1 00:00:06,900 --> 00:00:10,100 Hi, and welcome to the real science and podcast. 2 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:12,800 We are a local church based here in Chennai. 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,200 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,200 encourage Inspire, and in still fresh bathing. 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,700 As we continue our new series for the Lenten season. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,100 Come alive in Jesus, we pray that you will come alive. 7 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:29,000 As you hear these words we have Jaron Nicholas. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,500 Sharing the Word of God With Us to do and how we need to come 9 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:36,500 alive, to them to come alive, in the new, we have to let go of 10 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:38,600 the world. I pray that we will allow the 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,100 Holy Spirit to reveal the dead parts of our life so we can 12 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:45,300 embrace them. Are you ready to be transformed 13 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,000 into the moon? Hello, everyone. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,000 It is good to be back with you as usual. 15 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:54,700 So, we've started series called come alive. 16 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:57,900 And today, the team is come alive to experience the newer, 17 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:02,300 come alive in the year. So, So we will get on that. 18 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:07,100 I scripture that we are focusing on today is Colossians chapter 19 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:12,700 2, verse 20, all the way to chapter 3 verse 17, but let me 20 00:01:12,708 --> 00:01:15,700 go ahead and pray and then we'll get started. 21 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,900 Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for being us together. 22 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:27,300 Father, we thank you that. We are part of the new creation 23 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:30,700 that you have initiated Lord and we thank you that I started a 24 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:33,100 new creation that you have brought us together in this 25 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:34,800 Community of Faith that we are part of that. 26 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:43,800 We are saying father, but we ask that You would use us to show 27 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,800 the people that we come into contact with Lord. 28 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:52,500 What it means to be human, what is this new Humanity that you 29 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:56,000 have started? Lord that we are a part of why? 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,800 This always we thank you for the safety and the comfort with 31 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,300 which we meet with which We Gather in Your Name. 32 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:06,200 Lord. And we remember the people 33 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,900 around this world that do not have this Comfort or safety. 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,800 And that many times there is anxiety, or maybe even fear when 35 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,000 they think about Gathering or two, because of their 36 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,100 circumstances, their surroundings, what we acid, you 37 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:23,800 would protect them that you would guard them, that you would 38 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:29,200 fill them with your courage and that you would give them ways to 39 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,400 be a community, even if they cannot meet in person. 40 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,600 So either we love you. We thank you for how gracious 41 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,600 that you are to us. And father, we ask that you 42 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,800 would truly speak to us through this message, that you would 43 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:51,800 give me the words to speak that I would help me to recognize 44 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,900 that it is you, that is orchestrating it, this is you. 45 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:02,300 That is speaking and none of this is because of me. 46 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,100 So father, we come to you humbly. 47 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,500 We your children come to you. To see what day you have for us. 48 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:12,600 Lord, in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 49 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,700 So I just mentioned so our team has been Come alive and then 50 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:24,700 today is come alive to the new come alive in the experience of 51 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:28,400 the new. The passage we're going to be 52 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:34,200 focusing on is Colossians chapter 2, 20 all the way to 317 53 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:38,600 rather than read the entire almost 22 verses up front. 54 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:41,300 As we go through little by little, I read the passage and 55 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:43,900 then we'll talk about it and then we'll go on like that. 56 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:46,500 Just a little background for a Colossians. 57 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:50,700 So this is a letter that the apostle Called wrote to the 58 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:53,500 church at colossae. So it's called the letter to the 59 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:59,300 Colossians is very likely that he was in prison while he wrote 60 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:02,100 this letter. And this letter was likely a 61 00:04:02,108 --> 00:04:05,300 response to visit. He received from a first 62 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:06,900 epaphras. Is the person that actually 63 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:08,600 planted the church in the colossi. 64 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,200 So Paul didn't actually planned this church so and so that first 65 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:15,500 tells them about the fact that the church is doing well. 66 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,600 But he also talks to him about the couple challenges that they 67 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,600 might be facing. Yes, this you community of 68 00:04:20,608 --> 00:04:23,800 Believers is coming together, coming together in this really, 69 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,400 I mean, in this Pagan Society where these had these new people 70 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,600 are come to Believe In Christ. So in response to that, visit 71 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,800 that from a Packers that he got in prison, he pins this letter 72 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,800 to the Colossians. So it's his letter to this kind 73 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,800 of like, New community of Believers. 74 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,600 So the things he has to say is important. 75 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,600 The warnings he has is important for us. 76 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,900 Even us at, we are sign, we're fairly new fairly new church. 77 00:04:56,900 --> 00:04:58,800 So I think there's a lot for us to hear. 78 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:04,300 So we will start reading at Colossians 2 chapter 20. 79 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:06,600 They only read like four verses and then we'll talk about it. 80 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,100 So this is chapter 2, 22, the end of chapter 2. 