School of ministry: Lesson
Awed by His Greatness.Colossians 1:15-20
The word awed means: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence • awed by the silence. I don't have words to explain I am in awed.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
In this Colossians church were false teachers , many churches today have false teachers. These teachers were called . "Gnosticism" They was teaching that Jesus was not God merely a Man
The Paster of this Church (Epaphras) meet with Paul for advice in dealing with these heresy. How do you deal with false teaching ? By telling them the truth.
So in this verse Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
This verse destroys false teaching and false thoughts about God and Jesus Christ . Reviles who God and Jesus Christ are. The word "image"(eikon) means the exact image,the very Pearson of God.
It means that Jesus Christ was the perfect manifestation or revelation of God. God is invisible or unseen,but Jesus Christ reveals God to the world.He reveals God as thee exact image of God. Plainly spoken He is God.
Verse 16 This verse deals with such questions as What is the origin of the universe?
How did the world come into existence ?
What holds things together ?
There are basically three views of creation
Some say by some means and in some way some gas or some element of som sort just appeared "the Big Bang theory"
There is the view that some god did create the World, but is far off and removed from the world. This was the view Gnosticism, they just feel that God is far away removed from the world.therefore, He must have used other forces or beings, other intermediaries or some other way to make the World. This is what Paul was addressing here. Who created the Universe.
The pure Christian view, the truth that God Himself, the Sovereign Majesty Of the universe, created the world in the person of Jesus Christ
So Jesus Christ created all things. All things collectively , that is, all the things within the universe were created by Christ
"All things" individual , that is every, every single detail of creation,was created by Christ
It does not matter what kind of world or creatures they may be-thrones , dominions, principalities, or power-Christ them all
Verse 17. Jesus Christ is before all things it means 2 things
Jesus was before all things in time. Before the first thing was ever created. Jesus Christ was already there. He is not a created being, He is the Creator. There was nothing existing .
Jesus Christ is before all things in importance ,supremacy,and preeminence . Nothing is superior to Him.
Jesus Christ is what holds the world together by his energy his force, power ,order,unity,solidarity ,
Verse 18 explain the relationship between Christ and the church.
Jesus Christ is the head of the Church.
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it
Christ and the church is a picture of a human body with Christ being the Head and the Church being the body that is life. A body cannot live apart from the head and the head cannot live apart from the body to be life they need each other. Christ is made known only through the lives ok His people, the church .
Jesus Christ was the first to arise from the dead. The resurrection of Christ is the reason the church exists
The resurrection of Christ and the church are tired together . Every person who truly believes in the resurrection of Christ is a true member of the Lord's church. Because he was raised from the dead we will be
Jesus Christ is the preeminence Person in the universe because He died and arose again for man's salvation it was because he was obedient to God the Father in dying and being raised from the dead that God the Father has made God the Son preeminent in all things.
The point is this God's great love for His Son explains why the church exists. God created the world and man to Worship and Serve him. All men will not worship and serve Him He knew that some would if he provider a way. This God did. He provider the way through His Son Jesu Christ and the church. The person who believe in his Son Jesus Christ is forgiven of his sins and accepted into the new body of people God is creating, the body call "the church"
This is what the church is a body of people who have approached God through The Lord Jesus to worship and serve God
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Sunday's Lesson. Philippians 3.7-11
Gaining Christ
Phl 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Phl 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Phl 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Phl 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Phl 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
In this Philippians church There was some self righteous Christians you know those that at church every Sunday, lead praise worship follow all the rules Tong talking, bible reading member seems to be during every thing wright may think they are more righteous than others.They think they are more closer to God.
The problem in this Church those Jews were Circumcised and the Gentiles were not so the Jews though they were more righteous than the Gentiles
Paul was in jail in Rome , he wrote this personality letter to the Philippians that it doesn't matter how much good you do are obey all the commandment that is not how to be acceptable to God.
God is perfect and not a single person is perfect .No person can do enough good to become perfect. Imperfection cannot make perfection . You cannot earn or merit the right to live in God's presence
Paul had achieved the height in self- righteousness . Paul ranks among the greatest of men who have attempt to work their way into the present of God yet it was to no avail His goodness did make him acceptable to God
Verses 4-6
The privilege of birth he was saying that goodness are not found in birth nor in religious rituals. He said he was "Of the stock of Israel " He was saying he had the right national heritage . He said he was "Of the tribe of Benjamin " Benjamin was considered the aristocratic tribe of Israel because of the tribe loyalty
What he was telling these Gentiles Christians that goodness and righteousness are not found in social or religious status.
After Paul considered everything he had accomplished in his life, sad that it was all worthless when compared to Christ. To know Christ is the Christian ultimate goal. Consider your values. Do you place envy anything above your relationship with God example. Money,Men, wife,husband , children's, homes, wealth and so on.Paul gave up everything -family, friends and political freedom- in order to know Christ and his resurrection power.we too have excuses to this to this knowledge and power,but we have to make sacrifice .
