More 2018 Notes:
OUTLINE: Essentials To Remember Going Forward!!!
Know That God Wants:
Colossians 1
3. Us to Celebrate Jesus (also as Creator)
Paul Reflects & Gives Thanks To The Father For Jesus (vs 12):
“The Messiah Poem”
1st Stanza (old creation)
“15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
2nd Stanza (new creation in Christ) 1 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 2:10)
“18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.”
*The Father wants us to celebrate Jesus; but also as the Creator. He is the Creator in the Old Testament and the Creator of the Church. We can trust that God knows how to make us. He knows what He is doing. He will complete what He started (Eph. 2:10; Phil. 1:6).
Ephesians 2:10 The Passion Translation
“10 We have become his poetry,[a]a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!”
Philippians 1:6 The Passion Translation
“6 I pray with great faith for you, because I’m fully convinced that the One who began this gracious work in you will faithfully continue the process of maturing you until the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ!”
*Going forward, if we as His new Creation remember Him, we will experientially know & understanding what all we have in Him (Col. 1:1-14).
1. Faithful communion or community
2. We have Grace
3. We have peace
4. We have a Prayer force.
5. We have faith that can make an impact
6. We have a hope that is beyond anything this world can offer
7. We have the kind of love that makes an impact (by this the world will know/ Jn. 13:35)
8. We will have personal and inherited fruit and harvest in this world.
9. We will function in and out of the nature of the Holy Spirit
10. We can search out all wisdom and understanding in God
11. We can walk like Jesus
12. We can be fruitful like Jesus
13. We can increase in the knowledge of Jesus (He doesn’t get old) knowledge of truth, creative ideas)
14. We can Be strengthened with all might and Glorious power
15. We can have all patience, long suffering and joyfulness.
16. We have an inheritance in light
17. We got deliverance over darkness
18. And we got precious forgiveness of our sins.
19. We are of His new creation (2 Cor. 5:17; Ephesians 2:10).
“*Jesus, The Messiah, The Christ, The Anointed One, “The Anointing”
“Greater is He that is in you” (1 Jn. 4:4)
4. The hope & life of Christ formed in us*Personal Readings: Colossians 1:26-29; Galatians 4:19*
Colossians 2:4-7
5. All faith, always to be In Christ alone.
“4 And this I say, lest ____ ______ should beguile you with enticing words.” (vs.4)
a. started (vs. 6)
“…as you have _________ Christ Jesus the Lord”
b. stabilized (vs. 5-6)
“5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the ____________ of your faith in Christ.”
c. strengthened
able to “w_____” in him; rooted and built up (vs. 6).
Colossians 2:8-15
6. Us to know we are Complete only in Christ.
“8 Beware lest any man ______ you…” (vs. 8).
Christ “_______ principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
Colossians 2:16-23
7. Us to be Connected together through the Head
The Body of Christ must not lose its “____” (vs. 19).
Communion Table 