81 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:14,800 So since you died, Price to be Elemental, spiritual forces of 82 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,000 this world. Why? 83 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 I still you still belong to the world. 84 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,800 Do you submit to its rules? Do not handle. 85 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:25,900 Do not taste, do not touch these rules which have to do with 86 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:30,000 things that are all destined to perish with use are based on 87 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,700 merely human commands and teachings, such regulations have 88 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:38,200 an appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship their 89 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,400 false humility and their harsh treatment of the body. 90 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:46,300 But they lack Any value in restraining sensual Indulgence. 91 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:51,200 So he talked. He begins with this idea that 92 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,900 since you have died with Christ, right? 93 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:54,400 You died to the spirit of the world. 94 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,100 So the initial idea is you have died with Christ, you've died to 95 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:02,900 this world and then he kind of focus on what it is that you 96 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:06,300 have died to. So here in this view versus the 97 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:10,600 focus, our regulations or rules. So one of the concerns he has 98 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,300 for this church in colossae is It. 99 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:17,700 He is concerned that they will be drawn to Judaism with its 100 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:21,400 list of regulations. And like when he says, do not 101 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,000 taste or do not touchy stock, probably talking about the list 102 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,200 of Purity laws, they had and the list of dietary laws they had. 103 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:34,900 So he is concerned that they are being drawn into it because even 104 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:37,600 being run into Judaism and The Lawns would be something that's 105 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,100 being taken away from what Christ has done, so that is one 106 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:44,600 of his concerns. So, In this letter, if you read 107 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,900 the rest of it, you'll see that on one side, there are some 108 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:49,300 concerns about paganism. But on one side, there are some 109 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:52,100 concerns about Judaism as well. So he's kind of highlighting his 110 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:55,700 concerns about them being drawn back into these laws and 111 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,400 Judaism. And he goes on to talk about how 112 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,500 these laws, really don't have the desired effect that you are 113 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:07,200 looking for. They are such regulations are 114 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,700 have the appearance of wisdom, what? 115 00:07:08,707 --> 00:07:12,900 They have an illusion of it but it is just self-imposed worship. 116 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:17,500 Worship or false humility and really have no. 117 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Value in, what do you feel like you're accomplishing many times 118 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,800 when we follow these rules? We feel like it is going to make 119 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,500 life better or it is me going to make us more spiritual or it's 120 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:34,200 going to make us more holy but they really don't have that 121 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,800 effect. So he is kind of clubbed this 122 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,200 these regulations these rules into this idea that they also 123 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,800 belong to the world. So we here living in this 124 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,100 present time. I mean many of us probably 125 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,700 Really aren't? I mean, there might be just 126 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,500 listening, I don't know. Maybe some of you that are 127 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:55,600 listening and practice Judaism, really, not aware of, but it's 128 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,200 like that. We, I myself have never had to 129 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,400 practice any kind of dietary laws any kind of Purity laws, 130 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:08,400 but This this applies to us because we many times come up 131 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,700 with our own laws or we follow laws that our culture has what 132 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:15,500 the seems like as impose on us. So this kind of applies to that 133 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:21,100 to some laws could be one of your last could be, you put put 134 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:26,700 career first, could be a lot. Now, the law could be time is 135 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:28,700 money, is something that people say, all the time. 136 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:31,800 That could be a lot at we follow, we could have lots 137 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,000 around relationships or friendships One of the lies that 138 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,400 we might have, is we only put time into relationships that 139 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,100 increase our Network, I could be one there in terms of culture 140 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,700 are probably lots of other laws or even in our church, we may 141 00:08:47,700 --> 00:08:51,700 have our own laws like don't associate with that person. 142 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:55,900 Because of this, in this, this person can't come to the front 143 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:57,800 door of the house. They can only come in the back 144 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:03,900 door of the house. There are lots of laws that we 145 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:08,800 Can do follow many some, maybe carrier, some cultural some 146 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:14,900 personal that we feel is going to make us better or make us, 147 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:19,600 holy or make a spiritual. But what we see in this passage 148 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,800 is that these are things that we have died to. 149 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,500 So these are things that belong in the world and Paul start out 150 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:30,200 saying that these little things that you have died to, they have 151 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:35,300 they do not have the effect that Looking for, they don't really 152 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,400 have the value that you're looking for. 153 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:43,600 So now when we move on to that, he will see that he contrasts 154 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,200 since you died with Christ to something else. 155 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:51,100 So this is now I'm going to read from chapter 3 and I believe 156 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:55,400 this is verse 1 through 4. So since then you have been 157 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:59,200 raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where 158 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,500 Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, set your minds on 159 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:08,100 things above, not on Earthly things for you