Amen. All right, turn in your Bibles
tonight to Colossians chapter 2, if you will, Colossians chapter
2. And I'm not I'm we're only look
at a few verses tonight as we move through this chapter.
And now Paul is starting to get into some some weighty matters
and address some serious errors that were coming up there in
Colossi. And it was this idea of
Gnosticism. And I'm going to give you a
little bit of an explanation about that and what it is.
And it doesn't really mean as much to us anymore, but this,
this idea of Gnosticism is still very much alive, even though we
don't really call it that probably as much.
But this is going to be a little bit of teaching to get us to
where we can understand where Paul was coming from and why he
had to combat this as such a high level.
Obviously, the the things that he's talking about make perfect
sense to us from from our standpoint today.
But it would have made even more sense to the Colossians and to
the Laodiceans and to anybody else that read this letter back
in their day because of the issues that were coming up and
the the ideas, the doctrines. And that's exactly what they
were that were were, you know, rising up amongst these churches
there. They were getting these ideas
from other places. And so God by the name of DM
Panton, I don't know anything about him, but he studied out
Gnosticism in detail and he wrote a pamphlet on this subject
and really kind of outlined the main ideas of what Gnosticism
is. And so he he, he, this is what
he wrote historically it absorbed and by it we're talking
about Gnosticism. It absorbed non Christian
thought into the Christian faith.
Philosophically, it lodged sin in matter and therefore
repudiated the Creator as either impotent or evil.
Practically numerous Gnostic schools prohibited marriage as
multiplying incurable matter. Similarly, not numerous Gnostics
prohibited the eating of certain foods as wine or meat as being
inherently evil. Theologically, the Jehovah of
the Old Testament was portrayed as the tribal God of Israel.
He was denounced as an alien and hostile deity.
Christologically, it separated Jesus from the Christ, denying
both the deity and the humanity of the Lord.
Inevitably, he brings us to the conclusion It sank finally into
irreparable apostasy. Apostasy is not merely
corruption of the truth, it is a total change of the truth or a
complete abandonment of the faith previously held.
So the Gnostic heresy really at this time when Paul is writing
this is just kind of in its infant stages.
It's just starting to make its way into the world stage, if you
will. And it really didn't completely
come around until the 2nd century, and that's when it was
pretty much. But by that point, it had been
professed in every part of the civilized world, which again,
was not as as big as the world is today, obviously.
But the schools that that really pushed and promoted this Gnostic
theology and this not Gnostic doctrine where just as many as
the Greek and you know, the academies of Greece or Asia even
in their heyday. And that's obviously most of
this. And you'll understand this a
little bit more in just a second.
Most of this is all what we know, what we can grasp, but
what we can understand. If we can't understand it, then
it must not be true. That's kind of what this comes
down to. So the word Gnostic comes from
the Greek word gnosis, which means to know.
And again, simply the, the, the, the Gnostics thought that they
could, that they had special knowledge that could be revealed
only to those who were initiated by their secrets.
So if you were taught in one of their schools or if you were
involved in one of their, you know, academies, if you will,
then you had that special knowledge that was able to be
passed down to you. Common people could think
whatever they wanted to, but only those who had been
initiated could get into this, you know, could get to the real
truth. Sound like a cult.
It is a cult. And that's exactly what was
happening during that time. And that's why Paul is making
such a big deal about it. And you'll understand, I think,
a little bit more as we read into this once you have a little
bit of a background with it. But that word gnosis inspired TH
Huxley, who was actually very, very influential and very
instrumental in helping Charles Darwin get his idea of evolution
out to the rest of the world. Huxley was known as as Darwin's
bulldog. He was the one, you know,
Charles Darwin was writing all of this stuff, but he was kind
of more in the shadows. Huxley was one of these guys
that latched onto this idea was very well spoken.
And so he was able to kind of push it out to the world and he
became a champion for for Darwin's book and for evolution
and everything else. But he was the one that actually
coined the word agnostic, which is an agnostic is somebody who
you know, would say that the existence or the non existence
of God is is unknowable. You'd whether God so.
So the difference between a gnostic or sorry, an agnostic
and an atheist is that an agnostic says we don't know.
We don't know if there's a God or not.
He may be, he may not be. I'm open to the idea.
I'm also open to the idea that there is no God.
Obviously an atheist is going to say there is no God.
He's not even open to that idea. So that that's kind of the
difference. But they're open to the
possibility that there is a God. But for the most part, it's not.
It's not what God says, it's what I say, it's what I can
know. So a Gnostic is a man who says
what he knows, and agnostic is a man who says what he doesn't
know. Whatever you could know was
true. Now this is where Paul gets to
Colossians chapter 2 and verse #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.
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
and you are complete in Him which is the head of all
principality and power. So whatever you could know was
true philosophy, vain deceit, the tradition of men, the
rudiments of the world. This is what Paul is attacking.
Very specifically is this idea of the Gnostic doctrine.
The cults claim at of being able to transmit this secret Gnostic
mysteries is a, is a lot like what we see today with the
Masonic Lodge. And I mean, obviously we're not
going to get into that this evening.
But you know, the, the Masonic order, you know, if you can
offer secret knowledge to those people who are involved, you'll
get a lot of people who come into it simply out of curiosity.
And the the higher you get up, the more secrets you're given
and, and the more knowledge you have and the more you have that
the rest of the world doesn't have.
And that's where the secret society really is tempting to
people. Gnosticism was very much the
same way in Paul's day. And, and really even as today
again, though we don't really call it by that name as much
anymore. And we're not going to look at
this tonight. But really Paul takes the rest
of this chapter in Colossians chapter 2 to unravel the five
major errors, if you will, of these cults that were here in
Colossae. And in chapter 8 and chapter 2,
verse eight through 10, he he attacks the idea of this
intellectualism. Verse 14 through 17, I'm sorry.
Verse 11 through 13, he attacks the ritualism that was part of
this. In verse 14 through 17, he talks
about the legalism, verse 18 and 19, the mysticism, verse 20
through 23, the asceticism. All of those were things that
were that were errors of these cults that were coming into
Colosseum. We're going to talk more about
that as we move through this chapter next week and and
probably even the week after. But Paul turns his attention to
unraveling this cult by simply revealing who Jesus Christ was.
If you can say this is who Christ is, everything else is
not of Christ, then you're you basically, you don't have to
know all the errors. If you know what truth looks
like and you know what the truth is, then you know that this is
not it, then all the rest of its errors.
And that's essentially what Paul is exposing here.
Now, he does get pretty specific with a lot of these things, but
he is exposing error by turning their attention to Christ.
And that's exactly what we want to do tonight.
You ever watch Antiques Roadshow and we get in a hotel here and
there and, and you know, it's, it happens to be on or whatever
else. I think it's pretty interesting
about the only show you can watch anymore that doesn't have
anything in it, you know, that's inappropriate.
It's just, you know, they're showing these antiques and
everything else. And I remember seeing, you know,
it, it always cracks me up, you know, these people that
everybody has the same reaction on Antiques Roadshow when they
find out how much this thing is worth.
And I had no idea, you know, and blah, blah, blah.
But I do remember this one, this lady had had gone to a garage
sale and, and found a, a copper bucket, basically some kind of
kettle of some sort. And she was using it to keep
firewood in. And so she, I don't know what
made her think that maybe this thing was valuable, but she
decided to bring it to the Antiques Roadshow.
And, and, you know, it turns out that the kettle that she was
using to keep wood in was worth over $2000.
And I know it's not tons of money, but to keep, to keep wood
in it. Obviously, you know, it's, it's
something that, you know, she walked away and she said, well,
Needless to say, I'm not going to be keeping wood in this thing
anymore. I didn't realize how valuable it
was. And I, and I think that's the
same thing here. When we see Christ, you know,
when we really get a look at the worth of Christ, when we really
see him for who he really is, it should make us appreciate him so
much more. And obviously the whole of the
New Testament is all about Christ.
But Paul's focus is pretty specifically in in really verse
8, but especially verse 9 and 10 on the worth of Christ.
And that's what I want to take a couple minutes, try to get this
message of, try to get Paul's message across to us and try to
understand the message that he was giving to us in these couple
verses. So let's pray and then we'll
jump into this tonight and see what we can learn from it.
Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us for
an opportunity. We have to be here together
tonight. I pray that it would help us and
that we would see Jesus Christ in the worth of Christ and just
exactly who He is, especially when you compare Him to any
other religion, when you compare Him to any other philosophy or
doctrine or anything else. What we have in Jesus Christ is
so much more valuable and I pray that you'd help us to understand
that that idea tonight as we look at these verses again,
we'll thank you for all that you do for us in Jesus name, Amen.
Now I don't plan to be long tonight and I know I say that
sometimes, but I really don't we I I'm preaching for Pastor Andy
their Bible conference and so we're going to leave after the
service. So the let the longer I go, the
later I get there this evening. So I don't really plan to be
long, but these are important things.
So write down these these couple points maybe tonight, if you
will, you can even probably write them right there in your
Bible because I'm just going to take one point from verse 81,
from verse 9 and one from verse 10.
And the first one is the doctrine of Christ verse 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. Paul's message was very
different from the philosophy and the wisdom of men, and he
was telling the Colossians here to beware that they didn't fall
to these ideas. It was it's it wasn't about what
we could know to be true. It's what God says is true.
That's the difference between what faith is and what
Gnosticism is. Well, I know this to be true.
So this is something that I can believe.
No, if, if God does not say that it's true, then it's not
something that I should believe. And if it's if God says it's
true, then it is something that I should believe, and that's
that. That word spoil there.
Beware lest any man spoil you. That word spoil means to rob
and, and that's exactly what happens when we allow the, the,
the philosophies and the doctrines of the world to come
in. They're literally robbing us of
the worth of Jesus Christ and they're robbing Christ of his
real worth. They're taking away from who he
really is. And that's where faith comes in.
It's not it's, it's not faith if you know it to be true, right?
If, if I, I mean, there's so many examples that we could use.
I mean, if I've, you know, never been to the Grand Canyon, I'm, I
mean, essentially I'm taken by faith that it's there, right?
Taking somebody else's word for it.
But if I've been to the Grand Canyon and seen the Grand
Canyon, I'm not talking about it by faith anymore.
I've seen it. I know it's there.
I know it to be true, right? Everything that we believe about
Christianity has to be taken by faith.
And when we say I know God is real, I know Jesus is real.
I've seen him do miracles. I've I've felt him work in my
heart and all of those other things.
But what you're saying is you have a very strong faith in him,
but you still don't know it to be true because you've never
seen God. You were not there when Jesus
was born. You were not there when he died
on the cross. You were not there when he rose
from the dead. You were not, you know, you,
you've, you've not seen heaven. You haven't seen all of the
things that he tells us about in the Bible.
We can say that God exists because of this reason or that
reason, but it's still faith, right?
And, and it's still strong faith, but it's, it's faith in
what God says. We've never, we've never seen
him, but we strongly believe it because of everything that we've
seen him do in our lives and everything else.
But at the end of the day, it's still faith.
And everything that they, that these people believe really is
by faith too. But at the same time, what Paul
is talking about here is hey, that the faith that we have in
Jesus Christ is faith. Just because you can't see it,
just because you can't touch it, just because you can't feel it
does not mean that it's not true.
If God says it's true, it's true.
The Gnostics are basically saying, if God says it's true,
well then let me go test it and if I can see it, then I'll
believe it and I'll say that it's true.
And that's what Paul is. That's what Paul is combating
here with the doctrine of Christ.
The principles of the world are often very contrary to the
doctrines of Christ. And Paul is saying, don't be
taken, don't be robbed of the the worth of Jesus Christ and
what you have in him by the philosophies and the vain
deceits and and the traditions of men and the rudiments of the
world. So you see the doctrine of
Christ. But secondly, verse #9 is the
deity of Christ. Try to wrap your mind around
what verse 9 is saying. For in Him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily, all the fullness of the Godhead
is presently residing or dwelling in Christ.
This takes completely they, they, they tried to separate the
Gnostics tried to separate Christ Jesus from Christ, God
and man. And, and they, they basically
just say that they, there's no way that those could mesh
together. But what Paul is, is saying very
bluntly and very boldly is that all of God is completely in
Christ. The Gnostics believe that that
couldn't be done. They couldn't understand the
Trinity. So it must not be true.
If they can't explain it, it must not be true.
And and that's, you know, that's that's where a lot of people get
off on different doctrines. Well, I can't understand the
Trinity and I can't understand eternity and I can't understand
this. And because I can't understand
it, because I can't wrap my mind around it, then it must not be
true. Human reasoning always airs
concerning the person of Jesus Christ.
