1. 西 1:21-23 Col 1:21-23

5. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior v21

7. remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. Eph 2:12

9. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior v21

10. 28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God- haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Rom 1:28-32

11. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— v22

12. and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. v20

13. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— v22 The meaning of reconciliation

14. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— v22 The means of reconciliation

15. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— v22 The goal of reconciliation

16. if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel v20a

20. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” Mat 7:24-27

21. if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel v20a

23. 西 1:21-23 Col 1:21-23