Today we'll answer a final question on salvation: how must we live once we're saved?
This is salvation. We were 1) saved by God, then we realized we must 2) become sin-slayers and, finally we 3) live in Christ. That is what Colossians says about salvation.
To see a chart outlining the order of biblical salvation (ordo salutis), check out here.
"So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory." (Colossians 3:1-4)Once we've been saved and have put sin to death, we have another responsibility. We've died to sin, so we must now live in Christ. We must set our eyes on eternal things, not on the fleeting happenings of the world. And why? Because our life is hidden with God! We must seek what is above, where our Messiah is. And why? Because we were raised with the Messiah! We crucified ourselves to sin with Christ when He saved us, but now we are raised with Him to live in Him. Just look at the verses from Tuesday in Romans 6. It says "if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ... So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus." (emphasis mine) We are no longer dead to God, but alive to Him! So now we must live in Him!
This is salvation. We were 1) saved by God, then we realized we must 2) become sin-slayers and, finally we 3) live in Christ. That is what Colossians says about salvation.
To see a chart outlining the order of biblical salvation (ordo salutis), check out here.