SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/5/2017
9:29 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Intro to Colossians 2:8-10”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
2:8-10
Message of the
verses: “8 See to it that no one
takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the
tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather
than according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily
form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all
rule and authority;”
John MacArthur entitles this chapter in his commentary on
Colossians “Philosophy or Christ,” and as we think about the problems in the
Colossian church as mentioned in our last SD this title and these verses are
just what then needed to confront those who were peddling their poison to them.
Many people throughout the history of mankind have
wondered how we got here, where the world came from, what is the meaning of
life and other questions that can only truly be answered in the Word of
God. I have written over and over again
about my hatred for evolution, not the people who believe it but what evolution
does to people who do believe it. Evolution
comes right out of the pit of hell for
what it does is tell people that the universe just happened by an accident and
therefore no one has to be accountable to the God who the Bible tells us
created it and who holds us accountable.
I believe that the people who were peddling their poison in Colossae
would believe evolution.
We see the word “philosophy” in verse eight and it comes
from two Greek words “phileo” and “Sophia” and we know that the word Phileo
means love as seen in the city of Philadelphia and the word “Sophia” means
wisdom, therefore philosophy means to love wisdom, but the kind of wisdom that is
being spoken of here is not the kind of wisdom we get from the reading of the
Word of God but empty deception which comes from the tradition of men as we see
in our verses for today.
People of Paul’s day and people today sit around and peruse
the wrong kind of wisdom. The Greeks
were famous for this and Paul confronted them in Athens while visiting that
city as he had to flee from persecution and while there he preached a sermon on
Mars hill that is found in Acts 17. 16 Now
while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within
him as he was observing the city full of idols. 17 So he was reasoning in the
synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place
every day with those who happened to be present. 18 And also some of the
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying,
"What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to
be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-because he was preaching Jesus and
the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus,
saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? 20
“For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what
these things mean." 21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting
there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing
something new.) (Acts 17:16-21).” Now
the sermon follows these verses but I am not going to quote it now.
We will continue are look at this introduction in our
next SD.
3/5/2017 9:49 PM
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