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"Rooted by Walking"
Colossians 1:1-14
January 30, 2021
Ryan Fregoso
In our culture there are many people who are spiritual and many that are religious.
To take it a step further, some also believe in Jesus, at least to some degree.
These people are those who believe have a "Jesus Plus" philosophy.
This, however, is not new.
This is a problem today, and it was a problem in Paul's day with the early church.
We are starting a new series we've called "Rooted."
In this series we will be studying the book of Colossians.
You can find this book between Philippians and 1 Thessalonians.
As you will see in the opening verses, this letter is written by Paul to this church.
We will see later that Paul never visited Colossae, but instead heard of this church through its pastor, Epaphras.
This church was likely founded after Paul's third missionary journey through Ephesus, as recorded in Acts 19-20.
The city of Colossae was a small town situated between Laodicea and Hierapolis, in fact, chapter four tells us that this letter was also sent to Laodicea.
This letter is a companion letter of Philemon and Ephesians.
In contrast to the letter to the Ephesian churches, which focused on the Body of Christ, the Church, this letter focuses on the Head of the Church, Jesus.
Paul wrote to this church to encourage them and to point them back to Christ, as the final authority over God's church from false teachings.
Warren Wiersbe put it this way:
"All kinds of philosophies mingled in this cosmopolitan area, and religious hucksters abounded.
There was a large Jewish colony in Colossae, and there was also a constant influx of new ideas and doctrines from the East.
It was fertile ground for religious speculation and heresies!"
He adds: "This false teaching was a deceptive combination of many things: Jewish legalism, Oriental philosophy, pagan astrology, mysticism, asceticism, and even a touch of Christianity"
You see, one of the dangers we see here in Colossae is that they believed in Christ, but they also added to Christ because of the culture around them.
In this letter, there are a number of themes, but Pastor Pat and I landed on this idea of "Rooted."
This concept comes to us from Colossians 2:6-7 which reads:
6 THEREFORE, AS YOU RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK IN HIM,
7 ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM AND ESTABLISHED IN THE FAITH, JUST AS YOU WERE TAUGHT, ABOUNDING IN THANKSGIVING.
In the literal sense, something that is deeply rooted is fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
For a person, this would mean that they have deeply rooted convictions or feelings, they believe or feel something extremely strongly and are unlikely to change.
A friend of mine recently posted some pictures of the aftermath of a storm in Claremont, CA.
While I recognize these may be hard to see, but the trees all over the city or complex these pictures were taken from, were completely uprooted.
They were not strong enough to completely withstand the wind and the storm.
This can easily happen to Christians in today's world.
What we hope to accomplish in this series is to encourage you to be deeply rooted and able to withstand the winds and storms in your lives and to grow in your relationship with the Lord.
With this background in mind, let's read this opening section of Colossians, beginning in verse 1 of chapter 1:
1 PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF CHRIST JESUS BY THE WILL OF GOD, AND TIMOTHY OUR BROTHER,
2 TO THE SAINTS AND FAITHFUL BROTHERS IN CHRIST AT COLOSSAE: GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER.
3 WE ALWAYS THANK GOD, THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHEN WE PRAY FOR YOU,
4 SINCE WE HEARD OF YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS AND OF THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE FOR ALL THE SAINTS,
5 BECAUSE OF THE HOPE LAID UP FOR YOU IN HEAVEN.
OF THIS YOU HAVE HEARD BEFORE IN THE WORD OF THE TRUTH, THE GOSPEL,
6 WHICH HAS COME TO YOU, AS INDEED IN THE WHOLE WORLD IT IS BEARING FRUIT AND INCREASING-AS IT ALSO DOES AMONG YOU, SINCE THE DAY YOU HEARD IT AND UNDERSTOOD THE GRACE OF GOD IN TRUTH,
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