Living the Risen Life - Part 3 (2)

Jeff Newcomer

Colossians • Sermon • Submitted a year ago • Presented a year ago

Colossians 3:12–17

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“Living the Risen Life” – Part 3

“Family Life in the Church”

Colossians 3:8-17

Reading Before Sermon

1 John 4:7-12

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

John 13:31-35

31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Corinthians 13:1-7

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Illustration

· Abusive childhood – absent parents – but now have a different family and God is your perfect Father

· Also many people are desperate for connection today – Group of friends, etc

Prayer

Introduction

Review indicatives – In a nutshell Paul is saying:

· You have been born again, so live it out

· You have been redeemed, forgiven, so live it out

· You are no longer slaves to sin, live it out

· You have been made a saint, holy and blameless, so live it out

· God has chosen you to be in His family, Holy and beloved, live it out

· You have received God’s unchanging love, live it out

· You have been raised to new life in Jesus, so live it out

· You have received salvation, eternal life with God, so live it out

Main Text

Colossians 3:8-17

8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 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, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Exegesis

· Family life in the Church – How we treat each other

· Continues theme of PUT OFF AND PUT ON

· Virtues of Christ

· Lot of Scripture – bear with me

We’ll Camp out in VS 3:14 – Regarding Love

· Christ’s virtues that we “PUT ON” all fall under umbrella of Love

· Love is the centerpiece of us LIVING THE RISEN LIFE – LIVING OUT OUR FAITH

1 Corinthians 13:13

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

· Faith in Jesus

· Hope of eternal salvation

· Living out our reality of faith and salvation through our love

· VS 3:14 And over all these virtues (Virtues of Jesus) put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity (We are united with Jesus and united with one another)

Our use of love vs Love in Greek

Phileō: It is more naturally used of intimate affection. A relationship between two people. Friendship. Also of liking to do things which are pleasant

Eros: Carries more of a sensual connotation

Agape: Self-sacrificing love – Love Jesus had for us and what Paul is speaking of here. With love each other as we sacrifice for each other

Philippians 2:1-8 – Best describes this

2 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Very Important: What is the order of agape love?

· Love we have received from God through Jesus leads to our loving each other

TJ’s reading of 1 John

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

· Nobody can exhibit this love until God has poured His love in us through Jesus

· And nobody has power to do this unless they are filled with the Holy Spirit

· Holy Spirit dwells and empowers

Galatians

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Back to 1 Corinthians 13 – What this love looks like

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

NT is full of instances of us being commanded to LOVE

TJ’s reading

1 John 4:7-12

Matthew 22:34-40

34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

1 John 1:11

7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

The Product of our Love for Each Other

Love binds everything together in perfect harmony – Other translations = PERFECT UNITY

Application

· Evangelism – again people are desperate for connection – We show, they see

· Seek and set our mind on things above allows us to live out our faith – Exhibit Christ’s virtues

· Remember seeking and setting mind on the things on earth – The result is that we let the world squeeze us into its mold

· Let this AGAPE LOVE, THIS SACRIFICIAL LOVE be ever present in your life

· Make it a point to connect with everyone here

· Question

· Can you imagine what our Church body would look like if we love each other in this way?