1. Last week we spoke about human tradition and how it actually translates as man - pleasing meaning do not become a man pleaser. so in that we learn that Paul took it to the root which was the original when Adam pleased eve in replace of God. It goes back to the original
Colossians 2:9
Alive

2. Text
whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody
Richard Rohr

3. For in him the whole fullness
We are entering into a turning point of Paul’s statements. He spoke on a breadth of things setting us up for this point in His message to the people colosse the Colossians. He started with the root, foundation, being Christ, moved into the way man and mans knowledge derails us from that which is truth.
Then we move into the next verses which being with IN HIM. IN HIM when we say the words I’m in. So like this Wednesday we are painting many of you come to me and said your in. So we could re down. You know.
Paul has established frame work for what is going to be stated in the next versus
This is the verse that shifts Pauls thought onto Christ

4. Paleroma-(pleres)-completion
IN order to be alive in Christ we have to discover that our wholeness is founded and established in Christ!
In Colossians 2:9 Paul is speaking so strongly about the provisions and the grace / God’s grace that is behind it. This is fascinating. So completion. Don’t you love when people don’t do things to completion?
I used to clean my room and everything would end up in the closet. My mom would always say can’t you do anything to completion.
I have to consciously complete things. Now I obsess over things being completed.
Paleroma-(pleres)-completion
That with which anything is filled or of which it is full of, the contents

5. The DIVINE nature and perfections of God
In order to remain alive in Christ we have to look at the deity of Christ!
So what does deity mean?
God (Theos)
The DIVINE nature and perfections of God
so what is Paul saying here. Well he is saying look. You ever talk to your wife and she can tell your not actually focused on her and she has to like snap you out of it. Paul is saying look to the fullness of Jesus Christ who is a part of the God head. I was like a squirrel in school I never was bad but boy could anything take my attention away from what was being done. So in Jersey there were a lot of Joseph Dagostino’s so if you were in class with the other Joseph Dagostino the teachers would name you stuff like dag Dago Joe Dag or just Joseph and I knew when she used the alternate name to the alternate name like yo third look up here I knew she/or he could tell I had drifted away into a fantasy land
Paul is telling us to stop day dreaming and look to who Christ is because that is where your will find your whole ness.

6. Text
The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without any unifying theme. Accept it, and the Bible becomes an intelligible and ordered revelation of god in the person of Jesus Christ
J. Oswald Sanders

7. IN order to be alive in Christ we have to allow his deity to dwell within us!
Physically
Paul was referring to those that find their wholeness in Christ allow His presence to physically reside within them
So having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination
WOW so what does this mean pastor? Well I had to contemplate this for some time. I had to realize that He meant for real. So our body is dwelling in the true form of this then we come to realize that it means what He calls us to do within our body. So if he calls us to not look at, go to, stand with, and so on we do not See our minds direct our bodies our hearts direct our body but here he is saying allow God to dwell physically within us so that we act out in way that physically pleasing to the lord

8. Seizing the head (This is the part most taken in battle)
IN order to be alive in Christ we have to allow Christ to have full control of our heads!
My head is a lot. It is not only big in circumference but also has a lot going on in there. Sometimes I just want it to shut down.
Seizing the head (This is the part most taken in battle)
Literally and figuratively

9. A noun beginning and concrete Let’s think?????
IN order to be alive in Christ we have to allow Christ to have all rule and authority!
That is a lot! Concrete! And beginning. wel thin of this if He has rule from the beginning of a decision what happens with that decision?
A noun beginning and concrete
Let’s think?????
It is all about ordering!

10. Privilege within someone’s life to hold the seat of authority.
Authority - exousia
Privilege within someone’s life to hold the seat of authority.
Realizing that a deity such as God has competency, superhuman power, and mastery over all things!

11. The authority is given! The root exesti - it is allowed

12. It comes down to authority! It comes down to who is first!
Text
do you want to be alive?
It comes down to authority!
It comes down to who is first!
Very simple !