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Hello steemian, good to be among great and talented minds on steemit platform. I want to begin a series of teaching as a private tutor.
I am a university lecturer by profession and also teacher of the gospel of Christ, with revelational insight, to unviel and reveal the mysteries and truth contained in the word of God. Teaching the undiluted truth in the word of God, in the simplest and easily understancable form, so that the entire humanity will have access to the TRUE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
I am starting with this topic:
DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?
Don’t let anyone play on your intelligence and don't allow any preacher to capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.
Because in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. Colossians 2:9
"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."
So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority because truly, all powerful angels and demons are like slaves that tremble before Christ.
Colossians 2:10 "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power"
When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision which has caught your sinful nature away, as prophecy by Prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel 36:26
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."
Because you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with Jesus Christ, you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.
Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, by first of all forgiving all our sins. God canceled the record of the offences which had been written down against humanity and God took that bad record away by nailing it to the cross because God actually used Jesus Christ to replace your bad record. Colossians 2:14 "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;"
In this way, God disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities and so, all those heavenly creatures who criticized humanity were rendered jobless by God.
In fact, God had to shame all our heavenly critics in a public setting by God's victory over them on the cross and this shows you HOW Satan and his team lost the battle and became losers forever.
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Colossians 2:15 "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
So DON'T ALLOW anyone to condemn you because of whatever you are eating or drinking, and DON'T ALLOW yourself to feel guilty because you didn't join other people to celebrate certain holy days or holidays such as the new moon or new yam festivals and MAKE SURE that no one tricks you into observing their Sabbaths because all these type of rules are only shadows of the reality that is yet to come, so DON'T join those who chase shadows.
Jesus Christ himself is the real reality. So don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on a pious self-denial or asking you to befriend certain angels, especially those preachers who are fond of seeing visions about why you should not use human hair attachments or perfumes or that wearing makeup is a sin.
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Don't listen to such preachers because such ministers cannot see visions of Christ, yet they're very good at seeing visions that won't allow you to serve your God in the freedom which God already gave you through Jesus Christ.
John 8:36 "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
For such ministers, their sin-conscious minds have made them proud, and they are NOT connected to Christ, who is the head of God's family because Christ holds the whole family of God together as One, with every spiritual tribe and spirit being in its place, and so, the family of God grows healthily, because God nourishes it, unlike those satanic ministers who specialise at breaking God's family apart.
But you have already died with Christ, and Christ has set you FREE from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, “Don’t take this! Don’t taste that! Don’t touch this!”?
Colossians 2:20-22 "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, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?"
Such rules are mere human teachings about things that will naturally deteriorate whether we use them or not.
These kind of rules may seem quite smart or wise on the surface because they require you to have a strong devotion, a pious self-denial, and expects you to severely torture your human body.
But the plain truth is that keeping such vain rules provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires. What a mess!
What you've just read is a message by Apostle Paul to God's family at Colosse, documented in Colossians 2:8-End but I have interpreted it for you in today's 21st century simple English, using the NKJV BIBLE VERSION.
I HAVE THE FOLLOWING TASK FOR YOU
TASK 1
Go read Colossians 2:8-23 for yourself to see if my interpretation is wrong.
TASK 2
If my interpretation is right, do you still believe that Apostle Paul is truly inspired to say these things by Jesus Christ our Lord?
TASK 3
If you still believe that both Paul and I are truly inspired by Jesus Christ, NOW is the time to AVOID any preacher who teaches something different from this message.
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