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Spring Egg Hunt

`. Spring Egg Hunt. Background. Colossians is one of 4 “prison epistles”: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon Written around 60 A.D. by the apostle Paul Colossae is in Turkey (former Roman province of Asia Minor) Epaphras was saved in Ephesus and then planted a church in Colossae .

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Spring Egg Hunt

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  2. Spring Egg Hunt

  3. Background • Colossians is one of 4 “prison epistles”: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon • Written around 60 A.D. by the apostle Paul • Colossae is in Turkey (former Roman province of Asia Minor) • Epaphras was saved in Ephesus and then planted a church in Colossae

  4. Background • Theme: Have confidence in the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ • Jesus + Nothing = Everything

  5. The Stature of Colossians • He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. (Colossians 1:15) • “I also shall make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.” (Psalm 89:27)

  6. The Stature of Colossians • 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. (Colossians 1:16-18)

  7. The Stature of Colossians • “It is not the uniqueness of ‘Christianity’ as a system that we defend, but the uniqueness of Christ… So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in His birth), then bear our sins (in His death), then conquer death (in His resurrection) and then enter his people (by His Spirit), He is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has His qualifications.” - John R. W. Stott

  8. The Stature of Colossians • 16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— 17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.(Colossians 2:16-17) • “Christ is all that matters, and He lives in all of us.” (Colossians 3:11) • In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:3)

  9. The Stature of Colossians • 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:16-17)

  10. The Significance of Colossians THE GOSPEL AND IDENTITY • To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ who are at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. (Colossians 1:2) • 9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete.(Colossians 2:9-10)

  11. The Significance of Colossians THE GOSPEL AND INSPIRATION • 12 So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. (Colossians 3:12-13)

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  13. The Gospel & Inspiration: Giving • For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9)

  14. The Gospel & Inspiration: Marriage • Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her… (Ephesians 5:25) • We love, because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19)

  15. The Gospel & Inspiration: Marriage • 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:10-11)

  16. The Gospel & Idolatry • 1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)

  17. The Gospel & Idolatry • 5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. (Colossians 3:5-7)

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