SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/18/2017
11:33 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 Intro to Colossians 3:5-9a
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
3:5-9a
Message of the
verses: “5 Therefore consider the
members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil
desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 6
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon
the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them
you also once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But
now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive
speech from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another,”
The word “therefore” in verse five is referring back to
what Paul wrote in Colossians 5:1-4 “Therefore if you have been raised up with
Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right
hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on
earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When
Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him
in glory.” We mentioned that the word “if”
should be translated “since” and so we learn from there that we have already
been raised up with Christ. Since all
believers share the life or Christ then it should be their desires to want to
kill the sin in their lives.
John MacArthur writes that the NASB translation is
obscured where we see it says “members of your earthly body as dead” when it
should say “to kill the members of your earthly body.” We are not just to consider them as dead, but
we are to kill the flesh. MacArthur adds
“Paul is actually referring to the sins associated with those members. It should be noted that this hits at the
Colossian dualism regarding body and spirit.
Paul is saying that the body should be holy, under the control of the
redeemed spirit. The body does what the
inner disposition compels it to do—and a Spirit controlled body must do what is
good. This will happen until the day
when the body will be redeemed Rom. 8:23).”
We see two lists of sins in verses 5-9a, but these are
not exhaustive, but are sins that are common and many believers have to deal
with them. MacArthur writes that “The first
list begins with acts and progresses to motives, whereas the second begins with
motives and progresses acts. The first
list involves personal sins, the second social ones. The first list relates to feelings, the
second to speech. In between the lists
(3:6-7), Paul gives tow reasons for putting sin to death.”
4/18/2017 11:53 PM
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