The Sermon Wrong Beliefs Don't Make Life Right by David McGee
Sep 16, 2012
Wrong Beliefs Don't Make Life Right (39:06)
Referenced Scriptures: Colossians 3:1-17; 1 Corinthians 13:4
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Colossians 3:1-17
1) If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2) Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3) For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4) When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5) Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
6) for which things‘ sake the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
7) You also once walked in those, when you lived in these things;
8) but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
9) Don‘t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
10) and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
11) where there can‘t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
12) Put on therefore, as God‘s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
13) bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do.
14) Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
15) Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body. Be thankful.
16) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.
17) Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the Father, through him.
1 Corinthians 13:4
4) Love is patient and is kind; love doesn‘t envy. Love doesn‘t brag, is not proud,
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The Scriptures that we are looking at today is Colossians chapter three verses one through seventeen. Colossians chapter three verses one through seventeen. I've entitled the message that a wrong beliefs don't make life right wrong beliefs don't make life right. I know the negatives and such of the said right police make right life) automated anyhow, we look at this and we say right believes make life right and if if is wrong beliefs don't make it right. And as so many subway beliefs and so many concepts going on around our lives that justification trying to justify how we see things justify what we believe. And even though it's wrong that it doesn't is not very change our life crisis, one who is changing our life from the inside out. The Paul is writing to the church Colossians, and he is saying that Christ is our life. So watch this chapter three verses one through seventeen. So if you're serious about learning this new resurrection life with Christ. Act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, I see the ground absorbed with the things right in front of you look up, be alert to what is going on around Christ that's where the action is see things from his perspective, your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life. Even though invisible to spectators is with Christ in God. He is your life with Christ. Your real life. Remember shows up again on this earth you'll show up to the really view the glorious you meanwhile be content with obscurity like Christ and that means killing off everything connected with that way of death, sexual promiscuity, the majority must doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy, but the life shake my things and feelings instead of by God is the cause of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better, but you know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good, bad tempered, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk. Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life is like a filthy set up ill fitting clothes you're stripped off and put in the fire. Now you're dressed in the new wardrobe every item on your new way of life is custom made by the creator with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete words like Jewish and non-Jewish religious at your religious insider outsider uncivilized than uncouth, slave and free mean nothing from now on. Everyone is defined by Christ. Everyone is included in Christ so chosen by God for this new life of love, dress, and the wardrobe talk picked out for you compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline, the even-tempered content with second place quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the master forgave you. And regardless of what else to put on where love. It's your basic all-purpose garment. Never be without it. Let the peace of Christ you wouldn't tune with each other in step with each other. None of us going off and doing your own thing and call and cultivate thankfulness. Let the word of Christ. The message have the run of the house, give it plenty of room in your lives, instruct and direct one another using good common sense and saying saying your hearts out to God. Let every detail of your lives were actions whatever be done in the name of the master Jesus thanking God the father every step of the way the neck writer but a list of things and quite a description of what Paul is giving to the church. There saw the life we live for God is a life of choice in the life we live his life of choice. We are where we are because of the chart. The choices we make. We chose to be who we are now. There's a lot of circumstances. A lot of things out of our control, but we choose how we respond to them. And Paul is telling and and and Paul is explaining here that true Christian behavior is like putting on the new self putting on the wardrobe putting something on taking off what doesn't fit, and Barnett. Okay, taking off what doesn't fit. It is so ragged and torn and smells you despise). Don't try and wash and clean it up, put on the new garments a new south that is the new south that has accepted Christ and as regarding this earthly nature, this old nature. Consider it so we change who we are. We change our moral behavior are ethical behavior by letting Christ within us. Christ is most shape us into what we should be Christ will be the one who works in our hearts in our lives. The illustration of the potter Nicollet, you know, the clay can tell upon her how to make it, but we allow God 's word to shape us, not the circumstances of life, not the problems of life, not the difficulties and by we let the Word of God, the hand of God shape our vessel in others a story on this lieutenant is addressing his platoon and he says I'm looking for volunteers, chances are the mission will not be successful, and many of you. Welcome back if you're interested step forward while everyone looks around, and then takes a collective step backwards, leaving uncertain suspecting volunteers standing alone, the food, drug, and okay, so when you're not an unsuspecting volunteer in our relationship with God. We are not an unsuspecting volunteer like that. I volunteer for this euro where did everybody go on God, you know, I'm standing all alone here. What's going on when everybody left me about the call of God upon our lives is that God wants to be involved in our life and that we are not involuntarily volunteering. We are making choices to follow God, and what happens is you are a member whenever whenever we went right a lot of counseling that we always let people know what choices are you making while admitting a byline was not my fault this happened that happen, you know, it's, you know, my husband is my wife with my kids. It's my work. It's the politics is that the neighbors. It's whenever any caviar. Those things have impacts, but where's still making choices because if we allow ourselves of the ability to choose, then we have no control be if they win, we are going to be in control of who we are and our life, we have to recognize the power of choice and that's what God does all learn over in the Scriptures. He empowers us by choosing I choose Christ as far as asked for me at my house with all the Lord know that Joshua/ Amir house were falling off the rest of you do, that's up to you, but this is what we're going to do anything that we look at the power of choosing and God is the one who influences our power of choice and he tells us put off the old man put on the new where garments wear garments that represent the power of choice that you want to make the others, but to say that dressing for success, a replica years ago. What is the address and you act like that for the position you want to occupy and in what we are doing is in MR and our life of faith was a life of faith, a life of faith is declaring what we believe God wants to bring into our life. So we are choosing to follow Christ where choosing the put upon ourselves but on the garments that God wants us to have so that we we honor the part we are the person from the inside of we are the person that God wants us to be. It isn't yelp and actor a hypocrite is one who plays a part. They dress the part, but they didn't spin. They themselves inside are not the person okay, that's a hypocrite, a Christian who is you are amazing and bad health is not a hypocrite, but the person making choices and living up to an expectation and fall& hypocrite, not the person who is in the process of change. Show me a child and present will follow when it's trying to learn to walk you out even when world or we fall down was not my fault you receiving from a fall negative roundabouts right upfront involved in the nineteen L M N lives of real money embarrassed with a lot of diversity. We look at this and an insight. Our life is a life in which were choosing to follow Christ and Paul is outlining here. What this life is about one beliefs don't make life right wrong beliefs don't make life for no matter how you slice it, it still comes up wrong, no matter how you get with it a step of that taking away from the character that God wants us to become so no matter how much we think you're alone in this life. No matter how much you think it's impossible for you to change. That's a wrong thought. Because God is never going to leave us nor forsake us, and we may be the arson standing up and everybody is taking a step back but you're not alone. Christ is with us. Christ is with us, so you are, how much you always know what I want to be seen. So no matter how much JVC tells me that I need an apple peeler is David in the kitchen this week. I just ate an apple peeler. What's the reasoning I love David in the kitchen. Biggest reminds me make body doesn't it. I'm not in the kitchen if I like to watch value out of examining why would we need those bands you as Bill run and run around us. All we need an apple peel and then he has beautiful cookware you noticed in the desolate, which is a cook in this mold. Wow, that my son lives in the nap this date, you know that I love BPL and especially look good, looks good in others frozen meat and is not Omaha steaks is Arkansas 's states or something. I don't know where I always stays juicy. Every time Donald juice runs up to us. I thought we need out there. When I race you raise on the farm anytime. Our freezer was empty. My mama tell that dad said in a willing we need me, will eventually pick out accounting the butcher and that child brought back and we bring in boxes and