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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The Christ Life Colossians 3: 1-11


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v.1 1. Righteousness is imputed, but there is a life long change to come.
(seek those things which are above,)

v.2 2. A believer's focus is to be upon the person of Christ.
(Set your affection on things above, not ...)
Learning Christ, desiring Christ.

v.3 3. A permanent spiritual change has occurred.
(For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.)

v.4 4. You have a new source for living.
(When Christ, who is our life, )

v.5 5. The new life is not a covering over of the old life.
(Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,
which is idolatry:)

v.10 6. Your life is after the pattern of Christ.
(And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the
image of Him that created Him:)

v.11 7. You have been united to a new family of God.
(Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and an all.)








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