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Christ In Me For Them…
Christ In Me For Them…
We started off the first two weeks looking at what it means for us, each of us to be in Christ and Christ to be in us and how that transforms us literally transforms us from the inside out.
And we have been looking at how Christ affects the way we think and affects the way we feel and affects the way we act and our bodies and affects our wills, and we see that all of that is aimed toward His mission.
I want you to look at the next to last circle there—“Relationships.” I want us to think today about how Christ affects our relationships with each other.
We started off the first two weeks looking at what it means for us, each of us to be in Christ and Christ to be in us and how that transforms us literally transforms us from the inside out.
And we have been looking at how Christ affects the way we think and affects the way we feel and affects the way we act and our bodies and affects our wills, and we see that all of that is aimed toward His mission.
I want you to look at the next to last circle there—“Relationships.” I want us to think today about how Christ affects our relationships with each other.
You see at the top of your notes, “Christ in me for them.”
This is the picture that we’re going to see in Colossians 3...
Everything Christ does in me is intended to affect everyone Christ puts around me.
David Platt, “The Disciple’s Relationships,” in David Platt Sermon Archive (Birmingham, AL: David Platt, 2007), 996.
Everything Christ does in me is intended to affect everyone Christ puts around me.
Christ works in us for the sake of others.
We’re going to look at , the whole chapter and take kind of a bird’s eye view.
The text really just preaches itself.
I’m just going to walk us through it as we see the truths unfold.
Colossians 3
What we see in is a summary of what Christ in me the hope of glory really means for the way we relate to each other and how Christ affects our relationships with others.
First of all, in order to cultivate spiritually transformed relationships we need to...
Understand the wholeness you have in Christ.
Understand the wholeness you have in Christ.
This is .
Basically a recap of what we’ve been studying so far in this series.
Number one...
We died with Christ.
That’s what he’s talking about in verse 3. I’ve been crucified with Christ.
We live in Christ.
Christ is our life in a couple of different ways.
First of all...
He is our life now.
You heard Paul say, “Your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
That means you have life right now in Him.
We have eternal life now.
We don’t have to wait.
There is coming a day when our life in Christ will be complete.
He is our life forever.
Here’s the deal, we have eternal life now, but there is coming a day when Christ will come back for us where we will live with Him forever.
We will be glorified.
But think about this.
We will be living in community with the entire body of Christ for eternity.
What about now?
We need each other here possibly even more.
Listen to what a guy named Dietrich Bonhoeffer - a guy who lived in Nazi Germany wrote one of the best books on Christian community called Life Together.
This is what he said.
“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ.
No Christian community is more or less than this.
Whether it’s a brief single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this, we belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.”
Leave behind the habits you had before Christ.
“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ.
No Christian community is more or less than this.
Whether it’s a brief single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this, we belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.”
Now this is the theological foundation.
Let’s now look at the practical implications of Christ in us as it relates to community and our relationships with others.
And what we see is in and 10, you kind of see at the end of verse 9 and beginning of verse 10, you see an image that pervades this entire chapter.
He’s talking about don’t lie to each other, and then he says this, “since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self” (), the language here is literally, “you’ve changed clothes.”
You’ve taken off this set of clothes, and you’ve put on a whole new set of clothes.
You’ve taken off the old self and you’ve put on a new self.
We have taken off the old man and we’ve put on the new man, that’s the picture here; there’s been a fundamental change at the core of who we are.
David Platt, “The Disciple’s Relationships,” in David Platt Sermon Archive (Birmingham, AL: David Platt, 2007), 1000.
And so basically from this point, he talks about how as followers of Christ who have, the new men who have Christ in us, this affects the way we live among each other.
Leave behind the habits you had before Christ.
David Platt, “The Disciple’s Relationships,” in David Platt Sermon Archive (Birmingham, AL: David Platt, 2007), 1000.
Leave behind the habits you had before Christ.
In 3:5 to 3:9 Paul gives us two different lists, two different lists of habits associated with the old self.
These lists are not exhaustive.
I want us to look at how these things affect our relationships.
So let’s look at what he says to put to death...
Sins that destroy us.
Sins that destroy us.
The first thing he lists is sexual immorality.
So the question is...
Is my body consecrated to God?
Is my mind clean before God?
Are my desires controlled by God?
The picture of what we have in is desires that are out of control.
Is my heart content in God?
In reference to greed, am I controlled by my greed, or am I content with what God chooses to supply?
But then he goes on.
Not only sins that destroy us, but...
Sins that damage others.
What we see is a shift in this list to sins that affect our relationships with others directly.
I want you to listen to what he says here in verses 8-9.
We’ll come back to verses 6-7 in a little while.
Colossians 3:8-9
He say’s literally take them off.
“Put to death”.
We need to kill these things in our lives.
We need to ask ourselves these questions...
Do I harbor bitterness?
First thing he lists is anger.
The word here has the meaning of deep-seated anger, or an attitude of anger.
Am I quick to anger?
Wrath.
The word here is rage, literally sudden outbursts of anger, to have a short temper.
Is that where you are?
Do I have hostility toward anyone?
Malice.
Literally ill-will toward anyone.
Do I ever speak negatively about anyone?
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