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Good News: Jesus is Enough

Good News: Jesus is Enough. Pursuing depth of spirituality the right way. April 20, 2008 Colossians 1:15-23. “This book is about you. It will change your state of consciousness or it will be meaningless. It can only awaken those who are ready.”.

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Good News: Jesus is Enough

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  1. Good News: Jesus is Enough Pursuing depth of spirituality the right way April 20, 2008 Colossians 1:15-23

  2. “This book is about you. It will change your state of consciousness or it will be meaningless. It can only awaken those who are ready.”

  3. The Problem: Pursuing Depth of Spirituality the Wrong Way (Colossians 2:16-21) Two examples: • Obsession with rules • Worship of angels

  4. The Solution: Pursuing Depth of Spirituality the Right Way (Colossians 1:15-23)

  5. Colossians 1:15 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

  6. Colossians 1:16 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

  7. Colossians 1:17 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

  8. Colossians 1:18 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

  9. Colossians 1:19-20 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.    

  10. Colossians 1:21 21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.

  11. Colossians 1:22 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

  12. Colossians 1:23 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

  13. C.S. Lewis “ The Weight of Glory” “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

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