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Colossians 3:1-11

Renewal


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Look up to our resurrected

Christ. Colossians 3:1Therefore if you have been raised up

with Christ, keep seeking the thingsabove, where Christ is, seated at the

right hand of God.


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C. S. Lewis

A continual looking forward to theeternal world is not a form of escapism or

wishful thinking, but one of the things a

Christian is meant to do. It does not meanthat we are to leave the present world asit is. If you read history, you will find that

the Christians who did the most for thepresent world were just those who

thought most of the next.


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Look up to our resurrectedChrist. Colossians 3:1

I will seek His purposeskeep seeking the things above

I will seek His authority.where Christ is, seated at theright hand of God.


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Look beyond the things of this worl

Colossians 3:2Set your mind on the things above,

noton the things that are on earth.


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II Corinthians 4:17, 18

For momentary, light affliction isproducing for us an eternal weight of gloryfar beyond all comparison, while we look

not at the things which are seen, but at the

things which are not seen; for the things

which are seen are temporal, but thethings which are not seen are eternal.


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Look into the riches of Christ.

Colossians 3:3Foryou have died and your life is

hidden with Christ in God


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I have died to sin. Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; andit is no longer I who live, but Christ

lives in me; and the life which I now live

in the flesh I live by faith in the Son ofGod, who loved me and gave

Himself up for me.

Look into the riches of Christ.

Colossians 3:3


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Look forward to Christs return.

Colossians 3:4When Christ, who is our life, is

revealed, then you also will be

revealed with Him in g lory.


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I John 2:28

Now, little children, abide in Him, sothat when He appears, we may have

confidence and not shrink away fromHim in shame at His coming


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I John 3:2, 3

Beloved, now we are children of God,and it has not appeared as yet what we

will be. We know that when He appears,we will be like Him, because we will see

Him just as He is. And everyone who has

this hope fixed on Him purifies himself,

just as He is pure.


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My calling as a Christian is to live

my life for Jesus in such a waythat I have to change as little as

possible when entering heaven.


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Look away from all sins.

Colossians 3:5-9


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Look away from all sins.

Colossians 3:5-9

Thereforeconsider the membersof

your earthly body asdeadput them all

asideimmorality, impurity, passion, evildesire, and greed, which amounts to

idolatry anger, wrath, malice, slander,

and abusive speech from your mouth. Donot lie to one another


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Look for a renewal with Christ

and one another.

Colossians 3:10, 11and have put on the new self who is beingrenewed to a true knowledge according to

the image of the One who created him arenewal in which there is no distinctionbetween Greek and Jew, circumcised and

uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slaveand freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.


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David Kinnaman.

Cultivating intergenerationalrelationships is one of the most

important ways in which effectivefaith communities are developing

flourishing faith in both young and

old. In many churches, this meanschanging the metaphor


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from simply passing the baton tothe next generation to a more

functional, biblical picture of a body that is, the entire community of faith,

across the entire lifespan, working

together to fulfill Gods purposes.


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Colossians 3:1-11

Renewal

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