Sermon
160 ~ COME ALIVE WITH JESUS - Part 3
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Hi, and welcome to the real science and podcast.
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We are a local church based here in Chennai.
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We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will
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encourage Inspire, and in still fresh bathing.
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As we continue our new series for the Lenten season.
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Come alive in Jesus, we pray that you will come alive.
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As you hear these words we have Jaron Nicholas.
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Sharing the Word of God With Us to do and how we need to come
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alive, to them to come alive, in the new, we have to let go of
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the world. I pray that we will allow the
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Holy Spirit to reveal the dead parts of our life so we can
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embrace them. Are you ready to be transformed
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into the moon? Hello, everyone.
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It is good to be back with you as usual.
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So, we've started series called come alive.
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And today, the team is come alive to experience the newer,
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come alive in the year. So, So we will get on that.
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I scripture that we are focusing on today is Colossians chapter
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2, verse 20, all the way to chapter 3 verse 17, but let me
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go ahead and pray and then we'll get started.
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Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for being us together.
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Father, we thank you that. We are part of the new creation
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that you have initiated Lord and we thank you that I started a
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new creation that you have brought us together in this
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Community of Faith that we are part of that.
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We are saying father, but we ask that You would use us to show
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the people that we come into contact with Lord.
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What it means to be human, what is this new Humanity that you
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have started? Lord that we are a part of why?
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This always we thank you for the safety and the comfort with
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which we meet with which We Gather in Your Name.
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Lord. And we remember the people
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around this world that do not have this Comfort or safety.
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And that many times there is anxiety, or maybe even fear when
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they think about Gathering or two, because of their
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circumstances, their surroundings, what we acid, you
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would protect them that you would guard them, that you would
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fill them with your courage and that you would give them ways to
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be a community, even if they cannot meet in person.
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So either we love you. We thank you for how gracious
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that you are to us. And father, we ask that you
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would truly speak to us through this message, that you would
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give me the words to speak that I would help me to recognize
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that it is you, that is orchestrating it, this is you.
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That is speaking and none of this is because of me.
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So father, we come to you humbly.
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We your children come to you. To see what day you have for us.
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Lord, in Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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So I just mentioned so our team has been Come alive and then
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today is come alive to the new come alive in the experience of
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the new. The passage we're going to be
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focusing on is Colossians chapter 2, 20 all the way to 317
Colossians 2 chapter mention
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rather than read the entire almost 22 verses up front.
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As we go through little by little, I read the passage and
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then we'll talk about it and then we'll go on like that.
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Just a little background for a Colossians.
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So this is a letter that the apostle Called wrote to the
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church at colossae. So it's called the letter to the
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Colossians is very likely that he was in prison while he wrote
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this letter. And this letter was likely a
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response to visit. He received from a first
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epaphras. Is the person that actually
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planted the church in the colossi.
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So Paul didn't actually planned this church so and so that first
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tells them about the fact that the church is doing well.
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But he also talks to him about the couple challenges that they
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might be facing. Yes, this you community of
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Believers is coming together, coming together in this really,
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I mean, in this Pagan Society where these had these new people
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are come to Believe In Christ. So in response to that, visit
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that from a Packers that he got in prison, he pins this letter
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to the Colossians. So it's his letter to this kind
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of like, New community of Believers.
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So the things he has to say is important.
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The warnings he has is important for us.
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Even us at, we are sign, we're fairly new fairly new church.
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So I think there's a lot for us to hear.
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So we will start reading at Colossians 2 chapter 20.
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They only read like four verses and then we'll talk about it.
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So this is chapter 2, 22, the end of chapter 2.
Isaiah 2 chapter mention
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So since you died, Price to be Elemental, spiritual forces of
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this world. Why?
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I still you still belong to the world.
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Do you submit to its rules? Do not handle.
