All truth, all wisdom, all knowledge, all understanding, all peace, all joy, all value, all

fulfillment, all satisfaction, all purpose, all deliverance, all strength, all comfort, and all

eternal hope is in Christ. all Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

If you search the internet for books about Jesus, you'll come across literally thousands of titles.

Sadly, many of those books raise questions but give no answers, and worse, they cast page

after page of doubt on Jesus' identity, his teachings, his miracles, his crucifixion

and resurrection, and even whether he walked the earth at all.

To understand who Jesus is, don't follow the fads and latest attempts to discredit him.

Turn to the pages of God's unchanging word.

John MacArthur takes you there today in a study that will strengthen your faith if you're a Christian

and it will challenge your beliefs if you're not. And now here's John continuing his study,

who is Jesus anyway? We often think today that Christ is a part of our lives.

He's a maybe an important part, but not all. We need Christ plus philosophy. We need Christ plus

psychology. We need Christ plus ritual, Christ plus ceremony. Christ plus some miraculous experience or Christ plus some mystical intuition or Christ plus some bodily

self-denial or emulation.

But the Bible says it's all in Christ

and it's all in knowing Christ.

There are four points that Paul wants to make in Chapter 2 of Colossians that assault the simplicity of Christ and the sufficiency of Christ.

Four of them. Philosophy, legalism, mysticism, and asceticism and we'll talk about what those mean.

Let's talk first about philosophy.

Verse 8, Colossians 2.

You could read it this way.

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