Wearing the new clothes of the Kingdom Part 1!
Colossians 3:1-11
Message 7
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,
set your hearts on things above, where Christ
is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on
earthly things. For you died, and your life is
now hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then
you also will appear with him in glory.
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs
to your earthly nature: sexual immorality,
impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which
is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of
God is coming.
You used to walk in these ways, in the life
you once lived. But now you must also rid
yourselves of all such things as these: anger,
rage, malice, slander, and filthy language
from your lips.
Do not lie to each other, since you have
taken off your old self with its practices
and have put on the new self, which is
being renewed in knowledge in the image
of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or
Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but
Christ is all, and is in all.
Colossians 3:1-11 (NIV)
BELONG
BELIEVE
BEHAVE
Behaviour grows out of relationship
NEW NATURE
OLD NATURE
“It happens so regularly that it’s predictable.
The moment I decide to do good, sin is there
to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s
commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all
of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly
rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take
charge”.
Romans 7:21-23 (The Message)
V1 “Since you have been raised to
new life with Christ, set your sights
on the realities of heaven.”
V3 For you died with Christ
and your real life is hidden
with Christ in God.
1. THINKING - Put your thinking up where it Belongs!
2. CHOOSING - Put to death, get rid off, strip it off….
NEW NATURE
OLD NATURE
Sexual Purity
Seeing and Greed
Speaking
“You learn to die a thousand deaths… to a life which you
might have lived and a lifestyle you might have adopted”.
V10 “Put on your new nature and be
renewed as you learn to know your
creator and become like him.”
3. DECLARING - Your intentions for your future Life!
‘The things which normally divide now don’t.’ v11
NEW NATURE
OLD NATURE
THINK IT
CHOOSE IT
DECLARE IT
And such were some of you, but you were
cleansed and made holy, you were made
right with God by calling on the Name of the
Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.