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1. Words are powerful.
2. Words can make you laugh. Words can make you cry. They can motivate and they can discourage.
3. Companies spend millions of dollars every year just looking for that memorable slogan, that catchy phrase, to brand their company and sell their products.

4. During our study, we’re going to focus on seven memorable words from the Bible.
5. These seven words will reveal God’s eternal plan for our lives and motivate us to experience the fullness of Christ every moment of every day.
6. I believe these seven words from Colossians 1 will resonate in our hearts and encourage us to pray, “Give Me Jesus!”

Colossians 1:24-29

1. The Apostle Paul was in prison because of his faith in Christ and his proclamation of the Gospel to the Gentiles.
2. Paul never met the Christians in Colossae, but he had received word that they were under attack for their faith.
3. So, Paul sought to encourage them to stay the course and finish the race set before them; to stay strong in their faith, empowered by the Holy Spirit, all for the glory of God!

I. Christ is in You (27a)

A. Christ wants you… each of you
1. In Christ, God’s mystery was unveiled, “the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints” (26).
2. What mystery has God revealed through Christ?
a. Jews are reconciled to God through Jesus.
b. Gentiles are also reconciled to God through Jesus.
c. Jews and Gentiles are one body, on equal footing, before God through Jesus Christ!

Sharing with the pastors in Mwanza, Tanzania that Christ has broken “down the barrier of the dividing wall”!

Galatians 3:28, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave or free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

B. Christ wants you… all of you
1. Through His death on the cross, Jesus paid the price to redeem you from slavery to sin so that you might become a member of God’s family through faith in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice.
2. At the very moment, a person confesses Christ as their Savior, their sin is forgiven, they are adopted into God’s family, and Christ through the Holy Spirit, indwells them working to conform them into the image of Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

3. What does it mean that Christians are a temple of the Holy Spirit?
a. The tabernacle was comprised of three sections:
• The outer courtyard
• The holy place
• The holy of holies, where the ark of the covenant was present with the glory of God residing over the mercy seat between the two cherubim.
b. Only once a year was a person, the high priest, permitted to enter the holy of holies where God’s presence dwelt.
c. On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day on Israel’s calendar, the high priest entered the holy of holies, with fear and trembling, to sprinkle blood on the mercy seat to make atonement for the sins that Israel had committed during the previous year.
d. The Greek word for the holy of holies is naos.
e. When Paul declared that Christians are a temple of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, he used the word naos, meaning we now are the holy of holies!
f. We are walking miracles and Paul was exhorting the Christians at Corinth to live holy lives because the Holy Spirit dwells within us!
It really comes down to choices.
Problem: Many Christians have an “Open Door”/“Closed Door” relationship with God.

Revelation 3:20, Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door; I will come in to him, and will dine with him and he with Me.

Christ gave His all for us and demands nothing less than our all in return. The Apostle Paul understood this when he said…

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