Colossians 2:16-23

It is essential that we never lose sight of the fact that we have died with Christ, we have risen with Christ, and we are now alive in Christ. Our lives are to be lived in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are to know God's word and live in obedience to His word always regardless of cost or consequence.We are never called to live according to the commandments and doctrines of men. This is an absolute. To do so is compromise. It is compromise that will entangle is in mysticism, legalism, backsliding and apostasy.Our citizenship is now in God's kingdom. Our lives are to be governed by God's word in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

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