Humanity has a way of turning simple things into exhausting systems
Anytime people start making Jesus smaller and religion bigger, freedom starts disappearing.
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I. Don’t Let Anyone What Christ Already (v. 16-17)
Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV) Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
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Stop living for the Jesus already
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were never meant to replace the
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II. Beware of Disguised as (v. 18-19)
Colossians 2:18-19 (ESV) Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
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False loves
You can master church culture and still miss Christ.
2. Real comes from to
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Any spirituality that makes you impressed with yourself instead of dependent on Jesus is dangerous.
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III. Don’t Need (v. 20-22)
Colossians 2:20-22 (ESV) Colossians 2:20-22 ESV – If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations– “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)–according to human precepts and teachings?
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If you with Christ, stop
Why are you still handcuffing yourself to a grave Jesus already brought you out of?
Practical Chains: guilt, shame, fear of failure, people-pleasing, performance Christianity
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Colossians 2:23 (ESV) These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
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can look while remaining
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Rules can restrain the flesh in public, but only Jesus can transform the heart in private.
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V. Closing Application
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The answer is not “.”
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The answer is
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