Book of Colossians - Ch. 3, Vs. 1-12 (10/21/2001)

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Where does your mind go when it's not occupied? First verse in Colossians 3.

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If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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Seek those things which are above. You do not find them unless you seek for them.

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They won't just come along and say, here I am. We have to seek those things.

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We must think those things. Everything is first a thought.

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There's two points of view in this world. So, man's which is held responsible,

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God's which is supreme for he is sovereign. God's will overrides everything.

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Nothing will occur but that which brings praise to his glory.

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Since man does not know the absolute will of God, does he know the absolute will of God?

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Do you know the will of God? David, do you know the will of God?

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All I know is that man does not know the will of God or events in life to the very extent.

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All right. Since you do not know the will of God, absolutely, then you're held responsible for the things you do.

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How can that be? All events are ordained of God, but man does them because he wants to do it.

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Russell, you're here today because you wanted to be. Therefore, man must answer for what he does.

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Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.

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Now, if we set our affections on things that are above, what things are above,

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Bill? All right.

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Anything else, Clarence? All right.

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Russell, are things sinful? Yeah, name something that's sinful.

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They're not? You sure? Joy, are things sinful?

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All right. They become sinful when it's used for sin. Third verse, for you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

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For you are dead. Verge, what does dead mean? Is your old sin nature dead?

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We're under Christ's cover. We still do sin.

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I don't get to say that, but we still have it. I get to say that. Then the sin nature is dead or not?

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I don't get to say that. Well, it says you are dead. All right.

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When did you die? You weren't even born then.

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Bill, explain this dilemma. I don't know. I was talking about we were dead in the old nature of God.

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The spirit of death, earthly things, are so far from good.

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It's not necessarily true. We don't have that nature, but we're suffering from it.

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Then we're suffering from it. All right. We're dead to the old nature. Is that right or wrong?

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I think that's right. So, I get you to say that we were dead to the old man all the time.

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That Christ died on the cross for us. So, I get that one. Diane, you wanted to say something?

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Please, just set your mind on things above, not on things that are earthly or dead.

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It's in your mind that you're dead to those things. Your body is alive, just as it's here.

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But it's in your mind that you're dead to those things, because your life is dead. All right.

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So, we're alive, simply. Our life is here. Then our mind is dead to those things, the affections that we have on it.

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All right. Clarence? Diane, our signature is dead.

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It doesn't mean that we're obviously dead to the world, but it's one time again that Christ died on the cross for us, and our salvation is the first one.

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All right. What did Paul mean when he says, I die daily? David?

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I daily have to reckon that to be true.

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So, when God has told me that the Lord has died, then there is no reason for me to live that way.

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I reckon we have to be true to that. All right. Right now, you're dead.

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Is that right? Right now, you're dead? You're dead to the old nature?

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Yes, sir. All right. It keeps rearing its head every once in a while.

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It's not dead to us, Virg. We have been separated from it. We are dead to it.

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Christ died to the old nature. Your life is his life, not yours.

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It is his. For when

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Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

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Now, when he shall appear, does that mean that he is coming back, and he will appear to who?

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All right. So, when he comes, when he comes, we come. Is it possible for him to come without us?

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All right. Our life will not be seen until he appears in glory.

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Is that right or wrong? Even then, it's not our life, it's his.

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Mortify, therefore, because you're dead. Mortify. What's mortify me?

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We get our word in mortuary. Your members which are upon earth.

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Greg, what are your members on earth? Well, what are they?

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All right. Your members which are upon earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affections, evil concupiscence, covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Now, he's not talking about tangible things. He's talking about something that exists where?

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David? In the mind. That's right.

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The old man has reared his head. Get rid of those things.

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Never allow the beast to run away with the man. Therefore, because of a once for all act on his part, kill everything carnal by refusing to obey it.

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That's all you have to do is just not obey it. Uncontrolled lust or passion, people use the excuse, well,

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I just could not control myself. Is that a reason or an excuse?

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Like the little boy that was visiting his grandmother and his grandmother told him not to get in the cookie jar.

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He was quiet for quite a while and she called him and wanted to know where he was. And he says,

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I'm in the pantry fighting temptation with the cookie jar. He shouldn't have even been in the pantry.

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Six, for which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

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Now, the children of disobedience are at the seat of Satan, but it says for which things sake the wrath of God for the thing sake, for the sake of the thing.

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What's he talking about, Greg? I'm having a hard time understanding.

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Now, those things are what? All right.

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For which things sake. Russell makes sense out of that.

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David, you make sense out of it. Well, but for the thing sake, what, what's that mean,

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Bill? Like being free or something.

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I mean, almost would be a more understandable thing if he said, because of these things, the wrath of God.

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Those are the things that they did which caused the wrath of God. All right. For the, what?

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He will, he has no choice but to do that because those things are evil.

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All right. The sake of the very things that are evil for the sake of them because they exist, his wrath will come on the children of disobedience.

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It won't come on his, it'll come on the seat of Satan. Yes. Yes.

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In the, which he also walks sometimes when you lived in them, he's not letting us off the hook to forget it completely.

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We did sin when we were sinners. We have all been unsaved and we walked in these things of wrath.

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But now ye also put off all things, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communications out of your mouth, lie not one to another seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds.

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Lie not one to another. Stop lying is what it's saying.

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Stop lying to each other. Brings up the question, what is a lie?

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Greg, what is a lie? Say it again.

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An untrue, inadequate, inaccurate, or misleading statement.

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It can be an untruth, prevarication, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, falsity, whopper, informal, tall tale, tall story, white lie, fib, misstatement, misrepresentation, distortion, exaggeration, and so forth.

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Yes. Anything told in such a way to mislead.

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It can be the truth, but you tell it in a way to mislead. That's right.

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Yes. That's right.

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And I have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

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Put on the new man. We're always talking about the new man, the new man.

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What is the new man, David? All right.

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Born from above and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge.

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To renew something means that once it was what? It was new.

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So we want to renew it. In knowledge after the image of him that created him.

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Now, which him is he talking about? Created him.

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What? After the image of him that created him.

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That's just one him. Who's talking?

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All right. Renewed in knowledge after the image of him.

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That's Jesus Christ. That created him. That's man.

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After man was created, he was created pure. If he could have held that, he would have been pure, which there's a whole lot of things we wouldn't know, but he would have been pure and holy.

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Renewed means that one time it was new, as Greg said. After sin, it became old.

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We're to study to make our mind more like his in knowledge. We can never equal his, but we can be more like his.

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Yes, that's right.

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What is the image and the likeness? Right. Where there is neither

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Greek nor Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond or free, but Christ is all and in all.

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Now, Christ is all. That says it all.

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He is all, everything. And not only that, he is in everything.

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He is the glue that holds it all together. Without him, there would be nothing.

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Barbarian, all that were not Greeks. Scythian, this is the worst kind of barbarian.

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They come from the north part of the Black Sea. They would drink their victim's blood from their skull, victim's skull.

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Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long -suffering.

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These are made possible only from the Holy Spirit. And only to God, as we walk through this valley with the shadow of death.

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Put on, therefore, as the elect of God. So you are an elect of God.

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Therefore, you should put on this holy, beloved, bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, and long -suffering.

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It's only in effect to God. And by being in effect to him, it affects your relationship with each other.

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But you cannot have that relationship with each other until you have it with God. I'm going to have to stop here.

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We'll start with 13 next time. Bill, dismiss us, would you please?