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Do not taste, do not touch these rules which have to do with
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things that are all destined to perish with use are based on
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merely human commands and teachings, such regulations have
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an appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship their
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false humility and their harsh treatment of the body.
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But they lack Any value in restraining sensual Indulgence.
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So he talked. He begins with this idea that
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since you have died with Christ, right?
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You died to the spirit of the world.
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So the initial idea is you have died with Christ, you've died to
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this world and then he kind of focus on what it is that you
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have died to. So here in this view versus the
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focus, our regulations or rules. So one of the concerns he has
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for this church in colossae is It.
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He is concerned that they will be drawn to Judaism with its
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list of regulations. And like when he says, do not
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taste or do not touchy stock, probably talking about the list
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of Purity laws, they had and the list of dietary laws they had.
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So he is concerned that they are being drawn into it because even
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being run into Judaism and The Lawns would be something that's
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being taken away from what Christ has done, so that is one
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of his concerns. So, In this letter, if you read
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the rest of it, you'll see that on one side, there are some
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concerns about paganism. But on one side, there are some
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concerns about Judaism as well. So he's kind of highlighting his
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concerns about them being drawn back into these laws and
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Judaism. And he goes on to talk about how
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these laws, really don't have the desired effect that you are
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looking for. They are such regulations are
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have the appearance of wisdom, what?
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They have an illusion of it but it is just self-imposed worship.
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Worship or false humility and really have no.
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Value in, what do you feel like you're accomplishing many times
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when we follow these rules? We feel like it is going to make
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life better or it is me going to make us more spiritual or it's
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going to make us more holy but they really don't have that
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effect. So he is kind of clubbed this
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these regulations these rules into this idea that they also
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belong to the world. So we here living in this
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present time. I mean many of us probably
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Really aren't? I mean, there might be just
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listening, I don't know. Maybe some of you that are
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listening and practice Judaism, really, not aware of, but it's
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like that. We, I myself have never had to
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practice any kind of dietary laws any kind of Purity laws,
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but This this applies to us because we many times come up
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with our own laws or we follow laws that our culture has what
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the seems like as impose on us. So this kind of applies to that
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to some laws could be one of your last could be, you put put
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career first, could be a lot. Now, the law could be time is
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money, is something that people say, all the time.
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That could be a lot at we follow, we could have lots
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around relationships or friendships One of the lies that
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we might have, is we only put time into relationships that
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increase our Network, I could be one there in terms of culture
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are probably lots of other laws or even in our church, we may
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have our own laws like don't associate with that person.
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Because of this, in this, this person can't come to the front
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door of the house. They can only come in the back
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door of the house. There are lots of laws that we
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Can do follow many some, maybe carrier, some cultural some
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personal that we feel is going to make us better or make us,
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holy or make a spiritual. But what we see in this passage
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is that these are things that we have died to.
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So these are things that belong in the world and Paul start out
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saying that these little things that you have died to, they have
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they do not have the effect that Looking for, they don't really
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have the value that you're looking for.
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So now when we move on to that, he will see that he contrasts
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since you died with Christ to something else.
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So this is now I'm going to read from chapter 3 and I believe
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this is verse 1 through 4. So since then you have been
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raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where
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Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, set your minds on
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things above, not on Earthly things for you died, and your
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life. Life is now hidden with Christ
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in God. When Christ, who is your life
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appears? Then you will also appear with
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him in glory. So you see, there are two
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parallels, kind of going on here in verse 20 since you died with
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Christ. Now here since you have been
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raised with Christ, so Paul is kind of hitting home.
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The fact that when Christ died, we died with him and when he was
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raised, we were raised with them.
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So we have kind of and what we have died too, is he Gents the
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world in verse 20 and then what we are alive, and right now is
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set your things on things above, he seated, at the right hand of
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God, right? Not on Earthly things.
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So, these things that are about, sometimes they may be cancelled.
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I said, you take mind on Heavenly things, right?
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So we have this contrast going on here.
