“9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. 11 We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, 12always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.”         Colossians 1:9-11

13 For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, 14 who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.           Colossians 1:13-14

We’ve been rescued from darkness

We have a different King that we serve now

…and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.       Colossians 1:13b

We have been redeemed by Christ

For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, 14 who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.      Colossians 1:13-14

You’ve been set free from your sin

…the forgiveness of sins.      Colossians 1:14b

He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.      Psalms 103:12

Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!       Micah 7:19

You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.     Colossians 2:13-14