died, and your 160 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:10,600 life. Life is now hidden with Christ 161 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,200 in God. When Christ, who is your life 162 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,300 appears? Then you will also appear with 163 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:17,900 him in glory. So you see, there are two 164 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:21,100 parallels, kind of going on here in verse 20 since you died with 165 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:23,600 Christ. Now here since you have been 166 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,000 raised with Christ, so Paul is kind of hitting home. 167 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 The fact that when Christ died, we died with him and when he was 168 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,400 raised, we were raised with them. 169 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:40,300 So we have kind of and what we have died too, is he Gents the 170 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:46,100 world in verse 20 and then what we are alive, and right now is 171 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:50,200 set your things on things above, he seated, at the right hand of 172 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,000 God, right? Not on Earthly things. 173 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,100 So, these things that are about, sometimes they may be cancelled. 174 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,000 I said, you take mind on Heavenly things, right? 175 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:02,200 So we have this contrast going on here. 176 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:07,800 So, these regulations and laws belong to the things that we are 177 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:13,300 dyed to To they have no real value, they can't achieve what 178 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:16,100 we want. And so we have died to that in 179 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:18,500 the world and then now he's talking about things that really 180 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:21,400 do have values, the things that we are alive and that we've been 181 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,500 raised up. And so, and these are the things 182 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:27,600 of heaven or these are the things that are not worldly. 183 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:30,700 These are the things that are above above as in. 184 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,000 These are the things that are in the same place where Christ is 185 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,900 seated, at the right hand and then in verse 4, he ends with 186 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:39,100 this. Insurance rate. 187 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:42,400 That when Christ, who is your life right appears? 188 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,000 Then you will also appear with him in glory. 189 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,700 So like this issuance that we have eternal life and that we 190 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:53,900 will be with Christ as part of our Salvation. 191 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:59,500 So now he sets up these two parallels die to the world 192 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,600 raised up in Christ or die with Christ and raised up with Christ 193 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,900 and he kind of fleshes out these ideas even more. 194 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:11,100 As we read further on in chapter 3, So this is, I'm going to read 195 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:16,100 verses 5 to 11 and chapter 3. So, put to death therefore 196 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,600 whatever. Belongs to your Earthly nature, 197 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:24,000 sexual immorality, impurity lust, evil, desires and greed, 198 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,700 which is idolatry because of these, the wrath of God is 199 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:30,500 coming. You used to walk in these ways 200 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:35,500 in the life you once lived, but now you must also rid yourself 201 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:41,400 of all such things as these Anger, rage, malice slander and 202 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,700 filthy language from your lips do not lie to each other. 203 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:48,200 Since you have taken off your old self with these practice, 204 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:49,500 I'm just going to read you a verse 9. 205 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,300 So he kind of highlights here, right? 206 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:56,200 What he beans of this world, what? 207 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,600 He means of the things that you have died too. 208 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:02,200 So, put to death, therefore, and he starts men talking about 209 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,300 sexual immorality, lust impurity, and then he goes on to 210 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,900 talk about Anger and rage in Malice and Slaughter slander and 211 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:15,300 filthy language. So he kind of clubs two areas 212 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:18,100 here. So we are talking about sexual 213 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:21,100 immorality or sexual impurity so pretty much sex. 214 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,600 And then here we talk about filthy talk and slander and 215 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,500 Malice, and rage, many of these things are expressed in speech, 216 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:32,700 right? So when he's writing to this 217 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:36,600 church, and he's talking about what that, these old things that 218 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,900 we are to put away. Are the two things that he 219 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:44,900 deliberately chooses to mention our sex and speech to things 220 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:52,500 that are gifts from God. However, have been painted, and 221 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:56,300 use in ways that they were not meant to be used both these 222 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:04,400 things have the capacity to, I mean, to really ruin lives, but 223 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,300 more. So, in the context of a church 224 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:09,800 when these things are Widespread or when they happen, they have 225 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,100 the ability to tear down this community that you're trying to 226 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:18,100 build so many times these practices cause divide, right? 227 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:28,100 And These aren't just struggles that the church in colossae was 228 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:32,300 facing, okay? He didn't just write about the 229 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,500 sexual impurity just because that was what was happening in 230 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:40,200 the Pagan world around them. I mean, he did mention to them, 231 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,300 but it is also to us because this is kind of what is 232 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:46,000 happening. All around us in the context of 233 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,500 pollen colossae, if you wanted to commit sexual, Sin. 234 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,500 You can kind of, I had to get up from your house and go to a 235 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:59,500 temple and engage in Acts that you thought was worshipful but 236 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:02,400 they really weren't. It was just sexual immorality. 