Bible Readings:
Ephesians 2:1 – 22
Colossians 2:1 – 3:11
Sermon Outline:
Colossians 3:1–5 (NKJV)
1If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
2Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
5Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
I – Once I Was
Colossians 3:7 (NKJV)
7in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
CR. Ephesians 2:1–3 (NKJV)
1And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
II – The I became
Colossians 2:6 (NKJV)
6As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
Colossians 2:11–12 (NKJV)
11In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
12buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
Romans 6:6 (NKJV)
6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
1 Peter 1:8 (NKJV)
8whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
Q45. What benefit do we receive from the RESURRECTION of Christ?
First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, that He might make us partakers of the righteousness which by His death He has obtained for us. Secondly, we also are now by His power raised up to a new life. Thirdly, the resurrection of Christ is to us a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection.
Heidelberg Catechism
III – Now I must …
Colossians 3:5 (NKJV)
5Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
IV – Event as I wait …
Colossians 3:4 (NKJV)
4When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
ASCETICISM A voluntary abstention from the satisfaction of bodily and social needs, including food, drink, sexual activity, sleep, clothes, wealth, and social interaction.
REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING is the Christian (mainly through catholicism) belief that human suffering, when accepted and offered up in union with the Passion of Jesus, can remit the just punishment for one’s sins or for the sins of another, or for the other physical or spiritual needs of oneself or another. Like an indulgence, redemptive suffering does not gain the individual forgiveness for their sin; forgiveness results from God’s grace, freely given through Christ, which cannot be earned.