St. Timothy Lutheran Church

I've significantly fleshed out my notes for yesterday's sermon, and attached them to this post as a PDF file.  Because the behind the scenes stuff of Colossians has been spelled out in the other sermons in this series, I haven't bothered to add that to these notes.

To summarize Colossians 2:20 through 3:4, Paul is somewhat incredulous that the people to whom he is writing are living according to ideas that come from human regulations and ideas, which, in turn, are dead to the things of God.  Paul asks "if you died to death, why are you still living according to the stuff of death?"  He then says that since they have been made alive to the things of God, they should live according to those things, and that they should live according to Christ, who is in fact their life.  Living that way may not look wise or meaningful to spectators (who are dead to the things of God), but when Christ appears again, their life will appear fully with Him.