Colossians 2:8 - Forerunner Commentary

Colossians 2:8

6 ^aAs you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

7 ^arooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding¹ in it with thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest anyone¹ cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to ^athe tradition of men, according to the ^bbasic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

9 For ^ain Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead¹ bodily;

10 and you are complete in Him, who is the ^ahead of all principality and power.

Not Legalism but Christ

11 In Him you were also ^acircumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^bputting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

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I wonder how many of us know we are complete in Him, that we don't need anything else for eternal life? Are we aware of that? I dare say we are not because there's an awful lot of the world we still want yet. There are a lot of things out there we find attractive. There are a lot of thoughts we have that are not in harmony with Christ. There are many things that we say that we shouldn't be saying. We're saying, in effect, I don't need you. But God says through Paul we are complete in Him. Everything that we need for life (this life that John is talking about) is in Him and we don't need to go anywhere else.

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