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Death is in the Pot: Christ – the Remedy

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3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

– Colossians 2:3

9For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over every ruler and authority;

– Colossians 2:9-10
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There were people in Colosse who wanted to add something to the teaching of Christ. Some tried philosophy, others ritualism (Colossians 2:8, 16). But philosophy takes God away from people and ritualism takes people away from God. The result is the same. The remedy for these deviations is also the same: Christ. Accordingly, many glories of his person are presented in Colossians.

When the sons of the prophets sat hungry before Elisha, he ordered that food be cooked for them (2 Kings 4:38-41). One of the disciples then went out into the field to look for herbs. He brought back wild colocynths, cut them up and put them in the pot, spoiling the whole dish. What did Elisha do? Did he try to get the colocynths out of the cooking pot? No, he put something in it: flour. The flour speaks of the pure teaching of Christ.

If we realize that “death is in the pot” because something is added to the Word of God, it is futile to wage a campaign against all kinds of “admixtures”. Food only results for believers when the glory of Christ is presented to them. As soon as this happens, the harmful effects of false doctrines are pushed back of their own accord.

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