Set Your Mind on Things Above – Colossians3:1-4
As believers, we have died with Christ and are seated with him in heaven. So, we should set our minds on things above, on the kingdom of God.
Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12 NIV)
Studies of Paul’s letter the the church at Colossi
As believers, we have died with Christ and are seated with him in heaven. So, we should set our minds on things above, on the kingdom of God.
There are many teachers who will lead the unwary astray. Do not be deceived by fine-sounding arguments. Compare everything against Christ.
As believers in our Lord Jesus, we represent him to the world around us. So be careful that everything you say or do is in Jesus’s name.
You are not saved just by walking the aisle and saying the sinner’s prayer. Salvation is for those who continue in their faith to the end.
The futility of legalism should be obvious to anyone who has attempted to live by a strict code of conduct. It never changes a person’s heart.
We most often see the physical side of the cross. But at the cross, Jesus defeated his enemies, and ours. The cross was his greatest victory.
Take off your old self with its practices and put on the new self. A self that is being renewed in God’s image.