237 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:06,800 Nowadays, to be honest, you don't have to leave anywhere in 238 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,100 the comfort of your home. In your bed, you have a 6 inch 239 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:12,700 screen that brings everything to you, right? 240 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:18,300 So, it is important that these are addressed. 241 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:21,800 These are talk about, because This is the kind of things that 242 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,900 is important to scripture because here are scriptures 243 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,200 highlighting that. These are the things that we put 244 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,500 to that in the time that he had to write a colossal, he 245 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,200 mentioned two very important things that was necessary to put 246 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,700 to death, sexual impurity and wrongful speech, right? 247 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,700 It is important for us to take that into consideration to the 248 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:46,100 mere fact that he mentions, this means that it is important for 249 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:53,700 us to have a good look at this. And At church, we might fall 250 00:15:53,700 --> 00:16:00,100 into this notion that. That there's no sexual impurity 251 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:05,500 because you're like, I'm married, I don't sleep around. 252 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:11,700 I waited till I got married to be with my wife and you might 253 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:16,500 kind of think of those things and kind of brush it under the 254 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,700 carpet and then move on. But then we really can't move on 255 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:24,500 from that because the thing that Paul clubs it with is speech, 256 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,200 right. There is a lot of speech that 257 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,900 Happens at church, right? And it is important to keep in 258 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:35,400 mind that a lot of the speech that could be happening, are the 259 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,800 things that we that need to be put to death. 260 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,900 Even simple things that we think are simple like gossip. 261 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,100 Even the mere fact that I said, simple things, you know I don't 262 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:52,200 have the right idea about the biggest things like gossip could 263 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,300 really bring Division and strife into a community. 264 00:16:56,900 --> 00:16:59,900 So That is something that Paul wanted them to be, are aware of 265 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,000 and that's something that we have to be aware of. 266 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,900 This is, I mean, it really shows us that God is really concerned 267 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,300 with our speech and God is really concerned it. 268 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:14,700 When it comes to matters of sex, these things are important to 269 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:23,200 him and the way in which we used to view these things before we 270 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,000 were raised in Christ, has to be put to death. 271 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:31,900 And if they are not put to that, they will not only affect us but 272 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:34,400 they affect the Greater Community, right? 273 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,700 You might be telling yourself that there are secret sins that 274 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:40,700 you can do in the privacy of your home. 275 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:44,700 That doesn't affect anyone else. But the thing with any kind of 276 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:48,300 sin, as it always affects your relationship if it affects you. 277 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:52,500 It affects your relationships, there is always a way it affects 278 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:58,100 something else, so these things should be put to that. 279 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:00,400 So these are the things of the world is talking about. 280 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,500 These are the things that we have died to, that is mentioning 281 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:07,600 and so it should cause us to pause and think about these two 282 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,600 specific areas that is calling us to put to death because they 283 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,400 are important to consider uncomfortable. 284 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,900 They might be, but it is important to consider because 285 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:21,500 they are important to God. So now in verses, so do not lie 286 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:24,000 to each other since you have taken off. 287 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,600 So again, this thing, he specifically says, do not like 288 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:31,400 one of the reasons he's probably highlighting. 289 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,400 This is, Our Gospel is a Gospel of Truth, right? 290 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,900 So any time, there are lies, are being told in the church, it 291 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:41,600 undistributed almost understood, the gospel. 292 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,400 So it is one of its. So it is very important. 293 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,800 I understand that along with all at the speech that has Put the 294 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,300 debt lying has to be put to death as well because our gospel 295 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:58,700 is a Gospel of Truth and when there are lies it undoes that. 296 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,800 So now starting with verse in the middle of verse 9, okay. 297 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,300 Since you have taken off your old self with its practices and 298 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:11,800 have put on the new self which is being renewed in the 299 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,600 knowledge, in the image of the Creator. 300 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,000 Here, there is no Gentile or Jew circumcised or uncircumcised 301 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,400 Barbarian. Viridian City and slave or free, 302 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,700 but Christ and all and Christ is in all. 303 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:28,900 So, Paul here is bringing to mind imagery that was probably 304 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:31,900 common in the first century early church. 305 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:37,700 So during baptism when the new car believer, we go into the 306 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:41,300 Waters of baptism and come out when they came out of the Waters 307 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:44,100 of baptism, they were given a new white room to kind of 308 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:47,500 symbolize this new creation or this new person that had become 309 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:48,900 so they would take off. Close. 