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Sunday
Morning: July 25, 2004
Text: Colossians 3:1-4 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2. Set
your affection on things above, not on things on
the earth. 3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ
in God. 4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall
ye also appear with him in glory."
BE CONTENT
1
Timothy 6:6-9 "But godliness with contentment
is great gain. 7. For we brought nothing into this world, and
it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8. And having food and
raiment let us be therewith content. 9. But they that will be rich
(the rich are not content) fall into temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts (discontent), which drown men
in destruction and perdition."
BE CONTENT
Hebrews
13:5 "Let your conversation be without
covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have:
for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
CONTENTMENT IS LEARNED
Philippians
4:11 "Not that I speak in respect of want:
for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to
be content."
POSSIBLE BY GRACE
2
Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace
abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in
all things, may abound to every good work:"
THE GRACE OF GOD
Galatians
2:19-21 "For I through the law am dead to the
law, that I might live unto God. 20. I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I
now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me. 21. I do not frustrate the grace of God:
for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."
JUST
Galatians
2:19 "For I through the law am
dead to the law, that I might live unto God."
LIVE BY FAITH
Galatians
2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless
I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live
in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me."
GRACE TO ENDURE
Ephesians
2:8 "For by grace are ye [ye
endure] [having been] saved [perfect tense] through
faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"
GRACE BY FAITH
Romans
5:2 "By whom also we have access by
faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of
the glory of God."
BY GRACE
Galatians
2:21 "I do not frustrate [reject, do away
with] the grace of God: for if righteousness (approval,
justification) come by the law, then Christ (our
high priest) is dead (not the cross) in vain [for nothing]."
CHRIST AT HIS RIGHT HAND
Colossians
3:1 "If ye then be risen with
Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ (our
high priest) sitteth on the right hand of God."
KNOW THE POWER
Philippians
3:10 "That I may know him, and
the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;"
A NEW LIFE MADE POSSIBLE
Romans
6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into [the] death: that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the Father (to his right hand as our high
priest), even so we also should walk in newness
of life."
HIS RESURRECTION
Acts
13:33 "God hath fulfilled the same (promise)
unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again;
as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee."
TO BECOME OUR HIGH PRIEST
Hebrews
5:5 "So also Christ glorified not himself
to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to
day have I begotten thee."
FOR MERCY AND GRACE
Hebrews
4:15-16 "For we have not an high priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16. Let us
therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
GRACE, THE POWER OF CHRIST
2
Corinthians 12:9 "And he said unto me, My grace is
sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most
gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me."
GRACE BUILDS
Acts
20:32 "And now, brethren, I commend you to
God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you
up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified."
WE GROW IN GRACE
2
Peter 3:18 "But grow in grace,
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.. .
."
THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
2
Peter 1:2 "Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge [deeper knowledge] of God, and of
Jesus our Lord,"
BE STRONG IN GRACE
2
Timothy 2:1 "Thou therefore, my son, be strong
in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."
DON’T BE IN WANT OF GRACE
Hebrews
12:15 "Looking diligently [present
active] lest any man fail [be in want] of the grace
of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and
thereby many be defiled;"
GRACE GIVEN TO THE HUMBLE
James
4:6 "But he giveth more grace.
Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud (those who have not died),
but giveth grace unto the humble." (the dead have
been humbled)
FIXED HEART
Hebrews
13:9 ". . . For it is a good thing
that the heart be established with grace; . . ."
STRONG HEART
Psalms
27:14 "Wait on the LORD: be of good
courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say,
on the LORD."
IT TAKES TIME TO FIND GRACE
Hebrews
4:16 "Let us therefore come boldly unto the
throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace
to help in time of need."
THE BLESSED WAIT
Isaiah
30:18 "And therefore will the LORD wait, that
he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted,
that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a
God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for
him."
THE DEAD WILL NOT FAINT
Isaiah
40:31 "But they that wait upon the LORD
shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
THE DEAD QUIETLY WAIT
Lamentations
3:25-26 "The LORD is good unto
them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait
for the salvation of the LORD."