Sermons in Colossians

Paul’s updates and greetings from various people in these final verses of Colossians presents us with a portrait of our fellowship in the Lord, which is a fellowship of love and faithful service.

This passage gives us two simple commands: persist in prayer; and walk in wisdom towards outsiders.

Paul encourages people in servitude to work hard from the heart, not to please men, but to please God because we all serve Lord Christ.

When we are raised with Christ our clothes change and the old way of thinking and living no longer fits with our new moral attire

Paul writes that we’re being renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ and that renewal requires putting off sinful passions and practices.

The Apostle Paul exhorts us to avoid false religion, which is mystical and legalistic, and which judges people based on man-made regulations.

The Apostle Paul reminds us that the fullness of God dwells in Christ and we have been filled Christ, so we don’t need religious or philosophical supplements. We have fullness of life and liberty in Christ. 

Paul was appointed by God to reveal the mystery of Christ through the preaching of the Gospel, so that through his preaching, the mystery of Christ would be revealed to the nations and the riches of the glory of Christ would be spread among the nations.

We increase in the knowledge of God as we grasp more and more deeply the identity and preeminence of Christ and who we are in him.

Paul's prayer here is modeling for us how we ought to pray for one another

As we consider this text the question we need to ask is: Are we increasing in our faith in Christ and in our love for all the saints?

There is no such thing as progressive Christians; they are not Christians. Christ remains the same, so there is no progress to be made in morality or the doctrine of Christ.