The document discusses being "already full" through Christ. It says that when Christians are not full of gratitude, they try to please God through obedience, morality, and discipline instead of depending on what Jesus has already done for them. It notes that Jesus has already made believers complete by raising them to new life, paying their sin debt in full, and defeating sin and death on the cross. The conclusion is that Christians should stop trying to earn God's love and instead love God and others from a place of gratitude for what Christ has already accomplished.

1. A FULL TANK OF GAS
NOTHING LIKE STARTING YOUR JOURNEY WITH

2. DON’T HAVE ENOUGH
NOTHING’S AS STRESSFUL AS THINKING YOU

3. 6 You received Christ Jesus as Lord.
So keep on living your lives in him.
7 Have your roots in him. Build
yourselves up in him. Grow strong
in what you believe, just as you
were taught. Be more thankful
than ever before.
COLOSSIANS 2
“SO LONG
AS YOU’RE DEEPLY
ROOTED IN CHRIST, YOU’RE
ALREADY FULL.”

4. already
FULLC O L O S S I A N S 2 : 6 - 1 5

5. ALREADY FULL
COLOSSIANS 2
8 Make sure no one controls you. They will try to control you by using false
reasoning that has no meaning. Their ideas depend on human teachings.
They also depend on the basic spiritual powers of this world. They don’t
depend on Christ.
9 God’s whole nature is living in Christ in human form. 10 Because you
belong to Christ, you have been made complete. He is the ruler over every
power and authority. 11 When you received Christ, your circumcision was not
done by human hands. Instead, your circumcision was done by Christ. He put
away the person you used to be. At that time, sin’s power ruled over you.

6. Disgraced televangelists Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker

7. “YOU MUST DO THIS IF YOU WANT
GOD TO [FILL IN THE BLANK].”
FALSE REASONING
HUMAN TEACHINGS
BASIC SPIRITUAL POWERS OF THIS WORLD

8. “YOU CAN FULFILL THE COMMANDS OF
THE BIBLE BY FALLING IN LOVE WITH
GOD THAN BY TRYING TO OBEY [GOD]…
Bishop N.T. Wright
“LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR BEING AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS A WAY OF LOVING GOD”

9. “THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS NOT A
BUSINESS TRANSACTION…
Bishop N.T. Wright
“LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR BEING AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS A WAY OF LOVING GOD”

10. “IT’S NOT AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE
WHERE YOU RECEIVE A DOWRY OF
RICHES FOR COMPLIANCE…
Bishop N.T. Wright
“LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR BEING AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS A WAY OF LOVING GOD”

11. “CHRISTIANITY ONLY WORKS IF
YOU’RE IN LOVE [WITH GOD].”
Bishop N.T. Wright
“LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR BEING AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS A WAY OF LOVING GOD”

12. “JESUS HAS LOVED YOU BY DOING
[BLANK], SO LIVE WITH GRATITUDE.”
DEPEND 100% ON CHRIST

13. ALREADY FULL
COLOSSIANS 2
8 Make sure no one controls you. They will try to control you by using false
reasoning that has no meaning. Their ideas depend on human teachings.
They also depend on the basic spiritual powers of this world. They don’t
depend on Christ.
9 God’s whole nature is living in Christ in human form. 10 Because you
belong to Christ, you have been made complete. He is the ruler over every
power and authority. 11 When you received Christ, your circumcision was not
done by human hands. Instead, your circumcision was done by Christ. He put
away the person you used to be. At that time, sin’s power ruled over you.

14. ALREADY FULL
COLOSSIANS 2
12 When you were baptized, you were buried together with Christ.
And you were raised to life together with him when you were
baptized. You were raised to life by believing in God’s work. God
himself raised Jesus from the dead.
13 At one time you were dead in your sins. Your desires controlled
by sin were not circumcised. But God gave you new life together
with Christ. He forgave us all our sins.

15. ALREADY FULL
COLOSSIANS 2
14 He wiped out what the law said that we owed. The law
stood against us. It judged us. But he has taken it away and nailed it
to the cross. 15 He took away the weapons of the powers and
authorities. He made a public show of them. He won the battle
over them by dying on the cross.

16. WHEN WE AREN’T FULL
ALREADY WITH GRATITUDE
THINK BEING CHRISTIAN IS ALL
ABOUT TRYING TO PLEASE GOD BY
BEING OBEDIENT, MORAL, AND
DISCIPLINED
LOTS OF VOICES TELLING US THAT’S
WHAT GOD REQUIRES
LIVE AS IF JESUS DIDN’T TAKE CARE
OF ALL OUR SHORTCOMINGS

17. WE FILL UP WITH TRYING HARD TO BE GOOD, SERVING, GIVING,
SACRIFICING, FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE, STUDYING OUR BIBLES.
THESE ARE ALL GREAT, BUT ONLY IF THEY‘RE AN EXPRESSION
OF OUR DEEP GRATITUDE FOR WHAT JESUS HAS DONE. AND
NOT IF WE’RE TRYING TO IMPRESS HIM.

18. WE’RE ALREADY FULL
OF GRATITUDE
BECAUSE JESUS HAS ALREADY
MADE US COMPLETE
BECAUSE HE HAS PUT AWAY
OUR OLD SELF
BECAUSE HE HAS RAISED US TO
NEW LIFE BY BELIEVING IN
WHAT HE DID ON THE CROSS

19. BECAUSE HE HAS ALREADY PAID
OUR SIN-DEBT IN FULL
BECAUSE HE NAILED THE LAW AND
ITS REQUIREMENTS TO THE CROSS
HE HAS ALREADY WON THE
BATTLE, SO STOP TRYING TO MAKE
GOD LOVE YOU AND START LOVING
GOD AND LOVING EVERY PERSON
WE’RE ALREADY FULL
OF GRATITUDE

20. REV. DR. DICKSON KAZUO YAGI
4-6 I suspect you would never intend this,
but this is what happens. When you attempt
to live by your own religious plans and
projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall
out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait
for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit.
For in Christ, neither our most conscientious
religion nor disregard of religion amounts to
anything. What matters is something far
more interior: faith expressed in love.
GALATIANS 5
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