By Alberto Valdivia
Sunday Sermon
Text: Colossians 3:1-14
risen Christ has conquered death and the devil, has paid sin debt that we all had and opened the way for us to receive forgiveness and mercy of God. What do our turn for the effects of the resurrection we achieve?
must turn our attention to spiritual things (v. 1-3). us seek the things of God, the world always distracted by the cares of life, but we must always book our heart to Him We must consider ourselves dead to the world and alive to God. Earthly things are temporary, take time to find the spiritual and eternal. Our feet are on earth but our eyes on the skies. Our resources, time, talents, possessions, finances, are dedicated to serving God and not just to our service.
have to look forward to the day when our life is revealed (v. 4). Our life is in Christ and in us is manifested in part. We have spiritual life, however, the effects of death still act on us (the passions, disease, physical death, etc.), But when Christ comes in his final event, the life won for us in his death and resurrection , fully manifest in our lives. The flesh, sin and death will be completely destroyed and resurrected to new life. This is our hope, we live this time with the expectation of our final resurrection.
should be put to death the earthly in us (v. 5-14). As we await the final release, we are called to struggle against our weaknesses, not our strength but with the power of God. Recognize our weaknesses, we do not feel spiritual, but carnal, and fight with the evil in our hearts. Let the exercise of "putting off" the bad and "put" the good. Let the passions, sexual sins, fighting, hatred and grudges and take humility, forgiveness and above all love.
The resurrection of Christ gives us life, hope and victory over evil, now with the assurance that victory is ours, we have to fight the evil that dwells in us
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