(Colossians 3: 1-7) - PAUL ASKS COLOSSIANS TO HAVE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF HOLINESS, AND TO HAVE FRATERNAL LOVE TO OTHERS.




1 Wherefore, if ye are risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Think of the things that are above, and not of things that are of the earth;
3 For ye are dead already, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, which is our life, shall appear, then ye also shall appear with him in glory.
5 Therefore afflict your members, which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, disorderly affection, vicious lust, and avarice, which is idolatry;
6 By what things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience;
7 In whom also ye walked when ye lived in them.
(Colossians 3: 1-7)
EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS - (Chapter 3, Verse 1 to 7)

Dear brothers, we are studying the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, in the first verse we already have something beautiful and important. Therefore, if you have risen in Christ, seek only the things that come from above. Where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

In verse 2, "YOU THINK ONLY ON THE THINGS THAT ARE UPON, AND NOT ONLY THOSE THAT ARE FROM THE EARTH, SINCE YOU HAVE DIE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST, AND YOU HAVE RESUSCITED TOGETHER WITH CHRIST AND YOUR LIFE IS ALREADY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND WHEN CHRIST RETURNS, ALL OF US WHO ARE ALREADY IN HIM NOW. ALSO WE WILL COME BACK WITH HIM, FOR WE ARE ALREADY PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. "

In verse 5 he asks to consider that our physical body is dead to the world, dead for prostitution, dead to impurity, dead to disorderly appetite, dead to vicious lust, dead to avarice, and dead to idolatry.
For before we received salvation by the Lord Jesus, we all lived in these practices, but now that we have gotten rid of all this, which is anger, wrath, malice, slander, and awkward words out of our mouths.

"DO NOT LISTEN TO OTHERS, FOR THEY ARE NOT THE OLD MAN anymore"

In verse 10, "YOU WERE VESTIZED OF THE NEW ONE WHO RENEWS FOR KNOWLEDGE, IT IS ALREADY THE IMAGE OF THOSE WHO CREATED IT, BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS EQUAL TO GOD, AND ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO RENEW IN THE NEW MAN, SO JEWISH, AS GREEK, AS THE BARBARIANS, AS THE SERVANTS, THE FREE, BECAUSE CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL ".

"FOR YOU ARE ALREADY ELECTED FROM GOD, SAINTS, AND BELOVED, FULL OF MERCY, BENIGNITY, HUMILITY, MANSION, LONGANIMITY, YOU SHOULD SUPPORT ONE TO OTHERS, YOU SHOULD FORGIVE OTHERS, SO AS CHRIST YOU LOST, YOU SHOULD ALSO FORGIVE. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD BE COVERED BY LOVE, THAT MAKES YOU PERFECT, AND THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE PEACE WITHIN YOU, FOR THEY WERE CALLED TO BE PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND THEREFORE THANK GOD AND THAT THE WORD ONLY OF CHRIST HANG IN YOU, WITH ALL WISDOM TEACHING YOU, AND GUIDING YOU TO HELP OTHERS, READING THE PSALMS, SINGING HINTS, AND SINGING THE LORD JESUS ​​WITH JOY IN HEART. "

Dear brothers, we thank GOD that we no longer belong to the world which is the kingdom of the evil one. For now we belong to the KINGDOM OF GOD, and to the BODY OF CHRIST.

Therefore, we are already in Him, we have already risen with Him, we already have our spiritual body, and this body that we are living, will stay on this earth. Because we are part of the BODY OF CHRIST, we are already celestial citizens, that is why Paul warns us not to go back to the past.

Because we are already part of the KINGDOM OF GOD, and the KINGDOM OF GOD is within us, and our name is already written in the BOOK OF LIFE.

AMEN

THANK GOD.