Out with the Old and in with the New

Out with the Old

Colossians 3:5–9

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

V5 - The habits of the Old Self

Immorality- Pornia which means sexual immorality

Impurity - to be unclean

Passion - Lustful passion

Evil Desire - All incompassing

Greed - The Love of Money

Idolatry - placing anything above God.

We cannot allow these things to continue in our life and to continue in our spirit.

Christ did not come to fix your sin nature he came to make a new nature for you.

Either the Lord Jesus Christ came to bring an end of self and reveal a new life in spiritual victory, or He came to patch and repair the old self—He certainly did not come to do both!15

A. W. Tozer

V6 - What comes at the price of the Old Self

John 3:36 NASB95

“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

We where enemies with a Holy God

Romans 5:10 NASB95

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

I used to own a pair of blue jeans that I refused to thrown away and Grace kept trying and trying to convince me but I just could not get rid of them and finally she asked what good do they do you? You own new jeans much newer and nicer ones. You own good work jeans so why keep these. I refused to throw away the garbage.

V7 - shows that he is speaking to Christians today.

V8 & V9 Go with V6

Anger

Psalm 37:8 NASB95

Cease from anger and forsake wrath; Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Wrath

James 1:20 NASB95

for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

Slander

Psalm 101:5 NASB95

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

Abusive Speech

James 3 NASB95

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well. Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race. But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

The Renewal

Colossians 3:10–11

and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

V10-11

Salvation is for all

Gnosticism Special Knowledge - Big by the second century

They believed that matter and the divine were antithetical to one another, and that true spirituality didn’t consist of achieving harmony with this wretched world or the equally horrible creator god of the Book of Genesis. Instead, true spirituality consisted of escaping the bonds of this earthly prison by awakening to the transcendent divinity that lies hidden within oneself, and which Christ had spoken of in his journey to earth.

Acts 4:12 NASB95

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

In With the New

Colossians 3:12–17 NASB95

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

V12-17 The New Habits

Chosen - A few instances of eklektos in the NT do not refer to believers. Jesus is referred to as God’s eklektos in several places. At the crucifixion, he is mockingly—yet, ironically, also truthfully—referred to as God’s Christ and Chosen One (eklektos; Luke 23:25); in 1 Peter he is called the chosen (eklektos) and priceless cornerstone (1 Pet 2:6). Angels also are referred to as “elect” (eklektos) in 1 Tim 5:21.

The new self, in contrast, is the regenerate self. It is what believers are in Christ.

John F. MacArthur