FUFLLNESS OF DEITY IN CHRIST (COL 2: 6-10)

FULLNESS OF DEITY IN CHRIST (COL 2: 6-10):

Apostle Paul continues to convey that just as they have received the Messiah Jesus the Lord, they shall continue to live dependent on Him. When a person accepts and starts to follow the commandments of God, the person surely gets free from guilt and sin. Also, a person who had genuinely accepted God and His commandments would commit the self to follow God with a free heart though it may be tough and stumbling at times. Thereby each one shall be dependent on Lord Jesus for their own good by realizing that He had come into the world for the redemption of sins and reconciliation with God.

Apostle Paul then says that for they had been rooted in Him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as they were taught, they shall continue to be thankful. The believers who had accepted Christ and followed His commandments are strong with the foundation in Him and they continue to grow in His likeness and they become strong in their belief as they receive the teachings of the Word of God. Those believers will always get attached to God and be faithful to Him by acknowledging Him in all walks of life.

Apostle Paul then writes that they shall see to it that no one enslaves through Philosophy and empty deceit according to the human tradition, according to the principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah, because all the essence of deity inhabits Him in bodily form. And they had been filled by Him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. As knowledge increases the ability to synthesize by correlating different things without facts also increases, thereby a lot of thoughts from many people arise every day and most of those thoughts are without any base or value. Because the thoughts of human beings without God are according to the wisdom without Christ in whom all things exist by the essence of God in human form, that is practically relevant. The believers receive the Holy Spirit once they accept Christ and He fills them day by day when they allow to work God in them by following the Godly values. All things are created for Christ, in Christ, and through Christ, thereby even every leader who had known or not known Christ and who had accepted or not accepted God is from God.

Stimulations for Self-reflection:

1.      What should a believer do as one who accepted Messiah? Why?

2.      How one can be rooted in Christ?

3.      How one can be built up and strengthened in faith?

4.      How we can continue to be thankful?

5.      To which believers should not be enslaved? Why?

6.   What are some philosophies and vain deceits according to the human tradition and not according to Christ?

7.      How does the essence of the deity inhabit Christ in bodily form?

8.      How we are filled by Christ?

9.      How Christ is the head of every ruler and authority?

10.  How we can always rely on God and trust God?