Insecure Securities

March 17, 2024

1. The Insecurity of

Reveal Answer

¹For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, ²that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, ³in whom are hidden all the treasures of

and

.

⁴Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with

. ⁵For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the

of your faith in Christ.

⁶As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so

in Him, ⁷

and

up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving

⁸Beware lest anyone cheat you through

and empty

, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

Colossians 2:1-10 (NKJV)

2. The Insecurity of

Reveal Answer

¹¹In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹²buried with Him in

, in which you also were raised with Him through

in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ¹³And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having

you all trespasses, ¹⁴having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the

. ¹⁵Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁶So let no one

you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ¹⁷which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of

. ¹⁸Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from

.

²⁰Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the

, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to

—²¹“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” ²²which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? ²³These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no

against the indulgence of the flesh.

- Colossians 2:11-23 (NKJV)

3. The True Security of

Reveal Answer

¹If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are

, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ²Set your mind on things above, not on things on the

. ³For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

⁵Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth:

,

,

,

, and

, which is

. ⁶Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

⁸But now you yourselves are to put off all these:

,

,

,

,

out of your mouth. ⁹Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, ¹⁰and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, ¹¹where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is

and in

.

¹²Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender

,

,

,

,

; ¹³bearing with one another, and

one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. ¹⁴But above all these things put on

, which is the bond of perfection.

- Colossians 3:1-14 (NKJV)

⁶As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ⁷rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with

.

- Colossians 2:6-7 (NKJV)

²⁴I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the

, ²⁵of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

- Colossians 1:24-25 (NKJV)

Joey Malott
Children’s Pastor
The Church of the Good Shepherd Cherry Hill
(574) 286-5691