The Sermon Fullness In Christ by David McGee
Jul 26, 2015
Fullness In Christ (23:21)
Referenced Scriptures: Colossians 2:6-7
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Colossians 2:6-7
6) As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
7) rooted and built up in him, and established in your faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
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I have a il ration I need about six people. There are two four six. Come on down. Can you run an hour already at this take it all taken off. Yeah. Yes. C'mon down here your husband Rhonda. Yes you you too. Yeah this way one minute kids can wait a minute Terry and Judy one down I need six people. Police say the hole kind of make a circle. Yes just you know shoulder to shoulder. Whatever suits them over here to be over here will be over here Terry's right here. Well I'm going to jump in I want to jump in OK now we got to circle. Now you see how things are in a circle. All right. Connecting. But whenever you come together on the other when you change your location the circle changes. He's going to see what happens change and the challenges and that's what I'm going to this what the whole message is about from where you stand how things change even in the same circle how you look at your life how the things are going problems difficulties. The Bible says for us to give things so if we are giving thanks for something we see it differently then if we are grumbling and complaining that the hour don't we go home now thanking me and it's a simple thing. But sometimes what the scriptures teach us is so very simple but that you know we make it complicated because we think too much we don't think of the right things we don't think of the well. It is really actually the right things when some there are things that go wrong. There are things that go wrong there are decisions that have made that didn't pan out the way that we thought. There are people that give us opportunities to give away our joy. You know there are people who help us to see the downside of life and whenever we look at all of these perspectives we have to remember that we're looking at them from one part from one part of the circle and it looks like the circle is complete. But when you change your position in the circle the whole perspective changes. And in our lives and this and I'm picking up where you left off last week with kolache and chapter two beginning in verse six that you were speaking about the fullness that we find in Christ the fullness that I find in Jesus that to me it isn't. Well let's talk about what it is. It is fullness that comes from knowing that is the supplier of every need. It is the fullness that comes from understanding that has a will and a purpose for our life. It is it comes from the understanding that is in charge and that has a way of bringing things full circle. has a way of making things different than what they are and that is . As a way of bringing together what is necessary for our lives to accomplish what he wants us to do. Now there's a story and I heard this from Joel So if you if you hear it on the radio or on one of his sermons this work came from. He talks about how that in the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California there was this guy who was dying. It was midnight and he was dying he was alone he had no family had no friends that were there and the nurse called this priest Father O'Malley to come and visit him. Well the priest comes to visit the man and what was a thirty minute drive took about two hours because of the storm and everything that was going on and he had to grow through go through a lot of difficulty to get there and when he arrived he began to talk to the man the man was you know even wanted me to do with the priest or anybody else who's kind of kind of a gruff hard nosed person and he talked he introduced himself that he was father Mally he just happened to be in the neighborhood so he thought he'd stop by and the guys laughed and said no that's not why you're here. And he talked about the weather and he talked about the trip and so on. He finally asked the man is there something you want to discuss is there something that you need to talk about on your mind. And the man that know people about that day in the weather and finally the man the thought there is something I know I've never told anyone and it is one thing has been bothering much to thirty years ago our friends were drinking and that we were at work and there was the reply which the track or the trains coming in or the. Our coach brain that was also coming and so it in a drunken stupor he went out with right and the brain right and the young couple the wife who wrote it was there to go and he said you know I've never had an opportunity to state that I was sorry I never had an opportunity and no one ever knows no one ever knew that I had done and bother a mildly top on that that by the way that died in that view and I can forgive you Jesus can forgive you and you see how that life you know we bury them paying we carry thing in the battle in our life that we don't believe that every they thought of but this is the way that we find ourselves and by the cap with the letting go up letting go of the pop up the greatest difficulty I think the budding. It isn't you know we use the best builder though about the make up more than what we are and where you value the boy out and try to make a black and white is what is trying to do in our life is not make us more or less but to fulfill who we are than fulfill the purpose and do with the thought of and daughter of