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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians

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(Revelation 3:14–22)
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I want you to realize that I am doing my best to help you and those in Laodicea, and also the believers who have never seen me personally.
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I do this so that I might encourage them and you yourselves to love each other and unite yourselves together. I desire that you all confidently and completely understand this secret truth about God and that this truth is Messiah!
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It is only by means of Messiah that we can know what God is thinking and how wise he is.
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I am telling you this in order that no one may deceive you.
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Even though I am absent from you physically, I am very much concerned about you, just as if I were indeed with you. Yet I am rejoicing because I know that you follow Messiah in a way that no one can stop you, that you trust in Messiah without giving up.

Alive with Christ

(Ephesians 2:1–10)
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You began to believe in Messiah Jesus the Lord by trusting in him, so also live by trusting him.
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You should rely completely on Messiah Jesus the Lord, just like a tree spreads its roots deep into the ground. You learned to trust Messiah very much in this way, like men build a house on a good foundation. And you should always give thanks to God.
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Do not believe anyone who says that you must obey what people have taught about how to honor God or that you must obey what they worship in this world. Instead, obey Messiah,
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because the man Jesus Christ is fully God.
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Now God has given you everything you need because he has joined you to Messiah, and he rules over every other person, spirit, and angel.
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It is as if God has also circumcised you. But this was not as though a piece of human being cut flesh from your body. Instead, Jesus took away the power of sin that was within you, and this “circumcision” is the one that Messiah does when he conquered your sinful nature and took it away from you.
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Because they have baptized you, God considers that when men buried Messiah, they buried you along with him. He considers that when he made Messiah come alive again, he made you come alive also, because you trusted that he could make you live again.
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God viewed you as being dead, because you were sinning against him, and because you were not Jews, so you did not worship him. But he made you come alive together with Messiah; he forgave us of all our sins.
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We have all sinned so much, but God has forgiven our sins. It is like a man might forgive people who owe him money, so he tears up the papers they signed when he loaned them the money. But as for God, it is as if he had nailed those papers on which he had written all our sins and all the laws that we had broken to the cross on which Messiah died.
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Moreover, God defeated the evil spirit beings who rule people in this world, and he let everybody know that he had defeated them. It was just as if he had paraded them around in the streets as prisoners.
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So disregard anyone who says that God will punish you because you eat certain foods and drink certain drinks or because you do not celebrate special yearly festivals or when the new moon appears or weekly Sabbaths.
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These kinds of rules and events only picture what is truly coming. What is truly coming is Messiah himself.
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Those same people pretend to be humble, and they love to worship angels. Do not let them convince you to do the same. If you do, you will lose what Messiah has promised you. These people are always talking about visions they say God has made them see. They boast about these things because they think like people everywhere think who do not honor God.
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Such persons are not joined to Messiah. Messiah is the head of the body, and that body is all those who believe in him. The whole body depends upon the head. The head takes care of each part and puts together all the bones and ligaments so they work together, and it is God who makes it grow.
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God considers that you died with Messiah when he died. So now the spirits and all the rules that people make for how to please God, none of these things rule you anymore. So why are you still living as if these things were real? Why do you still obey those things?
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These rules are such as: “Do not handle certain things. Do not taste certain things. Do not touch certain things.” Do not think you still have to obey such regulations.
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These rules are all about things that perish in this world as people use them, and they were made up and taught by men, not by God.
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These rules may seem to be good. But people made them because they were trying to honor God in their own way. That is why those people often look so humble; that is why they often hurt their own bodies. But if we obey these rules, we do not really stop wanting to sin.

Nicht Philosophie, sondern Christus

(Offenbarung 3,14-22)
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Denn ihr sollt wissen, welch große Sorge ich um euch und die in Laodicea, und um alle habe, die mein Angesicht im Fleische nicht gesehen haben,
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dass ihren Herzen Zuspruch zu Teil werde, indem sie in Liebe unterwiesen werden, und zu allem Reichtume der Fülle der Einsicht gelangen, zur Erkenntnis des Geheimnisses Gottes, des Vaters, und Christi Jesu,
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in welchem alle Schätze der Weisheit und der Erkenntnis verborgen sind.
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Dies aber sage ich, damit euch niemand täusche mit hochfahrender Rede.
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Denn wenn ich auch dem Leibe nach abwesend bin, so bin ich doch im Geiste bei euch, mich freuend, indem ich eure Ordnung und die Festigkeit eures Glaubens an Christus sehe.
(Epheser 2,1-10)
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So wie ihr also Jesus Christus, den Herrn, angenommen habt, so wandelt in ihm,
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festgewurzelt und auferbaut in ihm, und fest im Glauben, so wie ihr gelehrt seid, zunehmend in ihm mit Danksagung.
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Sehet zu, dass euch niemand verführe durch die Weltweisheit und eitlen Trug nach der Überlieferung der Menschen, nach den Anfangsgründen der Welt, und nicht nach Christus,
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denn in ihm wohnt die ganze Fülle der Gottheit leibhaftig,
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und in ihm seid ihr erfüllt, der das Haupt aller Gewalten und Mächte ist;

Nicht Gesetzlichkeit, sondern Christus

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in dem ihr auch beschnitten seid, nicht durch eine Beschneidung, welch mit der Hand geschehen, durch Hinwegnahme des Fleisches am Leibe, sondern durch die Beschneidung Christi,
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indem ihr mit ihm in der Taufe begraben wurdet, und in ihm durch den Glauben an die Macht Gottes, der ihn von den Toten auferweckt hat, auch auferstanden seid.
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Auch euch, die ihr tot waret in den Vergehungen und in der Vorhaut eures Fleisches, hat er lebendig gemacht mit ihm, indem er euch alle Vergehungen vergab,
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da er den wider uns lautenden Schuldbrief der Satzungen auslöschte und ihn an das Kreuz heftend wegnahm;
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und da er die Mächte und die Gewalten entwaffnet, stellte er sie kühnlich zur Schau, indem er sie im Triumphe ausführte in sich.
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So soll euch denn Niemand richten wegen Speise oder wegen Trank, oder betreffs eines Festtages oder eines Neumondes oder Sabbats,
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denn diese sind ein Schatten dessen, was zukünftig war; der Körper aber ist Christi.
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Lasset euch von niemand verführen, der an Demut und Dienst der Engel Gefallen findet, indem er sich zu Dingen, die er nicht gesehen hat, versteigt, ohne Grund aufgeblasen von dem Sinne seines Fleisches,
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aber nicht festhaltend an dem Haupte, von welchem aus der ganze Leib, durch Gelenke und Bänder verbunden und zusammengehalten, heranwächst zum Wachstum in Gott.
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Wenn ihr also mit Christus den Anfangsgründen dieser Welt abgestorben seid, was stellt ihr noch Satzungen auf, als lebtet ihr in der Welt?
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„Fasset nicht an, kostet nicht, berühret nicht!“
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Dinge, welche doch alle durch den Gebrauch der Vernichtung geweiht sind, nach den Satzungen und Lehren der Menschen.
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Denn haben diese auch den Schein von Weisheit durch selbstgewählten Gottesdienst und Demut und Schonungslosigkeit gegen den Leib, so dienen sie doch nicht in irgendetwas, was ehrenhaft ist, zur Sättigung des Fleisches.