1) The document provides a summary and commentary on Colossians 2:6-23. It discusses how believers are to walk firmly rooted in Christ, be built up in their faith, and be filled with gratitude. 2) It warns against being taken captive by empty philosophy and human tradition, rather than holding to Christ as the fullness of God. Believers have been made complete in Christ and forgiven of all their sins. 3) Christ triumphed over spiritual rulers and authorities through his death on the cross. The law's decrees have been nailed to the cross. Believers should not submit to human religious rules but hold to Christ as the head.

1. Nailed
It!
Colossians 2:6–23

2. Big Idea
My goal is that they may be encouraged
in heart and united in love, so that they
may have the full riches of complete
understanding, in order that they may
know the mystery of God, namely, Christ
Colossians 2:2

3. Nailed
It!
Colossians 2:6–23

4. Now Down To Business!
Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted
and now being built up in Him and established
in your faith, just as you were instructed, and
overflowing with gratitude.

5. Received
Welcomed
Learned

6. Welcomed
John 1:12…But as many as
received Him, to them He
gave the right to become
children of God, even to those
who believe in His name,

7. Learned
1 Corinthians 15:1…Now I
make known to you,
brethren, the gospel which
I preached to you, which
also you received, in which
also you stand,

8. The Gospel
The person of Jesus Christ
The body of knowledge

9. Walking in Jesus
Maturing
1. firmly rooted-produced by God
2. built up-ongoing construction
3. established-being found in Jesus
4. gratitude-produced by God

10. One Long Sentence!
Colossians 2:8–15-See to it that no one takes you
captive through philosophy and empty deception,
according to the tradition of men, according to
the elementary principles of the world, rather
than according to Christ. For in Him all the
fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him
you have been made complete, and He is the

11. One Long Sentence!
head over all rule and authority; and in Him you
were also circumcised with a circumcision made
without hands, in the removal of the body of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been
buried with Him in baptism, in which you were
also raised up with Him through faith in the
working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

12. One Long Sentence!
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, having canceled out the certificate
of debt consisting of decrees against us, which
was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the
way, having nailed it to the cross.

13. One Long Sentence!
When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities,
He made a public display of them, having
triumphed over them through Him.

14. Warning
Philosophy
Deception
Traditions of men
Worldly principles

15. Who Jesus is!
Colossians 2:9–10…For in Him all the
fullness of Deity dwells in bodily
form, and in Him you have been
made complete, and He is the head
over all rule and authority;

16. Worship the right Jesus
Found in the word
Grounded by faith
Experienced
Holy

17. Done for us by Him
 Circumcised our heart
 Buried with Him
 Raised with Him
 Alive in Him
 Totally forgiven by Him

18. Here are your sins
He made you alive together with Him, having
forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled
out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees
against us, which was hostile to us; and He has
taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the
cross.

19. Certificate of debt “certificate” was used of (1) a
signed IOU, (2) a signed confession and (3) a legal
indictment. The OT was a curse! This Greek term
comes into English as “autograph,” (self written).
Do and live
Sin and die
IOU

20. Total Authority
When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities,
He made a public display of them, having
triumphed over them through Him.

21. Refuting bad teaching
Rulers and Authorities gnostic eons
The historical background to this was a triumphal
parade into Rome for a victorious general (cf. 2
Cor. 2:14). The captives were marched behind him
in chains. By His death on the cross and His
resurrection Jesus overcame (1) the curse of the
Law and (2) the hostile angelic powers

22. Jesus sets you free
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard
to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new
moon or a Sabbath day—things which are a mere
shadow of what is to come; but the substance
belongs to Christ.

23. Shadow
Duties under the Law

24. Sports Metaphor
Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize

25. The False
Teacher  Teaches self-
abasement
 Promotes worship
of the angels
 Teaches his visions
 Educated ego

26. Disregarding Christ
and not holding fast to the head,
from whom the entire body, being
supplied and held together by the
joints and ligaments, grows with a
growth which is from God

27. 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, “Do not handle, do not taste, do not
touch!” (which all refer to things destined to
perish with use)—in accordance with the
commandments and teachings of men?

28. No Value
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.

29. Self-made religion
Politics
Environmentalism
Social Justice
Abortion rights

30. Nailed
It!
Colossians 2:6–23