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The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:1-2The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians. Colossians, chapter 1. We begin with a series of expositions of this great epistle of the Apostle Paul. Hear now the word of God. Colossians 1:1-2 Our Lord and our God, this is Your Word. We ask spiritual insight and we ask for a spiritual posture that we might obediently sit under the word allowing it to search us out, to see if there is any unclean thing in us, allowing the spirit to freely move within us to move us, to encourage us in our graces and to mortify those sins which remain in us. Open our eyes that we might behold wonderful things from Your law and we'll give You all the praise and all the glory, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. The book of Colossians is about the…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:3-8The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians, chapter 1, we will continue the study we began last week. You remember we said as we looked at the first two verses that in this great letter, the Apostle Paul is battling a false teaching. A heresy amongst the church at Colossae. This false teaching does not reject Christ outright, it claims to introduce these Christians to something in addition to what they had heard from Epaphras originally. It claims to introduce these Christians to a deeper knowledge of God, a deeper experience of God, a higher life. It claims to do it in a variety of ways, keeping certain ritual rules, believing certain mystical things. It intends to supplement the teaching which Epaphras had originally brought to the…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:9-15The Incomparable Christ #3 Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians, chapter 1. We continue our study in Paul's great Epistle to the Colossians. We will read beginning in verse 9 through verse 15, although we will concentrate on verses 9 through 14. Hear now the Word of God: (Colossians 1:9-15) And thus ends this reading of God's holy word, may He add his blessing to it. Let's look to him in prayer: Our Lord, we cheerfully acknowledge that this is your Word. We come to sit under its teaching. Not the words of men, not the thoughts of men, certainly not the cleverness of speech, but the very word of God. And so we ask that You would enable us to come with interest, and with understanding to the Word. Captivate us by this word of Your servant,…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:13-20The Incomparable Christ #4 If you will kindly take your Bibles and turn with me to Colossians chapter 1, we will continue our study of this great book. We began our study by saying that the Apostle Paul was writing to the Colossians, who were being infested with new teachers who brought a new teaching. That teaching did not deny the supremacy of Christ, but by suggesting that one needed to move on from the gospel which Epaphras, Paul's faithful friend, and the man who first…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:21 to 23The Incomparable Christ – Part 6 Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians chapter 1. Paul has been writing to a congregation that has had some people come to it and say, ‘Your belief in Christ is fine, your acceptance of the gospel is fine, but if you will add to your belief in Christ, in the gospel, this secret teaching, this extra ritual, your experience and knowledge of God will be deepened.What you believe about Christ is fine.There are just some other…

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Colossians 1: 15-20The Incomparable Christ – Part 5 Let us pray.Our Lord, God almighty, Father,Son, and Holy Spirit, we come to You praising You thisday, because You are the Creator and the Sustainer, and through our Lord Jesus Christ, have become the Redeemer of Your people. We confess that You are the onlytrue God,and that we are Your people, brought out of darkness and into Your wonderful light through faith in Jesus Christ.Work in us through the workings of the Holy Spirit by grace, we…

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Colossians 1:24-28The Incomparable Christ – Part 7 Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians, chapter one, and verse 24.We have been noting the past several weeks how the Apostle Paul has been setting forth the truth of the sufficiency of Christ; that there is no one and there is nothing outside of Christ that you need in order to have the hope of glory.Paul has been doing this in various ways.In verses thirteen to twenty, we saw him list all sorts of descriptions of who Christ is…

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Colossians 1:29 to 2:5The Incomparable Christ – Part 8 Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians, as we continue our study in this great letter of the Apostle Paul. We looked at verses 24 through 28 last week. As we move into chapter 2, we'll begin again with verse 24 for the sake of getting the context. Hear the word of the living God. (Colossians 1:29 – 2:5) O Father, we thank You for Your word. And we pray that You would use it for our spiritual nourishment…

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Colossians 2:6-7The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians 2, as we continue our study of Paul's letter. You will remember in our previous study, particularly in chapter 1 that we have emphasized Paul's focus on the person and work of Christ. There are people in Colossae who are teaching the Christians there that what they believe about Christ is fine, but if they really want to grow in the Christian faith, they need to move beyond Christ. They need to…