1. Royalty Loving Commoners
1 Peter 2:9
Will, Walk … and Worth (Colossians 1:12-14)

2. Qualified
Col 1:12-13
“Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.”
John 20:21
“As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

3. Rescued from the Power of the Devil
Col 1:13-14
Gal 6:7-10
Two ways Jesus broke Evil’s power
Brought us into the kingdom of the Son – transferred us
1 Corinthians 15:58
Philippians 3:20
2 Corinthians 5:20
Nailed the contractual rights of the Devil to the cross
Colossians 2:13-15

4. Rescued from Price of Sin
Romans 6:23
Jesus set us free (Col 1:14)
John 8:34-36
Freedom Train of Righteousness
Ephesians 4:7-13
Psalm 68
Ephesians 4:1
Romans 6:17-18

5. Rescued from Price of Sin
So don’t go back into slavery
Worldly Bondage
2 Peter 2:17-22
Religious bondage
Gal 4:8-10
Colossians 2:20-22

6. Rescued from Impurity of sin
Forgiveness (Col. 1.14)
John 1:9 – Forgives us and cleanses us
Col 1:21-22
Before Christ – Identified by our behaviors (which were evil)
In Christ – Holy, pure (w/o stain), free from accusation.
Rev 12 – Devil accuses day and night
John 14:30 – In Christ, the Devil has no hold on us

7. Today is the Day Psalm 32:1-5 C. S. Lewis
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road....Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. (C. S. Lewis, Great Divorce)
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back the soonest is the most progressive man. (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)