Good afternoon this is Reverend JW Smith pastor new s Missionary Baptist Church Frasier 2186 Hawkins Mill Road in Memphis Tennessee uh coming to you for another weekly Bible study uh SL Sunday school whichever however you choose to use it uh we thank God for you and this
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Subject uh for the international lesson uh is freedom from the world freedom from the world Amen we in still in unit three Christ frees and the law and slaves and again I always uh I’ve been teaching that even though Christ freed us from the penalty of sin amen we still
Have we still on paper uh not under arrest we on paper where you need to check in amen with the Lord every once in a while like a person who is freed from jail uh maybe on parole and he has to check in parole office and he has to
Meet certain conditions uh while we are not uh being held hostage the Lord does require that we live a certain way and that we we do maintain contact with him uh as he sustains all of our needs God bless your heart amen so we are free
Amen and we’re free from the world and his freedom from the word allow us to be free in Christ we’re coming from the book of Colossians one of Paul epist prison Ministries or prison Epistles amen that he writes while he’s under the rest in Rome Colossians 2 uh vers 16- 23
Again those who want the notes they’re on my Facebook page JW Smith Jr and on the new salor Mission Baptist Church Fraser Facebook page U finally uh as before I move in this lesson uh I do have email list for those of you who request the PDF F these notes uh in your
Email account uh we do send these out on a weekly basis if you would uh you can just send me a note on Facebook or you can send me a note on uh YouTube and I will gladly include you in the email file uh that we do send out uh for uh
With PDF files and many of you uh have told me that you use these notes print out for your Sunday school and you use them to actually teach your Bible study or you use them just to study yourself but whatever uh you use them for that’s what they’re there for amen they’re
There to allow you to go back you can just sit back and listen now uh as we teach the lesson and then because the notes are already written for you God bless your heart freedom from the world Colossians 2: 16-23 now again Paul writes the piss of
Colossians as he’s on the house arrest in Rome uh remember he’s going now uh before Caesar amen because he’s been arrested for preaching uh the Gospel of Jesus Christ and while he’s in prison amen he continues to write he writes four Epistles amen or four books of the
New Testament even as he’s under house of rest now this lets us know that God expects our character Amen to outweigh our circumstances did you get that he he expects our character espe our Christian character to be more D than our circumstances because Paul was in prison
Paul could have been saying wo me P me you done me wrong I’m I’m on death row blah blah blah blah blah blah but Paul is still writing Paul is still concerned about the fellow Saints uh amen that are striving uh to be strong and grow firm
And fast and up at the full stature in the knowledging of of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen so again when you’re going through amen remember that the quickest way to get through uh is to lean on the word of God Amen it takes you out of yourself amen it takes you
Out of what you’re going through and focus on what somebody else is going through God bless your heart uh I’ll say this and I’ll move on um some years ago when my wife and I had just built built a home uh we were clearing a lot next to us and I wanted
To burn some brush and I had a meeting to go to and I wanted to rush but I was out of diesel fuel so I used gasoline uh and I knew better I you know I’m not just totally crazy so I went to other side but the ground got saturated and a
Ball of fire exploded and uh I got uh 30° burns on my arm and um I had to go to the burn center and it was extremely painful I’m a kidney patient and I’m not allowed to take pain pain medicines and so they had to do this and of course
Those who’ve been through Burns know that they take a brush and they scrape it out all the burnt stuff and then they take scissors and cut the skin back doing all this about pain medicine but what allowed me to be able to endure what I was doing is is while I was there
I saw a man who had been burned by Grease over the entire upper half of his body amen and they had him in uh I guess peroxide peroxide bath and I kept looking at him and by watching his pain it helped me understand that my pain was
Not so significant as a matter of fact it made me forget what I was going through so sometime when we are going through rather than crying about what we’re going through uh let us find thanks and say Lord I Thank you that I’m not as bad as that person I’m not as bad
It could have been a whole lot worse God bless your heart and again that’s what Paul does here now we’re uncertain whether or not Paul had ever visited the city of coloss amen where the church is located but he had heard about the faith of the Believers amen from other
Believers amen again our job is to is to spread the gospel of good news uh you know far too many church members amen spread bad news uh we go to church and worship on Sunday when we come back home all we talk about that old preacher uh
That old mother that old old Qui members all this negative stuff we can think about in the church but our job is to spread the good news there’s enough negative news in the world already and let me just say this uh what good does
It do uh me to come home from jail and talk about people in jail who are criminals amen everybody in jail is a criminal that’s why they in there because they because they committed a crime right so again people are in church because they need they need Jesus
So it’s no need of me coming out talking about the negative uh rather as opposed to uh talking about the fact that or highlighting the fact that they need Jesus let’s highlight the fact that I met I met the Lord uh that I had a good
Time in church so again we are to carry great messages most churches are empty these days because members are carrying the wrong message amen we need to carry of the message of the goodness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen no man callus me to go to church so no man can
Cause me to leave church amen the people in church are just like I am and I’m just like they are amen so they can’t talk about me I can’t talk about them amen I’m not there to see them I’m there to see him I’m not there to please them
I’m there to please him amen so again and I will let nothing separate me and I will continue to carry good news uh despite there being bad news uh everywhere no matter where you go there’s some bad news there was bad news in the garden of evening there was bad