And all you have to do is go look at most of the religions of
the world. They get it wrong on who Jesus
Christ is. If you can say that Jesus is not
God, then you don't have, you don't have to believe that
you're a Sinner or that he died for your sin.
If Jesus was not God, then he couldn't have died for our sin
because he was a Sinner himself. And it's no different than any
other person dying on on a cross, or any other person
giving his life for somebody else.
But what happened at Bethlehem sets Jesus apart from all other
men. The Bible says in John chapter
one in verse #14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father, full of grace and truth.
Turn over to Genesis chapter 1. What we find here in John
chapter 1 is that deity was clothed in humanity.
God came down to dwell among men and that can be said of no one
but Jesus. There's no room for error in
what the Holy Ghost says here. He's used, he used the most, the
the most definite language possible to tell us the truth
about the Lord Jesus Christ. When you look at Christ, there
is none of God missing. Everything you would or could
know about God is in Jesus Christ.
And we talked about him being a triune God, three in one.
It's it's not mathematical threeness or oneness.
He's God. Genesis chapter 1 and verse #26
The Bible says, and God said, let us make man in our image
after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he them, created he him
male and female created he them. But you see all the way back at
creation and that's why the John 11 says in the beginning was the
Word and the word was with God and the word was God.
The word was Jesus Christ and he was there in the beginning with
God. And then verse 2 says all things
were made by him and without Him was not anything made that was
made. Jesus was there at the beginning
in the time of creation, and He was there in eternity past with
God. But that's why he uses that
plural word. Let us make man in our image
because it's a plural. It's a triune God and again,
it's one of those things that we can't wrap our minds around, but
he says it's true. He says it's so and so we
believe him. We take his word at it.
We don't have to be able to understand it in order for it to
be true. Turn over to 1st John chapter 5.
Of course there's another, there's, there's a lot of verses
that talk about the Trinity, talk about the fact that we
serve a triune God. But here's another one that's
about as plain as it could be in first John chapter 5.
And we really got to talking a little bit about this during the
Q&A around our Doctrine Matters conference.
But verse #6 this is he that came by water and blood, even
Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood.
And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the
Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost,
and these three are one. And there are three that bear
witness in earth, the Spirit and the water in the blood.
And these three agree in one. Doesn't get any plainer than
that. And I suppose that's why a lot
of your modern versions take that verse out of the Bible.
They don't want to for whatever reason.
They don't want the Trinity to be true.
They don't want this plain speaking.
But the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost and these three
are 1 doesn't get any plainer than that.
All that God is, he is in the bodily form of Jesus Christ.
And then I'm not trying to oversimplify or undervalue
Christ, but I thought of this. I thought of this example.
I thought of it in this way. I have a laptop that I use and
actually I have, I have two, I have one that I keep here at
church for all the stuff that we need to do here.
And I have one at home. But rather than trying to put
everything on a flash drive and bring it here and plug it in and
everything else, I use OneDrive and it's basically just syncs
all of your files, all of your documents across any of the
computers. Or I have an iPad, obviously
sync it across that I can open up my iPad and open a document
that I'm working on on my computer at home.
I can do any of those kind of things and essentially
everything is there. I can access it from any
computer that I want to, right? All of 1 is in another, and
that's exactly what it is when it comes to God the Father, God
the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
I can go to God and I can get everything that I need in him.
I can go to Jesus, I can get everything I need in him.
I can go to the Holy Spirit, I can get everything I need in
him. They're all one.
They're all the same. Now, they have different
functions in different form, not forms, but different, different
things that they do in different ways that they work in our
lives, but it's the same. They're all the same.
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
The Bible says these three are 1 John 1030.
I and my father are 1 John 14-6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me. So many verses that talk about
the fact that Jesus is God and that flies in the face of
exactly what the Gnostics were teaching here.
And that's why Paul was so plain and saying in verse #9 For in
him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily God the
Father, God the Son, God, the Holy Spirit, all of them in
bodily form in Jesus Christ. What's the worth of Christ?
He's completely God. And so we see the doctrine of
Christ. We see the deity of Christ.
And lastly, I want you to see this in verse #10 the dominion
of Christ and ye are complete in Him.
