"description":"Douglas Moo gives a broad overview of the book of Colossians of how they were trying to fit Christ into the worldview they'd already adopted. He homes on some key thoughts in the book, such as bearing fruit and growing and God's rescue and redemption, like that in Exodus.",
"description":"The message of Colossians is that you don't need to go running after spiritual truth in other places in the \"religious marketplace\" outside of Christ. What is a life lived in Christ look like? It's rooted in Him, built up in Him, strengthened in Him, and full in Him.",
"description":"This section of Colossians celebrates the supremacy of Christ in creation and the new creation. All you could possibly know about God is found in Christ. He is not some \"blurry, impressionistic view\" of God but the exact image of the Father.",
"description":"McGee recalls that early in his ministry he was an \u2018apologetics preacher\u2019 but in later years he moved away from this emphasis. He explains this by observing that apologetics are helpful to helping a person believe the Bible is the Word of God, but only the Spirit can allow a person to know this. He reemphasizes this point by saying that we can\u2019t rely on biblical archaeology or science to confirm the Word of God\u2026the Holy Spirit must become real to us.",
"description":"\"If we want our lives to be summed up and full of Christ,\" says brother Dana, \"there is a subtraction process.\" Tribulation in our lives teaches us to value the glory of Christ. If you set your heart to seek Him, you can be guaranteed to be resisted by the devil, the world and your flesh.",
"description":"\"You've been designed by God,\" teaches Ernie Hile, \"to live in spiritual fullness.\" Are you being satisfied with something other than the Lord Jesus, or are you seeking for practical ways to take Him up on His offer to come to Him and drink and experience those rivers of living water? (This message was delivered at Harvey-Cedars Conference 2006)",
"description":"We need the kind of humility that was expressed in the early Church as recorded in the Book of Acts. This kind of humility is today manifested in many underground and persecuted Churches across the world because they have dealt the death blow to pride and independence.39 These persecuted believers have become solely dependent on Jesus Christ as the Head to lead them and guide their meeting as Churches.40 A brother stated this truth, in another way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Christ should be the gathering center of His people. We should be drawn by His presence, not by a man. When believers see this and act upon it, the local Assembly need not be shaken by the departure of any man. An Assembly where Christians gather to Christ has strength, stability and solidarity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"description":"The Headship of Jesus Christ was not just a doctrine or an idea to the early Apostles but rather a present reality to them. The Lord was the active Head of the Church. They realized it was His Church and everything was done in His Name for Him and through Him.224 This apostolic dependency on the person of Jesus Christ allowed the Lord to be in control of each Assembly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything for the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"description":"The Lord is crystal clear in the priority and importance He puts on our love one for another. This is not an option but a reality that will manifest when true believers are together.447 If love is lacking there should be a sense of alarm that something is wrong in the body life.448 The law of love says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d449 Our Lord not only commanded the early disciples to love one another but said that it would be a fruit that would show the world that God has assembled a Church on the earth. Every believer should consider reading through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 on a regular basis to keep the right priority in Christian discipleship.",
"description":"The Chinese believers see the Gospel of Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 death and resurrection in all their activities. Out of a great love for this Savior they speak to Him and of Him often to everyone they meet. The simplicity of the message of the cross of Christ581 has gripped them and persecution has allowed the Church as a whole to keep this as their main message. In every meeting of the underground Church, Jesus Christ is given the rightful place as Head582 of the meeting and He is recognized in the midst.",
"scripture":"Colossians 1:5, Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"A group of Christians was discovered in North Korea. They had worshiped God and His Son Jesus. Their children were with them. The adults were told by those who had captured them: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you do not acknowledge our Dear leader as god and if you do not renounce Christ, your children will be hanged.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d One of the children looked up at her mother. What would she do? Earlier that morning, twenty-eight other Christians had been bound and taken before a screaming crowd of North Koreans. The guards made it clear: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny your Christ you will die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The mother thought of her child but she could not deny her Lord. The other Christians quietly made the same decision. Their God was real.",
"scripture":"Colossians 1:18, 1 Peter 5:3, Revelation 2:7",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"This book has been prepared to encourage believers to gather in small gatherings under the Headship of Jesus Christ.795 Thus no man is head over the fellowships as a whole that gather in this way. Though servant leaders are submitted to, there is no one brother over all fellowships controlling them. True submission to authority in the Church should not be because of someone who was voted in or hired but because of their spiritual walk with the Lord. Thus people submit to them willingly seeing Christ formed in them and desiring to emulate their walk with the Lord.",
"description":"Dr. Stanley examines Paul's prayer found in Colossians 1:9-14. He says that is exactly the prayer that he wants someone to pray for him, and the prayer that you and I should pray for each other. He adds that the most powerful thing that anyone can do for anyone else \"on the face of this earth is to pray for them.\"",
"description":"\"We can talk a big talk,\" David Smithers exhorts, \"but unless we can love one another we're not going to go deeper.\" The end of all Christian growth is love, and we're to abound in it. Smithers addresses many hard hitting issues of lovelessness and a lack of God's grace that hinder Christlikeness in our lives. How does our love measure up to Jesus Christ?",
