Post #296: Christ Is All and in All | KJV Right Division (Week 11)
Post 296 · Day 72-4: Colossians 3:10-11 – Christ Is All and in All
“And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” — Colossians 3:10-11 KJV
The new man — the renewed spiritual identity in Christ — transcends every cultural, ethnic, religious, and social category. Greeks and Jews, the circumcised and uncircumcised, the cultured and the 'barbarian' Scythian, slave and free — all dissolve before the singular reality: Christ is all, and in all.
Right Division: Right Division: Colossians 3:11 extends Galatians 3:28's list to include Barbarian and Scythian — the lowest rungs of the ancient social ladder. No one is excluded from the Body by their background. The new man is renewed in knowledge — doctrine transforms identity. As you understand more of who you are in Christ, you become more of what Christ is. This is the grace-age sanctification process: know who you are, then become it.
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