The Worth of Christ

Amen. All right, turn in your Bibles

tonight to Colossians chapter 2, if you will, Colossians chapter

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2. And I'm not I'm we're only look

at a few verses tonight as we move through this chapter.

And now Paul is starting to get into some some weighty matters

and address some serious errors that were coming up there in

Colossi. And it was this idea of

Gnosticism. And I'm going to give you a

little bit of an explanation about that and what it is.

And it doesn't really mean as much to us anymore, but this,

this idea of Gnosticism is still very much alive, even though we

don't really call it that probably as much.

But this is going to be a little bit of teaching to get us to

where we can understand where Paul was coming from and why he

had to combat this as such a high level.

Obviously, the the things that he's talking about make perfect

sense to us from from our standpoint today.

But it would have made even more sense to the Colossians and to

the Laodiceans and to anybody else that read this letter back

in their day because of the issues that were coming up and

the the ideas, the doctrines. And that's exactly what they

were that were were, you know, rising up amongst these churches

there. They were getting these ideas

from other places. And so God by the name of DM

Panton, I don't know anything about him, but he studied out

Gnosticism in detail and he wrote a pamphlet on this subject

and really kind of outlined the main ideas of what Gnosticism

is. And so he he, he, this is what

he wrote historically it absorbed and by it we're talking

about Gnosticism. It absorbed non Christian

thought into the Christian faith.

Philosophically, it lodged sin in matter and therefore

repudiated the Creator as either impotent or evil.

Practically numerous Gnostic schools prohibited marriage as

multiplying incurable matter. Similarly, not numerous Gnostics

prohibited the eating of certain foods as wine or meat as being

inherently evil. Theologically, the Jehovah of

the Old Testament was portrayed as the tribal God of Israel.

He was denounced as an alien and hostile deity.

Christologically, it separated Jesus from the Christ, denying

both the deity and the humanity of the Lord.

Inevitably, he brings us to the conclusion It sank finally into

irreparable apostasy. Apostasy is not merely

corruption of the truth, it is a total change of the truth or a

complete abandonment of the faith previously held.

So the Gnostic heresy really at this time when Paul is writing

this is just kind of in its infant stages.

It's just starting to make its way into the world stage, if you

will. And it really didn't completely

come around until the 2nd century, and that's when it was

pretty much. But by that point, it had been

professed in every part of the civilized world, which again,

was not as as big as the world is today, obviously.

But the schools that that really pushed and promoted this Gnostic

theology and this not Gnostic doctrine where just as many as

the Greek and you know, the academies of Greece or Asia even

in their heyday. And that's obviously most of

this. And you'll understand this a

little bit more in just a second.

Most of this is all what we know, what we can grasp, but

what we can understand. If we can't understand it, then

it must not be true. That's kind of what this comes

down to. So the word Gnostic comes from

the Greek word gnosis, which means to know.

And again, simply the, the, the, the Gnostics thought that they

could, that they had special knowledge that could be revealed

only to those who were initiated by their secrets.

So if you were taught in one of their schools or if you were

involved in one of their, you know, academies, if you will,

then you had that special knowledge that was able to be

passed down to you. Common people could think

whatever they wanted to, but only those who had been

initiated could get into this, you know, could get to the real

truth. Sound like a cult.

It is a cult. And that's exactly what was

happening during that time. And that's why Paul is making

such a big deal about it. And you'll understand, I think,

a little bit more as we read into this once you have a little

bit of a background with it. But that word gnosis inspired TH

Huxley, who was actually very, very influential and very

instrumental in helping Charles Darwin get his idea of evolution

out to the rest of the world. Huxley was known as as Darwin's

bulldog. He was the one, you know,

Charles Darwin was writing all of this stuff, but he was kind

of more in the shadows. Huxley was one of these guys

that latched onto this idea was very well spoken.

And so he was able to kind of push it out to the world and he

became a champion for for Darwin's book and for evolution

and everything else. But he was the one that actually

coined the word agnostic, which is an agnostic is somebody who

you know, would say that the existence or the non existence

of God is is unknowable. You'd whether God so.

So the difference between a gnostic or sorry, an agnostic

and an atheist is that an agnostic says we don't know.

We don't know if there's a God or not.

He may be, he may not be. I'm open to the idea.

I'm also open to the idea that there is no God.

Obviously an atheist is going to say there is no God.

