Christ, Who is Your Life (2)

Summer 2019  •  Sermon  •  Submitted   •  Presented   •  28:44
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Colossians 3:1–11 NIV
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.

Early Christians struggled with old identities

Colossians 3:7 NIV
You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
Colossians 3:5–6 NIV
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.

We forget who we are

Colossians 3:8–11 NIV
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.

Jesus raised believers to new life

Christ is in all
Colossians 3:1–4 NIV
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.

A New Way of Life

Colossians 3:10 NIV
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Because you are in Christ—you CAN.
So choose to live your life hidden with Christ in God. Choose to live so that Jesus can be seen.
Choose what you set your mind on carefully with the power God gave you

Put on the new self

Be renewed in the knowledge of the image of your creator…
God’s part: raising you
Your part: living out of him
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