If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
To those fruitless exercises which the false apostles urged, “Recommandoyent estroittement;” — “Urgently recommended.” as though perfection consisted in them, he opposes those true exercises in which it becomes Christians to employ themselves; and this has no slight bearing upon the point in hand; for when we see what God would have us do, we afterwards easily despise the inventions of men.
Freedom from the ceremonial law does not license you to live as you please; instead, walk closer with God in evangelical obedience. Because Christ sits at the right hand of God, secured our heavenly happiness at vast expense, you must seek and secure what He purchased and prize it above all earthly concerns.
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Commenting on Colossians 3:1-4
If ye then be risen with Christ,.... The apostle having observed in the former chapter, that the believing Colossians were dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, were buried with him in baptism, and were risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, argues from hence how much it became them to regard a new and spiritual life, and to...