310 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,800 They've been baptized in input on this new wide room to 311 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,600 symbolize that. So that is the imagery that 312 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,200 policy is here. It's talking about take off your 313 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,700 old clothes. This old self used to be and put 314 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:04,600 on the new. And this new one is has a new 315 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,700 context, right? The you New Life, the cop 316 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:09,900 primary context is that in the knowledge, in the image of its 317 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,700 creator. Meaning you are an image bearer 318 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:16,400 of the one true God. That is the new context of our 319 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,200 life. The new context of this new 320 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:24,200 being that you put on is you are an image bearer of the one, true 321 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,100 God. And then the first thing, he 322 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:30,400 mentions that he talks about putting on this new life, is 323 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,300 that there is no Gentile or Jew. There is no slave or free. 324 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:38,100 There is no circumcised or uncircumcised, right? 325 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:41,300 But Christ is all and it's all. So the first thing that comes 326 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:45,700 down or like, barriers that divide us humans, many times 327 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,600 location and ethnicity and Heritage are or nationality. 328 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:57,100 A lot of things that tend to divide but in this new creation, 329 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:01,100 when you put on this Euro, the first thing that goes away are 330 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:04,900 these things that divide us with and the thing that comes up to 331 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:08,600 unites is recognition that we are image bearers in this 332 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:13,800 Community of Faith, we are image bearers and that Christ is in 333 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,700 all of us. So that becomes a thing that 334 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:20,700 unifies us right? And it is not the divisions. 335 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:24,000 It's not the things that make us different that matter anymore, 336 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 but it is. This one thing that unifies us, 337 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:29,500 there is no longer division. So, one of the first things he 338 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,600 tackles as life in this new creation of this new life, we 339 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,800 put on our the divisions that we have that, so they can no longer 340 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,000 so they can no longer be any division. 341 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 So, so it's part of the old life. 342 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:48,900 We see that he tackles the laws and regulations and then Sexual 343 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,400 immorality, and then speech, and then with the new life, he 344 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,500 mentioned about, setting your mind on Heavenly things and then 345 00:21:57,500 --> 00:21:59,800 put on this new self. And then the first thing you 346 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,600 down hose is there are no longer divisions, right? 347 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:06,300 And so we're going to read on from 12% 17. 348 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:11,500 So therefore as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved 349 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:16,000 clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness humility, 350 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:20,500 gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive 351 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:23,300 one another. If any of you have a grievance 352 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:28,700 against someone forgive as the Lord forgave you, and over all 353 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:34,000 these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in 354 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,800 perfect Unity, Let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts since 355 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,600 as members of one body, you were called to peace. 356 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,500 And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell 357 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:48,200 among you richly as you teach and admonish. 358 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,400 Punish one another with all wisdom through psalms hymns and 359 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,800 songs for the spirit singing to God with gratitude in your 360 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,100 hearts. He kind of fleshes out what he 361 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:03,500 means by these heavily things are things that are above or 362 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:05,400 things that are not worldly, right? 363 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:09,900 So these heavily things he's talking about our compassion. 364 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,500 Kindness humility gentleness patience, right? 365 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:21,100 And above all love. So he is setting out the things 366 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:23,000 that we should be dwelling on. Right. 367 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:25,200 The things that we should be living in. 368 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:29,400 So we have died in Christ, right? 369 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,900 So we have died to the regulations to pretty much and 370 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:37,800 the immoral speech or sexual impurity. 371 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:42,800 And then we have been raised to this new life. 372 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,300 That things, aren't Heavenly things. 373 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:48,200 And these are those things that he's talking about compassion. 374 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:52,300 Kindness humility gentleness about love and then he talks 375 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:54,200 about how you treat people, right? 376 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,900 He says, if anyone has a grievance against you, forgive 377 00:23:56,900 --> 00:24:02,900 them as the Lord forgave you? So, he setting up and expanding 378 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,600 on what this new life is what it means. 379 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,100 To clothe ourselves. In this new creation that we've 380 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:13,000 been created, and this is what it looks like so. 381 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,600 And then, after you tell us these things, right? 382 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:20,800 And he talks about love He goes on to give a glimpse of what 383 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,900 life in this community of Believers in Colossus should 384 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:28,100 look like and what our life as a commuter Believers here should 385 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:31,500 look like to write, says, Let the Peace of Christ rule in your 386 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:35,100 hearts since as members of one body, you were called to Peace. 387 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:41,900 So, peace peace Among Us is one thing that you drool and be 388 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:43,500 thankful. That the message of Christ 389 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,600 dwell, among you richly as you teach and admonish one another 390 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:50,800 with all wisdom. Through psalms hymns and songs 391 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,300 from the spirit singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 392 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,000 So this word of calculus in gratitude or mentioned. 