January 18th
Read: Colossians 2
Big Idea: How did we receive Christ Jesus the Lord? By trusting in Him to bring us to His Father, i.e., we received Him “by faith.” Therefore, we also walk with Him everyday the same way, “by faith.” It is a daily walk of faith in our unseen God. This daily walk will have a profound affect on us. It will not be in secret. We will be “rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.” How is this possible? Because Jesus is fully God. “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
Key Verse(s):
Colossians 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
Colossians 2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily