Colossians 1 28ff

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Sunday 13 March 2011

March
4

Jesus

Colossians 1:28-2:7
Him we proclaim,
warning everyone and
teaching everyone with
all wisdom, that we may
present everyone
mature in Christ. For
this I toil, struggling
with all his energy that
he powerfully works
within me.

Colossians 1:28-2:7
Him we proclaim,
The New Testament writers were totally
warning everyone and
teaching everyone with He was their
consumed with Christ.
all wisdom, thatteaching, their
message, their we may
present everyone very life. And
proclamation, their
mature in Christ. For out of intimate
everything else ﬂowed
fellowship with him.
this I toil, struggling
with all his energy that Jesus Manifesto
The
he powerfully works
within me.

For I want you to
know how great a
struggle I have for you
and for those at
Laodicea and for all
who have not seen me
face to face...


Five times I received from the Jews the
forty lashes minus one. Three times I
was beaten with rods, once I was pelted
with stones, three times I was
shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in
the open sea, I have been constantly on
the move. I have been in danger from
rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger
from my fellow Jews, in danger from
Gentiles;


Five timesin received in danger Jews the
in danger I the city, from the in the
forty lashesdanger at sea; and in danger
country, in minus one. Three times I
was beaten with rods,have labored and
from false believers. I once I was pelted
with stones, three times I was
toiled and have often gone without
shipwrecked, I spenthunger and thirst in
sleep; I have known a night and a day
the open often have been constantly on
and have sea, I gone without food; I
the move. Icold and naked. Besides
have been have been in danger from
rivers, in danger Ifrom daily thein danger
everything else, face bandits, pressure
from my fellowfor all in danger from
of my concern Jews, the churches.
Gentiles; 2 Cor 11:24-28


...that their hearts may
be encouraged, being knit
together in love, to reach
all the riches of full
assurance of
understanding and the
knowledge of God’s
mystery, which is Christ,
in whom are hidden all
the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge.

Wherever there is true love,
there must be giving, and
giving to the point of
sacrifice. Love is not satisfied
with giving trinkets; it must
give at the cost of sacrifice: it
must give blood, life, all.
F B Meyer


Agape love is the greatest virtue of the
Christian life.Yet that type of love was rare
in pagan Greek literature. That’s because
the traits agape portrays—unselﬁshness,
self-giving, willful devotion, concern for the
welfare of others —were mostly disdained
in ancient Greek culture as signs of
weakness.
John MacArthur


I say this in order that no one may
delude you with plausible arguments.
For though I am absent in body, yet I
am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see
your good order and the ﬁrmness of
your faith in Christ.


Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and
built up in him and established in the
faith, just as you were taught,
abounding in thanksgiving.


The reality is that Christ trumps
everything. All scripture testiﬁes of
him. The Father exults him. The Spirit
magniﬁes him. The angels worship him.
The early church knew him as her
passion, her message, and the unction
of her life. Christ was her speciality. He
was her bridegroom and head. She
specialised in nothing else.
The Jesus Manifesto


Passionate for
Jesus


Passionate to know
Jesus


Passionately
devoted to Jesus


Passionately
committed to Jesus


Passionate for the
Spirit of Jesus


Passionately
following Jesus


“The old cross is a symbol of death. It
stands for the abrupt, violent end of a
human being. In Roman times, the man
who took up his cross and started
down the road was not coming back.
He was not going out to have his life
re-directed. He was going out to have
it ended.”
A.W. Tozer


Revelation 2:5-6

But I have this against you, that you have
abandoned the love you had at ﬁrst.
A Reminder
Remember therefore from where you
have fallen; repent, and do the works you
did at ﬁrst. If not, I will come to you and
remove your lampstand from its place,
unless you repent.


Revelation 2:5-6

But I have this against you, that you have
abandoned the love you had at ﬁrst.
Remember therefore from where you
have fallen; repent, and do the works you
did at ﬁrst. If not, I will come to you and
remove your lampstand from its place,
unless you repent.


1. What does your life
proclaim?
2. How hard do you struggle?
Have you stopped ﬁghting?
Are you growing in Christ?
3. What do you treasure?


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"This Christ, so glorious in person and
perfect in work—the incarnate God—
the bleeding peacemaker— the imperial
governor of the universe—it is He, none
else, and none besides Him, whom we
preach. Not simply His doctrine, but
Himself; This Christ is the one and
undivided object of proclamation...


“The one theme was Christ—“Him ﬁrst,
Him last, Him midst.” Christ, as the one
deliverer, conferring pardon by His blood,
purity by His Spirit, and perfection by His
pledge and presence, securing defence by
His power, comfort by His sympathy, and
the hope of glory by His residence in the
believing heart; this Christ, as the only
source of such multifarious gifts, we
preach, and we preach with special
tenderness and anxiety.” John Eadie

G. Campbell Morgan kept a newspaper clipping for twenty
years, entitled "Sheer Hard Work," and said:
What is true of the minister is true of every man who bears
the name of Christ. We have not begun to touch the great
business of salvation when we have sung, "Rescue the
perishing, care for the dying." We have not entered into the
business of evangelizing the city or the world until we have
put our own lives into the business, our own immediate
physical endeavor, inspired by spiritual devotion.
G. Campbell Morgan, The Westminster Pulpit, Volumes 3, 4
(Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, n.d.), p. 160.
R Kent Hughes


“... if we Christians would live our Christian
lives and serve the Lord Jesus with the
intensity of purpose and effort that is put
forth in a football contest, what God-
glorifying lives we would live."
Eerdmans Bible Encyclopedia


Spiritual maturity was the great
purpose of the apostles' ministries.
It lay at the nerve center of
apostolic, New Testament
Christianity.


Disciple-makers are not out to
change people; they are out to grow
them. The gardener does not try by
the force of his will to make peas
into roses. He merely cultivates the
ground in which peas are planted,
freeing them to become what God
meant them to be."


"People sometimes tell me that I work too
hard. But compared to Paul, I am not working
hard enough. It saddens me to hear of pastors
or seminary students who are looking for an
easy pastorate...No one can successfully serve
Jesus Christ without working hard. Lazy
pastors, Christian leaders, or laymen will never
fulﬁll the ministry the Lord has called them to.
Striving...refers to competing in an athletic
event. Our English word agonize is derived from
it. Success in serving the Lord, like success in
sports, demands maximum effort."
John MacArthur

“In such a work it is a privilege to exhaust
our strength; in the performance of the
duties of such an ofﬁce, it is an honour to
be permitted to wear out life itself.”
Barnes


Luther worked so hard that many days,
according to his biographers, he fell into
bed. Moody's bedtime prayer on one
occasion, as he rolled his bulk into bed,
was, "Lord, I'm tired! Amen." John Wesley
rode sixty to seventy miles many days of
his life and preached an average of three
sermons a day, whether he was riding or
not.
R Kent Hughes


Jesus the
centre of
our lives


Jesus the
circumference
of our lives

Jesus the
centre of
our lives


Jesus the
circumference
of our lives

Jesus the
centre of
our lives

Fill in all the
space in
between

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