Colossians - Living in Light of the Ressurection
Whether you’re an old soul, or a newborn Christian, the book of Colossians is like a how-to manual for the faithful life. In this year where we seek to follow so closely after Jesus that we become covered in the dust of our rabbi, we should pause to ask the question—what does that walk actually look like? How will we know if we're getting dusty?
When Jesus died as a payment for our sins before God the father, we see he is our savior. But when he rose from the dead and God placed everything under his feet, we see he is our Lord. To follow him as Lord means nothing less than submission to him as the ultimate authority, even when his priorities conflict with our own.
In their young church, the Colossians were met with incredible pressures to abandon their new found faith in favor of something more familiar. As is often the same for us today, those pressures came from both sides. The very religious looked to Jesus plus (circumcision, ceremonial law, etc.) for their salvation. And the pan-religious looked to Jesus as well as a number of other gods that promised to fulfill desires and needs.
But Paul tells the Colossians the resurrection life should transform even the things we long after. We are new creations in Christ, meant to serve, not to be served. We shouldn’t chase after our old desires which lead us to lesser gods—and more often than not, to deep disappointment and shame. Of course, we're not perfect. We will never be perfect until Jesus returns and glorifies our weak and mortal bodies. But that doesn’t mean we should behave like the people we were before we ever met him.
No part of the human existence is untouched by the loving and liberating rule of Christ. How a husband treats his wife, how an insider treats an outsider, how a rich man treats a poor one—Jesus commands us even here. Faith is not an intellectual exercise, but a complete submission to the rule of Christ in both the mundane and the meaningful moments that we live.
We should seek to live each day like the people we are becoming as we follow Jesus.
Join us for this 5 week series on Colossians, April 24th through May 22nd.
Week 1
1 OF 5
KAILEY NEWKIRK
APRIL 24, 2022
Week 2
2 OF 5
GRACE VERONICA
MAY 1, 2022
Week 3
3 OF 5
KAILEY NEWKIRK
MAY 8, 2022
Week 4
4 OF 5
JOHNNY OUTING
MAY 15, 2022
Week 5
5 OF 5
KAILEY NEWKIRK
MAY 22, 2022
