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Book of Colossians | Colossians 3:18-19 | 3.23.25

Speaker: Phil & Jill Carnuccio

March 23, 2025
Colossians 3:18-19'>Colossians 3:18-19

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  1. Discuss the societal perspectives that have made these verses difficult for people, Christians included, to hear and live by?

  1. During his message Pastor Phil made this statement, “I hope at the root of the expression of our love for one another will be submission. “

  2. Discuss the meaning of submission and how it is demonstrated at the heart of God’s nature. 

    1. Submission is willingly using your power and influence to support and uplift others, helping them grow into the fullness of who God created them to be.

    2. Submission is the expression of the self-giving love shared between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

    3. Submission is a divine attribute—even within the Godhead, there is order without inequality.  

    4. The Holy Spirit’s submission to Jesus and Jesus’s submission to the Father—rooted in the Father’s love for His Son—were not signs of weakness, inequality, or inferiority but rather a perfect display of love, trust, and obedience. 

    5. Scripture references: John 6:38, Luke 22:42, John 16:13-14

  3. What was at the root of the first temptation and sin ever committed? How did that distort the beauty of the relationship between man and woman? Genesis 3:16

  4. Ephesians 5:23 introduces the idea of headship. Discuss the meaning of headship for Christians and how this is demonstrated in relationships. 

    1. Scripture Reference: For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Headship is servant leadership, marked by humility, sacrifice, and responsibility, to help our wives become all that God has created them to be.

  5. Jill Carnuccio addressed the idea of submission (Ephesians 5:22,24). What are the characteristics of Godly submission?

    1. An act of strength, not weakness, i.e., meekness is not weakness- it is the fruit of His Spirit exercising self-control in love.

    2. Godly submission comes from an attitude of Humility, not servility. It is respect and support we offer our spouse in obedience not to them ultimately but to our God.

    3. Godly submission is not passive or mindless but active, thoughtful, and engaged —we are not called to submit for the sake of our husband's ego or his vice. God never asks us to support him in sinning. Buy to walk with him in love. That will require us to prioritize our submission to God's ways first. Submission is a partnership where both husband and wife seek to serve one another out of reverence for Christ.

  6. Jill suggested the idea of dying to self means living by moving toward vs “death of self”- living by denying who I am. Why is this concept important in the context of submission?

  7. Questions for personal reflection:

    1. Is there anything in you that resists or rejects God’s design for submission, headship, and authority? This is so central to His nature and character that in resisting these, we are resisting and rejecting Him.

    2. What is one thing God is calling you to do to help your spouse become the person God designed them to be?

 
 
 
 
 

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