Colossians 3:4

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 'When Christ shall be manifested, who is our life (; ; ), then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory' (). His non-manifestation is the pretext of unbelievers (). The Spirit-imparted life our souls have now in Him shall be extended to our bodies (; ). THEN - and not until then. Those err who expect a perfect church before then. The true...

4._But when Christ, our life, shall appear_. Here we have a choice consolation — that the coming of Christ will be the manifestation of our life. And, at the same time, he admonishes us how unreasonable were the disposition of the man, who should refuse to bear up (435) until that day. For if our life is shut up in Christ, it must be _hid_, until he shall _appear _...

1-4 As Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, they must walk the more closely with God in gospel obedience. As heaven and earth are contrary one to the other, both cannot be followed together; and affection to the one will weaken and abate affection to the other. Those that are born again are dead to sin, because its dominion is broken, its power gradually subdued by the operation of grace, and it shall at length be extinguished by the perfection of glory. To be dead, then, means this, that those who have the Holy Spirit, mortifying within them the lusts of the flesh, are able to despise earthly things, and to desire those that are heavenly. Christ is, at present, one whom we have not seen; but our comfort is, that our life is safe with him. The streams of this living water flow into the soul by the influences of the Holy Spirit, through faith. Christ lives in the believer by his...

Verse Colossians 3:4. _WHEN CHRIST_, WHO IS _OUR LIFE_] When Christ comes to judge the world, ye shall appear with him in his glory, and in an eternal state of blessedness....

WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE - Notes, John 1:4; John 11:25, note. SHALL APPEAR - In the day when he shall come to judge the world. THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY - 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Christians shall then be raised from the dead, and ascend with the Redeemer to heaven....

EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 3:1 SECTION VII. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE. The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the controversial to the more practical purport of his letter. There is no break, however, in the current of his thought; for throughout this chapter he urges the pursuit of a practical Christian life in a sense and in a manner silently opposed to the tendencies of Gnosticizing error. How much more congenial was the task to which he now addresses himself we may judge, perhaps, from the ease and simplicity which mark the language of this chapter, as compared with the abrupt and seemingly embarrassed style of the last section. We may analyze the hortatory section of the Epistle ...

WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR,.... The Vulgate Latin version, and some copies, read, "your life". Christ is the author of spiritual life, the fountain from whence it springs, the object on which the saints live, yea, their very life itself; it is not so much they that live, as Christ that lives in them: and he is their eternal life; it is in him, and given forth by him; to know him now is the beginning of it; and its perfection hereafter will lie in the vision of him, communion with him, and conformity to him. The Jews have a saying y, "that lives depend upon the son of Jesse,'' all sorts of life, natural, spiritual, and eternal. At present, Christ, the life of his people, is, as it were, hid; when he had done the work he came into this world about, and which he was manifest in the flesh, he departed out of it, ascended up into heaven, and went to his God and Father, where...

Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God._ Your Lord and Master has gone up to heaven. You profess that he represents you, and that you have gone up there in him and with him. Then do not seek the things that are down here below, the things of earth; but live where your life has gone. Where your treasure is, there let your heart be also. «Seek those things which are above.» Colossians 3:2. _Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead,_ You profess to be dead to the world; is that profession false? You have observed that Scriptural ordinance in which you profess to be buried with Christ; was that observance only an empty form?...

COLOSSIANS 3:4 u`mw/n {B} Although it is possible that h`mw/n, which is supported by B Dc H K 326 614 1241 syrp, h copsa _al,_ was altered by copyists to u`mw/n in order to agree with the second person pronouns before and after, the Committee was impressed by the considerably stronger manuscript evidence that supports u`mw/n, including î46 and good representatives of both the Alexandrian and the Western text-types (a C D* F G P Y 33 81 88 104 1739 it vg copbo goth arm eth _al_)....

III. THE PRACTICAL RESULTS: LIVING AS RISEN WITH CHRIST (3-4) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The life hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1)_ 2. The contrast: The old man and the new man (Colossians 3:5) 3. Manifesting Christ (Colossians 3:12) 4. Relationships (Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1) Colossians 3:1 Risen with Christ; such is the believer's position. “Ye are dead and your life is hid with Chri