Spiritual Growth-Part 2

We began with Colossians 2:6-8, and we touched upon verse six... oh, sorry, verse seven, "Rooted and built up in Christ Jesus." Right? Rooted.

We began this service even by saying the same things, right? We began by saying we are trusting in God.

We are, we are trusting in Jesus, not in what Jesus does for us, but in Jesus.

Obviously, we get to see what Jesus will do for us.

But even if my prayers are not answered the way I want it to be answered, my faith does not change, right? I'm asking God, "Lord, do this for me," and God says, "No," or God doesn't say anything, will that change my faith? No.

It will not change your faith.

It will not change our faith.

We will still trust in Jesus.

God will help us through it, right? So we are rooted and built up in Christ.

We spoke about that.

The eighth verse: "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy." Hollow and deceptive philosophy.

And where does that philosophy depend on? That philosophy depends on human tradition and the spiritual elemental, spiritual forces of this world rather than Christ.

So this philosophy that people talk about, people try to explain, people try to, you know, bring to us is based on what? Human tradition, human experience.

And that's why even Bible study, we did come to, all of us agreed on this one point, we must come and say Bible is our base, right? We have personal experiences, but our personal experience is not going to be our foundation.

Our experi- our foundation is going to be God's Word.

And so many times, personal experiences can result in a philosophy.

What matters to me, what matters to you, what matters to us in US could be based on the culture here, and what matters in India would be little different because certain things are based on the culture there.

So cultures can be different.

The worldview from every culture can be different.

Families, in the same family, Joanne can think different, Prince can think different, Shiza can think different, and so are the boys.

We may all be part of the same blood, but we can think a little differently.

So if I'm going to base my faith on only what I know, there can be problem.

And so we're gonna base it on God's Word.

So Paul is teaching Timothy, "Timothy, I want you to be a leader, a leader who's not driven by human tradition, a leader who's not driven by what he said, I said, you said, a hu- a, a leader who's driven by what God's Word says," not philos- because these philosophies are hollow.

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