Colossians Study Outline

Jesus Christ the Creator God, the Visible Manifeastation of the Invisible Godhead.

Romans 13:1

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers (a token control). (He is talking about spiritual power here. He’s talking about political power or government.) For there is no power (government, economy or religion) but (how?) of God: the powers that be are ordained of God."

There has never been a government, economy or mans religion on the face of the earth that wasn’t ordained of God. Because it was He who established them shortly after the flood of Noah as fond in Genesis chapter 9 verses 5 through 7 and before when He took council, in eternatity past. Even Hitler and Stalin and the Hebrew Holocaust were predetermined by Him. They are all there for His purposes. They are all ordained of God and we can’t ignore that. Come back to Colossians and it says just exactly what it means and it means what it says. That Jesus the Christ, the very epitome of the Godhead bodily is still the One Who is the head of all principality and power. I'm going to have to do this with a couple of verses here like I did before. I'm going to have to jump down to cover verse 13, before I cover verse 11. This may seem like gobbledy-gook to you but I think it’s going to make sense when you see what I'm doing. Let’s drop in at verse 13 and then I'll come up and deal with verse 11. Don’t worry, I'm going to hit verse 12 too, but I'll leave it for now.

 

 

Colossians 2:13

"And you, (talking to believers) being dead (separated from God) in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh (the unredeemed heart), hath he (God) hath he quickened (made you alive, re-birthed in preporation as having been allowed the right to become sons again) together with him, having (past tense) forgiven you (how much?) all trespasses;"

I'm going to look at the word ‘justification.’ We’ve been justified from all things. You remember what our definition of ‘justification’ is? It’s the judicial act of God whereby He declared the sinner "'just as if’ he had never sinned." That’s beyond mere human comprehension. But you see, that is what the Grace of God does the moment we believe from the heart or with our whole heart. No, its not through some kind of mental ascent. It is not by works of self effort. That is what Israel did not hear back in Deuteronomy chapter 6 verses 5 and 6. And if they did it did not sink into them what was said. Let’s explain from Scripture what Paul's talking about in verse 13. Come back a few pages again, to Ephesians chapter 2. This is going to get a little sticky and I know it is. I’m going to have to go as slow as I can. Let’s look at verses 11 and 12.

 

 

Deuteronomy 6:4-7

“ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with “all thine heart”, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these “words, which I command” thee this day, shall be “in thine heart”: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”

For emphasis I placed parentheses (“) around the words.

 

 

Ephesians 2:11a

"Wherefore remember, that ye (the Ephesians. But he’s writing just as well to us today) being in time past Gentiles in the flesh,…"

In other words, our genetics were not Jewish. They are non-Hebrews, so we are Gentiles, as men like Seth, Enoch, Noah, Shem, Eber, Abram / Abraham, and Isaac were. That’s all the word Gentile means. A Gentile simply means someone who is not a Hebrew. So whether you’re Oriental, African, American Indian, European, or whatever, as long as we’re not out of the stock of Jacob, we’re a Gentile (that includes those of Ishmael and Esau). It’s just that simple. So now then Paul is saying of us –

 

Christ Jesus is filled with the Godhead (Elohim) and is therefore the Visible Manifeastion of the other wise Invisible God.

Paul Warns the Church

 

Ephesians 1:13

"In whom ye also trusted, (trust is our beginning point for faith) after that ye heard the word of truth, gospel of your salvation: (what did you do with it?) in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise."

I’m not doing any violence to Scripture to say that at same moment you were baptized by the Holy Spirit and thereby God branded us as His own through the cutting away of the deadness of our hearts foreskin. And so the only valid baptism, spiritually speaking, is when the Holy Spirit baptizes us into the Body of Christ by the circumision of the foreskin of our heart. We then are clothed with Christ as a wife is clothed by her husbands name, she becomes Mrs. so and so. This takes place during the revelation of Christ in the Gospel of our Salvation. Which is hiden in the context of the Last Supper on through our ascension within Him when He returned to take His rightful place at the Righthand of God. If we take of the LORD'S communion without this knowledge we take of it in an unworthy fashion and this brings upon us sickness and often premature death, look at 1Corinthians 11 and lesson closely to what it is saying. Now the reason I have to emphasize that is because of Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 4. Oh, this is hard for people to swallow but it is so plain and simple. Just as simple as it can be.

 

 

Ephesians 4:4-5

"There is one body, (body here being the Church, not 1500. I read somewhere that there were 1500 Christian denominations in California alone. But there really is not.) and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: One Lord, one faith, one (what?) baptism."

And what is it? The Holy Spirit. It’s the only one that counts. I don’t forbid water baptism. All I tell people is that it has nothing to do with your eternal destiny because the only baptism that counts for eternity is, "have you been placed into the Body of Christ by the baptizing power of the Holy Spirit?" If you haven’t had that, you’re doomed. I don’t care how many times you’re baptized in water, it’s the Holy Spirit baptism that settles it for Eternity. This happens by way of revelation of all that took place the evening of the LORD'S Last Supper on through He ascesion. As one continues action of God's sancification through death, where the cutting away of the foreskin flesh our heart takes place. Which brings us into His Life Eternal through this Gospel. From which woman and then Adam had extinguished His image and likeness in themselves and all their seed after them. As in the beginning there is only One Church, One Body, One LORD, One Faith, One Baptism all others are phonies and false. There is only One Way back home to God and it is His, not anothers or many. But ONE and Only ONE Way and this what Jesus as the Son of man took as our living example, even though it ment death to our flesh. Adams flesh did not immedately die, it took it 900 plus years to succumb, through his rebellion into sin through his spiritual death, separation from God. This is why it is said the Jesus is the second Adam because He rose again into or by the Life that was within Him in the resurrection power of the Spirit. He walked each and every day in this power of Spirit during His ministry to Israel.

Ephesians 2:11b

"…that ye being in time past Gentiles, in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;"

The Uncircumcision. That was the Jewish term for a non-Jew. He was the Uncircumcised worthless old dog. But this now can also be for those of the Hebrews who choose not to come back to God because they like the Nations are not circumized of heart. And a lot of times they would add the word, "dogs." "Uncircumcised Dogs" is what they thought of Gentiles. Now, we're going to give you one more. Come back a few more pages to Galatians chapter 2 and verse 7.