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The Supremacy and Sufficiency of Christ

Louie Giglio
6 Days
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As Louie Giglio concludes our track through Colossians, he highlights three scriptures that we should tuck away in our hearts and then reveals the ultimate reason why. Let’s get started.

Summary

Colossians has four chapters containing 95 verses, and at their heart is a singular, eternity-defining purpose: the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus. So, as we wrap up our study, we would encourage you to write down and do your best to memorize these three key verses:

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:13-14

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.

Colossians 1:18

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:17

Why take the time to memorize scripture? Because there is a time coming when you will need these verses. There will absolutely be days when Jesus is working in your heart, and you will need to remind yourself that He is Supreme over all, so your self-desires have to be dealt with. There will be days when you feel the pull of some other form of false fulfillment and need to remind yourself that Jesus is sufficient and that all that you need He is and has already given to you.

And there will be days when you feel like leaving it all behind and settling for a lesser life, and in that moment, you will need the reminder that your life isn’t yours to do with as you please and how you please.

Read all of chapters three and four of Colossians, and you’ll find that Paul has something to say to all of us about how we are to live. Read far enough into chapter four, and you may start to find your attention waning as Paul lists 11 ordinary people who made sure to do everything they did in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Do you want to know how to make your life count? There’s your answer.

So why commit yourself to memorizing the scriptures? Because you will need them. Look no further than the 95th verse of this letter written by Paul.

I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

Even chained to a wall, even in prison, Paul understood that there is no circumstance in life that can stop almighty God from accomplishing through anyone’s life what He intends to accomplish through their life. If you are in the Son of God, and the hope of Glory is within you, then nothing can come against you that can stop you from proclaiming the story of Jesus who saved you and sustains you. Carry that truth with you everywhere you go.

Praise be to God.

Scripture References

6So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
7rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
9not by works, so that no one can boast.
10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
12and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
8But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
11Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
6So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
7rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
18And 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.
17And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
3His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people—
5the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel
6that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.
7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
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.