"12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister."
Colossians 1:12-23
Rounding off his prayer of intercession by urging an attitude of joyful thanksgiving to God, the Father, Paul glides naturally into an exalted and joyful description of the wonderful salvation, the blessings of the Gospel, which, in Christ, the Father has bestowed, as a present possession, upon every believer. This is why we should give thanks to God, Paul says. This is what God has done for you; this is the reality of the remarkable change which God has effected in Christ and which was realised when the Colossians, when we, were converted. This is the salvation in which you stand: Notice the tense of the three main verbs (all Greek aorist): (v 12) has already qualified/fitted you (once and for all) to share in the inheritance of the saints; (v 13) has already rescued/ delivered us from the dominion of darkness; has already brought/transferred us into the kingdom of Christ: This is the reality for the Colossian believers, for every believer, no matter what anyone might say, and the present consequence/the continuing result is (v 14) that '...we have (present tense) redemption, the forgiveness of sins'.