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Colossians Chapter 3:is Your Entire Life According To This Scriptures? - by HISSCRIBE1995: 12:37am On Jun 18, 2021
colossians 3:1-25
[1]IF THEN you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. [Ps. 110:1.]
[2]And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.
[3]For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
[4]When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory.
[5]So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).
[6]It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of disobedience (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will),
[7]Among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to [such practices].
[8]But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips!
[9]Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices,
[10]And have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remolded into [fuller and more perfect knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it. [Gen. 1:26.]
[11][In this new creation all distinctions vanish.] There is no room for and there can be neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, [nor difference between nations whether alien] barbarians or Scythians [who are the most savage of all], nor slave or free man; but Christ is all and in all [everything and everywhere, to all men, without distinction of person].
[12]Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own chosen ones (His own picked representatives), [who are] purified and holy and well-beloved [by God Himself, by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes, with good temper].
[13]Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive].
[14]And above all these [put on] love and enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything together completely in ideal harmony].
[15]And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always].
[16]Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts.
[17]And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.
[18]Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.
[19]Husbands, love your wives [be affectionate and sympathetic with them] and do not be harsh or bitter or resentful toward them.
[20]Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
[21]Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or fret your children [do not be hard on them or harass them], lest they become discouraged and sullen and morose and feel inferior and frustrated. [Do not break their spirit.]
[22]Servants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you as pleasers of men, but in simplicity of purpose [with all your heart] because of your reverence for the Lord and as a sincere expression of your devotion to Him.
[23]Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men,
[24]Knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward. [The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah).
[25]For he who deals wrongfully will [reap the fruit of his folly and] be punished for his wrongdoing. And [with God] there is no partiality [no matter what a person's position may be, whether he is the slave or the master].

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As Christians, the epistle above admonish us to conform into that christlike personality being truth to the ways of God in all our conducts.
But at this modern age it's seems to be easier to conform to the world than the image of christ, because you would soon find out that you are constantly most times surrounded by a people whose philosophies are proponents of this world.

It's difficult and challenging to live a godly life in this generation, and even the institutions set up by various authorities (God included) seems to have comprised with the corrupt system of the world, and he that dares to say "let there be truth and justice" could end up being a scape goat.

We do go to church, read the scriptures, fast, pray and even preach, but there seems to be an invisible force that wouldn't relent its clinch to draw mankind (sinners, and the preachers)
into a state of total annihilation from the demands of righteousness by the laws of the state and that of religion (God).

We are a people of dead conscience, brood of vipers, heartless and merciless, but we seems not to pay attention to our rotten state until one of us wakes up and find his /her self before a law court with the accusation of murder, theft, abuse, robbery, kidnapping, and the likes, then we shout "heartless being! Let him /face the full rath of the law(sometimes even call for jungle justice) but we shy away from that little seed of hatred, bitterness,moral corruption, lying, fraud and many hidden little beautiful foxes that would soon spoil the plow if we don't chase them out and Cry the son to set us free.


Prayer point
Set me free ho lord from every little sin in my life that I have ignored in time past.
Lord I died with thee to sin, and now I shall live with thee unto righteousness.
Re: Colossians Chapter 3:is Your Entire Life According To This Scriptures? - by HISSCRIBE1995: 1:45am On Jun 18, 2021
Romans 1:28-
[28]People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking. And so they do what they should not do
Re: Colossians Chapter 3:is Your Entire Life According To This Scriptures? - by HISSCRIBE1995: 7:30am On Jan 27, 2022
I fell to the sin of watching ponography the very next day I posted this epistle below .
then it really dawned on me that it is not about who can preach the word
but who yield to the spirit.

knowledge without action does not profit much.
the letter killeth it is the spirit that giveth life

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