Notes from a sermon on Colossians

1. Christ Is Coming Again:
Motivation For the Spiritual Life
Colossians 3:4

2. I. Our Worthy Savior: Chapters 1-2
A. Introduction 1:1-12
B. Christ is Supreme 1:13-29
C. Complete in Christ 2:1-23
II. The Worthy Walk: Chapters 3:1-4:6
A. The worthy personal walk with Christ 3:1-17
B. The worthy walk with Christ in the home 3:18-21
C. The worthy walk with Christ at work 3:22-4:1
D. The worthy spiritual walk with Christ 4:2-6
III. Closing: 4:7-18

3.  Keep Seeking Christ, v 1
 Set Your Mind on Christ, vv 2-3
 Christ is Coming Again! v 4

4.  When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also
will be revealed with Him in glory.
Colossians 3:4
 Revealed (φανεροω phaneroō)
 John 21:1, 14, (NASB) manifested, He showed Himself to
the disciples
 φανεροω, 1 Pt 5:4; 1 Jn 2:28; 3:2; Rev 15:4
 He is coming in judgment
 Rapture passages do not mention judgment
 1 Thess 4:13-17; 1 Cor 15:50-53
 Revelation 19:11-16, we will be with Him
 Rapture is pre-Trib; Second coming is pre-Mil

5. Age of
Innocence
Call of
Abraham
Age of
Conscience
Age of Israel
Rapture of the Church
Church Age
Eternity
Future
Eternity
Past
Flood
Creation
Fall of Man
Second Coming
Patriarchs
Law
Messianic Age

6.  Dispensationalism – a system of theology that uses a
consistent, literal, grammatical-historical
interpretation of the Bible; therefore, this system sees
Israel and the Church as distinct, understands
different economies in God’s dealing with man, and
understands the doxological purpose of the Scriptures
and mankind.

7.  Age – a period of time during which God is dealing
with a specific group of people most directly.
 Dispensation - A dispensation is a distinguishable
economy in the outworking of God’s purpose
 Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Dispensationalism, Rev. and expanded. (Chicago:
Moody Publishers, 1995), 33.
 οἰκονομια – oikonomia: “house rules,” administration
 Not necessarily connected to time
 It is an “administration,” similar to the idea of the
Obama administration, or the Bush administration
 Can have more than one dispensation in an age.

8. Dispensation
of
Conscience
Dispensation of
Innocence
Age of Israel
Rapture of the Church
Church Age
Eternity
Future
Eternity
Past
Call of
Abraham
Flood
Creation
Fall of Man
Second Coming
Patriarchs
Law
Messianic Age

9. Eternity
Past
Fall of Man
Creation
Flood
Call of Abraham
Age of Gentiles
Dispensation of
Conscience
Dispensation of
Government
Dispensation
of Innocence

10. Age of Israel
Dispensation Mount Sinai
of the
Patriarchs/Pr
omise
Call of Abraham
Dispensation of
Messiah
Dispensation
of the Law
First exile
First
Temple
destroyed
586 B.C.
Second
Temple
dedicated
Birth of Christ

11. Age of the Church
Day of Pentecost
Dispensation of Grace
Temple destroyed
A.D. 70
Jews exiled
Rapture of the
Church
John 14:1-3
1 Thess 4:13-18
1 Cor 15:50-58
Time of
Jacob’s
Trouble:
Age of
Israel,
cont. (70th
week)
Israel reborn
1948
Second
Coming
Rev 19:11-21

12. Millennial Kingdom
1000 year reign of Christ
Second
Coming
Rev 19:11-21
Eternity
Future
Rev 21-22
Last Battle
Rev 20:7-10

13.  “We passages”
 1 Cor 15:51; 1 Thess 4:15-17; Phil 3:20
 Coming of the Lord is near, and He has a reward.
 James 5:8; 1 Pt 5:4; 1 Jn 2:28; Rev 22:12
 Should be waiting for the Christ, not the anti-Christ
 1 Thess 1:10; 1 Cor 1:7; Phil 3:20; Titus 2:11-14
 Signs of “the times”
 Israel return in unbelief
 3rd Temple?
 Ezekiel 38 war?
 Saved for good works: Eph 2:10; Titus 2:13-14

14. “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of
Me.”
“This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as
you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
1 Corinthians 11:24-25

15. There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from
Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their
guilty stains;
Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their
guilty stains.