Do Not, Do Not, Do Not
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations; “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed […]
Shadows and Substance
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Colossians 2:16-17) Sometimes little words mean a lot, and the first word of Colossians 2:16 is just that. The opening […]
Disarmed
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15) In this part of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, Paul described the many different aspects of what Jesus accomplished on the cross. There was a handwriting of the accusations and debts against us, and at the […]