News in Upper Room when Jesus uh is Institute of communion amen and so again uh you know we called the day he was crucified Good Friday so why can’t we call every Sunday good Sunday God bless how I’m through with that now we we don’t know if he’s been there but he
Heard about him other believers his intent was to encourage Believers and then to counter the false teaching that had infiltrated the church amen because Believers need encouraging amen U that’s why he says in Hebrews 10:24 and 25 that we’re not to forsake disem oursel because we are to be encouraging one
Another under every good works uh you know uh we need encouraging and we need to we need to be encouraged by one another sometimes a friend can can can can have more impact on a child’s life than the parents because because they’re common they have you know they a lot of
Commonality the same age group same thinking and so sometime members uh can have uh a significant impact in places where the pastor can’t amen so we are there to encourage one another under every good works does not matter what you’re going through what you’ve gone through there’s somebody in the church
Going through or have gone through the same thing and then there are others come behind you who would need your testimony to let them know that they too can come through or whatever it is you’re going through or you’ve been through so he was encouraging uh the
Believers uh in the in their faith and the contined growth of their faith and he was trying to counter the false teaching that they infiltrated the church now we don’t know we don’t we we don’t specifically know uh what the false teaching were but if you read the
Book of Colossians you can end you can infer from the content that he had two main uh sources of false teaching the first was Jews amen the judaizers we’ been talking about for time and time again who keep wanting to say that in order to be a full Christian uh you had
To you had to obey the laws of Moses that related to circumcision to to dietary restrictions and who you could who you could associate with amen they were adding uh things to the to to to the gospel of salvation but Paul is said in Romans 10:9 thou shall believe with
Thy heart the Lord Jesus and confess thy mouth God raised from the dead Thou shalt be saved that’s all it is to and not of works that’s any man boast but we are sin and saved by faith through grace through faith amen God bless your heart
So nothing else added to it and then he also had pagans uh who were also leading Believers astray who were mixing Christianity uh with things that they had gone through and you find even in the church today there’s a lot of things that take place in the Christian church
That have nothing to do with Jesus and Christianity but it came down through tradition uh for things uh from from the old days Amen in the old days the Bible said God winked their ignorance amen because God understood they didn’t have the opportunity to to learn to read and
Become educated but God is no longer winking because he G he’s given us everything and every opportunity that we need uh to be able to study his word now um and so they were leading Believers astray now uh they had formed a syncretic belief system uh which Incorporated various elements of
Different religions and philosophical traditions that had nothing to do whatsoever with Jesus Christ amen a syncretic a syncretic or syncis uh synr syn syncretic or syncretistic uh belief system is a belief system where you incorporate all different things from many different places amen that are not not based on Christianity amen even in
In in the church amen a lot of things that we have brought from over from Judaism uh because Judaism uh Christianity and and Islam both have their roots in Judaism and there a lot of things that were carried over again a lot of the older people believe that a
Child could not come to Christ he was 12 years old amen that was a carry over from Judaism which in in which uh they presented their male child uh to the the temple when they were 12 years old amen but uh the reality of it is as soon as
The child knows right from wrong that child needs Jesus amen my father use example that when a baby does not know any better he’ll stick his hand in the cake and just put it all over his mouth and look at you when you come into the
Room but if uh when he when he does it and puts his hand behind his back when he sees you that means the child knows he’s done wrong amen and that’s a child that needs salvation because the wrong in him will become worse amen if we
Don’t curtail it uh just let me add this in too and some folks I’m always nitpicking but the bottom line is uh some of the things we let babies get away with are not cute amen the Bible say train up a child in the way that he
Should go amen a child swinging at your hidden back at a parent is not cute I don’t care if he’s 2 years old a child are cursing saying a curse word at four years old is not cute amen again if you don’t train it out of them amen uh it’ll
Turn it’ll turn turned back on you the parents God bless your heart and that’s where our world is today it is turned back on us now uh judaistic false teaching included circumcision dietary restrictions and observance of holy days or Feast amen again they wanted that the judaizers continue to say you need to
Observe the weeks of the feast uh as did in the Old Testament we need to be circumcised like we were uh before Christ came but those things those those parts of the law the the Practical part of the law amen was done away with in Jesus Christ the spiritual part of the
Law uh continued but the Practical uh those things um were done away with in addition he was dealing with Angel worship uh and um misleading misdirected fasting amen Jesus had always had also already taught on people who were fasting and then going around with that long look on their face to let people
Know they were fasting amen that’s MISD directed fasting uh and some of those things mirrored Pagan p uh PR paganism uh uh and we have to be careful amen about talking about ghosts and angels and that kind of stuff uh Angel worship uh angels are real amen um but and we
Have to understand uh that but we don’t worship Angels amen angels are created being and we only worship the Creator amen God the Father God the son and God the Holy Spirit of the true and living God and so Angel worship and uh misdirected fasting um mirror some Pagan practices now
Paul calls this a system of vain deceit after the tradition of men in Colossians 2:8 uh and it concerned Paul because it add the requirements of the believer beyond what Jesus Christ did the salvation and work of Jesus Christ uh and that is the gospel that he came he
Lived he hung dead and died on the hill called Cav bued in the bar of Tomb third day he uh third day he rose with all power in his hand and that Resurrection uh gives the right Tree of Life uh Paul says if if Christ be not risen then our
