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Introduction
This is the second week of review.
Review of what we do here at our church in the area of discipleship.
This morning I am going to take you once again to the passage found in Colossians 3:12-17
As many of you know, and for those of you who don’t know, I was raised a prairie boy.
Right in the heart of the wheat city, Regina.
Some of you have called me a flat lander.
It’s true, in southern Saskatchewan if your dog runs away, he has three days of running before you can’t see him.
But truly, growing up in Regina, one of the sports we were quickly introduced to was skiing.
Now this was not downhill, but cross country.
The tallest “hill” in Regina was 21 meters tall.
Seriously, I know for sure as I measured its height in Highschool surveying class.
Cross Country skiing is one sport, that I enjoyed in my younger years.
But with Cross Country skiing, like other outdoor sports, what you wear is as important as the equipment of skiing.
I know some of you have taken up this sport and you have real hills you ski on.
When I think of skiing, I think of one thing
One word, Layering.
And with layering comes a preparation.
You need to be prepared for changing conditions as you begin the sport for each day.
Layering is the process of putting on various clothing that will keep you warm and allowing your body to “breathe” and change to the environment.
Outer Layers, base layers, extremities protection, and finally back up in the back pack.
Today’s text made me think of prepping for that sport.
If your wondering why, turn with me to the passage and let’s read through this passage.
This morning as we think of growing in Christ we are going to discover different aspects of Growing.
Growing to be like Christ is a daily activity, it’s transformational.
If you are a disciple of Christ or want to be it comes with Cost.
A cost to follow Him. and we will read in these verses this morning, what it takes.
Put On
Paul begins this section of scripture with the Greek verb enduo
Which quite literally means to clothe oneself.
This morning when you got up.
Did you enduo.
Did you have to put on something.
What you wear is important.
In fact you need to wear something.
Some churches have expectations of what one needs to wear when even coming to church.
In those churches there is an expectation in order to fit in you have to dress a certain way.
Not so with this church.
We just want you to come.
Come to fellowship, be encouraged, and in some cases challenged, but come.
Paul says to put on and he adds the why.
The Why
We are chosen
Chosen by God is a powerful doctrinal statement.
As I have said before, God choose us before the creation of the world.
In sports, certain people are chosen to play while others watch.
Not so in the Christian Life.
We are all chosen to play.
To be a part of the greater story of God.
Christ is the captain and he looked at all those who have stood up to play and he choose us all.
You see in some way, God chose Jesus
Jesus turns around and looks at his followers and states,
I choose you.
We are holy
The second reason that we need to put on is that we are called Holy.
This is a setting apart from others, the world.
We have been chosen to be Christ Followers and therefore we are identified with Him.
It is like an ambassador for God’s Kingdom.
When we are called followers of Christ.
We are growing to be like Christ.
When we have identified ourselves with being a disciple of Christ.
One who is seeking God, while being transformed into the image of Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit, in the context of community
We are holy.
Marked for a purpose.
Dedicated to bring God Glory.
When this building was completed, there was a service to dedicate this building to be a shining light to God, To Christ and the work among us.
We are the church, this is the building
For many of us who have been given the great responsibility to be parents of children, we brought our child to the “Context of Community” as followers and dedicated our child to God.
To be aware that we need each other to help raise our child in the support of one another.
All these aspects are summed up in the word
holy.
It is nothing we have done, it’s nothing we can do, rather it is a statement of who we have become because of What Christ has done in our lives.
What he continues to do in our lives.
You are chosen,
You are holy
We are beloved
Paul states beloved.
This word brings up thoughts like the following:
You know you are my beloved as I demonstrated my love for you as while you were sinners, alienated from me, I came and died for you.
You know you are my beloved as I take pleasure in you.
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I listen to you.
I ask you to come to me.
You know you are my beloved as I regard you as valuable.
I’ve collected a few things over the years.
Some I keep because I think one day they may be valuable, some were in the basement last year and are now worthless, some were stored in the garage and I hope will one day be worth something.
Some of my other collections are a collection of an aspect of me.
Eiffel towers and VW cars.
They are more valuable because of their significance than worth.
But those who walk in Christ and are growing to be more like Christ, they are far more valuable than any collection of things you can acquire.
Like the parable of he lost sheep, one lost is one too many.
Christ has that same love for each one of us.
One lost is one too many.
You are treasured.
It’s that special part of you.
For one of our son’s growing up it was puff.
A basic stuffed animal that was treasured.
It brought him comfort, security.
Life would be difficult without him by our young son’s side.
As we watched him being wheeled away for a surgery as a young child, puff was at his side.
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