1. What’s new? What’s true? All this is true!
Colossians 1.1-8: What’s true?
“You are true Christians”
true faith in Christ Jesus
true love for God’s people
true hope in Christ
- all marks of the Holy Spirit’s work in a person’s life
“You have heard the true gospel”
it’s “the word of truth”, v5
it’s bearing fruit, v6
it’s changed you! v6-8
“...the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
(2 Timothy 4.3)
- “all the saints”
What’s true?
- hope of heaven
What’s new?
- “all over the world...”
“I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2.2)
All this is true!