Spiritual Intimidation

Have you ever been intimidated?

In todays society, as Christians, we are being intimidated all the time usually we dont realize when we are being intimidated by people and things of the world, but we need to realize how we are being intimidated by false doctrine.

Colossians 2:18 Let noone keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in selfabasement taking his stand on visions he has seen inflated without cause by his fleshly mind.

There are many books, tv shows, radio shows that are 'suppose' to tell the 'truth', things that are 'suppose' to help us along with our growth as a Christian. We are in a mass media age, overexposure of everything, there isnt much of anything in our society that overexposed except 'THE TRUTH'. It may be that the things we hear, and read are wrong or misrepresented wrong. All the time there is a certain feeling that we are being left out, and these things intimidate us all of these 'things' occuring around us that we cant relate to as a Christian and they are supposeably Christian things.

The letter written to the Colossians by Paul, is an open rebuttal to false teaching. Its restates the basic truth of Christianity, which is Christ. Christ is suffiencent. Christ is God. Christ is Savior. Christ is everything, all you need.

Throughout Colossians, people came along and would tell the Colossians well its fine to have Christ but there is more than that, there was more to it. The philosophy, false teaching that Christ wasnt all they needed. It was FALSE. WRONG.

Do you ever find yourself in a position where someone can come along and say 'what your doing is good and all... but your missing something.. there is more to being a Christian..being saved that cant be all of it..there is more for you to reach more to experience it just keeps mounting and mounting till you find yourself questioning.. Hey, I am missing something. I am not experiencing all that she or he is. Pauls saying in this letter NO!!! CHRIST IS ALL YOU NEED.

We have to stand on Christ. Stand on our Completeness, Stand on what we are.. We are in Christ. We cannot buy into others on ideas and perspectives we cannot define our spiritiuality by our ability to keep man made rules. We cannot define our spirituality by our ability to keep man made rules. Obeying Gods rules is obiediance not legalism. we cannot buy into submitting to man because it sounds good or think they might be right. Upon salvation, Christ has given you complete forgiveness, complete victory dont let anyone take that from you.

Christ died to set us free and stay free. Dont allow anyone, anything define you! You are who you are, IN CHRIST. You need nothing else.