RAISED
WITH CHRIST – COMPLETE IN CHRIST
Student
Sunday School Text Teacher's Book
Devotional
Reading: Romans 8:31-39 – Background Scripture: Colossians 2
Sunday,
February 10, 2012
The old folks of my area
had a saying: If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas!
If you die to your sins
and lay down in Christ, you shall get up with:
Salvation – Deliverance
– Power
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of
God.
Colossians 2:6-15
King James
Version (KJV)
To
become converted:
Our
walk is a full time one – there are no vacation days – we walk
by faith, not by sight
Receiving
The Lord Christ Jesus in your HEARTS
also
receiving the teachings of Him and not following after those things
that are NOT Christ
7 Rooted
and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been
taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Like the tree
that has roots planted deep that cannot be moved, shaken by any
little wind ( thing, false doctrine, false teaching)
Built up –
Strong, solid
Stablished –
stability there is nothing shaky about God – The Lord Jesus Christ
And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper
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And in all
things, situations, circumstances, learn how to give Him thanks!!
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Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks,
unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near
thy wondrous works declare.
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In every thing give thanks: for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
8 Beware
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after
Christ.
Beware of them
that deliberately intend to deceive. The tradition of men refers to
teachings passed on by word of mouth. One must be careful, because
there are those that are trying to teach by what they have heard and
not so much as that they have learned from the gospel message of
Jesus Christ.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a
long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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Philosophy today
often refers to academic argumentation about thought and logic.
Philosophy is limited by the finiteness of the human observer. p. 204
text God and His wisdom are in-finite, without end
For my
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
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For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Christ is the
fullness, the eternity of God's being
Christ is the
fullness of the Godhead.
The True God
dwelt in Christ bodily: God himself entered into this world as a
human with a physical body in the man Jesus.
Christ IS the one
true God!
The Triune God:
One God existing as Father, Son and Spirit (Holy Ghost) and the
wonder of incarnation: God becoming himan
Because Christ is
the fullness of God, those who belong to Christ are complete or full
because they belong to Him.
Your mate, your
husband, your wife does not complete you, they compliment you! Christ
completes you, remember that, those that claim Him as Lord and
Savior!
Christ has all
power over any any every spiritual being!!!!!
Ephesians
1:21-22
21 Far
above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every
name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is
to come:
22 And
hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over
all things to the church,
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11 In
whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ:
This
circumcision is not that as of when it was required of Abraham by
God, a sign of membership in Israel. This “new” circumcision is
that of the removal of SIN!. The heart (soul) has been circumcised
and Christ removes the guilt of sin, granting us forgiveness and
He removed the power of sin, the
stink of it from us.
12 Buried
with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the
faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Another image of
Christ's transformation: Baptism
Death, Burial &
Resurrection
From the student
text: Because the person is taken under the water and then brought
out of it, the action resembles Christ's resurrection from the dead.
Baptism signals death to the old life of rebellion again st God and
resurrection to the new life of submission to Christ!
Behold, I will do
a new thing;
now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a
way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
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Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
For as many of
you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
13 And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
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For
the wages of sin is death: That death is more than the tragedy of
physical death; it is the ongoing gilt, alienation, and disharmony
that we experience because of disobedience to God. This is the
experience of being dead in your sins....
Uncircumcision
indicated separation from God's people, being God's enemy. Another
image of the old life.
You cannot be
God's enemy and saved at the same time, be ye not deceived beloved.
Satan is indeed the enemy of God and of man, is he saved??? Think
about that, think on that thing
Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be.
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Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus:
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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to
do those things which are not convenient;
14 Blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
The handwriting
if the charges against us, our sins are clearly written, but thanks
be to God through Christ Jesus our sins, our mess is nailed to the
cross.
The condemning
law is taken away by Christ's death.
Page 207 of the
student text: Sin makes us God's enemies, and so God's law becomes
our enemy because “sin is the transgression of the law”
But thanks be to
God........................... for the lamb of God that was slain.
God figuratively
nailed the law to the cross as Christ took the punishment that the
law pronounces on sin, namely death, so that the law's blessing,
life, can be ours.
15 And
having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them
openly, triumphing over them in it.
prin·ci·pal·i·ties
1. A territory ruled by a prince or princess or from which such a title is derived.
2. The position, authority, or jurisdiction of a prince or princess; sovereignty.
3.
principalities Christianity The seventh of the nine orders
of angels in medieval angelology. Also called princedoms.
By
using the phrase “principalities and powers,” Paul is telling us
that there is a hierarchical structure to the kingdom of darkness;
where fallen angels, evil spirits, and demons are ranked one above
the other according to their power and authority.1
By
His death and resurrection, Christ has defeated every power that
opposes Him. The power of Satan has been exposed and defeated!
1http://www.lifetv.org/Web_HTML/html/Commentary%20folder/Principalities_and_Powers.htm
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