Colossians 3:1
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection
on things above, not on things on the earth."
Let us repeat the glorious truth, which was doubtless the heart of Paul’s teaching, that our old nature has been nailed in Christ to the Cross, and laid in the grave; and that our real self,(IE) the second Adam, has entered the new world of resurrection. We belong to the world which Jesus said, "Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God" (John 20:17).
We must guard against the defiling touch of the world, of sin, and of the old self-life. We stand between two worlds, each solicits us: let us yield to the influences that pull us upward, and not to those that anchor us to this sinful and vain world. Our eternal blessedness has begun, let us walk in it.
In Christ we profess to have put off the old man, i.e., the habits of our former life, now let us actually do so, in the power of the Holy Spirit. We profess to have put on the risen Christ, now let us put on the attire and habits of the new man. Too many Christians resemble Lazarus, quickened from his death sleep, but still arrayed in grave clothes. Too few array themselves in the radiant beauty of the risen Lord, which is the common heritage of all who believe in Him.
Amen!
Reading: (Col. 3:1-11)
Ref: (HG SB)
We must guard against the defiling touch of the world, of sin, and of the old self-life. We stand between two worlds, each solicits us: let us yield to the influences that pull us upward, and not to those that anchor us to this sinful and vain world. Our eternal blessedness has begun, let us walk in it.
In Christ we profess to have put off the old man, i.e., the habits of our former life, now let us actually do so, in the power of the Holy Spirit. We profess to have put on the risen Christ, now let us put on the attire and habits of the new man. Too many Christians resemble Lazarus, quickened from his death sleep, but still arrayed in grave clothes. Too few array themselves in the radiant beauty of the risen Lord, which is the common heritage of all who believe in Him.
Amen!
Reading: (Col. 3:1-11)
Ref: (HG SB)
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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