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*The Principles Holy Living*
Colossians 3:1–17
 
*(READ V.1) *
This is not the /if/ of condition; it is really the /if/ of argument.
The lives of these Colossian Christians evidenced their salvation.
What was the evidence?
(*Col** 1:3-5*)
*3*      We give thanks to God,  the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4      since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints;
5                because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word   of truth, the gospel
 
It was that *faith, hope, and love*—*the fruit of the Spirit* was in their lives.
(Also see Gal 5:5-6).
Verse 1 would better be translated as “*/since you have been raised up with Christ/*”.
Seek those things that are above where Christ is.
/Seek/ is an interesting word.
It actually means “having an urgency and a desire and an ambition.”
There should be an excitement that goes with seeking spiritual things.
“Those things which are above”—these are the things of Christ.
When you read the Bible, you are not looking at a dead person.
You are looking at the real, living Christ.
He is the One at God’s right hand.
We are to seek those things which are above—we are to seek /Him/.
Real study of the Word of God will get you through to the living Christ.
*(READ V.2) *
Actually the word for “affection” in the King James is /mind/.
Think about the things that are above.
In Philippians 4:8 Paul said that whatever things are true and honest and just and lovely, think on these things—the things of Christ.
Life is full of its smaller problems (like whether or not you can get along with your mother-in-law), and they are very real to us, but by far the greatest need is for us to get through to Christ.
That should come before everything else.
“Set your affection on things above.”
*(READ V.3) *
“For ye are dead”, as it is translated in the King James, might better be translated “for ye have died.”
If you have died, /when/ did you die?
Paul wrote to the Galatians, “I am crucified with Christ …” (Gal.
2:20) and in Romans 6:6-8, he said:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with/ him/, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed  from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
 If you are Christ’s, you died two thousand years ago when Christ died.
He took my place; He took your place.
We died in Him.
Christ not only died /for/ us (substitution), but we died /with/ Him (identification).
Christ not only died /for/ sin, bearing its penalty; but He died /unto/ sin, breaking its power.
Because we are “in Christ” through the work of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor.
12:13: 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body..), we died with Christ.
This means that we can have victory over the old sin nature that wants to control us.
“How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Rom.
6:2)
“Your life is hid with Christ in God.”
I have been taken out of the old Adam by baptism; that is, by the baptism *of* (not in) the Holy Spirit.
I have been taken out of Adam and placed in Christ.
I am now /in/ Christ.
Now that I am in Christ, I should live out His life and let His fullness be lived out through me.
*(READ V.4) *
If you have any life, it is Christ’s life.
John wrote in his first epistle that it was his intent to “shew unto you that eternal life.”
(1 John 1:2) How could he show eternal life?
He was going to show us Christ; Christ is eternal life.
And one of these days those who belong to Him are going to “appear with him in glory.”
In verse 4 Paul gives to Christ one of the great titles of devotion.
He calls him /Christ our life/.
Here is a thought which was very dear to the heart of Paul.
When he was writing to the Philippians, he said, “For me to live is Christ” (Philippians 1:21).
Years before, when he was writing to the Galatians, he had said, “It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).
As Paul saw it, to the Christian Christ is the most important thing in life; *more, he /is/ life*.
Christ is our life.
Eternal life is not some heavenly substance that God imparts when we, as sinners, trust the Savior.
Eternal life is Jesus Christ Himself.
“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12).
We are dead and alive at the same time—dead to sin and alive in Christ.
“Since you are risen with Christ, set your mind (affection) on things above!”*
*(v. 1) In other words, let your earthly practice be worthy of your heavenly position.
Once you were dead /in /sin (Eph.
2:1–3), but now you are dead /to /sin.
Christ is in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27), and someday soon that glory will be revealed (v.
4).
*In brief in verses 1-4, Paul says, “Live up to what Christ has done for you!”
This simple principle of Christian living is more powerful than all the rules and regulations men can devise.
“You are made full in Him” (**Col** **2:10**); now live out that fullness in daily life.
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We no longer belong to the world, but to Christ; and the sources of life that we enjoy come only from Him. “Hidden in Christ” means security and satisfaction.
The eminent Greek scholar, Dr. A.T. Robertson, speaking of Romans 8:31–39 comments on this: “So here we are in Christ who is in God, and no burglar, not even Satan himself, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus” /(Paul and the Intellectuals,/ Broadman, p. 98).
The Christian life is a “hidden life” as far as the world is concerned, because the world does not know Christ (see 1 John 4:1–6).
Our sphere of life is not this earth, but heaven; and the things that attract us and excite us belong to heaven, not to earth.
This does not mean that we should ignore our earthly responsibilities.
Rather it means that our motives and our strength come from heaven, not earth.
*(READ VV.5-9) *
We turn now from the positive to the negative.
There are some people who do not like the negative.
“Give us positive doctrines!”
they say.
“Forget about negative warnings and admonitions!”
But the negative warnings and commands grow out of the positive truths of Christian doctrine.
This is why Paul wrote, “Mortify /therefore.”/
No amount of positive talk about health will cure a ruptured appendix.
The doctor will have to “get negative” and take out the appendix.
No amount of lecturing on beauty will produce a garden.
The gardener has to pull weeds!
The positive and the negative go together, and one without the other leads to imbalance.
The word /mortify/ means “put to death.”
Because we have died with Christ (Col.
3:3), we have the spiritual power to slay the earthly, fleshly desires that want to control us.
Paul called this “reckoning” ourselves to be dead to sin but alive in Christ (Rom.
6:11).
Our Lord used the same idea when He said, “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out” (Matt.
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