He's not even open to that idea. So that that's kind of the

difference. But they're open to the

possibility that there is a God. But for the most part, it's not.

It's not what God says, it's what I say, it's what I can

know. So a Gnostic is a man who says

what he knows, and agnostic is a man who says what he doesn't

know. Whatever you could know was

true. Now this is where Paul gets to

Colossians chapter 2 and verse #8 Beware lest any man spoil you

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through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of

men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

and you are complete in Him which is the head of all

principality and power. So whatever you could know was

true philosophy, vain deceit, the tradition of men, the

rudiments of the world. This is what Paul is attacking.

Very specifically is this idea of the Gnostic doctrine.

The cults claim at of being able to transmit this secret Gnostic

mysteries is a, is a lot like what we see today with the

Masonic Lodge. And I mean, obviously we're not

going to get into that this evening.

But you know, the, the Masonic order, you know, if you can

offer secret knowledge to those people who are involved, you'll

get a lot of people who come into it simply out of curiosity.

And the the higher you get up, the more secrets you're given

and, and the more knowledge you have and the more you have that

the rest of the world doesn't have.

And that's where the secret society really is tempting to

people. Gnosticism was very much the

same way in Paul's day. And, and really even as today

again, though we don't really call it by that name as much

anymore. And we're not going to look at

this tonight. But really Paul takes the rest

of this chapter in Colossians chapter 2 to unravel the five

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major errors, if you will, of these cults that were here in

Colossae. And in chapter 8 and chapter 2,

verse eight through 10, he he attacks the idea of this

intellectualism. Verse 14 through 17, I'm sorry.

Verse 11 through 13, he attacks the ritualism that was part of

this. In verse 14 through 17, he talks

about the legalism, verse 18 and 19, the mysticism, verse 20

through 23, the asceticism. All of those were things that

were that were errors of these cults that were coming into

Colosseum. We're going to talk more about

that as we move through this chapter next week and and

probably even the week after. But Paul turns his attention to

unraveling this cult by simply revealing who Jesus Christ was.

If you can say this is who Christ is, everything else is

not of Christ, then you're you basically, you don't have to

know all the errors. If you know what truth looks

like and you know what the truth is, then you know that this is

not it, then all the rest of its errors.

And that's essentially what Paul is exposing here.

Now, he does get pretty specific with a lot of these things, but

he is exposing error by turning their attention to Christ.

And that's exactly what we want to do tonight.

You ever watch Antiques Roadshow and we get in a hotel here and

there and, and you know, it's, it happens to be on or whatever

else. I think it's pretty interesting

about the only show you can watch anymore that doesn't have

anything in it, you know, that's inappropriate.

It's just, you know, they're showing these antiques and

everything else. And I remember seeing, you know,

it, it always cracks me up, you know, these people that

everybody has the same reaction on Antiques Roadshow when they

find out how much this thing is worth.

And I had no idea, you know, and blah, blah, blah.

But I do remember this one, this lady had had gone to a garage

sale and, and found a, a copper bucket, basically some kind of

kettle of some sort. And she was using it to keep

firewood in. And so she, I don't know what

made her think that maybe this thing was valuable, but she

decided to bring it to the Antiques Roadshow.

And, and, you know, it turns out that the kettle that she was

using to keep wood in was worth over $2000.

And I know it's not tons of money, but to keep, to keep wood

in it. Obviously, you know, it's, it's

something that, you know, she walked away and she said, well,

Needless to say, I'm not going to be keeping wood in this thing

anymore. I didn't realize how valuable it

was. And I, and I think that's the

same thing here. When we see Christ, you know,

when we really get a look at the worth of Christ, when we really

see him for who he really is, it should make us appreciate him so

much more. And obviously the whole of the

New Testament is all about Christ.

But Paul's focus is pretty specifically in in really verse

8, but especially verse 9 and 10 on the worth of Christ.

And that's what I want to take a couple minutes, try to get this

message of, try to get Paul's message across to us and try to

understand the message that he was giving to us in these couple

verses. So let's pray and then we'll

jump into this tonight and see what we can learn from it.

Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us for

an opportunity. We have to be here together

tonight. I pray that it would help us and

that we would see Jesus Christ in the worth of Christ and just

exactly who He is, especially when you compare Him to any

other religion, when you compare Him to any other philosophy or

doctrine or anything else. What we have in Jesus Christ is

so much more valuable and I pray that you'd help us to understand

that that idea tonight as we look at these verses again,

we'll thank you for all that you do for us in Jesus name, Amen.

