Colossians 2:18. "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not see, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.,"
DISQUALIFIED. He talks about his inadequacy and seems to feel he is worth nothing at all. He seems obsessed with his own unworthiness, and is always about to fall. His talk is about his failures and he can't rise up and take his place. This kind of self-depreciation is really self-centeredness with a false face.
These people need others they think, to approach God; they turn to men or angels To plead their case to each level above them; often money is the angle.
You pay to confess your sin to one, and have to pay more so he can go to one a step higher. Each one has to go to one more important, until you reach God at the top of the ladder.
None of this is real or is real humility because it is self-centered and false. True humility, the kind God intends, has God at the center of it all. There is an awareness of our need of God and we understand who we are. In faith with awareness of our acceptance in Christ, we are children; and God is our Father.
An unspiritual mind turns people inward and that actually exalts the man. This false humility and worship of angels implies we have the controls in our own hand. The person who says the body is evil, the perfection of God's work defies. To follow such teaching and think it is right, from God's grace does disqualify.
Any sin-polluted works of the flesh that people think they are able to do; Disqualifies one from their reward, and depreciates the work of God too. No ideas of men that are contrary to scripture has any basis in fact. Those who follow such philosophies are truly traveling on the wrong track.
God's plan is plain: He intends for us to glorify in body and spirit which are His. It is never that we can change ourselves to make holy our sinful flesh. But when a person is redeemed, we belong to God and He makes us a new creation. He has saved and made us acceptable; now He challenges us to consecration.
"Father, on this first day of the week, may all that I am involved in, have the stamp of the divine nature upon it. Help me to say the right words, sing with my heart and pray in sincerity - that Thou would be honored in every activity, word and thought. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."