What are you willing to give up in order to knowChrist Paul is telling us. Nothing is worth holding on
He had it all and it was a lost. There is nothing more important than Cgrist
Phl 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Aman
Gaining Christ
Phl 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Phl 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Phl 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Phl 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Phl 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
In this Philippians church There was some self righteous Christians you know those that at church every Sunday, lead praise worship follow all the rules Tong talking, bible reading member seems to be during every thing wright may think they are more righteous than others.They think they are more closer to God.
The problem in this Church those Jews were Circumcised and the Gentiles were not so the Jews though they were more righteous than the Gentiles
Paul was in jail in Rome , he wrote this personality letter to the Philippians that it doesn't matter how much good you do are obey all the commandment that is not how to be acceptable to God.
God is perfect and not a single person is perfect .No person can do enough good to become perfect. Imperfection cannot make perfection . You cannot earn or merit the right to live in God's presence
Paul had achieved the height in self- righteousness . Paul ranks among the greatest of men who have attempt to work their way into the present of God yet it was to no avail His goodness did make him acceptable to God
Verses 4-6
The privilege of birth he was saying that goodness are not found in birth nor in religious rituals. He said he was "Of the stock of Israel " He was saying he had the right national heritage . He said he was "Of the tribe of Benjamin " Benjamin was considered the aristocratic tribe of Israel because of the tribe loyalty
What he was telling these Gentiles Christians that goodness and righteousness are not found in social or religious status.
After Paul considered everything he had accomplished in his life, sad that it was all worthless when compared to Christ. To know Christ is the Christian ultimate goal. Consider your values. Do you place envy anything above your relationship with God example. Money,Men, wife,husband , children's, homes, wealth and so on.Paul gave up everything -family, friends and political freedom- in order to know Christ and his resurrection power.we too have excuses to this to this knowledge and power,but we have to make sacrifice .
What are you willing to give up in order to knowChrist Paul is telling us. Nothing is worth holding on
He had it all and it was a lost. There is nothing more important than Cgrist
Phl 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Aman
Sunday, January 13, 2013
We are living in Perils Times.
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Posted by MINISTER GLORIA DALE on January 13, 2013 at 6:30pm
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The Preacher cannot preach the whole Bible.Are there curtains sins shoul not be condemned .?
Posted by MINISTER GLORIA DALE on January 13, 2013 at 5:50pm
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A preacher, had to withdraw from the inaugural ball because he preached the truth. no preachers I know is standing with him. Are preachers. afraid to call sin sin? Well I am not, we all sin. All unrighteousness is sin. This is what he said
(9:20) [God] says very clearly in [Leviticus], verse 22, after he talks about a lot of different kinds of relationships, he says in verse 22: “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female. It is an abomination.” Now if you would look forward into the New Testament context, to the passage that most of us know most commonly with this issue, into chapter one of the book of Romans, let’s read a few verses together beginning in verse 18. If you’re taking notes tonight, you might make this the note of Leviticus 20:13 and the book of Jude, we won’t look at those passages but there is some support and encouragement there to this topic.
(17:37) Men, women, I can’t say anything other to you tonight than this, that if you look at the counsel of the word of God, Old Testament, New Testament, you come quickly to the conclusion that homosexuality is not an alternate lifestyle… homosexuality is not just a sexual preference homosexuality is not gay, but homosexuality is sin. It is sin in the eyes of God, and it is sin according to the word of God. You come to only one conclusion: homosexuality is less than God’s best for his creation. It is less than God’s best for us and everything in our lives that is less than God’s best for us and his plan for us and his design for us, is sin. That’s God’s voice. If you want to hear God’s voice, that is his voice to this issue of homosexuality. It is not ambiguous and unclear. It is very clear.
Posted by MINISTER GLORIA DALE on January 13, 2013 at 6:30pm
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The Preacher cannot preach the whole Bible.Are there curtains sins shoul not be condemned .?
Posted by MINISTER GLORIA DALE on January 13, 2013 at 5:50pm
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A preacher, had to withdraw from the inaugural ball because he preached the truth. no preachers I know is standing with him. Are preachers. afraid to call sin sin? Well I am not, we all sin. All unrighteousness is sin. This is what he said
(9:20) [God] says very clearly in [Leviticus], verse 22, after he talks about a lot of different kinds of relationships, he says in verse 22: “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female. It is an abomination.” Now if you would look forward into the New Testament context, to the passage that most of us know most commonly with this issue, into chapter one of the book of Romans, let’s read a few verses together beginning in verse 18. If you’re taking notes tonight, you might make this the note of Leviticus 20:13 and the book of Jude, we won’t look at those passages but there is some support and encouragement there to this topic.
(17:37) Men, women, I can’t say anything other to you tonight than this, that if you look at the counsel of the word of God, Old Testament, New Testament, you come quickly to the conclusion that homosexuality is not an alternate lifestyle… homosexuality is not just a sexual preference homosexuality is not gay, but homosexuality is sin. It is sin in the eyes of God, and it is sin according to the word of God. You come to only one conclusion: homosexuality is less than God’s best for his creation. It is less than God’s best for us and everything in our lives that is less than God’s best for us and his plan for us and his design for us, is sin. That’s God’s voice. If you want to hear God’s voice, that is his voice to this issue of homosexuality. It is not ambiguous and unclear. It is very clear.
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