1. colossians 1
4 March 2018

2. Salvation is more than escape from hell
For some Christians, the goal of salvation is escape from Hell.

3. Dallas Willard
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you

4. Colossians 1:15-20

5. Colossians 1:21-23

6. Colossians 1:24-29

7. Christ in you the hope of glory

8. Colossians 1:24-25
Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, the church. I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness.
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9. Colossians 1:26
…the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’ people.

10. Colossians 1:27
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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11. Colossians 1:28
He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
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12. Dallas Willard
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you

13. Colossians 1:29
To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

14. pray

16. Are you rapture ready?

17. All these charts

18. believe in Jesus pray a prayer get baptized & a bunch of other stuff

20. Christ in you the hope of glory
Paul preaches the full word

21. Colossians 1:15-17
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things,  and in him all things hold together.

22. Christ in you the hope of glory
God’s plan from the beginning,
before the world began, by becoming one of us was to unite himself to us in order to then incorporate us into himself.

23. John 17:21
Father, I pray that all of them may be one, just as you are in me and I am in you

28. 2 Peter 1:4
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

29. God’s perfect unsurpassable love
saying YES…
you are right now:
enveloped in
squished by
God’s perfect unsurpassable love
if you are saying yes to this, genuinely surrendered to our Lord,

30. Christ in you the hope of glory

31. paradox

32. Christ in you the hope of glory

33. consistent unpredictable
God is…
consistent unpredictable
you find out this paradox of who God is that he is consistent but he's also unpredictable

34. Christ in you the hope of glory
When you know that you are situated in Christ

35. consistent unpredictable
God is…
consistent unpredictable
Learning to live in the paradox of God

36. Christ in you the hope of glory
God never changes in his character

37. pray