1. Colossians 2: 6-15

2. “You started with Christ.
In Verse 6, Paul urges the Colossians to “live/walk” out their faith based on the founder of it… Jesus Christ; not on
some other new teaching that was being offered up to them by the false teachers and Gnostics amongst them.
“You started with Christ.
Continue with Christ.”

3. Colossians 2: 6-7
6  “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.”

4. has a once-and-for-all meaning behind it. Christians are not
The word “rooted”
has a once-and-for-all meaning behind it.
Christians are not
to be tumbleweeds
that are blown
here-and-there by
various teachings; or “transplants” that just move to different soils.

5. Throughout Paul’s letters to churches, he uses the picture
of the Church being
a building that IS
(in the present tense)
being built up.
After we are saved,
we are added in…and then continue to grow.

6. the Colossians to be “strengthened
When Paul urges
the Colossians to be “strengthened
in the faith
as they were taught,”
this can best apply
to us in terms of our study and application of Scripture during times of difficulty.

7. “Let us rejoice in the Lord always
“Let us rejoice in the Lord always. Let us show to the world that we are a happy and blessed people and thus induce them to exclaim, “We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you.” - Charles Spurgeon

8. need for the Colossians
In Verse 8,
Paul reaffirms the
need for the Colossians
to be on guard against the false teachers in their midst that wish
to “take them captive” and anchor their lives to other things; apart from Jesus Christ.

9. Colossians 2: 9-10 9 “For in Christ all the fullness of
the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and
you have been given fullness in Christ.
(you have been made complete in Christ)
He is the head over
every power and authority.”

10. he is born complete in Christ.
“When a person
is born again into
the family of God,
he is born complete in Christ.
His spiritual growth is not by addition, but by nutrition.”
- Warren Wiersbe

11. What would this mean for us, those we love, and those we come into contact with throughout our days if we actually believed this?
“I am complete.
I need nothing,
but Jesus.”

12. Colossians 2: 11-15 The Graciously Scandalous Cross and
Triumphant Victory of our Lord
Jesus Christ