Colossians 5 – Disarmed, Displayed, & Defeated

Christ is Supreme! How supreme?

Well in 3 short verses Jesus Disarms, Displays, & Defeats the enemy! In 3 little verse Jesus defeats Death, Debt & Devils.

This Jesus is beyond impressive. He is supreme!

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Greetings in the name of Jesus. Hello and welcome to Redemption Church. We are here in Plano Tx and we welcome all of our facebook live streamers, podcasters, & Youtubers. And of course welcome to all of you good looking people in the room.

We are back studying the book of Colossians. Please turn with me in your Bibles and Bible Apps to Colossians 2.

Colossians

Last week we were blessed to have Vitaly Kissel with us from Maykop, Russia. Thank you for having a heart to support the work of God here and abroad.

Let’s look at Colossians chapter 2 beginning with verse 13.

Outline

Jesus overcomes Death, Debt, & Devils V 13-15

The last few weeks we have been going verse by verse through an entire book of the Bible. There is a lot to be gained this way. We gain a better understanding of the context and we pick up on a theme within the writing.

The theme thus far could be narrowed down to the words – Christ is Supreme.

Christ is Supreme

Colossians 2:13 (NIV2011) When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

Colossians 2:14 (NIV2011) having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:15 (NIV2011) And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Christ is Supreme

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

Colossians 2:13 (NIV2011) When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

This comes right after Paul teaching us about the spiritual circumcision. We discussed that last week. Paul links that spiritual circumcision to your conversion experience.. to baptism and faith.

Now here Paul is talking about that time you were dead. Do you remember when you were dead?

There was a time when you were dead in your sin. You were not alive. You may have been breathing but you were not alive. You may have been animated but you were the walking dead.

You see people every day that are dead. Do you realize that? You get into heated arguments with dead people. That doesn’t sound too smart right?! Think about that next time..

“When you were dead…”

How were we dead? …IN OUR SINS and in the UNCIRCUMCISION of our flesh. The flesh represents that desire for sin and for self. The flesh does not desire God. The flesh does not desire to suffer in loving service for others. Circumcision represents the idea that God has removed that fleshly desire and given you a new life giving desire.

Is Paul talking about physical circumcision here?