--The Supremacy of Christ/ Our Creator
--(Please read Colossians 1:13-20)

-Jehovah God knows those who belong to Him. Jesus, the Son, whom God appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful Word. The Lord leaves the 'choice' up to each individual. (Hebrews 1:1-4)~
Every person on earth has a chance, some many chances, to make the 'choice', to turn to Jesus and live eternally. Some out of pride have suppressed their conscience. Yet until their dying breath, they have a 'chance' to cry out to God to save their soul, so they can be sure of going to Heaven.
Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

--RISEN WITH CHRIST~~

--“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” (Colossians 3:1)

--The twice-born have been raised with Christ and the “new man” (John 3:3,5), is effectively positioned with Christ in glory.
We have been made alive “together with Christ” (Ephesians 2:5) and in the eternal reality of our Creator, who “made us sit together in heavenly places” (Ephesians 2:6).

Thus, the command to seek the “above” realities is not merely a theological idea but rather a profound order to embrace the reality of our new empowerment to walk with Christ in a new life (Romans 6:4). Indeed, we have been newly created by the Creator in “righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). Therefore, since we are God’s workmanship, it is not possible that God could create His children for any other purpose than “good works” (Ephesians 2:10).

Obviously, our Lord knows that we are still in “earthen vessels” (2 Corinthians 4:7). That is precisely why He promised to provide all of our earthly needs if we would but “seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:33)—including our necessary “patient continuance in well doing” (Romans 2:7). Remember, “God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).

The environment of the world constantly opposes the reality of “above.” Even the wisdom of above seems counterintuitive; it is “first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” (James 3:17).
Yet we are still expected to seek to live like we are above because “the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
--ICR/ HMM III -/ CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST/ Phillips, Craig,& Dean
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