1. Welcome to Grace!
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity
lives in bodily form,
and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.”
Colossians 2:9-10

2. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction

3. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’, vv. 9-10
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives
in bodily form, and you have been given
fullness in Christ, who is the head over every
power and authority.”

4. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘Fullness’
– Background

5. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
– Background
• Heretics

6. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
– Background
• Heretics
• Hymn

7. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
– Background
• Heretics
• Hymn
• “19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in
him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all
things, whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace through his blood, shed on the
cross.”

8. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
– Background
– Text:
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in
bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought
to fullness.”

9. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’, vv. 11-14
“In him you were also circumcised, in the
putting off of the sinful nature,
not with a circumcision done by the hands of men
but with the circumcision done by Christ,
having been buried with him in baptism
and raised with him through your faith in the power of
God,
who raised him from the dead.”

10. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
– Background
• OT
• Heretics

11. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
– Background
• OT
• Heretics
– Text

12. Colossians 2:11-12
“In him you were also circumcised, in the
putting off of the sinful nature,
not with a circumcision done by the hands of men
but with the circumcision done by Christ,
having been buried with him in baptism
and raised with him through your faith in the power of
God,
who raised him from the dead.”

13. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
– Background
– Text
• You’ve already been circumcised

14. Colossians 2:11
ἐν ᾧ καὶ περιετμήθητε
In Whom you were also circumcised
περιτομῇ ἀχειροποιήτῳ
With a circumcision not done by hands
ἐν τῇ ἀπεκδύςει τοῦ ςώματοσ τῆσ ςαρκόσ
In the removal of the body of flesh
ἐν τῇ περιτομῇ τοῦ Χριςτοῦ
In the circumcision of Christ

15. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
– Background
– Text
• You’ve already been circumcised
• It’s not a faulty idolatrous circumcision

16. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
– Background
– Text
• You’ve already been circumcised
• It’s not a faulty idolatrous circumcision
• Here’s how Christ did it (right) for you
… repentant baptism & resurrection faith

17. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
• ‘Principalities and powers’, v. 15
“And having disarmed the powers and authorities,
he made a public spectacle of them,
triumphing over them by the cross.”

18. Colossians 2:12
“… having been buried with him
in baptism and
raised with him
through your faith in the power of God,
who raised him from the dead. “

19. Colossians 2:9-15
• Introduction
• ‘fullness’
• ‘Circumcision’
• ‘Principalities and powers’
• Conclusion