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For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
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The ‘worldly’ people do the things that they do because they have believed a lie, been deluded, following the one who is a liar by nature and the father of lies, Satan. {Jn.8:44} He is, just as the Scriptures reveal, the god of this world system. He has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. {2Cor.4:4}

What a vain and foolish thing it is to trust in the things made by man—whether they be of wood, silver or gold. Or even just ideas that are the creations of the human carnal mind rather than the hand of our God who has promised to meet all of our needs through His riches in glory in Christ. {Php.4:19} It is man’s fallen human nature to want more and more of what the world has to offer. It is truly delusional! We have been given the mind of Christ {1Cor.2:16} and should now desire more of God in every single part of our lives.

Should we not have learned from the experience of the people of God so long ago when they corrupted themselves and decided to make their own god and made for themselves a molten calf out of gold, then worshiped it and sacrificed to it? Moses, was led by the Spirit of God, “and he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water, and made the sons of Israel drink it.” {Ex.32:20} The riches of the world became a bitter pill to swallow.


Yes, what a bitter drink that was! In his letter to the Colossians the apostle Paul even today warns against things that have the appearance of self-made religion. Those are the things that are religious but not righteous, traditions that Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for. {Mar.7:5-9} You and I, all true disciples of Christ, are warned against the things that just have the appearance of self-made religion. {Col.2:23} There is still—if not even more today—man made religion, much of it wholly secular; ‘pharisees’ offering their answers where the Lord is still the ONLY answer!


More and more today mankind turns to philosophy and empty deception, according to the traditions of men, according to the elementary principles of the world. {Col.2:8} The culture of the day, regardless of what land people may live in, is to seek and place their hope in the passing pleasures of sin. Moses, a true servant of God, along with Elijah, joined Jesus on the mount of transfiguration. {Mat.17:2-3} Both had been powerfully used by God and are now surely joined with Him in paradise. Moses wisely chose rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God rather than to enjoy those passing pleasures of sin. {Heb.11:25}


“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.”  (Colossians 2:8)


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