A Shepherds Heart
This apostle wrote the letter to the Colossians.
Who is Paul?
The three big truths from Colossians 2:8–15 were that believers are filled, freed, and this.
What is forgiven?
This worldview puts man, rather than God, at the center and treats human beings as the highest authority for truth, meaning, morality, and purpose.
What is humanism?
Colossians 2:13 says that God did this with all the believer’s transgressions.
What is forgave them?
Colossians 2:8 warns believers not to be taken this way by philosophy and empty deception.
What is captive?
Colossians 3:1 tells believers to keep seeking the things found here.
What is above?
According to John 3:16 and Romans 10:11–13, everyone who does this will be saved.
What is believes in Christ or calls on the name of the Lord?
According to Colossians 2:1, Paul was doing this on behalf of the Colossians, Laodiceans, and others he had never personally met.
What is laboring or struggling for them?
In Colossians 2:9, all the fullness of this dwells bodily in Christ.
What is deity?
This error measures acceptance with God by rules, works, rituals, or human achievement.
What is legalism?
According to Hebrews 11:1, faith is the assurance of things hoped for and this concerning things not seen.
What is conviction?
The fake Girl Scout cookie illustration taught that the most dangerous lies often aren’t obviously false—they look like this.
What is almost true, convincing, or legitimate?
According to Colossians 3:1, Christ is seated here.
What is at the right hand of God?
The lesson defined repentance with these two basic actions: confessing sin and doing this.
What is turning away from sin?
Paul wanted the Colossians’ hearts to be encouraged and for them to be knit together in this.
What is love?
When Colossians 2:10 says believers have been “filled” in Christ, the sermon explained the word using this idea.
What is being made complete?
Angel worship, visions, dreams, and pursuing extraordinary spiritual experiences were examples of this error.
What is mysticism?
Abraham demonstrated genuine faith when he heard God’s Word, trusted it, and did this.
What is obeyed?
According to the sermon, the best defense against counterfeit teaching is not simply learning everything about counterfeits but knowing this Person thoroughly.
Who is Christ?
These are the two motivating realities of new spiritual life in the sermon’s outline of Colossians 3:1–4.
What are the persistent pursuit of the realm above and the present assurance of the realm above?
The lesson summarized conversion with four realities: conviction of sin, repentance from sin, turning to Christ, and this final result.
What is becoming a slave to righteousness?
These three headings summarize how Paul’s shepherd heart is revealed in Colossians 2:1–7: the Desire, the Danger, and this third “D.”
What is the Directive for God's people?
These two physical signs were used in Colossians 2:11–12 to picture deeper spiritual realities rather than being the means of salvation themselves.
What are circumcision and baptism?
Severe treatment of the body and denying yourself physical things in an attempt to become more spiritual describe this error.
What is asceticism?
Colossians 2:14 pictures our sin as this document or “record” standing against us that Christ canceled.
What is a record/certificate of debt?
“Christ plus anything equals _____” was the sermon’s memorable way of describing what happens when human works are added as a requirement for justification.
What is nothing?
These three absolute truths from Colossians 3:3–4 were presented as guarantees of the believer’s assurance: you died, your life is hidden, and this.
What is you will appear in glory?
When a sinner turns to Christ, the lesson describes three aspects of that response: confessing Him as Lord, trusting Him as Savior, and embracing Christ as the _______ of our faith.
What is the object of our faith?
According to the sermon from Colossians 2:1-7, a faithful shepherd does these two things in balance: he continually directs believers back to Christ and warns them about spiritual _________.
What is danger?
The sermon identified seven benefits believers possess in Christ in Colossians 2:10–15. Name at least 3.
What are being filled with wisdom, spiritually circumcised, raised with Christ, made spiritually alive, forgiven, having our sin debt paid, and sharing Christ’s victory?
Humanism, legalism, mysticism, and asceticism look different, but the sermon argued they share this fundamental problem.
What is putting man rather than Christ at the center—or treating Christ as insufficient?
According to Colossians 2:15, Christ did these two things to the rulers and authorities through His victory at the cross.
What are disarmed them and triumphed over them?
According to Colossians 2:23, man-made religion, self-abasement, and severe treatment of the body have this much value against fleshly indulgence.
What is none, or no value?
Colossians 3:4 doesn’t merely say Christ gives believers life. Paul uses this much stronger description of Christ’s relationship to the believer.
What is “Christ, who is our life”?
The lesson’s recap traces salvation from beginning to end through seven works of God. Name at least 3.
What are: God calls, draws, convicts, grants repentance, gives faith, justifies, and glorifies.