Lord (Eph. 5:22)Husbands love your wives as Christ loved

the Church (Eph. 5:25)Children obey your parents (Eph. 6:1)Fathers instruct & discipline your children

without wearing them out (Eph. 6:4)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are To Reflect the Gospel in

Their Relationships Employees serve your employers as

you would serve Christ (Eph. 6:5)Employers treat your employees with

fairness (Eph. 6:9)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Stand (Persevere)

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.” (Eph. 6:11)

“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” (Eph. 6:13) (NIV)

“Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness . . . .” (Eph. 6:14)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Stand (Persevere)

“This word [stand] probably means more to older members of a church than it means to younger members. The longer you live, the more you realize how central perseverance is to the Christian walk . . . . Every year that goes by is more of a testimony to the grace of God, because standing is not easy. So stand. Stand firm in the faith.” - Dever


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Engaged in Spiritual Warfare

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 6:12)

In the battle, we are to put on the armor of God: (1) belt of truth, (2) breastplate of righteousness, (4) shoes of readiness, (5) shield of faith, (6) helmet of salvation, (7) sword of the Spirit/word of God. (Eph. 6:14-17)

EphesiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have

Through The Victory of Christ & The KingdomThe Hope of Immeasurable Love

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father . . . .that you . . . may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge . . . .” (Eph. 3:14a, 19a)

PhilippiansGeneral Introduction

Paul wrote this letter to the church in Philippi around 62 AD while under house arrest in Rome

Dever notes that: “[I]f you want to know how to read this letter, think of Paul writing to a group of young, scared, and discouraged Christians because [Paul] is in prison for preaching the gospel.”

Constable notes that: “Of all Paul’s epistles, Philippians is the most consistently positive and personal.”

PhilippiansGeneral Structure (Sailhamer)

Introduction (1:1-11)Encouragement of the Community

(1:12-3:1)Report of Imprisonment (1:12-26)Continue in Humility (1:27-3:1)

Warning Against False Teaching (3:2-4:1)

Exhortations (4:2-20)Conclusion (4:21-23)

PhilippiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristJesus is the Highly Exalted One

Whose Name is Above Every Name“[T]hough he was in the form of

God, [he] did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

PhilippiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristJesus is the Highly Exalted One

Whose Name is Above Every NameTherefore God has highly exalted

him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil. 2:6-11)

PhilippiansTheme #2 – The Greatness & Nature

of The Promised KingdomSeveral of the items under Theme #3

could be covered here.

PhilippiansTheme #3 – The Implications of Being

Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are To Be Confident in God’s

Faithfulness“And I am sure of this, that he who

began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” (Phil. 1:6)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are To Live With Christ-

Centered Abandon“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is

gain.” (Phil. 1:21)“The very essence of Paul’s present life

was Christ and all that this entailed. . . . Christ had become for him the motive of his actions, the goal of his life and ministry, the source of his strength.” – Homer A. Kent, Jr.


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are To Be Humble

“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” (Phi. 2:3-4)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Work Out Their Salvation With

Fear and Trembling“[W]ork out your own salvation with fear

and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” (Phil. 2:12-13)

“Work and will to kill your sin, and do it with fear and trembling, because God Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, redeemer, justifier, sustainer, Father, lover is so close to you that your working and willing are his working and willing.” – John Piper


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Press On Toward the

Goal“But one thing I do: forgetting what lies

behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil 3:13-14)

A view of the end shapes Paul’s present labors


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are to Give Up Anxiety for

Prayer“[D]o not be anxious about anything,

but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 4:6-7)

PhilippiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have

Through The Victory of Christ & The KingdomA Hope of Fully Enjoying Our True

Citizenship & Experiencing Future Transformation“But our citizenship is in heaven,

and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.” (Phil. 3:20-21)

ColossiansGeneral Introduction

Paul wrote Colossians around 62 AD while under house arrest in Rome

Paul did not plant the church in Colossae and there is no record of him having visited the church there

Paul hears of false teaching in the church at Colossae and writes this letter to re-focus the church upon the centrality of Jesus Christ and his gospel

ColossiansGeneral Structure

Introduction (1:1-14)The Greatness of Jesus Christ (1:15-

29)The Danger of False Teaching (2:1-23)The Practical Implications of Christ’s

Greatness (3:1-4:6)Conclusion (4:7-18)

ColossiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristThe Preeminent One

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church.

ColossiansTheme #1 – The Greatness of Jesus

ChristThe Preeminent One

He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.” (Col. 1:15-20).

ColossiansTheme #2 – The Greatness & Nature

of The Promised KingdomThe Kingdom is For Jews & Gentiles

“Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.” (Col. 3:11)

ColossiansTheme #3 – The Implications of Being

Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Delivered, Transferred &

Redeemed“He has delivered us from the domain

of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Col. 1:13-14)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Holy, Blameless, and

Above Reproach“And you, who once were alienated and

hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him . . . .” (Col. 1:21-22)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Brought From Death to Live

“And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, but triumphing over them in him.” (Col. 3:13-15)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Live Out Of Their New

Life“If then you have been raised with

Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Col. 3:1-3)


Subjects of Christ and The KingdomSubjects Are Live for God’s Glory

“And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Col. 3:17)

ColossiansTheme #4 – The Hope We Have

Through The Victory of Christ & The KingdomThe Hope of Christ’s Transformative

Appearance“When Christ who is your life

appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Col. 3:4)

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