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What Profit Is Worldly Knowledge?

Col. 2:1-10

There are three strong statements that let us know all we need is the word. We are to attain “to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding”. (Col. 2:2-3) That is awesome! Not only can we understand but we can have full assurance that we understand. There are riches in the understanding of God’s word. Spiritual riches that come from the knowledge of Christ. In Him are all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom.  The word goes on to say “as you have been taught”. (Col. 2:7) We are to walk in Christ. (Col. 2:6; 1 John 2:6) Being “rooted and built up” in Christ and established in the faith. As we are taught. We are taught by the word. We can know how be established in faith, rooted, and be built up in Christ. We know by the word of God.  We are firm in our faith because of the truth that Christ brought. Truth has taught us all we need to know that pertain to life and godliness. (John 1:17;2 Pet. 1:3)
 
 Do we need to philosophies of the world?
Do we need to be educated in the traditions of the world?
Why do emphasis the mastery of worldly subjects?
What good do those subjects serve us in our faith?
What harm can the philosophies of the world do to us?
 

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