Now I don't plan to be long tonight and I know I say that

sometimes, but I really don't we I I'm preaching for Pastor Andy

their Bible conference and so we're going to leave after the

service. So the let the longer I go, the

later I get there this evening. So I don't really plan to be

long, but these are important things.

So write down these these couple points maybe tonight, if you

will, you can even probably write them right there in your

Bible because I'm just going to take one point from verse 81,

from verse 9 and one from verse 10.

And the first one is the doctrine of Christ verse 8.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain

deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the

world, and not after Christ. Paul's message was very

different from the philosophy and the wisdom of men, and he

was telling the Colossians here to beware that they didn't fall

to these ideas. It was it's it wasn't about what

we could know to be true. It's what God says is true.

That's the difference between what faith is and what

Gnosticism is. Well, I know this to be true.

So this is something that I can believe.

No, if, if God does not say that it's true, then it's not

something that I should believe. And if it's if God says it's

true, then it is something that I should believe, and that's

that. That word spoil there.

Beware lest any man spoil you. That word spoil means to rob

and, and that's exactly what happens when we allow the, the,

the philosophies and the doctrines of the world to come

in. They're literally robbing us of

the worth of Jesus Christ and they're robbing Christ of his

real worth. They're taking away from who he

really is. And that's where faith comes in.

It's not it's, it's not faith if you know it to be true, right?

If, if I, I mean, there's so many examples that we could use.

I mean, if I've, you know, never been to the Grand Canyon, I'm, I

mean, essentially I'm taken by faith that it's there, right?

Taking somebody else's word for it.

But if I've been to the Grand Canyon and seen the Grand

Canyon, I'm not talking about it by faith anymore.

I've seen it. I know it's there.

I know it to be true, right? Everything that we believe about

Christianity has to be taken by faith.

And when we say I know God is real, I know Jesus is real.

I've seen him do miracles. I've I've felt him work in my

heart and all of those other things.

But what you're saying is you have a very strong faith in him,

but you still don't know it to be true because you've never

seen God. You were not there when Jesus

was born. You were not there when he died

on the cross. You were not there when he rose

from the dead. You were not, you know, you,

you've, you've not seen heaven. You haven't seen all of the

things that he tells us about in the Bible.

We can say that God exists because of this reason or that

reason, but it's still faith, right?

And, and it's still strong faith, but it's, it's faith in

what God says. We've never, we've never seen

him, but we strongly believe it because of everything that we've

seen him do in our lives and everything else.

But at the end of the day, it's still faith.

And everything that they, that these people believe really is

by faith too. But at the same time, what Paul

is talking about here is hey, that the faith that we have in

Jesus Christ is faith. Just because you can't see it,

just because you can't touch it, just because you can't feel it

does not mean that it's not true.

If God says it's true, it's true.

The Gnostics are basically saying, if God says it's true,

well then let me go test it and if I can see it, then I'll

believe it and I'll say that it's true.

And that's what Paul is. That's what Paul is combating

here with the doctrine of Christ.

The principles of the world are often very contrary to the

doctrines of Christ. And Paul is saying, don't be

taken, don't be robbed of the the worth of Jesus Christ and

what you have in him by the philosophies and the vain

deceits and and the traditions of men and the rudiments of the

world. So you see the doctrine of

Christ. But secondly, verse #9 is the

deity of Christ. Try to wrap your mind around

what verse 9 is saying. For in Him dwelleth all the

fullness of the Godhead bodily, all the fullness of the Godhead

is presently residing or dwelling in Christ.

This takes completely they, they, they tried to separate the

Gnostics tried to separate Christ Jesus from Christ, God

and man. And, and they, they basically

just say that they, there's no way that those could mesh

together. But what Paul is, is saying very

bluntly and very boldly is that all of God is completely in

Christ. The Gnostics believe that that

couldn't be done. They couldn't understand the

Trinity. So it must not be true.

If they can't explain it, it must not be true.

And and that's, you know, that's that's where a lot of people get

off on different doctrines. Well, I can't understand the

Trinity and I can't understand eternity and I can't understand

this. And because I can't understand

it, because I can't wrap my mind around it, then it must not be

true. Human reasoning always airs

concerning the person of Jesus Christ.

