The High Christology of Colossians
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The High Christology of Colossians
Coffee with a Calvinist - Episode 74
Text: Colossians 1
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- 00:07
- Welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
- 00:09
- My name is Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist.
- 00:13
- Today we're going to be starting the book of Colossians and I know it seems like the last few weeks we've been going really quickly book by book but remember these smaller books only have a few chapters and so this is the way it's going to work.
- 00:25
- We're going to be going quickly through these shorter books and so today we're going to be in Colossians chapter 1 and I want to begin today's episode by reading just a quick portion of this book.
- 00:38
- Now I mentioned this book a few weeks ago.
- 00:40
- This is Introduction, excuse me, Introducing the New Testament by D.A.
- 00:45
- Carson and Doug Moo.
- 00:47
- This is a tremendously helpful little tool.
- 00:51
- I've been actually just since I got it I've just been keeping it in my backpack because I've been referencing it quite a bit for just little things in my teaching.
- 00:59
- I'm currently teaching or preparing to teach a survey of the New Testament in our Sovereign Grace Academy and so I've been referencing this book quite a bit so if you're interested in it send me a message and I'll tell you how to get a copy for yourself.
- 01:15
- So I'm going to read the question why was Colossians written and this is what they write.
- 01:21
- Paul writes Colossians primarily to refute the errors of some false teachers who had come to Colossae.
- 01:29
- The precise nature of the false teaching is not clear as is common when we have none of the teaching itself but only what is written to refute it.
- 01:37
- It appears to be a blend of Greek and Jewish teachings that minimized Christ and promoted asceticism, circumcision, and the observation of the Sabbath.
- 01:51
- Such a mixture of different religions was a feature of the ancient world and it attracted new and imperfectly instructed Christians.
- 01:59
- Paul did not want the young church at Colossae to be harmed by these teachings.
- 02:05
- So D.A.