No Longer Bound By The Natural World

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] rise up do what he said [Music] it's time to rise but i think today what the lord would want me to share with you from colossians and some other places is uh the reality and the truth of us no longer being bound by the world and when i say the world i mean the the the the principles the the traditions the um uh the basic things the elements just everything that we would understand which is worldly earthly tangible physical like we're not bound by these things and we see that over and over throughout scripture even in the old prophets old testament prophets you see isaiah outrunning the chariot right he he outran the chariot he's like ahab you you you know you better hurry up or he he let him go and then and then elijah ran and got to the the the uh the temple before uh ahab did you know and you see just amazing things you know guys like samson carrying doors and defeating and i mean just not being limited by the basic elements or principles of the world and so we need to really understand this and see how we have not been limited you know we we think we have to always and i say always obey the basic elements and principles of the world but but what we'll see here is that paul is declaring a revelation to us uh something that we we're called to walk out something we're called to understand and so if you um so we're going to start in colossians before i want to actually just address something um uh i i taught a couple weeks ago about um no longer uh how did i remember what the title was the title was like what demons don't want you to know or something like that and i talked about our authority and the power that we have over the demonic over demons over fallen angels and somebody had made a comment something about like um oh like you're wrong um demons are disembodied nephilim spirits or whatever and i'm like well there's nothing in my bible that says that and how you know demons aren't fallen angels or they're not spirits but my bible actually in hebrews twice talks about how angels are spirits right so um clearly there is a connection to angels being spirits and how many times did jesus cast out a spirit from a person which it's the same thing demons and spirits are the same thing so it's the same makeup so um and i know that there's certain other writings that talk about these things in some great length or detail like the book of enoch and others and and i think that's where some people get their information from the only problem with that is that that can't be verified and there's nothing in the bible that really verifies it with the exception of well the bible mentions some of those other writings it mentions this book or mentions what enoch had said here or what you know but when you look at the fullness of the bible the bible mentions other works that are not considered scripture it does it mentions other works so for instance like i believe it's um it's in kings where it talks about it that there's some other story that is mentioned in the the chronicles of the kings or something so this is this mentioned in the chronicles of the kings and so that's another literary work that's not scripture that it mentions right and so that doesn't necessarily mean that we're called to go and get the foundation of our life from those other literary works right because you never see jesus quoting these other literary works and jesus is the word and so so it's it's i think a safeguard to stick to what we know to be true tried and true as um infallible the word of god god's words to us and i think it's just a safeguard you know okay all that other stuff might be interesting but you know let's just stay with what we know to be true what we can actually prove out to be true and and let's just take take our our what we know to be true from what has been written and what has been declared and what's been proven to be true amen i think it just it just keeps us safe it just keeps us from getting off into other areas and to other things that um we have yet to actually prove to be 100 accurate amen so um that's just a side note so let's pull up into colossians chapter two um we're gonna i'm gonna read verse eight and then i'm gonna skip down to verse twenty and then i'm gonna come back and read eight through twenty all right um and so starting at verse 8 it says beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men according to the basic principles of the world and not according to christ and verse 20 it says this therefore if you died with christ from the basic principles of the world why as though living in the world do you subject yourselves to regulations okay those two scriptures are essentially saying the same thing the basic principles and the basic elements of the world you have been freed from amen the basic principles and the basic elements of the world you have been freed from we have been freed from and so this this is a kind of a big deal this is a really big deal um so let's let's read through this again and and i'll stop here and there and and we'll we'll talk a little about what um what i believe the lord is trying to speak to us as his body it says beware let's anyone cheat you through philosophy okay so let's let's look a little bit about philosophy so i know in um i guess in in judaism or a jewish thought um it actually the word philosophy is it actually means like the the the pursuit or the study of wisdom and there's a place where it goes beyond where your pursuit of wisdom gets you into some odd and murky places right who's have you ever anybody ever studied philosophy in here okay when you start talking philosophy you start talking things that are like ethereal deep like you know emotion like you know like hypothetical like well you know it could be that you know and and it it sometimes can go beyond uh the wisdom of god right and this this is why i personally had given up um because i studied to be a marriage and family therapist and uh so i studied counseling i studied psychology and when i was studying some of the forefathers of psychology i was like these dudes are whacked like they are they are like no god in their life and modern humanity picks and chooses you know either you know either they they're really strong on like freud or something like that like they they choose one and they they really kind of stick to one or uh they pick and choose between them okay so hold on one second i gotta turn this off sorry about that that's the second time i've done that live um but um and so in studying all that out and just realizing like okay we have fallen man who has determined how to think how to process how to extrapolate extrapolate wisdom and knowledge