Colossians 3:1

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Summary

Colossians 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Risen

Ephesians 2:5

Seek

Hebrews 11:13

General references

1 Corinthians 15:13

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

Risen

when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers ??a power which operates with the strength of the might

he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

Seek

mind what is above, not what is on earth,

store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.

Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,

(These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.'

General references

If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise;

(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).