boxes of needs. I mean, and brain and put on the table and we would wrap so we wrapped every piece of meat and my mother inspected every package that every guy she knew what was in every package and there was the oldest of the good old is the bigot, so I know what good meat looks like up and die. So you see these guys and I know it's all I like that the bought to guess what much to my surprise, I can survive without these things are trying to get me to buy something, always trying to get us to buy something and whether it's on QVC or TV or the newspaper are people with wrong beliefs about life there, trying to convince you that this is a lousy life and it doesn't get any better and that things are never donated any better because often they go through their belief system. And guess what they are wrong. Christ and the word the Scriptures outline for us. What is what, are to be article these actions and how that God is going to do a new work in us. Paul puts it this way today into the Colossians first chapter three verse one. So if you're serious about living. This new resurrection life with Christ, Susan, and if you are serious about living. This new resurrection life of Christ. I like I like her and I say that act like it. I think I like that me is not too complicated act like it in your mind about a person act like it was in the smile you began July began to anticipate beginning to look like act like become that person. If you are missing. This is something they were going. I'm going to give you a script in the slightest both address and desires. And besides, both the Lord 's eyes was developed on a regular to Paul Bassett and he tells us that we are to live the Christian life as Christ has given it to us and he fell the Colossians year act like a person of the things over which Christ presides over godly things Christ presides over love, forgiveness, Jones make Christ presides over these things, and what you mean by precise either he wants to give them out now endorsing him. They think in part these things into our life. So don't shuffle along, I like this. This is a group that great visual thing don't shuffle along in iPhone ground member Tim Conway, Gabriel left the Riverton Conway my favorite room. Those shuffle along pioneer Marie of grievances. The class is limited to, I plugged in, so all I like his golfer. I will try that whenever I get down on his knees, any box around enhances Legault think it is a Rino on V Alec and I probably will get back up wardrobe malfunction, but the other I wear my belt. They might notice I don't have my own subalpine, now I got a identity without it so often leads that will follow-up again. But we have always think they don't solve all your eyes on the ground absorbed with the things right in front of you look up, be alert to what is going on around Christ, not just necessarily around you around Christ and Christ is a you know God is in all of our our lives. Beings of the Lord campground about those inferior angels in your life around your life sentencing things as if you then be risen with Christ, they those things which are above think the things which are above are currently just to be risen with Christ, our privileges, though there's a new life in us that it begins in Christ we have taken on a new South a resurrected life easier. We've already started to live for eternity. We just haven't got there yet, no heaven is our home. We just have arrived against the worker process of getting there. You see me all things pass away the new things come into our life all things become new. Everything takes on a different perspective. All things become new line because of the relationship with Jesus Christ. Don't shuffle along eyes on the ground absorbed with thing in front of you look at there is another world around you. The world beyond this one have an is are home to see the shuffling of the world gets us to look at to our way of life in the immediate presence and that things we don't have are the things that are going to make us happy. We crave peaceful circumstances that prove that we are correct, we whenever we aren't chasing peas were looking after thrills or looking for that one person who was solely exists to make us happy in all of these things are counterfeit. They're not real, and they offer themselves to Watson, bargains that will cost you your life so don't be like the person who gets to the top of the latter only to recognize that it's the letters against wrong building NL look forward growing lookup lookup and be alert, alert to what is going on around Christ and what is Christ want to do in our life. He wants the Creek and I I I I a dismiss this whole concept of God. What were yet in our mother 's womb, God formed us made us newest and while out all of what we need is in their and the circumstances of life are going to bring out what's on the inside but with whenever the circumstances of life for bringing out twice, once to bring out the good in it and so that the circumstances that don't have Christ circumstances in life have two options. Without God, and with God circumstances of life have two options without dotted with we choose how we are going to respond, Christ wants us to choose correctly and to allow the word of God to dwell in us richly had an error are two different perspectives, heaven and earth are two different perspectives and guess what they are opposed to each other. There opposed to each other verses three and four. The shuffling along life -year-old life is that you which