Paul’s letter to the Colossians was written to counter false teachers who were misleading the church. Their teaching was diminishing Christ's preeminence through adding a mixture of Jewish legalism, Greek philosophy, and early Gnostic ideas. Our verses today are a transition to Paul’s main theme which begins with an incredible word portrait of the preeminence of Christ in verses 15 to 22.

This week, we will discover that the truth of your redemption transforms you.

Do you remember the pure delight you experienced on Christmas morning as a child—the rush to the tree, the colored paper flying, the joy of gifts with your name on them? This kind of delight becomes harder and harder to recapture as we age,, and we wonder if we've simply outgrown it. This Christmas, discover that you haven't outgrown delight—you've just been looking for it in places too small to contain it.

The Colossian believers had received sound doctrine about Christ's supremacy and had begun putting off the old man and putting on the new man. But Paul knew that true transformation required more than behavior modification—it required hearts saturated with Christ's word. Speech flows from identity, and identity is shaped by what dwells within.

This week, we will discover how consecrating our words begins not with trying harder to control our speech, but with letting Christ's word dwell richly within us, realigning our heart's identity.