The Sufficiency of Christ

Colossians 2, ESV

¹⁶ Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. ¹⁷ These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

• Trust in Jesus, not Old Testament .

¹⁸ Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

• Trust in Jesus, not .
  

²⁰ If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations – ²¹ “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” ²² (referring to things that all perish as they are used) — according to human precepts and teachings? ²³ These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

• Trust Jesus, not .
  

“It is certain that man must utterly despair of his own ability before he is prepared to receive the grace of Christ.” -Martin Luther