Colossians Study Outline

The Cross Abolished all Legalism in ordinances in the Law of Moses and the forefathers standards built on their traditions.

Colossians 3:15a

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,…"

A lot of people don’t have the peace of God. A lot of Christians are in turmoil because they do not except the fact that God has justified them from all things, He has forgiven them, and so consequently they can’t enjoy the peace that God wants them to have. They don't know His peace as a covering and glory of our heart. Where the word "heart" simply means the totallity of our physical make up, our core in which our personality may be found. The word "soul" is another expression for our personality. All they have to do is recognize where they are positionaly, in Christ. God is Grace, God is ready to cleanse, sancitify, justify and there is no need for Christians to go through life without having peace with God. But as is the habit of many they will be moved emotionally week after week to go before the congragation at every alter call in repentance and for what? To do it again next week, thusly nullifing the power of the Words to cleans. What is lacking? A change of attitude, a new mindset. Here is a simple phrase that may help to reveal what I mean, "How we look at things effects what we believe we see." This reaches back to our understanding of how perception works. If our perception is clouded then our vision is also askewed, our thinking and reasoning processes are all mixed up, like a fishing real when it has a backlash, the lines get all tangled up in a rat nest. And often requires its, the line all knotted up and tied as a knot being cut away before we can again use the fishing pole and real.

 

But there are those who prophecy another kind of peace which Isaiah states in 57:21 “There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked.” And then again in 59:8 “The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.” Then we can return to Jeremiah 4 and hear His words again spoken against Israel and those false prophets who in their opinion declare peace when in fact there is NO true peace among them. Because they're ways are all crooked and false.

What does Jeremiah say in verses 14 and 18 of chapter 4 but this: “Wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?.....Your ways and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.” How many of Israel heard and took the necessary action, none of them is the answer. This is also our own situation for the church and religious world of our own day. And the magnitude of this is what we now see and hear about in both the local, national and international the News these days. In the barberism, chaos and murderous actions that are the outcome of this distortion of perception. When our ideology is askew as reflected above we can visualy see and hear the hand of death in Satan visibly.