Preaching is in vain amen Our Hope amen is built on Jesus Christ amen who is the author and the finisher of our faith and a so now Paul’s corrective teaching is based on the preeminence of Christ Christ so I call in Hebrews he talks about the superlative Christ Christ is
The best he’s the EST of all things amen the the greatest priest the the high greatest high priest the greatest mediator the greatest intercessor amen he’s he’s the only wise savior amen so he talks about Christ being superlative he’s higher than Angels amen God bless your heart uh he he is God
He’s God he is God he’s man all men but yet he is all God Amen and so he talks about the superlative preeminence of Jesus Christ uh through whom the Believers he made us complete uh and then he raised us from the dead and triumphantly spoil the principalities
And Powers remember this Paul talks about in Ephesians 6 we wrestle not against flesh and blood BL but against spiritual waking but against spiritual wak in high places he talks about principalities Powers Thrones and minions amen those are all hierarchies of Angels in Colossians 2:15 he says and
Jesus had spoil principales and powers and made a sure them openly and triumphant over them amen that was through his resurrection now false teachings had taken the Colossians spiritually captive and would have eventually LED them to deny the power of Christ’s work amen whenever we had anything to Salvation we Deni the power
Of Christ work because we say Jesus didn’t pay it all but he only made a down payment amen that’s why people keep on wanting to add something uh let me let me just say this when when when you’re born again you don’t have to shout amen some people shout some people
Don’t amen shouting is not not a real sign of being born again some some folks some Shad because they were afraid amen God bless your heart and so don’t add anything thing uh the Bible said if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth amen Thou shalt be saved even
Don’t even make baptism part of Salvation baptism is an act of obedience because you are saved it’s an outward sign of an inward change uh that you are dead to the world buried in Christ and resurrected in Christ amen that’s why we take you down in the water and raise you
Up again is symbolic of being buried him being going into the tomb but he didn’t stay dead and we don’t leave you the water we raise you back up Amen to begin to to live a new newness of life amen so uh anytime we add anything uh to uh the
To the salvation by grace through faith amen we saying that Jesus didn’t pay it all we need to do something else Amen to pay the full debt and the judaizers of course were saying that you had to be circumcised amen uh some Church of God
Say you had to be baptized or no but again there is no salvation in the water and all always asked them this question they say the Salvation take place at the water but I said so what led them what made them decide to go in the water are
You with me is that decision that took place before the water amen that um that where salvation occurred amen again before I take a bath every day I have to make a decision to take the bath amen and if I don’t make the decision to take
The bath I won’t I I won’t take it amen so the believer has to make a decision a amen that Jesus is worth it he’s able to save and then because they have made that decision then they go into the water as an act of obedience
There is no salvation in the water God bless your heart again we need to stop adding things uh to the to the Salvation uh human works because that said Jesus did not pay it all but I came to tell you Jesus Paid It all all to him I owe
Seeing and left the Crimson Stain he washed me whiter than the snow what what can take away my sins nothing but the blood what can make me whole again nothing but the blood it’s not anything that I do but it is of Jesus Christ if I
Could do it myself I wouldn’t need Jesus Christ God bless your heart thank you for that introduction we’ll move through these uh few verses and we’ll call today again we’re in Colossians chap 2: 16-2 uh God bless you uh my son and Ministry um uh and uh to um all of the friends
Who are watching today uh we thank God for you again uh we’re in Colossians 2: 16-23 verse 16 says let no man therefore judge you in meat or drink in respect of a holy day or of any new of the new moon or of the Sabbath days uh again now the
Colossians watch this when they accepted Christ the coloss i s had died to all efforts to please God by the flesh amen that’s why Christians left Judaism because the law was designed was was an effort to please God In the Flesh and it didn’t work the law failed we’ve gone through
That in previous lessons so they had died to all the efforts to please God In the Flesh they had also been buried with Christ as I just said and risen with him in a new life I just explained it a minute ago therefore if there is the
Case they should have been done with the judaistic Jud M judaizers and the gnostics amen the gnostics were a group of people who believed in religion who believed in Salvation through knowledge uh and and of secret things and they did a whole they were angel worshipers and a
Whole lot of other things go with gnostics amen and so the judis and gnostics were trying to draw them back to the very thing from which they had died amen if if if you died to those things through salvation in Jesus Christ they’re saying Paul is saying why go
Back to him and so he said let no man judge you in food or in drink or regarding festivals which are holy days or new moon or Sabbath now watch this get this all human religions every last one of them amen Place men under bondage to ordinances or ordinances rules regulations and religious
Calendars amen that’s that’s a mark of most organized religions uh we have ordinances rules regulations and then religious calendars now the calendars usually include especially old calendars observance of holy days monthly festivals monthly festivals those uh that deal based on moon phase or weekly holy days which were the
Sabbaths are you with me and so we have to be careful about our observances amen which are base on these things again we celebrate Thanksgiving our Thanksgiving come as a result of the Moon we celebrate Easter as a result of the Moon we got to be we got
To be careful amen now he says now therefore let no one judge you means that Christians cannot be condemned by others if for instance they eat pork uh-huh or if they fail to observe a religious festival or holy day are you with me we talk about Easter
We talk about Easter but the reality of it is Easter is another Lord’s day are you with me yeah we put significance on the on the Sunday uh where we uh observe where we put great emphasis on the resurrection but we’re supposed to do that every day every day ought to be
