Are You Paying Attention To The Way The Enemy Wants To Destroy Your Faith In Christ?

Today I preached on Colossians 2.8-10.

Here in these verses the Apostle Paul is engaging himself in spiritual battle over the souls of those who were being lured away from their faith in the Deity of Christ and the sufficiency of Christ to save.

The choice weapon of the enemy was: philosophy!

For the Colossian Christians it was a particular hybrid of philosophies of the day. But nevertheless, it was the very weapon that the enemy used to try and destroy the faith of Christians. Belief in anything that seeks to diminish the Deity of Christ and the sufficiency of Christ to save is empty deception and a false system of belief.

We are bombarded by this kind of philosophy all day long in our own culture. The enemies sole desire is to rob, kill and destroy our faith and Christianity. Therefore we must stay tethered to the true gospel. We must stay tethered to the truth about Jesus Christ, that He is the fullness of God manifest in the flesh and because of His deity, He has the power to save and sustain anyone for Himself.

My aim: That we would take seriously Paul's exhortation to flee any kind of man-centered teaching that goes against the truth about Jesus Christ and the sufficiency of the gospel to save and to satisfy.

Colossians Sermon Series

Today I started my sermon prep for our new sermon series at New Life Church. We will begin to study the Apostle Paul's letter to the church in Colossae. This will piggy-back on our last sermon series of looking to Christ.

This will be a 17 part sermon series through this wonderful letter from God to His people. Please pray for me as I prepare for these sermons and more importantly to live these sermons. But also please pray that we as a church would stand firm on Christ, by always remembering that Christ is indeed Divine, by guarding ourselves from the pagan philosophies of the day and by living our lives in such a way that is worthy of Jesus Christ!

"Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God," ~ Colossians 1.25