Sermon Tone Analysis

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Open them to Colossians Chapter 2

I am not opposed to questions but if I think they are going to be long winded or if I think it is better answered one on one or in a group we will move quickly past them and I’ll get to you after.

I am not going to read the passage tonight.

Col 2:

It is up on the screen but most importantly I ask that you open your bible to Colossians chapter 2 and read along with me as I cover each verse.

Col 2:

It is up on the

I am not opposed to questions but if I think they are going to be long winded or if I think it is better answered one on one or in a group we will move quickly past them and I;ll get to you after.

Also please if I say something you don’t understand or you are questioning, please see me after.

Also if you think I am wrong on a point I am very willing to be corrected.

We all make mistakes.

Pray

I am not going to read the passage tonight.

It is up on the screen but most importantly I ask that you open your bible to Colossians chapter 2 and read along with me as I cover each verse.

Paul had been preparing the Colossians in chapter one in how they should;

Hold fast to the faith they had from the beginning when they had accepted the call and believed in Christ Jesus the Lord

faith they had from the beginning when they had accepted the call and believed in Christ Jesus the Lord

Hold fast to the love they have for Christ and the love that have for the other saints

Hold fast to all of which kept them grounded in the hope they have for the promises Christ made for forgiveness of sins, and a renewed mind which was focused on God the father with all humility and to bring Him Glory.

Paul assured the Colossians that Jesus Christ was the exact image of the invisible God, that he was with God from the beginning and that all things were created through Him, for Him and held to gather by Him.

Paul assured the Colossians that Jesus Christ was the exact image of the invisible God, that he was with God from the begining and that all things were created through Him, for Him and held to gather by Him.

Jesus is the head of the church, and the Colossians are part of the church who is His body

Jesus is the head of the church, and we are the church who is His body

God that he had been with God from the begining and He was he exact image of God who is invisible.

Savior from the sins that lived in them

He is the redeemed or saved and the Colossians from sin and death

by living a sinless life and suffering for our sins, being put to shame by sinful men for all sinful men to see, he died on the cross, spilled His blood and accepted all our sins.

He was buried in a tomb, sealed and guarded by men, yet on the third day God raised Him from death.

For 40 days he was with those who believed and seen by more that 500 people before he ascended into heaven and is now at the right hand of the Father.

Savior from the sins that lived in them

Paul also points out that the Christ is the one who transforms or converts then.

That by Him and Him alone they are made to repent, to turn away from the hostile mind that they had and from doing evil deeds.

Paul has been affirming to them in his letter urging them to be faithful and to listen to the faithful men like himself, Timothy, and Epaphrus who loved them and who were their ministers, their pastors to help make their faith stronger.

Paul had been writing all of this in his letter so that he could strengthen them against the false teaching

He is now going to expose and condemn this teaching for what it was, the pride of men.

He is going to continue proving that they are alive in Christ and that nothing is a substitute or to be added to Christ and what God has done in and through Jesus our Lord.

We are going to cover versus 8-15 tonight

I think we can break this into 2 distinct section

The denouncing of the false teaching (v.

8)

The Completeness and of the Believer in Christ (vv.

9–15)

According to Christ

So get back to Colossians Chapter 2 in your bible and will start in verse 6

To do this i want to start us in verse 6

Col 2:

The word “Therefore” at the begining of verse 6 is a word we must always key in on in the bible.

It is a word that can also be translated “so.”

Seeing one of these two words in the text means we need to look back and look ahead.

Remember I told you last week that this was a pivotal passage where Paul is going to start reaffirming things he had already told the Colossians and present new evidences for them to consider.

I’m not going to point out each one of these as we have already been through chapter 1, but I hope you will compare chapter 1 and 2 in order to see some of the links.

is a linking word

I.

The Emptiness of False Philosophy (v.

8).

I’ll give you just one example; follow along in your bibles

Thanksgiving and Prayer

I.

The Emptiness of False Philosophy (v.

8).

1:3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven.

Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 2:6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

Paul wanted the Colossians to be secure in their justification or salvation, The justification they recieved when they first accepted Jesus and the sanctification meaning the holiness they were growing into as they walk with Jesus and become more like Him.

I can’t make it anymore plan than that.

NO NO NO

2 versus, these 31 words give or take a few depending on the translation your reading is this:

Hey you, disciple of Jesus, we have heard first hand account of how much your life changed, how enthusiastically you accepted Lord Jesus, how extensively you responded in love to the other disciples who are Christ’s Church, which make up His body here on earth.

We know that you are His we know He has called you and we know that you will continue to grow and be faithful and loving and hopeful if you stay on the path you have started and will be over joyed and thankful for what is to come.

So don’t be distracted, don’t listen to those who are teaching things that you know are not true.

I can’t make it anymore plan that that.

Paul wanted the Colossians to be secure in their justification or salvation, The justification they recieved when they first accepted Jesus and the sanctification meaning the holiness they were growing into as they walk with Jesus and become more like Him.

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Paul wanted the Colossians to be secure in their justification or salvation, The justification they recieved when they first accepted Jesus and the sanctification meaning the holiness they were growing into as they walk with Jesus and become more like Him.

Paul wanted the Colossians to be secure in their justification or salvation, The justification they recieved when they first accepted Jesus and the sanctification meaning the holiness they were growing into as they walk with Jesus and become more like Him.

It is not unusual for us to question ourselves when it comes to our salvation and even more so as we go about our walk with Him and how that leads us to sanctification or holiness.

Paul is assuring the Colossians and us that we are justified and reaching sanctification.

He is building us up and helping us to see what is the truth.

When we start to look in detail at this false teaching that was dogging the Colossians it will become clear that the ones who were teaching or insisting on these false ideas were trying to make additions to Christ.

When we start to look more in detail at this false teaching that was dogging the Colossians it will become clear that the ones who were teaching or insisting on these false ideas were trying to make additions to Christ.

They were supposing or had been lead astray themselves in believing that Christ was not enough, that is why Paul had stressed in chapter 1:15-23 that Christ was exalted above all things and was all sufficient for saving us.

This point was so important to Paul and is so important to our faith that we are reminded of it again in this chapter that “we have been filled in Him who is the head of all authority.”

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POINT

I.

The denouncing of the false teaching (v.

8).

A. The nature of false philosophy

The idea of the gospel was not good enough for these teachers.

They need to find some made-up deeper meaning that was far too difficult for the common person to understand.

A. The nature of false philosophy—“vain deceit.”

This fake philosophy was very concerning to Paul.

He was afraid that the believers who had been transformed from Satan’s rule from being dead in spirit would be enslaved to these additional fake requirements instead of finding Christ as the one who saved and made them holy.

— “Vain deceit.”

Gal

— “Vain”

- deceit.”

or empty deceit was of no use.

It was no better than wasting energy or resources to sacrifice animals, or dancing around a fire.

It is likely that this philosophy was an early form of gnostic philosophy.

Gnostics or Gnosticism was not firmly established until the second century AD but they believed that matter was bad and the spirit was good and that if Christ was good he could not have been human but a spirit that was like a human.

This false teaching at Colossae also had a disastrous mix of legalism, asceticism, and mysticism plus Christianity.