peace to live by

Having Christ's Consciousness, Part 1 (TMF:2614)

Thursday, May 15, 2025
Peace to Live By: Having Christ's Consciousness, Part 1 (TMF:2614) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul goes ahead and elaborates on the mystery of Christ in the statement: ‘in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3, ESV). Remember, back toward the beginning of Colossians 1, Paul talked about the knowledge. And we said that knowledge lays the bedrock, the foundation of our understanding of life as a Christian. This then includes God’s will for us, as Christians. And over time, we increase in this knowledge, as we learn more, as we grow more, as we experience more. Now, in this verse, Paul is pinpointing or specifying where actual true or real knowledge lies, and that is in Christ. Christ’s consciousness we might say, his way of being. Indeed, when he was here on the earth, having took on an earthly, human body (which he keeps for all eternity), he demonstrated for us the ultimate attitude we are to have. That’s an attitude of love. That’s the overarching attitude.