Filled & Bearing Fruit: Sanctification: Living a Raised Life

1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 ^aSet your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. 5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to ^cimmorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. 9 ^aDo not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, 10 and have put on the new self who is being ^brenewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— 11 a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

You are called to live with your focus on things above.  

Seek the things above. 

Your identification with Christ assures it.

The location of Christ focuses it.  

Set your mind on things above.

You have reasons for focusing on things above. 

You have died with Christ.

You have been hidden with Christ.

You will be revealed with Christ.

Sexual sins attack purity.

Social sins attack unity.

Sin impacts personally.

Sin impacts community.

Consider yourself dead to idolatry. 

Sexual immorality is idolatry

Idolatry brings the wrath of God. 

You once walked in idolatry. (7)

Social sins attack unity.

Put aside all sin. 

List 2 

Anger orgai deep smoldering resentful bitterness.  A settled heart attitude.  Provocations do not create this anger. It simply provides a target for this anger.

Wrath thumon rage, outbursts, explosive

Malice kakian vicious nature bent on doing harm by evil speech

Slander blasphemian insults, disparaging remarks

Abusive speech aischrologian obscene, derogatory remarks intended to hurt or wound someone.

The Reasons 

You have laid aside the old self.

You have a new self. 

You have a new mind.

You live in a new society.

Christ is all and in all. 

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