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May 27, 1984
Paul wanted his readers to be complete in Christ—yet the Colossian believers were being intimidated by false teachers with false practices. These false teachers were promoting a religion of human achievement. According to them, true spirituality was made and judged by certain external physical characteristics. But “Jesus plus rules” will never lead us into true Christlikeness. Rather, as Alistair Begg explains, in Christ we enjoy liberty constrained by the law of love.
16Therefore let no one gpass judgment on you hin questions of food and drink, or with regard to ia festival or ja new moon or a Sabbath. 17kThese are a shadow of the things to come, but lthe substance belongs to Christ. 18Let no one mdisqualify you, ninsisting on asceticism and worship of angels, ogoing on in detail about visions,4 ppuffed up without reason by qhis sensuous mind, 19and rnot sholding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
20If with Christ tyou died to the uelemental spirits of the world, vwhy, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21w“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22(xreferring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to yhuman precepts and teachings? 23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in zpromoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are aof no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
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