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Sorry, I'm late getting up front.

I was working on my value of taking Joy at people's faces, and I got carried away.

At that liquor.

Excuse anyway.

Okay, I have a friend is name is David deiters and he's a spiritual Mentor for me and we talk once a month and around Easter time.

He asked the question.

What would it look?

Like?

He said, I want you to ask yourself this question.

What would it look like for John to live the Resurrection Life or a resurrection life?

Because, of course, Jesus rose from the dead and the Bible says that you have been raised with Christ not as a future description, but as a present reality, this is how the Bible describes people who've made a decision to follow.

Jesus said that we are already raised with him.

So he asked me.

Just think about that.

So I have been trying to wrap my mind around it and you're my family.

So it's my intention to give you my best stuff.

And therefore, I'm inviting you to think about, with me something that I'm chewing on.

It's going to take a little work from you.

So I'm a little sorry that the heat is over performing this morning because I could just lie down right here on the floor and take a little nap.

It's so nice and warm but that's counterproductive to what I was hoping that we could do which is kind of think hard about a topic.

So how to live the Resurrection Life and we're going to read from the book of Colossians.

So I want to just celebrate that because we've been studying the book of Acts, you know something by you.

I mean you if you've been able to be here for this and yeah, we're going to learn some more in this next day, but, you know something about the people of colossi.

We didn't see the city of colossae in the book of Acts.

But here's the story.

When the Apostle Paul and others went to Ephesus and spent time there and a strong community of the followers of Jesus grew up in Ephesus.

It seems that a person named effress became a Christian in Ephesus spell these names.

Go and he went and started churches in a new place.

He started three churches there on this screen.

One in heropoulos, one in laodicea and one in colossi.

So even though the Apostle Paul does not seem to have been to colossi.

He knows the church in Kumasi and he wrote them a letter.

So here we are.

Experiencing what we talked about earlier, that when, when we've studied the book of Acts as we have, we have the key.

To the whole New Testament Bible, we know something about these people that there were probably Jewish people in their town, and there were gentile people in their town.

And we know that the gospel when it came, perhaps came with some challenges that had to be overcome, but even with those challenges that gospel got established there and the Apostle, Paul writes this letter to those people.

You might wonder where kolache is a.

Mine.

Was this really a place and this is one of the archaeological sites that has not been excavated.

But this is a picture of the colossi tell, that's what you call and unexcavated.

What I think you even call it a tell when it's being excavated, but Society's Gathering a place in overtime.

They the new Society builds right on top of where the old Society was.

And so you get this mound of debris, that indicates.

There's been a city there and this is the colossi tell which has not been excavated.

Maybe someday it will.

OK.

Google Paul chooses to talk to the people of colossi about living, the Resurrection Life and we are going to read for versus Jackson, would you just

Keep up with the screen, please Tashan, 31, verse 41, through 4.

You have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God.

Set your minds on things above, not on Earthly things for you died.

And your life, is now hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is your life appears, you also then you also.

In glory.

Let me just look, let's back up and start over Jackson.

You have been raised with Christ noticed that.

Verse to set your minds.

Therefore, on Earthly things, verse 3, your life is now hidden with Christ in God verse for when Christ appears, then you also will appear with him.

So the topic is, what does living the Resurrection Life look like for John, or for you.

And I think Paul was wanting to make sure that these people in class you knew that and the answers at least, beginning, answers are in these four versus.

So, I'm going to talk about those and I'm choosing to divide these four versus into four different ideas.

So here's the first one.

You don't need to know why that happened.

Number one, try to embrace that.

If you have received Christ, you have already died and been raised with him.

I added the words try to embrace because that's how I experienced.

Try to wrap your mind around this.

If you ask a person, what does it mean to be a Christian?

Almost?

Everybody would say something, like it means that when I die, I get to go to heaven.

Right.

That's at least the basic truth.

And it's true.

Another Bible passage 1st John 5:11 and 12.

And this is the testimony.

God has given us eternal life.

Can you call Jeff in this life, is in his son?

He who has the son has life.

So it's about eternal life.

If you have Jesus, if you receive Jesus, I'm not assuming you have, maybe you're pondering that in trying to figure that out.

And that's awesome.

But if you have the Bible says, then then you have received eternal life.

But even in that verse it says he who has the sun has not we'll have but has it right now and that's what verse three is talking about.

You are already raised with Christ.

Okay.

Now I'm going to give you a couple of phrases that you can pull out when you go to a Christian cocktail party and you and you want to look good as a theologian.

So I here's the first race.

Realized eschatology.

It's a beauty.

It's like a buck forward.

It's a $2. Phrase realized eschatology, realize means it's already happening.

And eschatology the word eschaton means the end.

So eschatology is the study of the end realized eschatology means there's something about the waste can be at the end that is realized now.

You have been raised with Christ for you died.

And your life is now hidden with Christ.

There's something about being in Jesus that involves already having died and risen.

So that's one phrase for your party realized eschatology.

Here's the other phrase which means the same thing already, but not yet.

I think this is a hard thing to wrap your mind around and sociologists haven't really come up with Snappy phrases.

I mean this is this is like the best anybody can do already, but not yet.

But the kingdom of God is already here.