The Believing Life - Colossians 3:1-17

Scripture

• Colossians 3:1–17

About this sermon

It’s a scary thing. There are people who say that they know Jesus, and who believe that they know Jesus, but whose lives have never really changed. The consistent testimony of Scripture is that such a thing is impossible. You can’t know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and live the life you once lived before He saved you. You can’t live the old life because you will never again be that old person. Even when a Christian’s life resembles the old life – it isn’t the old life. Even at a Christian’s worst, even in our lowest moments, even in our greatest struggles, even when our life may resemble what it was before we knew Jesus, if the Son of God has saved you, if He now lives in you, you are not the person you once were. But this new life, though it is God created and God granted, still must be lived. With the new life has come a new war. We have a new spiritual enemy, we know new spiritual struggles. Though the new life is a certainty because of what God has done, the fact that He has done it means that we will choose it; and that, we must choose it. What we have in Colossians 3:1-17 is a description of a believer’s life. This is the life that is now ours by God’s grace, and this is the life that is now ours by constant choice. It is both at the same time. And it involves great effort.

Topics

• Faith