The document is a summary of a lesson from Grace Bible Baptist Church on Week 22 of Colossians. It discusses the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Key points include that the Colossians were instructed to continue walking in Christ as they received Him and were rooted, built up, and established in their faith through what they had been taught. The document also references debates over the nature of Jesus and the Holy Spirit based on a survey of evangelical beliefs. It includes commentary on passages from Colossians chapter 2.

1. Colossians
The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ
Grace Bible Baptist Church
Adult Sunday School Class
Room 204
Teacher: Pastor Chuck Brooks
Week 22

2. Week 22
“Therefore as you have received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him”. (Col. 2:6)
Colossians
The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

3. Week 22
In the survey, while virtually all of Americans with evangelical beliefs
agreed that there is one true God in three persons (97%), that he is perfect
(97%), and that he answers prayer (94%), respondents stumbled over the
nature of Jesus. Seven out of 10 said he was the first and greatest being
created by God (71%).
The survey reports that about 56% said that “the Holy Spirit is a divine
force but not a personal being,” and 28% believe “the Holy Spirit is a
divine being, but is not equal with God the Father or Jesus.
Colossians
The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

4. Week 22
Q: What are some of the factors
behind the drift or slide of the
church into apostasy?
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

5. Week 22
“Therefore as you have received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him”. (Col. 2:6)
“Christ Jesus the Lord” - The emphasis is on the true doctrine of Christ’s
Person which was perverted by the Colossian teachers.
The Colossians were to remember the nature and content of their faith at
the time of their salvation, and that was to guide them throughout their
Christian lives as well.
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

6. Week 22
In the Roman world of the first century,
Caesar was venerated as “Lord” over the
realms heruled, not just politically, but
religiously too.
Some inscriptions of thatday read,
“Emperor[Augustus]Caesar,godand
lord” and “Nero,thelordofthewhole
world.” Picturewhat it would be like to
confess thatJesus is Lord insuch a
context.
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

7. Week 22
“Therefore as you have received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him”. (Col. 2:6)
John Gill writes, “not only in imitation of Him as He walked, in the exercise of
grace, as love, patience, humility, and meekness, and in the discharge of duty; but
by faith in Him, going on in a way of believing in Him, always looking to Him,
leaning on Him, and deriving grace and strength from Him: to walk in Christ, is
to walk in and after the Spirit of Christ, under His influence, by His direction, and
through His assistance; and to walk in the doctrine of Christ, abiding by it, and
increasing in the knowledge of it…”
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

8. Week 22
“…rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving”. (Col. 2:7)
“rooted” – is a perfect participle in the Greek text expressing an abiding
result, “having been rooted with the present result that you are firmly
anchored”.
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

9. Week 22
“…rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving”. (Col. 2:7)
“built up” – is a present participle, speaking of continuous action, “being
constantly built up.” Vincent says; “Note the changing metaphor from the
solidity of military array to walking, rooting of a tree, and then to building.”
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

10. Week 22
The deeper the root, the more secure
the building:
Before lifting a single steel beam for
the Shanghai Tower skyscraper,
engineers drove 980 foundation piles
into the ground as deep as 282 feet.
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

11. Week 22
Q: What does it mean to “abide in
the Vine?” How does a Christian
“abide in the Vine”?
Colossians
The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

12. Week 22
“…rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving”. (Col. 2:7)
“in Him” – In Him” is en autōi (ἐν αὐτωι). “Rather than upon Him, as
might have been expected. In this and in the Ephesian epistle, Christ is
represented as the sphere within which the building goes on.
The whole upbuilding of the Church proceeds within the compass of
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

13. Week 22
“…rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving”. (Col. 2:7)
“established” – is bebaioō (βεβαιοω), a present participle, emphasizing
continuous action, it refers to a process going on, “constantly being made
firm or stable…constantly being established.”
Colossians
The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

14. Week 22
“…rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving”. (Col. 2:7)
“in the faith” – is tēi pistei (τηι πιστει), “Paul did not mean the experience
of faith, or “personal faith,” even though the Colossians’ personal faith was
strong. The attack was against “the faith,” the system of Christian truth and
its ramifications in life. The church was commended for its growing
strength in Christian truth”.
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

15. Week 22
Q: How did you act when you first
believed? How did you feel about
the Scriptures when you first
believed? Do you feel you have
progressed or drifted?
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

16. Week 22
“…rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving”. (Col. 2:7)
“abounding in it” – is perisseuō (περισσευω), “to be in abundance.” As the
Colossians were established in their faith, they would have more of it (faith)
in abundance. Because of abundant faith, they would overflow with
thanksgiving.
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The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ

17. Week 22
“See to it that no one takes you
captive by philosophy and empty
deceit, according to human
tradition, according to the
elemental spirits of the world,
and not according to Christ. For in
him the whole fullness of deity
dwells bodily, . (Col. 2:8-9)
Colossians
The Supremacy and Sufficiency
of Jesus Christ