Easter amen every Sunday ought to be Easter we celebrate uh because again that’s the gospel the message of news of his death burial and his resurrection amen so again we need to be careful about saying uh I’d rather see you every Sunday and Miss Easter then to miss
Every Sunday and show up on Easter hello somebody did you get me but our generation we come to church on Mother’s Day Christmas and Easter are you with me and those days are beginning to Wayne because we should have been teaching people to come to church every Sunday
God bless your heart now some Cults insist that their members abstain from eating meat all together and in case you didn’t know for centuries Roman Catholics were not supposed to eat meat on Friday mhm yeah that’s kind of where the tradition eating fish on Friday came um because it
Was not considered a traditional it was not considered a traditional meat I’m just trying to give you some information many churches require absence from certain foods during Lent and how many Christians do you see celebra lent I’m pausing because we need to be Tau I’m going to give this up for Lent why
You supposed to be free from that Christian all right I’m I’m not I’m not I’m not through Mormons say that a person cannot be a member of good standing if he or she drink coffee or tea so Lord knows I’m I can’t be a Mormon cuz I love me some good hot
Coffee and I love some hot tea when it’s cold 7 Day Adventist insist that a person keep the Sabbath the seventh day in order to please God mm but we celebrate the Christian Sabbath The Lord’s Day Pentecost was on a Sunday he rose on a Sunday are you
With me and so we give God we celebrate the first day of the week as opposed to the last we give him our first fruits Christian are not under such ordinances in Matthew 12:8 he said for the son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day so
If he calls us to worship him on the Lord’s Sabbath that’s what we do Galatians 6:18 says Brethren the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you be with your spirit which means we’re not under the law we are under grace amen so uh when when we getting ready to
Celebrate Easter amen which again is governed by the moon we got to be careful of uh don’t add lent to it you all you Christians amen that’s that those Jew that that’s what Jews do am amen and I see a lot of lot a lot of Christian even preachers talking about
Lent verse 17 verse 17 says uh which are so the things he talked about he said let no man judge you in 16 in meat or drink or respect of a holy day or of a new moon or of a Sabbath day which are a
But a shadow of things to come but the body is Christ so he said those things that have been celebrated were just a shadow but the body is Christ Jewish religious observances were only a shadow of things to come but the substance or the body is Jesus Christ
Himself those things were instituted in the Old Testament as a pre picture or an upcoming picture for what was to come for instance let go back to the Sabbath the seventh day the Sabbath was given as a type of rest which will be the portion of all who believe in Jesus Christ are
You with me you supposed to rest from your labor on the Sabbath right well look at what Jesus said in Matthew 11:28 he says come unto me all ye that labor and I heav laid and I will give you rest he is our Sabbath take my yoke upon me
And learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto to your souls are you with me so true rest amen comes in Jesus Christ that’s why is 263 say but th will keep in perfect peace who mind the because he trusted in
Thee amen your body can be sitting down but you not resting because your mind is is going 1,000 miles a minute amen and so he said you will find rest from your soul now watch this now that Jesus has come why should we continue to be occupied with the
Shadow well you see the movies and and and and person in the room and and they see a shadow coming they wondering who it is but when the person Walks from behind the wall they not worry about the shadow anymore it’s the person so watch
This now the law was a shadow of things to come and the B subst was Jesus Christ now that he’s come while we still concerned with shadows it’s the same it is the same as being occupied with the picture when the real person is there the things to come as Paul talked
About represent salvation through Jesus Christ who is a culmination of all the requirements of Salvation the to Jesus was a complete requirement of Salvation believe in your heart and confess with your mouth Romans 10:4 says for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth his body
Through death brought salvation to all all that believe on him that’s why Paul said in Colossians 1:22 in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight God bless your heart in him was the fullness of Salvation and so he
Says and now he goes into Verse 18 so he says let no man begal you of your reward in a in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels let me just take time to explain this I try to present these notes in a way that’s explain it
Because the the syntax of or the grammar that’s used here can be sometime difficult understand first of all to Beal means to deceive or lead astray by traa or persuasion amen which is happens in a lot of churches today you got Charming preachers charismatic preachers uh and
We are more caught up by the by their uh Charisma instead of what they’re saying we we we’re enthralled about how they hoop and how they stoop how they Bend and how they scream and how they Grunt and how they growl and how they kick and how they sweat and
Then the clothes they got on and how they look and their demeanor in their speech some people just speak intelligently and and it enthralls us amen and so uh that that means to Bal now colosan were in danger of being deceived by false teaching now it’s difficult to know exactly the meaning of
This verse the exact many because we don’t we’re not we don’t know everything that the no were teaching which is a lot which were a lot but voluntary humility likely mean that they pretended to be so humble that they wouldn’t dare approach God directly see Jesus said we can approach
The throne that’s why he when he died on the cross the ve of Temple was torn we have right to go to God ourselves but they want to be so humble I just I just don’t feel adequate to go to God God uh because I’m so low blah
Blah blah blah blah now if Jesus said you can go you can go okay the gnostics taught that they must approach God only through Angels you got me that I needed a angel to go to God because I couldn’t go to him directly uh because they felt too
Humble they felt too low to go to God Amen and so they said we go through angels and so they’re supposed in their supposed humility that worshiped Angels rather than worshiping the Lord are you with me they worship Angels Jesus said when you pray pray in this