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So, these regulations and laws belong to the things that we are
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dyed to To they have no real value, they can't achieve what
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we want. And so we have died to that in
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the world and then now he's talking about things that really
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do have values, the things that we are alive and that we've been
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raised up. And so, and these are the things
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of heaven or these are the things that are not worldly.
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These are the things that are above above as in.
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These are the things that are in the same place where Christ is
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seated, at the right hand and then in verse 4, he ends with
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this. Insurance rate.
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That when Christ, who is your life right appears?
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Then you will also appear with him in glory.
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So like this issuance that we have eternal life and that we
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will be with Christ as part of our Salvation.
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So now he sets up these two parallels die to the world
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raised up in Christ or die with Christ and raised up with Christ
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and he kind of fleshes out these ideas even more.
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As we read further on in chapter 3, So this is, I'm going to read
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verses 5 to 11 and chapter 3. So, put to death therefore
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whatever. Belongs to your Earthly nature,
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sexual immorality, impurity lust, evil, desires and greed,
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which is idolatry because of these, the wrath of God is
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coming. You used to walk in these ways
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in the life you once lived, but now you must also rid yourself
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of all such things as these Anger, rage, malice slander and
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filthy language from your lips do not lie to each other.
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Since you have taken off your old self with these practice,
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I'm just going to read you a verse 9.
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So he kind of highlights here, right?
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What he beans of this world, what?
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He means of the things that you have died too.
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So, put to death, therefore, and he starts men talking about
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sexual immorality, lust impurity, and then he goes on to
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talk about Anger and rage in Malice and Slaughter slander and
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filthy language. So he kind of clubs two areas
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here. So we are talking about sexual
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immorality or sexual impurity so pretty much sex.
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And then here we talk about filthy talk and slander and
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Malice, and rage, many of these things are expressed in speech,
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right? So when he's writing to this
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church, and he's talking about what that, these old things that
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we are to put away. Are the two things that he
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deliberately chooses to mention our sex and speech to things
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that are gifts from God. However, have been painted, and
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use in ways that they were not meant to be used both these
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things have the capacity to, I mean, to really ruin lives, but
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more. So, in the context of a church
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when these things are Widespread or when they happen, they have
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the ability to tear down this community that you're trying to
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build so many times these practices cause divide, right?
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And These aren't just struggles that the church in colossae was
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facing, okay? He didn't just write about the
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sexual impurity just because that was what was happening in
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the Pagan world around them. I mean, he did mention to them,
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but it is also to us because this is kind of what is
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happening. All around us in the context of
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pollen colossae, if you wanted to commit sexual, Sin.
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You can kind of, I had to get up from your house and go to a
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temple and engage in Acts that you thought was worshipful but
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they really weren't. It was just sexual immorality.
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Nowadays, to be honest, you don't have to leave anywhere in
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the comfort of your home. In your bed, you have a 6 inch
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screen that brings everything to you, right?
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So, it is important that these are addressed.
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These are talk about, because This is the kind of things that
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is important to scripture because here are scriptures
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highlighting that. These are the things that we put
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to that in the time that he had to write a colossal, he
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mentioned two very important things that was necessary to put
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to death, sexual impurity and wrongful speech, right?
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It is important for us to take that into consideration to the
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mere fact that he mentions, this means that it is important for
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us to have a good look at this. And At church, we might fall
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into this notion that. That there's no sexual impurity
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because you're like, I'm married, I don't sleep around.
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I waited till I got married to be with my wife and you might
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kind of think of those things and kind of brush it under the
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carpet and then move on. But then we really can't move on
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from that because the thing that Paul clubs it with is speech,
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right. There is a lot of speech that
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Happens at church, right? And it is important to keep in
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mind that a lot of the speech that could be happening, are the
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things that we that need to be put to death.
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Even simple things that we think are simple like gossip.
