Outline:
Text: Colossians 2:13-15 “13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him” (ESV).
Looking at sin and its consequences helps us better understand the great canceling of debt achieved on our behalf through the conquering of death.
I. The Consequences of Disobedience (v. 13a)
- “Dead”
- “In our trespasses”
II. The Canceling of Debt (vv. 13b-14)
- “God made alive together with Him”
- “Having forgiven us all our trespasses by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.”
III. The Conquering of Death (v. 15)
- “Disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame.”
- Genesis 3:15; Romans 8:37