When Christ Is All There Is To Life...

Good Morning

Stand with me and lift up your bible and repeat after me.

This is my Bible.

I am what it says I am.

I can do what it says I can do.

I am going to learn how to be what it says I can be.

Today I will learn more of the word of God.

The indestructible, never ending, living word Of God.

I will never be the same.

I will never be the same.

In Jesus Name.

When Christ is all there is to life.....

Take God’s word and go to Colossians chapter 3.

When you find it, look up at me and say, “Amen”

Let me ask you a question.

What is Jesus Christ to you?

You may answer, “Jesus has a place in my life.” Jesus does not want just a place in your life.

He doesn’t want just a place in your life. Jesus desires, deserves, and demands, to be first…………..

Period…

How does Jesus get to be first in your life? I have asked myself that same question. I want you to look at the scripture with that question in mind.

Verse 11; “Here there is not Greek or Jew, circumcision, uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.”

Now, I want to talk to you today about this: “When Christ is all.”

Verse 11 says, “Christ is all”

All. Period. Not like a glass that is half full or almost full, but full.

All. Well, if Christ is all, then that leaves nothing out. It means He is everything.

Now, that’s a big question: Is Jesus Christ all to you? I mean, is He all, and is He IN all?

Well, Paul just said it another way in verse 4, when he says, “Christ…..is our life” (Colossians 3:4)

Now, Jesus doesn’t just give life; He is our life.

“For to me to live is Christ (Philippians 1:21), is what Paul said, in another place. He is our life; He doesn’t just point to life. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).

So, Christ is our life.

I know a lot of people.

I know judges, pastors, football players, people in government. I know a lot of people.

But I know of them.

You probably can know a lot about people also.

It’s kind of like being on Facebook where people will may have 5,218 friends.

Really?

Do we know who they really are?

Now, you can have knowledge about someone without knowing that person. You could have knowledge about a senator, movie star, president, or king, without knowing that person.

But, you, see, we don’t just receive knowledge of Jesus; our life is knowing Jesus. “This is life eternal that they might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent (John 17:3). It is Jesus only. He is all and in all. It is not knowledge about Jesus. It is not Jesus plus anything. It is not something after Jesus.

Now, you can get to know Jesus better, but you can never know anything better than Jesus. You can go deeper into Jesus, but you can never go beyond Jesus. Again, Paul says, in verse 11 that, “Christ is all and in all” (Colossians 3:11).

How does that work making Christ...all?

First. We Have Been Crucified with Christ

First of all, we have been crucified with Christ. Look in verse 3: “for you are dead.” (Colossians 3:3). Did you know you’re looking at a dead man? I’ve been crucified; so have you. I died with Christ; His death had my name on it. The old David died when I accepted Christ.

35 years ago.

That was my funeral service. The chief mourner who was there was the devil; he hated to see his old buddy die.

But, we are dead.

Second. We Have Been Raised with Christ

And, not only are we dead, but, according to this passage of Scripture, we also have been raised. So, you have been raised from the dead. Look in verse 1: “If you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above.

Where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God”. (Colossians 3:1)

We died with Him;

And, we are risen with Him.

Third. We Live with Christ in us.

Amen?

When we are upset and angry with something that has just happened in our lives, do we want to go nuts and yell and scream about it and curse or use profanity?

Who is living in us?

Wow...

It changes our outlook on life.

You will not hear me scream out profanities when someone does me wrong.

Ask my wife and best friend and she will tell you. That does not happen.

That is the old man.