Wise our father let me help you with this you don’t even pray the Jesus many Christians believe don’t understand that you pray in his name you don’t pray to Jesus you pray to God the father and what confuses us sometimes is the word Lord in the Old Testament when
You see the word Lord is all caps in the New Testament when you see the word it’s just a capital l because in the Old Testament the word Lord was used to represent God the father in the New Testament the word Lord represents God the son and so quit reading the
Bible and study it look at what you read go back and look at your Old Testament when you see the word is capital L capital O capital r capital D that capital L may be bigger than the o r d but they’re all caps that means God the father in the
New Testament is capital L small o small R small small d That’s the Lord that’s Jesus Christ and if you call somebody else Lord uh like the Lord of the Rings or something like that that should be a lowercase L just like a false god is a
Lowercase G are you with me I’m trying to teach help you understand and read the Bible see my objective is not just get through this lesson I need you to know something uh when you get through this so voluntary humility is is you playing humble you you you faking humility it’s
Faked humility Amen to kind of get you some browned points amen it’s like me going to a woman my girlfriend saying oh uh I want to ask y for date but you’re so beautiful I’m just afraid to he lying why you in a face then I’m leaving
Alone people say Pastor SMI crazy I just tell the truth amen don’t fall for that line uh I would ask y out for a date but I just know uh I I don’t meet your standard I’m too far too far beneath you well if that’s the case you would have
Went up in our face in the first place quit lying women don’t buy that don’t buy that mess and I tell you God ain’t buying this voluntary he Vol this voluntary humility uh and so they begin to worship Angels rather than the Lord now watch this again I’m I’m I’m I’m
Bringing it out even today there are Roman Catholics I’m not saying all of them but there are still are Roman Catholics who wouldn’t dare think of praying directly to God or to Jesus so their motto is To Jesus Through Mary to Jesus Through Mary then to God
They pray through Mary for her to go to Jesus and Jesus to go to God that’s like in the Old Testament they said Father Abraham Isaac and Jacob no Jesus said it don’t take all those layers he said in Matthew 6 pray on this wise Our Father
Which art in heaven and he said when you do it sign it in my name I don’t go to a priest I don’t have to go to confession I go straight to God In Prayer our father in Jesus name are you with me our father in Jesus name uh
Church memb stop praying to Jesus he is the mediator he’s the mediator amen you pray to Father the father Jesus prayed to the father and he wants us to pray to the father are you with me all right so now many Catholics still do that Mary
Stuff and so they their motto is To Jesus Through Mary now all this is false humility and and a fa and worship of created being we don’t worship miror and get awfully close to that uh with those the Creeds in in in in in in the in in the Methodist
Church Mar don’t have nothing to do with it she’s at the picture are are you all with me we pray to the father through the name of Jesus Christ we don’t we don’t pray to a creative being so Christians he’s saying should not allow anyone to Rob them of their
Reward by unscriptural practices unscriptural practices the Bible don’t tell you to pray to No Angel or through No Angel the Bible don’t tell you to pray to Jesus it tells you to pray to our father in Jesus name the word is clear that there is one mediator between
God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Timothy 215 for there is one God and one mediator between God and Men the man Jesus Christ God bless your heart that that’s pretty clear in it uh 18b says uh intruding so this is what the the the the bealing teaching does it
Intrudes into those things which he has not seen now watch this Paul usually expression and Truth in those things which he not seen why because the noos profess to have deep uh uh have profess to have deep secret Mysteries and in order to learn the Mysteries the person
Had to be initiated so he had to be initiated as a gnostic in order to be able to possess those secret Mysteries now I’m I’m I’m going to make a some some some even some some of my friends manad when I have to teach this part I
Got to teach the word of God am I’m not not trying to make friends I’m trying to teach the word of God the secrets included many so-called Visions or hallucinations when they St themselves and out of body experiences again Mary aab betti and all of them who started uh
A lot of these uh new religions uh they supposed to had out-of-body experiences amen some of them were cracked up and coked up amen uh Wallace far Muhammad when he when when he started uh this fruit of Islam stuff in America in 1938 in Red Hills of Georgia he was high Mary
Used to live in Cav they were high amen uh insane they had hallucinations and they said these experience LED them to see things which they had not seen amen because they hadn’t seen them they just hallucination like your fever get too high uh when you get sick when I had uh
Co uh I stayed home and got sick so but I I start started seeing stuff run across the floor it wasn’t there and uh doctor say I have long Co and every once in a while now I see something move across the floor but I know it’s not
Real amen God bless your heart false teachers that L Colossians astray claiming that these experiences were evidence of the heightened spirituality amen that case I was really close to God when I had Co and I was I was almost dead amen I set up so long until I
Almost uh had decept of the blood because I had had maintained fever so long and infection so long amen so yeah uh they had began to see see things and so if height if if if that kind of stuff makes you uh closer to God Amen I was I
Was really close because I was almost dead Visions are important part element of many present day religions include Mormonism spiritism and Catholicism Visions are are you aware amen uh if you get a chance take the class called world religion so you help you understand uh the differences we
Need to know more than what we believe we just need to know what they believe also but before you start dealing with what they believe you make sure you’re grounded in what you believe amen that you understand what you believe uh the last part of 18 says vainly puffed up by
His fleshly mind watch those members of the inner circle of gnostics and other other things that secret knowledge or proud their knowledge and Paul there Paul so he said they’re puffed vainly puffed up by fleshly mind they took Superior attitude toward others and they created impression uh that one could be