And all you have to do is go look at most of the religions of

the world. They get it wrong on who Jesus

Christ is. If you can say that Jesus is not

God, then you don't have, you don't have to believe that

you're a Sinner or that he died for your sin.

If Jesus was not God, then he couldn't have died for our sin

because he was a Sinner himself. And it's no different than any

other person dying on on a cross, or any other person

giving his life for somebody else.

But what happened at Bethlehem sets Jesus apart from all other

men. The Bible says in John chapter

one in verse #14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among

us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of

the Father, full of grace and truth.

Turn over to Genesis chapter 1. What we find here in John

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chapter 1 is that deity was clothed in humanity.

God came down to dwell among men and that can be said of no one

but Jesus. There's no room for error in

what the Holy Ghost says here. He's used, he used the most, the

the most definite language possible to tell us the truth

about the Lord Jesus Christ. When you look at Christ, there

is none of God missing. Everything you would or could

know about God is in Jesus Christ.

And we talked about him being a triune God, three in one.

It's it's not mathematical threeness or oneness.

He's God. Genesis chapter 1 and verse #26

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The Bible says, and God said, let us make man in our image

after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of

the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and

over all the earth and over every creeping thing that

creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own

image, in the image of God created he them, created he him

male and female created he them. But you see all the way back at

creation and that's why the John 11 says in the beginning was the

Word and the word was with God and the word was God.

The word was Jesus Christ and he was there in the beginning with

God. And then verse 2 says all things

were made by him and without Him was not anything made that was

made. Jesus was there at the beginning

in the time of creation, and He was there in eternity past with

God. But that's why he uses that

plural word. Let us make man in our image

because it's a plural. It's a triune God and again,

it's one of those things that we can't wrap our minds around, but

he says it's true. He says it's so and so we

believe him. We take his word at it.

We don't have to be able to understand it in order for it to

be true. Turn over to 1st John chapter 5.

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Of course there's another, there's, there's a lot of verses

that talk about the Trinity, talk about the fact that we

serve a triune God. But here's another one that's

about as plain as it could be in first John chapter 5.

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And we really got to talking a little bit about this during the

Q&A around our Doctrine Matters conference.

But verse #6 this is he that came by water and blood, even

Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood.

And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the

Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear

record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost,

and these three are one. And there are three that bear

witness in earth, the Spirit and the water in the blood.

And these three agree in one. Doesn't get any plainer than

that. And I suppose that's why a lot

of your modern versions take that verse out of the Bible.

They don't want to for whatever reason.

They don't want the Trinity to be true.

They don't want this plain speaking.

But the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost and these three

are 1 doesn't get any plainer than that.

All that God is, he is in the bodily form of Jesus Christ.

And then I'm not trying to oversimplify or undervalue

Christ, but I thought of this. I thought of this example.

I thought of it in this way. I have a laptop that I use and

actually I have, I have two, I have one that I keep here at

church for all the stuff that we need to do here.

And I have one at home. But rather than trying to put

everything on a flash drive and bring it here and plug it in and

everything else, I use OneDrive and it's basically just syncs

all of your files, all of your documents across any of the

computers. Or I have an iPad, obviously

sync it across that I can open up my iPad and open a document

that I'm working on on my computer at home.

I can do any of those kind of things and essentially

everything is there. I can access it from any

computer that I want to, right? All of 1 is in another, and

that's exactly what it is when it comes to God the Father, God

the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

I can go to God and I can get everything that I need in him.

I can go to Jesus, I can get everything I need in him.

I can go to the Holy Spirit, I can get everything I need in

him. They're all one.

They're all the same. Now, they have different

functions in different form, not forms, but different, different

things that they do in different ways that they work in our

lives, but it's the same. They're all the same.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

The Bible says these three are 1 John 1030.

I and my father are 1 John 14-6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the

way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father,

but by me. So many verses that talk about

the fact that Jesus is God and that flies in the face of

exactly what the Gnostics were teaching here.

And that's why Paul was so plain and saying in verse #9 For in

him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily God the

Father, God the Son, God, the Holy Spirit, all of them in

bodily form in Jesus Christ. What's the worth of Christ?

He's completely God. And so we see the doctrine of

Christ. We see the deity of Christ.

