Christ All-Sufficient: Colossians and Philemon Simply Explained (Biblia.com)

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Paul, under house arrest in Rome, wrote two letters which were both sent to Colosse at the same time and by the same messenger, a man named Tychicus. One of the letters we know as the epistle to the Colossians. It is packed with good things. Not a word is wasted. There was a problem in the church at Colosse, and it was this that prompted Paul to write. It seemed that there was a real danger that...

true citizenship is in heaven and something of the quality of that place ought to cling to us even as we live out our days in this present world. The world needs heavenly people as never before, and this is what Christians are when they live up to their true identity. The message of this passage to Christians, whether in the first or twenty-first century, then, is: ‘Be what you are!’ In every age and culture, certain things follow from the fact that each believer has been ‘raised with Christ’ (3:1).

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