Colossians
3:1-4
Introduction: Today we are “Hid With Christ”. The resurrection secured so much for us. It opened a way for a new life in Christ
Jesus. Now, because we are dead to this
world, walking in the resurrected life here on earth, we become hid in God
through Christ Jesus.
A. He is not actually dead, he still lives upon
the earth
1. But God counts the believer
dead in the death of Christ
a. When Christ died, the
believer died
b. Right along with “Christ in God’s
mind”
2. God counts it so - - -
a. Whatever God counts so - -
IT IS FACT
B. Therefore - - the believer is actually
dead in God’s mind
1. This means a significant fact - -
-
a. A dead man cannot sin
b. A dead man no longer lives for
this earth
c. He lives for the next world
C. Since we are dead -- -
1. We are to seek the things of
Christ and of heaven
A. What does this mean to us?
1. It means that God counts the
believer HID in the Resurrection of Christ
a. When Christ arose, it was
not to His old life
b. He dies to His old life once for
all
2. Therefore – when the believer is
said to be “Hid
with Christ” -
-
a. It means that God counts the
believer risen with Christ
b. God counts the believer as risen to a NEW LIFE
c. God see the believer “Hid With Christ” day by day
d. God sees him walking “IN CHRIST”
3. Because he, the believer, is “IN
CHRIST”
a. The believer set his mind on
things above
b. Upon things of Christ and of
Heaven
c. He sets his mind and life
upon the things that please Christ
A. Christ is the only life that God sees as
living
1. Christ is your life in the
eyes of God
B. You live and have your being IN CHRIST
1. You just roam around in the “Life
of Christ”
2. You are hid in the “Life of
Christ”
3. You are not seen as living and
moving, for you are “Hid in Christ”
4. Christ is the only life -- body that is
seen by God
a. This life is to be seen by
the world
C. Think how surrendered to Christ we are to be
1. So given to Christ’s life is all
that is seen
2. We ask, how is this possible?
a. By seeking those things
which are above where Christ sits
b. By setting our mind on things
above, not on things of earth
c. By casting down imaginations
– 2Corinthians 10:3-4
D. Try this for a week - - -
1. In a normal, practical day of living - - -
a. Turn the television off
b. Set aside the newspaper,
magazines, and books
c. Get into the Word of God –
read – study
d. Meditate and pray through the Word
e. Memorize and live out the
Word
f. Get alone and pray - at least
morning and evening
g. Learn to silently whisper a
prayer every few minutes
h. Surrender your life totally
to Christ
i. Present your
body as a living sacrifice to God
j. To know, believe, and
understand Him and to make Him known
2. YOU ARE HIS WITNESS – ROMANS
12:2, ISAIAH 43:10
3. No way to know Him unless - - -
a. We set our minds upon Him
b. Now is the time to do it
c. Get into our secret place of
prayer
d. Seek His face with a renewed
commitment
1. Our lives are “Hid With Christ” Vs 3
2. We live, yet not us, But Christ lives –
a. Galatians 2:20
3. We are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that
the life of Jesus
might
be made manifest in our flesh
a. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
4. For us to live is Christ, and to
die is gain –
a. Philippians 1:21
5. We know this: That
we have passed from death unto life
a. 1 John 3:14
IV.
The Reward for Being Hid in Christ – Vs 4
A. The reward is that of appearing with Christ in
Glory
1. Think – God sees us Hid With Christ
2. Therefore – We are Risen With Christ
3. Being Risen With Christ, we never have to die
4. Christ already lives in the
presence of God
5. Since God sees us Hid With Christ –
6. God sees us IN HIS PRESENCE
7. God has already accepted us as
being in His presence forever
8. All because we are HID WITH
CHRIST
B. In a practical term – we are still on
earth
1. God has left us here to witness
for Him
2. When He
gets ready to take us home, this is what happens –
a. We confront death
b. In the last second, the last
moment - -
c. Right before we are to leave
this world for the next - -
d. God shall fix our minds upon Jesus
1. 2 Timothy 4:18
e. God gives us a “Fixation of
Mind” – we never taste death
C. When Christ returns –
1. We shall appear with Him in Glory
2. There is a New Heaven and a New
Earth where we will reign in Glory with Him forever
a. Matthew 13:43
b. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
c. Philippians 3:20-21
d. 2 Timothy 2:10
e. 1 Peter 5:1-4
Conclusion: Very
brief in closing. Are you Hid in Christ? Are
you ready to step from here to eternity with Jesus?