Happy only through entering the Deep Secrets amen you’re going to be happy if you know that secret amen now we we we got a pause I got a pause here and I’m I’m I upset some people this is very much characteristic of many fraternal organizations today not going to call
Their names but you know who you are fraternal organizations claiming that deep not deep knowledge let me just say this and you all clean together and you do good for one another that that kind of stuff because you’re part of those things the Bible says in Galatians 6:19
In so much you have the opportunity do good unto all men not just those your fraternity especially the house of Faith which means I owe my highest order of Allegiance and service to Believers in Christ do that matter whether I’m this or that I’m not going to call it
Orders but you all know who I’m talking about yeah fraternal orders and maternal orders he me secret societies amen if it’s a secret not available to all men but the son writer said Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross there is a precious Fountain free to all a healing stream that flow from Calvary
Mountain Gnostic said you got to join and be initiated to get our knowledge that sounds like fraternal orders are y’all with me we got to be careful again let me just say this again Galatians 6910 read it in as much as you have opportunity to do good un all men especially Household of
Faith you got to watch sororities and fraternities you all because once I believe Christ the household of faith is my brotherhood above all other things and all other people God bless your heart don’t get mad at me I’m just teaching the word of God you read it that’s why
I’m giving you scriptures so you can read it for yourself are you with me the important Point here is this that various religious practices of these men were performed on their own will they did their own will and their own thinking they had no scriptural Authority they did not act in subjection
To Jesus Christ therefore they became vainly puffed up by the mind of their own flesh because they were doing exactly what they wanted to do it when they wanted to do it how they wanted to do it independent of what the Lord said yet their conduct appeared to be humble and
Righteous and that’s the draw that is the draw that on the surface it seems right on the surface it’s doing good but you have to ask yourself this what is the Salvation significance of what I’m participating in no matter what they tell you what is salvation of significance now salvational
Significance mean it has impact on my standing before God and an impact the lives of others as they seek a standing before God you get that it’s not just about me it’s about others it’s about drawing all men unto Christ God bless your heart verse 19 and not holding to the Head from
Which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered and knit together increaseth an increase of God are you with me and not holding to the Head from which all the body by joints and bands have nourishment ministered and knit together increases with the increase of
God which means the body increase as God increase the body now watch this not holding to the Head the Lord Jesus here is spoken of as the head of the body and to hold to the Head means to live in the Consciousness that Jesus Christ is the head join to
Supply all of our needs from his exhausted resources and doing it for the Glorious God somebody said Grace is God’s riches at Christ’s expense amen he’s a head he supplies all of our needs according to his riches and Glory that means I’m cons that all the time
Uh people get up in church and when they get up to stabilize say first give an honor to God who’s head of my life well if he’s head of your life you should have to say it I should see it I have to get up and say first uh acknowledge that I’m
Bald you see it I I’m black you see it I I’m a man you see it and so if he’s a head of my life you should see it because what I see is more believable than what I hear oh my goodness watch this but he’s the
Head of our life and as soon as you hit the parking lot you curing somebody out somebody say ouch so it means to live in conscious that he’s a head supplying the rest of the body holding to the Head means looking to the Lord in glory for sustenance and Direction and
Keeping in touch with him through all things at all times all right he explained as he says but from whom all the body nourish and knit together by joints and ligaments we call science our doctors call them ligaments but he called them bands grows with the increase that is from
God the head feeds the body no matter how the feet feel about the the head if the head does not eat the body does not eat so the head increases the body various parts of the human body are connected by joints and ligaments the body in turn is joined to the Head
The body looks to the head for godance and Direction where did my body go where my head tell it to go what does my body do what my head tells it to do so if Christ is ahead of my life where he leads me I’ll go what he tells me I’ll
Say what he instructs me commands me I will do are you with me where he leads our fa so how can we tell him no he that means he’s not the head of my life I am I’m still making my own decisions but when I
When he’s the head I Look to Him for guidance and Direction just like my feet do my head members of the body of Christ should find all their satisfaction and sufficiency in him and not be lowed away by the convincing arguments of false teachers how do how do I know my hand I
Feel good because my head tells me how how do I know my feet are aching because my head tells me it takes a head to tell me my feet are hurting it takes a head to tell me I need to eat I’m hungry it takes a
Head tell me I need to go I need to use restroom amen so the body is instructed by the head in all things and Believers ought to be instructed by Christ in all things but look at how many decisions and actions we take on a daily basis and never consult
Christ holding fast the head emphasizes this it get this it emphasizes the necessity of a moment by moment dependence on Christ some I need thee every hour every hour I need thee oh bless me now my savior I come to thee yesterday’s help would not due for today
Are you with me see we can’t grind grain today with water that’s already going over the O over over the dam we need the water that’s coming today that’s why Matthew 611 he said in the model prayer he said give us this day our daily bread because yesterday’s bread won’t
Hold remember when the Israel fed Man From Heaven he said get what you need today and they tried to get it and ho and it spoiled yesterday days help will not do for the day every day I need a new dose of Jesus goodness gracious thank you Lord
