We Died With Christ to the Hostile Powers - Critical Issues Commentary
Colossians - Critical Issues Commentary • 51m
This sermon explores implications of the truth that Christians have died with Christ. This happens at conversion. The false teachings the troubled the Colossians came from the hostile spirits. Paul ironically asks why they submit to them. We must not listen to man-made laws given by human law-givers. The law of Christ is to bear one another’s burdens.
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