Lesson 3871

 (Lesson 3871)(08-24-22) Colossians 2:18-23

     “Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, 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 world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. 

    In today’s quote, Paul warned the Colossians not to be beguiled by smooth talking hereitics who would lead them away from the true gospel of Jesus Christ. 

    In my opinion, the crux of this lesson was a warning to the Colossians against the beginnings of Catholicism. I believe this because obviously, whomever Paul was warning about, were “worshipping angels”, as he said in the quote. Today Roman Catholicism teaches worshipping mankind such as the pope, bishops and priests, etc. moreso than it teaches worshipping God Himself.

    We should pray for those who have fallen to Catholicism and for those who might fall in the future.~