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Even the mere fact that I said, simple things, you know I don't
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have the right idea about the biggest things like gossip could
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really bring Division and strife into a community.
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So That is something that Paul wanted them to be, are aware of
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and that's something that we have to be aware of.
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This is, I mean, it really shows us that God is really concerned
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with our speech and God is really concerned it.
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When it comes to matters of sex, these things are important to
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him and the way in which we used to view these things before we
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were raised in Christ, has to be put to death.
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And if they are not put to that, they will not only affect us but
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they affect the Greater Community, right?
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You might be telling yourself that there are secret sins that
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you can do in the privacy of your home.
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That doesn't affect anyone else. But the thing with any kind of
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sin, as it always affects your relationship if it affects you.
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It affects your relationships, there is always a way it affects
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something else, so these things should be put to that.
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So these are the things of the world is talking about.
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These are the things that we have died to, that is mentioning
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and so it should cause us to pause and think about these two
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specific areas that is calling us to put to death because they
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are important to consider uncomfortable.
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They might be, but it is important to consider because
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they are important to God. So now in verses, so do not lie
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to each other since you have taken off.
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So again, this thing, he specifically says, do not like
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one of the reasons he's probably highlighting.
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This is, Our Gospel is a Gospel of Truth, right?
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So any time, there are lies, are being told in the church, it
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undistributed almost understood, the gospel.
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So it is one of its. So it is very important.
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I understand that along with all at the speech that has Put the
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debt lying has to be put to death as well because our gospel
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is a Gospel of Truth and when there are lies it undoes that.
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So now starting with verse in the middle of verse 9, okay.
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Since you have taken off your old self with its practices and
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have put on the new self which is being renewed in the
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knowledge, in the image of the Creator.
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Here, there is no Gentile or Jew circumcised or uncircumcised
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Barbarian. Viridian City and slave or free,
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but Christ and all and Christ is in all.
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So, Paul here is bringing to mind imagery that was probably
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common in the first century early church.
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So during baptism when the new car believer, we go into the
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Waters of baptism and come out when they came out of the Waters
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of baptism, they were given a new white room to kind of
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symbolize this new creation or this new person that had become
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so they would take off. Close.
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They've been baptized in input on this new wide room to
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symbolize that. So that is the imagery that
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policy is here. It's talking about take off your
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old clothes. This old self used to be and put
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on the new. And this new one is has a new
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context, right? The you New Life, the cop
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primary context is that in the knowledge, in the image of its
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creator. Meaning you are an image bearer
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of the one true God. That is the new context of our
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life. The new context of this new
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being that you put on is you are an image bearer of the one, true
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God. And then the first thing, he
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mentions that he talks about putting on this new life, is
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that there is no Gentile or Jew. There is no slave or free.
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There is no circumcised or uncircumcised, right?
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But Christ is all and it's all. So the first thing that comes
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down or like, barriers that divide us humans, many times
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location and ethnicity and Heritage are or nationality.
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A lot of things that tend to divide but in this new creation,
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when you put on this Euro, the first thing that goes away are
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these things that divide us with and the thing that comes up to
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unites is recognition that we are image bearers in this
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Community of Faith, we are image bearers and that Christ is in
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all of us. So that becomes a thing that
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unifies us right? And it is not the divisions.
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It's not the things that make us different that matter anymore,
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but it is. This one thing that unifies us,
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there is no longer division. So, one of the first things he
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tackles as life in this new creation of this new life, we
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put on our the divisions that we have that, so they can no longer
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so they can no longer be any division.
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So, so it's part of the old life.
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We see that he tackles the laws and regulations and then Sexual
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immorality, and then speech, and then with the new life, he
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mentioned about, setting your mind on Heavenly things and then
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put on this new self. And then the first thing you
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down hose is there are no longer divisions, right?
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And so we're going to read on from 12% 17.
