Gabe Fluhrer

Again, I don't know what it is to mean acronyms.

Young kids, I'll come back to that.

But we do one called WINFM, if I can put it like that.

What does it mean for Monday?

And so when we come to this section of what we're going to talk about, we're asking that question, what does it mean for daily life?

All these things we've learned on the resurrection, how do we apply them to our daily lives?

And I want to answer that by way of looking at resurrection life in the Spirit for us as believers.

What does that look like?

How do we tease that out?

And let's start in a place that might be a little bit unexpected as we begin to answer this question.

Let's start in Colossians 1 and verse 24.

Now again, if you've read this book, 15 through 20, 1, 15 through 20 is some of the richest teaching on the nature of who Christ is, what he came to do in all of Scripture.

And then we come to this verse that's been often misunderstood and more often than not misused in church history, Colossians 1 and verse 24.

This is God's word for us.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I'm filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body that is the church.

Now, curiously, Roman Catholics and others will take this to say that there's some sort of suffering that we need to undergo in terms of payment for sin in some sense, that there is a suffering that we must endure.

However, I don't think that's what Paul is saying at all because he's just finished explaining to us in 115 to 20 and will continue in chapter 2 explaining to us the all-sufficiency of Christ.

That's the point of the book of Colossians.

Christ is totally sufficient.

So he's not telling us that we can add anything redemptive to his sufferings.