The Supremacy and Sufficiency of ChristSample

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.

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.