Please explain Col. 2:16, especially the Sabbath part of it. The first expression in Col. 2:16 is the core of the whole matter. "Let no man therefore judge you." Why?—Because, as the previous verses show, we have acknowledged Jesus Christ the Lord, been buried with Him in baptism, and arisen to a new life in Him. The mere ceremonies of the past are nothing in Him. The sins that were recorded against us have been all blotted out; and those past ordinances, which call to remembrance our sins year by year, from time to time, are gone. Jesus died for us once for all, and blotted out that which "was against us, which was contrary to us." Now there may have been in the Colossian church Jews who were still following the Mosaic ritual regarding meats and drinks, still observing the yearly sabbaths, of which we have mention in the twenty-third chapter of Leviticus—"beside the sabbaths of the Lord." Verse 38. Some were condemning the observers of sabbaths and feasts. Others condemned those who did not keep the various feasts and holy days. Some were so free in the Lord Jesus that they did not have any desire to observe these yearly typical festivals at all. There were those who did observe them, as we learn in Romans 14. The injunctions of the apostle are: Let no man judge you. Let us not judge one another. Those were shadows, symbols, types, pointing forward to Christ. The body is Christ. We believe the body. Cleave to Him. The expression "of the sabbath days" does not refer to the seventh-day Sabbath. That is not in any sense a shadow which pointed forward to Christ. It antedated sin. Man was in duty bound to observe it before sin entered. But all those ceremonial and ritual holy days and sabbaths were symbolic and typical in their nature. If the convert to Christ did not observe these things, he should not feel condemned over it. No one should judge him because of it. He has Christ, which is the fulness of all these.