For fresh Grace thank you Lord for fresh Mercy thank you Lord for fresh eyesight for fresh mind thank you Lord for fresh strength God bless your heart when Christians hold to the Head the result will be spontaneous coordination with the other members of the body there’s so much conflict in the
Church why because we’re not holding to the head as a matter of fact too many of us want to be the head verse 20 he says wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudement of the world why as though living in the world are ye subject to
His ordinances now rudement of the world rudement are basic principles of living in this world now and as using this verse he’s talking about rights and rituals and ordinances that we have to live about on a daily basis the ritual of the Old Testaments were rudiments of the world
In the sense they taught Elementary principles of religion they were the school Master designed to keep us unto Christ came the teacher the real teacher who is the Holy Spirit in Galatians 4:9 through1 he says but now after that ye’ve known God or rather are known of
God how turn ye again to the weak beggarly elements where until you desire again to be in bondage ye observe days and months and times and years I’m afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain he says I’ve taught you better why aren’t you doing better I’ve taught you
Up above the rud of the world so why are you trying to dwell in them why are you like a hog who I’ve taken and dressed up and put a suit on and you want to go jump back in the mud Paul is also thinking that rituals and ordinances that are connected with
Narcissism and other religions he dealing with aism which is Extreme septer n taught by some Jews Jesus said deny yourself but he didn’t say deny yourself to the extent of starving yourself amen uh the sprung of Judaism and Judaism had already lost standing with God and some of them narcism and other
Cults which never had any standing with God in the first place at least Judaism at one time had standing with God but but now but nastics no other things had no standing whatsoever in any time as Colossians had died with Christ as we talked about earlier Paul asked
Why do they still desire to subject themselves to religions and regulations that are that are worldly he said to do so with be to forget that they had severed their ties with the world are you are you with me to do so mean you forgot you sever
Your ti I don’t deal with that anymore some people say the places I used to go I don’t go no more well why do I see there things I used do I don’t do no more well why do I see you do them sometime because you have not you forgot
You s your ti so the question then comes up and I’m I’m trying to play Devil’s advoc if a Christian is dead to ordinances why don’t we still baptized and observe the Lord’s Supper because those are the only two ordinances of the Christian church baptism and the Lord’s Supper those are
Two ordinances the obvious answer is these ordinances of the Christian Church were taught by Jesus in the New Testament he said on this rock I’ll build my church and he told us to do these two things in upper room he said this is off as your will you do remember me the
Great Commission said go you therefore teach all the nations baptizing and so Jesus gave these ordinances in the New Testament uh and he’s the head of the church that’s why we still do those two things but those two things are not a means of Grace you’re not saved through the
Lord’s Supper you’re not saved through baptism they don’t give us any Mar before God there for our benefit there are simple acts of obedience to the Lord indicating identification with Christ and remembrance of his death baptism in obedience to the great head of the church we baptized in AC of obedience
Communion this do in remembrance of me this bread is my broken body this wine is my shedded blood this take and eat and drink as often as you wish and as often as you do remember me there not lost to be kept but there are privileges to be
Enjoyed you get that those ordinances are not laws to be kept but they privileg to be Joy that’s why he said this do as often as you would on communion and if I believe Christ if I come to Jesus even if I don’t get baptized I’m still saved did you get
That because Romans 10:9 said if thou sh believe in thine heart the Lord Jesus and confess thy mouth God rais from the dead Thou shalt be saved even before I get to the water what happens if I come to Christ on Monday and the church when going to baptized a Sunday but I’m
Killed and a wreck on Thursday did I go to hell no God bless your heart I’ll leave that alone 212121 21 says touch not taste not handle notot now let me see this verse understood and we read 21 and 22 together and we insert
The word such as so if I go back and read 20 uh he said wherefore if he be dead to Christ why from the rumors of the world why as though living in the world you subject to ordinances such as touch not such as taste not such as
Handle not you got that okay now some theologians believe that the verse should read handle not taste not nor touch not even touch not okay some believe the the order is wrong and it indicates uh an ascending ascending severity in the practice of AET of of
Atic ism you handle it not taste not or touch not okay taste not like refers to judgments regarding the consumption of food and drink okay Jews used to not eat certain thing eat pork certain things Muslim don’t eat pork blah blah blah uh some don’t eat fruit of the Vine I
Happen to love grapes and strawberry uh touch not and handle not like refer to the law prohibiting the handling of certain items at certain times okay false but false teachers had expanded these to cover other things but remember when Peter was on the rooftop the Sheep
Came down with the four corners and and had pork chops and everything on and told Peter rise slay eat and then go to coria’s house and have and Rise slay and eat some more amen uh God bless your heart again so uh they taking those things and taking them to the extreme so
Much that some people were actually starving themselves uh and causing harm to themselves uh as opposed to partaking of the things of the of the food that God has made available to them last verse 22 uh no that was 22 last verse 23 he said which all perish using which which
All are to perish with the using after Commandments and doctrine of men now so he said these prohibitions are man-made that’s why he says after Commandments and doctr Men all right they’re not God made they’re manmade and is the essence so the question is is true religion based on what you eat or
Drink or how you live in Christ when they were talking about washing hands Jesus said it’s not what go in a man it’s what comes out of a man so it’s true religion based on your your diet or your life in Christ if you’ve died with Christ and escaped from the world’s rudimentary