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So therefore as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved
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clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness humility,
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gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive
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one another. If any of you have a grievance
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against someone forgive as the Lord forgave you, and over all
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these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in
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perfect Unity, Let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts since
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as members of one body, you were called to peace.
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And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell
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among you richly as you teach and admonish.
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Punish one another with all wisdom through psalms hymns and
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songs for the spirit singing to God with gratitude in your
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hearts. He kind of fleshes out what he
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means by these heavily things are things that are above or
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things that are not worldly, right?
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So these heavily things he's talking about our compassion.
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Kindness humility gentleness patience, right?
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And above all love. So he is setting out the things
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that we should be dwelling on. Right.
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The things that we should be living in.
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So we have died in Christ, right?
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So we have died to the regulations to pretty much and
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the immoral speech or sexual impurity.
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And then we have been raised to this new life.
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That things, aren't Heavenly things.
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And these are those things that he's talking about compassion.
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Kindness humility gentleness about love and then he talks
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about how you treat people, right?
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He says, if anyone has a grievance against you, forgive
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them as the Lord forgave you? So, he setting up and expanding
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on what this new life is what it means.
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To clothe ourselves. In this new creation that we've
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been created, and this is what it looks like so.
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And then, after you tell us these things, right?
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And he talks about love He goes on to give a glimpse of what
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life in this community of Believers in Colossus should
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look like and what our life as a commuter Believers here should
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look like to write, says, Let the Peace of Christ rule in your
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hearts since as members of one body, you were called to Peace.
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So, peace peace Among Us is one thing that you drool and be
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thankful. That the message of Christ
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dwell, among you richly as you teach and admonish one another
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with all wisdom. Through psalms hymns and songs
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from the spirit singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
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So this word of calculus in gratitude or mentioned.
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You're right. That should be the way of life
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in this community thankfulness and gratitude to God for what he
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has done thankfulness and gratitude that because of him we
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have died to the old world and because of him we have been
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raised up into this new creation.
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And the way we keep this community strong is through the
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sharing of the word through worship together.
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So all of these things, build, a strong Community, all of these
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things, he's encouraging the church in colossae to take
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pardon. So kind of the recap, right?
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We started with We've died in Christ.
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So we kind of died to the law and then you mention about your
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you've been raised with Christ. And then when you erase, you
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talked about the Heavenly you of mindset on have a few things.
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And then he talked about because you have died in Christ, put
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these things to death. So the things that were
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important or the things that were part of our old life, he
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said put to death, right? And you mentioned two things
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sexual immorality and speech and Then he talked about what it
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means to have this new life will be raised in this new life and
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the things that govern the new life.
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Our kindness gentleness meekness humility, love forgiveness,
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right. All these things had the
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standard. Those are the Heavenly things
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that govern it. And then he talks a little bit
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about what the group of Believers might look like who
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are part of this new life. So All in all, when you look at
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this. What Paul is really conveying to
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us to the church is the gospel. The gospel does care about
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eternity, right? However, more often than not the
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gospels main concern throughout scripture is a life here on
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Earth is how we live this life here, and that is what Paul is
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talking about here. The gospel message that he wants
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to convey to the church in colossae is that we have died in
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Christ and that we have put to that those things and that we
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have been raised and again. So as we've been raised, we are
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part of this new creation. We have died and we have been
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raised. So we have died to the world,
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this old creation and we've been raised into this new order it.
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The idea is very much that we've been East into almost a new way
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to be human. A new way to be human, meaning
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the most genuine and only way to be truly human, is in light of
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the Gospel. Only way to be truly human, is
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to be part of this new creation. That Christ is the firstborn of
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that because of his that we have died to the old and because of
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his resurrection we have been raised to the new.
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So we are part of this new creation rate and the things
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that Govern Us in this new creation, are not the things
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that used to go. Unless, in the past, those
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things are to be, put to death, the things that are the
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governess, our kindness humility meekness love forgiveness, right
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gathering together in worship, having an having thankfulness
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and gratitude be the rhythm of our life.
