Colossians 3:1-4 | Glorification

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: Colossians 3:1-4

1. THE TRINITARIAN WORK OF UNION WITH CHRIST
2. YOUR LIFE IS HIDDEN
3. CHRIST WHO IS YOUR LIFE
4. THEN YOU ALSO WILL APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY

2 Timothy 1:8–9
… God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

2 Timothy 1:9–10
… grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel

Romans 8:11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 8:16–17
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 8:15
you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Peter O’Brien
Our heavenly life will be fully manifest in all its glory when Christ who embodies it appears at his Parousia. We too who share his life will share his glorious epiphany. What is now secretly present shall be revealed when Christ shall appear.

Joseph Lightfoot
Then you also will appear with him. The veil which now shrouds your higher life from others, and even partly from yourselves, will then be withdrawn. The world which persecutes, despises, ignores now will then be blinded with the dazzling glory of the revelation.

Cornerstone
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
In Him, my righteousness, alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.