082023...“In Him”...Colossians 2:11-12

“Does your ability to successfully live the Christian life depend ultimately on you or on God?”

Ephesians 2:8-10...“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them”

John 15:5...“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing”

Philippians 4:13...“I can do all things through Him Who strengthens me.”

Philippians 2:12-13...“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”

...“Does your ability to successfully live the Christian life depend ultimately on you or on God?”...
...“Are you personally living your Christian life as though it depends on you or on God?”...

Sermon In A Sentence: Real spiritual growth will happen in your life as you rely on God to change your will & do the work in you.

Colossians 2:8-10...“Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ…”

...“Does your ability to successfully live the Christian life depend ultimately on you or on God?”...
...“Are you personally living your Christian life as though it depends on you or on God?”...

Colossians 2:11-12...“You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah. Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead”

Because Of Your Position In Christ:
-You were circumcised in Him

Deuteronomy 10:16...“Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don’t be stiff-necked any longer”

Deuteronomy 30:6...“The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.”

Romans 2:28-29...“For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter”

Philippians 3:3...“For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh”

Because Of Your Position In Christ:
-You were circumcised in Him
-You put off the body of flesh

Romans 6:6...“We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.”

Because Of Your Position In Christ:
-You were circumcised in Him
-You put off the body of flesh
-You were buried with Him
-You were raised with Him

Romans 6:11-14...Consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. For sin will not rule over you…”

...“Does your ability to successfully live the Christian life depend ultimately on you or on God?”...
...“Are you personally living your Christian life as though it depends on you or on God?”...

2 Peter 1:3ff...“For His divine power has given us everything we need for life & godliness through our knowledge of Him”

Sermon In A Sentence: Real spiritual growth will happen in your life as you rely on God to change your will & do the work in you.