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July 17, 2022

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Reading along with us in Colossians? Here’s today’s reading:

Colossians 2 (NIV)

1 I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. 2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. 5 For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is...........Continue Reading

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  1. It is a good thing that Jesus gives us standing before God and before people. How significant that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. After all, He is the way, the truth and the life. So therefore we can know what is right and true as we grow in Him and don’t need to be shaken by fine sounding arguments that are not based in Him and what He has taught. SO the best thing we can do is to be rooted and built up in Him. In following Him, we will protected from both the law and our fleshly desires. We are to be set apart to Him and then recognize that gives us authority over the powers and principalities of evil as well as the opinion of others, especially those who would lead astray from grace and the way Jesus wants us to live. It appears that Paul is warning them about the judaizers who hounded his ministry and tried to get believers to follow the Mosaic law. Jesus canceled the written code as the means that we are made right with God and gave us understanding and access to those things that are real and not the shadow of things found in the law. So as people tell the Colossians or us that the way to be right with God is to follow certain rules, we can confidently know that our faith in Jesus does that and so we live for Him based in His righteousness rather than a righteousness that we are seeking to establish through behavior. Oh we will still do what is right, but it will be based in God’s power and not our own. It should be a want to as we are drawn to and learn of Jesus rather than a have to based in human conditions and obligations. They may sound good, but they are absent of the knowledge and wisdom of Christ and have really no ability to restrain the sin nature. That happens through grace and the Spirit!

  2. We are now in Christ and we walk according to the Spirit, and not according to the flesh. This made me think of Romans 8. I always think of walking in the flesh as recognizable sinfulness, but it isn’t always, here he talks about following vain philosophy or the “basic principles of this world” and false spiritual doctrines (the worship of angels.) We can easily get caught up on doctrines and legalistic rules that seem wise, but have no value.

    We should instead be striving for:
    As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

    ….holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

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