Biblical
Concept: All for Christ
Outline:
1) Introduction.
2) All for Christ because He is worthy.
3) All for Christ: Spiritual techniques.
4) All for Christ = reward.
5) Summary statement.
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1) Introduction: Colossians 3:17 makes
this summary statement: "And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in
the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father."
Conclusions:
Colossians 3:17 introduces us to the concept of living for Christ in all that
we say or do. What would Jesus say? What would Jesus do? Are we living a thankful life to God the
Father through Jesus Christ? are applications.
2) All for Christ because He is worthy.
· We
exist through Him - 1 Cor. 8:6.
· We
are new creatures in Him - 2 Cor. 5:17, Cf. Eph.
2:5, 10 and Gal. 6:14-15.
· Christ
lives in us - Gal. 2:20.
· Christ
is our life - Col. 3:4.
Worthy summary:
Humanity exists through Christ. At the
point of salvation we became new spiritual creatures in Christ, He came to
dwell in us and He became the reason we live.
We should do all in the name of the Lord Jesus because He is
worthy. Attitudes and actions of
gratitude are applications.
3) All for Christ: Spiritual techniques.
· Love
God - Matt. 22:37 and 1 John 2:5.
· Please
God - 2 Cor. 5:9; Col. 1:10; Gal. 1:10.
· Set
mind - Col. 3:1-4 and 2 Cor. 10:5.
· Practice
spirituality - 1 John 1:7 and Romans
13:14.
· Spiritual
diligence - Heb. 12:1-2 and Psl. 16:8.
· Spiritual
simplicity - 2 Cor. 11:3.
· Spiritual
maturity - Gal. 4:19; Eph. 3:17-19;
4:13.
· Eternal
living - 1 Peter 1:13; Phil.
1:20-23; 3:7-14.
· Christian
suffering - 1 Peter 4:13-14.
· Work
place - Colossians 3:23-24.
· Humility
- Rom. 15:17-18; 2 Cor.
12:9-10; Eph. 5:21.
Spiritual techniques summary:
God the Father has provided the spiritual assets and spiritual opportunities
for the Christian to learn to live for Christ.
4) All for Christ = reward.
· Christ
in us the hope of glory - Col. 1:27.
· Value
of knowing Christ - Phil. 3:8, 14.
· Reproach
of Christ = greater riches - Heb. 11:26.
· The
foundation of Christ = reward - 1 Cor. 3:11-14.
· Work
for the Lord, you will rec. the reward - Colossians
3:23-24.
· Reign
with Christ a thousand years - Rev. 20:4-6.
Reward summary:
The justice, righteousness and grace of God will eternally honor “whatever you
do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Col. 3:17a). Though there may be “reproaches,” God honors
eternally the spiritual maturity of “all for Christ.” How can you earn more eternal reward?
5) All for Christ summary:
· All
for Christ, living for Christ, is a full-time spiritual opportunity.
· Do
all for Christ because He is worthy.
· God
the Father has provided the spiritual assets and spiritual opportunities for
the Christian to learn to live for Christ.
· Great
eternal reward awaits those who do all for Christ in this life!
NAS 1
Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from
whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ,
by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
NAS 2
Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new
creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
NAS Ephesians
2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together
with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
NAS Ephesians
2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
NAS Galatians
6:14 But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world. 15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new
creation.
NAS Galatians
2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who
live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for
me.
NAS Colossians
3:4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be
revealed with Him in glory.
NAS Matthew
22:37 And He said to him, "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
NAS 1 John 2:5 but
whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By
this we know that we are in Him:
NAS 2 Corinthians 5:9 Therefore also we
have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
NAS Colossians
1:10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in
all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge
of God;
NAS Galatians 1:10 For am I now
seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were
still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
NAS Colossians
3:1 If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things
above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the
things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your
life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed,
then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
NAS 2
Corinthians 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty
thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every
thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
NAS 1 John
1:7 but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from
all sin
NAS Romans
13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh
in regard to its lusts.
NAS Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since
we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside
every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run
with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
NAS Psalm
16:8 I have set the LORD continually before me; Because He is at my right
hand, I will not be shaken.
NAS 2
Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his
craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
NAS Galatians
4:19 My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in
you—
NAS Ephesians
3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that
you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all
the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know
the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all
the fulness of God.
NAS Ephesians
4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to
the fulness of Christ.
NAS 1
Peter 1:13 Therefore, gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix
your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ.
NAS Philippians
1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall not be put
to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ shall even now,
as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me, to
live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I am to live on in
the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which
to choose. 23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the
desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;
NAS Philippians
3:7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as
loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in
view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may
gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own
derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the
righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may
know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His
sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained it, or
have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of
that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not
regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ
Jesus.
NAS 1
Peter 4:13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep
on rejoicing; so that also at the revelation of His glory, you may rejoice with
exultation. 14 If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed,
because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
NAS Colossians
3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than
for men; 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the
inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
NAS Romans
15:17 Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things
pertaining to God. 18 For I will not presume to speak of anything except what
Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles
by word and deed,
NAS 2 Corinthians 12:9 And He has
said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in
weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my
weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well
content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with
difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
NAS Ephesians
5:21 and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
NAS Colossians
1:27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of
this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
NAS Philippians
3:8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing
value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all
things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ,
NAS Philippians
3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus.
NAS Hebrews
11:26 considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures
of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
NAS 1
Corinthians 3:11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which
is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man builds upon the foundation
with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each man's work will
become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed
with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. 14 If
any man's work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward.
NAS Colossians 3:24 knowing
that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the
Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the
consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.
NAS Revelation 20:4 And I saw
thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the
souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and
because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his
image, and had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand;
and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest
of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This
is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the
first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be
priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.