Christ is Our Life

 

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Put On the New Self

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:1-4 ESV

John 17:3 ESV - 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

1. Paul’s Reminder

Colossians 3:1 ESV - 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 2:13 ESV - 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

2. Our Responsibility

Psalm 73:25 ESV - 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

Colossians 3:2 ESV - 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Colossians 3:3 ESV - 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Galatians 6:14 ESV - 14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

John 10:27-29 ESV - 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

3. Christ’s Revelation

Colossians 3:4 ESV - 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

1 John 3:2-3 ESV - 2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV - 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.