Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song. The Way Paul Baloche Our God Saves You, You Are God Gateway Worship Living For You Mighty Redeemer Grace Chapel Freedom Songs More Than Amazing Lincoln Brewster Real Life There is None Like You Shane & Shane Doubletake
Discovering Significance in the Supremacy & Sufficiency of Christ (part 5) Colossians 2:16-23
1:1-14 1:15-20 A Life that Please God The Supremacy of Christ It s God s will for us to be a fully devoted follower of Christ Jesus is supremely Lord & God of all
Review: Discovering Significance in the Supremacy & Sufficiency of Christ 1:21-2:5 A Costly Message If you are going to be effective in sharing the gospel, you need to be willing to experience rejection and persecution
Review: Discovering Significance in the Supremacy & Sufficiency of Christ 2:6-15 Discovering Our True Identity This is your true identity: Christ in you & You in Christ
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you.
Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.
19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!?
22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. (Colossians 2:16-17)
20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:
21 Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. (Col. 2:20-22)
Anything in excess can be morally wrong
Anything in excess can be morally wrong We need to discern what Scripture says and does not say is universally morally wrong
It s OK to hold personal convictions about morally neutral things, but be careful not to judge others
It s OK to hold personal convictions about morally neutral things, but be careful not to judge others
Romans It s OK to 14:23 hold personal convictions 23 about But whoever morally neutral has doubts things, is but be condemned careful not if to they judge eat, others because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
It s OK to hold personal convictions about morally neutral things, but be careful not to judge others Things may be morally permissible, but they may not be edifying
Be sensitive in exercising your freedom that would cause a weaker brother/sister to stumble
Romans Be sensitive 14:13-21 in exercising your 13 freedom Therefore that let us would stop cause passing a weaker judgment on brother/sister one another. Instead, to stumble make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
Romans Be sensitive 14:13-21 in exercising your 14 freedom I am convinced, that would being cause fully a persuaded weaker in the brother/sister Lord Jesus, that to stumble nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.
Romans Be sensitive 14:13-21 in exercising your 15 freedom If your brother that would or sister cause is distressed a weaker because brother/sister of what to you stumble eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
Romans Be sensitive 14:13-21 in exercising your 19 freedom Let us therefore that would make cause every a weaker effort to do what brother/sister leads to peace to stumble and to mutual edification.
Romans Be sensitive 14:13-21 in exercising your 20 freedom Do not destroy that would the work cause of a God weaker for the sake brother/sister of food. All food to stumble is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
Romans Be sensitive 14:13-21 in exercising your 21 freedom It is better that not would to eat cause meat a or weaker drink wine or brother/sister to do anything to else stumble that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
18a Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. (Colossians 2:18a)
18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you.
Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. (Colossians 2:18)
19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. (Colossians 2:19)
Today we live in a post-modern culture which has redefined tolerance as the rejection of any absolute truth
Today we live in a post-modern culture Absolute Truth which has redefined tolerance as the rejection of any absolute truth God exists God does not exist
Today we live in a post-modern culture Absolute Truth which has redefined tolerance as the rejection of any absolute truth God exists God does not exist
Today we live in a post-modern culture Absolute Truth which has redefined tolerance as the rejection of any absolute truth God exists God does not exist
Today we live in a post-modern culture Absolute Truth which has redefined tolerance as the rejection of any absolute truth God exists God does not exist
Today we live in a post-modern culture Absolute Truth which has redefined tolerance as the rejection of any absolute truth X = wrong X = not wrong
Guard your freedom in Christ!