Wholly His ... Jesus Colossians 2:8-10
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Background to Colossians
In this Corner is the Supremacy of Christ and the two challengers are Gnosticism and Judaism. Each of the Challengers seek to tear down the person of Christ saying it’s by special knowledge or law that one receives eternal life.
Adrian Rogers said it best “ God doesn’t want a place in your life. He demands and deserves preeminence. God’s throne is not a duplex.”
“Authority and submission are two sides to the same coin” Adrian Rogers
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
II. A Perfect Person Provided vs 9
III. A Perfection Proven Powerfully vs 10
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
A. Watch Out - “Beware” means to take care. Be on high alert. The difference between when you go paintballing and laser tagging. You are on high alert.
be on high alert. Like when you go on the paintball feild
1.The danger is “spoilage” a person who literally take you as part of loot. To carry someone away.
2. A person as the book of Proverbs calls “simple”
3. They are mental water. They take for form of what every shape they are in.
4. They never have a stance or thought of their own. They believe everything. So they believe nothing.
5. They are paraded before a conquoring general as the spoils of the conquest.
What are the four main elements of basic life support?
B. Worn Out- by philosophies, vain deciet, tradition of men.
Basic Life Support (BLS) comprises the elements: initial assessment, then airway maintenance, chest compression and expired air ventilation (rescue breathing)
1. These are the chains that take you hostage or spoil take you away.
2. Maybe a teacher that is contrary to the teachings of Christ.
3. Maybe a song or singer that is contrary to Christ’s teaching.
4. Movie or Media that promotes unbiblical thinking or ideas.
5. This is like water that flows over you again and again. just wears you down.
6. all of this is the basic of the World
7. Here are a few …
“There is not objective truth”
“If it feels right, it must be right. Do it”
“You shouldn’t judge”
“Demand your rights” Entitlement
“You can’t change who you are.”
“Science had disproven the Bible”
“You need to think of yourself first”
“Self-esteem is most important.”
“God is love … He would never send someone to hell.” You first.
“We all kinda like worship the same God” NO
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
C. Warned of - Not of Christ.
1. read the warning label.
2. Going in the wrong directions
3. It doesn’t follow after Christ.
4. Dead end. Not going anywhere
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
II. A Perfect Person Provided vs 9
II. A Perfect Person Provided vs 9
A. Jesus deity
1. On the inside “dwelleth” - to inhabit or live inside.
2. He is full of God “fulness” - Completeness
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Philippians 2
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
3. Jesus is God.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
I. A Promoted Problematic Philosophy vs 8
II. A Perfect Person Provided vs 9
II. A Perfect Person Provided vs 9
III. A Perfection Proven Powerfully vs 10
III. A Perfection Proven Powerfully vs 10
A. Wholly His
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Ephesians 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1. I’m whole because of my identity being found in the person of Jesus Christ. It is what He thinks and knows that matters the most.
2. I’m either in Christ or not. No middle of the road.
B. Wholly How - Jesus is the head of it all. He is the Master and Commander of everything
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
It’s all His … Jesus owns it all so really I can’t keep anything back from Him.