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Live In The New Life In Christ
Live in the new life in Christ.
What do we do after we come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ?
We know what we should do.
Live wholeheartedly for the Lord.
That is so much easier said than done.
Paul wrote the book of Colossians from prison.
Paul did not plant the Colossian church and had never been there.
But he had a deep burden for the church.
These words are great just at the reading of them, but when you understand the problems facing this church, the words are even more powerful.
They are timeless and apply to us just as much is not more so.
The Apostle Paul was up against the Judaic-Gnostic heresy that sought to mix Greek philosophy with Christian theology.
Gnostic believed that matter was evil.
In order to avoid having their pure god create evil, they had created a system of lesser deities that overflowed from their god.
These lesser gods were far enough removed from the pure god that they were able to create the universe (which was composed of evil matter).
They named this lesser deity the Jehovah God of the Hebrews.
So Paul is contending for the faith.
He is reminding this church that Jesus Christ is Lord of all and is not second to anyone or anything.
We see this in the world today.
Where they try to merge Christian faith with something else to make it more appealing.
Some examples are Christian pagans who are working to show the feminine side of God, Christian Wicca who think the Holy Spirit is mother god and actually took the form of Mary which is contrary to scripture.
We must stay strong in the faith and know what is the word of truth.
We need to continue to renew our knowledge in the truth.
We are all united by Jesus Christ.
The atonement purchased permanently by Jesus Christ is available to all who believe.
Forgive one another.
Sometimes it is not easy to forgive.
We are hurt and we may the other person to hurt as much as we do.
Is that demonstrating the perfect will of Christ?
No. Sometimes when our emotions go one way, we have to allow the Holy Spirit to give us insight.
This insight only happens when we turn to the Master.
What did our Master say when He had been tortured and did not even look human from the savage beating?
But He did not.
He is our ultimate Pastor and High Priest in all things.
When He was tortured, instead of the destroying the world,
We must choose to forgive.
If not, we are allowing bitterness to grow and fester.
We are also living in the past.
We must live in the present and look to the future.
Instead of saying, “Lord, how could you allow this to happen to me” we will say instead, “Lord, I can not wait to see how you are going to make something beautiful out of these ashes”.
This is part of living in the new life.
Be that new creation.
Whatever you do, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God.
Feast on the Word of God.
Eat it up.
Let it shine from every pore.
Keep looking to Jesus Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith.
Allow the Word of God to transform you.
Do not be tempted as others are and try to transform the Word of God.
The Lord loves you more than you could even imagine.
Our English language does it an injustice.
Our finite mind can not comprehend it.
Conclusion:
One of my favorite hymns is “It Is Well With My Soul”
Verse 2
My sin oh the bliss of this glorious thought
My sin not in part but the whole
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, o' my soul
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And Lord haste the day when my faith shall be sight
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll
The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend
Even so it is well with my soul
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