November 16, 2003

Freedom

Colossians 2:6-23

John 8:32 - “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth

shall make you free”

vs. 2-3

I Tim. 3:3b-4 - “....God our Savior; who will have all men

to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge

of the truth.”

State of the Union - Isaiah 5:4 - “What could have been done

more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?”

Isaiah 5:7a - “For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the

house of Israel” - America - in modern times?

There was a time - 200 yrs. this was never questioned - now

there are people who know not God that are trying to rewrite

history - denial - can’t face reality - candidates for Western State

Isaiah 1:2-4 (no progress - retrograde - CEO’s would fire people

for doing this)

A controversy - no end to this - Hosea 4:1 (smile)

v. 4 - “beguile” - reason falsely, to deceive by false reasoning -

America’s bane and why we are turning away from God!

v. 8 - “spoil” - booty

Philosophy of the Universities - Psychology substituted

for the Bible.

Philosophy - Seminaries - Know lots about

Freud, Plato, Kant - little about the Word of God.

These damning philosophies killed the church at Colosse

and the church in Laodecia - the weakest of the seven

churches of Asia.

A psyche job!

They boasted of affluence/wealth/knowledge

but they were blind to how they really were.

Beguile - to victimize with enticing words/slick talk?

The reason I smiled was that I had prepared to use

Hosea 4:14c,6a, 7,9b,10c,11,12b, 17

Isaiah 3:8-13 Eccl. 8:11-13

Notice Ezekiel 9:4

Judge Moore of Alabama said “he was born to do this” -

Acts 23:11

Do you think the Lord was not near this man?

Do you not think that God is far off from those who are

Satan’s representatives among us - calling his like

“neanderthal” - judiciary committee member -

sat against Judge Robert Bork - May I recommend the

Bible to you - also Slouching towards Gormorrah!

Eph. 4:18 - speaks of “the ignorance that is in them” -

once again may I say there is a distinct possibility

that the letter to the Ephesians is the letter to

Laodecia that Paul mentions in Col. 4:16

v. 5 - “beholding your order” - “steadfastness in the faith”

These are military terms - an ordered array, a solid front -v.8

Someone has been asleep at the wheel in the last 40 years -

Valdez - Staten Island ferry boat - people get upset

v. 6 - “so walk ye in Him”

This is the way we get around in this world - by walking.

Enoch - Gen. 5:21-27 - “walked with God”

Father of Methusaleh - oldest man in the Bible -

His name means “when he dies it shall come” - talking of

Judgment.

Notice the longsuffering of God - I Pet 3:20 (smile)

II Peter 3:9 Jude 14-15

If it was me - I am more like James and John - sons of

thunder - “Lord, shall we command fire to come out of

heaven” - “ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of”

was Jesus’ reply.

Notice - Methusaleh - 969 year old - 187 before son

Lamech, 782 after Lamech was born = 969.

Notice 187 + 182 = 369 + 600 (ch. 7:6) = 969

Now notice Genesis 4 - gives insight into the record

of the evil character of the ungodly line of

Lamech from Cain

And Genesis 5 gives the record of the godly line through

Seth on p. 161 from The Genesis Record by Henry

Morris. (See next page)

v. 7 - “rooted and built up in Him” -

Ps. 1:3-6 John 15:4-6

v. 8 - “spoil” - booty

“philosophy & vain deceit” - none have a confidence

in the Word of God whether the secularists in our

universities or theological seminaries like the one

in Louisville included (attempted to retake from

liberal control - Courier Journal bad mouths at

every opportunity because it is a mouth piece for

the anti-christian spirit that I have been harping on)

Now it seems to me the State Baptist Convention

is very moderate from reading between the lines - can

you imagine who would vote for such leadership?

This “philosophy & vain deceit” - is selfish,

partisan spirit and overbearing in conduct.

Human authority - natural reason - presented as

superior to faith in Christ.

v. 8b - “traditions of men” - rather than the

Word of God - Acts 20:27 - “avoid”

“rudiments of the world” - I John 2:15-17

v. 9 - The Pleroma of ch. 1:9

v. 10 - “And ye are complete in Him” - a complete

Christ makes His people complete - His

pleroma is our plerosis. Finding the whole

fulness of God brought within our reach and

engaged in our behalf - Phil. 2:7, Matt. 20:28 -

in Him, we need not resort elsewhere to supply

our spiritual needs - Phil 4:19

Eph. 1:8-10

This completeness includes the furnishing of men

with all that is required for their present and final

salvation as individuals.

vs. 18-19 - REASONS FOR DISSOLUTION OF

SOCIETY - a loose relationship with

JESUS CHRIST?

“puffed up” - conceited/fleshly minded/sensuous origin

DISLOYALTY TO THE HEAD WORKS DESTRUCTION

TO THE BODY!

v. 18 - Judged out of own mouth

v. 19 - “the ties that bind”

I Kings 16:21 - “Then were the people of Israel

divided into two parts: half of the people

followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make

him king; and half followed Omri”.

United we stand, divided we fall - our state motto.

Ask Artose Pinner about binding - broken leg but

ligaments and tendons in leg injured also.

v. 19 v. 2 Eph. 4:15-16