Colossians 3:5-6

Do you see it there? If we die to sin, we're going to be resurrected. Is sin serious? Yes, because sin equals death. If we die to sin, then the spirit of life is going to be in us and we'll be resurrected.

Brethren, the crucifixion, the death and resurrection of Christ is designed to show us that salvation is not through the flesh but of the spirit. The flesh is designed to die and all that it does will perish with it. We have been called not from death but out of it. There is no such thing, once a person becomes a Christian, of having the best of both worlds. We have our choice. It is either the way of Cain or it is the way of God.

Brethren, we don't live in Eden. The curse of sin and death is working in this world and there is only one way around it. Jesus said in John 6:29, "This is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He has sent." And in John 11:25, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live."

The real work of God is to produce faith in Christ in His people, because without faith it is impossible to please Him. Faith is the foundation of the relationship with Him because it motivates the right choices and [in turn] puts to death the self.

Colossians 3:2-11

He tells us that our world has changed here. We are supposed to be always thinking above the sun, always living above the sun. We are not under the sun spiritually anymore and so our minds have to be set on those things which are heavenly.

He is telling us here that we are being created anew. We are the new man. And as Charles put it years ago, the model of the new man is Christ Himself. And so no wonder Christ is all in all. We have been put into this body, Christ's Body, where there is no divisions—there should be no divisions between all of these different types of people—and we are to be totally focused on Christ. He is our everything. That is how change is made.