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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 41
Colossians 2:14 – 4:18
Well in our last lesson we finished Colossians chapter 2, so we’re ready to begin chapter 3. All right now verse 1 of chapter 3 of Colossians.
Colossians 3:1a
"If ye then be risen with Christ,…" What’s the if for? If you’re a true believer! If you’re not a believer then none of these things apply. Colossians 3:1a
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,…"
Colossians 3:1b
"…where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." (positionally)
Well hardly. Psalms 110:1
"The Lord, (the Father) said unto my Lord, (the Son) Sit thou at my right hand, until (that’s a time word) I make thine enemies thy footstool."
Positionally then when Christ finished the work of the cross, He ascended and went right into the very throne room of heaven, and positionally is at the Father’s right hand interceding for us. Let’s start with verse 1.
Hebrews 1:1
"God, (the triune God) who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets," Now what that speaking about? Now verse 2.
Hebrews 1:2
God has already) spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he (the Son) made the worlds;" Now verse 3.
Hebrews 1:3
Now let’s look at another one in I John chapter 2.
I John 2:1
Believers. Every time we fail, every time we sin, He’s right there, and He is confronting the Father, as he says, "Yes he sinned, but he under the blood, I’ve paid for that sin." Now come back to Colossians chapter 3. If we’re a believer, and if we’ve experienced that death, burial, and resurrection, we’ve been identified with His finished work of the cross, then we realize that our advocate is seated at the right hand of the Father. Colossians 3:2
God doesn’t tell us that we have to live without things. Priority. There’s nothing wrong with things if they’re in right level of priority. Colossians 3:2
Now here are two verses that I just love in verses 3 and 4.
Colossians 3:3
"For ye are dead, (to the old Adam, to the old flesh, the natural. You’re dead,) and your life is hid with Christ in God."
It’s hard for us to comprehend death and life in the same sentence. The Lord Himself used the same analogy so beautifully back in John chapter 12.
John 12:20
John 12:21
John 12:22
"Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus." Hey there are Gentiles out here that want to see you’ Does Jesus say, "Bring them in?" John 12:23-24
Here in John, He’s referring to His own death, burial, and resurrection. Colossians 3:3
"For ye are dead, (like that seed we just read about, we have died to that old Adam) and your (new) life is hid with Christ in God."
Out here at the outer circle we have God the Father, and in the inner circle we have Christ the Son, and here we are way down in the middle. That old big black walnut with that thick outer shell, that no one wants to fool with really, but if you want to get to the meat of that walnut, you’ll clean that outer shell off, and then you’ll get to the hard part, that hard shell of the walnut. My little wife is good at cracking walnut. We are hidden in Christ, and Christ is hidden in God, and listen, there’s no way possible for you to get out of there once you’re in there. Now a lot of people have never really gotten there, but once you’ve really believed Paul’s gospel for your salvation, God secures you forever. You’re safe, and nothing can touch you, because you are hidden with Christ in God. Now verse 4. Colossians 3:4
Let’s get started with verse 14.
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons (or born ones) of God. 15. For ye (if you’ve been born of God) have not received the spirit of bondage (legalism)again to fear;…"
So if you’ve living under bondage and fear you’re in a works religion. Verse 15 again.
Romans 8:15-17
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are (not hope to be, but rather it’s a done deal) the children of God: 17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."
If we’re His children, then we’re going to be glorified together with Him. Colossians 3:5a
When we become a believer we automatically put to death these things that are part and parcel of life on this earth. Colossians 3:5b
Now verse 6.
Colossians 3:6
"For which things’ sake the wrath of God (these are the things that bring on the wrath of God) cometh on the children of disobedience:"
Leviticus 18:24
Leviticus 18:30
"Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God."

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