41 3 3 Through the Bible with Les Feldick The Cross Abolished All Legalism: Colossians 2:14

Colossians 3:1a "If ye then be risen with Christ,..." What's the if for? If you're a true believer! If you're not a believer then none of these things apply. This is only for true believers, not a professor, but a true believer. So that's why the little prepositional "if" is there. Colossians 3:1a "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,..." I think 99% of us can hardly wait for the Lord to come, because we understand the glory that's waiting for us. We're not tied to this old world as beautiful as it is in places. I've always said that I love my cattle, and I've got as good as they come, but they pale in insufficiencies when I think of eternity, and going into the Lord's presence. So we do, we seek those things which are above. Colossians 3:1b "...where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." (positionally) Now again, you know I had someone ask one time, and I can't blame people for wondering, "You mean He's just up there seated on a chair next to God the Father for the last 2000 years?" Well hardly. But positionally, He there, and this is what we have to see, that positionally He's at the Father's right hand interceding for us.