"description":"\u201cFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.\u201d \u2014 Colossians 1:19. THE preacher is under no difficulties this morning as to the practical object to be aimed at in his discourse. Every subject should be considered with an object, every discourse should have a definite spiritual aim; otherwise we do not so much preach as play at preaching. The connection plainly indicates what our drift should be. Read the words immediately preceding the text, and you find it declared that our Lord Jesus is in all things to have the pre-eminence. We would seer; by this text to yield honor and glory to the ever-blessed Redeemer, and enthrone him in the highest seat in our hearts. O that we may all be in an adoring frame of mind, and may give him the pre-eminence in our thoughts, beyond all things or persons in heaven or earth. Blessed is he who can do or think: the most to honor such a Lord as our Immanuel. The verse which succeeds the text, shows us how we may best promote the glory of Christ, for since he came into this world that he might reconcile the things in heaven and the things in earth to himself, we shall best glorify him by falling in with his great design of mercy. By seeking to bring sinners into a state of reconciliation with God, we are giving to the great Reconciler the pre-eminence...",
"description":"Much error that comes into Christianity is not because people teach error but because one truth is magnified so much at the expense of another truth. Zac Poonen concentrates on six areas where we need to be balanced, the first two expounded in this sermon: 1) faith and works, and 2) love for God and love for man.",
"description":"I was making mention of an article in Time magazine the other day where churchmen of different churches and of great renown were expressing themselves about the conditions in the world, and what place the church held, and the preaching of the gospel. They said very nice things, but all of them missed the main thing. We have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turned to God from idols\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to wait for His Son from heaven.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Every Christian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job and responsibility is to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But you cannot know \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jesus Christ whom He has sent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until you experience Him\u00e2\u20ac\u201duntil you live Him, praise God!\u00e2\u20ac\u201duntil He takes over.",
"description":"\"The closest relationship you've ever had with Jesus,\" shares Ed Miller, \"is only a handful of corn compared to what's coming.\" Creation, the Christian, and the Spirit all groan in sympathy with what God's future plan that brings comfort and assurance of true holiness today. Holiness does not come by studying holiness but entering into the substitution of the Savior.",
"description":"November 7, 2004 - It pleases God when we are a diligent seeker after Him. Out of seeking Him , the love that flows from Him will flow out to the body. This is a commandment of God to love the Lord and our neighbor as ourselves. But it doesn\u2019t stop there we must be willing to go out into the streets and seek out the lost and hurting souls that don\u2019t know about the love of Jesus.",
"scripture":"Matthew 16:24, Colossians 1:24, 1 Peter 2:21",
"topic":"Cross Of Christ",
"description":"Starting with a quote from C.H. Spurgeon, \"Jesus bears not the cross so that you may escape it, but that you may endure it,\" this sermon delivers a message which adopts and adheres the previous two messages into our own bearing of the cross. It is stated herein that one of the greatest libels against the cross in our day is the idea that the believer in the cross is absented from any form of suffering. It is the cruciform life which will generate a necessary friction against the kingdoms of this world. We must apprehend that this conflict is an intention of God through his people, and in every sense, a diet of the things of this world will by nature slicken any apprehension of this cross-centered friction. The hearing of this sermon in its deepest of intentions will bring you face to face with Jesus calling you Satan, that is to say...you are Satanic if you cherish not the things of God over the things of man. We are admonished to take up the cross and follow Christ for, \"Natural man is always the instrument by which Satanic things are brought into being in the collision between kingdoms.\"",
"description":"Does Jesus Christ have an exalted place in your heart? Jesus is worthy of all of your hearts adoration. How is it with your first love for Christ? Are you enthralled with the fact that Jesus loves you and has forgiven your sins, or do you take it for granted?",
"description":"Billy Graham gives an opening statement at the Lausanne congress 1974 asking for prayer and introduces Corrie Ten Boom in the meeting. Corrie speaks on the need of the Holy Spirit Power in the Christian life. She speaks on how we can have God's boundless resources when we obey the happy commandment to be filled with the Spirit. The Spirit of God gives us the power to be witnesses for the great commission.",
"description":"This message was preached on September 6, 2009, at the Guinavah Campground amphitheater. \"For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.\" (Colossians 1:19-22) Contrary to what we might feel, God does not reluctantly forgive sins but He is pleased and full of joy to reconcile His enemies unto Himself. It pleased the Lord to crush His Son for our sakes, and when we apprehend this wonderful knowledge of God's good pleasure in the gospel, our hearts will be liberated and our lives transformed.",
"description":"Every human being is asking, has asked, or will ask these questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is wrong with the world? and Can what is wrong be made right? It is very important that Christians not only answer these questions, but answer them in a manner that distinguishes the Christian worldview from all others. Paul gives us a model for doing so in Colossians chapter one.",
"description":"A wonderfully encouraging and challenging message for any true believer who has struggled with striving and works to prove themselves worthy of God. Paul takes us deeper into the true meaning of Jesus' words \"Abide in Me\" and how through abiding, we bear His fruit.",
"description":"Ed Miller offers refreshing insight of Christ revealed in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, particularly how it is all about two kingdoms: the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God. If you have ever asked yourself, \"How can I be delivered completely from the kingdom of man?\" this message may cause you to expect Jesus Christ to work in your life in a bold way.",
"description":"In this teaching, Pastor Cymbala gives a clear picture of what it would have been like if we were present when Jesus entered Zacchaeus's house. Col 1:15-20; 3:12-13 (NIV)",
