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Colossians chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Colossians chapter 2. Let us pray.
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  Our Lord God who reigns on high, you are forever to be praised
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  and magnified. Father, it's all about you.
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  God Almighty, we lay down. Lord, we want you more than we
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  want life itself, more than we want breath itself.
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  God, come in and encompass us with your glory.
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  Father, teach us your eternal paths.
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  God, we enter into your gates with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  God, we come into the holiest of holy places.
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  Lord God Almighty, we love you. Thank you for your spoken word.
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  Thank you for the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Thank you for our salvation. Thank you God for a an abundant
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  life. Thank you Father, I pray that
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  you will fuel us. God, I pray that you will fill
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  us. Holy Spirit, let us burn bright
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  for you today. Let us be the salt in this bland
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  and tasteless world all around us.
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  Let us not succumb to all the ways that the enemy tries to
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  kick us down and tries to get us into despair and discouragement.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will fill us with your
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  presence and that you will fuel us, God, and that you will help
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  us, Lord, to be your hands and feet today.
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  Let us love those well who are all around us, our neighbors,
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  Lord. Help us, Lord, to know what to
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  do and when to do it, God, and shower us with your presence.
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  Shower us with your grace, God, shower us with the blood of
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  Jesus Christ. Cover us completely.
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  Lord, I pray that we will not look left or right, but we will
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  lock eyes with you, Father, and we'll put our hand to the plow,
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  and we'll take up our cross and we'll die daily.
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  And God, I just pray that you, Lord, will come and teach us,
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  Holy Spirit, give us discernment.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us all of the words.
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  Let them jump off the page. Let them become alive and active
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  in our hearts and minds. Let us hide them in our hearts
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  so that we will not sin against you.
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  Heal our broken bodies. Heal our broken marriages.
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  Heal this broken land. Father, make us pure.
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  Make us holy. Make us right.
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  God with you and I pray, Lord, that it'll be Jesus as the
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  banner over our houses and over our cars and over our
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  workplaces. Let it be Jesus, His name that
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  reigns supreme from now to the ends of the earth forever.
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  Almighty God to be praised, You are the highest, you are the
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  most Supreme, you are El Elyon, the most high God, you are the
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  banner, you are the provider, you're the great physician, You
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  are our everything. And Lord, you see everything.
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  And so God, we get out of our own way.
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  We give you the center stage. We tell you, Lord, that you,
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  Father, you are the only reason that we're here.
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  Teach us your eternal passes in Jesus Christ.
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  Holy and precious name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one,
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  for I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you
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  and for them at Laodicea, for as many as have not seen my face in
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  the flesh. Paul alludes here that he never
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  actually met the Colossians. Paul alludes here that they're
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  on his heart and his mind, and he wants them to understand what
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  it is that they have come to learn about and who it is that
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  they are attached to. This God of Abraham, Isaac, and
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  Jacob, the creator of the entire universe.
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  And Paul here wants them to know the Godhead Incarnate in Christ,
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  friends. Christ as the fount of wisdom,
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  friends. And Paul is very adamant that
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  even though he does not know them personally, he has wrestled
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  with God for them. He has been an affliction for
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  them. He is writing this letter from
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  prison, friends, and that is the affliction that is mentioned
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  here. And he wants the church here in
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  Colossae to understand that his affliction is for their good.
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  God has set him down and told him to write these letters, 2
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  that their hearts might be comforted being knit together in
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  love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding,
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  to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father
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  and of Christ. So here Paul is calling for
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  unity in the community. He is saying, listen, don't be
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  disbanded and don't be discouraged and don't be LED
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  astray. Stay of one mind and one spirit.
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  And Paul wants them to understand that it is all about
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  Jesus Christ. And if they'll set their mind on
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  Jesus Christ, they won't be offended, they won't be LED
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  astray, they won't be duped by counterfeits.
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  They will be able to run the race and finish the race well.
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  And that is Our Calling as well. Friends, we need not look for
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  another. We need not look for the Bible
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  plus another publication. We need not look at the Bible
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  plus some charismatic teacher. It is the Bible and it is the
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  Bible alone that has the power, friends.
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  It is alive and active. It is the Bible that we
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  memorize. It is the Bible that we teach,
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  friends. And the Word became flesh, and
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  the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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  And we need to know that Jesus Christ told us the heaven and
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  earth shall pass away, but not one of these words.
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  So it is the complete authority for us.
