Colossians: Clear Direction for Life Study Guide #2 - M. Kevin McKee

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Colossians:
Clear Direction for Life
Traveling Notes for the Journey
Study Guide #2

Reconciliation with God.
The Bible pictures sin as an impenetrable barrier to personal relationship. Sin has destroyed our harmony with God, making us hostile toward this one whom we sense must be our judge. Objectively and psychologically we are placed in a position of hostility, at enmity with one whose only desire is to express his love. Rom. 5 calls the death of Jesus for us a demonstration of God’s love. By that death, believers are justified (declared legally innocent by God). But Jesus’ death also reconciles, restoring believers to a harmonious relationship with the Lord (5.10-11). Another key NT passage connects the idea of “new creation” with that of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5.17-19). There are two basic words which mean “to reconcile.” One is found six times as a verb in (Ro. 5.10;1 Co 7.11; 2 Cor.5.18,19,20). The noun form of it is found four times (Ro. 5.11;11.15; 2 Cor. 5.18,19). The second verb, which stresses the completeness of the restoration effected, occurs four times in the NT (Eph 2.16; Col 1.20,22), it is this word used in this passage.
*Larry Richards
Expository Dictionary of Bible Words

Colossians 1:13-23

Read the passage twice and consider the following questions:

1. What does it mean to be redeemed?

2. How does Paul describe Christ in this passage?

3.Why do we need to be reconciled?

How did God reconcile us?

4.What is the hope held out in the Gospel (v. 23)? Read 2 Corinthians 3.9-12, Ephesians 1.11-19a.

Life Response

1. How do you personally experience...
God’s rescuing you (v. 13)

God’s redeeming you (v.14)

God’s reconciling you (v. 22)

2. What do you (right now) need to trust God to hold together (v. 17)?

3. How can you continue in your faith, established and firm (v. 23)?

Prepared as a team, Sharon Comiskey with Kevin McKee



		Reconciliation with God. The Bible pictures sin as an impenetrable barrier to personal relationship. Sin has destroyed our harmony with God, making us hostile toward this one whom we sense must be our judge. Objectively and psychologically we are placed in a position of hostility, at enmity with one whose only desire is to express his love. Rom. 5 calls the death of Jesus for us a demonstration of God’s love. By that death, believers are justified (declared legally innocent by God). But Jesus’ death also reconciles, restoring believers to a harmonious relationship with the Lord (5.10-11). Another key NT passage connects the idea of “new creation” with that of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5.17-19). There are two basic words which mean “to reconcile.” One is found six times as a verb in (Ro. 5.10;1 Co 7.11; 2 Cor.5.18,19,20). The noun form of it is found four times (Ro. 5.11;11.15; 2 Cor. 5.18,19). The second verb, which stresses the completeness of the restoration effected, occurs four times in the NT (Eph 2.16; Col 1.20,22), it is this word used in this passage. *Larry Richards Expository Dictionary of Bible Words