You and I that we are going to relate with people strike that. Do you want out of that breed of us to be and we're the ones who come with the best or found images. doesn't have. Now you're NOT have a pamphlet. has an image of health but I think people's lives and the most important thing we have is their ability to touch the lives of the people around us and when life is over it's not going to be what we've partly it's going to be many people. What individual have we talked and they did it because when he was blocking the air yet he had all these things but he went about doing good and he went about I think alive the people and healing them and make it having truth for them in and out and it was a way for him to break that with them here and I think of it part now. How is going to break. How is that going to break that up. He's going through you the brightness and the mad the Almighty it's being who you know we look in the mirror and say you're not doing too good . But Look the NAACP are the right brigade. You're right where you need to be the make that connect boy and make that connect this to take the next that the next opportunity or the door they're going to open the door the going post I have that these things in motion I had that they didn't order though that we might not believe that which has called us and so we said our life will follow our work you know. Last week I said about the words words of the writer. Before there they've won it by ship. Direct your life will follow your work. And of course your belief is the motor and the propeller and the desire that is the fuel. So as we look at our life we have desires. We have no desire nothing runs. I don't think that today. So you can lay in bed talk all you want nothing but to happen. It's like setting in the boat and steering turning the wheel and nothing happening and then of course there's always the I'm going to stay and I'm going to stay in my driveway and wait till all the lights turn green before I pull out. I'm going to I'm going to allow everything the match up before I start moving. Well you know it's not going to work. So just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord. This is verse six we receive Him and we can send to him as Lord of our life. Lord is ruler Lord is one who is we are submitting to charge in charge of our life and just as you have received Jesus Christ as Lord continue to live your lives in him. Continue continue continue continue. It's an ongoing process. We haven't arrived yet. We haven't arrived yet. Our goal in our life isn't over. has a place for us and a purpose for us and the goals that he has for our life we haven't achieved them because if we had achieved them you wouldn't be here. We haven't we wouldn't be around. So has a purpose and and a pleasure and a let's say it this way. If were going to bless you what would that blessing be. If was going to do supreme surp ing exceedingly abundantly above all that we could even ask or think what would the blessing be. What would 's blessing to you what would be his gift to you for your life. Now take into consideration this is Almighty and the creator of the universe creator of all things. What would it be like to receive the blessing of Remember the story about the the golfer number the golfer. He went over to Saudi Arabia or one of the countries over there and he taught the sheik how to you know to play golf for a week and on the way out the sheikh says well what would you like for me it's oh no you've paid me enough to pay me enough this is what I would like a golf club. So Guy goes home thinking geysers and I'm a putter you know or a driver. And he waits for weeks and weeks and weeks and finally a guy arrives at the door and hears from the Sheikh and he gives him a deed to a golf club that he owns now a golf club. The one nine hundred eighteen holes eighteen holes in the club and the hole where he owns a golf club. And so what she did things as a golf club and what the player thought is a golf club are two entirely different things. So what is it the glottis thinking of what is it that is thinking of that is obvious turn of the value that he wants to give to us. That and you know what he's already instilled the dreams of that inside of you. He's already instilled the dreams of that inside of you and it is in this dreaming that is coming to folders the fullness of is is is filling you up inside. And what's good. Do battle over what's going to bubble over in our life is how we are going to touch people's lives in a way that will make a difference for them in eternity. And can you see it wherever you go. The people that you meet in things that you do. We were at a wedding yesterday and we went to find our table. And we didn't have a name. We weren't invited. We just crashed the party. We were Wedding Crashers yesterday. We didn't know anybody there didn't know the couple nothing we just went to the reception you know Nate came home. You know it's not true. But they couldn't find the real names and there was a guest the whole table that we were setting with didn't have a name either. So we all just kind of sat at the same table. But it was interesting how that the people that you sit next to are ones that perhaps were needed to be and that needed to talk about something and needed to talk about different situations that have happened in their life and there you were and you were able to relate exactly to what they were questioning. And that's not by chance. That's by choice. helped us to choose that very thing in our life. And so we are rooted in Christ. We are built up in Christ. We are grounded in Christ and