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Our place of citizenship as believers, and the constitution of our government, is in Heaven and not on this earth.

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Since the earliest days of the church, Satan has often attacked the Christian individually, and the church as a body, in three specific ways.

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Colossians chapters 3 & 4 show us a way of thinking & living completely contrary to the world's way.

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Colossians one contains what some commentators believe may have formed an early hymn about the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Much of today's church is motivated by a value system that is not based on the things of heaven, but the things of earth. Colossians 3:1-4 gives us the sure cure for earth-bound thinking.

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The song of the angels announcing Christ's incarnation was not vague and indefinite, but clear and concrete. The church must understand that, and proclaim it.

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The angels who came to simple shepherds to announce Christ's birth were soldiers of His heavenly army.

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What does it mean to be raised with Christ? How should that accomplished fact affect the believer's thinking and living?

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Colossians tells us that the "things above" are all the wondrous attributes and accomplishments of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. They are to be found nowhere on earth, but only at the throne of God.

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The saints of the great roll-call of faith sought "a better country" in which they found and laid hold of the very attributes of our Lord. He is our surety during our short pilgrimage in this world, and for our life in eternity to come.