Something About the Risen Life (Colossians 3:1-9)

“If ye then be risen with Christ.” What a staggering reality! Paul is not offering us a suggestion here—he is declaring a truth that changes everything.

• If you are in Christ,
• if you’ve truly been born again, you are not who you used to be.
• You have been raised to new life!

This is not just some metaphorical language or spiritual sentiment. You have, by the power of God, been resurrected with Christ Himself! And now, this new life should govern everything about you.

If we are indeed risen with Christ, then, why do we live as if we are still buried in the old ways? Why do we grope around in the darkness, enslaved to earthly things, when we have been called to walk in newness of life, in the light of His glorious resurrection?

This is not just an abstract theological idea—it is the bedrock of our entire Christian existence. The resurrection of Christ was not just a historical event that we commemorate on Easter. No! The resurrection is a living, breathing reality that should infiltrate and transform every corner of our lives.

When Paul says, “If ye then be risen with Christ,” he is declaring that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is now at work in you! How can we possibly remain unchanged by that? Paul follows this with a command: “Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”

Here is the question: Are you seeking the things that are above? Are your thoughts and affections set on Christ, or are they tangled up in the trivial pursuits of this fading world?

Paul is saying, if you have been saved, “You’ve been raised from death to life—now live like it!”

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