SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/8/2017
9:27 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 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;”
I think we will begin with a quote from John MacArthur as
in this quote he gives us a little review from Colossians 2:1-7: “In 2:1-7, Paul exhorts the Colossians to
maintain their allegiance to both the deity and complete sufficiency of Jesus
Christ. He reminds them that, in
contrast to the claims of the false teachers, in Christ ‘are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge’ (2:3).
That statement is a profound summation of the sufficiency of the Lord
Jesus. That positive teaching is counterbalanced
with a negative treatment in 2:8-23, where Paul tells them what to avoid. In so doing, he fully refutes the claims of
the Colossian errorists. Against their
claim to be a secret, superior knowledge, he has already pointed out that there
is a not hidden knowledge, apart from Christ (2:9). They worshiped those emanations, which
conquered. He speaks against the falsity
of ceremonial, ritualistic legalisms and mysticism in 2:16-19. Finally, in 2:20-23 Paul rejects their
asceticism, since it is ‘of no value against fleshly indulgence’ (2:23).” So as we look at this paragraph we have seen
a review of the first seven verses of chapter seven and then a preview, (a
short one) of the rest of chapter two.
The way that Paul is dealing with the heresies in the
Colossian church is seen in the rest of chapter two of which we will only look
at the first one “false philosophy” in this section, verses 8-10, and then we
will go on and look at more of these heresies in the later verses of this
chapter which are spoken of in the quote from John MacArthur. Now the way that Paul is refuting those false
teachers, and their heresies is by telling them the truth and this reminds me
somewhat of the way that a bank teller is trained to identify counterfeit
money. They don’t learn by looking at
all the different kinds of counterfeit bills that have been made, they learn
everything there is to know about good bills so that when the look at a
counterfeit bill they will know it is not real.
Paul is teaching the Colossians truth, truth that will refute the false
statements and teachings from these false teachers.
Now in the rest of our study on these verses, 2:8-10, we
will be looking at two different main points, beginning with PT-1 of “The
deficiency of philosophy,” and then once we are done with that we will look at “The
sufficiency of Christ.”
3/8/2017 9:52 PM
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