Our Hope Of Glory

Our Hope Is found In Christ

Colossians 1:21–29 NIV

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness—the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

Key Verse* Colossians 1:27

The New International Version Chapter 1

27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Today we begin a study of the epistle to the Colossians.

The real theme of this book is the Supremacy and the Sufficiency of Christ.

However, instead of beginning there, or at verse 1, I felt the leading of the Holy Spirit to begin with this message of Hope. A Message, A Hope, that all humanity had been waiting for Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; had been waiting since eternity.