You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.

Colossians 2:13 NLT

Something has fundamentally changed. 

Paul uses death to life, we have moved from death to life.

And this fundamental change to our status, our identity, our core happens when we're made alive with Jesus. Alive with Jesus. 

Easter has this focus on Jesus death, but Paul doesn't want us to lose sight of the fully aliveness of the resurrection.

The mechanism to this fully aliveness is forgiveness. 

Our sins are forgiven. 

Yesterday we had the analogy of slave to free, of the slave who has been set free and now learning to live in that freedom.

We have been set free. 

Free now to learn to live in the fully aliveness of resurrection life with Jesus. 

And one day we'll know that fully and completely. 

Maybe for today it's enough to know that our status has changed. And nothing can change that back, because we've moved, moved from death to life, from darkness to light, from slavery to freedom, and there's no going back.

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