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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