393 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,000 You're right. That should be the way of life 394 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,600 in this community thankfulness and gratitude to God for what he 395 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,100 has done thankfulness and gratitude that because of him we 396 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:12,200 have died to the old world and because of him we have been 397 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,100 raised up into this new creation. 398 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:20,900 And the way we keep this community strong is through the 399 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,900 sharing of the word through worship together. 400 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:30,100 So all of these things, build, a strong Community, all of these 401 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:33,000 things, he's encouraging the church in colossae to take 402 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,200 pardon. So kind of the recap, right? 403 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,700 We started with We've died in Christ. 404 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,600 So we kind of died to the law and then you mention about your 405 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,400 you've been raised with Christ. And then when you erase, you 406 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,200 talked about the Heavenly you of mindset on have a few things. 407 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:54,500 And then he talked about because you have died in Christ, put 408 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:57,600 these things to death. So the things that were 409 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,100 important or the things that were part of our old life, he 410 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,000 said put to death, right? And you mentioned two things 411 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,500 sexual immorality and speech and Then he talked about what it 412 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:13,300 means to have this new life will be raised in this new life and 413 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:15,100 the things that govern the new life. 414 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:21,100 Our kindness gentleness meekness humility, love forgiveness, 415 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:22,500 right. All these things had the 416 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:24,000 standard. Those are the Heavenly things 417 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,200 that govern it. And then he talks a little bit 418 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,100 about what the group of Believers might look like who 419 00:26:30,100 --> 00:26:34,700 are part of this new life. So All in all, when you look at 420 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:40,000 this. What Paul is really conveying to 421 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:47,000 us to the church is the gospel. The gospel does care about 422 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:53,400 eternity, right? However, more often than not the 423 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,800 gospels main concern throughout scripture is a life here on 424 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:04,800 Earth is how we live this life here, and that is what Paul is 425 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:09,300 talking about here. The gospel message that he wants 426 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:14,100 to convey to the church in colossae is that we have died in 427 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:18,000 Christ and that we have put to that those things and that we 428 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,700 have been raised and again. So as we've been raised, we are 429 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:25,500 part of this new creation. We have died and we have been 430 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:28,100 raised. So we have died to the world, 431 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:33,300 this old creation and we've been raised into this new order it. 432 00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:38,600 The idea is very much that we've been East into almost a new way 433 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,900 to be human. A new way to be human, meaning 434 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:47,000 the most genuine and only way to be truly human, is in light of 435 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,900 the Gospel. Only way to be truly human, is 436 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:54,200 to be part of this new creation. That Christ is the firstborn of 437 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,800 that because of his that we have died to the old and because of 438 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,000 his resurrection we have been raised to the new. 439 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,800 So we are part of this new creation rate and the things 440 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,800 that Govern Us in this new creation, are not the things 441 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,100 that used to go. Unless, in the past, those 442 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:13,600 things are to be, put to death, the things that are the 443 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:20,000 governess, our kindness humility meekness love forgiveness, right 444 00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:25,200 gathering together in worship, having an having thankfulness 445 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,300 and gratitude be the rhythm of our life. 446 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:31,300 Because of because we know that we are part of this new 447 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:34,900 creation, we know that we can generally be human because of 448 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:39,600 the work that Christ has done. for us as as I Was preparing the 449 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:46,500 sermon, I Probably for the first time in my life for at least the 450 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:51,200 first time in recent history. I was reminded again that I 451 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,700 indeed and part of this new creation, right? 452 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,600 And it made me look at things when they popped up a little 453 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,800 different. Some of the examples are a 454 00:29:01,808 --> 00:29:04,300 couple examples I'm going to share with you or probably maybe 455 00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:06,800 on the sillier side. But they were important to me 456 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,000 because that was kind of what I was going through when I was 457 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:14,400 Prepping for the sermon there, always distractions. 458 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,900 Primarily the 6 inch screen that we all have distractions. 459 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:24,100 Do go look at every notification distraction is to browse the 460 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:29,600 news after I was in the middle of prepping and I was thinking 461 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,100 through this idea that I'm New Creation when that distraction 462 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:37,400 popped up first. I found myself telling myself I 463 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,600 am dead. So anytime there was a 464 00:29:39,608 --> 00:29:42,500 distraction to take me from what I was supposed to be doing. 465 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:46,200 I told myself I am dead I was actually Priced when it came 466 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:49,400 when that happened to me, but it made me feel like an 467 00:29:49,408 --> 00:29:54,500 internalized, this to that, that I was learning for by starting 468 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:59,800 with scripture. So, this past couple days as it 469 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,600 as I've been prepping anytime. I was tempted to go to the phone 470 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,900 to distract myself. I said I am dead and I was able 471 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:14,700 to come back and stay on course and not the silly example. 472 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,300 I I chew my nails, right? Might be a very trivial example. 