Walking with Christ 23MAR2014

No Creed but Christ:
“Walking in Christ”
Colossians 2:6-8
©Good News Community Fellowship;
Marikina City, Philippines

Proposition:
“Walking in Christ is the natural way
Christians should make progress and
following in His footsteps is the way to
be like Him.”

Introduction
Walking in Christ is the only way to
make progress in our spiritual
development. We cannot run the race
until we learn to walk with Christ. And,
if we will not walk we will stagnate and
begin to sink down like in a quicksand.

As we walk in Him we will grow in Him
and become established in our faith. It
is Christ who must be the very sphere
of our spiritual growth and
development. We are to walk where he
walked and what he walked. And we
are to walk in complete dependence
upon Him.

In fact, walking speaks of the normal
pattern of living. It suggests the steady
progress of the one who is patiently
going with life in all its facets without
quitting even in times of life’s storms.

Again, our creed is Christ – He’s all we
need to know to belong to His church.
“So then, just as you received Christ
Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him.”

Our entrance to the Church (people of
God and not the building) is our faith in
Christ. At that very moment, the Holy
Spirit put us in union (join us) with the
body of Christ. Thus we belong to His
Church.

Then we are commanded to “continue
to live in him.” Meaning, when we
received Christ in our life, that’s only
the beginning of our life in Christ. It
does not stop there but it starts a new
life of living and walking in and with
Christ.

In other words, we begin in Christ and
we will continue in Christ. In effect,
Christ is both the center and
circumference of our life. Therefore,
our life must revolve in Christ.

The Four Anchors - that describe the
growing plant and the rising building to
give a full illustration of the developing
Christian life:

1. Rooted in Him
This suggests the thought of something
which took place in the past, but
whose effects persist in the present.
The “rooting by faith” meant an
organic union with Christ. So that now
there is a permanent source of life for
the growth of the spiritual plant.

In other words, our life in anchored in
Christ and our root is connected with
Christ the very source of our spiritual
nourishment and strength.

2. Built up in Him
This speaks of the steady growth of the
structure built in Christ as foundation
and rising steady from the ground up
to the first floor and then to the next
and higher and still higher.

In these two metaphors, there is a
common feature in both of them.
Christ is the life and strength of the
plant and he is the binding force of the
building.

3. Strengthen in the faith
They know what they believe and
understand their beliefs and become
strong in their conviction and
committed in Christ’s teaching. And so
they will not be blown to and fro with
every wind of doctrine.

They are established in their faith
(body of beliefs) and no one can lead
them astray for they are anchored on
the Word of God taught by Paul.

4. Overflowing with thankfulness
Believers who are rooted, built up, and
strengthened in the faith, they become
more grateful and are overflowing with
thankfulness.

Gratitude is a joyful response whereby
blessings that drop down into our lives
return to the Giver in the form of
unending, loving and spontaneous
adoration.

In life, there are two choices that we
make: a choice between gratitude or
grumbling. Grumbling overlooks
blessings while gratitude finds
blessings everywhere, even in the most
unlikely places and situations.

Summary
a) As we walk in Christ we are deeply
rooted.
b) As we walk in Christ we are being
built up in Him – that connotes the
process of being more like Christ.

c) As we walk in Christ we are being
established in our faith (body of
beliefs).
d) As we walk in Christ we will
overflow in gratitude to God.

Conclusion
Let our life continue to be in harmony
with the fact that we are Christians
who have accepted Christ Jesus the
Lord. We embraced Him with a living
faith and we must continue to walk and
live in Him.

Song: “Walking with Jesus”
Walking everyday, all along the way
Walking with Jesus
Walking with Jesus along.
Walking in the sunrise
Walking in the shadow
Walking everyday, all along the way
Walking with Jesus
Walking with Jesus along.

Walking with Christ 23MAR2014

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