Pastor Bob Fox
Colossians 2:9-15

The Plain Truth about Christ and You is that…

1. There is nothing missing of God in Christ.
2. There is nothing missing of Christ or Christ’s in you.

THEREFORE

1. I don’t need to get more than Christ through another spiritual source.
2. I don’t need to get more of Christ through a rite or ceremony.
3. I DO need to understand more about Him.
4. I DO need to submit more to what I know of Him.

God’s Purpose in Ceremony is to enhance our understanding not our good-standing. Examples:

1. A former ceremony was circumcision. It pictured God’s covenant to separate us from the instinctive, self-centered drives that draw us away from Him.
2. Baptism is an upgraded one that pictures what God…
• Has for us now—a new us through the baptism of the Spirit.
• Will do for us—raise us from the dead to life with Him.
3. Other ceremonies like communion, public worship, fasting, and special personal ones, stimulate our growth if we engage our hearts with God in them.
4. Ceremonies strengthen faith and stimulate fellowship with God and so are used by Him to disarm the bomb in each of us.

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