Mind Body & Soul Getting Fit 4 the Kingdom
We all have some areas that we need to get in shape. The body of Christ must be careful we don't find ourselves following everything the world is doing. We must Get Fit to fight the good fight of Faith.
Paul wrote concerning food rules in Col 2:20-23 If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 21 "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" 22 (which all {refer to} things destined to perish with the using)-- in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? 23 These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, {but are} of no value against fleshly indulgence.
He was telling the Colossians that they do not have to submit to man-made rules and worldly principles, something that has no value in the spiritual realm, for what reason?
It is a spiritual death that took place in the lives of the recipients
of the letter. He referred to this death a few verses earlier concerning their baptism.
Col 2:13-14 And when you were dead in your transgressions and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him,
having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the
certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us {and} which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
They were able to come alive to the principles of God because they died to themselves, making a conscious decision to put to death their way of thinking.
• This decision resulted in OBEDIENCE to the principles of Christ and a new way of living. No longer are they bound to the rules of the world concerning food, for they died to that type of slavery.
There must be a death in the thoughts of the mind before there can be a death in behavior of the body.
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
Paul wrote concerning food rules in Col 2:20-23 If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 21 "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" 22 (which all {refer to} things destined to perish with the using)-- in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? 23 These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, {but are} of no value against fleshly indulgence.
He was telling the Colossians that they do not have to submit to man-made rules and worldly principles, something that has no value in the spiritual realm, for what reason?
It is a spiritual death that took place in the lives of the recipients
of the letter. He referred to this death a few verses earlier concerning their baptism.
Col 2:13-14 And when you were dead in your transgressions and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him,
having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the
certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us {and} which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
They were able to come alive to the principles of God because they died to themselves, making a conscious decision to put to death their way of thinking.
• This decision resulted in OBEDIENCE to the principles of Christ and a new way of living. No longer are they bound to the rules of the world concerning food, for they died to that type of slavery.
There must be a death in the thoughts of the mind before there can be a death in behavior of the body.
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
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