Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude Colossians 3 15 -17

Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude! Colossians 3: 15 -17 Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009

Colossians: Living Completely in Christ 1: 1 -2 Opening Greetings 1: 3 -14 Praying Completely in Christ 1: 15 -23 Praising Completely in Christ 1: 24 -2: 5 Serving Completely in Christ 2: 6 -7 Walking Completely in Christ 2: 8 -23 Defending Completely in Christ 3: 1 -14 Transforming Completely in Christ 3: 15 -4: 6 Relating Completely in Christ 4: 7 -18 Closing Greetings

Colossians 3: 15 -17 Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude Living Completely in Christ in the Community of the Grateful Col. 3: 9 Col. 3: 11 -14 Col. 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 Colossians 3: 15 -17 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 encompassing Speech – 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 Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009