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Introduction:
Happy Palm Sunday everyone!
As the video just showed - the people rejoiced at Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem.
They had in mind a different kind of leader than the servant leader He came to be.
They wanted Him to dominate and conquer.
Although His second coming will be just that, His first coming was not for that purpose.
It was to be a servant to many.
It was to pay the substitutionary death on our behalf.
He took our sins on the cross.
Next week we will be celebrating Easter Sunday - or better said - Resurrection Sunday!
We hope that you join us for this wonderful celebration.
Invite your friends and family as we celebrate the freedom that Christ has offered us through His death and resurrection!
We can be forgiven of our sins and be given a new life in Christ.
There is no better news in the universe than that!
However, today we are going to be back in the book of Colossians discussing some of the qualities that Jesus expressed perfectly during His earthly life and that He calls and commands us to follow as well.
Join me as we read God’s Word:
Let us pray.
Prayer
Today we are going to discuss three important realities for believers in Christ.
I. Believers in Christ Are… Chosen (12b)
Colossians 3:12b (ESV)
...as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved...
God’s chosen ones.
This is quite a statement.
This speaks of God’s election of His people.
In fact, the word election in a doctrinal sense actually means literally God’s chosen ones.
I understand that God’s sovereign election can be a difficult subject for many people.
I think that this difficulty has stemmed from teachings that have not given a clearly expansive Biblical view of election - meaning certain verses are exalted at the expense of others.
We must take the entire Scripture in order to understand a difficult theology such as election and predestination.
Our church takes a strong stance on God’s sovereignty and election.
Our God is omnipotent meaning He is all powerful.
He is omnipresent - meaning that He is not only everywhere at once - He is at every time at once.
He is not limited by time or space.
And He is omniscient.
Meaning that He knows everything.
Omnipotent: all-powerful
Omnipresent: everywhere and every time at once
Omniscient: all-knowing
We never want to minimize the power of God.
Our God does what He wants to do when He wants to do it.
Yet, here at CrossPointe, we also take a strong stance that man has a responsibility to respond to God’s drawing.
We see that no one can be saved unless God draws them:
And further, we see God promise to draw all people:
Obviously He doesn’t draw all people at all times however.
But He does promise to draw all people.
Moving forward though, we see that the Bible is clear that no one is actually a seeker after God.
So those who are open to the Gospel are those whom the Spirit of God is drawing.
So what are we to do with this exposition?
We are to understand that our job is to share the Gospel with all.
Those who repent and are saved after hearing us present the Gospel are the ones that God was already drawing and the ones who humbled themselves before Him.
The blessing of this fact is that our only job is to share the Gospel.
The outcome is the Lord’s.
So how are we to understand the idea that we are God’s chosen people as believers?
How these two distinct truth’s of Scripture (God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility) play out in eternity is beyond our understanding.
But in the case of this Scripture today, may we rejoice in the fact that we are God’s chosen ones if we are in Christ.
We are holy and beloved.
Our sins are covered by Jesus Christ and we are justified by His blood.
And the beauty of being God’s chosen ones is that we know that God didn’t choose us because of how great we were.
As we saw in Romans 3:11 - none of us were seeking him.
In this same section of Scripture Paul asserts that no one is even good.
We are given some insight into the mind of God as he speaks to Moses in Deuteronomy 7:7-8
God let’s Moses know that it wasn’t because they were an amazing group of people, or a powerful group of people, or a people with such promising qualities that He chose them.
He chose them out of love for them and to glorify Himself.
And He chooses us because of love for us and His desire to glorify Himself through us.
We cannot earn salvation by our works and we do not maintain it by our works.
Once we are believers, he sets us apart as holy and beloved.
And He goes to work in us, on us, and through us.
As a believer in Christ you are chosen.
Next we see that...
Scripture References: John 6:44, John 12:32, Romans 3:11, Deuteronomy 7:7-8
II.
Believers in Christ Are… Changed (12a,c)
Colossians 3:12 (ESV)
Put on then... compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Put on then - In the exact opposite fashion of the put off’s and put to death that we saw in the last few verses of chapter 3, we come to a put on.
We have just finished discussing putting off the old life with its evil desires and evil thoughts like a set of old and worn out clothes.
We have discussed putting off anger and wrath, malice and slander, obscene talk and lying.
It is of the utmost importance that we do put off our old sinful ways.
Yet, it is just as important that we replace those sinful ways with godly ways.
It is important that we put on what is righteous.
So Paul gives us yet another list of things here.
Whereas the last couple of lists were things to take off - meaning sinful ways.
Here are five things to put on:
1.
Put on Compassionate Hearts
We see this also described as tender mercies.
We are to be kindhearted and sympathetic to others.
Those with compassionate hearts are ready and willing to share what they have with others.
They assume the best in others.
They have a concern for and a ready and willing hand to care for those in need.
Next we are to:
2. Put on Kindness
Kindness is very similar to compassion.
Whereas compassion may refer more to what someone does for others, kindness refers moreso to someone’s affect or disposition toward others.
God is referred to as kind Luke 6:35:
Luke 6:35b (ESV)
...for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Here we see God’s kindness through salvation.
While we were enemies of God, He died for us.
My friends, this is an amazing Word.
The Bible teaches that if you are not a believer then you are actually an enemy of God.
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