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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2016 October 24
Emaciated Siddhartha
Photographer: Akuppa John Wigham (Contemporary Photographer)
Wat Umong, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Image Source: Wikimedia
Explanation: In Colossians 2, Paul tells the Colossians that his struggle has been great to bring them to a full assurance in their understanding of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (1-5).
He wants them to stay rooted in the teaching they had when they received Christ (6-7).
He exhorts then to allow no one to take them captive by philosophy, or deceit, or tradition. He points out that In Christ all the fullness of the godhead dwells bodily. (In other words, all that God is, Christ is). He is the supreme ruler. We are dead with him and raised with him. His triumph is complete (8-15).
Therefore they should let no one pass judgment upon them for the food they eat, or the drinks they drink, or for not keeping festivals, new moons, or a Sabbath. These things are a shadow, but the substance belongs to Christ. They are not required to practice asceticism, to worship angels, or to argue about visions. Those who require such things are puffed up by their fleshly mind. They do not hold fast to Christ, who is the Head, and who nourishes the body (16-19).
If you submit to such regulations you are wise only in appearance. But you follow a self-made religion of asceticism and severity upon the body; but these things are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh (20-23).
[Sermons: John Woodhouse. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's image is of the Buddha during his ascetic period, before he rejected both asceticism and self indulgence in favor of the Middle Way, a life-style between the two extremes. Paul, in today's chapter, likewise rejects asceticism and self indulgence, but the life-style which he commends is not some middle way. Rather, it finds both its source and its continuity in Christ, and it does not produce salvation; it comes from the salvation which only Christ can produce within the human heart. God initiates, and we respond: "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:12-13, KJV). ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES:
Colossians 1:24 - 2:3: Romans 15:14-21; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; 2 Corinthians 4:1-6; 2 Corinthians 4:7-12; 2 Corinthians 11:21b-29; Ephesians 3:1-13; Philippians 1:3-11; Philippians 1:12-18; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.
Colossians 2:4-7: Romans 16:17-20a; 1 Corinthians 1:4-9; 1 Corinthians 16:13-14; 2 Corinthians 7:2-4; 2 Corinthians 11:1-6; Galatians 1:6-12; Ephesians 5:3-14; Philippians 1:27-30; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15.
Colossians 2:8-15: Romans 6:1-10; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; 2 Corinthians 11:1-6; 2 Corinthians 11:6-21a; Galatians 2:15-21; Galatians 3:21-29; Galatians 4:8-11; Ephesians 2:1-10; Philippians 2:1-11; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8.
Colossians 2:16-19: Romans 2:1-5; Romans 14:5-12; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; 1 Corinthians 6:1-8; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10; Galatians 2:11-14; Galatians 4:8-11; Ephesians 4:11-16.
Colossians 2:20-23: Romans 6:11-14; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Galatians 2:15-21; Galatians 4:8-11.
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NOTE: The parallels above are based in a very small part on my own research but principally on the following sources:
Fred O Francis and J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, Second Edition. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1984).
Most of the material on Hebrews is from an online article titled Pauline parallels in Hebrews taken from Charles H. Welch and Stuart Allen Welch, Perfection Or Perdition? An Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews, (London: Berean Publishing Trust, 1973). ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
Book Outline:
1. The Completeness of Christ (Colossians 1:1 - Colossians 1:20) - 60 A.D. Rome
2. Exhortations to Experience Christ's Completeness Spiritually (Colossians 1:21 - Colossians 4:18) - 60 A.D. Rome
Colossians 2
2. Exhortations to Experience Christ's Completeness Spiritually - (Continued) - (Colossians 1:21 - Colossians 4:18) - 60 A.D. Rome
1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 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.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcisionmade without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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