Feeding the Sheep - Living the New Life
-Apostle Paul, 1st century
Colossians 3:1-4
[This is the 16th message of this series]
This lesson is intended for mature believers (or adulting believers). For a more orderly study, please go through all the previous messages first, if you haven't yet.
The Apostle Paul gave a rundown on how to know if we are living the new life we received as a gift from God.
Paul wrote it down in his letter to the first church in the City of Colossae in the 1st century.
To summarize, he told them that we ought to be staying away from earthly things:
1. Impurity
2. Evil desires
3. Greed (worship of the things of this world)
4. Malicious behavior - anger, rage, slander, dirty language
5. Lying
We ought to be replacing these with heavenly things:
1. Mercy - compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience
2. Forgiveness
3. Love - fostering harmony
4. Peace (as one body, one church)
5. Gratitude
And by filling our day by:
1. Teaching others
2. Singing (an attitude of gratitude) and
3. Doing everything for Christ
Now he told them "the what" we ought to be doing. But he didn't actually give a powerpoint presentation or a seminar on "how" to do it.
1. Impurity
2. Evil desires
3. Greed (worship of the things of this world)
4. Malicious behavior - anger, rage, slander, dirty language
5. Lying
We ought to be replacing these with heavenly things:
1. Mercy - compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience
2. Forgiveness
3. Love - fostering harmony
4. Peace (as one body, one church)
5. Gratitude
And by filling our day by:
1. Teaching others
2. Singing (an attitude of gratitude) and
3. Doing everything for Christ
Now he told them "the what" we ought to be doing. But he didn't actually give a powerpoint presentation or a seminar on "how" to do it.
Adulting
This new life in Christ is a life we live daily, some days we may have it down, others we fall flat on our faces. But like Peter and the rest of the first disciples of Christ, we stand back up, seek a time of refreshing and start the next day with renewed hope, mercy and the expectation that day by day, we are able to be more and more like Christ and less and less like our old life.
This new life in Christ is a life we live daily, some days we may have it down, others we fall flat on our faces. But like Peter and the rest of the first disciples of Christ, we stand back up, seek a time of refreshing and start the next day with renewed hope, mercy and the expectation that day by day, we are able to be more and more like Christ and less and less like our old life.
Church of the Lost Sheep 2012
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