Big Idea: God displays his sovereign supremacy as he saves his people through judgment.

1) God schemes salvation in sovereignty

2) God subverts competitors in sovereignty

3) God showcases supremacy in sovereignty

Big Idea: When we are slow to see the salvation our Savior swore, we need to hear him say:

1.) I am the Lord your God

2.) You are mine

3.) You are not theirs

4.) The inheritance is yours 

Big Idea: The dominance of exile highlights our plight, but doesn't hinder God's promise to save

1) The dominance of exile exposes our need

2) The dominance of exile entails our salvation

1) Equipped with power

2) Equipped with partnership

3) Equipped with pardon

1) Behold the God of consecration and covenant

2) Behold the God who sees and saves

3) Behold the God who is and is with us

Big Idea: The God who Sees sends a Redeemer who joins us in exile to bring justice and goes before us in experiencing salvation.

1) God's Redeemer Incarnates

2) God's Redeemer Liberates

3) God's Redeemer Demonstrates

Big Idea: Yahweh's self-revealing redemption begins with promised blessing that perseveres in domination and death

1) Situating the Story of Redemption

2) Starting with the Buoyancy of Blessing

Jesus' resurrection means:

1) Hope is real

2) Hope is recovered

3) Hope is resolved

Big Idea: As we experience the power of prayer in every season and offer protection from deception, we wait and walk together on our way home.

1) Pray in gladness and gloom

2) Pray and confess with confidence in power

3) Pursue those deviating in deception

Big Idea:  Find flourishing in suffering by being patient in pain until the coming of Christ.

1) Fix your heart on the harvest

2) Watch your words in weariness

3) Lament and lean on God’s mercy

Big Idea: A worked-out faith turns from the misery of trusting riches and embraces the joy of generosity because of Christ’s generosity.

Misery 1: Stockpiled Stuff that Corrodes and Convicts

Misery 2: Dishonest Dealings that God Hears of and Hates

Misery 3: Gluttonous Gratification that Desensitizes and Destroys

Application: 1: Fast and Feast 2: See and Be Transformed by the Generosity of Jesus

Big Idea: Plan and pursue lives of humble dependence on providence, rather than presuming on self-sufficiency.

1) The problem of self-presumption

2) The path of humble dependence

Big Idea: Our disordered desires wreck our relationships, but humble repentance moves us from ruin to restoration

1) Recognize the root of the wreckage

2) Return with humble allegiance

3) Return with weeping repentance

Big Idea: We must perceive and practice heavenly wisdom marked by meek righteousness that leads to peace.

1) Evaluating claims of wisdom

2) Exposing the source of false wisdom

3) Embodying the peace of true wisdom

1) The tongue stumbles us

2) The tongue steers us

3) The tongue sets on fire

4) The tongue switches up

Big Idea: We live in obedience to Jesus because we have a wholehearted faith that demonstrates what it declares

1) The Paradox of Faith and Works

2) The Purpose of Faith and Works

3) The Practice of Faith and Works

Big Idea: We respond to God’s gracious deliverance with loving gratitude and dependent devotion

1) Reflecting on God's Gracious Deliverance

2) Responding to God's Gracious Deliverance

Big Idea: We put away partiality because God’s mercy has freed us from judging to love in light of the judgment to come.

1) Partiality puts us in the wrong seat

2) Partiality places us in the wrong story

3) Partiality prevents our liberty to love

Big Idea: We must restrain our mouths and our malice as we receive God’s word as wholehearted hearers

1) Prize worthy words

2) Prize wholehearted hearing

3) Prize real religion

Big Idea: In light of the coming kingdom, pursue God’s purpose for affliction with dependent, devoted perseverance.

1) Assessing our trials in context

2) Assessing our temptations up close

Big Idea: We subdue ourselves to serve as we enter the world of our neighbors to win them to Christ and receive our eternal reward.

1) Relinquish Your Rights

2) Rule Your Desires

3) Remember Your Reward

Big Idea: Encountering the grace of the Father’s welcome rescues us from the emptiness of self-centered living.

1) Running Away in Rebellion

2) Returning Home to the Father

3) Reluctance to Rejoice

Big Idea: Because the Word was made flesh, we now know our Father and can live as beloved children.

1) Agnostic as Orphans

2) The Word Reveals the Father

3) Authorized for Adoption

Big Idea: Because the light has come and is coming, we’ve been restored to our purpose to work, welcome, and worship as witnesses.

1) The Wrong Story

2) The Right Story

3) Our Restored Purpose

Big Idea: We suffer in silent spiritual darkness because of sin, but life-giving light has come through Jesus, the Word who is God.

