Keep your eyes on Jesus: Peace with God through Jesus

Colossians 1:20b-22 | He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

• Who is Colossians 1:20 talking about? Who made a way for peace and how? 

• How is sin the opposite of peace? How does sin make your life chaotic, anxious, or at war with God? 

• Why was Jesus’ death able to bring peace? How can a person have that peace in their life personally? 

• Colossians 1 explains that a person that is at peace with God because of Jesus is no longer far away from God or separated from Him. Do you feel close to God? Or do you feel far from Him? Why? What, if anything, needs to change? 

• Those who have peace with God by accepting Jesus are declared right – holy, blameless, and without a single fault in front of God. Do you believe that God sees you this way? Why or why not?