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Today's New Testament reading: Colossians 3
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
After you have been born again you now should have a new mindset...We do not focus on the things here in earth as we did before our re-birth we think of things that our not of this earth. Basically we worry getting to the kingdom and being with our lord and savior of ALL ETERNITY!!!! YAY, Your goal should be not only to try to get yourself into heaven because there is NOTHING you can do to get there...only by God mercy can you get there...But try do to a christ did in that his goal was to save souls, other people, his brethern. We are our brothers keepers.
Verse 5-10 5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
This is a vital verse and one of my favorite it reminds me to put to death all of the things that used to bind me to sin before my resurrection. All of the things listed in v. 5 our sins...but they all started with sin...sin being the nature of being selfish. Thats where all sins start. The first sin from satan started with selfishness he put himself above God and loved his self more than he loved God..This is why we commit sins...We have sex before marriage because it feels good to us knowing that it is against Gods will. We get greedy about money and possessions because it makes us feel better.We us these earthly things to make us feel better instead of turning to God who is the only one who can truly heal us. Thats why we always feel empty and we keep trying to find things to fill that void...
here's a song to illustrate what i'm trying to say....
In verse 6 it says this is why the wrath of Gos is coming....because of sin and selfishness, we think we our Gods. We do everything we possibly can to serve ourselves instead of serving God.
"If we gave half the time we spend serving ourselves to serving God I think we would be in pretty good shape."
Thats what this is it's a transfer of power from using all of our energy on ourselves and what we want to, using that power to serve God....
VERSE 12-17- BEING A PEACEFUL WARRIOR 12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Hmm and we wonder why households and family are falling apart....RUN YOU HOUSE ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.
I will expand more on this topic at a later time, in the meantime also read http://www.bukisa.com/articles/191373_bible-verses-for-familes
AND WATCH
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