SLIDE: Sure Thing – In Christ Jesus
SURE – THING = something to hold onto!
Bank on it! Certainty solid, assurance, guaranteed, trust
SLIDE: Colossians 1:15 The Son is the IMAGE of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him (Jesus) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
SURE – THING = something to hold onto!
Bank on it! Certainty solid, assurance, guaranteed, trust
Abraham … Come and Follow me!
A journey… an adventure!
It is all by faith.
Israel becomes a people.
Bondage, Slavery in Egypt.
Moses – I am that I am … has sent you!
Give me something to hang onto.
The God who is, and was, and is to come.
National, Family and Personal Gods
Something to hold onto, tangible
The Ten Commandments
Exodus 20:1-4 And God spoke all these words:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God
No other images! NONE!
4 “YOU shall not make for YOURSELF an image
SLIDE: Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
Why? Why did God do this?
SLIDE: Colossians 1:19-20 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him (JESUS) , and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Pg. 954
The title: SureThing – “in Christ Jesus”.
God was pleased!
All of God’s fullness – to dwell in Jesus!
Reconcile = Things add up
More about WHY?
SLIDE: Colossians 2:13-15 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you (us) alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Pg. 954
Sure Thing! – IN CHRIST
Christ is the exact representation of God!
He IS the image of the invisible God.
IN Christ
