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Peace & Hope Colossians 1:21-23

Outline • Christ Our Enemy (Colossians 1:21) • Christ Our Peace (Colossians 1:22) • Christ Our Hope (Colossians 1:23) Peace & Hope

Christ Our Enemy • First, Paul applies the truths of salvation. • Second, Paul recalls the depths of despair.

“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” ~Romans 3:10–18, ESV

Christ Our Enemy • If you are without Christ, know you are separated from God. • If you have come to Christ, remember the condition from which God has delivered you. We realize just how good God is as we realize just how bad we were.

Christ Our Peace • Reconciliation is the removal of enmity and the restoration of fellowship between two parties.

Christ Our Peace • God reconciled us to himself. • God reconciled us to himself through his Son.

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” ~1 John 4:9–10, ESV

Christ Our Peace • God reconciled us to himself. • God reconciled us to himself through his Son. • God reconciled us to himself through his Son so that we might be holy.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” ~Ephesians 1:3–4, ESV

“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy…” ~Jude 24, ESV

Christ Our Hope • Paul is not warning those whose faith is weak or little. • Paul is not warning those who lack assurance of their salvation. • Paul is warning those who would abandon faith in Christ alone for their salvation.

Christ Our Hope • The gospel is God’s exclusive message of salvation. ✤ To alter the gospel in any way (adding to it, subtracting from it) is to deny and reject the gospel.

Christ Our Hope • Your faith in Christ is sufficient for salvation. • Give yourself to God’s mean’s of grace to grow your faith. • Set Christ before you as your only hope.

“After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘Do you want to go away as well?’ Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.’” ~John 6:66–69, ESV