This Sunday

What Happened?

What Happened?

Robby Pollard, Lead Pastor

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What happened?

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Colossians 1:1a

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God…

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Acts 2:22-24

²²“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— ²³this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. ²⁴God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

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Jesus is God (Acts 2:22)

Jesus died (Acts 2:23)

God raised him from the dead (Acts 2:24)

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Acts 2:32

³²This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.

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Jesus is alive.

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Acts 7:55-56, 58-59

⁵⁵But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

⁵⁸Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

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Jesus was dead.

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Acts 8:1

¹And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem…

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Acts 8:3

³But Saul was ravaging the church…he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

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Acts 9:1

¹But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord…

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Philippians 3:6

⁶…a persecutor of the church…

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1 Timothy 1:13

¹³…I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent…

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Colossians 1:13-14

¹³He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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Colossians 1:15-19

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶For 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. ¹⁷And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸And 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. ¹⁹For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

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Colossians 1:15

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

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John 1:18

¹⁸No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

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John 14:9

⁹…Whoever has seen me has seen the Father…

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Colossians 1:15-16

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶For 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.

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John 1:1-3

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

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Colossians 1:17

¹⁷And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

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Revelation 1:18

¹⁸and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

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Hebrews 1:1-3

¹Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, ²but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. ³He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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Colossians 1:18

¹⁸And 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 1:18

¹⁸And 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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Acts 9:1-5

¹But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ²and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. ⁴And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” ⁵And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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Jesus is alive.

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Colossians 1:19

¹⁹For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

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Colossians 1:20

²⁰and 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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Colossians 1:21-23

²¹And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, ²²he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, ²³if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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Jesus is God.

Jesus died.

Jesus is alive.

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No one is too far gone.

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Is Christ preeminent in your life?