“Alive In Christ!” | June 27, 2021

Colossians 2:6-15

I.     “Christ Received – Beware!”

Colossians 1:7-8; 24-27; Isaiah 11:2; 45:3; 1 Cor.1:24, 30
Col. 2:6-7; Ephesians 1:5-9
Col. 2:4; Romans 16:8; Eph. 5:6; 2 Peter 2:1-3
Col. 1:15-20; 27-28
Colossians 2:6-10; Col. 1:9-10; Eph. 3:17-21
Ephesians 2:8-10; 19-22; 2 Pet. 1:20-21; 2 Tim 3:16-17;
John 1:12-18; Jn. 3:16; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Cor 10:31
Col. 2:9; Heb. 8; Col. 2:10
Hebrews 4:1-12
2 Timothy 1:8-14; 2 Pet. 1:3
 

II.     “In Christ Alone – Debt Cancelled!”

Colossians 2:11-12
Romans 6:3-11
Colossians 2:13-15; Eph. 2:11-14; Ro. 2:29; Col. 3:9-10
Romans 6:10-11; 7:1-6; Eph. 2:8-10
[Genesis 3:15, Ps. 68:18; Is. 53:12; Matt. 12:29;
Lk. 10:18; Jn. 12:31; 16:11; Eph. 4:8; Heb. 2:14-18]
John 19:12-22; Jn. 19:20, 22
 
Greek Word Study:
Take you Captive: sulagogeo; soo-lag’-ogue-eh’-o: to lead away as booty, i.e. (figuratively) seduce: - captive; from sulao: to strip; to despoil: - rob (Col. 2:8)
Circumcision: peritome’: from peritemno: which means to circumcise: to cut off or around; Spoken figuratively of the spiritual circumcision of the Heart and Affections, by putting the sins of the flesh off from the body. (Ro. 2:28-29; Php 3:3; Col.2:11)
Canceling: exaleipho: to obliterate, erase, wipe out, cancel (erase tears; figurative, pardon sin). (Col. 2:14)
Record of Debt: cheirographon: khi’- rah-gra-fon: something hand-written (“chirograph”) i.e. a manuscript (specially a legal document of bond [figurative]): - record
Put them to open shame: deigmatizo: to exhibit: - to shame; to make an example of, to show as an example, to expose one to disgrace.