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Paul's letter to the Colossians

it was

written during one of Paul the Apostles

many imprisonments for announcing Jesus

as the risen Lord and the letters

addressed to a group of people that Paul

had never met who made up a church

community that he didn't start this

church at Colossae was started by a

co-worker of Paul's named fshoo was

actually from that city and the

professors had recently visited Paul in

prison and the updated him on how well

the Colossians were doing overall but he

also mentioned some of the cultural

pressures attempting them to turn away

from Jesus and so Paul wrote this letter

to encourage the Colossians to address

the issues that i professed had raised

and then to challenge them to a greater

devotion to choose us the letters design

and flow of thoughts are pretty easy to

follow the opening movement focuses on

Jesus as the exalted Messiah Paul then

goes on to show how his suffering in

prison is for the exalted Jesus and then

he addresses the pressures tempting the

cautions to turn away from Jesus after

this he explores the new way of life

that Jesus's resurrection opened up for

them so the letter opens with two

prayers Paul first thanks God that he

learned from a professed that the

Colossians have been totally faithful to

Jesus showing love for God and their

neighbors all because of the hope they

have in the new creation that Jesus has

in store and so he moves on to pray that

they would grow in their wisdom and

understanding about Jesus and then Paul

has placed a poem here to help the

Colossians and us do exactly that

it's the centerpiece of chapter 1 a poem

all about the crucified and exalted

Messiah it has two parallel stanzas and

it's crammed with language and imagery

from the book of Genesis and Exodus from

the Psalms and proverbs the first and

explores how Jesus is the true image of

God in him the full character and

purpose of God is embodied in a human

he's the firstborn in Old Testament

phrase about Jesus's royal status over

all creation he shares in the very

identity of the one true creator god and

buy him all reality all powers and

authorities spiritual and human have

been created

it's in Jesus the Messiah that we

discovered the very

author and king of creation and so in

the second stanza we discover he's also

the one bringing about a new creation

he's the head of a new body which refers

to Jesus people who are the new humanity

of which his own resurrection existence

is a prototype in him

God's glorious temple presence dwells

and so it's through Jesus's death and

resurrection that God has reconciled

himself to humanity to all spiritual

powers to all of creation

it's a remarkable palm and Paul will

keep referring back to it as he goes on

in the letter so we first shows how the

truth of this poem transforms his own

experience of suffering in prison he's

being punished for announcing to the

greek in the Roman world that Jesus is

the resurrected Lord and king of all and

so his suffering he thinks is not a sign

of defeat

it's actually his way of participating

in Jesus's own suffering done as an act

of love and so his hardships are

actually cause for joy

he's imprisoned for the surprising news

that Israel's resurrected Messiah is

creating a new multi-ethnic family and

more just as the divine glory dwelt in

Jesus so Jesus dwells in and among his

international family or as Paul says the

Messiah is in you all the hope of glory

Paul then addresses the cultural

pressures that attempting the questions

to turn away from Jesus they were

confronted by a combination of mystical

polytheism along with a pressure to

observe the laws of the Torah so all

these new Christians they had grown up

worshipping the various Greek and Roman

gods who govern different arenas of

human life and many simply included

Jesus as one more deity that they could

worship there was also great pressure

from the Jewish Christian community for

these non-jews to complete their

commitment to the Messiah by following

all of the laws found in the Torah

specifically mentions eating a kosher

diet observing sacred days and

circumcision it's very similar to the

problem he addressed in the letter to

the Galatians for Paul to give into

either of these temptations is

compromised

it's a failure to grasp who Jesus really

is and what he did on their behalf

the Colossians used to live in fear of

spiritual powers and elemental spirits

as Paul calls them but Jesus triumphed

over these through his death and

resurrection he freed the Colossians

from any obligation to them in the same

way Jesus fulfilled on our behalf all of

the laws of the Torah which never had

the power to transform the selfish human

heart anyway and so what Jesus did in

his life and death and resurrection it

lacks nothing it doesn't need to be

supplemented by following the laws he is

the reality to which all over the laws

of the Torah were pointing anyway

instead of the laws followers of Jesus

have the power of his resurrection to

change them which is what he goes on to

explore following Jesus means joining

his new humanity because their lives

have now been joined to the Risen Jesus

is life and this is why Paul challenges

the Colossians to set their minds on

things above where the Messiah is seated

or rules at God's right hand Paul

doesn't mean here think about how you

one day leave Earth and go to heaven

rather the heavens are the transcendent

place from which Jesus rules now over

all of creation and from there he will

one day return here to transform all

things or as process when the Messiah

who is your life is revealed

you two will be revealed with him in

glory

so Paul's challenges them to live in the

present as the kinds of new humans they

will one day become he uses the image of

their old humanity characterized by

distorted sexuality and destructive

speech for Christians that humanity died

with Jesus and has been replaced by his

own new humanity which is characterized

by Mercy in generosity by forgiveness

and love and this humanity it transcends

the ethnic and social boundary lines of

our world to create in Paul's words a

people where there is no one Greek or

Jewish circumcised or uncircumcised

slaver free but the Messiah is all and

is in all people call them gets really

practical and he shows the Colossians

what this new humanity might look like

in a first century Roman

household which was a highly

authoritarian institution where the male

patriarchy held the power of life and

death over his wife and children and

slaves not so in a Christian household

here the Risen Jesus is the true Lord

and so in the Lord the wife allows her

husband to become responsible for her

and husband is subject to Jesus by

loving his wife and placing her

well-being about his own in a home where

Jesus is Lord children are not objects

but are called to maturity and to

respect and parents are to raise their

children with patience and understanding

Christians who are slaves are to honor

their human masters precisely because

they're not the real master Jesus's and

Christians who have slaves are to

understand that this slave is not their

property but rather a fellow member of

Jesus's body to be honored and embraced

in love and Paul's walking a very fine

line here he is reshaping the most basic

Roman institution around Jesus who rules

by his self giving love and so while he

doesn't abolish the household structure

outright the exalted Messiah demands

that it be transformed almost beyond the

point of recognition for any Roman

living in class I you can see this most

clearly in the letters conclusion after

a request for prayer Paul applies these

instructions about Christian slaves and

masters and we discover that ticket is

the one carrying and reading this letter

to the Colossians and he's accompanied

by a certain Onesimus who was a former

slave to a collage in Christian named by

lehman and we discover from another

letter addressed to Philemon the own SMS

had escaped from his master it was a

crime worthy of imprisonment but paul

asks the whole church to greet Decimus

as a faithful and beloved brother in the

lord and then in the letter to Philemon

Paul says that he should receive

Onesimus no longer as a slave but as a

brother talk about ending the letter

with a punch

so in the letter to the Colossians Paul

is inviting us to see that no part of

human existence remains untouched by the

loving and liberating rule of the Risen

Jesus

are suffering are temptation to

compromise our moral character the power

dynamics in our homes all of it must be

re-examined and transformed we are

invited to live in the present as if the

new creation really arrived when Jesus

rose from the dead and that's what the

letter to the Colossians is all about

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