“Your old life is gone,” says Paul. 

The period between sixty-one to sixty-three AD is generally thought of as of time that Paul was imprisoned in Rome. He wrote this letter to the Colossians from jail in response to a popular heresy that had members of the church worshipping angels as intermediaries, and following rigid Jewish laws and requirements. 

In Chapter 1 of Colossians, Paul speaks of the deity of Christ. In the second chapter, he talks of Christ being all sufficient, rather than as some of the Colossian’s philosophy had Christ painted: as more of a philosophical abstraction.

Finally, in Chapter three, he speaks about life in Christ. That is where we started today’s reading.

 Listen in!