The True GodThe True God

Colossians 1:1-8Colossians 1:1-8

Colossians

• Church planted through Epaphras

• Under threat from false teaching

• Paul— “an Apostle” writes to help

• He writes down words from God

We Must Think Rightlyabout God

• In our culture the word “god” has no concrete meaning for many

• God is what is conceived in the imagination

• What if God—the true God, thinks differently about this matter?

We Must Think Rightlyabout God

• Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of GOD

• GOD the FATHER of our LORD Jesus Christ

• Faith in Christ Jesus; Minister of Christ

• Told of love in the SPIRIT

We Must Think Rightlyabout God

• In the opening verses he mentions the three Persons of the Trinity

• “God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.”

Wayne Grudem

We Must Think Rightlyabout God

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is PERSONAL and that God has dwelt for ETERNITY in a relationship of LOVE

• God the FATHER; LORD Jesus—in reference to deity of Jesus

We Must Think Rightlyabout God

• Any faith that does not teach that God is ultimately personal cannot be true.

• The Trinity dwells in an eternal relationship of LOVE

• The Son is fully God (Col. 2:9)

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• The Son has always been (John 1:1).

• This truth excludes any faith from being true that says there was time when he was not or that He is less than fully God.

• The Spirit is a Person as well who has existed for eternity (John 14:16)

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• This eternal God who did not need us chose to create and ultimately save a people

• He is bringing them into oneness with Him; in an eternal, loving relationship with the Father, Son, and Spirit (John 1:12-13; Col. 1:12-13)

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• The Doctrine of the Trinity makes possible salvation being a GIFT FROM GOD

• If God were not a trinitarian being, there would be no way for human sins ever to be forgiven.

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• The problem with all other approaches of humans trying to appease God is that we do not recognize how big is our problem

• Something had to be done OUTSIDE OF US and something had to be done FOR US