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Monday Jan 23, 2017
Putting Christ First: Christ our new Exodus. Colassians 1:13-14
Monday Jan 23, 2017
Monday Jan 23, 2017
Putting Christ First: Christ, Our New Exodus
Colossians 1:13-14
Teaching Tools
- Throughout history, people of faith have used various tools to teach and remember valuable truths
- Songs
- Creeds
- Stories
- Paul utilizes some of these tools when speaking to the Colossians
- Especially important because they did not personally know each other
- Paul describes God’s work in Christ in 3 ways which would have been familiar to his audience:
- A New Exodus (v. 13-14)
- A New Creation (v. 15-20)
- A New Age (v. 21-23a)
- Based upon prophetic promises
The New Exodus (v. 13-14)
- Paul describes the work of God in Christ as deliverance
- God has delivered us from the ‘domain of darkness’
- Exousia: Authority, power
- Not understood as a physical territory, but rather as a spiritual bondage
- Like God delivered the Israelites from their bondage in Egypt
- Exousia: Authority, power
- God not only frees us from bondage, but also transfers us to a new type of authority
- “He transferred [us] to His Son’s kingdom of love.” (v. 13b)
- One ruled by love
- One ruled by His Son
- God’s rescue agent
- Again, not understood as a physical territory, but rather as a spiritual reality
- Just like Israel was not called to just leave Egypt, but was called to the Promised Land as an inheritance (see v. 12)
- God has delivered us from the ‘domain of darkness’
So What?
- In Christ, we have been rescued from our slavery to sin
- And grants us entrance into a new kingdom
- Where Jesus reigns in love
- Have you accepted this rescue mission?
- And are we living in the reality of Jesus as king?
Meditation Verse: Colossians 1:13-14
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