1. Welcome to Grace! For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. Colossians 2:9-10

2. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction

3. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness, vv. 9-10For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity livesin bodily form, and you have been givenfullness in Christ, who is the head over everypower and authority.

4. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction Fullness Background

5. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Background Heretics

6. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Background Heretics Hymn

7. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Background Heretics Hymn 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

8. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Background Text: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.

9. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision, vv. 11-14In him you were also circumcised, in theputting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

10. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Background OT Heretics

11. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Background OT Heretics Text

12. Colossians 2:11-12In him you were also circumcised, in theputting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

13. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Background Text Youve already been circumcised

14. Colossians 2:11 In Whom you were also circumcised With a circumcision not done by hands In the removal of the body of flesh In the circumcision of Christ

15. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Background Text Youve already been circumcised Its not a faulty idolatrous circumcision

16. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Background Text Youve already been circumcised Its not a faulty idolatrous circumcision Heres how Christ did it (right) for you repentant baptism & resurrection faith

17. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Principalities and powers, v. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

18. Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism andraised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

19. Colossians 2:9-15 Introduction fullness Circumcision Principalities and powers Conclusion