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. Jesus Saves Jeremy Camp We Cry Out: The Worship Project You Alone Can Rescue Matt Redman We Shall Not Be Shaken What a Friend We Have in Jesus Paul Baloche Amazing Grace: Timeless Hymns of Faith To the Cross Paul Baloche Glorious You Are For Me Kari Jobe Kari Jobe
A Life That Pleases God Discovering Significance in the Supremacy & Sufficiency of Christ (part 1) Colossians 1:1-14
Outline of Colossians 1:1-14 Greeting (vv.1-2) Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) Prayer (vv.9-14)
Greeting (vv.1-2) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To God s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
Colossae
Greeting (vv.1-2) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To God s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God s people
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6 that has come to you.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God s grace.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 7 You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8 and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 7 You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8 and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 4 we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God s people 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 6 In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God s grace.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) Mark 4:26-32 26 He also said, This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come. 30 Again he said, What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?
Thanksgiving (vv.3-8) 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade. (Mark 4:26-32)
Prayer (vv.9-14) 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you.
Prayer (vv.9-14) We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
Prayer (vv.9-14) 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
Prayer (vv.9-14) 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
Prayer (vv.9-14) 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
Prayer (vv.9-14) 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Prayer (vv.9-14) Filled with a knowledge of His will (v. 9b) 9b We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives.
Prayer (vv.9-14) Walking in a manner worthy of the Lord & fully pleasing to Him (v. 10a) 10a so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way.
Prayer (vv.9-14) Bearing fruit in every good work (v.10b) 10b bearing fruit in every good work.
Prayer (vv.9-14) Growing in the knowledge of God (v.10c) 10c growing in the knowledge of God
Prayer (vv.9-14) Strengthened with all power (v.11a) 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience
Prayer (vv.9-14) Joyously giving thanks (v.12-14) for our inheritance (v.12) 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
Prayer (vv.9-14) Joyously giving thanks (v.12-14) for our deliverance (vv.13-14) 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Conclusion It s God s will for us to be mature in Christ