Post by poetsunshine on Jul 10, 2010 16:02:56 GMT -6
FULNESS OF LIFE IN CHRIST
COLOSSIANS 2:6...AS YE HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK YE IN HIM.
I. THE FULNESS OF LIFE.
As we have accepted Christ as Lord, let us live in union with him. We need to keep our roots deep in Him, build our lives on him, and become ever stronger in our faith, as we are taught by the spirit of God. we need to be fill with thanksgiving.
We need not to let anyone make a captive of us by using human wisdom and worthless deceit which are based on the teachings handed down by men, and on the ruling spirits of the universe, and not on Christ.
For in Christ the full content of divine nature lives and in union with him we have been given full life. Christ is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.
In union with Christ we were circumcised, not with the circumcision that is made by men, but with Christ’s own circumcision, which consists of being freed from the power of this old body.
When we were baptized, we were buried with Christ. In baptism we were also raised with Christ through our faith in the active power of God, who raise Jesus from death.
We were at one time spiritually dead because of our sins, and because we were Gentiles outside the Law. But God has now brought us to life with Christ. God forgave us of all our sins, not part of them. He canceled the unfavorable record of our debts, with its binding rules, and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
On the cross Jesus freed himself from the power of the spiritual rulers and authorities; He made a public spectacle of them by leading them as captives in His victory procession.
Let no one make rules about what you eat or drink, or about the subject of holy days, or the new moon festival, or the Sabbath. All things are only a shadow of things in the future; the realty in Christ. Do not allow ourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims to be superior because of special visions, and insist on false humility and the worship of angels. Such a person is all puffed up, for no reason at all, by his human way of thinking, and has stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head.
Under Christ control the whole body is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, and grows as God wants it to grow.
II. DYING AND LIVING WITH CHRIST.
If we are born again, then we died with Christ and are set free from the ruling spirits of this universe. We do not live as though we belong to this world.
COLOSSIANS 2:20 ...WHEREFORE IF YE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST FROM THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, WHY, AS THOUGH LIVING IN THE WORLD, ARE YE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES.
Why do we obey rules that are against God, don’t handle or do things that are not of God. Don’t handle or taste of things of this world that is not of God, or against the rulings of God.
Don’t let man made rules that is against God rule us. Let us use wisdom in all things and let the spirit of God lead us in everything. Let not the world forces us to worship angels and false humility, and severe treatment of the body. Let us always put God first in everything.
We have been raise to life with Christ. Let our hearts be on things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right side of God. Keep our minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth. For we have died, and our life is hidden with Christ in God. Our real life is Christ, and when he appears, then we too will appear with him and share his glory.
COLOSSIANS 2:6...AS YE HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK YE IN HIM.
I. THE FULNESS OF LIFE.
As we have accepted Christ as Lord, let us live in union with him. We need to keep our roots deep in Him, build our lives on him, and become ever stronger in our faith, as we are taught by the spirit of God. we need to be fill with thanksgiving.
We need not to let anyone make a captive of us by using human wisdom and worthless deceit which are based on the teachings handed down by men, and on the ruling spirits of the universe, and not on Christ.
For in Christ the full content of divine nature lives and in union with him we have been given full life. Christ is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.
In union with Christ we were circumcised, not with the circumcision that is made by men, but with Christ’s own circumcision, which consists of being freed from the power of this old body.
When we were baptized, we were buried with Christ. In baptism we were also raised with Christ through our faith in the active power of God, who raise Jesus from death.
We were at one time spiritually dead because of our sins, and because we were Gentiles outside the Law. But God has now brought us to life with Christ. God forgave us of all our sins, not part of them. He canceled the unfavorable record of our debts, with its binding rules, and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
On the cross Jesus freed himself from the power of the spiritual rulers and authorities; He made a public spectacle of them by leading them as captives in His victory procession.
Let no one make rules about what you eat or drink, or about the subject of holy days, or the new moon festival, or the Sabbath. All things are only a shadow of things in the future; the realty in Christ. Do not allow ourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims to be superior because of special visions, and insist on false humility and the worship of angels. Such a person is all puffed up, for no reason at all, by his human way of thinking, and has stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head.
Under Christ control the whole body is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, and grows as God wants it to grow.
II. DYING AND LIVING WITH CHRIST.
If we are born again, then we died with Christ and are set free from the ruling spirits of this universe. We do not live as though we belong to this world.
COLOSSIANS 2:20 ...WHEREFORE IF YE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST FROM THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, WHY, AS THOUGH LIVING IN THE WORLD, ARE YE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES.
Why do we obey rules that are against God, don’t handle or do things that are not of God. Don’t handle or taste of things of this world that is not of God, or against the rulings of God.
Don’t let man made rules that is against God rule us. Let us use wisdom in all things and let the spirit of God lead us in everything. Let not the world forces us to worship angels and false humility, and severe treatment of the body. Let us always put God first in everything.
We have been raise to life with Christ. Let our hearts be on things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right side of God. Keep our minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth. For we have died, and our life is hidden with Christ in God. Our real life is Christ, and when he appears, then we too will appear with him and share his glory.
