Colossians 1:9-13

This is part of the special people promise that He takes us out of spiritual Egypt, as it were, out from under the power of Satan the Devil, and He puts us into an entirely different category, as those who have been translated or conveyed into God's Kingdom. The Kingdom He calls of the Son of His love.

So even though this is not a strict parallel to what we read in Exodus 6 and Deuteronomy 7, it is near enough to show how the Father called, qualified, and drew us to Christ for redemption and forgiveness to become part of His Kingdom, His church, His body. And it is Christ's job then to lead us to holiness and to righteousness that we may have a walk worthy of Him, that is, to walk as He walked and be fully pleasing to God. And that walk ends in glory in the resurrection from the dead as God's spiritual children in the Kingdom of God.

Colossians 1:9-13

In Colossians 1, where we find the preeminence of Christ described, we will read verses 9 through 13.

Just like cultural Christians who do not live by Christ's example, the Jews during Christ's time mistakenly supposed that they were a light to those who were in darkness while being in darkness themselves.