Colossians 2 vs 9 - 15 - Corps Night - May 9 - part 2
Colossians 2:9-15 May 9, 1984 Now...back to verse 8. 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. So "watch out...philosophy..." Those Gnostic ideas, which were nasty ideas, pagan ideas were prevalent in that area. Then it says "and vain deceit". Now, that's a figure of speech. Hendiadys. Where you have two things said, one thing meant. In other words, the philosophies are those things which are vain and deceitful. They're vain, deceitful philosophy. And this is based on what? The tradition of men. And the rudiments, the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. The rudiments of the world, that's that word that we had in Galatians, stoicheia, which means the fundamental or elementary principle. In Galatians four, we had this word. Galatians 4:3: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheia] of the world. The worldly principles or fundamentals. Galatians 4:9-11: But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known [experientially] of God, how turn ye again [why do you want to turn again?] to the weak and beggarly elements [stoicheia, those worldly fundamental principles], whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of [for] you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. They're turning back to those worldly principles. The worldly principles are introduced into your society and your life, by whom, you learned last week. If you didn't know it before. Those born of the wrong seed. They're the ones that orchestrate and control and manipulate. Then it affects the society. Well, it's you and I that get away from that type of thing. We don't want to get back to that. We want one head, Christ. We want to walk by that rule, not by the worldly principles and not by the traditions of men. Those are vain deceitful philosophies. We want to get back
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And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him [Christ] to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Now Christ is the head of the Body and that makes him head over all what? Principality and power, because everything else is under his feet. And we're in his Body. Where does that put all the principalities and power? Under our feet. Under our feet, that's why back in Colossians. You are absolutely complete in him which is the head over ALL principality and power. He's not only the head of the BODY but he's the head over all the principalities and powers. And that's why as I said before you need not take a back seat to anybody. You have the power and the ability to command it and it's got to happen in the name of Jesus Christ. You have AUTHORITY over this world. You don't have to shake when some seed boy comes around, w