Sermon Series:  Get Connected

Message: "Clean Up Your Act!"
Colossians 3:1-11
by Bill Ashburn, Senior Pastor
on June 7, 2009

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Colossians 3:1-11 - "1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all."

1. Focus on the spiritual. (1-4)
2. Put to death your sinful nature. (5-7)
   1. Sexual immorality
   2. Impurity
   3. Lust
   4. Evil desires
   5. Greed
   6. Idolatry
3. Get rid of: (8-9)
   1. Anger
   2. Rage
   3. Malice
   4. Slander
   5. Filthy, negative and hateful language
   6. Do not lie to each other
4. Put on the new self. (10-11)