“The Hope of Glory” Colossians 1:15-29 1

“The Hope of Glory” The Why The How The Who Colossians 1:27

“The Hope of Glory” The Why Colossians 1:27

Colossians 1:27 (ESV) 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:27 (ESV) 27 “…God chose to make known… the riches of the glory (satisfaction) … the hope of glory (satisfaction).”

Colossians 1:27 (ESV) 27 “…God chose to make known… the riches of the glory (satisfaction) … the hope of glory (satisfaction).”

Fall From Glory Romans 3:23 (ESV) 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Church at Colosse Counterfeit Glories (or means for satisfaction) Judaism and Gnosticism (Jesus + Something = Everything) The Colossian’s didn’t believe that it was Christ alone given by God’s grace alone thus dividing their faith to rest on multiple things, and it is all because they ALLOWED something other than Scripture alone to influence them!

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world …The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them… For they are not the thing itself. They are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a true tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” C. S. Lewis

Colossians 1:27 (ESV) 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

“The Hope of Glory” The How Colossians 1:21-26

Colossians 1:24 (ESV) 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Colossians 1:21-22 (ESV) 21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Colossians 1:23-24 (ESV) 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

New Birth FROM: Alienation from God, hostility toward God, and the status of evil (Colossians 1:21) TO: Blameless status, faith, and mission (Colossians 1:22-24) FOR: God’s glory (Colossians 1:27)

“The Hope of Glory” The Who Colossians 1:15-20

Ephesians 1:11-12 (ESV) 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

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

Colossians 1:15-20 (ESV) 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

18 And he is the head of the body, the church 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.