when we are overflowing with Thanksgiving we are overflowing with thankfulness and that's why the circle if we're not thankful for everybody in the circle every problem difficulty in our life we will not see it from the perspective of thankfulness. If we look at our life and this is how we see it and. Doesn't look so good. Start being thankful. Start being grateful. Overflowing in thankfulness that we are abundantly in abundance of thankfulness to who in his sovereignty and in His grace mercy is not giving to wants what we deserve. He's giving to us what is of his best. And so as we begin to be thankful for what we find ourselves in we find ourselves at another location in the same circle. We see ourselves in another location in the same circle looking at the same things but seeing them differently because thankfulness has an appreciative way of looking at something and has an appreciation for what we just saw. And when I appreciate someone something I see them differently than Oh my goodness this is terrible. This is the worst thing. This is the work no being thankful for where we are. has brought us to where we need to be. It's just that we need to turn need to be at the other position of the circle we are where where we are where we need to be. It's just that we need and it doesn't look so hard you may not look so good. Well we need to move ourself around the cir stance and insert ourselves in a different location and that location is being grateful because the of abundance the of mercy the of grace the of wonder beyond our galaxy that wants to show us something different than what we see with our own perspective. You know we were leaving yesterday from the. Got kicked out of the wedding reception that they found. We were supposed to be there and we were leaving. My little humor I'm sorry. Very little. We were we were leaving and run this is why you know we didn't get it I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to the bride that's why she was there we were there because of the bride and the groom and I had the groom in fourth grade in the bride or somebody else you know it's what you know. But anyhow she said I didn't get a chance to say goodbye because everybody was doing their thing and so we I said you go back say goodbye I'll go get the car and she said she walked back in and everybody was just standing around and there was the bride right there and she went right over to her spoke to her and it was the perfect moment to enter into that conversation or to where that person was in the whole evening was by going out and going back in and coming right in the perfect place. And I mean to this I'm into this idea that it's all perfect it's perfect. And why should we think anything else. Why should we take anything else other than this is pure perfection. Not me but and you know reading through my book I found places that the people I paid to edit didn't do a good job you know. But of course they told me to read over it and find all the places that didn't match up and I wanted to change of course I didn't do that. So it's their fault not mine. Not true. It's my fault. And but you know what I can look at it you know it's perfect for what it is because I'm not perfect. And but the truth is that presents to us are perfect in Christ and we're never going to find flaws. All this we will only find perfection in Christ and in his divine timing. And I just believe that we are a divine course we are in a divine place. We are to divide past accomplishing a divine purpose by loving forgiving and allowing to touch our lives and to touch the lives of others through us. And then that's good that's all of them. Yes It's ten minutes slow. I mean you know it's only been. It's like the farmer he went to the church and he was the only guy showed up at church and he asked the preacher says What do you want me to preach the whole message or do I was just a short A down a little bit. And then farmer says well if I want to see if I went to the barn to feed my cows or there's only one cow there are feed and he is OK. And so preacher goes and preaches for a half hour and storms and yells and screams and shouts and them's that ever and after he's done it goes back and ask the farmer Well how do I do it as well as I only had one car one feed at the whole barn. So. But today the thought is the fullness of Christ the fullness in Christ and lets the fullness of Christ dwell in you rich sleep. Let the fullness of Christ dwell in you originally in everything just saying it's for this is the will of in Christ Jesus concerning you that is at work doing above and beyond anything we could ever ask or think. So we're looking for the miraculous in the ordinary. We're looking for the miraculous in the ordinary events of our life. And if we can see that it will change our thoughts it'll change our day change our perspective of our destiny of where we're supposed to be and what we're supposed to do. To see the miraculous in the ordinary and we will see the fullness of Christ in us and when we're in a circle and it doesn't look so hot you know on the other side and see the same circle. But from a different perspective and we'll see the hand of touching our life. Thank you Father for hearing our prayers and meeting our needs. Thank you all for the strength of soul and heart. Thank you all for the knees that we have. the needs that come before us and our loved ones and our friends and with his prayer touch upon their lives. And as we touch them let us pray with them and pray for them. Pray for your miraculous touch upon them to give them strength and direction for this day and we will not