Colossians – Restoration (notes)

Colossians - Restoration

Paul Was A Great Intellectual

The revelations that Jesus gave him still amaze scholars today.

Paul Loved

• The church and here he knew Jesus would have to restore the church and all creation someday.

Restoration Means

• The return of something that was removed, or the restoring of something to a former condition. Something that gives new strength or vigor.

The Process of Restoration:

1. It started in Jesus when the Father’s pleasure of all the fullness to dwell in Jesus.

2. Jesus reconciled us to God.

Why Did Everything Need To Be Reconciled?

• Because when man fell all of creation was put into a tailspin of decay and death.

Romans 8:18-23

1. The sufferings of this present time are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us.

2. For even the whole creation waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].

Paul’s Revelation

About restoration:

1. All living things died because of man’s sin! Why?

2. Because man was given dominion over creation and when he sinned creation was affected.

3. Jesus died to restore man, and the result will be the complete restoration of nature.

Romans 8:20-23

Nature was subjected to frailty, not because of some some intentional fault on its part.

1. Man was the reason for the frailty of nature.

2. So the whole creation has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now, and we too groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies.

So Romans Tells Us:

• Creation (nature) is waiting for everything to be restored back to its state of perfection and sinlessness.
• It will be a glorious time when God restores nature to a state of perfection and glory. Man will be full of the glory of God.

The Church

• Will be restored to a glorious state before Jesus returns. He is coming for a glorious church without spot or blemish. Eph. 5:27

A World Wide Restoration

• Of the people of God is going to take place before Jesus returns for His bride.

Now

• He has reconciled us by His body through death to present us holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation, if we continue in our faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the Gospel.