Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations - "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle," which all concern things which perish with the using - according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. (Colossians 2:18-23)
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5)
From New Testament times up to the present time, the church has been troubled by false doctrines promoting counterfeit mediators instead of the one Mediator between God and men, Jesus Christ. What is a counterfeit mediator? What are some examples in today's church? How does Jesus differ from all of them? Stay tuned for the answers, as we conclude our study of Colossians chapter two.