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Intro
What brought you to faith?
Do you remember the situation?
Or for those who placed their faith in Christ at a young age, do you remember when your faith became real to you?
Do you remember when you decided to truly follow Jesus?
When you dedicated your life to serving Christ.
Have you decided to truly follow Jesus?
takes what we have seen so far in the book and helps to sum it up for us.
Jesus Christ is Lord and we have entered into His Lordship.
In passage as we continue we will see commands and warnings as we walk in Jesus.
In our passage we are looking at today, Paul and Timothy give some guidelines for the obedience of our faith in Christ.
Read Col. 2:6-7
You received Christ Jesus the Lord.
As we read scripture, a good question to ask whenever we see it, whenever we see therefore, what is it there for?
In this case, it is setting us into the next section of the letter.
We saw the introduction and the praise for the Colossians, their life and love, and prayer for their increased growth in Christ.
It is also pointing us to the verb in this phrase, received.
Just as therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord.
There is a bit more implied here in the word received than what comes across in our English word receive.
② to gain control of or receive jurisdiction over, take over, receive
of a mental or spiritual heritage
When we think of receiving Christ, we often talk in terms of accepting Christ into hearts.
We have to remember that this is only the beginning.
As the definition for the term says, it is receiving jurisdiction over something.
When we receive Christ, he enters us more than for a change of emotion.
When we receive Christ, we enter into a spiritual heritage.
This is no small thing of course.
Receiving Christ is no small thing.
So what is this heritage that is being received?
Is it receiving teaching?
Yes but there’s more.
Is it receiving church traditions?
Yes, but more.
Is it receiving the word?
Yes, but it gets more specific.
It is receiving Christ Himself.
To “receive Christ”—in this verse at least—is not only a matter of believing “in” his person; it also involves a commitment to the apostolic teaching about Christ and his significance.
This tradition, which the Colossians have heard from the faithful Epaphras (1:7–8), stands in contrast to the “human tradition” of the false teachers (v.
8).
When we begin our walks, we begin by believing in His person.
It then takes the act of walking in Him to learn what it means to be committed to his teaching.
It takes time to understand what it means that Jesus is the promised deliverer.
The promised king of the Old Testament.
The messiah that had been so long expected.
This phrase is linking the understanding of who Jesus is that Paul described earlier in the letter.
Jesus Christ is Lord takes
the image of the invisible God,” “the firstborn over all creation” (1:15), “the head of the body, the church” (1:18), “the mystery of God” (2:2; cf.
1:27), and the repository of “all wisdom and knowledge” (2:3)
And makes a central confession.
This confession points to what the Colossians would need to know and do to ward off the threat of false teaching.
This confession opens to the next phrase, so walk in Him.
It takes the walk to learn and grow in understanding of what it means to be obedient in faith.
Walk in Him.
Paul writes of the Colossian Christians but here now tells them now that you have faith, walk in it.
The verb here to walk is in what is called the imperative mood.
An imperative is basically a command.
The idea is present that
Those who have (in this technical sense) ‘received Christ Jesus as Lord’ must continue to live in him
The verb here carries the meaning
to go here and there in walking, go about, walk around
to conduct one’s life, comport oneself, behave, live as habit of conduct
The idea is how you go about life, how you conduct yourself, how you live, how you walk.
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Just as therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, In Him you conduct your life.
Paul is telling the Colossians,
“Ok, you are talking the talk, you also need to walk the walk.”
John describes for us in
The application for us is clear.
What does our daily lives look like?
We talk the talk, “Oh yes I am a Christian!”
But are we walking the walk?
walk’, which, in Jewish thought (see on 1:10, above) was and is the standard term for ethical conduct
We have to remember this verb is an imperative.
This is not something that Paul is saying in passing.
This is a strong and firm command.
So you claim to be a Christian, behave like is what Paul is saying.
The emphasis is on the sort of conduct that is appropriate for someone who claims to follow Jesus as Lord.
This of course is not saying, you are a Christian, now you have to be perfect.
There was only one perfect person, and He died that we imperfect people might be saved and attempt to live like him.
Thinking along the lines of this walk, and looking at other places in scripture such as 1 John, this walk is done in love.
This is an important detail in the obedience of faith in Christ.
Walking the walk.
V. 7
So we have this command from Paul, I am sure the Colossians, just as we are thinking, “Ok Paul, how in the world do I do that?”
This new sort of behavior is only a possibility because of Jesus.
Because of the Holy Spirit active in believers lives.
Paul doesn’t leave his readers hanging.
He gives some metaphors.
Rooted.
The first is to become firmly rooted or fixed.
First off this verb is in the perfect tense.
So that means there is a past action with ongoing results.
The rooting is not something that we begin or accomplish on our own, but something God begins and continues on our behalf.
What the believers in Colosse had been taught, the gospel they had accepted, rooted them in the true faith.
As Christians, we are once for all planted in Christ.
The continuing nature of the word is the bearing of fruit.
Obedience of faith in Christ is firmly rooted by what we have been taught and continues when we continue to sit under sound Biblical teaching and spend time in the word ourselves.
Built up.
The next metaphor Paul uses is built up.
This is now in the present tense.
Having been firmly rooted and now being built up.
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