22. 5 Wrong Ways to Pursue Christian Maturity

Joel James
Colossians 2:16-23

2018-11-04
Series: Colossians


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Colossians 2:16-23
16Therefore 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.
17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18Let 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,
19and 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.
20If 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—
21“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”
22(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?
23These 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.
Next in this series: 23. Heaven is a Place and a Person (Colossians 3:1-4)

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