Colossians 3:12-17 Immerse Intake Sermon

Passage

Colossians 3:12

Context (Literary, Cultural, Historical, Redemptive)

Paul is writing from Prison

The church of Colosse was not founded by Paul

Overall theme of the letter was encouragment for continued spiritual growth

This letter aswell confronted false teaching that was undermining the supermacy and sufficiency of Jesus.

Paul was also confront a broad cultural ideas that were circulating around Colosse. Relgious leaders impossoing rules about eating and drinking

Colosse was a small market town

Jewish Gentile mox

Quick context

Chapter 1

Paul starts with his typical introduction of thanksgiving and prayer

Encouraging the church of Colosse that the word of the love and growth in the gospel had spread around the region.

That they might continue to grow in knowledge and bear fruit

Reminding them who Christ is “image of the invisible God” by who “all things were created, “the head, beginning, firstborn”

in Him the “fullness of God dwelt bring reconcilation to all things”

Know we were once “alienated and hostile” towards him but know because of Christ “holy and blameless”

Chapter 2

Paul rejoices in his suffering for the sake of the church, reminding them that God has now revealed allowed him to “make known fully the word of God” the gospel know avaliable to Jews and Gentiles a like “Christ in you the hope of glory”

“struggling together for the maturity in Christ” This is what Paul struggled and pushed towards. Being “knited together in love, in hopes of reaching full assurance of understanding and knowledge of God and growing in the mystery that is Christ”

Be careful against philosopgies and empty deceit that come from spirits of the world

The gospel

Paul address concerns over eating, drinking and festevals

The worship of angels

In Christ you died to the world why why are you still living in the world, living by the rules set out by apparent angels.

Don’t do this or that seems good by they dont not stop the flesh.

Chapter 3

The believers of Colosse had been raised with Christ and encouraged to set their minds on the things from above, the things of Christ and the things to come when He returns

Put to death the things of the flesh “sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, coveousness, these things bring the wrath of God, the flesh in which we once walked, putting away anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth, lying,

Put away the old self and put on the new! Continue to put on knowledge

Col 3:12 The new self, “ put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compaasionate hearts, kindness, humilty, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankfull. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spritual songs, with thankfullness in your hearts to God.

Chapter 4

Paul contiunes in instructions for Christian living

Instructions for Christian households, and master/salves

prayer, wisdom, making the most of your time, being gracious seasoned with salt.

Redemptive

English Standard Version Chapter 2

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Analysis/Observations (Definitions of words, ask questions, what connections do you see, words/syntax, what confused you and what doesn’t, cross-references, apparent contradictions)

Raised in Christ (3:1 connects back to chapter 2 gospel presentation)

Bearing fruit and increasing

knowledge of God and His mystery (which is Christ) new selfs renewed in knowledge - there is a continued encouragment to grow in this knowledge

Christ is the “image of the invisible God, in him the wholeness of deity dwells bodily, seated at the right hand of God -there is a continued declaration of who Christ is

newself/oldself both are contrasted against one another

worldly teaching/things that are above/setting your minds

the ways of the flesh/and the ways from above/Christ.

There seems to be such a call to walk in the ways of Christ, makes me wondering how much these false teachings and philosophies were effecting the unity within the church of Colosse?

*See above but there is a list of what the things of the earth are what the things from above are

Problems (Are there any?)

False teachings entering in

Interpretation ( Go back and answer the questions? Solve the problems? Go to commentaries)

Themes (Do you see any? What is the passage really saying? What is the big picture? What Theological principles are being taught, and what is the writer trying to convey to their intended audience (bridge the gap)?

The contrast between earthly and kingdom things

Commentaries

Applications (Why does this matter to me, and how can I apply it to my life)

Reflect (Reflect, rest, and pray)

Questions that you should be able to answer now

1) Who is God??

2) What does He promise me?

3) Who am I? Before Christ? After Christ or Both?

4) How should this change me?