Amen. How are we doing, church? Doing all right. Looking great. If you got your Bibles, I hope you do, grab them. We're going to be in Colossians chapter 4.

Weren't those two days of spring, just really great. One of those was awesome. It was like freezing a couple weeks ago. Now it's 100. So welcome to Florida.

So what we're doing here is we're kind of wrapping up, beginning to wrap up, this 14-week study in the book of Colossians. And just in case we weren't here last year, we began a two-year discipleship journey, holistic discipleship journey where all of our church would declare that Jesus is before all things and so

primarily that is what the book of Colossians is all about it is about the

supremacy of Christ the sufficiency of Christ that that Jesus is preeminent that

he is before all things in every aspect of our life a part of that was a generosity

initiative but it's so much bigger than that and that's why we have been

studying this book and what I'm hoping you will be able to do is to be able to

have a grasp of the book of Colossians and so kind of the way it breaks down

is the way that we have been teaching it

over the last 14 weeks. And so the first section is about the supremacy of Christ that Jesus

is before all things in his church. And by in his church, we don't mean like a local congregation,

like 1122 or whatever church you grew up in, but the cosmic Christ is the head over his

cosmic church and he is doing a thing to renew all things through the church. That was the first

section. Now the church, again, it's not a place that you go, it's not a building that you visit,

but the church is a movement of people.

The church is the gathering of the saints.

And so the second section was that Jesus is before all things in our hearts.

You see, going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than sticking your head in the oven makes you a biscuit.

Now, don't look for that verse in the book of Colossians, but that's basically what the second

section is about, that it's not an outside in thing, it's an inside out thing, and that Jesus

is before all things inside of us first and foremost, which leads to the third section

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