Summary: Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach one another (in all wisdom and with gratitude in your hearts), singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. The grammar of the gospel gives first place to the verbs: create, elect, redeem, save, justify, call. These are the locomotives that propel the saving, redeeming purpose of God through the centuries and around the world. These powerful verbs pull with them, like box cars, the nouns that adorn the doctrines of God: spirit, peace, mercy, promise. In these beautiful words we live and move and have our Christian being. But today I draw your attention to those small words that connect these wonderful words of life. Often overlooked, ignored, demoted to last place in the grammar of grace, the little preposition. You know these words, especially if you have ever diagrammed a sentence: of the gospel, in the kingdom, with the Lord, by the Spirit, between heaven and earth, over, under, around, through. These are prepositions. And in our Word from the Lord today, there are three of these little words, three words with a total of seven letters that come to us today to teach us about singing. I summarize our one verse of Scripture in this way: Sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God, about Christ, for each other. TO God. ABOUT Christ. FOR each other.