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  And if we will hyper fixate upon the Bible and only the Bible,
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  we'll finish this race well. Three in whom are hidden all the
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  treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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  So it is in Christ that every hidden thing is revealed.
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  It is in Christ that everything was made that was not made.
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  Everything came from Christ. And if we will center our lives
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  and build our lives on the chief cornerstone will never be put to
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  shame. Four.
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  And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
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  words. These ravenous wolves come in
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  and they say, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Bible plus something else.
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  Or they'll say, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Bible.
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  But it didn't really mean this or that.
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  Watch out for those people. That is heresy, and that is
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  apostasy. That is false teaching and that
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  is what leads to so many people falling away is because they had
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  their eyes on the teacher, they had their eyes on the
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  denomination, they had their eyes on a specific kind of
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  church, and that led them astray.
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  And they only amassed to themselves people that would
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  tickle their ears. And it is the complete authority
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  from Genesis to Revelation that we build our lives upon.
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  Nothing added and nothing subtracted. 5 four, though I be
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  absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying
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  and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in
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  Christ. So Paul saying, I'm with you,
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  even though I've never been there physically, I am with you
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  in spirit. We serve the same God.
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  And so we are united as one, and one day we will be united to
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  together in heaven. And this is what Paul wants them
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  to know is that it has come to his attention that they are very
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  militant in their approach and they are able at this point to
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  safeguard their hearts and minds from all the false teaching.
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  And he's commending them for that so far.
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  And he's going to tell them to keep up the good work.
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  Do not let these ravenous wolves come in and beguile you. 6 As
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  you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
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  you in Him. Don't get knocked off of your
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  high position in Christ Jesus. He paid it all, friends.
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  It is all centered around Him. It is not Jesus Christ plus
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  someone else. It is not the Bible plus
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  something else, friends. It is Christ Jesus that we build
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  our entire lives around and will never be put to shame.
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  Walk in the Lord Jesus Christ. Take hold of the simple gospel.
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  Don't try to pollute it. Don't try to water it down.
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  What do we need to add or subtract from the Word of God
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  for people to be saved? And the answer is nothing.
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  It is complete. It has the power to save.
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  Friends, we just read it plainly and we allow the Word of God to
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  go out and do what it's going to do. 7 Rooted and built up in
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  Him, and established in the faith as you have been taught,
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  abounding therein with Thanksgiving.
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  There's that Thanksgiving piece again.
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  We enter his gates with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  We get rooted and grounded and built up in the Word of God.
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  We memorize Scripture. Friends, we hide it in our
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  hearts so that when the counterfeit comes, we can
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  immediately identify it as a counterfeit and kick it to the
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  wayside and take it out in the streets and burn it.
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  Friends, we do not need to be duped with all kinds of new
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  teaching and this little Jingle of did the Bible really say,
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  does the Bible really mean that? Right there, friends, is a
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  tactic of the enemy. And it worked all the way back
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  in the garden and it's working now on the masses.
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  And we do not need to be LED astray by false teachers who'd
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  come in and try to tell us that the Bible didn't mean what the
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  Bible said. We read the Bible plainly at
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  face value, and we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us and
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  teach us in the ways of everlasting. 8 Beware lest any
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  man spoil you through philosophy, vain deceit, after
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  the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
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  after Christ. These are those who look the
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  part and they sound educated and they amass to themselves a
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  gathering of people and they mix just enough of religion in, just
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  enough of the Bible in to make you think that they are
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  ministers of God and they truly represent the Lord.
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  But they do not friends. They are false teachers and they
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  are heretics, friends, and they're not teaching the word of
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  God. They're just teaching
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  philosophy. They're just teaching
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  conditions. They're just teaching the
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  elementary principles of life and people go for it because
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  they don't want to go deep with God.
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  They don't want to actually take the time to read the Bible.
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  They just want those that can amass to teach them things.
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  And if we're not willing to put in the hard work, friends, then
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  we will be LED astray by those little sound bites and short
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  videos and all of the things that are coming against us at an
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  alarm farming rate that pull people astray.
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  They tickle their ears. They get in the houses of
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  gullible, silly women and they lead them astray, friends, in
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  droves. And they take advantage of them
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  and spoil them friends, by getting all of their money and
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  getting all their resources and asking for more help.
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  And until they completely spoil them, Friends 9/4 In him dwells
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  all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
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  We need to know that in Christ we are made complete, and there
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  is nothing that we add, and there is nothing that we take
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  out. It is Christ and Christ alone
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  that atoned for our sins. It is not Christ plus another
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  religious teacher. It is not Christ plus your
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  pastor. It is not Christ plus your
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  preferences. It is not Christ plus your
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  nomination. It is not Christ plus what
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  version of the Bible you read. Friends, we need to understand
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  that this division and discord is not from God Almighty.
