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Text: Colossians 1: 12

MSITN VITAL DOCTRINES – CHRISTOLOGY

“Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.”

Colossians 1:12

GIVING THANKS TO GOD

1. Giving of thanks to God the Father.

a. This was something that Paul did naturally.

b. This was done consistently too.

c. Genuine gratitude enabled Paul to give thanks to God again and again.

2. When Paul was not a believer yet.

a. It was doubtful that he was a man filled with gratitude and thanksgiving.

b. His heart was filled with strong negative feelings:

i. He had rejected the idea that the Lord Jesus was the Messiah.

ii. He felt so much hatred and animosity towards the Christians.

iii. He persecuted them with a sense of vengeance.

3. When Paul became a believer he was changed completely.

a. He related to God as Father.

b. He realised how wrong and sinful he had been.

c. He related to God with deep gratitude and thanksgiving.

4. Things he was thankful for.

a. Qualified to be partakers of a great spiritual inheritance.

i. Once Paul thought that he could earn merit with God if he persecuted the Church.

ii. In salvation, he knew any inheritance would be an act of God’s grace.

iii. It was God who would qualify anyone to become a spiritual heir.

b. “The inheritance of the saints in the light”

i. All believers were declared righteous and holy by God the Father.

ii. Thus, they are called “saints”.

iii. Saints in the light would refer to the fact that they are in heaven with God.

iv. They would be given a special inheritance in heaven.

v. The fact that one can enter into heaven would require God’s grace to be given.

5. Remembering what the Lord Jesus taught about God’s gift of eternal life.

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

John 3:14-17

a. The Son of Man was the Lord Jesus Christ.

b. He would be lifted up on the Cross of Calvary.

c. Whoever believed in Him would have everlasting life.

d. The love of God the Father is seen clearly in this promise of eternal life.

e. He offers salvation to all through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

我夜间的歌曲-重要教义-基督论
经文：歌罗西书 1

“又感谢父，叫我们能与众圣徒在光明中同得基业。”

《歌罗西书1:12》

感谢上帝

1．感谢天父

a．这是保罗自然而然地做的事

b．这也是一贯的做法

c．真正的感激使保罗能够一次又一次地感谢上帝

2．当保罗还不是信徒的时候

a．他大概不是一个充满感激和感恩的人

b．他的心中充满了强烈的负面情绪：

i．他拒绝了主耶稣是弥赛亚的想法

ii．他对基督徒有许多的仇恨和敌意

iii．他怀着复仇的心迫害他们

3．当保罗成为信徒后，他完全改变了

a．他把上帝当作父亲

b．他意识到以前的他充满了错误和罪恶

c．他怀着深深的感激和感恩与上帝联系

4．他感谢的事情

a．有资格分享伟大的属灵基业

i．以前保罗以为如果他逼害教会，就可在上帝面前赚取功绩

ii．在救恩中，他知道任何基业都是上帝行的恩典

iii．是上帝使任何人有资格成为属灵的继承人

b．“众圣徒在光明中同得基业”

i．所有的信徒都被天父宣布为公义和圣洁

ii．因此，他们被称为“圣徒”

iii．光明中的圣徒就是指他们在天堂与上帝同在的事实

iv．他们将在天堂获得特殊的基业
v．需要上帝赐的恩典，一个人才能进天堂

5．记住主耶稣所教导关于上帝恩赐的永生

“摩西在旷野怎样举蛇，人子也必照样被举起来， 叫一切信他的都得永生。神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的不致灭亡，反得永生。 因为神差他的儿子降世，不是要定世人的罪，乃是要叫世人因他得救。”

《约翰福音 3：14-17》

a．人子是主耶稣基督

b．祂会被举起在髑髅地的十字架上

c．信祂的人必得永生

d．天父的爱在永生的应许中清晰可见

e．祂对所有信主耶稣基督的人提供救恩