The Bible says Colossians chapter 2 and verse 10.
You are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality
and power. We are completed in Christ.
He says that very plainly at the beginning of verse #10 ye are
complete in Him. Something is missing until you
are in Christ. Human philosophy, the world's
religions, they don't know anything about that, and that's
why they're constantly searching.
You ever hear people say that? Anybody got any questions?
Well, I do. What's the meaning of life,
Right? That's people.
People are constantly trying to figure out what's the meaning of
life? What is, what's next?
What am I? What am I searching for?
What am I looking for? I don't know exactly what that
is. And the reason why is because
they're empty. They're missing the most
important ingredient in their entire life, and that's Christ.
That word for complete is pluru. It means to be made full.
We're filled full in him. All of our fullness comes from
his fullness. What was happening is that the
cult at Colossae this this Gnostic idea, but even others
that had started to spring up was offering to complete the
Christian believers by initiating them into their
secrets. Paul was making it very clear
that none of these cults, none of these doctrines, none of
these other things could give them what they were looking for.
The fullness comes through Jesus Christ.
That completeness only comes through Jesus Christ.
God created, created Adam, and then he gave Eve to complete
him. But they sinned, they died
spiritually. He needed to be born again to
complete again, to become complete again in spirit and
soul and body. That completeness, that fullness
comes in Jesus Christ. And boy, you start to read
through the book of Hebrews and even in First Corinthians and
you see some of the things that Paul is talking about, about the
fullness, the fulfillment, all of that that comes in Jesus
Christ. Lot that we could say about
that. But I want to look at the
second-half of this verse. It says which is the head of all
principality and power. He is in complete control over
everything. There's no greater power or
authority. The Bible refers often to
principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this
world. Angels, good and bad, are all
created beings, and Christ is the head even of the angels.
All the authority is given to Jesus Christ.
In other words, we are complete in Him, and He is the head over
all of those things. When we're in Him, we can have
the victory that overcomes the world, but not until then.
Only when we when we have him can we have that.
What more could a believer want than that?
Turn over to 1st John chapter 5. I want to look at one last verse
and we'll be done. But as you turn over there, I
want to tell you about a story that I heard.
There was a wealthy man and his son that loved to collect art
together. And, you know, I don't quite get
it because to me, art is not interesting at all.
I can't, most of the time, can't even tell what's going on in the
picture. You know, just a lot of smears
and people are talking about how wonderful this painting is.
And I can't even tell if it's upside down or right side up or
anything. So it doesn't mean a lot to me.
But I know that people love art and you know, many times they'll
spend money to go look at art, they'll spend money to buy art
and everything else. But this man and his son, they
love to, to collect art together, Picasso, Raphael, some
of these other ones. And they had some very, very
expensive paintings in their collection.
And one day this, this the sun, right around the time of Vietnam
that was going on and that conflict broke out and the sun
went to war. And it wasn't too long after he
had actually arrived in Vietnam. He was very courageous.
And he died in battle, rescuing another soldier, a fellow
soldier of his. Other people saw it.
Everybody saw that he laid his life on the line for his his
fellow soldier. And the father was notified
about his son's death. And obviously he grieved very
deeply for his son. About a month later, just before
Christmas, there was a knock at the door and a young man was
standing on this on this man's porch with a very large package
in his hand. And so he invited him in and he
said, I was with your son in Vietnam.
He said, in fact, I was the one that your son was trying to save
when he got shot and killed. And he said, I, I'm not much of
A painter, but I do a little bit of a painting.
And, and so I brought you a picture that I painted and he
said, it's a it's a portrait of your son.
An old man opened this picture up and he said that, you know,
it's just amazing how this this man had captured on canvas
really just the personality and the character and everything of
his son. And it just, it brought tears to
his eyes. And he loved the painting.
And anytime somebody would come over, he would he would take
them into the room and all these other fancy paintings that he
had on the wall. But he would take him to that
portrait of his son, that painting of his son, and just
love to sit and admire it and have other people sit and admire
it with him. It wasn't long after that that
the father actually passed away. And so because he had no son to
pass it on to, this was his only son that was killed in Vietnam.
And really the only other one that cared anything about the
paintings in his family was his son.
And so he was going to have an auction.
