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Colossians 3:1 ESV

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:2 ESV

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Colossians 3:3 ESV

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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Colossians 3:4 ESV

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:5 ESV

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:6 ESV

On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Colossians 3:7 ESV

In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

Colossians 3:8 ESV

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Colossians 3:9 ESV

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Colossians 3:10 ESV

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Colossians 3:11 ESV

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Colossians 3:12 ESV

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Colossians 3:13 ESV

bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Colossians 3:14 ESV

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Colossians 3:15 ESV

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Colossians 3:16 ESV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:17 ESV

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

TODAY’S MESSAGE: LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

LIVING IN A CHRIST-CENTERED EXISTENCE

LIVING OUT A CROSS EMPOWERED ETHIC

1. Empowered to kill the continual presence of sin (verses 5-9)

Colossians 3:5 ESV

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:5–6 ESV

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

2. Empowers us to develop fruit of salvation (verses 10-17)