Paul commands the Church in Colossae to continue in Christ in the same way the received Him.

Remember that passion you felt when you received Jesus as Lord? Are you continuing in that passion? Remember that willingness? Was that a one time thing or doea it continue?

This Jesus is worth receiving. This is worth continuing.

BEWARE!!! Paul gives a stern warning to avoid philosophies that will cause you to no longer continue in Christ.

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We are in the 4th week of our current sermon series:

Colossians

 

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Please open your Bibles and Bible apps for the reading of the word. We are reading, beginning in Colossians 2 verse 6.

Colossians 2:6 (NIV2011) So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

Colossians 2:7 (NIV2011) rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Colossians 2:8 (NIV2011) See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

Colossians 2:9 (NIV2011) For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,

Colossians 2:10 (NIV2011) and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

Colossians 2:11 (NIV2011) In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,

Colossians 2:12 (NIV2011) having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Let’s clap our hands for the word of God.

Outline

Verses 6-7 Encouragement in Christ

Verses 8 Warning of captivity from Christ

Verses 9-12 What you have in Christ

Let’s look back at verse 6.

Colossians 2:6 (NIV2011) So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

A received and lived Christ.

Paul draws on an idea of comparison between the beginning and the present. He tells the Colossians to think back to how the first received Christ Jesus as Lord… and in that same way they received Jesus, continue to live in that very same way. Such a simple idea. Such a profound idea.

Humans are fickle. We often are excited at the start of things, but over time lose interest or worse, grow in contempt.

Perhaps you remember getting that new Job and feeling so blessed and happy to have it. But now it is Sunday and you are trying to convince yourself to go back to that horrible pace.