The document discusses Paul's letter to the Colossians regarding the Colossian heresy. It summarizes that Paul wrote to the believers in Colossae around 61 AD to show the supremacy of Christ and refute the heresy. The heresy involved legalism regarding diets, festivals and Sabbath days. Paul teaches that believers are complete in Christ alone and should not let anyone judge them regarding such religious rules or traditions.

1. Diets, Days, and Defrauding
Colossians 2:16-19

2.  Written by Paul
 Written to believers in Colossae
 Written from Rome
 Written in 61 AD
 Written because of the Colossian heresy
 Written to show the supremacy of Christ

3.  Diets and days, vv 16-17
 Don’t be defrauded, v 18
 Hold fast to the Head, v 19

4.  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— Colossians 2:16
 οὐν Therefore…
 Our Complete Salvation, 2:9-15
 Christ is God
 We are complete in Him
 Heart circumcised
 Baptized by the Holy Spirit
 Sins forgiven
 God triumphed demonic authority through Christ

5.  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— Colossians 2:16
 Food, drink, festivals, Sabbath = The Law
 Faith plus nothing = salvation
 Legalism – adding requirements to faith for salvation
OR spirituality/grace

6. Israel
Leviticus 11
Leviticus 17: no blood
Deuteronomy 14
Church
Acts 10; 15 (no blood)
1 Corinthians 8:8
1 Timothy 4:1-4
Romans 14:1-3

7.  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— Colossians 2:16
 Feasts of Israel: Leviticus 23
 New moon sacrifices: Numbers 10:10; 29:6; Ezekiel 45
 Israel’s Sabbath: Exodus 20:8-11
 The whole Law was nailed to the cross! Colossians 2:14

8.  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— Colossians 2:16
 κρινετω krinetō – judge (present active imperative)
 Don’t be a “judgie”
 Don’t be a “judger”
 Romans 14:1-12
 Don’t judge because we will all give an account to THE
Judge

9.  … things which are a mere shadow of what is to come;
but the substance belongs to Christ.
Colossians 2:17
 σκια – skia (shadow)
 μελλω – mellō what is to come (present participle)
 Gives the idea of the inevitability of God’s plan
 σωμα – sōma (body) Church/Christ
 … things which are a shadow of what is coming; but
the body is Christ’s.

10.  Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by
delighting in self- abasement and the worship of the
angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen,
inflated without cause by his fleshly mind 2:18
 καταβραβευω – katabrabeuō (imperative)
 Calvinist: never was saved
 Arminian: loss of salvation
 Biblicist: loss of reward at the Bema (Rom 14:10, 1 Cor
3:10-15; 2 Cor 5:10; 2 Jn 1:8; Rev 22:12)

11.  Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by
delighting in self- abasement and the worship of the
angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen,
inflated without cause by his fleshly mind 2:18
 Self-abasement: false humility, asceticism
 Worship of angels
 Created beings for the purpose of serving
 Satan desired worship due to God, Isa 14; Ezek 28:11-19
 “Visions”: mysticism; taking a stand on ideas not found
in Scripture

12.  … 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.
Colossians 2:19
 κρατεω – krateō (present active participle) continually hold
fast to Christ
 Revelation 3:11!
 Head: Christ is the head of the Church, Col 1:18
 Hebrews 4:14
 Head – body (joints and ligaments), the Church
 Growth from God, Ephesians 4:11-16
 συμβιβαζω – symbibazō, knit together (passive)

13.  Colossian Heresy is alive and well today
 Don’t give in to legalism/mysticism
 Christ is sufficient for faith AND practice
 Don’t lose your reward
 Hold fast to Christ
 Have an eternal perspective: prophecy, and the Bema