So, after you believe in the good news that Jesus died so you never have to choose wrong…after you've been baptized after your baptism in the Christ…died to yourself and been raised with Christ and as a new life for eternal life then what…
listen to the instructions found written to Christians in Colosse… if then you were raised together with Christ seek the things which are above where Christ is seated on the right hand of God…what are we supposed to seek Christ’s will…who's seated at the right hand of God…
set your mind on things that are above not upon the things of the earth… in John's revelation were instructed to get gold tried in a fire in other words heavenly treasure eternal reward… for you have died and your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ to is our lives shall be made known then shall you be with him made known in glory…
…put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication…no sex outside of marriage, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, covetousness…which is idolatry…
…for which things sake come the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience wherein you once walked when you lived in these things but now do you also put away all these: anger, wrath, malice…ill will, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth, lie not one to another seeing you have put off the old man with his doings and put on the new man that is being renewed unto the knowledge after the image of him that created him…
verse 12…put on therefore as God's elect holy and beloved a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, forgiving one another, if any man has a complaint against any, even as a Lord forgave you so also do you…
…forgive…and above all these things put on love which is the bond of perfectness or completeness and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which you were called in one body and be thankful…let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in songs hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts unto God and whatsoever you do in Word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God the father through Him…
These instructions were for Christians who had just been baptized into Christ…Some of us are beginning life new in Christ….Some are needing to revisit our beginning…remember what it was like being baptized coming out of the water…having been made a new creature…having been sanctified…having been cleaned…having been dead and raised a new creature…many of us need to reflect on these basic Christian virtues and morals the shunning of evil and the doing of good…the godly sorrow of God I need to be right with you…the confession of sinful desires and deeds…the forsaking of evil and returning to loving our neighbor as ourselves without harming another soul…
Remembering these words…
…you will love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31 The second commandment besides the first…is this, you will love your neighbor as yourself…treat others the way you want to be treated…There is no other commandment greater than these two…Mark 12:30-31
Father, please grant us repentance and mercy that we might be saved in Jesus and Nazareth name Amen.
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