Colossians 2 vs 16 - 23 - Corps Night - May - 1984
Colossians 2:16-23 Colossians chapter two. Last week we were in this particular chapter where it's dealing with the importance of speaking the Mystery, knowing the Mystery and that Christ is the head of that one Body. Colossians 2:4: And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. Colossians 2:8: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Because there were those individuals associating with the fellowship that were trying to convince them that there were other heads to the Body or things that were contrary to the doctrine that they had heard. And now in verse 16, where we left off last week, it goes into more detail about those who are trying to get them away from the Mystery, the one Body and Christ as the head; trying to get them to worship other heads. Colossians 2:16-19: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Here you have, in these four verses, the great significance of two particular groups, or you could say two sides of the coin, that were influencing the believers at Colosse, trying to get them away from the Word, trying to get them to serve other things, to worship other heads in the Body. Basically those two groups could be classified as the Judaizers, those who were trying to put the people under law, like you had especially in the Galatia area. Remember that? When we were dealing with Galatians, you had a lot of people trying to put others back unde
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Word says. Being humble means willing to change if you find something better in the Word. That's right. 77 Teachings on The Book of Colossians Colossians 2:19: (Literal) They do not hold fast to the head [Christ], from whom the whole Body, which is completely supported and fused together by its joints and ligaments, grows up with growth from God. That's how important the head is and why we've got to maintain that head. Well, there's more coming. Verse 20. Oh, there is something else here I wanted to show you. Back in verse 18, this angel idea, in Hebrews chapter one, I want to show you this. Hebrews 1:3, 4: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person [Christ is the what? He is not a shadow, he is the express image of God], and upholding all things by the word of his power [It doesn't say he is God though, he is the image], when he had himself purged our sin