First Naples Podcast

How God uses mended people to accomplish His Work
Colossians 4:7-18

The Christ-centered person is prayerful and purposeful in their everyday life to be on mission for Jesus.

The Christ-centered employees and employers sees their work as their witness and worship to Jesus and their authority as an opportunity to serve Jesus and others.

Christ-centered homes are healthy, loving, secure places where children follow appropriately, and parents lead responsibly as they cling to the grace of God.

The key to a successful marriage is to put Christ at the center where the wife lovingly submits, and the husband sacrificially loves.
 

The good news of the gospel is that we are no longer have to live defeated by sin but can delivered by the Risen Savior.

The more you believe in the gospel, the more you become like the gospel in your everyday life.
 

The secret to discovering your special calling is discovered at the altar of surrender.

The Christian life can be summarized in knowing who you are in Christ and then being who you are in Christ.

Paul is teaching that because of our new identity in Christ, we must kill the sin that is killing us by loving the God who first loved us.
 

Paul is warning believers by telling them what to watch out for and what to hold on to. He is warning them not to fall into the slavery of bad religion but rest in their secure relationship in Jesus.

Paul is warning us not to be captured by the foolishness of the world but be captivated by the fullness of Jesus Christ.

In 2:1-7, Paul gets to the heart of the letter teaching about the struggle for and the secret to spiritual maturity.

Luke 12:49-53
 
1. A fire that brings transformation
 
2. A transformation that brings division
 
3 .A division that establishes togetherness

Paul is a servant of Christ who is suffering for Christ in the strength of Christ.