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Because of because we know that we are part of this new
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creation, we know that we can generally be human because of
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the work that Christ has done. for us as as I Was preparing the
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sermon, I Probably for the first time in my life for at least the
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first time in recent history. I was reminded again that I
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indeed and part of this new creation, right?
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And it made me look at things when they popped up a little
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different. Some of the examples are a
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couple examples I'm going to share with you or probably maybe
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on the sillier side. But they were important to me
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because that was kind of what I was going through when I was
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Prepping for the sermon there, always distractions.
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Primarily the 6 inch screen that we all have distractions.
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Do go look at every notification distraction is to browse the
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news after I was in the middle of prepping and I was thinking
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through this idea that I'm New Creation when that distraction
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popped up first. I found myself telling myself I
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am dead. So anytime there was a
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distraction to take me from what I was supposed to be doing.
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I told myself I am dead I was actually Priced when it came
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when that happened to me, but it made me feel like an
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internalized, this to that, that I was learning for by starting
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with scripture. So, this past couple days as it
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as I've been prepping anytime. I was tempted to go to the phone
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to distract myself. I said I am dead and I was able
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to come back and stay on course and not the silly example.
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I I chew my nails, right? Might be a very trivial example.
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I don't have any crazy stories for you to it, but I found
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myself saying and I was tempted to too many, too many ills.
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I am dead and there was this reminder that I was dead to the
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always. Am I live in the new creation
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and I have self-control and when I've found it difficult to be
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part of this new creation, right?
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The thing. Govern, the new creation,
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humility compassion, meekness are difficult things.
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So when I was faced with those difficult things, I told myself
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I'm alive because we are alive in those things and we can
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function those things and let those things govern our lives.
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So it is just my example. I was telling myself, it's when
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things were pulling me back to the old told myself I was dead
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when things were difficult as we Embrace, as we Moving forward in
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the new life. I told myself.
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I was alive to remind myself, right?
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We live in a world that is constantly tugging at us.
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Back to the old. We just have to step out the
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door or turn on our 6 inch screens to know that it doesn't
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look like a new creation around us.
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It doesn't look like New Creation has been initiated so
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the world reminds us in tries to pull us back.
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So we taking the initiative and choosing to I believe that we
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indeed are part of this new creation is an Act of Faith.
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So faith is a big part in. This is just not believing God
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for something, but in this case, faith is actively choosing to
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believe that even though around us, it doesn't seem like New
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Creation. Oh, we constantly being pulled
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back into what was old. We in faith.
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Believe that we truly are part of this new creation, that god
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and goddess initiated through what Christ has done, right?
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And so and that we can be this new creation in this world that
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we can show the world around us that new creation indeed has
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been initiated right and that people are welcome to be part of
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this new creation. So now my wife shared something
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with me which I think I really fleshes out this almost constant
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tug-of-war that we have. So it's it's a story, a short
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story or more like Imagery to help us understand.
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So I'm going to read it to you and I'm going to kind of close
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after that. So imagine yourself traveling
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down a long Country Road, looking ahead on one side, you
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see a high chain-link fence and on the other side, you see an
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open field as you drive closer, you can see people behind the
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fence and people in the field. You slow down to take a closer
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look and you discover that the fence is actually part of a huge
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cage. The people inside are trapped
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with no way out. There is a man in the cage who
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seems to be in charge and he is angry.
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He shouts orders at the people telling them what to do.
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Sometimes the people in the cage seem to protest but eventually
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they do with the angry man tells them to do or what he tells them
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to do. The cage is a picture of our
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situation apart from Jesus, apart from Christ.
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The angry man's name is sin and he reigns in the cage.
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Syntel's, the people what to do? The whole world is a prisoner of
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sin. But those who are in Christ have
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died to sin, Paul uses his picture to describe what God
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does for us in Christ. When you come to Faith In Jesus,
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God moved you out of the cage and into the field.
