Friday, April 3, 2015

FREEDOM FROM HUMAN REGULATIONS THROUGH LIFE WITH CHRIST: Col. 2:6-23

Spiritual Fullness in Christ

So Then, Just as You Received Christ Jesus as Lord, Continue to Live in Christ, Rooted and Built up in Christ, Strengthened in the Faith as You Were Taught, and Overflowing with Thankfulness.
See to it That No One Takes You Captive Through Hollow and Deceptive Philosophy, Which Depends on Human Tradition and the Basic Principles of this world rather than on Christ.
For in Christ All the Fullness of the Deity Lives in Bodily form, 10 and You Have Been Given  fullness in Christ. Who is the Head Over Every Power and Authority. In Christ You Were Also Circumcised, in the Putting Off of the Sinful Nature, Not With a  Circumcision Done by the  Hands of Men But With the Circumcision Done by Christ,  Having Been Buried With Christ in Baptism and  Raised With Christ Through Your Faith in the Power of God, Who Raised Christ From the Dead.
13 When You Were Dead in Your Sins and in the Uncircumcision of Your Sinful Nature, God Made You[d] Alive With Christ. God Forgave Us All Our Sins, 14 Having Canceled the Written Code, With it's Regulations, That Was Against Us and That Stood Opposed to Us; God Took It Away , Nailing It  to the Cross. 15 And Having Disarmed the Powers and Authorities, God Made a Public Spectacle of Them, Triumphing Over Them in Christ by the Cross.

Freedom From Human Rules

16 Therefore do not Let Anyone Judge You by What You Eat or Drink, or With Regard to a Religious Festival, a New Moon Celebration or a Sabbath Day. 17 These Are a Shadow of the Things That Were to Come; the Reality, However, is Found in Christ. 18 Do not Let Anyone Who Delights in False Humility and the Worship of Angels Disqualify You for the Prize. Such a Person  Goes Into Great Detail About What He Has Seen, and His Unspiritual mind Puffs Him Up With Idle Notions. He Has 19  Lost Connection with the Head, From Whom the Whole Body, Supported and Held Together by its Ligaments and Sinews, Grows as God Causes it to Grow.
20 Since You Died With Christ to the Basic Principles  of This World, Why, as Though You Still Belonged to it, do You Submit to its Rules: 21 “Do Not Handle! Do Not Taste! Do Not Touch!”? 22 These Are All Destined to Perish With Use, Because They Are Based on Human Commands and teachings. 23 Such Regulations Indeed Have an Appearance of Wisdom, With Their Self-imposed Worship, Their False Humility and their Harsh Treatment of the Body, but They Lack Any Value in Restraining Sensual Indulgence.

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