Sunday Notes: Colossians 3:5-8

• (Col 3:5 ESV) Put to _______________ therefore what is _______________ in you: sexual immorality, _______________, passion, _______________ desire, and covetousness, which is _______________.
  • Like the picture of _______________
    • Where we die to sin
    • And are _______________ to walk a new life
  • We also put to death the old ways in us
    • (Col 3:5 NASB95) Therefore consider the _______________ of your _______________ body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
  • Sexual _______________ – Porneia
    • Having sexual experiences outside the confines of a _______________, _______________ marriage relationship
    • Jesus even amplified this restriction in Matthew 5:27-30
      • It is a matter of the heart
        • Not just what you do but what you think about doing
  • Impurity – Akatharsia
    • Uncleanness, _______________, having impure motives.
  • Passion – Pathos 
    • Romans 1:24-28, 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
      • This is a _______________ for lustful behavior
  • Evil desire
    • This is _______________ something that is wrong or bad
  • And _______________ which is idolatry
    • When we want something that _______________ to someone else
      • Romans 6:11-14, Romans 8:11-15
• (Col 3:6 ESV) On account of these the _______________ of _______________ is coming.
  • On account of man’s _______________ God’s _______________ is coming sooner or later.
    • Matthew 24:36-44
      • When it comes it will be a surprise on more level than one
        • For _______________ it will be sudden
          • While we are aware that this will happen we don’t know when
          • For _______________ it will be utterly shocking for a Lord you do not believe in to return and judge creation
        • Thanks be to God that we need not fear this event
• (Col 3:7 ESV) In these you too once _______________, when you were _______________ in them.
  • In these things we also once _______________
    • _______________ immorality, Impurity, Passion, Evil desire, And covetousness which is idolatry
      • And certainly this list is illustrative
        • Not _______________ of the sinful behavior of man.
          • Ephesians 2:1-9,Titus 3:1-8
  • When you were _______________ in them
    • In the _______________
    • Not concerned with God
    • Lost and _______________
      • You chased after such things
• (Col 3:8 ESV) But now you must put them all _______________: anger, _______________, malice, _______________, and obscene _______________ from your mouth.
  • But now you must put them _______________ away
    • Because our lives are not attached to the world
      • Rather they are attached to _______________
      • We are hidden in Christ
      • Dead to _______________
      • Raise to new _______________ in Christ
    • So we walk in that new life
      • No longer….
        • Anger
        • Wrath
        • _______________
        • Slander
        • And _______________ talk from your mouth
      • James 1:19-25
    • • Be _______________ of the Word.
        • Doers.
          • It is one thing to sit and stare
          • Quite another to get up and go
        • Doers play on the _______________
          • Hearers sit in the _______________
      • Galatians 5:16-26
  • Let this be a prayer this week.
    • God make me a doer of your Word
    • That I walk in the fruit of the Spirit
      • Not the folly of the world
    • Help me live by the Spirit
      • Not by the fleeting passions of the flesh.