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The El Bethel congregation sends $600 a monthout in outside support. We support four preachers:
Jerry L. Henderson J. Wiley Adams
Chris BatesJody Lusk
Preachers We Support
Jerry L. Henderson
E-mail: [email protected]
$150per month
Northside church of Christ644 North College Street
Trenton, TN 38382
www.hendersons.net/trenton
Preachers We Support
J. Wiley Adams $150per month
Centerville church of ChristP. O. Box 346
Centerville, GA 31028
Write to:110 Greenwood Drive, Warner Robins, GA 31093
Preachers We Support
Chris Bates $150per month
Main St. Church of ChristChapel Hill, TN
E-Mail: [email protected]
The El Bethel congregation sends $600 a monthout in outside support. We support four preachers:
Jerry L. Henderson J. Wiley Adams
Chris BatesJody Lusk
Preachers We Support
Jerry L. Henderson
E-mail: [email protected]
$150per month
Northside church of Christ644 North College Street
Trenton, TN 38382
www.hendersons.net/trenton
Preachers We Support
J. Wiley Adams $150per month
Centerville church of ChristP. O. Box 346
Centerville, GA 31028
Write to:110 Greenwood Drive, Warner Robins, GA 31093
Preachers We Support
Chris Bates $150per month
Main St. Church of ChristChapel Hill, TN
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sermons Today:Sermons Today:
AM: Remain Steadfast(Col. 2:4-7)
PM: Reminders About sin
Quiet Please!Quiet Please!Let us all prepare to worship the
Almighty God
Let others prepare too!Let others prepare too!
Colossians 2:4-7
Remain Steadfast
Colossians 2:4-7
4 Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.
5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Outlineof
theChapter
I. Concern & Desire for Brethren (vv. 1-2)
II. All Our Needs are Supplied in Christ (vv. 3, 9-13)
III. Remains Steadfast (vv. 4-7)
IV. Don’t be Led Away by Error (vv. 8, 14- 23)
Colossians 2Colossians 2
I. Reason for Admonition (v. 4)
Colossians 2:4-7Remain Steadfast
Reason for Admonition (v. 4)
A. What could happen Deceived - Deluded
B. How it could happenPersuasive - Enticing Words
“Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.”
This was a word of the law-courts; it was the word for the persuasive power of a lawyer’s arguments, the kind of persuasive power which could make the worse appear the better reason, and which could enable the criminal to escape the just punishment he should have suffered, the power which could sway an assembly – and sometimes sway it into mistaken ways
Persuasive or Enticing Words
Reason for Admonition (v. 4)
A. What could happen Deceived - Deluded
B. How it could happenPersuasive - Enticing Words
C. Who it could happen to Faithful - Hope - Steadfast
“Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.”
I. Reason for Admonition (v. 4)
II. Rejoicing in their Strength (v. 5)
Colossians 2:4-7Remain Steadfast
Rejoicing in Strength (v. 5)
A. Order - Well ordered
B. Steadfastness - Firm - solid
“For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and
the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.”
The ranks of the Colossians have not been broken; in his letter Paul is not hurrying to the rescue of a congregation that has been thrown into disorder. In Corinth the order has been broken; not so in Colosse. . . He is not hurrying to the rescue of a congregation whose faith has begun to lose its firm stand, has begun to become unsteady. . . Thus far the Colossians have stood in line with all firmness, but, like all errorists, the Judaizers are persistent, and this causes Paul concern for the Colossians, he is thinking of the future days. He is not one who waits until the damage is done; he acts with promptness so that no damage shall ever be done, so that with his help the Colossians shall stand more firmly than ever. That is a far more joyful task than repairing damage after it has been done, especially when such damage might have been prevented by taking proper measure in time. Fortify in advance! is the proper procedure.
Prevents Rather Than Repairs
I. Reason for Admonition (v. 4)
II. Rejoicing in their Strength (v. 5)
III. Remaining in their Teaching (vv. 6-7)
Colossians 2:4-7Remain Steadfast
Remaining in Teaching (vv. 6-7)
A. Rooted - tree roots go deep
B. Built up - building continually going up
C. Established - strengthen faith
Walk
“Progress does not consist in dropping the early truths of Jesus Christ the Lord for newer wisdom and more speculative religion, but in discovering ever deeper lessons and larger powers in these rudiments which are likewise the last and highest lessons which men can lean” (235).
-Walton Weaver, Truth Commentaries - Philippians, Colossians, 418.
Progress in Old TruthThat You Already Know
Remaining in Teaching (vv. 6-7)
A. Rooted - tree roots go deep
B. Built up - building continually going up
C. Established - strengthen faith
D. Abounding with thanksgiving
Walk
I. Reason for Admonition (v. 4)Lose - Steadfastness
II. Rejoicing in their Strength (v. 5)Were - Steadfast
III. Remaining in their Teaching (vv. 6-7)Continue in - Steadfastness
Colossians 2:4-7Remain Steadfast
