Firm Foundation: The Resurrection and Daily Life
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How can we trust in the Lord amidst suffering?
We all have to ask ourselves the question, what do we do in the meantime while we're waiting for glory? How do we explain our lives? How do we live the Christian life, the resurrected life, as we wait for glory with Christ?
The resurrection is true. It's historical fact. But it's not merely a doctrine to be defended. It's a truth that changes the Christian life. Welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. As Resurrection Sunday quickly approaches, you're hearing messages on Saturdays from Gabe Fleur's eight-part series, Alive! How the Resurrection of Christ Changes Everything. He has already explored why the resurrection matters, the evidence that supports the claim of Jesus' resurrection, and today he'll answer the so what question, how does the resurrection impact daily life for the believer? He is the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Gabe Fleur.
I have a good friend back at home who, in addition to his day job, might have the greatest second job in the world, and that is a caddy at Augusta National Golf Club. And so he and I are golf buddies, play a lot of golf together, but... He was the guy I got to go with for one of the most memorable experiences of my life, which was going to the Masters for the first time in 2018. And we made our way down Washington Avenue there, if you know anything about the course. And you come in to the south entrance right there behind Publix, which is crazy. You turn off by the Publix there, and then you park. And we walked in right there at number 16 and set our chairs down. And that's, if you can see over the lake there, we were right by the lake.
And it's one of those things where if you see it on TV, I mean, we all hear the voice of Jim Nance, you know, the return to glory and those kind of things. If you see it on TV and then you actually experience Augusta National in person, and it is so much better than advertised. It is the most beautiful, scenic place I've ever been. We ended up walking the course four times during the day of the round, just walking the whole time, watching a few shots and then moving on. But as we were driving away that day, you know, full of pimento cheese, smell of pine straw in your nostrils, spending way too much at the store there. We were driving down 20 and just thinking to myself, you know, that is really a foretaste of glory where everything seems to be okay, even for just a few minutes.
Now, we know that's papier-mâché in one sense, don't we? They have to spend a lot of money and time to get an Augusta National to look like that for just a week or so. But it did make me think of the fact that we all have to ask ourselves the question, what do we do in the meantime while we're waiting for glory? How do we explain our lives? How do we live the Christian life, the resurrected life, as we wait for glory with Christ? And so in this segment here, I want us to talk about something we do each week in the Sunday school class. I have the privilege of teaching. We have an acronym. 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.
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