Crossview Church
Chris Putney | Colossians 2:13-15
As we look at these few verses we're going to see 3 Facets of the Gospel
Colossians 2:13-15 CSB
Facet 1:
You were dead and have been made alive
Facet 2:
You are forgiven
Facet 3:
You worship a victorious King
"The very instrument of disgrace and death by which the hostile forces thought they had him in their grasp and had conquered him forever was turned by him into the instrument of their defeat and disablement. As he was suspended there, bound hand and foot to the wood in apparent weakness, they imagined they had him at their mercy, and flung themselves on him with hostile intent. But, far from suffering their attack without resistance, he grappled with them and mastered them, stripping them of the armor in which they trusted, and held them aloft in his outstretched hands, displaying to the universe their helplessness and his own unvanquished strength."
- F.F. Bruce
Professor and theologian Michael Horton in the documentary American Gospel says this:
"The law is basically 'do.' The gospel is basically 'done'. The gospel isn't what would Jesus do now go and do that, the gospel is what has Jesus done, now go and believe that."
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