And lastly, I want you to see this in verse #10 the dominion

of Christ and ye are complete in Him.

The Bible says Colossians chapter 2 and verse 10.

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You are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality

and power. We are completed in Christ.

He says that very plainly at the beginning of verse #10 ye are

complete in Him. Something is missing until you

are in Christ. Human philosophy, the world's

religions, they don't know anything about that, and that's

why they're constantly searching.

You ever hear people say that? Anybody got any questions?

Well, I do. What's the meaning of life,

Right? That's people.

People are constantly trying to figure out what's the meaning of

life? What is, what's next?

What am I? What am I searching for?

What am I looking for? I don't know exactly what that

is. And the reason why is because

they're empty. They're missing the most

important ingredient in their entire life, and that's Christ.

That word for complete is pluru. It means to be made full.

We're filled full in him. All of our fullness comes from

his fullness. What was happening is that the

cult at Colossae this this Gnostic idea, but even others

that had started to spring up was offering to complete the

Christian believers by initiating them into their

secrets. Paul was making it very clear

that none of these cults, none of these doctrines, none of

these other things could give them what they were looking for.

The fullness comes through Jesus Christ.

That completeness only comes through Jesus Christ.

God created, created Adam, and then he gave Eve to complete

him. But they sinned, they died

spiritually. He needed to be born again to

complete again, to become complete again in spirit and

soul and body. That completeness, that fullness

comes in Jesus Christ. And boy, you start to read

through the book of Hebrews and even in First Corinthians and

you see some of the things that Paul is talking about, about the

fullness, the fulfillment, all of that that comes in Jesus

Christ. Lot that we could say about

that. But I want to look at the

second-half of this verse. It says which is the head of all

principality and power. He is in complete control over

everything. There's no greater power or

authority. The Bible refers often to

principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this

world. Angels, good and bad, are all

created beings, and Christ is the head even of the angels.

All the authority is given to Jesus Christ.

In other words, we are complete in Him, and He is the head over

all of those things. When we're in Him, we can have

the victory that overcomes the world, but not until then.

Only when we when we have him can we have that.

What more could a believer want than that?

Turn over to 1st John chapter 5. I want to look at one last verse

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and we'll be done. But as you turn over there, I

want to tell you about a story that I heard.

There was a wealthy man and his son that loved to collect art

together. And, you know, I don't quite get

it because to me, art is not interesting at all.

I can't, most of the time, can't even tell what's going on in the

picture. You know, just a lot of smears

and people are talking about how wonderful this painting is.

And I can't even tell if it's upside down or right side up or

anything. So it doesn't mean a lot to me.

But I know that people love art and you know, many times they'll

spend money to go look at art, they'll spend money to buy art

and everything else. But this man and his son, they

love to, to collect art together, Picasso, Raphael, some

of these other ones. And they had some very, very

expensive paintings in their collection.

And one day this, this the sun, right around the time of Vietnam

that was going on and that conflict broke out and the sun

went to war. And it wasn't too long after he

had actually arrived in Vietnam. He was very courageous.

And he died in battle, rescuing another soldier, a fellow

soldier of his. Other people saw it.

Everybody saw that he laid his life on the line for his his

fellow soldier. And the father was notified

about his son's death. And obviously he grieved very

deeply for his son. About a month later, just before

Christmas, there was a knock at the door and a young man was

standing on this on this man's porch with a very large package

in his hand. And so he invited him in and he

said, I was with your son in Vietnam.

He said, in fact, I was the one that your son was trying to save

when he got shot and killed. And he said, I, I'm not much of

A painter, but I do a little bit of a painting.

And, and so I brought you a picture that I painted and he

said, it's a it's a portrait of your son.

An old man opened this picture up and he said that, you know,

it's just amazing how this this man had captured on canvas

really just the personality and the character and everything of

his son. And it just, it brought tears to

his eyes. And he loved the painting.

And anytime somebody would come over, he would he would take

them into the room and all these other fancy paintings that he

had on the wall. But he would take him to that

portrait of his son, that painting of his son, and just

love to sit and admire it and have other people sit and admire

it with him. It wasn't long after that that

the father actually passed away. And so because he had no son to

pass it on to, this was his only son that was killed in Vietnam.

And really the only other one that cared anything about the

paintings in his family was his son.

And so he was going to have an auction.

