Series Summary:

Fear not! Grace and peace to you! Jesus is the MESSIAH! For everything was created by MESSIAH, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through MESSIAH and for MESSIAH. MESSIAH is before all things, and by MESSIAH all things hold together. MESSIAH is also the head of the body, the church. So, speak of the MESSIAH! #colossians #2024


Starter

Tell about a time that you went all in on something.

Pray

Father, we are asking that we may be filled with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ****so that we may walk worthy of You, fully pleasing to You, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of You. ****May we be strengthened with all power, according to Your glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy ****giving thanks to the You who has enabled us to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. You has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son You love. We have redemption the forgiveness of sins because He is Messiah, we walk in Messiah, and it is all in Messiah Amen

Study Questions

Messiah is an anglicization of the Latin Messias, which is borrowed from the Greek Μεσσιας, an adaptation of the Aramaic meshiḥa (מְשִׁיחָא), a translation of the Hebrew mashiaḥ (מָשִׁיחַ), "the Anointed One”.

Christ derives from the Greek word χριστός (chrīstós), meaning literally "anointed one". The word is derived from the Greek verb χρίω (chrī́ō), meaning literally "to anoint." In the Greek Septuagint, χριστός was a semantic loan used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašhíaḥ, messiah).

“Changing the language of a word does not affect the meaning of the word. We call a bound and covered set of pages a “book.” In German, it becomes a buch. In Spanish, it is a libro; in French, a livre. The language changes, but the object itself does not.  In the same way, we can refer to Jesus as “Jesus,” “Yeshua,” or “YehSou” (Cantonese) without changing His nature. In any language, His name means “The Lord Is Salvation.”” www.gotquestions.org

The Lord Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus the Lord, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Christ, or Lord to the Hebrew, Christian, and even the worldly (Roman) understanding would have been understood to mean the guy who He and/or his followers think He is, God, the promised Messiah, the anointed one, who was named Yahweh saves (Jesus=Yeshua) who called himself Yahweh (I am-John 8:58).

READ: Colossians 1:1-2, 9-10

  1. Who is writing this Colossians letter?
    1. Who are the recipients of the letter?
    2. What is Paul’s purpose in writing?

Messiah (Christ) is referenced 7 times in chapter 3

READ: Colossians 3:1-4