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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances,.... Various are the senses interpreters give of these words; some think by the handwriting is meant the covenant God made with Adam, Genesis 2:17, which being broken, obliged him and all his posterity to the penalty of death, but is cancelled and abolished by Christ; others, the agreement which the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; “All the Mosaic ceremonials, from which you were shut out as Gentiles, are abolished. Christ has driven a nail through them and fastened them up to his cross.” As, sometimes, a banker stamps through a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. His cross was his triumph. Then he led captivity captive. What more do you want? Your enemy is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[And] having spoiled principalities and powers,.... Principalities of hell, the infernal powers of darkness, the devil that had the power of death, the accuser of the brethren, who often objected their debts, with all his works and posse: these Christ has divested of their armour, wherein they trusted to have ruined men, as sin, the law, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Exhibiting them as his prisoners in a triumphal procession, as the victorious Roman Generals did when they returned from war.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let no man therefore judge you,.... Since they were complete in Christ, had everything in him, were circumcised in him; and particularly since the handwriting of the law was blotted out, and torn to pieces through the nails of the cross of Christ, the apostle's conclusion is, that they should be judged by no man; they should not regard or submit...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days; “Do not put yourselves under rules and regulations which God has not ordained. If you think it is right for you to abstain from certain drinks do so, but do not act thus simply because others do so. If you abstain from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Do not let anybody come in, and tell you that it is necessary for your salvation that you should abstain from this meat or that drink, that there is a merit in fasting for forty days in Lent, or that you cannot be saved...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Do not put yourself under the bondage of any rules and regulations that may be made by men. If you choose to do anything, or to abstain from something else, because you judge it to be right and beneficial, do so. Christ is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which are a shadow of things to come,.... By Christ, and under the Gospel dispensation; that is, they were types, figures, and representations of spiritual and evangelical things: the different "meats and drinks", clean and unclean, allowed or forbidden by the law, were emblems of the two people, the Jews and Gentiles, the one clean, the other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. “You can do without the shadow now that you have the substance; so keep to that.” Some men multiply church ordinances; they have this form and that form, well, let them have them if they find them of service; but do not you bring yourself under subjection to anything of the kind;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which are a shadow of things to come; That is all that they are: “a shadow of things to come.” Col_2:17. But the body is of Christ. Christ is the real one thing needful. Mind that you have the substance, for then you can let the shadows go. May God bless to us all this brief reading of his Word!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which are a shadow of things to come; All this regard for meats, and drinks, and holy days, and new moons, is but a shadow; what is the great substance that is all-important?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, — Do not be beguiled by those who tell you that you ought to pay reverence to angels, and saints, and I know not what besides. One day is called St. Matthew’s, and another is St. Michael’s, and one, I suppose, is St. Judas’s day;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let no man beguile you of your reward,.... Or prize; the allusion is to the Olympic games, one of which was running races; in which the stadium, or race plot was fixed, a mark set up to look and run unto, a corruptible crown proposed to be run for, and which was held by one who sat as judge, and determined who got the victory, and to whom the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility- We know those who say, “We do not know anything, we are only seekers, trying to find out the truth.” They talk very humbly considering how desperately proud they really are, but that humility which makes men doubt is mock humility, and is not of God. “Let no man beguile you of your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And not holding the head,.... Christ, as some copies express it; for by making use of angels as mediators and intercessors, Christ the only Mediator, the Lord and head of angels, and of the church, was dropped and laid aside; which is another reason the apostle gives, why such men, and their principles and practices, should be shunned and avoided...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not holding the Head, That is the point, these people get away from the Deity of Christ, they get away from the atoning blood, they get away from glorifying him who alone is the Truth. Col_2:19. From which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increased with the increase of God. Take away the head,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ,.... Or "seeing ye are dead with Christ"; for these words do not signify any doubt about it, but suppose it, and press what is taken for granted. They were dead with Christ by virtue of union to him; they being one with him, and considered in him as their head and representative, died in him, and with him; they...