is your real life. Even though invisible to spectators no crisis come into my life he saved me. He's forgiven me of my sins. I have a new life when you look the same spectators at which see not to say and Christians are not the same as nonbelievers that our life is different because God is in us, and we know that God is working in us, and God has a plan for us in the purpose of our life is greater than the life that we now live that we would live on our own so it's invisible to spectators, but is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ your real life. Remember shows up again on this earth you'll show up to Paul and Paul just jumping ahead here for a moment what you get it and get you get an internal and I want you to get an eternal perspective here. That when Christ returns and begin the life your to be there with him. The real you is going to show up and that glorious you. Meanwhile, the content with obscurity with Christ like Christ being that we're not going to try and bring all the attention, and now he was the most toys wins were not going to try accumulation of things we're going to have the changeable life. It gives us a different life. The old life. Instead, the new life in Christ. And when Christ the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, you will quicken your mortal bodies, meaning that when you you may get you just change residence, you just changed addresses. In the meantime, verse five date that means telling off everything connected with the way of death, but the pruning last week 's printing wrong beliefs don't make life right killing off everything connected with the way of death. Killing doesn't mean you go out and get a gun and shoot things and people that disagree with you. Okay, that's not what this is meaning case your case some of you that would like they'll never not somewhat, it says what father Joe is again red sexual promiscuity and your team lost, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy, but the old life. Your rhetoric allow that live in you to die. That's a life shaped by things and feeling that's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God is because of this kind of thinking that God is about to explode in anger ill whenever people you hear people saying how long is God going to continue to put up with the sins of our of our people, people, the nations in the world. How is it. It's going to come to an end, but God is angry and in the in the sense that it hurts God see so many people lost and away from his. His plan. It hurts him to see how that life so different and so good, and people have chosen to be so evil. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better, but you know better now, so make sure it's all work done gone for good. Make sure that all life is all gone for good, bad temper irritability, meanness, profanity and dirty talk. You see when we look at all. I know I'm not just behind Auxerre motives are the things that that initiates what we do look at the motives look at what's going on in your heart. Examine your own heart. Make sure that this this bad tempered, irritability and meanness. There gone in my life is hidden with Christ in God. You see there are reasons why we have. We do these things is always a reason that anyone can give a reason for what their actions ever reason behind the mean it's a good reason and often it ends up hurting them in hurting others. But God 's way of looking at this is don't lie to one another. The law you're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set up ill fitting clothes you're stripped off and put in the fire put the clothes in the fire so you don't end up in the fire of the date meeting inflation and put the clothes in the fire. The guilt filled in the deal fifteen garments one of the ill fitting garments, bad temper, promiscuity, all those negative things. All of him and an annual life destroying principles that were listed earlier here. Those are the things that you need to get rid of their ill fitting. You need to take them off and put them in the fire and burned it means is not to be a part of your life anymore member. The pruning process in which God is the one the husband and who prunes the buying and what happens when it's cut off. It dies, it is not good for nothing but the be thrown in the fire and burn. Let the things of your life that are not going to add to the value of your life, the eternal value life, let them go, and then do what you do. We ended now you're dressed in a new wardrobe ladies. The shopping is already done. Sorry for the shop is already done in the lump I am sorry you don't have the other, the store and purchase. It's already done your trust in a new wardrobe every item on your new way of life custom-made. I've never had a tailor-made suit your tailor made suit. He may have tailor-made suits clothes and dresses of all, it's that no tailor-made. I have been Ivan of weddings where people and had wedding dresses and things specifically made for them I've ever won one wedding we went to years ago was out and it was that we were, we were invited there, and the individual parents. The lady was marrying someone who was a very, whatever I happen the social network on that particular area and the family went and bought this very expensive dress and the family they were marrying into said we can't have that, and they took the bride to this place and I think that this was point five, thirty years ago and the new dress was while over ten thousand dollars for the for the