- Rhythm: Charge and Reminders (vs. 2:16-23)
- Practical Application of New Life (vs. 3:1-4)
Our Plan:
We are free to live for God's glory through the Gospel's power and our identity in Christ.
Big Idea:
2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Charge & Reminder
2:18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19 and not holding 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.
Charge & Reminder
2:20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Charge & Reminder
2:18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19 and not holding 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.
Charge & Reminder
3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Charge & Reminder
Seek the things that are above: Recalibrating our lives and redirecting our pursuits.
1 Puffed or Changed
2 Self or Servant
3 Stuff or Generous
Practical Application
Set your minds on things that are above: Reshape our thought processes and perspectives.
1 Heavenly Interpretation
2 Peace of Christ
3 Spirit-led not Self-led
Practical Application
Life is hidden with Christ in God: Living in light of our salvation shapes our identity with the assurance that allows us to live confidently in a world of uncertainty.
Practical Application