shadmans Musings  

  (5) Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. (6) For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, (7) and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. (8) But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. (Col 3:5-8) In these next verses of chapter 3, we see the inescapable result of what it means to live the risen life we just read about in verses 1 through 4. It is the need to put to death the sin that permeates our being. As we see in Rom 6:6-7,  knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. (Rom 6:6-7) As we see in Romans 6, we have already been rendered dead to sin, positionally, but there is still more th...

For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. (Col 3:3-4) In these two verses, Paul starts by looking back, and a look at the present and then finishes with a glimpse at the future. As Max Anders put it,  The believer’s identification with Christ brings not only a past break with sin and a present security, it also means a glorious future. [1]  Paul is expressing the enormous change that has occurred in all believers. Our union with Christ from an understanding that we are dead in our sins and to our previous life which bound and controlled us, to the impartation of the life of God in and through us, to an understanding of the protection we have in Christ, and finally to a future revealing of us with Jesus at His second coming.  Hidden With Christ For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. (Col 3:3) Definition: ‘you have died’ – The Greek word, a...