Thursday, August 1, 2019

Remembering Our Baptism

Greetings, Lake Deaton Family. I hope you are having a super, great week and that the Lord is blessing you in your activities, in your relationships and in your peace. I invite you to watch our video eBlast, and then to read the scripture and think through to the two questions below to prepare yourselves for worship this Sunday. Also, I would like to invite you to our Sack Lunch with the Pastors this coming Wednesday at 11:30, where we will dive deeper into the scripture for this week.

Blessings and see you Sunday!




Colossians 3:1-11 NLT

Col. 3:1    Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 2 Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. 3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.

Col. 3:5    So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. 6 Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming.a 7 You used to do these things when your life was still part of this world. 8 But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language. 9 Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. 10 Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. 11 In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

Questions:
  1. What do you think it means to be raised to new life with Christ and how do you see that lived out in your life today?
  2. In this passage of Scripture Paul is describing the “old” life and the “new” life. Can you see a difference between your old and new life? How is God continuing to grow you into your “new nature?”

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