Put on the New Self
The focus in these verses that we’re going to be looking at this morning is putting off the old self and putting on the new self. The KJV begins verse 5 by talking about putting to death, which does sound like a battle! Two questions. Who is this new self that we are called to... Read More
Is it Right for You to be Angry?
This morning we’re going to talk about what anger is. Is it wrong to become angry? As well as some other things around anger and what God has to say about anger. So, what is anger? It is an emotion or a range of emotions. It can vary from being hopping mad to just being... Read More
The Results of the Resurrection
Paul says that asceticism and mysticism are a failure to understand and experience the death and resurrection of Christ inside ourselves. Paul talks about a philosophy of men, contrasted with who Christ is and living an ordered life out of this living in Christ. How are we raised with Christ? What is the result of... Read More
The Tradition of Christ vs the Tradition of Men
This is one of the most difficult chapters in the Bible. Some of the verses are hard to understand. We don't know exactly what all the errors were that Paul was addressing. Paul criticizes four things that we may or may not be guilty of. The philosophy of man is the foundation for the three... Read More
Jesus Christ, the Antidote to False Teaching
The purpose of Paul’s struggle for the Colossians church. He wanted to encourage their hearts as they are knit together in love, in close fellowship. The value of this exhorting is in direct proportion to the knitting together in love. Being “knit together” is to be welded together in genuine unity. He also wanted them... Read More
Who is Christ?
Deliverance - we are rescued from the power of darkness, the domain of darkness. This is in sharp contrast to the life spoken of at the end of verse 12. This rescue includes a change in ownership, we are qualified to be children of light by an act of God in us. Translation - we... Read More
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