Ideals why are you living like you still belong the world to the world and submit yourself to such precepts as don’t touch this don’t taste that don’t do the other referring to things that are intended to be used up and perish the temporary they don’t they’re not permanent adherence of these
Practices don’t indicate the status of a person’s heart relative to God you’re not holy because you don’t eat pork wow Isaiah 29:3 says wherefore the Lord says for as much as the people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honor me but have removed their
Hearts far from me and their fear toward me is taught by the precepts of men fear the lord is there is not based on their understanding it’s taught by the precepts of men 238 says which things have indeed aure wisdom and will of worship and humility neglecting and neglecting of
The body these practices of man religions create a seeming appearance of wisdom and a self-imposed religion self-imposed religion false humility and severity or danger to the body self-imposed religion mean that these people adopt a form of worship according to their own ideas of what is Right rather than according to God’s word and
Many people Sunday after Sunday go to what we call church and do what they think is right and it has absolutely no bearing on the word of God preachers preaching there is no hell well why are you preaching H God bless your heart s post religion doing what’s right what we
Think is right rather than what’s God’s word and a lot of things that we do in our worship service have nothing to do whatever with God we want them because that’s what we want they seem to be religious but it’s not true Christianity false humility has already been explained a voluntary humility they
Pretend to be too humble to approach God directly so they use Angelic mediators neglect of the body refers to a practice of atic ism where you deny yourself to the detriment of your own body you know you suppos these certain things you have get vitamins and minerals and proteins some things you
Got to eat nutrients fruit of the vine are good they contain beta car well not beta some things contain bet beta cartin but they they contain some things to help uh fight cancer amen we need to they contain certain vitamins it is the belief they believe that through self-denial and
Torture this is atic ISM through self-denial and torture that a man can achieve behind State of Holiness this is found in Hinduism and Buddhism and other mystical religions of the East to believe in reincarnation and coming back in the cast system where each time
If you live this life and you die if it was a good life you come back at something of a higher order if you lived a low life you come back something as a as a lower order so if you live and you die and you
Liv a good life you may come back as an angel but if you low down you may come back as a dog Lord Jesus help these folk the finally 23b says not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh so what is the true value of these practices you
Ask out all this stuff folk are doing I to not eating this not touching that not doing this what’s the value of it again I talked about salvational significance is what I what I asked I said salvation significance has bearing on you’re going to heaven you’re reward in heaven and
You’re leading others to Christ Paul says of no value against the indul of the flesh all of these put on a good appearance outwardly but they failed to control the Indulgence of the flesh every false system utterly fail to make men better how many new religion New
Year’s resolutions have you made and you break them while creating the impression that there is something the flesh can do to mirror God’s favor they are unable to restrain the passion and lust of the flesh that’s why you see so many Muslims drinking and eating porke chops smoking and everything else when
You don’t see them the Christian has died to the flesh with all of his passions and lust and from now on lives the glory of God let me just say this we are dying that’s sanctification which mean means we are being progressively saved from the power of sin the Christian is
Dying to the Flesh and all of his passions and lust to live for the glory of God every time we put away something God gets a little more Glory we do this not out of punishment out of fear punishment but rather we do it out of love for one who gave himself for
Us see I don’t have to do it all because I’m afraid to go to hell I’m not going to hell I begin to put those things away see I see hell was taken out of my destiny when I believed and confessed but I still was full of larsy
Sin still had control rain over my body but I began to be progressively saved through the washing of the water of the word and I began to fall in love with him I came to Christ out of fear I’m staying in Christ because of
Love love and so we do this not out of punishment but rather out of love for him because he gave himself for us Greater Love had no manness that a man will lay down his life for his friends love makes us free to do right Paul says the love of Christ can
Strin me love makes it an easy choice I don’t struggle getting up coming to church no more I was glad he said unto me let’s go to the house of the Lord Psalms 122 131 says I think it’s 133 says oh how good and pleasant is when Brothers
Dwell together in unity so love for one who gave himself for us love makes us free to do right love makes it an Easy Choice love makes a sweet walk with Christ yeah I walk through the valley the shadow I Fe even for thou art with
Me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me thou prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies that KN my head all my cup running o even though walk through the valley of shadow of death love makes it a sweet walk and that’s why the songwriter said
I was Sinking Deep in sin far from the distance Shore very deeply stained within sinking to rise no more but the master of the sea heard my despairing cry and from the waters he Lifted Me Now safe am I Love Lifted Me Love Lifted Me when no
One else could help love when Judaism couldn’t help Love Lifted Me When Buddhism couldn’t help Love Lifted Me when Islam couldn’t help Love Lifted Me When narcissism couldn’t help love list me when spiritism couldn’t help when boot Hinduism couldn’t help Love Lifted Me thank you Jesus I don’t know why Jesus
Loved me I don’t know why Jesus cared I don’t know why he sacrific his life but I’m so glad so glad he did this is Rend JW Smith new saor Mission Baptist Church Fraser 2186 Hawkins Mill Road Memphis Tennessee 3127 thanking you for allowing me once
Again to come and just share with you the word of God I pray that some confusion been cleared some heart has been pricked some mind has been convicted to follow Christ if you are in the Memphis Area stop by Sunday morning 8:00 Sunday school 10:00 worship service New Salem Mission
Baptist Church Frasier God bless you and God keep you
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