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  And we need to understand that there is strength and unity.
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  And we need to understand that it is Christ and Christ alone
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  that we are saved by. No man will come to the Father
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  except through Christ, and he is the Godhead, and everything is
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  encompassed in Christ, and he did not think it robbery to be
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  equal with God. 10 And you are complete in Him, which is the
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  head of all principality and power.
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  Jesus Christ kicks down all the demonic strongholds, He tears
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  them down, and there is nothing that can stand in his way.
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  And on the cross, whenever all of hell and all the demonic was
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  rejoicing at the death of Jesus Christ, He was disarming them
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  and making a public spectacle of them.
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  And if they had known what was about to happen to them, they
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  would have never allowed it to happen.
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  And they thought that they were winning.
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  But they found whenever the smoke cleared that they had been
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  disarmed. And none of their trickery and
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  deception is to come up against a blood bought, born again
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  believer Friends 11 in whom also you are circumcised with the
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  circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the
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  sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
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  Paul's telling them, don't worry that you haven't been physically
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  circumcised, That by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ your
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  heart has been circumcised, which is far greater and far
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  better than any of the external things that these Judaizers and
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  legalizers are trying to push on you.
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  That it is Christ plus circumcision.
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  It is Christ plus the Mosaic law.
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  It is Christ plus keeping all the law.
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  And Paul here wants these Colossians to understand that
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  they have been internally circumcised, which is far
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  greater in the sight of God than for them to be externally,
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  physically circumcised. 12 buried with him in baptism,
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  wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the
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  operation of God, who has raised Him from the dead.
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  So when you got baptized, friends, which is your next step
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  of obedience? Once you place your faith in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, your next step of immediate obedience is
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  to be baptized. And when you go down in the
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  water, you identify yourself in his death.
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  And when you are raised out of the water, you identify yourself
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  in his resurrection. Friends, And it is powerful,
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  friends, and we need to understand that it is an outward
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  expression of an internal change that has happened when you have
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  accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and as your Savior.
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  13 and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
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  your flesh, has He quickened together with Him, having
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  forgiven you all trespasses. Do you understand this?
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  Let this sink in. Soak in this truth that when you
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  come to the Lord Jesus Christ and you accept Him as your
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  Savior, every single one of your trespasses and sins is
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  completely blotted out. And you will stand before an
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  Almighty God one day, and he will not see any of your sins
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  and any of your trespasses, and he will only see the blood of
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  Jesus Christ. That causes rejoicing in the
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  highest order. Friends, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus Christ you understand this great exchange of your
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  sinfulness for His Holiness. 14 blotting out the handwriting of
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  ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and
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  took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross.
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  So that is the great exchange that happened.
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  Friends, you were guilty of breaking every single
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  commandment, All of the Mosaic law you were guilty of just by
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  sinning one time. You were guilty of the entirety
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  of God's requirements of what it looked like to be made right
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  with him and Jesus use it. And Jesus took it and He
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  completely nailed it to the cross and made a spectacle to
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  all of the demonic satanic host to show them that He paid in
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  full for every single one of the sins that you were guilty of and
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  disarmed all of them and they have no power over you.
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  St. You are not a victim and you
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  need not keep going back to your vomit.
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  You do not need to be one who continues to find their identity
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  in all of the lust and all of the disgustingness of this life.
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  That is not our identity, friends.
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  And when you finally understand this, you will want to live a
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  life for him, and you will not want to sin any longer, And when
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  you do, it will grieve you, friends. 15 And having spoiled
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  principalities and powers, he made a show of them, openly
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  triumphing over them in it. So whenever Jesus Christ lived
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  the perfect life and died on the cross for you and for me, and
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  whenever he was on the cross and he took on the sin of the world,
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  and the Father turned from him, Jesus went and made a public
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  spectacle over all the powers of darkness, and he snatched the
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  keys, and he put them to shame. 16 Let no man therefore judge
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  you in meat and drink and respect of a holy day or of the
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  new moon, of the Sabbath days, 17 which are a shadow of things
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  to come, but the body is of Christ.
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  Paul is telling us, he's telling the church here at Colossae,
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  He's saying, listen to me very carefully.
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  There are many people who want to try to trick you into
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  thinking that it is Jesus plus what day you observe is as holy.
