October 2, 2011
Markers of the Faithful!
Mike Fritscher

Colossians 1:1-8

The Gospel – 1 Corinthians 1:17-19

The Word of the Cross, the Power of God, Christ Crucified!

1 Corinthians 15:1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6

1. Faith – In Christ!

Impossible Promises! The Gospel is About Believing the Impossible!

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall crush you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."

Romans 8:28And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

The Illustration of Abraham! Romans 4:16-25

Mark 9:14-29 – Help Me! Help My Son!

2. Love For All the Saints!

1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, Keep fervent in your love for one another! Because love covers a multitude of sins!

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

3. Hope – 1 John 3:1-3

Colossians 1:25-29 – Christ in You, the Hope of Glory!