And he had stipulated in his will that he wanted all of his
paintings to be auctioned off. And so many people knew about
his collection and, and were anxious and eager to see the
paintings that were going to be put up for sale, hoping that
they would be able to get one of these paintings maybe a little
bit less than market value because it was being sold at an
auction. And so with all the anticipation
around that, everybody sat down and they were waiting for the
bidding to start in the auctioneer made his way up to
the to the lectern and he started with the painting of
this man's son. It was sitting right there on
the little stage area that they had set up.
And of course, nobody was there to see this painting.
They wanted to see all the others and they wanted to bid on
all of these other paintings. And so the auctioneer said,
well, this painting has to be sold first.
He said, this one is the one that I'm going to start the
bidding who will start me off at $100.
And it was just silence in the room.
Nobody wanted this painting. And finally one of the guys in
the back of the room said, can't we just put that at painting
aside and get to some of the paintings that we came for?
We want to see Rafael. We want to see Monet.
We want to see some of these other paintings in the in the
auctioneers to know, I'm sorry, this painting has to be sold
first. He said, will somebody be
willing to start me at $100? And you could just see the
impatience in the room. Everybody was getting agitated.
Why are we trying to sell the portrait of this man's son?
Nobody in this room even knew the man's son.
Why are we trying to sell this portrait?
First of all things? Finally, from the back of the
room, there was an old man that was sitting in there.
And he said, well, I'll give you $10.00 for it.
I'm not, I don't have much money.
And turns out that this man was a gardener and knew the son that
had actually gone off to war and been killed.
He said, I'll give you $10.00 for the painting.
The auctioneer said, all right, $10.
Anybody give me $20.00 for this painting?
Nobody said anything. He said, $10 going once, $10,
going twice, sold for $10. And everybody was excited.
They clapped. They said, all right, now we can
get into what we came here for. Let's let's start with with some
of these other expensive, some of these other fancy, some of
these other well known paintings in the auctioneer said, I'm
sorry to tell you this, but the auction's over.
And they couldn't believe it. They said, what do you mean the
auction's over? We came here to to buy the
Monets. We came here to buy the
Picasso's. We came here for all these
paintings. What do you mean the auction is
over? And he said, well, I couldn't
tell you this before because it was part of the stipulation of
the will. But the will said that whoever
bought the portrait of the son not only got all the rest of the
portraits, but they got the estate as well.
To the man who bought the portrait of the son in the back,
he'll get all of those paintings and he'll get the estate and the
first John chapter 5 and verse 11, I think we see this idea
that the man who takes the son gets everything.
God gave his son 2000 years ago to die for us on a cruel cross,
much like the auctioneer. That message is still whoever
will take the Son gets everything first.
John chapter 5 and verse #11 And this is the record that God hath
given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God
hath not life. What's the worth of Christ when
you have Him and He has you? You have everything you need.
You have all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
You are complete in Jesus Christ.
It doesn't matter what the world says.
It doesn't matter what the world thinks.
It only matters what he says and what he thinks, and it should
change the way you live. That's the message that Paul was
trying to get across as he's starting to open up this idea of
the fact that all of these other doctrines and all of these other
religions are going to try to paint a phony picture of how how
much they're worth. And they're going to try to tell
you the value of what they have. But the value in the worth is in
Jesus Christ. It's in the doctrine of Christ,
it's in the deity of Jesus Christ, and it's in the dominion
of Jesus Christ. Everything that we have,
everything that we need, everything that completes us is
found in Jesus Christ. Ye are complete in Him, which is
the head of all principality and power.
What's the worth of Christ? He's everything we have
everything we need in Jesus Christ.
The one that takes the Son gets everything.
And because we know Jesus Christ is our Savior, and I trust that
everybody in here does, because we know Jesus Christ is our
Savior, we have everything we need in him.
Don't ever forget it. Don't ever let it get old.
Let's pray.
Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us for
an opportunity. We have to just look briefly at
this passage tonight. What a tremendous concept.
What a tremendous idea. The man that gets the sun gets
everything. When we took Jesus Christ as our
Savior, we got everything. We got all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily in Jesus Christ and we're completing him.
May we never forget that. May we never lose sight of the
value of Jesus Christ. Thank you again for all you do
for us in Jesus name, Amen. If you stand at your.