“ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ”
For ye are dead - Dead to the world; dead to sin; dead to earthly pleasures. On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the Romans 6:2 note; Ephesians 2:1 note. The idea of the apostle is, that a...
(4) For ye are dead, (5) and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) A reason taken of the efficient causes and others: you are dead with regard to the flesh, that is, with regard to the old nature...
What it Means to be Risen with Christ. Those who are risen with Christ must aspire to the things above, in the region of Christ's heavenly session at God's right hand. Their minds must be set, not...
are dead . died. life. App-170. is . has been. hid . i.e. laid up (in store). Compare Matthew 13:55 . with . App-104. in. App-104.
3. For ye are dead. No one can rise again with Christ, if he has not first died with him. Hence he draws an argument from rising again to dying, as from a consequent to an antecedent...
DISCOURSE: 2183 THE EXALTED STATE OF A CHRISTIAN Colossians 3:3-4 . Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear wi...
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. For ye are dead - To all hopes of happiness from the present world; and, according to your profession, should feel no more appetite for the t...
For ye are dead, &c.— "For ye are, by profession and obligation, and all true believers really are, by communion with Christ in his death, dead in your hearts and affections as to the Mosaic la...
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Greek aorist) 'For ye died once for all,' in your Head, Christ ( Romans 6:4 ; Romans 6:7 ; Romans 6:10 ), with whom ye are one by f...
The Christian's Risen Life and the Duties it entails 1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life. Paraphrase ] '(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ's death only...
III. (1-4) As the partaking of the death of Christ taught the negative lesson of death to the Law, so the partaking of His resurrection teaches the positive lesson of the spiritual life. We observ...
Chapter 3 THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN LIFE A RISEN LIFE Colossians 3:1-4 (R.V.) We have now done with controversy. We hear no more about heretical teachers. The Apostle has cut his way through the t...
Seeking the “Things That Are Above” Colossians 3:1-11 Let us repeat the glorious truth, which was doubtless the heart of Paul's teaching, that our old nature has been nailed in Christ to the Cr...
The believer is to "seek the things... above." The word "seek" marks aspiration, desire, and passion. The things above are those of the empire of Christ. In order to seek these things the mind must b...
(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 a...
HIDDEN LIFE ‘Your life is hid with Christ in God.’ Colossians 3:3 Spiritual union between the believer and his Lord is a truth abundantly set forth in the Word of God, and eminently suggesti...
For ye are dead ,.... Not in a natural or corporeal sense, for they were living in the world; nor in a moral sense, for though they had been dead in sins, they were quickened by the grace of God; no...
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Ver. 3. For ye are dead ] Crucified to the world, as Paul, Galatians 6:14 , weaned as a child from the breasts, or rather botches of the...
For ye are dead As to sin, so to the world and all earthly things, and that both by profession as Christians, and by an indispensable obligation laid upon you by Him whose laws you have engaged to...
CHANGING THE OLD FOR THE NEW (vs.1-11) We have seen some practical exhortations mingled with the doctrine of this epistle. Now this chapter begins what is mainly practical instruction based on th...
The Spiritual Life. A. D. 62. 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are a...
For ye are dead; the apostle adds another reason why the believing Colossians should not be earthly-minded, because they were dead, not absolutely, but in a certain respect, viz. of sin, and the wo...
‘Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth, for you died and your life is hid with Christ in God.' The tenses here are important. ‘Go on setting your mind c...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Colossians 3:3 . Your life is hid with Christ in God. —You are much more likely to have it kept pure by having it in Christ than by setting round it a hedge of “Th...
Colossians 3:3 The Hidden Life. If we are true Christians, we have passed through a death of some kind, and our life, if we have one, is a hidden life, a life not seen by men, a life safe in the...
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, Leave all these outward rituals, and formalities, and ordinances of men, Colossians 3:1-3 . Seek those things which are above, where Christ si...
Colossians 3:1 . If ye then be risen with Christ, above the darkness and torpor of the present world, as in Colossians 2:20 , live in conformity to your hope, by seeking those things that are ab...
EXPOSITION Colossians 3:1-51 SECTION VII . THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE . The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the c...
The Affections of the Christians Set on Things Above.
1 Corinthians 15:45 ; 1 Corinthians 2:14 ; 1 John 3:2 ; 1 Peter 1:3-5 ; 1 Peter 3:4 ; 2 Corinthians 5:7 ; Colossians 1:5 ; Colossians 2:20 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Colossians 3:4 ; Galatians 2:2...
The New Life in Christ Jesus Colossians 3:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Seven pairs of things: 1. Things above, and things on the earth ( Colossians 3:2 ). 2. Things seen, and things not seen ( 2...
For ye are dead — To the things on earth. And your real, spiritual life is hid from the world, and laid up in God, with Christ — Who hath merited, promised, prepared it for us, and gives us the ear...