Bible Study - March 27th
March 27th - Easter Sunday
"Seek the things that are above"
Acts 10: 34-43
Colossians 3: 1-4
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on thing that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)
The earliest Christians were baptized as adults - often at Easter. As they were submerged under the water (as Jesus was at the Jordan River) it symbolized their "death" to their old self and a rising to "new life" in Christ. It was a form of resurrection.
In being "resurrected" the new Christian was to set his/her life on things that are from above (ie. the spiritual life). As a result, one's thoughts were to be directed away from earthly concerns (which are temporal and bound to pass away) and toward the eternal things.
Paul is not just saying, however, that Christians are to become other-worldly, but rather that we are to go on with our work in the world. But from now on we are to live with the knowledge that this world is not all that matters. We are to have, as it were, a new set of values. Things we once desired and wished to possess - no longer have the same importance. The will to dominate and control gives way to a desire to serve others and feelings of revenge and anger are replaced by mercy and forgiveness.
We need to realize that this "new life" in Christ makes no real sense in terms of the world and it's values. The "world" is primarily interested in survival and self preservation even at the expense of everthing else. While this appears to be a practical matter it is really very despairing for if this world is "all their is" then there is not much to hope for - because as Ecclesiastes says "it is all vanity and striving after wind." The real hope is that God has acted to "save us" and that is what Easter is all about. Without a spiritual life in Christ - we are, in a way, "hopeless."
The principality of death has been in the news. Death in Iraq as we enter the third year of war.
Death in Red Lake as result of the tragic shooting at the high school. Possible death for Terri Schiavo (or is she already dead?) in the whole "feeding tube" crisis. All this reminds of the reality of death in our midst. All the more reason to be reminded that "life" is also in our midst. New "life" in Christ's victory over death. As Paul says, "Oh death where is thy sting...?" Happy Easter!
"Seek the things that are above"
Acts 10: 34-43
Colossians 3: 1-4
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on thing that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)
The earliest Christians were baptized as adults - often at Easter. As they were submerged under the water (as Jesus was at the Jordan River) it symbolized their "death" to their old self and a rising to "new life" in Christ. It was a form of resurrection.
In being "resurrected" the new Christian was to set his/her life on things that are from above (ie. the spiritual life). As a result, one's thoughts were to be directed away from earthly concerns (which are temporal and bound to pass away) and toward the eternal things.
Paul is not just saying, however, that Christians are to become other-worldly, but rather that we are to go on with our work in the world. But from now on we are to live with the knowledge that this world is not all that matters. We are to have, as it were, a new set of values. Things we once desired and wished to possess - no longer have the same importance. The will to dominate and control gives way to a desire to serve others and feelings of revenge and anger are replaced by mercy and forgiveness.
We need to realize that this "new life" in Christ makes no real sense in terms of the world and it's values. The "world" is primarily interested in survival and self preservation even at the expense of everthing else. While this appears to be a practical matter it is really very despairing for if this world is "all their is" then there is not much to hope for - because as Ecclesiastes says "it is all vanity and striving after wind." The real hope is that God has acted to "save us" and that is what Easter is all about. Without a spiritual life in Christ - we are, in a way, "hopeless."
The principality of death has been in the news. Death in Iraq as we enter the third year of war.
Death in Red Lake as result of the tragic shooting at the high school. Possible death for Terri Schiavo (or is she already dead?) in the whole "feeding tube" crisis. All this reminds of the reality of death in our midst. All the more reason to be reminded that "life" is also in our midst. New "life" in Christ's victory over death. As Paul says, "Oh death where is thy sting...?" Happy Easter!
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