Faith: From Darkness to Light - Colossians 1:13-23

Introduction

Let me begin with a discipleship question: how will you follow Jesus in prayer and dependence on God this week?

Main Points

In this lesson shaped by Calvary Boise's teaching on From Darkness to Light - Colossians 1:13-23 (08/30/2020), Christ invites us to receive truth with humility, practice repentance, and walk in faithful obedience.

Grace and Justification

We're in colossians chapter one for the third week in a row we started this book of colossians as an effort really to continue. In what the word has been really washing us in and this year we are being washed in our tendency to feel burdened or.

• Doubtful and we're being pointed by god's word to all of the reason we have to rejoice in and out of season as you.
• Normally would think of why you can rejoice and be excited and today's message we're going to end with another reason that we have.
• To rejoice but we're going to start with uh in all honesty it's almost an intimidating passage of scripture to preach because it's all.
• Right here and when we read passage of scripture with this much depth to how it points us to the person of christ let.

Me just say on the onset that this requires meditation and understanding and wisdom to be given to you from the gift of. God through his spirit I'm going to do my best to stir up some truth in your heart and then I want to encourage.

Repentance and Renewal

It says this he's delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into this into the kingdom of the son of his. Love in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins he and this is his son so this is jesus he.

• Is the image of the invisible god jesus is the firstborn over all of creation for by him all things were created that are.
• In heaven and that are on earth in jesus everything was created that is visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or principalities or.
• Powers all things were created through jesus and for jesus we just got done singing this song you have no rival and I looked.
• Out as we were all singing it tear came to my eyes because we're proclaiming it here's why everything that was created that you.

Can touch that you can experience with your senses and even the things that go beyond your understanding in the invisible realm that is. All around us it's all his it was created for him and by him and you believer are a part of that it says.

Prayer and Dependence

How do we get there well let's talk about what we started this with which was really the emphasis of pointing everything towards christ. Which is that he has the power to deliver us from darkness into light darkness is the realm of the world apart from christ.

• That does not know the revelation of truth that I just proclaimed to you darkness is this picture of not knowing where you came.
• From and where you're going not knowing why you were made not knowing your purpose and because of that like someone walking around in.
• The dark you're going to come into all sorts of things that stub your toe and hit your head and make you realize that.
• You are in fact living in spiritual darkness and so we're going to look at this in four ways this morning and one of.

The ways that I'm so appreciative that the bible teaches itself and by the way when you have a question in the bible one. Of the best ways you can get that answer is by keep reading and one of the ways the bible teaches itself is by.

Prayer and Dependence

Of this man we are going to get insight into how god wants to heal all of us not from physical blindness but spiritual. Blindness so that we can see what he's up to in our lives and in our world and so one of the ways that.

• We see this in the blindness of this man is blindness represents darkness doesn't it I mean is there a better picture of walking.
• In darkness spiritually than someone who physically cannot see and physical blindness is so pictured in the spiritual blindness of our world today so.
• I don't want to spend a ton of time preaching the reality of the very first truth that I want you to take as.
• Fact that there are in fact two kingdoms in this world there is a kingdom of light that proclaims the hope that we have.

In god that he's redeeming the world and creating a people for heaven the new heaven and the new earth and there's also a. Part of this world that is unraveling at the seams there's a part of this world that is giving us a front row seat.

Sin and Salvation

Man blind man speak the disciples ask jesus rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind in other words. Tell us why the tragedy is happening surely there's somebody who did something wrong whether it was his parents or him and now they.

• Are paying the consequences of their horrible sinful lives well jesus answer is going to be very interesting I want to encourage you with.
• This answer the darkness in our world right now is because the entire world and each member in it apart from christ is in.
• A fallen state jesus said or the bible says that we have all fallen short of the glory the light the revelation of who.
• God is we have all taken part of spreading the pain of the dark world that we live in and jesus is not going.

To ascribe this man's blindness to him or his parents he's going to say this man was born that way for this reason jesus. Answered neither this man nor his parents sinned but that the works of god should be revealed in him I must work the works.

Faith and Obedience

Of darkness will rock your faith and jesus will stand up and say ye of little faith I have the power to overcome darkness. In our world is doing a great work to show the incomplete power of darkness and the complete power of god in our day.

• And age and we are going to see a harvest of people who experience the power of god this year in new and redemptive.
• Ways and I believe it's happening in your life no one sinned the darkness is there that the works of god could be glorified.
• God wants to show you his power in whatever challenge you are going through where the darkness is surrounding you so in one way.
• What the darkness allows us to have is a new revelation of the image of god and that's why what we read is full.

Of the image of christ it says darkness to light now that you're in the light you can see the full image of the. Invisible god in christ and now that you're in the light you get to know the redemptive power of god through his blood the.

Prayer and Dependence

Darkness is overcome by the light it is not simply a church or a pastor or a philosophy or an idea we point all. People to the narrow path of christ and christ alone he is our only hope to overcome the darkness I'm so grateful that we.

• Have a wave of college students coming in I speak directly to you now I pray and I hope that you will be light.
• Bearers in the dark world because you're on the front lines where the two meet you are on the front lines of what it.
• Means to point people to christ so let me share a verse with you and with all of us that helps us remember that.
• What god calls us to is something that he is doing in and through us he is before all things he holds all things.

Together his plan for your generation and what he will do to redeem this time that we live in is his power revealed in. And through us but we have to preach him and him alone look what it says now in colossians chapter one or excuse me.

Conclusion

We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.

Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.

Conclusion

We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.

Closing Prayer

Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.