Colossians 1:914

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Colossians 19-14
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• All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit
  and growing, just as it has been doing among you
  since the day you heard it and understood Gods
  grace in all its truth.
• Last week
• The Power of the Gospel to Spread

EPHESUS
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Colossians 11-14

• 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we
  have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of
  the love you have for all the saints 5 the faith
  and love that spring from the hope that is stored
  up for you in heaven and that you have already
  heard about in the word of truth, the gospel 6
  that has come to you.

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Colossians 11-14

• All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit
  and growing, just as it has been doing among you
  since the day you heard it and understood Gods
  grace in all its truth. 7 You learned it from
  Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a
  faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8 and
  who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
• 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about
  you, we have not stopped praying for you and
  asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
  will through all spiritual wisdom and
  understanding.

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Colossians 11-14

• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way
• bearing fruit in every good work,
• growing in the knowledge of God,
• 11 being strengthened with all power according to
  his glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience,
• and joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who
  has qualified you to share in the inheritance of
  the saints in the kingdom of light.

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Colossians 11-14

• 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of
  darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the
  Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the
  forgiveness of sins.

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• All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit
  and growing, just as it has been doing among you
  since the day you heard it and understood Gods
  grace in all its truth.
• GOSPEL the announcement of an event that has
  changed the course of history a summons to
  align oneself with this event.

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• All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit
  and growing, just as it has been doing among you
  since the day you heard it and understood Gods
  grace in all its truth.
• Last week
• The Power of the Gospel to Spread

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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit
  and growing, just as it has been doing in you
  since the day you heard it and understood Gods
  grace in all its truth.
• The power of the gospel in action Kellys story

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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does the gospel effect ongoing change?
• What comprises a life that pleases God?

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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

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SALVATION
TRANSFORMATION
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

ANXIETY
THREAT OF CONSEQUENCES
SALVATION
TRANSFORMATION
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

INCREASED SLAVERY
FORCE OF WILL
SALVATION
TRANSFORMATION
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

GRATITUDE
SALVATION
TRANSFORMATION
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

GRATITUDE
SALVATION
TRANSFORMATION
I gave, I gave My life for thee, what hast thou
given for me?... I bring, I bring rich gifts to
thee, what hast thou brought to Me? I Gave My
Life for Thee, 1858
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
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• How does spiritual transformation occur?

GRATITUDE
SALVATION
TRANSFORMATION
The idea many Christians have of grace is
this that their conversion and pardon are Gods
work, but that now, in gratitude to God, it is
their work to live as Christians and follow
Jesus No, wandering one The past grace to
come and the future grace to abide are alike
from him alone. Andrew Murray, Abide in Christ,
p 17-18
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about
  you, we have not stopped praying for you and
  asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
  will through all spiritual wisdom and
  understanding.
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about
  you, we have not stopped praying for you and
  asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
  will through all spiritual wisdom and
  understanding.
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

Ephesians 116-19 I pray for you constantly,
asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight
so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.
I pray that your hearts will be flooded with
light so that you can understand the confident
hope he has given to those he calledhis holy
people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.
I also pray that you will understand the
incredible greatness of Gods power for us who
believe him.
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about
  you, we have not stopped praying for you and
  asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
  will through all spiritual wisdom and
  understanding.
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

Ephesians 318  And may you have the power to
understand, as all Gods people should, how wide,
how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about
  you, we have not stopped praying for you and
  asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
  will through all spiritual wisdom and
  understanding.
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

FRUITFULNESS
FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF GOSPEL
GROWING
SALVATION
ENDURANCE
THANKFUL HEART
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• How does spiritual transformation occur?

FRUITFULNESS
FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF GOSPEL
GROWING
SALVATION
ENDURANCE
THANKFUL HEART
PLEASES GOD!
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about
  you, we have not stopped praying for you and
  asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
  will through all spiritual wisdom and
  understanding.
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

Comes through Prayer Bible Other
Christians Personal encounters
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• Jonathan Edwards
• As I rode out into the woods for my health, in
  1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired
  place, as my manner commonly has been to walk for
  diving contemplation and prayer, I had a view
  that was for me extraordinary of the glory of the
  son of God as Mediator between God and man, and
  His wonderfully great, full, pure and sweet grace
  and love and meek and gentle condescension.

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• The grace that appeared so calm and sweet
  appeared also great above the heavens. The
  Person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent,
  with an excellency great enough to swallow up all
  thought and conception which continued, as near
  as I can judge, about an hour, which kept me the
  greater part of the time in a flood of tears and
  weeping aloud. I felt an ardency of soul to be
  what I know not how otherwise to express, empty
  and annihilated, to lie in the dust and be full
  of love of Christ alone to love him with a holy
  and pure love to trust him to live upon him, to
  serve him, and to be perfectly sanctified and
  made pure with a divine and heavenly purity.
• (Edwards, A Treatise Concerning Religious
  Affections, p.xxviii)

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• What constitutes a life that pleases God?

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And the God of all grace, who called you to
his eternal glory in Christ, after you have
suffered a little while, will himself restore you
and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 1
Peter 510
Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• What constitutes a life that pleases God?
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

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Abide in Me, and I in you I am the
vine, you are the branches he who abides in Me
and I in him, he bears much fruit John
154-5
Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• What constitutes a life that pleases God?
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• What constitutes a life that pleases God?
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light.

Yes, everything else is worthless when compared
with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus
my Lord. Philippians 38
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Colossians 19-14The Power of the Gospel to
Transform

• What constitutes a life that pleases God?
• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully
  12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
  qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
  saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has
  rescued us from the dominion of darkness and
  brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
  14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of
  sins.

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Transform
FRUITFULNESS
FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF GOSPEL
GROWING
SALVATION
ENDURANCE
THANKFUL HEART