All Things
James C. Rogers
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YOU ARE PRE-QUALIFIED!
YOU ARE PRE-QUALIFIED!
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God pre-qualified us through an old covenant (Gen12:1-3)
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
All families will be blessed through you! In other words able to receive the pre-qualification notice
Think of the solicitation you receive saying you are pre-qualified, then it says to apply for, doesn’t it? (expand on this) due to the work of the Father we are pre-qualified.
12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
Col1:
How were we pre-qualified? When where we pre-qualified? Why were we pre-qualified? What benefits come from the pre-qualification?
We should know our qualification only comes through Jesus, and we will look at what we have
In Him
By Him
Through Him
For Him
I. In Him
I. In Him
Our qualification was made possible through the Father (v.12) but now lets look at what we have In Him
13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
We have our rescue (v.13; Rom3:23, 6:23)
(expand on what we were rescued from)
Penalty of sin
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom
We have our transfer (v.13; Eph1:3-6)
We have our transfer (v.13)
(expand on transferred from darkness into the Light)
What Light? The Light of the Beloved Son!
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
Blessed us at the transfer
Chose us in Him
Chose with a purpose, to be holy, blameless (expand)
Adopted us according to the kind intention of His will
To the praise of His glory, by grace freely given in Christ Jesus.
We have our redemption (v.14; 1Jn3:14; 1Cor6:20; Col3:13; Eph1:7)
Our redemption, buy back, from death to life (1Jn3:14; 1Cor6:20)
Redeemed from the penalty of sin, in other words the forgiveness of sins (Col3:13; Eph1:7)
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.
Passed from death to life!
20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
We were bought by the precious blood of Christ, so glorify God in your body
13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.
By bearing with one another, forgiving one another
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Because of the riches of His grace!
By the redemption we have been set from from the penalty and the power of sin. For sin is dead now
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
ROm6:
Not from to sin, freed from the power of sin so not to sin
We need to know the truth of what we have in Him so we are not easily deceived (Eph5:6)
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
So now we know what we have “in” Him, let us look at what we have “by” Him.
II. By Him
II. By Him
When we understand what we have “in” Him; then we can appreciate what we have “by” Him
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Col1:15-16
19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
By Him; for He is the image of the invisible God (v.15-16; Heb1:3; Rom1:20)
He is the image of the invisible God; God in the flesh. in the Phillip’s translation it says “Christ is the visible expression of the invisible God”
By Him; for he is the firstborn of all creation (v.15)
First born is first place in primacy, sovereignty
This is the place of supremacy that leads us to understand His authority.
By Him: for He is the Creator of all things; sustainer of all things (v.16-17; Jn1:3, 14)
3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
He is the Creator, the sustainer and he is the head of the body the church. Eph5:23 is a good parallel to this
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
He is the head of the body, He is before all things, He is the firstborn from the dead.
Others have risen before, only to die, but Christ rose again to live so that we can have life through Him and in Him.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Col3:4
By Him: All things are reconciled (v.20); why? (v.19)
By Him: All things are reconciled (v.20); why? (v.19)
Reconciled with a purpose
12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
Here is the how, by the Father, the why is:
19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
and the means
20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
in Him, through Him and for Him ; all things are reconciled; all by the blood that was shed on the Cross.
That brings us to the results of what we get through Him
III. Through Him
III. Through Him
Think about what we have “in” Him; that leads to what we receive “by” Him and that brings us to the results we get “through” Him.
We who were once alienated, hostile, engaged in evil deeds (vv.21-22; Eph2:11-13)
There are many passages that tell us who we were, but let me just give you the parallel
11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
We were in our mind, evil in our behaviors
We were enemies in our mind, evil in our behaviors
But God at the right time since the Christ while we were still enemies
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Through HIM we are reconciled! Holy, blameless, beyond reproach (v.22)
Through HIM we are reconciled! Holy, blameless, beyond reproach (v.22)
Through Him we are reconciled and we have a peace that surpasses all understanding/comprehension; It is the peace of Christ that helps us in our present standing here with our hope of what is yet to come.
Because of our hope that is yet to be revealed we can strive to be holy, blameless and beyond reproach
IV. For Him
IV. For Him
Know you have been pre-qualified, transferred, In Him you have been redeemed and reconciled. We now have the words of encouragement
23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
Paul is encouraging them to stay firmly established and steadfast
Expand on the above (hard times, good times, all times)
Don’t be moved away from the hope of the Gospel
Don’t be easily swayed or moved away from the hope of the Gospel
Expand on this, remember you hope
(below on handout not on slide, not to be said) - - - - lead to invitation
So what are you going to do with the all things we have in Christ Jesus?
Invitation:
Remember the pre-qualification? If you receive it you have to apply it to receive the benefits of the pre-qualification. If you do not apply it avails nothing at all.
Be sure to transfer your title from a worldly home to a heavenly home through Christ Jesus who is the sum of all things
10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him
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when we chose Him, obey Him, then live for Him we know our location and position change. We are seated in the heavenlies even while here on earth. We have our position changed from being of the world to being in Christ
We know then this world is not our home we are just passing through
That we can confidently say “I am a child of the living God”
expand how to become; why become; what to do when you are
