peace to live by

Within Christ, All are Equal, Part 1 (TMF:2792)

Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Peace to Live By: Within Christ, All are Equal, Part 1 (TMF:2792) - Daniel Litton
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       Colossians 3, beginning in verse 11: “Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all” (ESV). Being new creatures in Christ is where we left off the last time, new creations, and Paul expands on that for us today. In this verse, he is telling us something revolutionary. Not so revolutionary to us, here in twenty-first century America, but a line of logic definitely new to the Colossians believers. People were used to being divided up in society. The Jews versus the Gentiles, which is the same as the circumcised versus the uncircumcised. And then there were the other groups among the Gentiles, all the way to those who were free versus those who were under the bondage of slavery. It is in that context that Paul says that, within Christ, all are equal, all are seen as the same.