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Introduction
- We all have unique contexts
- Think about your past, present and future
- We all have unique contexts
- Ultimately we, as believers, all have the same past, present and future
- Summary of Colossians 1-2
Text for today
- Prayer
Verse 1 & 2
- “If then” is not a question, Paul is making the assumption they are Christians, could also say “Because.”
- Indicative and imperative
- Indicative: sign or indication of something
- Imperative: authoritative command of vital importance
- What is it to be raised with Christ?
- In union with Him through His and our resurrection
- We were already dead spiritually
- We are already
- Spiritual deadness is humanity’s condition by nature
- Four reasons
- This is seen in 4 ways
1. Spiritual deadness is the universal consequence of sin
- Spiritual deadness is linked to physical death
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- Spiritual deadness is the universal consequence of sin
2. Spiritual deadness is confirmed in the law
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3. Spiritual deadness is evidenced in the human mind
4. Spiritual deadness is evidenced in the human body
4. Spiritual deadness is evidenced in the human body
4. Spiritual deadness is evidenced in the human body
**A spiritually dead person CANNOT please God**
Only God can make something dead into something alive
Only God can make something dead into something alive
Only God can make something dead into something alive
- When we are made alive by God we call on Him through repentance and belief of the Gospel
**This is the moment of our JUSTIFICATION**
From DEATH to LIFE...
- Only Christ can make what is de
From past to present...
BECAUSE WE HAVE REPENTED AND BELIEVED THE GOSPEL WE SHOULD.....
Seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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Seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
- Three things we should seek
- What are things that we should seek?
- To seek heavenly things is to set your affections on them
“Upon the wings of affection the heart soars upwards, and is carried forth towards spiritual and divine objects.” - Matthew Henry
- By our union and communion with Christ we have been justified,are being sanctified and will be glorified
- Through this union we make heaven our scope and aim
- We may live on earth but we belong in heaven
- We keep this focus because Christ is seated at God’s right hand
- Christ being seated at God’s right hand is known by three pieces of evidence
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The hope of the Gospel
- He is making intercession for us
2. The image of the invisible God
col 1:
3. The preeminence of Christ over all
col 1:
- Christ possesses all
- How do we seek the things that are above?
- Paul tells us in verse 2 to “set our minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
- To set your mind on something is to set your affections upon it
“Upon the wings of affection the heart soars upwards, and is carried forth toward spiritual and divine objects.” - Matthew Henry
- To love and desire heavenly things is, by contrast, to see earthly things as contrary to things of heaven
- Paul gives us good examples of earthly and heavenly things to consider
The earthly
col 3:5-
The heavenly
How do we keep from getting lost in the wilderness of our sinful thoughts?
**ILLUSTRATION**
- Compass Illustration
- Mindset of your present
- Compasses are
- What has guided you in the past?
- Guided by Holy Spirit toward heaven
- What is guiding you now?
- Calibrated by prayers of repentance
- What will guide you tomorrow?
- Valley of Vision
- Mindset of your future
**As we progress through our Christian
**A spiritually calibrated compass is evidence of your SANCTIFICATION**
Verses 3 & 4
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- “For you have died” points back to the moment we identified ourselves with Christ through believer’s baptism
- If we were already dead how can we die again?
rom 6:24
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- As a publicly professing Christian we align ourselves with Christ through this means of grace through obedience and a commitment to die daily to our sin and live for Christ.
“and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
- Christ has hidden our lives FOR us, not FROM us
- He has hidden them in the most secure hiding place that exists
- We may live here on earth, but we BELONG in heaven
“When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”
- “your life” is repeated
- Christ is the source of life itself
- To be in possession of Christ is to possess life
- To not possess Christ is to possess only death
- The fulfillment of Christ’s greatest promise will reveal our hidden lives
- We will be glorified in Ch
**We will be GLORIFIED in Christ in eternity**
From LIFE to GLORY...
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