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Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude!

Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude!. Colossians 3:15-17. Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009. Colossians: Living Completely in Christ. 1:1-2 Opening Greetings 1:3-14 Praying Completely in Christ 1:15-23 Praising Completely in Christ 1:24-2:5 Serving Completely in Christ

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Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude!

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  1. Cultivate a GratitudeAttitude! Colossians 3:15-17 Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009

  2. Colossians: Living Completely in Christ 1:1-2 Opening Greetings 1:3-14 Praying Completely in Christ 1:15-23 Praising Completely in Christ 1:24-2:5 Serving Completely in Christ 2:6-7 WalkingCompletely in Christ 2:8-23 Defending Completely in Christ 3:1-14 TransformingCompletely in Christ 3:15-4:6 Relating Completely in Christ 4:7-18 Closing Greetings

  3. Colossians 3:15-17 Living Completely in Christ in the Community of the GratefulCol. 3:9 Col. 3:11-14Col. 3:15-16 Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  4. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s peace rule! (15)Peace with God – Justification (Rom. 5:1)Peace from God – Trust (Phil. 4:6-7; Jn. 14:27; Isa. 26:3-4)Peace with One Another – Relationships in Body Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  5. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s peace rule! (15)Rule: to judge or umpire an athletic contest directing the game and deciding the winners. Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  6. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Word of Christ – the written Word about the Living WordChrist is the focus of Scripture Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  7. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Dwell – to be at home, inhabit, reside, “have the run of the house” Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  8. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Richly – to overflow, like David’s cup in Ps. 23 Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  9. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Richly – to overflow, like David’s cup in Ps. 23 Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  10. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)The Scriptures are full of Christ, so to be complete in Christ, we need to besaturated with Scripture. The Word must permeate our minds, hearts and lives. Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  11. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Parallel to Eph. 5:18 “Be filled with the Spirit” Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  12. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)“All Word and no Spirit we dry up,all Spirit and no Word we blow up,both Word and Spirit we grow up.”(David Watson; I believe in the Church) Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  13. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)With all wisdom (from the Word)Teaching one anotherAdmonishing one another Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  14. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Psalms – OT Psalms and Psalm-like expressions, “To pluck or play with stringed instrument.” Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  15. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Hymns – NT expressions of worship rooted in Scripture and doctrine(Col. 1:15-20; Phil. 2:6-11; 1 Tim. 3:16; 2 Tim. 2:11-13) Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  16. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)Spiritual Songs – expressions of affection for God and relationship with one another, songs of testimony and exhortation. Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  17. Colossians 3:15-17 Pliny, the Roman governor of Bithynia, wrote to the Emperor Trajan of the early Christians “They met at dawn to sing a hymn to Christ as God.” Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  18. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s peace rule! (15)● By letting Christ’s Word indwell! (16)● By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17) Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  19. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)Christ’s name speaks of His: IdentityAuthority Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  20. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)Whatever you do – all encompassingSpeech – what you sayDeed – what you do Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  21. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)Col. 3:23 “Whatever you do ..heartily for the Lord rather than for men”1 Cor. 1:31 “…eat or drink, whatever you do, do all for the glory of God” Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  22. Colossians 3:15-17 By letting Christ’s name dominate! (17)Rom. 11:36 “...from Him, through Him, and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.” Cultivate a Gratitude Attitude

  23. Cultivate a GratitudeAttitude! Colossians 3:15-17 Jim Jeffery BBC Chapel, March 2, 2009

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