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God moved you from imprisonment to freedom from an old life, in
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which sin was your master to a new life in which sin is no
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longer in a position to control you.
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Being in Christ puts you in a new position in relation to sin
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sin is still your enemy, but it is no longer your master.
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The angry man will still shout instructions across the road and
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when he does, you will immediately feel that you should
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do what he says after all. That's what you always did
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before. But the fact of the matter is
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that the angry man is is no longer your master.
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You are under no obligation to do, what he says, you are not in
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the cage. You are in the field, you are
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free. Resistance to sin was ultimately
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futile. When you were held hostage in
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the cage, but out in the field, you are in a position to fight
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and you can triumph over your enemy.
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Every person is either indicator in the field.
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You cannot be in both places at the same time and knowing where
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you stand is a crucial part of discovering your new identity in
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Christ. So We are part of New Creation,
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just like that told you, right? Many times things.
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Our old world sin are the old creation that we came out of is
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constantly shouting barking orders at us.
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And maybe our initial reaction is do it, because that's kind of
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what we've always done. But we are part of this new
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creation. We no longer need to listen to
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those commands, right? For some of us, those shouts
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come from all over the place many times.
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The shouts are probably coming from your phone and they want
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you to do something. It could be coming from people,
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it could be coming from past experience, you'll be coming
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from anywhere, but fact of the matter is we are part of this
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new creation, we have a new master, our masters Christ and
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our masters no longer sin. So kind of want to end with how
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This, the passage ends up with over 17 and I'm going to leave
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with you a couple of thoughts about what how they really
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fleshes out, how to distinguish our old life from our new life,
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okay? And it says, whatever you do,
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whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord,
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Jesus giving. Thanks to God the Father through
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him, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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As I was reading a resource that was using to prep for this
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message. It said, Could you put the
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banner up in the name of the Lord?
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Jesus to anything you do or do anything you say?
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And it really got me thinking, because I think that would help
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us to distinguish old from New, Right?
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Could be in the name of the Lord Jesus yell angrily.
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At our children. Could we in the name of the
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Lord? Jesus?
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Shame. Our spouse because we just don't
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agree on something. Could we in the name of the
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Lord, Jesus be rude to somebody because they were rude to us.
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Right? Could we in the name of the
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Lord? Jesus think about somebody else
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when we are married. So we couldn't write, but could
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be the name of the Lord Jesus show compassion when compassion
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was not shown to us. Yes.
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Could we in the name of the Lord?
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Jesus be. Loving when what we have
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received this hatred? Yes.
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Could we in the name of the Lord?
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Jesus. Show love to our children or be
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gracious to them despite anything that has happened.
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Yes. So let's keep that in mind.
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As we come to the end of this, right?
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Can we do, or say the things we say in the name of the Lord?
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Jesus. So, thank you so much for
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joining us and being with us. I want to say a word of Prayer.
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Every father, we thank you so much for giving us this message.
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Thank you so much for giving us your word.
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Thank you so much for this. Reminder that we indeed are part
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of a new creation that you initiated or we no longer have
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to suffer under the old. But we can live in Freedom under
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the new record so far, they help us to internalize this help us
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to remember this Lord this week, and for the rest of our lives,
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that you indeed have called us to this new creation that we are
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part of Of this because of what you've done when we died with
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you but more. So we have been raised into this
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new creation with you and let the way we live.
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Our lives can be different and that's not have to be the same
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like it was before you raised us father to Lord.
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We thank you so much for this word.
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We thank you that we can truly and genuinely be human now.
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And don't have to be Listening to orders be yelled by our old
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Master but that we can live in Freedom with our new master.
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That is pressed. So father we love you.
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We thank you again for bringing us together.
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And that we thank you, that you are the one that binds us
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together. In Jesus name, we pray.
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Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus
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Christ. The love of the father and the
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Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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