Colossians 3:1-5 KJV
1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
As children of God, we have two modes of thinking, according to the flesh, and according to the Spirit. This is to say we have either fleshy thoughts or spiritual thoughts.
Earthy thoughts or heavenly thoughts.
When we are being spiritual, we know love, we know joy, we know peace, faithfulness, kindness, gentleness, patience, we know self-control.
When we are being fleshy, we do not.
If we do not know love, and joy, and peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, it is because we are in our fleshy mind, not spiritual mind.
We're told here to mortify our members that are upon the earth. Kind of an odd thing to say, isn't it? Our members on the earth? This literally means "body parts", an arm, a leg, an eye, like that.
But then, he's just finished saying that we've died, and we are hid with Christ in God. Yet we have members upon the earth and we are to put them to death.
Mortify therefore you members upon the the earth . . . "Therefore"
Why then are we to put our members to death? Because we've died, and we are hid with Christ in God, and when He appears, we will appear with Him.
We're no longer part of this world, and when we think like we are, that's with the fleshy mind. I find it is meaningful to me to remind myself, if I'm not trusting God, that's the fleshy mind. If I'm not being loving, that's the fleshy mind. Impatient, grumbling, fleshy mind. Worried, coniving, demanding, demeaning, all fleshy mind.
"Taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ", first we have to be able to recognize when we've dropped into that fleshy mind.
What do you find important in maintaining a spiritual walk?
Much love!
1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
As children of God, we have two modes of thinking, according to the flesh, and according to the Spirit. This is to say we have either fleshy thoughts or spiritual thoughts.
Earthy thoughts or heavenly thoughts.
When we are being spiritual, we know love, we know joy, we know peace, faithfulness, kindness, gentleness, patience, we know self-control.
When we are being fleshy, we do not.
If we do not know love, and joy, and peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, it is because we are in our fleshy mind, not spiritual mind.
We're told here to mortify our members that are upon the earth. Kind of an odd thing to say, isn't it? Our members on the earth? This literally means "body parts", an arm, a leg, an eye, like that.
But then, he's just finished saying that we've died, and we are hid with Christ in God. Yet we have members upon the earth and we are to put them to death.
Mortify therefore you members upon the the earth . . . "Therefore"
Why then are we to put our members to death? Because we've died, and we are hid with Christ in God, and when He appears, we will appear with Him.
We're no longer part of this world, and when we think like we are, that's with the fleshy mind. I find it is meaningful to me to remind myself, if I'm not trusting God, that's the fleshy mind. If I'm not being loving, that's the fleshy mind. Impatient, grumbling, fleshy mind. Worried, coniving, demanding, demeaning, all fleshy mind.
"Taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ", first we have to be able to recognize when we've dropped into that fleshy mind.
What do you find important in maintaining a spiritual walk?
Much love!