fallen man has figured out how to extrapolate wisdom and knowledge to try to fix fallen man i'm like that doesn't make any sense when you're dealing with the new creation like like the forefathers of philosophy and psychology weren't thinking from from a renewed mind they were thinking from a fallen mind actually the bible says that their mind is futile their thoughts are futile their thoughts are enmity towards god i know that there's some things in it that that seem sound and seem logical yeah and i'll grant you that but when you're talking about the new man when you're talking about a reality that we've been freed from the basic principles and elements of the world psychology and philosophy does not have a grid for that it does not have a grid for miracles it does not have a grid for the supernatural even though at times it seems to delve into the soulish things that are imitate but it just it's not the same and so we think about philosophy and the the pursuit of wisdom first corinthians 1 19 through 21 it talks about something similar it says for it is written i will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent i will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent where is the wise where is the scribe where is the disputer of this age has not god made foolish the wisdom of this world for since in the wisdom of god the world through wisdom did not know god so what kind of wisdom are they using here earthly futile sensual full of envy and self-seeking for since in the wisdom of in the wisdom of god the world through wisdom did not know god it pleased god that through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe so when it talks about philosophy that's what it's going after those who are spinning their wills on the pursuit of wisdom apart from the wisdom that god gives amen and we know james he talks about two two types of wisdom one that is from above and one that is earthly sensual demonic and we we kind of talked about that so he says we're going to continue beware let's anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit okay empty to see let's talk about that romans chapter 1 21-22 it says because also they knew god and did not glorify him as god or were thankful but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened professing to be wise they became fools empty deceit empty deceit so there's there's three things that the world is trying to trying to cheat us in one is philosophy the other one is empty deceit and the last one is the traditions of men and we look at the traditions of men we see jesus actually talking about this in matthew 15 chapter 2 verse 6. he says why do it's a question to jesus he says why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the elders for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread and he answered and said to them why do you also transgress the commandment of god because of your tradition for god commanded saying honor your father and your mother and he who cursed his father and mother let him be put to death but you say whoever says to his father mother whatever prophet you might have received from me is a gift from god then he need not honor his father or mother thus you have made the commandment of god of no effect by your tradition thus you have made the commandment of god of no effect by your tradition it's these traditions of men that make the word of god of no effect in our life in your life if you have any tradition anything that was handed down anything that was was passed along that is not truth that is not the lord that is not wisdom the wisdom of god it can't stop the command of god from having effect in your life and uh we've been having uh staff bible studies every morning and um uh we're getting some really good conversations and we were talking about different cultures and uh because i think somebody had asked like like you know like what do you what product do you put in your hair and this that and the other and we got to talk about you know different types of you know ethnic products and then we started talking about ethnicities and and then we and then so we kind of like we like to rabbit trail a lot uh but it was good discussion but then we we started talking about just the differences in cultures and and how um but some particular cultures have traditions that are handed down that have nothing to do with the bible with the lord and yet they follow them as though they're a command from god and these traditions they they they put a wedge between people they actually are hurting people and they're keeping people sometimes even at times people keep keeping people from hearing the word of god and it's it's it's a bummer that that we have these things that we pass down and and we don't even know why but it just becomes a part of our cultural experience and we don't even know why we do it like there's some churches that still today won't allow drums in church and yet there's literally literally scripture that says praise him with the symbol with the with the timbrel with the clashing symbols with the loud symbols it's like yeah i got the drummer got excited [Laughter] but it's you see i'm saying how a tradition can make the command of god that's a command praise him with this praised him with this and then a tradition comes in and goes uh you know drums are from the devil guitars are from the devil electric guitars if i remember somebody i don't know i don't know it probably is not the first time electric guitar was played on this stage but i remember somebody had commented after one one time i played my electric guitar for worship and they were like yeah everything is cool except for that electric guitar that's from the devil and i was like wow okay but it's these it's these traditions oh i remember here you wanna hear another one i remember i remember somebody commented um about how it was such a disgrace that that jg lim would let somebody share the gospel with long hair yeah yeah yep like oh it's a disgrace you know like oh man it's like okay that's a tradition well well you know there's a scripture in the bible the scripture in the new testament where it talks about you know doing you know long hair being a dishonor and this and short hair for women being a dishonor but you know paul at the end of that says and we have no such tradition oh oh spaghettios like just keep reading your bible he's like we have no such tradition in the church so it's just the bummer it really is that that we have these things and so what happens is you see somebody step on a pulpit with long hair or god forbid a woman step on the pulpit and preach the word of god and somebody shuts off because there's a tradition and that keeps you from receiving what god would