SERMONS ON COLOSSIANS
Our sermon ideas on Colossians will help you preach a powerful message on the sufficiency of Christ. Preach on topics including Christ as God, Creator, and sustainer of all things, cautions against false teachers, and putting off the old self in order to put on the new. Prepare your messages on God's Word in Colossians with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
Colossians: The Secret of True Spirituality (14 of 29)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Janet loves the Lord. She is active in her church. She works hard at trying to do what's right. But she still struggles. She wonders if she is doing everything she should. One day two young men dressed in white shirts and riding bicycles knock on her door to offer some free religious literature. They tell her that their books and classes will provide answer sto all the questions she has. Their church knows the secret that no other religious group knows. Janet is curious. She wants to know the secret. John also sometimes wonders if there isn't something missing. In fact, even his Sunday School class at his church has had....
How to Become a God Influencer (1 of 16)
by Ernest Easley
We are starting a new series of messages today in both this worship gathering as well as in the contemporary worship gathering from the New Testament book of Colossians under the heading: THE GOD ISSUE. And it's my hope and prayer that God will use these messages to stir us up and to move us into action. If there was ever a time in church history and in the history of our nation for the church to be stirred up, spirit filled and to step into action, it is today. Without God influencers, America, as we have known her, will be no more. Without God influencers, America will continue down the path of destruction and judgment. For like...
How Are You Doing in the Christian Life?
by James Merritt
1. Someone has said, ''You can tell what a man likes by what he does. You can tell what a man thinks by what he says. But you can tell what a man is by how he prays.'' When I read the prayers of Paul, one thing I know is that he was a man of God. There was an in sight and an intimacy in his prayers that I want in my prayers. 2. It is fascinating to see how Paul prayed for others. You know when we pray we often pray for Aunt Bessie to be healed or for Uncle John to be successful in his business, or we'll ask God to give us beautiful weather as we travel on a journey. We'll ask the Lord to give a man a job who has just been unemployed....
An Apostolic Leader (1 of 18)
by Tony Nester
Today we're beginning a verse-by-verse study of the Letter to the Colossians. We're going to slow down in our reading of the Scripture so that we can go deeper into the text in front of us. Colossians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to a Christian congregation in the town of Colossae. This was a church that Paul had neither founded nor visited. Since Colossae was located close to Ephesus, a place where Paul had an extended ministry, it's likely that someone who heard Paul in Ephesus spread the message of Christ to Colossae. We think we know who that person was. His name was Epaphras and we'll be introduced...
The Epistle to the Colossians, Chapter 1 (1 Of 5)
by Harley Howard
We are to embark on what I believe is one of the most life changing letters of the New Testament. This epistle expresses so much of the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the heart of the shepherd's desire for the growth of the sheep. For many, many people in Christendom, there are many false barometers being used to determine Christian growth. A barometer, in the non-weather usage of the word, is something that serves to register accurately the changes in public opinion or of the times in which a society lives. As the times and opinions change in the thinking and the attitudes of this lost world around us, believers need to hold fast to the...
A Joyful Greeting (1 of 15)
by Daniel Rodgers
3. Place: During his first imprisonment in Rome. In Acts 28:30, we find Paul under house arrest following his appeal to Caesar: "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him."4. The purpose of the letter: To correct false doctrine and heresy, to exalt the supremacy and superiority of Christ, and to encourage the believers in the faith--exhorting them to stand strong and to live for God.a. Col. 2:6-7, "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with...
How to Pray for the Lost
by Rex Yancey
"More things are wrought through prayer than this world ever dreamed of." Prayer is essential in the Christian life. Great churches pray collectively and individually in all their services. Churches have prayer retreats, prayer meetings and prayer chains. We pray for the sick, each other, and national leaders. But as I study the NT, I realize praying for the lost is not the primary thrust with regard to evangelism. The Scriptures do not record that Jesus ever prayed explicitly and directly for the salvation of a lost soul. Nor did he ever command us to do so. We are to pray for those who persecute us. He prayed for the city of Jerusalem...
The Overthrow of the Devil (2 of 8)
by Stan Coffey
Tonight if you have your Bible I would like to invite your attention to Colossians Chapter 2 and as we have our Communion Service tonight I want to continue the series of messages on the, ”The Battle is the Lord’s”. We are talking on Sunday night this fall about spiritual warfare. I want you to see tonight the tremendous relationship to the message of the Lord’s Supper and the communion as a weapon that we have against the devil. In fact, every time we take the Lord’s Supper we are celebrating the fact that we are victorious over the devil through the blood of Jesus Christ. You know Revelation 12:11 says they overcame him by the blood...
Destination Heaven? (1 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
We are beginning a new series today that I've entitled, ''There's No Place Like Heaven.'' Heaven is such an awesome place. It's the place where God lives. It's the place Jesus went to when he ascended from Earth after his resurrection. He ascended up into Heaven. It's the final destination place for the child of God - for the true blood-bought, born-again child of God. You know, sometimes you get on an airplane and if you're making connections they'll say, ''What is your final destination?'' Well, your final destination is not New York, or Atlanta, or Chicago, or London. As a Christian, your final, final destination is...
Colossians: The Pre-eminence Of Christ (14 Of 32)
by Stan Coffey
BACKGROUND: The letter of Colossians is polemic. It was written to combat error against which Paul warned and later became known as Gnosticism. In addition to the Gnostic teachings, Jewish ideas were being entertained in the church at Colosse. Paul's answer to this subtle mixture of error was the supremacy and preeminence of Jesus Christ. THE NATURE OF GNOSTICISM: The Gnostic heresy was a philosophy based on a notion that matter is evil. They assume that since God is good and evil exists that a good God could not have created evil matter. Therefore, between God and matter they placed a series of emanations...
