Honoring Christ Above All

Honoring Christ: His Might

Colossians 2:4 ESV

I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

Christ is above human tradition

Colossians 2:8 ESV

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Christ is above man-made religion

Colossians 2:18 ESV

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

Colossians 2:16 ESV

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

Honoring Christ

Honoring Christ: His Might

Honoring Christ through the acknowledgement of God’s supremacy over our life. Our life should always be bound of Christ authority.

Honoring Christ: His Might

Colossians 1:21 ESV

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

He is God. (to be elaborate)

Colossians 1:15–20 ESV

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Colossians 1:15-

Honoring Christ: His Mission

Colossians 1:

Colossians 1:22 ESV

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

To present you holy and blameless and above reproach.

Paul demonstrate this when he says in verse 28

Colossians 1:28 ESV

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Honoring Christ: His Mandate

The cost of our reconciliation : By the death of Christ on the Cross

Abide in Christ.

Colossians 1:22 ESV

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Colossians 1:23 ESV

if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Colossians 1:

The outcome of our reconciliation