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In this verse, Paul tells the Colossians that they are forgiven for all their sins. This is a powerful reminder to us that we also have been forgiven through grace. While we were once dead in sin, we now have eternal life in Jesus. Today, we will look at the different parts of this verse to understand it better.
Paul begins the verse by talking about their condition before they met Christ. The Colossians were dead in their sins and their flesh. They had no hope of getting out of sin or finding salvation. They could not save themselves--and they were in desperate need of a savior. We are in the same situation that the Colossians were in. Without someone intervening on our behalf, we would be living in sin. Before Christ came into our lives, we had no hope.
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Now, because of Christ, we have eternal hope. Because of Jesus's death on the cross, we are able to stand before God as if we had never once sinned. We did nothing to deserve this clean slate; Jesus both initiated and finished our salvation. This is an enormous act of grace of which we will never be deserving. However, we do not have to be deserving. We only needed to be loved by a mighty Savior. God Himself supplied this love and gave His Son Jesus to make a way for us.
This verse gives us hope that one day sin will be defeated once and for all. While we might struggle with sin in our lives now, we know that the end of the story includes the termination of all sin. Because of this, we can approach God with confidence. We know that He sees us not as sinners but instead as His children whom He has decided to love. He has given us new life and we can walk in it today. He knows that one day all sin will finally be defeated, and He loves us as if it already has been.
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