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[cimi]

september 27
Sunday


NAILED TO
THE CROSS

READ:
Colossians 2:9-17
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[Jesus] has made [you]
alive together with
Him, having forgiven
you all trespasses.
__Colossians 2:13
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It was a touching church service. Our pastor taking our sins upon Himself and dying in our place to take our punishment. He asked if anyone still felt guilt over confessed sins and was therefore not enjoying the forgiveness of God.

We were to write the sin or sins on a piece of paper, walk to the front of the church, and nail the paper to the cross that was placed there. Many went forward, and you could hear the pounding of nails for several minutes. That act didn't give us forgiveness, of course, but it was a physical reminder that Jesus had already taken those sins on Himself as He hung on the cross and died.

That's what the apostle Paul taught the church at colosse. The people were being influenced by false teachers who presented Christ as less than adequate for their needs. But Paul explained that Jesus paid the price for our sins. He said, "The handwriting of requirements that was against us,...He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross" (Col. 2:14).

If we confess our sin to God, seeking His cleansing, He will forgive (1 John 1:9). We don't need to hold on to the guilt. Our sins have been nailed to the cross; they've been taken away. Jesus has forgiven them all.
__Anne Cetas
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```````````````````Lord, give me courage to confess,``````````````
````````````````````To bare my sinful heart to Thee;``````````````
```````````````````Thy full forgiveness I would know``````````````
```````````And from this weight of guilt be free. __D. De Haan```````
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Guilt is a burden God never intended
His children to bear.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Colossians 2:9-17***********

9 For in Him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead
bodily; 10 and you are
complete in Him, who is
the head of all principality
and power.

11 In Him you were also
circumcised with the
circumcision made without
hands, by putting off the
body of the sins of the
flesh, by the circumcision
of Christ, 12 buried with
Him in baptism, in which
you also were raised with
Him through faith in the
working of God, who raised
Him form the dead. 13 And
you, being dead in your
trespasses and the
uncircumcision of your
flesh, He has made alive
together with Him, having
forgiven you all trespasses,

14 having wiped out the
handwriting of requirements
that was against us, which
was contrary to us. And He
has taken it out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross.

15 Having disarmed
principalities and power,
He made a public spectacle
of them, triumphing over
them in it.

16 So let no one judge you
in food or in drink, or
regarding a festival or a
new moon or sabbaths,

17 which are a shadow of
things to come, but the
substance is of Christ.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Paul refutes the false teachings in the church at colosse--a diverse
mix of Gnostic elements and Jewish legalism--that teach that Christ
alone is insufficient and thus ineffective to save. Paul affirms the
sufficiency and power of Jesus to save, for in Christ "dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily" (v.9). Our salvation is "complete in
Him" (v.10), accomplished by the cross (v.14). SIM KAY TEE

[Lani]

*Amen2*

Awesome post Cimi!!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to do so!!!!

Lani