fail to praise you to be thankful to be thankful for the blessings that have come to our lives through you. May we see the miraculous in the ordinary. We pray in Jesus' name amen. bless you. Fullness In Christ I have a il ration I need about six people. There are two four six. Come on down. Can you run an hour already at this take it all taken off. Yeah. Yes. C'mon down here your husband Rhonda. Yes you you too. Yeah this way one minute kids can wait a minute Terry and Judy one down I need six people. Police say the hole kind of make a circle. Yes just you know shoulder to shoulder. Whatever suits them over here to be over here will be over here Terry's right here. Well I'm going to jump in I want to jump in OK now we got to circle. Now you see how things are in a circle. All right. Connecting. But whenever you come together on the other when you change your location the circle changes. He's going to see what happens change and the challenges and that's what I'm going to this what the whole message is about from where you stand how things change even in the same circle how you look at your life how the things are going problems difficulties. The Bible says for us to give things so if we are giving thanks for something we see it differently then if we are grumbling and complaining that the hour don't we go home now thanking me and it's a simple thing. But sometimes what the scriptures teach us is so very simple but that you know we make it complicated because we think too much we don't think of the right things we don't think of the well. It is really actually the right things when some there are things that go wrong. There are things that go wrong there are decisions that have made that didn't pan out the way that we thought. There are people that give us opportunities to give away our joy. You know there are people who help us to see the downside of life and whenever we look at all of these perspectives we have to remember that we're looking at them from one part from one part of the circle and it looks like the circle is complete. But when you change your position in the circle the whole perspective changes. And in our lives and this and I'm picking up where you left off last week with kolache and chapter two beginning in verse six that you were speaking about the fullness that we find in Christ the fullness that I find in Jesus that to me it isn't. Well let's talk about what it is. It is fullness that comes from knowing that is the supplier of every need. It is the fullness that comes from understanding that has a will and a purpose for our life. It is it comes from the understanding that is in charge and that has a way of bringing things full circle. has a way of making things different than what they are and that is . As a way of bringing together what is necessary for our lives to accomplish what he wants us to do. Now there's a story and I heard this from Joel So if you if you hear it on the radio or on one of his sermons this work came from. He talks about how that in the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California there was this guy who was dying. It was midnight and he was dying he was alone he had no family had no friends that were there and the nurse called this priest Father O'Malley to come and visit him. Well the priest comes to visit the man and what was a thirty minute drive took about two hours because of the storm and everything that was going on and he had to grow through go through a lot of difficulty to get there and when he arrived he began to talk to the man the man was you know even wanted me to do with the priest or anybody else who's kind of kind of a gruff hard nosed person and he talked he introduced himself that he was father Mally he just happened to be in the neighborhood so he thought he'd stop by and the guys laughed and said no that's not why you're here. And he talked about the weather and he talked about the trip and so on. He finally asked the man is there something you want to discuss is there something that you need to talk about on your mind. And the man that know people about that day in the weather and finally the man the thought there is something I know I've never told anyone and it is one thing has been bothering much to thirty years ago our friends were drinking and that we were at work and there was the reply which the track or the trains coming in or the. Our coach brain that was also coming and so it in a drunken stupor he went out with right and the brain right and the young couple the wife who wrote it was there to go and he said you know I've never had an opportunity to state that I was sorry I never had an opportunity and no one ever knows no one ever knew that I had done and bother a mildly top on that that by the way that died in that view and I can forgive you Jesus can forgive you and you see how that life you know we bury them paying we carry thing in the battle in our life that we don't believe that every they thought of but this is the way that we find ourselves and by the cap with the letting go up letting go of the pop up the greatest difficulty I think the budding. It isn't you know we use the best builder though about the make up more than what we are and where you value the boy out and try to make a black and white is what is trying to do in our life is not make us more or less but to fulfill who we are than fulfill the purpose and do with the thought of and daughter of You and I that we are going to relate with people strike that. Do you want out of that breed of us to be and we're the ones who come with the best or found images. doesn't have. Now you're NOT have a pamphlet. has