have to say what a bummer what a lie from the enemy and paul here is talking about these things don't let anyone cheat you when you have these these these this philosophy this deceit these traditions of men and you abide by them more than the commands of the lord you're being cheated you're allowing yourself to be cheated from your and to be uh disqualified from your reward as we see in verse 20. and these things that that that we're being cheated of are according to the basic principles or the basic elements of the world and we see there's there's plenty of of other passages that talk about this um you know uh first corinthians 3 2 11 through 13 we're going to read that um a little bit we'll go and check out galatians what it has to say about it also but let's check out um first corinthians chapter 3 verse 11 through 13 if you want you can turn there but really quickly it says for no other foundation can anyone lay no other foundation there's no other foundation that can be laid except jesus christ now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold silver precious stones wood haze straw each one's work will become clear for the day we'll declare it because it will be revealed by fire and the fire will test each one's work as of what sort it is there's another place where it talks about all things will be consumed by fire or tested by fire or burned and that which will remain will remain and that which will be burned will be burned and it says we've been given a kingdom that cannot be shaken we've been given a kingdom that remain and so my my point is is now that we are in christ that we have received the truth we've laid a foundation nothing else is to be built on that foundation that is christ that's paul's point here both in in colossians and in corinth in corinthians do not build on that foundation of christ with anything else except spiritual things spiritual stones because if you built on that so if you take christ and put philosophy on there the fire is going to burn it up and you're going to realize that in the end you've you've you've you've not built the house you've built it with wood or str or uh straw or hay and it'll collapse it'll be shaken because you could have the most perfect foundation but if you build with inferior products on that perfect foundation when the when the storm comes the house is going to fall the house is going to fall and that's his exhortation or that's his rebuke or that's his concern here he's like listen don't build on that foundation which is christ that which is laid with anything else except the things from christ and how do we build in that way he says i'll show you a wise man a wise man is the one who hears my words and does them it's him who builds his house on the rock and so when the storm comes the house stands because you're building with the things that are of the lord his commands his truth not philosophy not psychology not empty deceit not the basic principles of the world i'll give you an example of building your life based off of the basic principles of the world well there's certa there's a thing called germs they exist right are those things spiritual or are those things earthly are those things spiritual or are they earthly all right we got to be sure right it was like earthly yeah we got to be sure right so those things are are our basic things of the world they're principles of the world those things are in this world they're of this world right so if i take the foundation which is christ that i am born again built on and then i take sickness and i say well but you know that is a reality and you know i need to order my life around that and i need to you know take that you know and and um begin to you know structure things in my life based off of that well then i've take something that is earthly that is basic of the world and i've started to build on the foundation that is christ that doesn't work that doesn't work it's incompatible and so what that looks like is you go okay that is a thing here i understand it it exists in this world but i have been freed from these things i've been freed from these things so therefore that doesn't come into the house it it's not factored in to how i live my life it's not factor it factored into how i move forward in life i treat it on the outside i keep it on the outskirts and i treat it as an enemy i treat it as the basic elements and principles of the world and i don't allow it into the house does that make sense and so then i build my my house on the on the things that are truth to the things that are god so that's just one example because the reality is paul is saying that each one's work will become clear it'll become clear what you've been building this whole time on and unfortunately there's times where it becomes clear before that day when he's talking about that day he's talking about the day when jesus returns but i i i think that there's times where because we've built on the foundation of christ with inferior things jesus said the storm's going to come and when the storm comes i think some people's house suffers ruin and then we ask god what's going on and he's like i already told you stop building on this foundation with inferior things because this was written almost 2 000 years ago for our admonition for our instruction this is what he told the early church and it's still true today stop building on the foundation that is christ with inferior things it's incompatible it doesn't work you will suffer loss so let's keep reading so understand that these things that we're building so if you're using the basic elements and principles of the world philosophy deceit and traditions those things are not according to christ amen these things are not according to christ okay so we need to look at all things that are in him and so in verse 9 it says where in him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily in him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily and you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power so all the godhead dwells in christ and you are complete in him that's a good day to realize amen and when you look up this word complete it actually in the um and the strong's it's it's it they actually substitute another word and the other word is replete and that word means to be filled well supplied with something so when it says you're complete it says you are filled and well supplied with something well what is that something the fullness of him the fullness of god so again there's a correlation here why should you beware lest you be led astray by the philosophy empty deceit because you are filled with something why should you be careful not to build your house with anything except for god's truth the