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  It's Jesus plus all of these elementary things, It's Jesus
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  plus ceremonies and traditions is Jesus plus.
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  And Paul says that before Christ came and lived a perfect life
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  and died on a criminal's cross and was resurrected and ascended
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  to the right hand of God, all of the things prior to Christ, they
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  were pointing to him. But now we have Christ to look
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  back to, and we are not held by the same requirements that God
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  ordained to point towards Christ one day.
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  And all of the law was put in place to show us our need for a
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  Savior. But now that the Savior has
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  come, we need not wait on another, and we need not try to
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  be made right with God by trying to uphold all of these
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  traditions and all of these standards.
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  Jesus Christ lived it out. And if you are attached to Jesus
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  Christ, you will want to do the right thing, and He will teach
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  you obedience. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward, and
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  a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding
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  into those things which he has not seen vainly puffed up by his
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  fleshly mind. Paul gets to the point of this
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  whole letter right here and he shows the need that he had to
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  sit down and to write this letter to them.
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  He's telling them be careful and be aware of those that are
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  creeping into the camp. And they want to try to drag you
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  away with all of their silly ideas of this angelic order.
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  And they're trying to invite you into a higher understanding of
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  God through worshipping of angels.
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  And he's saying it's all rubbish and garbage and it's all dung in
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  the sight of Jesus Christ. It is Jesus at the highest
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  order. It is not by abstaining from
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  certain things that make us more right with God, and it is not by
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  the knowledge, this knowledge of the angelic host, that makes us
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  better than other Saints. It is Jesus Christ, and Jesus
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  alone is the pinnacle of all of our salvation.
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  And that is what His name means. Friends. 19 And not holding the
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  head, from which all the body by joints and bands, having
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  nourishment ministered and knit together, increases with the
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  increase of God. Jesus is the head.
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  If we will just look to Him, we will be nourished, we will be
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  made whole, we will be complete, we will have no lack.
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  It is by fixing our eyes on Christ, friends, that we see our
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  purpose and we receive our dignity and our marching orders
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  and we understand why we we are here on this earth.
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  And it is to glorify Him in the highest.
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  It is to receive Him and to receive our salvation from Him
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  so that one day we can go to be with God Almighty forever and
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  ever and ever highly to be praised forever. 20 Wherefore if
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  you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of this world, why as
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  though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances?
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  21 touch not, taste not handle not. 22 which all are to perish
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  with the using after the commandments and the doctrines
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  of men. He's saying don't believe that
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  there is a higher calling in a higher position for those who
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  mutilate their own body. Don't believe that there is more
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  pleasure that God will take in us if we'll abstain from certain
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  things. Paul here wants the church in
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  Colossae to understand that it is Christ and Christ alone that
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  makes us right with God, and everything that we do beyond
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  that point is a matter of choice, and it is not a matter
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  of our position with God. We'll end on 23 which things
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  have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and
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  neglecting of the body, not in any honor to the satisfying of
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  the flesh. He's saying these things that
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  they're teaching. They sure sound good, but
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  they're not from God. From the outset, they seem as if
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  they are going to help us attain A deeper level of understanding
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  of God. From the outset, it seems as if
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  we can win some kind of position with God from abstaining from
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  things or learning about angels. This good gnosis and asceticism,
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  Friends, it's not from God. It is Christ and Christ
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  crucified that we push towards and that we believe in and that
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  we propagate. And that is all that we need to
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  know, Friends, is Christ and Christ crucified.
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  Everything hangs on him. All the universe is centered
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  around Christ in Christ only, not Christ plus anything else.
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  It's not Christ plus works. Our works just prove our
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  position in Christ Jesus. They don't get us a higher level
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  of understanding and it is not until we understand that will we
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  be made complete and full and want to do the things that God
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  has for us. There is great liberty whenever
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  we are attached to God and we should not muzzle the ox when it
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  trades the grain. We're not held by all of the
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  legal requirements that these Judaizers want to place on us,
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  but we do not need to abuse grace either.
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  That is the other side of the coin that we can wreck on and
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  that is what you need to understand.
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  If we will walk in the Spirit, we will not satisfy the lust of
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  the flesh. That is my admonition to you
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  today. Walk in the Spirit today.
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  Don't be too far ahead. Definitely don't go backwards,
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  but walk in the Spirit. Walk with God like Noah and like
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  Enoch. Walk with God today.
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  He's going to take you to new heights.
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  Hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for you. I love you.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.