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Colossians: Jesus is All You Need Lesson
8: by Michael Lewis
August 22, 2010 |
Colossians: Jesus
is All You Need
Lesson 8:
"Living Under an Assumed Name"
by Michael Lewis
Dalton Gardens Church of Christ
August 22, 2010
Colossians has two major sections...
Key verse for part one: Colossians 1:19
Key verse for part two: Colossians 3:17
The real test of living for Jesus is found in our unavoidable relationships with people.
Colossians 3:17-4:1
1. Submit to God’s appointed authority .
Titus 2:4, 5; 1 Peter 3:1,2, 1 Cor 11:3
-Wives are called to look for the Lord in your husbands.
-Husbands are called to love their wives and be completely gentle with them.
-Jesus teaches us that equality and submissiveness can co-exist.
2. We permit God’s Spirit to shape us.
Matthew 20:25-26
3. Commit to excellence in whatever we do.
Colossians 3:17, 23
4. We must let Jesus give meaning to home and work.