The aim of your sermon is to explain how special days have come to an end, and also encourage God’s people to receive the office bearers that Christ sends to his church. Reflecting on the different ways in which people can reject Christ will also help Christians to recognize when they look to their own obedience to the law to make them right with God rather than to the works of Christ.
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.