Colossians 02:06-10 – Complete in Christ – audio

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Text: Colossians 2:6-10

Introduction

A. Do you ever have an empty feeling? Does it seem as if something is missing in your life?

B. Well, that may be because you do not have Jesus Christ.

C. Paul expresses our dependency upon Him, and that we are “complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)…”

D. We are complete in Him because we can accomplish anything through Him:

1) He fulfills or fills all

2) He has fully come

3) He has completed His task

4) He satisfies our every need

5) He abounds in us

Body

I. We need Christ physically.

A. Paul acknowledges that “in Him we live and move and have our being…For we are also His offspring (Acts 17:28).”

B. It is God that made us, and not we ourselves (Psalm 100:3; 139:13-14).

C. Christ was in the beginning with God, creating us (John 1:1-3,14; Genesis 1:26-27; Ephesians 4:24).

D. God supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).

E. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13).

II. We need Christ spiritually.

A. Christ completed His Father’s will (Hebrews 10:8-10):

1) Taking away the first covenant

2) Establishing the second

3) It is through that will we are sanctified!

B. Our belief in God and Christ will fill us with joy, peace, hope, goodness, and knowledge (Romans 15:13-14).

C. The love of Christ fills us with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-19; 4:10).

D. Christ fills us with the fruits of righteousness (Philippians 1:11).

E. As individuals are filled with Christ, so is the church (Ephesians 1:17-23; Colossians 1:9-18).

III. Christ needs us!

A. We received the Lord’s ministry, and must fulfill it (Colossians 4:17).

B. Christ has created good works for us to do (Ephesians 2:10; Revelation 3:1-2).

Conclusion

A. Just as we are incomplete without Christ, He is incomplete without us!

B. As the church, we are His body.

C. He has called us to work for Him.

D. Are you a member of His church?

1) He did a lot for us

2) Won’t you be willing to do something for Him?