Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude! Colossians 3:15-17 Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009.
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Transcript of Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude! Colossians 3:15-17 Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009.
Cultivate a
GratitudeAttitude!
Colossians 3:15-17
Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009
1:1-2 Opening Greetings1:3-14 Praying Completely in Christ
1:15-23 Praising Completely in Christ1:24-2:5 Serving Completely in Christ
2:6-7 Walking Completely in Christ2:8-23 Defending Completely in Christ
3:1-14 Transforming Completely in Christ3:15-4:6 Relating Completely in Christ
4:7-18 Closing Greetings
Colossians: Living Completely in Christ
Living Completely in Christ in the Community of the Grateful
Col. 3:9 Col. 3:11-14Col. 3:15-16
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s peace rule! (15)
Peace with God – Justification (Rom. 5:1)Peace from God – Trust (Phil. 4:6-7; Jn.
14:27; Isa. 26:3-4)Peace with One Another – Relationships in
Body
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s peace rule! (15)
Rule: to judge or umpire an athletic contest directing the game and deciding the
winners.
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Word of Christ – the written Word about the Living Word
Christ is the focus of Scripture
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Dwell – to be at home, inhabit, reside, “have the run of the house”
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Richly – to overflow, like David’s cup in Ps. 23
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Richly – to overflow, like David’s cup in Ps. 23
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
The Scriptures are full of Christ, so to be complete in Christ, we need to be
saturated with Scripture. The Word must permeate our minds, hearts and lives.
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Parallel to Eph. 5:18 “Be filled with the Spirit”
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
“All Word and no Spirit we dry up,all Spirit and no Word we blow up,both Word and Spirit we grow up.”
(David Watson; I believe in the Church)
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
With all wisdom (from the Word)Teaching one another
Admonishing one another
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Psalms – OT Psalms and Psalm-like expressions, “To pluck or play with
stringed instrument.”
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Hymns – NT expressions of worship rooted in Scripture and doctrine
(Col. 1:15-20; Phil. 2:6-11; 1 Tim. 3:16; 2 Tim. 2:11-13)
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)
Spiritual Songs – expressions of affection for God and relationship with one another, songs of testimony and
exhortation.
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
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Pliny, the Roman governor of Bithynia, wrote to the Emperor Trajan of the
early Christians “They met at dawn to sing a hymn to Christ as God.”
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
• By letting Christ’s peace rule! (15)● By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)● By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)
Christ’s name speaks of His: Identity
Authority
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)
Whatever you do – all encompassingSpeech – what you say
Deed – what you do
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)
Col. 3:23 “Whatever you do ..heartily for the Lord rather than for men”
1 Cor. 1:31 “…eat or drink, whatever you do, do all for the glory of God”
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)
Rom. 11:36 “...from Him, through Him,
and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.”
Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude
Colossians 3:15-17
Cultivate a
GratitudeAttitude!
Colossians 3:15-17
Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009