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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: August 31, 2014 | 10:00am
This is now the final message in our summer series in Colossians. And if you’re anything like me, when you finish a good book, you immediately go back and revisit the most memorable parts. So this morning as we conclude, I want to give you Paul’s Top Five take-aways for the Colossian believers:
- Number 5: That their life would exhibit the knowledge of Faith, Love that works itself out through walking worthily, and Hope that leads to endurance, or hanging in there.
- Number 4: They would look for and seek the center, Jesus Christ.
- Number 3: That they would make Jesus the center, and not fleeting things.
- Number 2: As we are being built up in faith, love, and hope, that we would take Jesus with us where we go. When we look at our lives, that we wouldn’t see all that’s wrong, but Christ, in whom we are hidden.
- Number 1: They would let the Word of Christ dwell in them richly. The word that says you are Chosen, Holy and Beloved.
Paul was keenly aware that we don’t live in isolation. The thing about life is you gotta do it around other people. It was as true then as it is now. The world is a very diverse and highly complex place. In the midst of all of it, Paul is calling them to faith, love, and hope. But how do we do it? Because it’s a challenging world at times. Jesus Christ, the carpenter from Nazareth, is that hope that turns challenges into opportunities for God’s grace and power to be put on display. And so Paul’s final exhortation to the people is, “Whatever you do, keep the hope of Jesus alive among you.”
Download the entire transcript here: Colossians 4 2-6 Make it Clear
