Colossians 3:5-11
A Focus on the true meaning of spiritual things (vv. 1-2)
B Because you have died spiritually (vv. 3-4)
B’ Put to death what is worldly (vv. 5-6)
A’ Focus on the true meaning of worldly things (vv. 7-8)
1. Starve sin by setting your mind on Christ.
2. Pay attention to honest warnings.
Passive wrath:
Active wrath:
Run from what God warns you about.
3. Remember old the experiences from new angles.
“mortify”:
4. Put away the stench of sin.
We are not only honest in the truth, we are earnest for the truth.
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5. “Group identities” do not allow for brute victory.
Christian morality does not make bigger blessings.
Bigger blessings make Christian morality.