2020 for JESUS - Day 42: JESUS is ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE DEITY... HEAD OVER EVERY POWER AND AUTHORITY...

A lot to consider in Colossians 2:6-12 about living our lives in HIM, in addition to the names/descriptions of JESUS:

• rooted and built up in HIM
• strengthened in THE FAITH
• overflowing with thankfulness
• remaining captives of CHRIST
• making sure we were buried with HIM in baptism - (not "praying JESUS into our hearts" or sprinkled as a baby)

Colossians 2:6-12

6 - "So then, just as you received CHRIST JESUS as LORD, continue to live your lives in HIM,

7-  rooted and built up in HIM, strengthened in THE FAITH as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

8- See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on CHRIST.  

9-  For IN CHRIST ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE DEITY lives in bodily form,

10- and in CHRIST you have been brought to fullness.  HE is the HEAD OVER EVERY POWER AND AUTHORITY.

11-  in HIM you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands.  Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by CHRIST,

12- having been buried with HIM in baptism, in which you were also raised with HIM through your faith in the working of GOD, WHO raised HIM