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29th December 2024
SundayReflection
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'David Platt'
'Lead Pastor for McLean Bible Church'
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"Rooted and Built in Christ"
Therefore, as you've received Christ, Jesus the Lord, so walk in him rooted and built up in him and established in the faith just as you were taught abounding and thanksgiving.
..... Colossians 2:6-7
Oh, there's so much in these couple of verses ...
Especially coming on the heels of what we see at the end of Colossians ...
This glorious mystery of Christ in us.
So then verse 6 says, therefore, in light of all that's been said in Colossians up to this point ...
As you received Christ Jesus as the Lord of your life, so now walk in him.
So the language at the end of Colossians 1 is Christ is in you.
Now the language is 'you walk in him.'
It's this doctrine that we see all over the Bible of union with Christ.
Think about all the different times in the New Testament where we read that Jesus is with us.
Think about Matthew 28:20. I will be with you always to the end of the age. And then we are with Jesus.
Romans talks about how if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
So he is with us, we are with him.
And then Colossians 1, Christ is in you.
Now here, you are in Christ.
So this doctrine of our lives totally united with Jesus.
And that's what I love about the language at the beginning of verse 7 here in Colossians 2.
We are rooted and built up in him.
You have a root in Christ, we're rooted in Jesus. You have a strong foundation.
This is your identity. This is who you are.
You're rooted and built up in Christ by nature.
The fact that you are 'in' Jesus and Jesus is in you and you are 'with' Jesus and Jesus is with you ... You're being built up in him.
And so the practical application here, the command in Colossians 2:6 is so 'walk' in him.
In other words, live in this reality all day long.
Let this reality transform everything you do, everything you think, everything you desire, everything you say, every decision you make, every interaction you have, do all of it in him, him in you with him, him with you.
To walk in Christ means to abound in thanksgiving.
And based on that phrase, I just want to encourage you today to abound in thanksgiving,
just give thanksgiving all day long to God, to Jesus
and know that as you do, this is essential to experiencing what it means to walk in him, to be rooted and built up in him.
So let's pray accordingly.
God, we praise you for this reality.
We praise you that we've received Christ, Jesus the Lord, we praise you.
Jesus is the Lord of our lives.
We praise you for a union with you.
We praise you that we are rooted and built up in you.
We have so much to be thankful for.
In fact, that's how I want us to close.
Instead of me just saying amen and that being the end, I want to encourage us as this short podcast episode comes to a close, just to spend some time in prayers of thanksgiving, and you just let that run in your life.
Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for, all the circumstances, even hard ones that the Bible causes to abound in thanksgiving in the middle of.
I'm not even going to say amen.
Just abound in thanksgiving in prayer right now.
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This is an edited version.
The full article and Bible references are avaiable on request
David Platt
serves as a Lead Pastor for McLean Bible Church.
He is also the Founder and Chairman of Radical,
an organization that helps people follow Jesus and make him known in their neighbourhood and all nations.
David received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Some of his published works include Radical, Radical Together,
Follow Me, Counter Culture, Something Needs to Change, and Don't Hold Back.
He lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area with his wife and children.
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