Thankfulness: Be Thankful

Being thankful is remembering

3:5-7 Remembering your old self and what you were - Who we were without God

3:5 You were a slave to sin: Put to death these things

Fornication - Sexual immorality

Uncleanness - impurity

Passion

Evil desire

Covetousness, which is idolatry

3:6 You were a condemned prisoner under wrath of God

3:7 You were living a sinful lifestyle

A life that leads to disappointment and death

A life that leaves your desires unsatisfied

3:8-11 Remembering the new self birthed at the moment of your salvation - Who we are now by God’s grace

3:8 A new self that is different: Put away

Anger -

Wrath

Malice

Blasphemy - slander

Filthy language - obscene

3:9 The new self is set free from the Devil: Be truthful to each other

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Relationships free of lies

Lying was a characteristic of the old self and what it practiced

3:10 The new self is being made into the image of Christ

The new self is renewed by knowledge

The goal is to renew it to look like the image willed by the creator. That image would be Christ

3:11 The new self has it all it needs and wants in Christ alone

Greek or Jew

Circumcised or uncircumcised

Bararian or Scythian

Slave or free

Thankfulness for being part of God’s family

3:5-7 The old self, the earthly self described

3:5 Put to death these things

Fornication - Sexual immorality

Uncleanness

Passion

Evil desire

Covetousness, which is idolatry

3:6 Put to death these things that bring the wrath of God

3:7 Put to death these things you use to do

3:8-11 The old self has been replaced by the new self

3:8 Put away

3:12-14 Put on these things

3:12a Put on these things because of our position

God’s chosen ones

Go’s holy ones

God’s beloved ones

3:12b Put on:

Tender mercies

Kindness

Humility

Meekness

Longsuffering

3:13 Be patient with others and forgiving

3:14 Put on love

Thankfulness is to be expressed

Thankfulness is to be directed to the Father

Unbelief always produces an unthankful heart

Tendency to forget

Visible acts to remember

1:18 Their ingratitude is a result of holding down the truth

1:19 They refused to allow the their conscience to convince them about God

1:20 The refused to allow the evidence of creation reveal to them the attributes of God

1:21 The chose to reject God and refused to honor Him

1:22 Their choice led them to believe they were wise in reality they were fools

1:23 Their foolishness led them to create their own gods

1:24 Their choice led God to forsake them to their own desires

1:25 Their choice resulted in self-worship

Forgetfulness can lead to ingratitude