Bible Study For Ye Are Dead, And Your Life Are Hid With Christ In God

[WalterandDebbie]

Tuesday 3-7-23 3rd. Day Of The Weekly Cycle Adar 14, 5783 77th Winter Day

Colossians 3

The Position Of The Believer

1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Put Off The Old Man

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Put On The New Man

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Holiness In Family Life

18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Holiness In Work Life

22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Love, Walter and Debbie

 

[Tenchi]

1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

These verses can only be understood by considering what went before them in Paul's letter to the Colossians, in particular, in chapter 2:

Colossians 2:6-13 (NASB)
6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.
9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

Born-again believers are "dead" to the "old man" who is the person they were without God, bound under the power of the World, the Flesh and the devil (Ephesians 2:1-3). The "old man" is the carnal nature, "dead in trespasses and sins," totally unable to please God (Romans 8:8). From this carnal, rebellious nature, the person who is "in Christ" by faith in him as Savior and Lord has been separated (made "dead" - Romans 6:1-12) and given new spiritual life in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9-14; 1 John 4:13; Titus 3:5-8; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). As Paul wrote in the passage above, in Christ, the believer is "hidden" and in him "firmly rooted," "made complete," free of the power of the flesh to control them, and alive to God as His adopted child. This is what it means to be "dead, your life hid with Christ in God."

Putting on the new man and putting off the old one, is a matter of knowing and, by faith, acting upon the truth of one's life in Christ in the face of temptation, trial and testing. Only as a born-again believer stands by faith on the truth of their death to the power of the Old Man, living instead, by faith in the new man birthed in Christ, will they come to manifest Christ in their practical daily living. There is incredible spiritual victory and joy in doing so!