473 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:23,100 I don't have any crazy stories for you to it, but I found 474 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:27,100 myself saying and I was tempted to too many, too many ills. 475 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:33,800 I am dead and there was this reminder that I was dead to the 476 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,600 always. Am I live in the new creation 477 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:43,200 and I have self-control and when I've found it difficult to be 478 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,700 part of this new creation, right? 479 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:46,400 The thing. Govern, the new creation, 480 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:51,700 humility compassion, meekness are difficult things. 481 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,500 So when I was faced with those difficult things, I told myself 482 00:30:55,500 --> 00:31:00,000 I'm alive because we are alive in those things and we can 483 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,700 function those things and let those things govern our lives. 484 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:09,000 So it is just my example. I was telling myself, it's when 485 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:12,500 things were pulling me back to the old told myself I was dead 486 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,900 when things were difficult as we Embrace, as we Moving forward in 487 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:17,100 the new life. I told myself. 488 00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:19,700 I was alive to remind myself, right? 489 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:23,900 We live in a world that is constantly tugging at us. 490 00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:26,800 Back to the old. We just have to step out the 491 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,900 door or turn on our 6 inch screens to know that it doesn't 492 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:32,900 look like a new creation around us. 493 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:38,200 It doesn't look like New Creation has been initiated so 494 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,300 the world reminds us in tries to pull us back. 495 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:46,800 So we taking the initiative and choosing to I believe that we 496 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,100 indeed are part of this new creation is an Act of Faith. 497 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,600 So faith is a big part in. This is just not believing God 498 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,300 for something, but in this case, faith is actively choosing to 499 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:03,200 believe that even though around us, it doesn't seem like New 500 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,200 Creation. Oh, we constantly being pulled 501 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,600 back into what was old. We in faith. 502 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,100 Believe that we truly are part of this new creation, that god 503 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,700 and goddess initiated through what Christ has done, right? 504 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:19,400 And so and that we can be this new creation in this world that 505 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,500 we can show the world around us that new creation indeed has 506 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:26,600 been initiated right and that people are welcome to be part of 507 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:32,200 this new creation. So now my wife shared something 508 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,300 with me which I think I really fleshes out this almost constant 509 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:43,200 tug-of-war that we have. So it's it's a story, a short 510 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,600 story or more like Imagery to help us understand. 511 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,800 So I'm going to read it to you and I'm going to kind of close 512 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:54,100 after that. So imagine yourself traveling 513 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,700 down a long Country Road, looking ahead on one side, you 514 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:03,700 see a high chain-link fence and on the other side, you see an 515 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:09,000 open field as you drive closer, you can see people behind the 516 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,700 fence and people in the field. You slow down to take a closer 517 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:18,500 look and you discover that the fence is actually part of a huge 518 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,900 cage. The people inside are trapped 519 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,900 with no way out. There is a man in the cage who 520 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:28,800 seems to be in charge and he is angry. 521 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,100 He shouts orders at the people telling them what to do. 522 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:38,500 Sometimes the people in the cage seem to protest but eventually 523 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,300 they do with the angry man tells them to do or what he tells them 524 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:49,000 to do. The cage is a picture of our 525 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,400 situation apart from Jesus, apart from Christ. 526 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:59,100 The angry man's name is sin and he reigns in the cage. 527 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:04,900 Syntel's, the people what to do? The whole world is a prisoner of 528 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:09,900 sin. But those who are in Christ have 529 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:13,900 died to sin, Paul uses his picture to describe what God 530 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:18,199 does for us in Christ. When you come to Faith In Jesus, 531 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,199 God moved you out of the cage and into the field. 532 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:28,800 God moved you from imprisonment to freedom from an old life, in 533 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,000 which sin was your master to a new life in which sin is no 534 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,199 longer in a position to control you. 535 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,900 Being in Christ puts you in a new position in relation to sin 536 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:45,600 sin is still your enemy, but it is no longer your master. 537 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:51,100 The angry man will still shout instructions across the road and 538 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:55,000 when he does, you will immediately feel that you should 539 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,500 do what he says after all. That's what you always did 540 00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:02,600 before. But the fact of the matter is 541 00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:07,100 that the angry man is is no longer your master. 542 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:13,300 You are under no obligation to do, what he says, you are not in 543 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:16,500 the cage. You are in the field, you are 544 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:21,100 free. Resistance to sin was ultimately 545 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:23,400 futile. When you were held hostage in 546 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,300 the cage, but out in the field, you are in a position to fight 547 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,900 and you can triumph over your enemy. 548 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:36,800 Every person is either indicator in the field. 549 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:41,300 You cannot be in both places at the same time and knowing where 550 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,400 you stand is a crucial part of discovering your new identity in 551 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:52,800 Christ. So We are part of New Creation, 552 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,400 just like that told you, right? Many times things. 