1) The Soreness of God's Silence

2) The Person of God's Speech

3) The Life from God's 

Big Idea: Though we flounder in this fallen world, hope in the fullness of future redemption because of the forgiveness we’ve already received.

1) Cry out in chaos

2) Remember Christ's forgiveness

3) Hope in God's promises

1) Prioritize God's Purpose

2) Prioritize God's People

3) Prioritize Faithfulness

Big Idea: Play your role in Christ's kingdom mission by prioritizing prayer and gospel proclamation.

1) Persist in Prayer

2) Prepare to Proclaim

Big Idea: Approach your relationships at work and at home according to your kingdom citizenship in Christ 

1) Render your rank at home

2) Render your rank at work

3) Remember where the story is headed

Big Idea: We live out our union with Christ by putting sin to death, putting his character on, and pursuing his peace together.

1) Put to death the sins to which we have died in Christ

2) Put on the garments of those who have been raised with Christ

3) Prize the peace of the body of Christ

Big Idea: We lay hold of and live out of our connection to Christ as we contemplate and our connection to him.

1) The condition of Christian Spirituality

2) The concentration of Christian Spirituality

3) The contemplation of Christian Spirituality

Big Idea: Beware spirituality that is founded and focused on self-made progress, rather than clinging to Christ

1) The content of self-made spirituality

2) The character of self-made spirituality

3) The collapse of self-made spirituality

4) The challenge of self-made spirituality

Big Idea: The cross of Christ has canceled your sin and crushed Satan's forces, so you can walk in the freedom of new life in Christ.

1) You have new life in Christ

2) Your sins have been forgiven

3) You have Christ's victory over darkness

1) Walk out your life in Christ

2) Resist what is apart from Christ

3) Receive what is yours in Christ

Big Idea: Gospel ministry calls for a painstaking preoccupation with proclaiming Christ, who is the pathway for wisdom and maturity

1) The affliction of Gospel ministry

2) The attention of Gospel ministry

3) The aim of Gospel ministry

Big Idea: Our salvation is safe and sufficient, because Christ our Savior reigns supreme.

1) Jesus is King

2) Jesus Reconciles in His Reign

3) Keep Clinging to King Jesus

Big Idea: The Person and proclamation of Jesus are enough to advance God's reign in the world and actualize a worthy walk in our lives

1) Paul and the Colossian Church (vv. 1-2)

2) Perceive the Gospel's Work (vv. 3-8)

3) Pray and Produce the Gospel's walk (vv. 9-14)

Big Idea: God uses Scripture, sorrow, and celebration to supply his people with joy and move them from sadness to strength. 1) Responsiveness to Scripture

2) From Sorrow to Strength

3) The Practice of Celebration

Big Idea: Jesus will bring judgment and glory when he’s revealed in his return; so we persevere in holy hope.

1) The Day of the Lord brings revelation

2) The Day of the Lord brings judgment

3) The Day of the Lord brings glory

Big Idea: When we take the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets us to renew our faith as we remember his sacrifice that unites us.

1) The Blood of the Lamb has set us free

2) The Blood of the Lamb has made us his people

3) The Blood of the Lamb has made us one

1) Receive and remember the New Covenant

2) Receive and remember our new authority

3) Receive and remember our new identity

4) Receive and remember our new vitality

1) Locate yourself in the church's story

2) Learn yourself through the church's identity

3) Live your purpose through the church's mission

Big Idea: Receive and run after the rule of God, because his kingdom restores shalom in us and through us.

1) Kingdom Declaration "God's rule through God's people over God's place" -Jeremy Treat

2) Kingdom Demonstration -Three Dimensions of the Kingdom: Inside-Out Upside-Down Forward-Back

3) Kingdom Consummation

Main Idea: The Holy Spirit frees us for a life of empowered love and witness.

1) The Spirit empowers us by faith (Gal. 3:1-6)

2) The Spirit empowers us to love (Galatians 5:5-6, 1 Corinthians 12:4-14)

3) The Spirit empowers us to witness (Acts 2)

Main Idea: The Spirit of God brings God’s promised presence and power, giving us a current sense of the coming salvation.

1) The Spirit of Promise

2) The Spirit of Presence

3) The Spirit of Power

Big Idea: Jesus' suffering and glory makes sense of our story and brings us all the way home.

1) Jesus' humiliation sets us free

2) Jesus exaltation brings us home

3) His suffering to glory is our story

Main idea: As the God-Man, Jesus is perfectly equipped to perform and provide our complete salvation.

