Category: Colossians
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The Indwelling Word
Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” God often uses very interesting language to get His point across to us in His Word. In the verse above He does…
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Renewed
Colossians 3:9-10 “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” One of the harsh realities of physical life is that day by day we just get older and older. Often little children look forward…
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A Glorious Example
Colossians 3:12-14 “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 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. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” One of the most amazing statements of the…
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Some New Clothes!
Colossians 3:5-14 “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not…
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Racism
Colossians 3:9-11 “you have . . . put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.” Racism. We hear about it all the time. It seems every day we hear words…
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The Other Guy?
Colossians 3:5-7 “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.” One of the possible tendencies when we read the Bible is to think it is speaking…
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Worldly Religion
Colossians 2:20-23 “If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— ’Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch’ (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed…
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The Record
Revelation 20:12 “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.” Colossians 2:13-14 “And you, who were dead in…
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Spiritual Death – and Life
Colossians 3:3 ”For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Everyone has two natures. It’s just a fact of how God created us. There is a physical nature and a spiritual nature. At the creation, both of these natures were consistent in that they were both alive. God breathed life into Adam…
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“Christ in You” and Vice Versa
Ephesians 1:7 “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace” Colossians 1:27 “. . . Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Two of the phrases used in the Bible to describe the wonderful unity of the believer with Christ is to say that we are “in Him”…
To Encourage You 