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Message Notes:

IN THIS SERIES:
We want to give colossal focus to 4 areas:

Part 1 – The Supremacy Of Jesus

Part 2 – Our Thinking

Part 3 – Our Living
Part 4 – Our Service

The truth you choose determines the path you take.

Main idea:

Are you firmly rooted in your truth or in God’s truth?

Colossians 2:4
I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments. (NASB)

Colossians 2:8
8 See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the elementary principles of the world, rather than in accordance with Christ. (NASB)

Colossians 2:16b
…in regard to food and drink, or in respect to a festival or a new moon, or a Sabbath day. (NASB)

Colossians 2:18
18 Take care that no one keeps defrauding you of your prize by delighting in humility and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind. (NASB)

Colossians 2:20b-21
20b why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (NASB)

Why would the Colossians ever submit to this?

Colossians 2:6
6 Therefore, no one is to [p]act as your judge. (NASB)

Colossians 2:18
18 Take care that no one keeps defrauding you of your prize. (NASB)

Main idea:

Are you firmly rooted in your truth or in God’s truth?

1. We must make a decision to always stand were Jesus is on truth.

Colossians 2:6-7
6 Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. (NASB)

We are firmly rooted.

Romans 12:2
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

2. We have to be willing to receive the backlash of siding with God.

1 Peter 2:21-25
21 For you have been called for this purpose, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in His steps, 22 He who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 and while being abusively insulted, He did not insult in return; while suffering, He did not threaten, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. (NASB)

3. We remember that we are doing battle against a defeated enemy.

Colossians 2:9-15
9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made [j]complete, and He is the head over every ruler and authority; 11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And when you were dead in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings, 14 having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. (NASB)

Main idea:

Are you firmly rooted in your truth or in God’s truth?

If you prayed the prayer to start fresh with God today text “startagain” (one word) to 97000 so we can connect with you and help you take the next steps in this amazing decision.

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