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Colossians and Philemon—The Supremacy of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

In our day of massive religious confusion, the message of Colossians is among the most timely of all the New Testament books. Today many seek to exclude belief in God from every corner of modern life. Others flaunt "New Age" ideas about God and Christ which collide with the Scriptures. Christians in the first-century city of Colosse lived in a similar situation. Having first received the true...

going to get it.”) Even Psalm 23 has been revised (“The Lord is my banker, my credit is good. He giveth me the key to his strongbox. He restoreth my faith in riches. He guideth me in the paths of prosperity for his name’s sake.”)4 People today spend not because they need, but for identity. Paul says in response that we are not to set our minds “on earthly things.” This includes not only material possessions, but the immaterial things of this world: earthly honors, position, advancement. We must
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