The Basis For What We Believe

Text:, Col 2:13-15, Rom 5:19

Colossians – Freedom from the law, to expose false teaching religious and self-righteousness through ritual

Romans – Explains Christianity

These two verses sum up what God has done for mankind as He re-established His Kingdom.

A.

Col 2:13 new living Translation

You were dead because of your sins and because you’re sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins.

1. Dead because of sinful nature – Sinful nature is in mankind because of disobedience by Adam to God.

Gen 3:1 – 7

• This passage explains why bad thing happen to good people – why bad thing happen in the world
• You MUST under stand this for anything to make sense

2. Cut away
   1. circumcision – a ritual God commanded Moses to perform on his people ( his charges ) or oversee it done, in the wilderness.

No law from Adam till Moses

2. The idea being a setting themselves apart in a way that they will not forget, that

They remember the act of obedience (and disobedience). – note that obedience is required as He re-establishes His Kingdom.

3. The ownership was transferred for a time to Satan, (who had been kicked out of heaven) – God had to do this because this because He is perfect. The Word says – Pslm 138:2 He magnified thy Word above all thy name. God is a God of perfection. He always does what He says He is going to do – God is CHRACTER

He ALWAYS holds Himself to standards of:

• Legality
• Faithfulness – He always does what He says He will do – NEVER forces anything on anybody

3. Made you alive with Christ

a. Made you and I equals – co-laborers – equals – joint heirs

Rom 8:17 - And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.

The idea is that if we accept Christ as God into our hearts, then we have Life as He Has – eternal life with God – forever – Part of His Family

B.

Col 2:14 New Living Translation

He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross

1. Cancelled the record – KJV says “blotted out the handwriting”. The idea is that the debt we owe is done away with.

Hebrew word for cancelled is interesting because one of it’s definitions is the canceling of a debt owed. That is exactly the meaning here because when we accept Christ, our accountability or debt that must be paid (God is a perfect God), for the sin inherent in man, by the work Christ did at the cross.

3. Make a show of them openly

• Crashed party in hell – Christ Conquers Death – “more than conquerors in Christ”
• Matt 16:19
• Rom 8:37
• In ancient times returning king – parade spoils of war and leaders upon re-entry of palace or castle walls
• Christ exposes the devil to us – makes fun of him – give us the keys to life and death

Calls us more than conquerors – of death

• Tells us we are the head and not the tail
• Tells us there is no condemnation
• Makes provision for sins to be forgiven - on and on

All of these things are because of Christ and only through Him

It is our job to stay in Him

• Bible study
• Prayer
• Meditation – read Word - study