Made Alive in Christ
Made alive in Christ
Colossians 3:1-16
The ancient city of Colossae in ancient Phrygia was built on a major trade route through the Lycus River Valley in the Roman province of Asia Minor (in the southwest corner of modern-day Turkey) and near the cities of Laodicea and Hierapolis.
There the Colossians manufactured a beautiful dark red wool cloth (colossinum) for which the city became famous.
Colossians teaches us WE ARE CALLED TO BE A NEW PEOPLE
Colossians helps us understand the authority and preeminence of Christ in all areas of life.
Colossians warns against false teachings and encourages believers to remain steadfast in their faith
Colossians teaches us how we are Reconciled and Redeemed from the power of darkness.
Colossians teaches us THE EMPTINESS OF HUMAN WAYS OF THINKING.
Colossians teaches us we are to reflect our new identity in Christ, characterized by love, humility, and forgiveness
Colossians addresses false teachings and practices that were influencing the church in Colossae, such as
1. Jewish legalism
2. Angel worship
3. Asceticism
Asceticism is the practice of the denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal.
Mans attempt to become spiritual by denial rather than the work of the Holy Spirit.
Colossians teaches us THE UTTER SUPREMACY OF CHRIST
Above all human wisdom and tradition, Christ stands forth as preeminent over all and sufficient for all.
In him “are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”
Colossians teaches us NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
A LIVING PERSON SHOULDN’T LIVE IN A COFFIN, RIGHT? WE’D THINK THAT’S JUST RIDICULOUS.
But don’t we sometimes live like that? Defeated, beaten down, hopeless? Maybe we don’t feel alive in Christ at all some days.
Living alive in Christ is more that just the moment you were saved from your sins. It’s an every-day decision to turn your back on the grave from whence you came and walk in fellowship with Christ
The Bible says that "the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you" (Romans 8:11). What a promise!
Tragically, we often feel like we can make it through the day just fine on our own.
But Christ didn’t put on flesh, live a sinless life, die a horrific death, and rise from the dead so that we could be nice people with average lives.
Christ sacrificed His life for us and defeated death for us so that we could live fully "alive in God"
Do you remember what the Lord himself taught?
He said, "I am the vine; you are the branches" (John 15:5a).
They are one plant, sharing one life together. So from here on our identity is no longer "in Adam" but it is "in Christ."
We are no longer just ordinary human beings.
We are new creations, begun again, linked with the life of Jesus Christ.
Colossians teaches us to Put On the New Self
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians teaches us to
Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Colossians teaches us to Col 3:5
Mortify therefore your members who are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
(con·cu·pis·cence In the King James Version of the Bible, "concupiscence" translates the Greek word refers to strong, often sinful, desires, particularly those related to lust or covetousness)
Col 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Col 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Colossians teaches us to
Col 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Colossians teaches us
Col 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Colossians teaches us to
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians teaches us to
Col 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Col 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Col 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
THE APOSTLES WERE CHANGED WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLING IN THEM.
They went from fearful followers, to dynamic faithful leaders. Common people becoming uncommon in their person, their personality, their power, and purpose.
They were proclaiming a new message to a new called people.
Acts Chapter 5
I. New People
II. New Power / Acts 5:12-16 NIV
III. New Message / Acts 5:17-20 NIV
IV. New Purpose / Acts 5:29 NIV
What must we tell others about concerning Jesus that is New?
2 Cor 5:16-17 NKJV – New Creation
Acts 17:19-23 NIV – New Teachings
Rom 6:1-4 NIV – New Life
Rom 7:4-6 NIV – New Fruitful way of living by God’s Spirit
Eph 4:20-24 NIV – New Personality
Col 3:7-11 NIV – New self made in the image of God
1 Peter 1:3-5 NIV – New Birth into a living Hope
Rev 3:11-13 NIV – New Name
Rev 5:4-9 NIV – New Song
Rev 21:1-4 NIV – New Inheritance
Colossians teaches us GET OUT OF YOU COFFIN AND GRAVE CLOTHES
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