reality of what those things that are in christ why because you've been filled with something that is far superior you've been given something that is far better than the things of the basic elements and principles of the world that's why you cannot mix the two you cannot mix the two and and and and it's it's it's sad man there's a lot of mixture going on i actually had to step down from a position and i i'm not going to say what it was but i had to step down because there was mixture i was volunteering to to help people and and i thought you know this is i could do the the great is good and but there was mixture and i was like man like and then there was they were requiring everyone who was volunteering to go through a certain course that i'm like there's no way like that is philosophy that's that is psychology that is not the blood of jesus that is us going into our past and and pointing out the bad and hurtful spots and then you know trying to infuse jesus and go do you see jesus see jesus he was right there in the corner and i'm like well why didn't he do anything if he was right there in the you know i miss like it's just it's it's foolishness and it's the it's the very thing that jesus never did and yet he set countless people free and yet we think we have to do something that jesus never did to get people free traditions of men philosophy psychology wisdom of the world and we mean well i don't think we're evil when we're trying to do those things i think we actually really do mean well i think we want to see people heal we want to see people free but often times where there's a lack of power where there's a lack of understanding that you have been replete filled with something you then then you start building with earthly things because you're trying to get a breakthrough you're trying to get people free so you start going to earthly things instead instead of staying constant on the one thing that god says makes for our freedom knowing the truth abiding in the truth amen is this making sense so far verse 10 and you are completing him who is the head of all principality and power in him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands by putting off the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of christ buried with him in baptism in which you also were raised with him through faith through the working of god who raised him from the dead what he's going on to explain here is explaining our amazing unity with christ our amazing unity with christ and what christ did so that we can be free and knowing that we are filled with something filled to the fullness of god that we are complete in him he says in you being dead in your trespasses and uncircumcision of your flesh he has made alive somebody say i'm alive together with him isn't that amazing he didn't just make you alive over here off to the side he said i made you alive with me man such a unity he's always inviting us in with him having forgiven you all trespasses having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that were against us which was contrary to us and he has taken out taking it out of the way having nailed it to the cross so he took it out of the way you guys he too it's out of the way so there's no stumbling blocks he took it out of the way amen having disarmed principalities and powers man did you all hear that he disarmed principality and powers they have no armaments is that what the the old-time um uh what do you call it do uh duels you know like you get your stick shooter in old old end times and you you you walk 10 paces and then you turn around it's like you're doing that every time with the enemy but he he's he's disarmed so you you walk your ten paces and then you turn around and you and he's like because he's got nothing he's disarmed he may at best he's like you know and you just bam every time maybe it's too simple for you but that's how i see this he's disarmed that's a good man praise you lord having just armed principalities and powers and powers so every high thing and powers anything that thinks it has power he made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them in it so let no one judge you in food or in drink or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbath which are shadows of things to come but the substance is of christ let no one cheat you of your reward taking delight in false humility and worship of angels intruding into those things which he has not seen vainly puffed up by fleshly mind and not holding fast holding fast to the head from whom all the body nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments grows with increase that is from god holding fast i believe here if i'm remembering correctly when i studied this out it was a while ago um actually i may have it um holding fast so that word uh i think it's let me see because there's something about holding fast that it has to do with like the root word has to do with um strength and power um let me see let me look it up here so craig crateo so are you familiar with there's a word called kratos it's a greek word kratos and it's the word for power or strength or energy kratos and this word to hold or holding is from that root this word criteo is from that root kratos so it's interesting that he uses that word criteo to say holding fast to the head and you could almost think of it as he's saying um not just to hold on to but with strength and with power uh or he could say think about it this way it's not enough just to say i'm holding on to jesus you have to say i'm holding on with the understanding that i'm whole i'm i'm i am fixed to his power and his strength so there's denominations that believe in jesus but do not believe in the power you understand they believe in jesus but they don't believe in jesus power or they at least don't believe in the power of the believer because they haven't had held fast to the head which i think what he's trying to say here holding that word holding can mean to hold but it also uh has this root of strength and power so you have people that are trying to hold on to jesus but they're denying the power they're not holding to his power is that am i did i confuse you totally no so when i'm holding on to jesus i'm not just holding on to the name i'm not just holding on to you know what he did on calvary i'm holding on to his power for today and for now so holding fast to the head from whom the whole body nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments grows with increase that is from god therefore therefore in light of everything that we've just talked about between verse 8 and verse 20 if you died with christ from the basic principles of the world now remember he talks about earlier about how we were crucified