553 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:03,600 Our old world sin are the old creation that we came out of is 554 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,200 constantly shouting barking orders at us. 555 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,300 And maybe our initial reaction is do it, because that's kind of 556 00:36:09,308 --> 00:36:11,600 what we've always done. But we are part of this new 557 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,900 creation. We no longer need to listen to 558 00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:20,100 those commands, right? For some of us, those shouts 559 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:22,900 come from all over the place many times. 560 00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:26,000 The shouts are probably coming from your phone and they want 561 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000 you to do something. It could be coming from people, 562 00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:31,600 it could be coming from past experience, you'll be coming 563 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,100 from anywhere, but fact of the matter is we are part of this 564 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:40,900 new creation, we have a new master, our masters Christ and 565 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,700 our masters no longer sin. So kind of want to end with how 566 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,500 This, the passage ends up with over 17 and I'm going to leave 567 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:55,300 with you a couple of thoughts about what how they really 568 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,000 fleshes out, how to distinguish our old life from our new life, 569 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000 okay? And it says, whatever you do, 570 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord, 571 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,800 Jesus giving. Thanks to God the Father through 572 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,500 him, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus. 573 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:14,400 As I was reading a resource that was using to prep for this 574 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,000 message. It said, Could you put the 575 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,100 banner up in the name of the Lord? 576 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:23,800 Jesus to anything you do or do anything you say? 577 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:27,800 And it really got me thinking, because I think that would help 578 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,500 us to distinguish old from New, Right? 579 00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:37,600 Could be in the name of the Lord Jesus yell angrily. 580 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,300 At our children. Could we in the name of the 581 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:42,500 Lord? Jesus? 582 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,200 Shame. Our spouse because we just don't 583 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,800 agree on something. Could we in the name of the 584 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:53,000 Lord, Jesus be rude to somebody because they were rude to us. 585 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,600 Right? Could we in the name of the 586 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:01,600 Lord? Jesus think about somebody else 587 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:08,600 when we are married. So we couldn't write, but could 588 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,300 be the name of the Lord Jesus show compassion when compassion 589 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,000 was not shown to us. Yes. 590 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,200 Could we in the name of the Lord? 591 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,600 Jesus be. Loving when what we have 592 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,500 received this hatred? Yes. 593 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,100 Could we in the name of the Lord? 594 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:31,100 Jesus. Show love to our children or be 595 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,900 gracious to them despite anything that has happened. 596 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,900 Yes. So let's keep that in mind. 597 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:38,800 As we come to the end of this, right? 598 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:45,000 Can we do, or say the things we say in the name of the Lord? 599 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,200 Jesus. So, thank you so much for 600 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,500 joining us and being with us. I want to say a word of Prayer. 601 00:38:55,900 --> 00:39:00,300 Every father, we thank you so much for giving us this message. 602 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:01,900 Thank you so much for giving us your word. 603 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,700 Thank you so much for this. Reminder that we indeed are part 604 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:09,200 of a new creation that you initiated or we no longer have 605 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,700 to suffer under the old. But we can live in Freedom under 606 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:16,800 the new record so far, they help us to internalize this help us 607 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,900 to remember this Lord this week, and for the rest of our lives, 608 00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:25,500 that you indeed have called us to this new creation that we are 609 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,900 part of Of this because of what you've done when we died with 610 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:31,200 you but more. So we have been raised into this 611 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,700 new creation with you and let the way we live. 612 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:36,500 Our lives can be different and that's not have to be the same 613 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:42,400 like it was before you raised us father to Lord. 614 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,900 We thank you so much for this word. 615 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:53,500 We thank you that we can truly and genuinely be human now. 616 00:39:54,200 --> 00:40:00,000 And don't have to be Listening to orders be yelled by our old 617 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,500 Master but that we can live in Freedom with our new master. 618 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,600 That is pressed. So father we love you. 619 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,500 We thank you again for bringing us together. 620 00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:11,900 And that we thank you, that you are the one that binds us 621 00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:13,600 together. In Jesus name, we pray. 622 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,900 Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus 623 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:19,400 Christ. The love of the father and the 624 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,000 Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 625 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,700 So Church, go out in the power of the Gospel. 626 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:29,400 Thank you for joining us. We hope you enjoyed today's 627 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,400 message and were blessed if you liked what you heard and want to 628 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,700 hear more messages from us, you could read this and subscribe to 629 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:39,300 our podcast channel for more content from me as I am. 630 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:42,900 Or if you'd like to get in touch with them, as you can go to VI 631 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:47,300 Zion.T, or follow us on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. 632 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:51,900 More importantly, remember that whoever finds Jesus Finds Me?