Sermon Notes Presentation Pastor Raymond Scott January 19, 2014 #818gathering @818fbc

1. WELCOME TO 8:18
A new year. A new way. For His glory.
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2. LIFE LED BY FAITH OR
LIFE LEANING ON THE FLESH?
Sunday, January 19, 2014
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3. Colossians 2:20-23
20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual
forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to
the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle!
Do not taste! Do not touch!”?
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4. Colossians 2:20-23
22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all
destined to perish with use, are based on merely human
commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed
have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed
worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of
the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual
indulgence.
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5. APPEARANCE VS. ACTUAL VALUE
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6. Worth
Actual Value
Appearance
Truth
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8. A life pleasing to God?
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9. Our Struggle
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10. Hebrews 11:6
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he
exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
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11. Dead to Elementary Principles of this World
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Having died: apothnesko meaning
having been ruptured from
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Now you have life
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Elementary principles of the world:
stoicheo meaning marching in line
Old spiritual position of death
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When I died to that in Christ, life, by
faith is now mine
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12. Colossians 2:8-11
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow
and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human
tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world
rather than on Christ.
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13. Colossians 2:8-11
9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily
form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.
He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him
you were also circumcised with a circumcision not
performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the
flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ...
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14. Colossians 2:18
18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and
the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also
goes into great detail about what they have seen; they
are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.
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15. Dead to Elementary Principles of this World:
Saved by Faith in Christ
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16. Dead to Decrees of the World
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Teaching rules was more important
than righteousness through Christ
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A lot of DO NOTs and a few DOs
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A faith that believes in Christ but
requires more to life than Him is false!
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17. I DO THIS... ASCETICISM
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Without the Spirit, it amounts to
nothing!
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No amount of depriving oneself from
the world will take away the world
in you
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There's no profit in your pillar
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18. I DON'T DO THIS... LEGALISM
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Preoccupied with form instead of faith
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Very narrow range of activity
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19. Charles H. Spurgeon
1834 - 1892
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20. Dead to Elementary Principles of this World
Dead to Decrees of the World
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21. Dead to Deeds that Don't Matter
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Colossians 2:28 "Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their
self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but
they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence."
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Many seek it, none are satisfied in it.
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22. Dead to Elementary Principles of this World
Dead to Decrees of the World
Dead to the Deeds that Don't Matter
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23. LET'S GET REAL!
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Does it benefit you?
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Does it bless God?
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Does it bless anyone else?
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