with him through baptism amen remember that it says we were buried with him in baptism it says [Music] we were raised with him and we were made alive together with him amen romans chapter 6 talks about us that says that do you not know that when you were baptized into christ you were baptized into into the likeness of his death right so when paul's saying it says therefore if you died he's saying listen if you actually believe that when you were baptized into christ you were baptized into this death if you believe that then this what i'm about to say is true for you amen therefore if you died with christ from the basic principles of the world why is though living in the world do you subject yourselves to regulations why as though living in this world do you subject yourselves to regulations foundation jesus the cornerstone the the the solid rock the foundation when you begin to heap the regulations the basic doctrines or principles of the earth of the world onto that foundation the holy spirit is saying why are you doing that why are you living is why are you why are you you're subjecting yourselves to them you've made a choice to to live by them that's what he's saying and he's saying why you died with christ from the basic principles of the world you're no longer bound to the basic elements and principles of the world that's why there's men and women who are alive today who translate you know what translation is translating in the spirit there's a uh david hogan has a a a a pastor who will walk in the front of one church preach a message walk out of the back of that church and he'll be at the front of another church you know 100 miles away because he believes he's been freed from the basic elements and principles of the world very similar you see jesus remember remember when when jesus um walks on the water and it was stormy and they were they were in the middle of the the sea and it says he when he entered the boat they were immediately at the other edge they they translated you see philip right the spirit leads them says overtake the chariot go witness to the ethiopian eunuch he witnesses them to him about jesus they get baptized in water he could do she gets dunked when he comes up philip's gone translated to wherever god needs him see you you don't get that subjecting yourselves to the basic elements and principles of the world and i'm really trying to to get us to to go beyond our natural mind that's not me the spirit is god wants us to go beyond our natural mind and say you know what god if it's possible in you then it's possible for me jesus himself walks just appears into the room with the disciples and he goes and he's like don't be afraid i'm not a ghost does a ghost have flesh so jesus floats or whatever materializes into the room why because he's not thinking regulations he's not thinking basic elements basic principles of the world we often do and it's and it's generally to our detriment that we do but the spirit is saying don't be cheated don't let anyone cheat you from the reality of the freedom and the fullness the fullness of the godhead you're replete you've been filled with something and it's his spirit and it's by his spirit that you can do all things you're free and i want to look at one other passage of scripture and then i have a minute and 30 seconds i'm actually already over time um but uh turn to galatians with me i believe chapter four hallelujah is this blessing you a little bit so what i'm going to do to end this i'm just going to read off a few scriptures and i'm going to hope that i don't preach it uh because because we have to cut so galatians chapter 4 starting in verse 3 through verse 11. it says even so when we were children we're in bondage under the elements of the world let me go back and repeat that oh lord even so when we were children we were in bondage under the elements of the world but when the fullness of the time had come god sent forth his son did you notice there was a butt there there was a butt there saying what was previously our reality is no longer our reality but when the fullness of the time had come god sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoptions as sons and because you are sons god has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying abba father therefore you are no longer a slave but a son and if a son then an heir of god through christ but then indeed when you did not know god you serve those things which by nature are not god's but now after you have known god or rather are known by god how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements the galatians were doing the same things that a lot of a lot of christians today do you were supernaturally freed and i said i wasn't going to preach but you were supernaturally freed by the power of god and then you returned to the beggarly elements of of the world bummer to which you desire again to be in bondage he's like ask like do you really want to be in do you want to be held back is that what you desire do you want to be in bondage by the basic elements and principles of the world philosophy empty deceit you observe days and months and seasons i'm afraid for you lest i have labored for you in vain we were a child of wrath now we're children of god we were sons of disobedience now we're sons of righteousness we've been freed from the beggarly elements and the bondage of this world first john 5 4-5 says it this way for whatever is born of god overcomes the world and this is the victory that has overcome the world our faith our ability to be steadfast in what we believe and know to be true what the lord has declared and what he has given us what he has done for us how he's taken away the requirements how he's made us complete in him replete in him he has filled us with the fullness of him that's faith not being moved from that truth in that reality who is he who overcomes the world but he who believes that jesus is the son of god first john 4 4-5 you are of god little children and i declare this to you to who all who are listening who believe that jesus is the son of god you are of god and you have overcome them them meaning the world because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world amen amen be encouraged um you are not bound do not submit yourself to the basic elements and principles of this world any longer let your heart let your soul begin to believe the truth and to begin to to test these things out now i'm not saying put god to the test but i'm saying be faithful and don't be don't allow your your soul or your mind to be burdened by the limitations and the regulations of this world you've been freed from them amen

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Published: Mon Jun 07 2021