AI-GENERATED SUMMARY

This sermon expounds on Colossians 3:15-17, emphasizing the relationship between external obedience and internal transformation. Tuuri argues against the modern tendency to rely on “sensation” or feelings to drive behavior, positing instead that believers must obey the imperatives of scripture—changing their actions to eventually change their hearts1. The message highlights a chiastic structure in the text, where thanksgiving surrounds the central concept of “grace in your hearts,” suggesting that gratitude and doing all deeds in the name of Jesus are the engines of the Christian life2. Practically, the sermon calls for the peace of Christ to rule in the corporate body and for the word of Christ to dwell richly among believers, reinforcing the unity of the church which includes children as saints2.

SERMON OUTLINE

Colossians 3:16
Change Your Actions, Change Your Heart
Sermon Outline for January 24, 2016 By Pastor Dennis R. Tuuri
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Intro – AADOL, Actions and Heart
Col. 3:16
Context – 3:8-16
From Paul Warning and Teaching With Wisdom – 1:28
To The Colossians In Wisdom Teaching and Warning – 3:16
Center – Walking In Resurrected Life (2:6-23; 3:1-7)
From Malice to Patience and Forgiveness
Lying to Singing – From Sins of Speech about Others to Singing to Others
From Evil Practices to Edifying Practices
Unity in Christ (Personal Unity As Well) at the Center
Peace of Christ (3:15) and the Word of Christ (3:16)
From Your Mouth (3:8); From Your Heart (3:16)
The Text
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom
“Word of the Truth of the Gospel” (1:5); “Word of God” (1:25); Its Riches, Its Wisdom
teaching and admonishing one another
From forgiving one another (3:13) to teaching and admonishing one another”
Whose Job Is It? Jay Adams and Competent to Counsel (1970) – Rom. 15:14
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Grace and Lordship
Outside In
Imprecation – Ps 10; Rev. 60; Rom. 12:19; 1 Sam. 7
Conclusion – Repentance
Children’s Sermon Notes for August 23 Col. 3:16
Since 1973, many babies have been ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
One reason is people don’t believe God ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ today.
We really need ___ ___ ___ ___ against murder!
God says we are an army of ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
When we pray in church, things ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
We are to pray that God will ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ murderers.
We should ___ ___ ___ ___ moms that are struggling.
Colossians moves from Paul’s work to ___ ___ ___ ___
We are to ___ ___ ___ ___ or admonish one another.
”One another” means back and ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
This takes ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
Wisdom comes from God’s ___ ___ ___ ___.
To live is to ___ ___ ___ ___ other Christians, not hate them.
It means to ___ ___ ___ ___ to others, and be sung to, not to lie.
If we know God we will love others in ___ __ ___ ___ ___ ___.
We can’t ___ ___ ___ ___ with just forgiving others.
We must also share our ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ and spirituality.
We are all competent to ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
We get training in that in ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

SERMON TRANSCRIPT

No transcript available.

Show Full Transcript (0 characters)
Collapse Transcript

COMMUNION HOMILY

# Sermon Transcript – Colossians 3:16

Please be seated. You know, speaking of the worship service informing the rest of our week, I have found it quite fun at times over the years to sing the text back and forth with one of my daughters or Christine and I. I mean, take the worship service home. You’d be amazed after really a few times of singing it here, how it begins to stick in your mind. And particularly as you do it in that responsive way, somehow I think it aids memorization as well.

So there’s something you might want to try. I talked about this idea today, not this idea, this truth that there is grace in our hearts. You know, verses 15, 16, and 17 kind of culminate this section of Colossians. And verse 15 says, “Let the peace of God, which is really Christ—let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.” And then, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” And then verse 17, “In whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

So you’ve got this little chiasm of thanks on either side of the verse we focused on today, which culminates in grace. So culmination in thanks and thanks and grace at the center. And that’s what we do here at the table. We kind of get to the climax of our worship service, and it is a thanksgiving to God. And it’s a thanksgiving that has at its center the grace of God to us through the Lord Jesus Christ. And we become thankful. And as I mentioned earlier, one of the great things that we should thank God for regularly at this table is that we address our children correctly in this church—baptizing them as children, raising them in the faith, telling them they have the privilege and responsibility to partake of the Lord’s Supper.

We call them what they are: saints. And very dramatically here at this table, this unity of the church is one of the great things that the grace of God accomplishes, which yields forth then, or should yield forth, with each of us, thanksgiving to him. So we praise God for that. I might also mention, in terms of the abortion battle, it’s easy to forget on the left coast. But over the last four years, a tremendous number of state legislatures have been retaken by pro-life advocates. And, you know, by far there’s a super majority of states now that are struggling with courts to impose new restrictions on abortion and bring it back under control. And that’s a thing to be given great thanks to God for as well—that abortion in the center of the country, on the mainland, is declining, and laws are being put in place that will have it decline even further. So we come to this table giving God thanks for his grace to us.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, and broke it and gave it to them, his disciples, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”

Let’s pray. Father, we do give you thanks for this bread. And we thank you, Father, for this ritual that changes us and that makes us increasingly sanctified by your grace and by the grace of partaking of this in communion. Thank you that we rightly discern the body to include our children at this particular table. And as we partake of the bread, we remember the corporate body of the church and we give you thanks for the children who are in it. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Please come forward and receive the blessings of God through this rite.

Q&A SESSION

Q1:
Questioner: The text today reminded me of Romans 12, where we’re called to renew our minds. And not be conformed to this world. That’s an imperative there. Do you think that’s being lost in the church today? Those types of imperatives on calling people to actively renew their minds and not be conformed to this world?

Pastor Tuuri: Yeah, I don’t think totally being lost, but I do think there are some trends, particularly within some Reformed circles, that have kind of sidestepped a lot of that. This whole Imago Dei thing becomes everything.

I do think that it’s kind of being… Well, number one, I think that the American mentality kind of comes to these texts with a bunch of presuppositions that are almost always personal, and they’re almost always, you know, from a perspective—as I said earlier—of sensation. So I think it’s difficult to step out of our culture and look at these texts in the way that they might not be comfortable for us to look at them.

But I think you’re right. I think generally it becomes more difficult for the church to do that. But I think that on the other hand, there’s a recovery of a lot of this stuff as well—you know, seeing the plurals, seeing the covenantal obligations, looking for not just private personal devotion stuff and looking for corporate worship, for instance. So yeah, I do think that you’re right that there’s difficulty, but I think it’s in some circles being corrected.

Questioner: Thank you.

Series: Colossians Expository
← Previous in SeriesNew Clothes for the New Year Part 2Next in Series →The Crown Rights of King Jesus
Chronological
← Jan 17, 2016New Clothes for the New Year Part 2