SECOND TO NONE | The Preeminence of Jesus
What do we do with the reality of Jesus - His life, His teaching, His example, His resurrection, all of it? Well, the Apostle Paul has a lot more to tell us in lots of places, and we're gonna take April to dig into one of His most “Christocentric” writings: an ancient letter called Colossians, his impassioned plea to a fledgling church in the ancient world.
In this book, Paul drops serious truths on relatively new believers in Colossae, setting them straight on who Jesus really is - not just a great teacher or a good man, but the actual divine Son of God who created the entire universe! Paul goes hard against some false teachers who were mixing in weird philosophical ideas and rules about diet and rituals. His big idea is that Jesus is supreme over everything, so we shouldn't get distracted by human traditions and rules when you've got the real truth right in front of you. If we want to grow spiritually, the Apostle claims, we've got to stay rooted in Christ and let Him transform our lives from the inside out - instead of just trying to follow a bunch of dos and don'ts. At the end of the day, living for Christ means putting on qualities like compassion, kindness, and forgiveness - that is, we've got to become more like Jesus each day of our lives.
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Message Series Description:
What do we do with the reality of Jesus - His life, His teaching, His example, His resurrection, all of it? In the Bible, the book of Colossians is the Apostle Paul's impassioned plea to a fledgling church in the ancient world, calling on these relatively new believers in Colossae to understand who Jesus really is - not just a great teacher or a good man, but the actual divine Son of God who created the entire universe! His big idea is that Jesus is supreme over everything, so we shouldn't get distracted by human traditions and rules when you've got the real truth right in front of you. If we want to grow spiritually, the Apostle claims, we've got to stay rooted in Christ and let Him transform our lives from the inside out - instead of just trying to follow a bunch of dos and don'ts. At the end of the day, living for Christ means putting on qualities like compassion, kindness, and forgiveness - that is, we've got to become more like Jesus each day of our lives.
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