Our Identity In Christ - Colossians 3:1-11

For All Believers: If we want to know who WE are, we simply need to understand who HE is. Because WE are in HIM.  And where HE is WE are.  And where WE are, there HE is.  The times that we stop acting like Children of God are the times we forget who we are.

Colossians 3:1-11

"If then you have been raised up with Christ, 

     keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 

  2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 

            3 For you have died and 

                     your life is hidden with Christ in God. 

                                     4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then 

                                         you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to
                    immorality, 

                    impurity, 

                    passion, 

                    evil desire, and 

                    greed, which amounts to idolatry. 

            6 For it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come, 7 and 

                      in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. 

            8 But now you also, put them all aside: 

                    anger, 

                    wrath, 

                    malice, 

                    slander, and 

                    abusive speech from your mouth. 

                    9 Do not lie to one another, 

                                        since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, 10 and 

                                        have put on the new self who is 

                                                            being renewed to a true knowledge 

                                                            according to the image of the One who created him 

                                                                     11 a renewal in which there is no distinction between 

                                                                                Greek and Jew, 

                                                                                circumcised and uncircumcised, 

                                                                                barbarian, Scythian, 

                                                                                slave and freeman, 

                                                                                but Christ is all, and in all."

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We must always connect our identiy with who we are in Christ.  Our practices and perforamance as Children of God hinge on whether or not we are seeing ourselves for who we really are; namely, in Him.

Our Identity in Christ:
-We were buried with Him.
-We were raised with Him.
-We are seated with Him.