“Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head [Jesus Christ], from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.” [1]
Paul warned the Colossians against counterfeit beliefs that would scam them out of eternal rewards.
Only faith in Jesus Christ nourishes and grows us towards eternal rewards. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Christian faith.
Are we steadfastly connected to a body of believers who recognize Christ as the Head of the Church?
“For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.” [2]
Why is it important to confess that Christ came in the flesh? Any group of believers who does not acknowledge and confess the necessity of the Son of God to become a human sacrifice for our sins is deceiving its followers. They are placing something else, anti and instead of Christ as the most important teaching of the Church.
“Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.” [3]
“Dear Lord Jesus Christ, Head of the Christian faith, please keep us Your people from being scammed out of the most important doctrine of the Bible, namely that YOU ALONE are the MESSIAH. In YOU ALONE is eternal salvation. Please help us to always acknowledge and confess YOU as our HEAD… the Only One to guide, nourish and grow us as a body. For it is in YOUR NAME JESUS, that I pray. Amen.”
[1] Colossians 2:18-19
[2] 2 John 1:7-8
[3] 2 John 1:9
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