an image of health but I think people's lives and the most important thing we have is their ability to touch the lives of the people around us and when life is over it's not going to be what we've partly it's going to be many people. What individual have we talked and they did it because when he was blocking the air yet he had all these things but he went about doing good and he went about I think alive the people and healing them and make it having truth for them in and out and it was a way for him to break that with them here and I think of it part now. How is going to break. How is that going to break that up. He's going through you the brightness and the mad the Almighty it's being who you know we look in the mirror and say you're not doing too good . But Look the NAACP are the right brigade. You're right where you need to be the make that connect boy and make that connect this to take the next that the next opportunity or the door they're going to open the door the going post I have that these things in motion I had that they didn't order though that we might not believe that which has called us and so we said our life will follow our work you know. Last week I said about the words words of the writer. Before there they've won it by ship. Direct your life will follow your work. And of course your belief is the motor and the propeller and the desire that is the fuel. So as we look at our life we have desires. We have no desire nothing runs. I don't think that today. So you can lay in bed talk all you want nothing but to happen. It's like setting in the boat and steering turning the wheel and nothing happening and then of course there's always the I'm going to stay and I'm going to stay in my driveway and wait till all the lights turn green before I pull out. I'm going to I'm going to allow everything the match up before I start moving. Well you know it's not going to work. So just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord. This is verse six we receive Him and we can send to him as Lord of our life. Lord is ruler Lord is one who is we are submitting to charge in charge of our life and just as you have received Jesus Christ as Lord continue to live your lives in him. Continue continue continue continue. It's an ongoing process. We haven't arrived yet. We haven't arrived yet. Our goal in our life isn't over. has a place for us and a purpose for us and the goals that he has for our life we haven't achieved them because if we had achieved them you wouldn't be here. We haven't we wouldn't be around. So has a purpose and and a pleasure and a let's say it this way. If were going to bless you what would that blessing be. If was going to do supreme surp ing exceedingly abundantly above all that we could even ask or think what would the blessing be. What would 's blessing to you what would be his gift to you for your life. Now take into consideration this is Almighty and the creator of the universe creator of all things. What would it be like to receive the blessing of Remember the story about the the golfer number the golfer. He went over to Saudi Arabia or one of the countries over there and he taught the sheik how to you know to play golf for a week and on the way out the sheikh says well what would you like for me it's oh no you've paid me enough to pay me enough this is what I would like a golf club. So Guy goes home thinking geysers and I'm a putter you know or a driver. And he waits for weeks and weeks and weeks and finally a guy arrives at the door and hears from the Sheikh and he gives him a deed to a golf club that he owns now a golf club. The one nine hundred eighteen holes eighteen holes in the club and the hole where he owns a golf club. And so what she did things as a golf club and what the player thought is a golf club are two entirely different things. So what is it the glottis thinking of what is it that is thinking of that is obvious turn of the value that he wants to give to us. That and you know what he's already instilled the dreams of that inside of you. He's already instilled the dreams of that inside of you and it is in this dreaming that is coming to folders the fullness of is is is filling you up inside. And what's good. Do battle over what's going to bubble over in our life is how we are going to touch people's lives in a way that will make a difference for them in eternity. And can you see it wherever you go. The people that you meet in things that you do. We were at a wedding yesterday and we went to find our table. And we didn't have a name. We weren't invited. We just crashed the party. We were Wedding Crashers yesterday. We didn't know anybody there didn't know the couple nothing we just went to the reception you know Nate came home. You know it's not true. But they couldn't find the real names and there was a guest the whole table that we were setting with didn't have a name either. So we all just kind of sat at the same table. But it was interesting how that the people that you sit next to are ones that perhaps were needed to be and that needed to talk about something and needed to talk about different situations that have happened in their life and there you were and you were able to relate exactly to what they were questioning. And that's not by chance. That's by choice. helped us to choose that very thing in our life. And so we are rooted in Christ. We are built up in Christ. We are grounded in Christ and when we are overflowing with Thanksgiving we are overflowing with thankfulness and that's why the circle if we're not thankful for everybody in the circle every problem difficulty in our life we will not see