Sermon Tone Analysis

But we are continuing our study in Colossians and I do want to say thank you.

Also, to the volunteers have came out yesterday, they did a great job.

Getting the steps, all repaired and painted, and keep it, a good job getting all that prep.

So we appreciate their their hard work and do look forward to Super Summer Slam.

And again, I want to encourage all of you.

Many of you were going to be coming out during the days.

Whether it's helping with setup in the mornings are helping with the kids were the days or snacks or whatever else and really looking forward to having you all with us are at Super Summer Slam, but it would encourage everyone to come out Friday evening.

The parents will be coming at 4. So I have a special program where we'll be sharing with a parent.

Some of the things that the kids learning during the week at SummerSlam, sharing the gospel with the whole family and then encourage them to stay for an ice cream.

So, our time is a church family for each.

One of us to be able to be a part of building those relationships and reaching out to people in our community.

I can our hope is that they might come to Faith in.

Price of this Paul said in Colossians then we want to continue to Proclaim him honest and teach everyone with all wisdom.

So we may present everyone fully mature.

In Christ is what we all want to be a part of, and this is your chance.

It's all our church families chance to do that Friday me.

So, encouraged you to put that on your calendar, come out in the evening and enjoy some time together with don't just come together with other people in the church.

Introducing yourself and getting to know some of the families and people that come out the kids who have been there.

So we look forward to that.

This is going to be a great Outreach this year.

We're looking forward to a do continue to pray for weather.

Again Super Summer Slam as one of this event.

Every year we where we get to see God is real.

Because most every year, there's at least a day or two where the storms are all swirling, and people are praying and Sudley, oddly around Montell.

There's this, like, circle of weather, and a guy just hold it back.

We have some, we have some fun with the rain, but by and large he really keeps most of it back, which is amazing.

So let's be praying for that as well.

Unless of course, you would have volunteered to come out and have 108 kids inside the gym.

Anybody while we're looking forward to it to Believers that he had actually never met other than a couple of them writing to them after hearing about some of the false teaching that was coming into the church and people that were trying to to lead them away from from faith in Christ.

Last week, we were looking at Colossians chapter 2 verses 6, to 15, where Paul is kind of making.

Transition through chapter one, he's been really laying the foundation again of faith in Christ.

Christ is the one through whom we have salvation.

He's the one who paid the penalty for persons transferred us to the kingdom of God, and chapter two verse 26 to sorry today.

6 to 15, he made that transition where he is reading for sizing.

Again we are saved by God's grace but he's making a transition to well then how are we going to be Christians?

Where are good?

Christians in this world.

So the false teachers were actually kind of leading them astray as far as what the real gospel, how one becomes a Believer but they are also trying to lead them away from.

Okay, how are we supposed to live as Christians in this world?

What to take to be a good Christian.

And so we looked at that last week and we saw that, you know, truth is always kind of mixed in there, isn't it?

Satan always takes a little bit of Truth and then emphasizes it slightly differently or add things to it to where it becomes a lie.

So it's it sounds put an example because that little bit of truth but it takes us in the wrong direction.

Well what we're going to see here as we get to 16223 is that Paul is going to put a little bit of meat on the bone so to speak, kind of gave the concept there.

But now he's going to actually say, okay well and here's like three ways is teaching is taking place.

Here's what's going on that.

You're facing and show you how this is actually taking place with a little bit of truth, but he is leading us astray with a lie.

Is so we're going to be picking up.

There are 16 and 16 to 23.

I did want to just go back and re-read 13 to 15. Cuz again, if I find that Paul is really a sizing again.

How were saved and how we live as Christians.

He says, in verse 13th, when you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, a nurse in the Bible talks about every single person.

This world, we are born as Sinners sinner is just meeting.

We have a propensity to do what we want.

Rather, what God wants we go against What God Says is, right?

Because we want to gratify ourselves because it's about circumcision of The Flash.

And again, he's using a lot of imagery going back to the Judaism writer of circumcision.

And he's talking about how we all are born with this sinful nature, where we have these wrong desires, and how God wants to remove those from us.

Well before we're safe, then we are sinners.

We are living for ourselves, not for God.

We're doing things that God says this is wrong and the punishment for that is death being separated for me, for all eternity.

We have a sinful nature that we just follow.

It's like our leader all the way through life and we follow it.

He says man that's what you were.

But God has made you alive with Christ.

He forgave us all our sins, having canceled, the charge of our legal indebtedness.

God did give the lawyer, gave the law to show us to open up your eyes to stay here a while.

That's what God said it is.

I break that everyday.

And so we know that there are charges.

God says hey this is wrong and we realize that when we see the law he says man there is a legal indebtedness, you deserve to be punished, but God took that he took that would stood against isn't condemned us and he's taken away nailing it to the Cross.

He took everything every charge, we made against us every single light that we've ever thought everything we've ever stolen, every every sin.

And Jesus took our sins on himself when he died on the cross, he took the punishment that we deserved.

And he died.

It's been paid.

It took it away, nail you to the cross and not only did he pay for our sins but he, he knows full well about our sinful nature.

He knows full well.

That Satan is the prince of the air.

He is in this world leading people astray.

He knows that the world itself is against him and we have these three enemies constantly gets away from him.

And he says, look, not only did he take away our sins and the punishments but he also dealt with those that want to lead us away having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Jesus showed when he died on the cross and rose again from the dead.

Well, as Hebrew says, and he set us free from fear of death and Satan who has the power of death.

He showed that he is over all of our enemies and he has defeated them and so we don't need to live that way any longer.

So then Paul starts putting Flesh on the bones.

They said here in the next section.

16 to 23 where he's going to deal with three different areas where the Corinthia or the Colossians will be the Colossians.

He says look, here are three ways that I know that you're being led astray, if that you're being say, look if you want to be a good Christian, you got to do these things.

They're legalism mysticism and asceticism.

Big words.

Actually got that big three syllables each or four and asceticism.

That anyway, what are they legalism?

Legalism has to do specifically with the Jewish law festivals feast and people say, all right, if you want to be a good Christian hey God's already given us all this in the Bible.

We need to follow all these rituals.

We need to follow all these different festivals and specific rules that he gave to Israel way back.

Then if you want to be a good Christian, this is what you have to do.

Mysticism is the idea of a personal inner experience?

It's kind of a personal inner Spiritual Awakening that is typically tied to dreams meditation.

Call Enlighten mint, it really is an inner experience, very personal that is supposed to be going to like a link to the divine or finding the divine within you.

And some people say, hey, look, this is what you really going to be a good Christian.