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Colossians, Part 7 - Don’t Tell Me What To Do by Pastor Adam Bishop

Colossians, Part 7 - Don’t Tell Me What To Do by Pastor Adam Bishop

Pastor Adam’s message encourages us to hold fast to Christ, seek what is above, and not let human rules or prideful influences dictate our faith.

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7619 Fayetteville Rd, Durham, NC 27713, USA

Sunday 9:00 AM

Sunday 11:00 AM

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day- things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 2:16-23; 3:1
1. Don’t let anyone attach ______ to your faith that is not clearly tied to ______ to Jesus Christ.
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day- things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

Colossians 2:16-17
2. Don’t let anyone with prideful ______ who seems to be ______ talk down to you about your ______.
Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind

Colossians 2:18
3. Don’t let anyone shape your relationship with ______ who isn’t also walking with ______.
(Inflated without cause by his fleshly mind), 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

Colossians 2:18-19
4. Don’t trade ______ sinful practices for ______ sinful practices just so you can gain the approval of other ______ people.
If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

Colossians 2:20-22
5. Don’t rely on your ______ strength to fight your ______ self, but look to ______ and His ______.
These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 2:23; 3:1
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