"The Best To Lead"
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King Jesus (Note; highlight…King)
King Jesus (Note; highlight…King)
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“All authority...”
“All authority...”
Ideally, exemplified in the Church...
Ideally, exemplified in the Church...
Colossians 1:18a (ESV)
And he is the head of the body, the church.
Let’s add context:
Let’s add context:
The Corpus Christi
The Corpus Christi
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
For everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.
He is before all things,
and by Him all things hold together.
He is also the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that He might come to have
first place in everything.
For God was pleased to have
all His fullness dwell in Him,
and through Him to reconcile
everything to Himself
by making peace
through the blood of His cross —
whether things on earth or things in heaven.
A perfect time for the Lord’s Supper
A perfect time for the Lord’s Supper
A brutal reminder of why we struggle with authority (His):
A brutal reminder of why we struggle with authority (His):
Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.
But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him —
if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
One
One
Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,
diligently keeping the unity of the Spirit with the peace that binds us.
There is one body and one Spirit —just as you were called to one hope at your calling—
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
The design:
The design:
Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift.
For it says:
When He ascended on high,
He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.
But what does “He ascended” mean except that He descended to the lower parts of the earth?
The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.
And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head —Christ.
From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
Designed for...
Designed for...
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.
They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.
They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
But that is not how you learned about the Messiah,
assuming you heard about Him and were taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus.
You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;
you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds;
you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.
Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,
and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.
The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.
And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.
And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
Ambassadors in a hostile land
Ambassadors in a hostile land
Finally, Letting God Be God (hint: prequel for next week).
Finally, Letting God Be God (hint: prequel for next week).
Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.
So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.
For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
Therefore, you must submit, not only because of wrath, but also because of your conscience.
And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.
Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.