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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Tweet Topic: logospedia Format: mp3 Publication Date: 1984 Walter J. Cummins graduated from the Power for Abundant Class in 1962. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Ohio State University in 1968 and his Master of Education degree in Secondary School Administration in 1978 from Wright State University. He was ordained to the Christian by The Way International in 1968. He has studied at The Way International under Victor Paul Wierwille and K.C.Pillai. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he was director of the Research department of the Way International and served as assistant to the president. PDF AUDIO