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*Colossians Series #08*
*Alive From The Dead (Col 2:11-15)*
*By Bill Denton*
*Introduction*
A. Illustration
One of the best-loved stories in the Bible is that of the Prodigal Son.
The youngest son of a wealthy father, took his inheritance and left home for a far land.
There he wasted everything, and was left with nothing.
A famine hit, he had to take a job nobody else wanted just to survive.
He finally came to his senses and returned home, hoping that his father would allow him to work as a servant.
But the father saw him coming a long way off, ran to meet him, and threw his arms around him.
Later he would explain to the young man's embittered brother, "Your brother was dead and is now alive!"
1. Death is surely a terrible thing, perhaps the most feared thing about human existence
a. it is the greatest unknown we face
b. it is so permanent
c. it separates us from everything that is life
2.
There are more ways to die than to die physically
a. sin produces a spiritual death that separates us from God
b. sin separates us from friends, family, and others we love and cherish
c. spiritual death may produce or lead to physical death, but spiritual death
also produces consequences far greater than physical death
3.
The basic message of the Bible is that God makes is possible for us to overcome
death
a. physical death is defeated because the grave will never hold God's people
b. but the greater conquest is over spiritual death, and conquest that makes it
possible for us to live even though we had died
B.
For this reason, it is amazing that Christians would ever think they needed something other
than Jesus Christ or that we need something more than Jesus
1. It's entirely possible that Christians can get so tied up in popular philosophies,
religious teachings, etc., that we forget what God has done
2.
In today's text (Col 2:11-15), Paul reminds us in a simple, straightforward way
exactly what God has done for us in Jesus Christ
3.
Paul probably used some of the ideas that were being tauted as important additions
or replacements to Jesus, and shows the utter finality of Jesus' work in us
*I.
A Little Matter Of Circumcision 2:11*
A. We know from other biblical passages that one of the problems early Christians faced was
the idea that followers of Christ must also practice the Jewish faith
1.
One of the things that the Judaizers insisted upon was keeping the practice of
circumcision
a. under the Law of Moses, it had become the sign of the covenant between God
and his people
b. some thought the very act itself made a man right with God
c. others saw it as more symbolic, insisting that God was much more interested
in a man's heart than with a piece of flesh
d. but the act of circumcision had become so important, many Jews could not
understand how God could not demand that the practice continue
2.
Obviously, Paul argued against the practice of circumcision as necessary and saw a
greater, more effective action consistent with the broader view of the Old Testament
a. Exodus 6:12 -- 12But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons
of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am
unskilled in speech?”
NASB95
1) "unskilled in speech" = uncircumcised of lips
2) Moses was using the idea of circumcision to describe his inability to
speak the way God wanted him to speak
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