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Created in Christ
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Pastor Jerry Tom
Weekly Bulletin | Worship Lyrics
Colossians 2:11-15
11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven usall our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities[b] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Circumcised in Christ (v. 11)
United with Christ (v. 12)
Forgiven in Christ (v. 13-14)
Victory in Christ (v. 15)
1 Circumcised in Christ (v. 11) 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ
Eph. 2:3 “among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”
Mark 7:21-23 “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Deut. 30:6 “And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.”
God’s sovereignty did not stop at election, but God’s sovereignty also includes his desired outcome from salvation and that desired outcome is that those he saves will love and obey him for his glory.
…so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.”
The more we mature in Christ, the more we become more keenly aware of the sin in our life. Our awareness of our sin is proportional to our knowledge of God.
Col. 1:10 “so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God”
2. United with Christ (v.12) 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Rom. 6:1-3 “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?”
Rom. 6:6 “We know that our old self[a] was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.”
Eph. 4:21-22 “assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self,[f] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires”
V. 12 ….raised with him through faith
Rom. 6:4 “We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”
Rom. 6:11-14 “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.”
3. Forgiven in Christ (v. 13-14) - 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
2 Cor. 5:14-15 “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.” Paul states here that the “love of Christ controls us.”
4. Victory in Christ (v. 15) - He disarmed the rulers and authorities[b] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
He has given us a new circumcised heart, He put to death our old self, He released us from the bondage of sin and He raised us up in newness of life to live for Him.