PT-1 "Intro to Colossians 2:8-10)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/5/2017 9:29 PM

My Worship Time                                                          Focus:  PT-1 “Intro to Colossians 2:8-10”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  Colossians 2:8-10

            Message of the verses:  “8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;”

            John MacArthur entitles this chapter in his commentary on Colossians “Philosophy or Christ,” and as we think about the problems in the Colossian church as mentioned in our last SD this title and these verses are just what they needed to confront those who were peddling their poison to them.

            Many people throughout the history of mankind have wondered how we got here, where the world came from, what is the meaning of life and other questions that can only truly be answered in the Word of God.  I have written over and over again about my hatred for evolution, not the people who believe it but what evolution does to people who do believe it.  Evolution comes  right out of the pit of hell for what it does is tell people that the universe just happened by an accident and therefore no one has to be accountable to the God who the Bible tells us created it and who holds us accountable.  I believe that the people who were peddling their poison in Colossae would believe evolution.

            We see the word “philosophy” in verse eight and it comes from two Greek words “phileo” and “Sophia” and we know that the word Phileo means love as seen in the city of Philadelphia and the word “Sophia” means wisdom, therefore philosophy means to love wisdom, but the kind of wisdom that is being spoken of here is not the kind of wisdom we get from the reading of the Word, especially in the book of Proverbs, but empty deception which comes from the tradition of men as we see in our verses for today.

            People of Paul’s day and people today sit around and peruse the wrong kind of wisdom.  The Greeks were famous for this and Paul confronted them in Athens while visiting that city as he had to flee from persecution and while there he preached a sermon on Mars hill that is found in Acts 17:16 “Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols. 17 So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present. 18 And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? 20 “For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean." 21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.) (Acts 17:16-21).”  Now the sermon follows these verses but I am not going to quote it now.

            We will continue are look at this introduction in our next SD.

3/5/2017 9:49 PM