
Text: Colossians 3:1-4,12-17 (LSB)
Topic: What is Biblical Community.
Application Point: We are to put on Love & Thankfulness
Sermon Title: Clothed in Love
Three Questions:
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What most of us know:
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People actually want a
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People want their church to be a place of
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What brings about change?
Context:
Colossians 3:1-4 LSB
1 Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.
Two things that Paul identifies that brings authentic change.
Colossians 3:12-17 LSB
12 So, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, [and] patience; 13 bearing with one another, and graciously forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord graciously forgave you, so also should you. 14 Above all these things [put on] love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with gratefulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 3:12-13 LSB
12 So, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, [and] patience; 13 bearing with one another, and graciously forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord graciously forgave you, so also should you.
1. Real Biblical Community means
together.
Colossians 3:14-15 LSB
14 Above all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Colossians 2:19 LSB
19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Mark 10:8-9 LSB
8 AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
2. Leaving Biblical Community should be
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Colossians 3:16 LSB
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with gratefulness in your hearts to God.
3. Authentic Biblical community meets together regularly to
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Colossians 3:17 LSB
17 And whatever you do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
4. Being
is a result of living in Biblical Community.
Life Group Question: Read Colossians 3:1-4,12-17
Get to Know You: What is your biggest pet peeve?
Is the Gospel ruling and dwelling in my life the way it should? What needs to change?
As a church are we clothing ourselves with the attributes of Christ? Which ones might we be lacking?
3.Are we bearing with and forgiving well as individuals and as a body?
4.Are we seeking horizontally what we already have vertically?
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