Colossians
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The Apostle Paul is writing this letter to the Colossians to speak against false teachers. These false teachers were imposing religious rules about eating and drinking and religious festivals. They were targeting the new Christians and their leaders casting doubt and fear into them.
Paul's letter shows the superiority of Christ over all human philosophies and traditions.
He writes in
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Paul explains the the right way of living for the Christian is to focus on heaven rather than earthly things.
The world wants you to focus on worldly things.
Worldly philosophies
Take the view that we need the government to survive, that we cant make our own decisions.
More and more the government is trying to draw us in to dependency so we have to turn to them.
The world wants you, all of you. It needs you to believe in them so they drive the rhetoric that success equals
Popularity
power
position
Wealth
they are making the biblical make up of the family seem blurry, leading people to question the family dynamic.
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,