ORNAMENTS

ORNAMENTS 

December 8, 2019

Ornaments defined:

• something that lends grace, beauty, or festivity
• a manner or quality that adorns
• one whose virtues or graces add luster to a place or society

As Ornaments of God’s Grace…

1. You to God’s – vs. 3-5

Colossians 1: 3-5, (CSB) – We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints 5 because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospel 6 that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s grace… 

1. 1. and the Light of Truth.

2. The increases your – vs. 9-14

Colossians 1: 9-14, (CSB) For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. 13 He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. 14 In him we have redemption,the forgiveness of sins.

1. 1. To and God’s Will
      1. , the Scriptures, the Relationship,

John 15: 4-5, 8, (NKJV) – 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing…. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

2. 2. Commitment to the Process will adorn your life with…
      1. A lifestyle that God.
      2. A life by the Holy Spirit
      3. A life filled with

The Big Take-Away:

“But anyone who by the truth comes to the light, so that his   may be to be accomplished by God.” – John 3:21