Why Am I So Weak?
by Richard Bradley
Just like you need physical food for physical strength, you need spiritual food for spiritual strength. The Bible describes itself as spiritual food - the water, milk, bread, and meat of our spiritual lives. It's everything you need for spiritual sustenance.If you were a construction contractor, you wouldn't consider sending out a guy who hadn't eaten anything in two weeks. If you were a commander in the Army, you wouldn't send a person into battle who hadn't eaten in a month. Right? We need to feed ourselves to have the strength to accomplish the tasks ahead of us.You're not going to have much success in winning the spiritual battles you face if...
Colossians
by Jesse Hendley
A background study, a parallel to these times.You know, friends, we are living in days when men are not honoring God. God says that one of the greatest sins of the world, in fact, the CROWNING sin, is the failure to honor God, to honor God and His will. In the Epistle to the Romans God writes and says that people knew God, they did not glorify Him as God nor were they thankful for all the goodness of God. So they go down, down into sin until God has to give them up.The first sin there is FAILURE TO HONOR GOD. Now that means, not to receive God for what He IS, not to place Him in the proper position in relation to us, not to give...
Colossians - The Preeminent Christ (1 of 15)
by Zach Terry
INTRODUCTION: While on his third missionary journey, Paul had an opportunity to teach the Word to the citizens of Ephesus who gathered in the school of Tyrannus. While Paul taught faithfully, one of his proteges named Epaphras made a brief excursion to his home town of Colossae, preached the Gospel there and the Holy Spirit birthed a church. It seems almost accidental, a brief detour, but with God there are no accidents, only divine appointments. Keep in mind Paul had never set foot in the city of Colossae. Almost a decade had passed - Paul finds himself in prison at Rome - when word comes to him about this accidental...
Our Perfect harmony (2 of 4)
by Michael White
A few years ago I was working in a nice residential neighborhood in Los Angeles and I saw a runner jog by wearing the typical athletic type clothing that joggers wear and I didn't even take a second look. He passes by again and takes a break and my coworkers talk to him. I just keep working. Anyway afterwards they ask me did you know who that was?I say who, that jogger?They tell me it's Bill Nye the science guy.I said what? Bill Ny from that nineties show? They say yeah bill Nye! Of course I knew who Bill Nye was. He is a very famous man- a household name and a multimillionaire- but I hadn't the faintest idea that jogger...
Good Friday - Kisses From Calvary
by Donald Cantrell
The word ''oxymoron'' is defined as ''a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect, e.g. ''wise fool'' or ''legal murder''. In looking at the term ''Good Friday'' I have often asked myself and others if it was such a ''good day'' why did so many bad things occur. If it was such a good day, why was the Lord slain like an innocent lamb on that day. I remember when I was in high school there was a couple that dated, the guy was like 6 ½ feet tall and the girl was not even 5 feet tall. It was one of the oddest things to see them together. In reality it was like the moment you seen them, you...
The Key to Spiritual Growth (6 of 15)
by Zach Terry
INTRODUCTION - I was born into the family of God at an interesting time. It was the mid 90's. - The Brownsville revival was on the rage in Pensacola, FL. 1000's were flocking down to the coast to receive, ''MORE'' from the Lord. - The Bill Gothard Seminar on, ''Basic Life Principles'' was drawing 1000's to coliseums across the nation to learn about concepts that many of us had never heard before. - The Worship wars were beginning and churches were dividing over drum kits, amps and words on screens. Yet the message from each camp was basically the same - if you want to get close to the Lord, you have...
Our Ugly Flesh
by John Barnett
Paul's epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians and Colossians were to people living in Roman Asia which is the area of modern Turkey. In the time of Paul was incredibly Roman.There are more Greek temples in Turkey than in Greece, and there are more Roman cities in Turkey than there are in all of Italy. This was the epicenter of Roman life in the first and second centuries.Why the history lesson? As you turn to Galatians 2 this evening let me describe life in the Roman world of the 1st century. In Roman Asia (Turkey) was also the city we know from Revelation called Thyatira. This city was renowned for it's manufacturing and industry....
Debunking Philosophy and Ritualism at Colosse (4)
by Donald Cantrell
There was once a farmer who went to town to purchase seeds for his farm. As he was returning home, one of the squash seeds he had purchased fell from his pocket onto the ground. It happened that within a few feet was another seed of a different type. The place where the two seeds lay was rather fertile, and miraculously they took root. After about a week the squash seed showed signs of growth. The second seed showed none. After two weeks the squash began to sprout leaves. The second seed showed none. After seven weeks the squash began to show fruit. The second seed still showed no progress. Four more weeks...
Out with the Old, in with the New (10 of 13)
by Jim Perdue
This world constantly competes for our attention and affection. Twenty-four hour news stations want you to catch all of their breaking news. Television commercials want you to buy the latest, greatest thing you don't need. The Internet calls you to waste hours upon hours looking up useless information. Everything competes to be first in your life. But listen intently; your life will never work right until Jesus is first.* That's the message of the book of Colossians. We all need to learn to shut out the things that clamor for our time and attention. And we must listen to the still, small voice of Christ. Jesus must be first; in all things! This...
