Now, humanly, God has given us a huge number of ways to express our personality that have nothing at all to do with sin and that have nothing at all to do, necessarily, with His way. But there is only one Way, and that is His. When it is alloyed with other ways, it does not make it any better.
Just as we saw at the beginning of the sermon last time, the word of God is pure, and when things are added to it, it does not make it stronger. It does not enhance it in any way. It actually makes it worse. It makes it weaker.
But in terms of morality, in terms of spirituality, the way is extremely narrow. Broad is the way that leads to destruction and narrow is the way that leads to life; and few there be that find it. That is the principle that we are dealing with in this case. In Colossae, the Christians were victims of yet another attempt to syncretize something moral and spiritual to God's way, but it was something that was humanly devised.
