Jesus Is Your Life
Colossians 3:1-4:1
January 26, 2025

Introduction:

1. Your belongs to Him v1-4

Hebrews 12:2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of faith.
Psalm 73:25 besides You, I desire nothing on earth.
Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Christianity is the worship of Jesus Christ. It’s the worship of Jesus Christ exclusively, and it’s the worship of Jesus Christ comprehensively….If Jesus is who the Bible says He is, if He did what the Bible says He did, then He is worthy of absolute, complete, exclusive, comprehensive attention and focus in our life. —Rick Holland (from Eclipsing the Son)

2. You yourself v5-9

• Sins of

v5-7

Galatians 5:24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have cruciHied the Hlesh with its passions and desires.
Titus 3:3-5 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy.

• Sins of

v8-9

Ephesians 4:31-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

3. You Him in all you do v10-17

• His attitude

v12-14

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it proHits me nothing.

• His peace

v15

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.

• His Word

v16

Psalm 119:11 Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.

• His name is

v17

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

4. You honor Him in every v18-4:1

In your marriage:

• Wives—willingly

v18
• Husbands—selFlessly v19

Remember still that you are both diseased persons, full of inHirmities; and therefore expect the fruit of those inHirmities in each other…If you could not bear this, you should not have married her; if you resolved that you could bear it then, you are obliged to bear it now. Resolve therefore to bear with one another; as remembering that you took one another as sinful, frail, imperfect persons, not as angels, or as blameless and perfect. —Richard Baxter

In your parenting:

• Children—eagerly

v20
• Fathers—do not needlessly v21

I pull out my ammunition—my superior size, my position of authority—and I yell or intimidate or threaten or punish. And I win. I stand there, victorious, in the middle of the debris of a shattered relationship while my children are outwardly submissive and inwardly rebellious, suppressing feelings that will come out later in uglier ways. —Stephen Covey

In your work:
• Employees—heartily

v22-25
• Employers—fairly v4:1