CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY (5)
by Tim Melton
Scripture: Colossians 1:24-29
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Title: Christ in You the Hope of Glory (5)
Series: The Book of Colossians
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Colossians 1:24-29
In 2020, CBS News reported that, "About $3 billion in gift cards go unredeemed each year."1 That may seem like such a pity, but many Christians are doing the same thing in their spiritual lives. As we will see today, "in Christ" we have been given so much, but we rarely take advantage of all that is available in Him. In uncertain times like these He is our hope, but yet we so often look elsewhere to calm our troubled souls.
Where do we find hope? This is the question that we will seek to answer as we look once again to Paul¥s writings to the church in Colossae.
The book of Colossians is a letter from the Apostle Paul to the church in Colossae. At this time Paul was in prison in Rome. It was around A.D. 60 or 61. He had been visited by Epaphras, a church leader from Colossae who had reported to Paul about the heresies that were being taught about Christ in the church in Colossae. In response to these heresies about Christ, Paul wrote to the church in Colossae.
In these verses the Apostle Paul is declaring his call of God to make the word of God fully known. Paul is speaking of . . .
26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Paul is accomplishing two things with his use of the word mystery in these verses. First, Paul is taking and redefining the word "mystery" that the false teachers in Colossae were using. The false teachers acknowledged Jesus, but had stripped Him of His divinity, His authority, and all characteristics that qualified Him to be our God and Savior. Because, in their minds, Jesus was not the way to God, they now were teaching that to know God the people needed some kind of special revelation which the false teachers possessed and only the spiritual elite could receive. This was not true. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him (Jo ...
Series: The Book of Colossians
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Colossians 1:24-29
In 2020, CBS News reported that, "About $3 billion in gift cards go unredeemed each year."1 That may seem like such a pity, but many Christians are doing the same thing in their spiritual lives. As we will see today, "in Christ" we have been given so much, but we rarely take advantage of all that is available in Him. In uncertain times like these He is our hope, but yet we so often look elsewhere to calm our troubled souls.
Where do we find hope? This is the question that we will seek to answer as we look once again to Paul¥s writings to the church in Colossae.
The book of Colossians is a letter from the Apostle Paul to the church in Colossae. At this time Paul was in prison in Rome. It was around A.D. 60 or 61. He had been visited by Epaphras, a church leader from Colossae who had reported to Paul about the heresies that were being taught about Christ in the church in Colossae. In response to these heresies about Christ, Paul wrote to the church in Colossae.
In these verses the Apostle Paul is declaring his call of God to make the word of God fully known. Paul is speaking of . . .
26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Paul is accomplishing two things with his use of the word mystery in these verses. First, Paul is taking and redefining the word "mystery" that the false teachers in Colossae were using. The false teachers acknowledged Jesus, but had stripped Him of His divinity, His authority, and all characteristics that qualified Him to be our God and Savior. Because, in their minds, Jesus was not the way to God, they now were teaching that to know God the people needed some kind of special revelation which the false teachers possessed and only the spiritual elite could receive. This was not true. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him (Jo ...
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