Sermon Scripture -
Colossians 1:11-20
11 being strengthened with all power
according to his glorious might so that you may have great
endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks
to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance
of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has
rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the
kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
COL 1:15 He is the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and
the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have
the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his
fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to
himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by
making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.