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Thursday 14 April 2011

 The reality is that Christ trumps
everything. All scripture testifies of
him. The Father exults him. The Spirit
magnifies him. The angels worship him.
The early church knew him as her
passion, her message, and the unction
of her life. Christ was her speciality. He
was her bridegroom and head. She
specialised in nothing else.
The Jesus Manifesto

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Colossians 1:15-20

The Supremacy of the Son of God

The Preeminence of Christ

Thursday 14 April 2011

 the number of times Paul
refers to Christ in the first
chapter of Colossians

Thursday 14 April 2011

 The New Testament writers were totally
consumed with Christ. He was their
message, their teaching, their
proclamation, their very life. And
everything else flowed out of intimate
fellowship with him.
The Jesus Manifesto

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Verse 15 He is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of all creation.

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 Verse 15 He is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of all creation.

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 Verse 16-17 For by him all things were
created, in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities—all things were
created through him and for him. And he is
before all things, and in him all things hold
together.

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 Verse 18 And he is the head of the
body, the church. He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead, that in
everything he might be preeminent.

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 Colossians 1:28
Acts 5:42
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everyone mature in Christ.

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 Colossians 1:28
Acts 5:42
Him we proclaim, warning
And every day, in the temple and
everyone and teaching
from house to house, they did
everyone with all wisdom,
not cease teaching and
that we may present
preaching Jesus as the Christ.
everyone mature in Christ.

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Colossians 1:28
Him we proclaim, warning
everyone and teaching
everyone with all wisdom,
that we may present
everyone mature in Christ.

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 Verse 19-20 For in him all the fullness of
God was pleased to dwell, and through him
to reconcile to himself all things, whether
on earth or in heaven, making peace by the
blood of his cross.

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 Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray—
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

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 Is Jesus
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Figurehead

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 A Snapshot of Jesus

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 The
[image of]
Jesus I
hate...

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 Healing

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Forgiving, Loving, Restoring

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 Interceding

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 Interceding

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Grace
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Thursday 14 April 2011
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Thursday 14 April 2011
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Thursday 14 April 2011
 Grace
“Sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance
in competition with the aggressive
forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin
versus grace, grace wins hands down.
All sin can do is threaten us with
death, and that’s the end of it. Grace ...
invites us into life - as life that goes on
and on, world without end.”
Romans 5:20,21 The Message
Thursday 14 April 2011
 Bold, Strong

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Amazing Jesus
Matt 8:25-27 The disciples woke him,
Matt 15:30-31 Great crowds
“Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” came to
him, bringing the lame, the blind, the
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Thursday 14 April 2011
 Amazing Jesus
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him, bringing the lame, the blind, the
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Israel.
Thursday 14 April 2011
 Amazing Jesus
Matt 15:30-31 Great crowds came to
him, bringing the lame, the blind, the
crippled, the mute and many others, and
laid them at his feet; and he healed them.
The people were amazed when they saw
the mute speaking, the crippled made
well, the lame walking and the blind
seeing. And they praised the God of
Israel.
Thursday 14 April 2011
 The reality is that Christ trumps
everything. All scripture testifies of
him. The Father exults him. The Spirit
magnifies him. The angels worship him.
The early church knew him as her
passion, her message, and the unction
of her life. Christ was her speciality. He
was her bridegroom and head. She
specialised in nothing else.
The Jesus Manifesto

Thursday 14 April 2011

 ...for Jesus
Thursday 14 April 2011
 ...to know Jesus

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 ...devoted to Jesus

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 ‘I belong to
Jesus. He must
have the right
to use me
without
consulting me’
Mother Theresa

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 ...committed to Jesus

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 “If I had 1,000
lives, I'd give
them all for
China”

Hudson Taylor

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 He is no
fool to give
what he
cannot
keep to
gain what
he cannot
lose.
Jim Elliot
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 ...for the Spirit of Jesus

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 ...following Jesus

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 ...following Jesus

“I Have But One Passion

it is He, it is He alone.”
Count Zinzendorf

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 ...following Jesus

Our greatest fear should

not be of failure, but
“I Have But One Passion of
succeeding at something
it is He, it is He alone.”
that doesn’t really
Count Zinzendorf
matter.

Thursday 14 April 2011

 “The old cross is a symbol of death. It
stands for the abrupt, violent end of a
human being. In Roman times, the man
who took up his cross and started
down the road was not coming back.
He was not going out to have his life
re-directed. He was going out to have
it ended.”
A.W. Tozer

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Revelation 2:5-6

But I have this against you, that you have

abandoned the love you had at first.
A Reminder
Remember therefore from where you
have fallen; repent, and do the works you
did at first. If not, I will come to you and
remove your lampstand from its place,
unless you repent.

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Revelation 2:5-6

But I have this against you, that you have

abandoned the love you had at first.
Remember therefore from where you
have fallen; repent, and do the works you
did at first. If not, I will come to you and
remove your lampstand from its place,
unless you repent.

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 When the music fades
And all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless your heart

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 I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the ways things appear
You're looking into my heart

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 I'm coming back to the heart of
worship
And it's all about You
All about You, Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've
made it
When it's all about You
It's all about You Jesus

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 King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breath

Thursday 14 April 2011

 I'll bring You more than just a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart

Thursday 14 April 2011

 I'm coming back to the heart of
worship
And it's all about You
All about You, Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've
made it
When it's all about You
It's all about You Jesus

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 Make Christ the
centre.

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 Make Christ the
centre.
Make him the
circumference.

Thursday 14 April 2011

 Make Christ the
centre.
Make him the
circumference.
And fill in the
difference with him
as well.
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 This is taken from
The Jesus Manifesto
by Sweet and Viola

Thursday 14 April 2011

 the mystery of God is this...
that the one who is the invisible
image of God;
the one in whom all the fulness of
the Godhead dwells;
the one who is the living residence
of the Trinity;

Thursday 14 April 2011

 the one in whom eternity lives,
breathes and has its being;
the one who is before time;
the A to Z, alpha and omega,
beginning and end;
the firstborn of the created
universe, who rose from the dead
never to die again;

Thursday 14 April 2011

 the conqueror of death, sin and
the grave;
the creator, redeemer, saviour and
forgiver;
the one who holds all creation
together in himself;
the one who is the power of glory
and might;

Thursday 14 April 2011

 the head, authority and source of
the church;
the one through whom and for
whom all things were created;
the one in whom all things find
their meaning and reality;
the one who reconciled all things
in heaven and earth to God;

Thursday 14 April 2011

 the one who nailed to his bloody
cross every law, every rule, and
every regulation that would
condemn the beloved people of
God;
the one who is supreme in every
realm and holds the first place in all
things - the Son of the Fathers love;

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 the one whose significance is
unmatched in human history;
the one who holds the title deed
to the universe...

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 this glorious, limitless, amazing,
incredible, expansive,
incomparable, marvelous,
stunning, staggering, majestic,
mighty, matchless, spectacular,
outstanding, tremendous, infinite...

Thursday 14 April 2011

 ...vast, grand, triumphant,
victorious, precious, radiant,
peerless, wonderful, magnificent
Christ has chosen to place all of
his fullness where?

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 Inside of you!

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