And he had stipulated in his will that he wanted all of his

paintings to be auctioned off. And so many people knew about

his collection and, and were anxious and eager to see the

paintings that were going to be put up for sale, hoping that

they would be able to get one of these paintings maybe a little

bit less than market value because it was being sold at an

auction. And so with all the anticipation

around that, everybody sat down and they were waiting for the

bidding to start in the auctioneer made his way up to

the to the lectern and he started with the painting of

this man's son. It was sitting right there on

the little stage area that they had set up.

And of course, nobody was there to see this painting.

They wanted to see all the others and they wanted to bid on

all of these other paintings. And so the auctioneer said,

well, this painting has to be sold first.

He said, this one is the one that I'm going to start the

bidding who will start me off at $100.

And it was just silence in the room.

Nobody wanted this painting. And finally one of the guys in

the back of the room said, can't we just put that at painting

aside and get to some of the paintings that we came for?

We want to see Rafael. We want to see Monet.

We want to see some of these other paintings in the in the

auctioneers to know, I'm sorry, this painting has to be sold

first. He said, will somebody be

willing to start me at $100? And you could just see the

impatience in the room. Everybody was getting agitated.

Why are we trying to sell the portrait of this man's son?

Nobody in this room even knew the man's son.

Why are we trying to sell this portrait?

First of all things? Finally, from the back of the

room, there was an old man that was sitting in there.

And he said, well, I'll give you $10.00 for it.

I'm not, I don't have much money.

And turns out that this man was a gardener and knew the son that

had actually gone off to war and been killed.

He said, I'll give you $10.00 for the painting.

The auctioneer said, all right, $10.

Anybody give me $20.00 for this painting?

Nobody said anything. He said, $10 going once, $10,

going twice, sold for $10. And everybody was excited.

They clapped. They said, all right, now we can

get into what we came here for. Let's let's start with with some

of these other expensive, some of these other fancy, some of

these other well known paintings in the auctioneer said, I'm

sorry to tell you this, but the auction's over.

And they couldn't believe it. They said, what do you mean the

auction's over? We came here to to buy the

Monets. We came here to buy the

Picasso's. We came here for all these

paintings. What do you mean the auction is

over? And he said, well, I couldn't

tell you this before because it was part of the stipulation of

the will. But the will said that whoever

bought the portrait of the son not only got all the rest of the

portraits, but they got the estate as well.

To the man who bought the portrait of the son in the back,

he'll get all of those paintings and he'll get the estate and the

first John chapter 5 and verse 11, I think we see this idea

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that the man who takes the son gets everything.

God gave his son 2000 years ago to die for us on a cruel cross,

much like the auctioneer. That message is still whoever

will take the Son gets everything first.

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John chapter 5 and verse #11 And this is the record that God hath

given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God

hath not life. What's the worth of Christ when

you have Him and He has you? You have everything you need.

You have all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

You are complete in Jesus Christ.

It doesn't matter what the world says.

It doesn't matter what the world thinks.

It only matters what he says and what he thinks, and it should

change the way you live. That's the message that Paul was

trying to get across as he's starting to open up this idea of

the fact that all of these other doctrines and all of these other

religions are going to try to paint a phony picture of how how

much they're worth. And they're going to try to tell

you the value of what they have. But the value in the worth is in

Jesus Christ. It's in the doctrine of Christ,

it's in the deity of Jesus Christ, and it's in the dominion

of Jesus Christ. Everything that we have,

everything that we need, everything that completes us is

found in Jesus Christ. Ye are complete in Him, which is

the head of all principality and power.

What's the worth of Christ? He's everything we have

everything we need in Jesus Christ.

The one that takes the Son gets everything.

And because we know Jesus Christ is our Savior, and I trust that

everybody in here does, because we know Jesus Christ is our

Savior, we have everything we need in him.

Don't ever forget it. Don't ever let it get old.

Don't ever let it get old. Let's pray.

Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us for

an opportunity. We have to just look briefly at

this passage tonight. What a tremendous concept.

What a tremendous idea. The man that gets the sun gets

everything. When we took Jesus Christ as our

Savior, we got everything. We got all the fullness of the

Godhead bodily in Jesus Christ and we're completing him.

May we never forget that. May we never lose sight of the

value of Jesus Christ. Thank you again for all you do

for us in Jesus name, Amen. If you stand at your.