Colossians 3:18-4:1
August 31, 2014
preached by Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.”

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),
English poet, literary critic, and philosopher

“I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. “

~ June Carter Cash (1929-2003), American singer-songwriter

“We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband’s authority and a wife’s submission, holding strongly to the ‘master-in-my-own-house theory,’ thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased. “

~ Annie Besant (1847-1933), British socialist, theosophist,
women’s rights activist, writer and orator

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.”

~ A.W. Tozer (1897-1963), American pastor and author

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

 ~ Homer (Ancient Greek epic poet), The Odyssey

Sermon Passage

Colossians 3:18-4:1 (ESV)
¹⁸ Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. ²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. ²² Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. ²³ Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. ²⁵ For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Chapter 4

¹ Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.