Learn:
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Colossians 2:8-10
Read: Colossians 2:1-17
1. Give definition to the word “Beware.”
2. What effect should the word “beware” have on your mind and action?
3. List and define the four things that the Apostle warns us to beware of in verse 8?
NOTE: It might be hard to believe that there are those who actually want to CAPTURE us with false teaching, and that they want to CHEAT us out of what Christ has for us.
4. Why do those who are dangerous to our souls try to seduce us away from the Lord?
Jeremiah 8:9
5. What can we do to avoid falling into the traps of those who would lead us away from
the truth?
John 8:32
Galatians 5:1
I Peter 5:8
6. Ideas were being brought into the church that made Christ something less and lower
than he truly is. For this reason Paul is warning and reminding the Colossians that
Christ himself replaces all the discarded rudiments. How is Christ superior to men’s
teaching? v 9
7. What makes a believer in Jesus complete? v 10
8. What is included in this completeness that we have in Christ?
Colossians 2:11b
Colossians 2:13b
Colossians 1:21b
Colossians 1:22b
Ephesians 5:26
Ephesians 5:27
9. The meaning of the word circumcision is “cutting away.” According to verse 11, what
was cut away when we trusted in Christ?
Who did the cutting away?
10. Having that old body of the flesh (our life before Christ) cut off is compared to what
in verse 12a?
11. Use Romans 6:2-7 to explain what “buried with him in baptism” means.
12. As we are united with Christ in his death and victory over sin and death, we are also
united with him in being ______________ ________ _______ __________.. v 12
13. What two parts are necessary in order that our being raised from the dead may be accomplished? v12
14. What was the cause of our death? v 13a
15. Explain the concept of “the uncircumcision of your flesh.” Ephesians 2:1-3
16. How are we brought to life? v 13b
17. When we consider these verses, we understand that all people who are not trusting in
the finished work of Jesus on their behalf for the forgiveness of sin, though they walk
around and look alive, in God’s eyes they are__________________. Without
Christ’s work of cutting away the old nature there is no hope of being made alive.
18. What will a person who has that old nature cut away be? II Corinthians 5:17
How will that person be different than they were when they were still dead in their
sins?
19. What are those “old things” that are to be removed from the ‘new creature’s” life?
Ephesians 4:22-31; 5:3-5
20. Instead of those old ways that were hurtful to others and rebellious against God, what
should a the believer be? Ephesians 4:32- 5:2; 5:8-11
21. What is that “handwriting of ordinances” that is against us?
Ephesians 2:15; Galatians 3:10, 11
22. What is the purpose of those “ordinances” by which we were condemned?
Galatians 3:24
23. What did Jesus do in order to make it possible for us to get out from under the
condemnation of the law? v 14
24. When Jesus gained the victory for us over sin and death, what else did he do? v 15
25. Because of all that Christ has accomplished for us, what should we not allow? v 16
Why? v 17