It's Not About You – Colossians 1:15-18

• It’s Not About You
• Colossians 1:15-18
• Geocentric Theory
• Heliocentric Theory
• We Grow Up thinking we are the Center of It All
• It’s All About about Me
• I am the King
• Our Opinion Doesn’t Change Fact
• I can think I’m so important it’s all about me
• My time, my possessions are all about me
• God is the True Center
• Ephesians 1:20-22 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
• God is the True Center
• Colossians 1:15-18 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
• Our Time is Very Limited
• 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
• Our Priorities are out of Balance
• Our Lives are a Mess
• We Need to Live God-Centered Lives
• God Gets All the Glory in our Salvation
• Romans 5:6-8 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

• God’s Mirror
• 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
• God’s Mirror
• 1 Corinthians 10:31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
• It’s All About Him
• Deuteronomy 8:10-12 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you. 11 "Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,12 lest -- when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
• It’s Not About You