Tag: Union with Christ
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Buried but Untouchable – Colossians 3:3
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Paul does not soften it. You are dead. Dead to the world’s system of climbing, competing, proving. Dead to the pressure to extract identity from what fades. Dead to the fear that if you lose here, you lose everything. But…
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Why Live Like You’re Still There? – Colossians 2:20–22
Colossians 2:20–22 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,(Touch not; taste not; handle not;Which all are to perish with the using;)after the commandments and doctrines of men? Paul’s argument is simple. You died. If you died with…
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Not My Robe – Philippians 3:9
Philippians 3:9 (a) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law… Paul had a résumé most religious men would frame and hang. Tribe. Training. Tradition. Zeal. But here he says something startling. He does not merely discard bad behavior. He discards personal righteousness. Not immorality. Self-made morality. There…
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Raised and Seated – Ephesians 2:6
A beggar pulled from the street might expect to be washed and sent on his way. But what if the king not only cleans him up, but pulls out a chair and says, “Sit here. At My table.” The beggar would hesitate. “Surely not here.” But the king insists.