Louie Giglio leads us through Colossians 1, what it looks like to see and believe the cross, and how that belief transfers into our walks with God. He teaches us that while sin makes us spiritually dead, the cross makes us alive because of God’s rich mercy, canceling any shame and guilt and giving us a new identity so we can live differently.
Scripture References
14.For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15.from whom every family3:15 The Greek for family (patria) is derived from the Greek for father (pater). in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16.I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17.so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18.may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19.and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.20.Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
14.May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which6:14 Or whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
1.As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
1.Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2.and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
10.Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes53:10 Hebrew though you make his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
10.This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
About the Contributor
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute. View more from the Contributor.