it from the perspective of thankfulness. If we look at our life and this is how we see it and. Doesn't look so good. Start being thankful. Start being grateful. Overflowing in thankfulness that we are abundantly in abundance of thankfulness to who in his sovereignty and in His grace mercy is not giving to wants what we deserve. He's giving to us what is of his best. And so as we begin to be thankful for what we find ourselves in we find ourselves at another location in the same circle. We see ourselves in another location in the same circle looking at the same things but seeing them differently because thankfulness has an appreciative way of looking at something and has an appreciation for what we just saw. And when I appreciate someone something I see them differently than Oh my goodness this is terrible. This is the worst thing. This is the work no being thankful for where we are. has brought us to where we need to be. It's just that we need to turn need to be at the other position of the circle we are where where we are where we need to be. It's just that we need and it doesn't look so hard you may not look so good. Well we need to move ourself around the cir stance and insert ourselves in a different location and that location is being grateful because the of abundance the of mercy the of grace the of wonder beyond our galaxy that wants to show us something different than what we see with our own perspective. You know we were leaving yesterday from the. Got kicked out of the wedding reception that they found. We were supposed to be there and we were leaving. My little humor I'm sorry. Very little. We were we were leaving and run this is why you know we didn't get it I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to the bride that's why she was there we were there because of the bride and the groom and I had the groom in fourth grade in the bride or somebody else you know it's what you know. But anyhow she said I didn't get a chance to say goodbye because everybody was doing their thing and so we I said you go back say goodbye I'll go get the car and she said she walked back in and everybody was just standing around and there was the bride right there and she went right over to her spoke to her and it was the perfect moment to enter into that conversation or to where that person was in the whole evening was by going out and going back in and coming right in the perfect place. And I mean to this I'm into this idea that it's all perfect it's perfect. And why should we think anything else. Why should we take anything else other than this is pure perfection. Not me but and you know reading through my book I found places that the people I paid to edit didn't do a good job you know. But of course they told me to read over it and find all the places that didn't match up and I wanted to change of course I didn't do that. So it's their fault not mine. Not true. It's my fault. And but you know what I can look at it you know it's perfect for what it is because I'm not perfect. And but the truth is that presents to us are perfect in Christ and we're never going to find flaws. All this we will only find perfection in Christ and in his divine timing. And I just believe that we are a divine course we are in a divine place. We are to divide past accomplishing a divine purpose by loving forgiving and allowing to touch our lives and to touch the lives of others through us. And then that's good that's all of them. Yes It's ten minutes slow. I mean you know it's only been. It's like the farmer he went to the church and he was the only guy showed up at church and he asked the preacher says What do you want me to preach the whole message or do I was just a short A down a little bit. And then farmer says well if I want to see if I went to the barn to feed my cows or there's only one cow there are feed and he is OK. And so preacher goes and preaches for a half hour and storms and yells and screams and shouts and them's that ever and after he's done it goes back and ask the farmer Well how do I do it as well as I only had one car one feed at the whole barn. So. But today the thought is the fullness of Christ the fullness in Christ and lets the fullness of Christ dwell in you rich sleep. Let the fullness of Christ dwell in you originally in everything just saying it's for this is the will of in Christ Jesus concerning you that is at work doing above and beyond anything we could ever ask or think. So we're looking for the miraculous in the ordinary. We're looking for the miraculous in the ordinary events of our life. And if we can see that it will change our thoughts it'll change our day change our perspective of our destiny of where we're supposed to be and what we're supposed to do. To see the miraculous in the ordinary and we will see the fullness of Christ in us and when we're in a circle and it doesn't look so hot you know on the other side and see the same circle. But from a different perspective and we'll see the hand of touching our life. Thank you Father for hearing our prayers and meeting our needs. Thank you all for the strength of soul and heart. Thank you all for the knees that we have. the needs that come before us and our loved ones and our friends and with his prayer touch upon their lives. And as we touch them let us pray with them and pray for them. Pray for your miraculous touch upon them to give them strength and direction for this day and we will not fail to praise you to be thankful to be thankful for the blessings that have come to our lives through you. May we see the miraculous in the ordinary. We pray in Jesus' name amen. bless you. Fullness In Christ