27 February 2021 - Christ who is our life

Colossians 3:2-4 (NKJV) “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

Christ is the source of our life. Christ is our source of eternal life. In the words of the apostle Paul, Christ is our life.

Paul declares "you have been raised up with Christ" in the past, "your life is hidden with Christ in God" now, and "you also will be revealed with Him in glory" in the future. Our new identification with Christ is expressed in the preposition "with": "Dead" with Christ. "Buried" with Christ. "Made alive" with Christ. "Risen" with Christ. "Hidden" with Christ. "Appear" with Christ.

We have died with Christ. Romans 6:10 (ESV) “For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.” The power of indwelling sin is broken by the believer's identification with Christ in His death and resurrection. As a result, he has received a new nature produced within him by the work of the Holy Spirit.

We are raised with Christ. - Colossians 3:1 (ESV) “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.”

We are dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:5–6 (ESV) “even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus”

We are hidden with Christ in God! Philippians 3:20 (ESV) “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,”

Galatians 2:20 (ESV) “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 by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

"Christ . . . is our life." It should be the greatest motivation to dwell in His presence daily. Christ is in us and we are in Him.