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Scripture Reading Colossians 2:8-15
Opening Prayer
Introduction
Exposition One (8)
“Captive” is a play on words for the word “synagogue”
Don’t be made a slave to Philosophy (system of thought)
Those in the Synagogues are already slaves as are all who are not set free in Christ
Philosophy is “according to human tradition”
Philosophy is “according to the elemental Spirits of the World”
Air, Earth, Fire, Water
Also, “essential principles” or “elementary principles”
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At least means that this “empty philosophy” is rooted in the sinful system of the world’s beliefs which are what the lost are enslaved to and seeks to cll you back to slavery.
I. Be on guard because the empty philosophy of the world is seeking to make you a slave (8)
Illustration
Application
Politics
Conscience
Personal conversations with the lost
With believers
Exposition Two (9, 10)
Vs. 8 ended in “not according to Christ”
This refers to the world’s “philosophy or system of thought”
These verses set up Christ as the opposite of the world’s philosophy
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II.
You have been made free by the only one who has the right to do so (9-10)
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Sports contracts
Application
Live life like you are free from...
Sin
death
worry
etc.
Exposition Three (11-12)
Circumcision was the sign of the covenant
We are given the sign of the covenant by being “circumcised of heart”
Baptism is our physical sign of the covenant
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You are sealed in your standing before God so live without fear (11-12)
Exposition Four (13-15)
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Jesus is a liberator while the world is slave trader
Conclusion
Prayer of Thanksgiving
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