2022-1-23, Christ Above All, We Must Adopt Godly Virtue. Colossians 3:12-17
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Practical implications of Christ above all
Last week we talked about that as born-again believers, we must renounce sin, especially sexual sin, in our lives.
This week Paul gives the opposite requirement for Christians
We Must Adopt Godly Virtue in our lives.
As we turn away from sin because of our love and devotion to Christ, we will turn toward the things which give God great joy.
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
We will take off sin and put on the attributes of Christ.
Why? Because we are a new people in Christ.
This says we are God’s chosen ones. It feels really good to be chosen doesn’t it. This is what anniversaries are for right, to remind one another that out all the fish in the sea, we chose each other for marriage. Each day we continue to choose each other.
This says that God chose us. We can certainly say that we chose God. “I have decided to follow Jesus.”
In this new relationship with Christ, we are declared holy, and we are becoming holy.
We are also God’s beloved- always remember that the foundation of our relationship with God is His love for us.
19 We love because he first loved us.
So how shall we dress. What characteristics shall we put on.
Paul says first to put on
compassionate hearts, kindness
These are grace words
Grace means giving unearned favor. It often implies giving favor to people when they don’t deserve it, especially when they act in a way that deserves a harsh response.
You give it so often because others are broken and cannot help themselves.
It takes a mature believer to realize that all of us fail often as believers- even the most mature in our numbers. We all need others at times (or all the time) to be compassionate toward us and to be kind to us in our failures.
Likewise, we need to be quick to give compassion and kindness to one another. We need to have a lot of patience with one another.
This is in the spirit of...
12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
In order to give and receive kindness and compassion and patience, it requires we walk in humility and meekness, that is we recognize that we are all not as great as we think we are.
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
We are all poor sinners saved by grace. We are poor beggars who tell others where to find bread. The church is just a big sinners rehab.
Paul goes on...
13 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.
We put up with one another. This does not mean that we permit each other to sin against each other. It doesn’t meant that we don’t tell others when they have sinned against us. No, we make our complaints known (this doesn’t have to do with vain preferences, but with grievances). However, those of us who are hurt by the sins of others, we need to forgive one another. This means we don’t hold it over their heads.
This is what God has done with us right?
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more.”
Next, Paul sums it up by saying
14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Much of what we’ve talked about thus far are components of Agape love- which