“Rooted in Christ”
Colossians 2.6-15
1. Paul wanted people to come to Christ, and he wanted people to __________________________________________ in Christ.
2. Coll 2.15 Jesus “____________________” over them in his crucifixion.
Some self-help plans from N.T. times still threaten today:
Special _____________________Plan Coll.2.16
“Let no man therefore judge you in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day:…”
Special ________________________Plan Coll 2.16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink…”
The Special ________________Plan (Have you had an experience?) Coll 2.17
“Let no man rob you of your prize…dwelling in the things which he hath [l]seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind…”,
The Special ___________Plan
Coll.2.21—“Handle not, nor taste, nor touch…”
4. Coll 2.13 “And you, being ______________through your trespasses”
God did it—not a correction but a new _________.
5. “Together with him…” His righteousness is ________________to us—we get his report card!
6. Coll 2.13-14 “…having __________the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way…”
7. He not only blotted out our sin, he placed the futility of the enemy on _____________.
John 12.26-32 “I will be lifted ______and I will cast him _________…”
8. Every time a person is baptized, a power play occurs, in which Satan is forced to release one and acknowledge the ___________ over him.