1) Our situation requires specific salvation

2) Jesus is the God who can save us

3) Jesus is the man who can represent us

1) What is the Gospel?

2) Why is it Good News?

3) What do we do with it?

Big Idea: Rejoice and rest in God’s sovereign plan because his purpose to save is permeated with love.

1) Rest and rejoice in the purpose of God’s plan

2) Rest and rejoice in the Person of God’s plan

3) Rest and rejoice in your participation in God’s plan

Big Idea: Our right or wrong standing with God is really determined by our right or wrong representative. In Adam, we inherit sin, death and Law. In Christ, we inherit grace, life and righteousness.

1) In Adam, we inherit sin and death

2) We inherit the law

3) In Christ, we inherit grace, life, and righteousness

Big Idea: Gender and sexuality make horrible masters, but great metaphors, so we must celebrate the substance of the gospel and let its plot position our practice of its pictures, gender and sexuality.

1) The point of gender and sexuality

2) Our problems with gender and sexuality

3) The pathway of gender and sexuality

"We believe that God created human beings, male and female, in his own image. Adam and Eve belonged to the created order that God himself declared to be very good, serving as God’s agents to care for, manage, and govern creation, living in holy and devoted fellowship with their Maker. Men and women, equally made in the image of God, enjoy equal access to God by faith in Christ Jesus and are both called to move beyond passive self-indulgence to significant private and public engagement in family, church, and civic life...To his image bearers, God gave the mandate to build society through procreation and vocation."

1) The Picture: We are made in the image of God

2) The Purpose: We were made to rule under God

3) The Partnership: We were made to do this together

1) What is the Bible?

2) Why do we believe that?

3) How can we live like it's true?

Main Idea: Both the cosmos and our conscience bear constant witness to the Creator, but we must hear his word to know his name.

1) Creation Resounds

2) Our Conscience Resonates -Romans 1:18-20 -Romans 2:14-16

3) The Canon Reveals

Main idea: The one, true and living God reveals, relates, and redeems as Trinity.

1) The Revealed Trinity -There is one God, Yahweh (Deuteronomy 6:4; Exodus 3:13-15; Isaiah 45:5) -There are 3 persons in this one God: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:8; Acts 5:3-4) -These 3 persons are co-equal, co-eternal, the same in substance, power, and glory. 

2) The Relating Trinity

3) The Redeeming Trinity -1 Peter 1:1-2 -Ephesians 1:3-14

1) We confess from our construction

2) We confess for clarity

3) We confess for our conduct

4) We confess for communion

Passage: 1 Peter 1:3-9

Main Idea: Christ's resurrection gives confident rejoicing in his coming reward

1) Resurrection History

2) Resurrection Hope

3) Resurrection Happiness

Big Idea: Rejoice and return to the humble king, because his reign brings peace and purpose

1) The Coming King

2) The King who Came

3) The Confronting Call

Main Idea: We pursue joy in a fear-filled world, because redemption comes in the reign of Jesus.

1) The reign of Jesus brings joy

2) The rest of Jesus secures joy

3) The redemption of Jesus grounds joy

Big Idea: When we are disappointed and wearied with waiting on God, we must lament our pain and lean on his promises

1) Recognize God's character

2) Remember God's promise

3) Reveal your pain

1) God is a prayer hearer

2) God is a promise keeper

3) God is a presence giver

4) God is a pride leveler

Big Idea: God's promise overwhelms sin's sabotage.

1) The Contours of God's Promise

2) The Content of God's Promise

3) The Culmination of God's Promise

Big Idea: Listening to the serpent in sin brings death, but God promises and pictures redemption.

1) What will we do with God's Word?

2) What will we do with our sin?

3) What will God do with his world?

4) What will God do with our sin?

Big Idea: God made humanity and the whole world to receive and reflect the glory of his reign.

1) God, the Unrivaled Creator

2) Creation, God's Kingdom-Temple

3) Humanity, God's Royal Priestly Family

Big Idea: Jesus calls us to compassionate, cruciform love towards those we meet in need.

1) Why should I love?

2) Who should I love?

3) How should I love?

Big Idea: Through prayer we seize, step into, and are strengthened by gospel reality.

1) Prayer makes the gospel real

2) Prayer takes a Triune shape

3) Prayer readies our hearts to receive God's love

4) Prayer relies on God's resources

Passage: Colossians 1:15-23

Big Idea: We must fix our focus on Jesus because he's all we need.

1) Because of His Person

2) Because of His Position

3) Because of His Power

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