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The Greatest Gift - Colossians 1: 15-23
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The Greatest Gift - Colossians 1: 15-23
What is a gift? - Hebrew it is a masculine term = grace/gracious gift
Freely given freely received
To think about the birth of Jesus, the Messiah is to think about the greatest gift of all time. (PAINT THE BACKSTORY of then, why Messiah was needed)
Messiah = anointed one = Anointed: symbolic of an appointment to a task,
72 times in the NT Messiah is used as a title for Jesus designating Him as the Anointed One, and it is where we get the title Christ.
One who has been anointed has been appointed- given a mission or a task to fulfill.
What’s the mission? To reconcile to Himself all things.
Reconcile means to restore to favor, change thoroughly, change completely
*Important point: we have been made for a relationship with God.
This is the Good News message of the Bible fulfilled in Jesus.
Today’s Bible reading is Colossians 1:21-23
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation — if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is God’s word
3 ways to look at the greatest gift of all time.
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