Alive In Christ Part 2

Colossians 2:13-15 (NASB95)
13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

Dead In Sin

We were once dead. I think this is a hard concept for the modern day world to grasp. They look at their fleshly accomplishments and pursuits and ask, "How can I be dead? This is nonsense. I feel, I desire, I get." they might say. But in actuality, because of sin, they are dead to God.  "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest." (Ephesians 2:1-3, NASB95)

Made Alive

Christ destroyed sin’s claim on us through his death and resurrection. To be alive in Christ is to be set free from the debt and the power of sin. Christ has made us alive in Him; we have died to sin and have become alive to God. "For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin." (Romans 6:5-7, NASB95)

Live in Freedom

Satan has lost his authority over us…"When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him." (Colossians 2:15, NASB95) Christ has defeated him. So live, knowing that we were dead in our sins, but have been made alive to God in Christ.