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Here our basic idea of this passage is how believers are to relate to one another.
How do we relate to our fellow Christians?
All that Paul here urges upon the Colossian believers depends upon his basic assumptions concerning the nature of the church.
A careful study of the language he uses will show that he sees the church as the ‘new creation’, a renewed society requiring a fresh way of living (9–11).
Here there cannot be the same divisions the world knows since Christ is all, and in all.
Paul also uses the age-old titles of Israel, God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, in order to complete the picture of this new society,
for he sees the church as the ‘new Israel’
where a standard of mutual love is demanded as befits God’s people on earth (12–13).
We’re going to focus upon vv9-11 this evening.
This is about to get really practical for us.
Let me ask you a question.
How do you change your mind?
The Bible calls a spiritually immature mind a fleshly mind ().
The Bible calls a spiritually immature mind a carnal or fleshly mind ().
A carnal mind evaluates problems and pressures from a purely human perspective.
It will make evaluations like the following:
A fleshly mind evaluates problems and pressures from a purely human perspective.
It will make evaluations like the following:
“That’s one more crummy thing I have to do this week.
I’ll never make it.”
“I think this requirement is stupid, but if that’s the only way I can get what I want, I’ll put up with it.”
• “I think this requirement is stupid, but if that’s the only way I can get what I want, I’ll put up with it.”
• “This kind of stuff always happens to me! Doesn’t anybody care?”
“This kind of stuff always happens to me! Doesn’t anybody care?”
“I’ve got enough to worry about already.
I don’t need this!”
• “I’ve got enough to worry about already.
I don’t need this!”
• “He can’t get away with that.
I don’t have to take it!”
“He can’t get away with that.
I don’t have to take it!”
Can you imagine Christ handling any of His pressures with responses like that?
Most Christians who realize responses like these are not right will “tell God they are sorry.”
Then they “try to do better” and usually do not continue very long in their new resolve.
The reason that they can’t continue “to do better” is clear from passages like , , , and .
The mind must be renewed.
describes the process.
The believer must
1. Stop the old practice—“ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent...”
2. Humbly realize he cannot handle this by himself—“humbly,”
3. Meditate seriously on the Word—“receive … the implanted word” and
4. Do what the Word says—“be doers of the word.”
A believer must continue to meditate on the pertinent passage of Scripture until two things take place—until,
first, he cannot forget what he has learned; and,
second, until he is becoming a consistent “doer” of the new way of handling pressure ().
Why do this?
Why does God command us to “stop doing” certain things and command us to start “doing” other things?
Berg, J. (2001).
Basics for Pressured Believers: Looking at Pressure Biblically.
The Journal of Biblical Counseling, Number 3, Spring 2001, 19, 38.
In the New Testament, Jesus teaches that we are more valuable than other creatures in the created order, and He assures us that our heavenly Father watches over us (; ).
There are also later references in the New Testament to the fact that believers—through the process of sanctification—are being conformed to the image of God in Christ.
Believers are progressively recovering more of God’s image in Christ.
speaks of believers: “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son.…”
Those who trust in Christ are renewed in the image of God.
Paul exhorts his readers in to “...put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.”
Believers, who are being renewed in the image of God, are expected, therefore, to live as renewed people: “...put on the new self.
You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.
” ().
The import of these New Testament passages is that God’s goal of redeeming men and women in Christ
is to make them more like Christ, who alone is the perfect image of God.
So what are we told to put off in v9?
— Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices
The focus on sins of speech that comes as the climax of v. 8 is reinforced by a new command: Do not lie to each other.
Lying is certainly a notable example of the inappropriate speech that Paul wants us to banish from the church.
Moo, D. J. (2008).
The letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (p.
264).
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub.
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