Nov 13

Colossians 2:45
Memorise Colossians 2:45
“…you, being dead in your sins…hath he quickened together with him…”

Colossians 2:13 reads “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.” Before our salvation, we were all spiritually dead. This was the result of sin that separated us from God, and condemned us to eternal death. Being dead, there was no way that we could revive ourselves. As uncircumcised Gentiles who knew nothing of the law, Ephesians 2:12 says we were, “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world”. But by the grace and mercies of God, we, like the Colossian Christians, have been made alive together with Christ, and have had all our sins forgiven. This is a great privilege, for by ourselves, there was nothing we could have done to contribute to our salvation. Therefore having this new life in Christ, they were told that they should not return to the old Jewish traditions and ceremonies that did not apply to them anyway. They were now “quickened together with Him”, made spiritually alive. Even though the Gentiles had never known the law and were living in sin, Christ nonetheless has forgiven all their sins. Uncircumcision is therefore no hindrance to Gentiles becoming Christians, since Christ has forgiven all sins, so these Gentile believers should not seek to be circumcised. Instead, they should seek to be more and more sanctified in Christ, to seek to be alive in Christ, and dead to sin.

We have constant reminders to sanctify ourselves: weekly through Lord’s Day worship services, daily if your parents are more than nominal Christians, constantly if you are reading His Word regularly. If you however treat all these as boring obligations to endure through, then something is very wrong: all these should remind you that you are now a new creature and you must strive to be more Christ-like each day. Something is very wrong especially if you find worship services boring, because every element of the worship, whether it is corporate prayer, the reading and preaching of God’s Word, the singing of hymns based on God’s Word etc., all are calling you towards sanctification and pointing you to Christ, and if you are finding all this boring then you are likely not wishing to be sanctified in the first place.

Thought: What is my attitude like towards QT?
Prayer: May I be thankful and not dismissive for these constant reminders.