This is the title of my fourth message from the book of Colossians.  Understanding our death in Christ is absolutely essential to moving on and growing up in God.  Col. 3:3 says "You have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God." This is the cross-over verse between the first half of the book and the second half.  It's how we move from theology to doxology, from orthodoxy to orthopraxi.   When we understand how we have been crucified with Christ, we not only enjoy our own funeral service, we celebrate it.  Death is God's change agent.  Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, who had a near death experience with pancreatic cancer, said this in his commencement speech at Standford in 2005:  "Death..is the single best invention of life.  It is life's change agent.  It clears out the old to make way for the new."  Amazing words (may he find the real author of this truth).  To hear this fourth installment, click here.