life and death – Three Minute Bible

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025

Colossians 3:5a – Soul Searching

picture of a man and a translucent copy of himself which represents his soul

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature …

Summary: Understanding Paul’s words requires the ability to discern our invisible qualities.

The Bible talks a lot about life and death and, of course, we all know what “life and death” is.

Right?

As we have discussed in past meditations, there are two kinds of “life and death.” One is the obvious one that we see and hear about in our natural lives. People are “born,” people “live,” and people “die.” All the time.

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

Colossians 3:3 – Safe in Jesus

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Summary: Once again, Paul challenges us to use our understanding to discern what he means by life and death and to figure out what he means by being “hidden with Christ.”

You might remember from our meditation on Colossians 2:20, where Paul says, “Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world …”, that we have already explored the concept of “death” according to the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32).

In the story of the Prodigal, he leaves home, and when he does, Dad says his son is now “dead” to him (Luke 15:24,32). Now, he doesn’t mean “dead” in the sense of cutting someone off. Some people say, “You’re dead to me!” as a way of saying, “I hate you!” It is obvious from the story that the dad does not hate his son.

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024

Galatians 4:24b – Choosing to Live

The women represent two covenants.

Summary: Paul begins to explain what he said would be figurative.