{"id":391,"date":"2010-04-19T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:27:38","slug":"living-in-light-of-the-resurrection-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Living in Light of the Resurrection (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.<\/span>“<\/span><\/strong> (Colossians 3:4)<\/p>\n

Paul continues to make all things orbit around Christ, now referring to Him \u201cwho is our life\u201d (lit., \u201cthe life of you\u201d). Whereas verse 3 says our life with hidden \u201cwith Christ,\u201d Paul here declares that Christ \u201cis our life.\u201d The deep nexus of Christ and our new life is represented by placing \u201cour life\u201d (lit., \u201cthe life of you\u201d) in apposition to \u201cChrist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul has been emphasizing our present union with Christ in His death (v.3a), resurrection (v.1a), life (vv.3b, 4a), and glory (v.4b). Yet the bulk of this verse speaks of future events. He speaks of \u201cWhen Christ . . . is revealed.\u201d The conjunction (\u201cWhen\u201d) is used to designate an indefinite time (i.e. \u201cWhenever\u201d). When used with the aorist subjunctive, as here, it indicates action preceding the action of the main clause (\u201cyou also will be revealed\u201d). Christ will be revealed and then we \u201cwill be revealed with Him.\u201d The verb (\u201cis revealed\u201d) is used frequently throughout the New Testament and depicts the act of making visible that which has heretofore been unseen. In this letter Paul uses it to describe the revelation inherent in the Gospel (1:26) and also to solicit prayer that he might make \u201cthe mystery\u201d of the gospel plain in his preaching (Col. 4:4). Here the same verb is used to refer both to the second coming of Christ and to the revelation of believers in their new glorified state at that time. Elsewhere the verb is used to describe the first advent of Christ (Heb. 9:26; 1 Pet. 1:20; 1 John 1:2; 3:5 and eight) and is also used, as here, of Christ\u2019s Second Advent (1 Pet. 5:4; 1 John 2:28; 3:2).<\/p>\n

Whenever that takes place \u201cthen you also will be revealed with Him.\u201d First Christ\u2019s unveiling at His return \u201cthen\u201d our glorified state \u201calso\u201d will be made known. Once again our experience is inextricably bound up \u201cwith Him.\u201d Once again note the frequent use of the Greek preposition s\u016bn, either in compound (2:12; 3:1) or independently (2:13, 20; 3:3) to describe our union with Christ. The future tense of the identical verb used to describe Christ\u2019s unveiling is now employed to speak of our unveiling. All our hope watches in hopeful anticipation of Christ\u2019s revelation. Our hope is inextricably bound to Christ. For all the mystery what we do know is that our manifestation at the time of Christ\u2019s coming will \u201cin glory.\u201d At His return Jesus \u201cwill transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself\u201d (Phil. 3:21). We are to live a life worthy of God \u201cin order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d (2 Thess. 1:12). Christ\u2019s present indwelling of the believer is his \u201chope of glory\u201d (Col. 1:27). Indeed, we wait for the time when the dead in Christ will be \u201craised in glory\u201d (1 Cor. 15:43).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.“ (Colossians 3:4) Paul continues to make all things orbit around Christ, now referring to Him \u201cwho is our life\u201d (lit., \u201cthe life of you\u201d). Whereas verse 3 says our life with hidden \u201cwith Christ,\u201d Paul here declares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-6j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}