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Good evening.

Good to see everyone.

Glad that you're here tonight and I hope everyone's ready for our business meeting.

I'm ready.

I've got my booklet here and also will have that tonight.

I'll try not to keep you too late tonight, as I'm up here, preaching, since we do have our business meeting, but I hope everyone had a good day.

It's pretty day out today, what is felt so nice.

Yes,

Okay, I thought Vicky was waving at me.

Either that or going to throw a box of Kleenex at me, I didn't know what it was.

Oh, okay.

Alright well good.

Yeah, it was a pretty day today.

And and so it's good to be back here tonight studying God's word.

Well, if you will tonight turn to Colossians chapter 2, we're in the third sermon of the series entitled, beware of spiritual bullies, And tonight we're only going to look at to versus and and we're going to start talkin about tonight.

The bully of legalism.

Now, if you know,

we've already talked about intellectualism people saying that well you have to know this or know that you have to have this secret secret knowledge and we talked about that the first time and then last time we talked about ritualism circumcision in Lord's supper and baptism and people saying you have to do these things and you have to follow these rituals in order to be saved, where we'd the month that last week.

So this week, we're going to look at the one.

There's five of these.

We have two more to go after tonight.

Mysticism, and asceticism.

But tonight legalism to me is what is most dangerous in our churches today.

You have some that follow intellectualism but not that many ritualism you have some you know but still not that many but we're going to talk about tonight.

Legalism is is very rampant in in a lot of churches especially Baptist Churches.

So let's read the scripture first and then I'm going to give you a definition, a short definition of legalism.

So we're going to start in verse 14.

We're going to look at verse 14 and 15.

So this is what the Bible says, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us.

Which was contrary to us and took it out of the way.

Nailing it to his cross.

Alright, that's speaking of Jesus.

Of course, it will go into what this handwriting of ordinances, really is.

And then verse 15, and having spoiled, I'm reading out the King James, that word spoiled means.

To disarm.

So if you want to write disarm in there, having disarmed, principalities and Powers, he made a Shew of them, openly that word shoe, It means.

Shame.

or you could say that he

he publicly put them to shame.

Made a shoe or a shame of them openly which means publicly triumphing over them in it.

Well, if you just read that, you probably have trouble.

Exactly.

Trying to figure out what Paul was talkin about, what he's talkin about legalism and I've got a definition.

I want to show you tonight of legalism.

I wrote this one day.

It's very short.

But this is what legalism is measuring your own or someone else's spirituality by the ability to keep man-made rules.

Are you not supposed to do it?

You can do it.

But this this is legalism when you measure your own spirituality or work that you measure measure the spirituality of someone else.

By their ability to keep.

Man-made rules.

Not rules in the Bible.

But like the person who had like six or seven hundred extra rules, other was in the Bible.

or like some, who would say,

That it's a sin to go to movie theater.

It's a sin play cards.

It's a sin to clean your house on Sunday.

It's a sin for a lady.

To wear a short dress.

Have long hair.

Had one lady one time.

Come out of church priest on John chapter 10 and she looked at me and she said, you think it's a sin for a woman to wear makeup.

and I said, no, I said for some women are busy and if they didn't wear it,

But now you say well you just telling joke.

No, that was not a joke.

That was a joke.

What I said was a joke but she was serious.

She wanted to know, do you think it's a sin for a woman to wear makeup and not fall?

Why would it be a sin to wear makeup?

but, you'd be surprised at some of the I know one fellow who told me one time.

That it's a sin for a man to get in a swimming pool.

If there's other ladies in the pool,

he said that he said I'll never get in a swimming pool with.

There's a woman in it.

Unless it's his wife or something like that.

well, I mean, you know, that's fine, if if you can't get in a pool without Groping at a woman or imagining in your mind.

I'd like to attack that woman part is probably best that you stay out of that.

Would be a good thing for you to do to stay out of the pool.

But most man's not not, they're not going to get in the pool and just absolutely attack someone they're not coming to that and they're mine is not racing most men but if your dude then or does the best thing to do is to stay out of pool, you know?

But you would be amazed at some of the things.

That people will say that you ought to do.

Like I told you one time.

I was mowing my grass, one Sunday and I and I Lady come by and said, I saw you mowing the grass, you ought not to be doing that.

I had just preached that Sunday.

They was on a Sunday.

I had just breached and I got home and change clothes cuz it was going to rain that afternoon and I had to aerate my yard and mow, and fertilize it and threw grass seed and I did it before it was rain and she thought that was a seeing you not supposed to work on Sunday, not supposed to do anything like that.

You did not observe the Sabbath.

Well, what does that mean?

Does the Ten Commandments say something about the Sabbath?

Was it say about the Sabbath?

Keep it.

Holy.

Well then that means you can't do anything, but go to church, and then when you get home, you got to sit there.

Meditate on the Bible or something.

To hold a long.

You can't watch a ballgame.

You can't watch the race and then you can't do anything like that.

So does that Ten Commandment that.

Does that apply to us today?