for the bride and it was tailor-made tailor-made was made by seamstress that wasn't made by seamstress. I couldn't help it. But, you know, it was it was a very out as they had to of their station in life. They had to have this. This nuclear dress made to their standard and so is a beautiful and it fit perfectly. I guess what nothing is as fitted for our life as what God has made for us and guess what it has his label on it. Would you buy that, oh, zero year the flow fish shark whatever it is this a great one that means nothing right. That is the Greg Norman Sheraton and it's a golf shirt, I'll play golf, but I like the way they can only fit the resides that they have stink resistance to hope so, but you see what it all at your love. You can look at things and tell by the labeled and I was on some bad night on the back devil like the arrow. Line and on our on gang having all the things that have their symbols on them will guess what God has what it is label on one undergarment that we wear what is the government that we were, where well to find out just a few moments so much like Jewish and non-Jewish religious in your religious insider outsider uncivilized unproved, slave, free me nothing. From now on. Everyone is defined by Christ. It is our relationship with Jesus Christ. Whether were just beginning beginning, or whether we mature in Christ. It's still Christian first, while so chosen by God, this new life of love. This is the life that God has his mark on dress and the wardrobe, the God has pics for you and what is the wardrobe that God wants us to where one of compassion, kindness, humility, humility and strength under control with it. There is if there is an underlying strength and humility. Quiet strength, discipline, even-tempered contest for second place. Now that doesn't mean while we don't strive into the second places that you don't have to to tear down the guy in front of you so that you look good. You don't have to destroy people in order for you to look good contentless second-place means I know who I am in Christ and Christ is the one who is who is living his life through me and I don't have to be destructive and destroying something that seems to be better than who I am so and that we goes on even-tempered, quick to forgive an offense quick to forget. See the Garman, we wear is quick to forgive that we don't allow circumstances and people to hinder where were going, that which offends us only weakens us. It means that I take steps backward rather than forward quick to forgive an offense means that I don't allow offense to determine my action mother forget as quickly and as completely as God has forgiven us for the master has forgiven you she were not allowing anything to take root in our life. These are the drivers everywhere and regardless of what else to put on what we put on the other, where what is love where love first twenty thirteen. Love doesn't keep score of wrongdoing. I love that part was never dies and you see one has a way of allowing our life to heal and to deal and to be going on in a consistent ongoing manner so in love. It's your basic all-purpose garment. Never be without it. Never leave home without it. What we want and not well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy, the Lord everything done has a motive everything done has a purpose. God wants us to put on the garments, and finally, versus fifteen sixteen seventeen when Lovin all these things are part of us. What happens. Let the peace of Christ. You want to have peace, then put on the right garments put on the right perspective put on the right using we can. We need God. He's the one who make these things and make Taylor. They are tailor-made for us can't knows exactly what you need to wear any knows exactly how it fit a knows exactly what size and I'm sure some of it even has an elastic waist, knows exactly what it what the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, but the peace of Christ, guard your heart and mind keep you intend in step with each other. You're not out of step with life, you're out of step with the people who are wearing the same garments, and that's a good thing none of this going off and doing your own thing. None of this life. I know exactly what God wants me to do, and you can't tell me now, none of that none is going off and doing your own thing. Cultivate thankfulness. If it's something how that love and thankfulness go together that we begin to see that there are good things in our life. Why, because were thankful we begin to see them whenever we are thankful for them, and let the word of Christ. The message let the Scriptures dwell in you richly. That's why we have these daily devotionals and that's why we have these Bibles and all the things if you need. We need to read the Scriptures at least four plus days a week rental. Some of you were here with that one that that whenever we read the Scriptures, four plus days a week. There's a difference between Christians who read Scriptures for what they make and those who don't read along because we need the Word to dwell within us. Anything less than this, but the word of God have been one of your house. We talk about it. You talk about the Scriptures given plenty of room in your life, instruct and direct one another using the common sense meaning. The word of God, and say saying sing your hearts out to God. Let every detail in your lives, words, actions, whatever be done in the name of Jesus. Let every detail be part of God, pray about everything worrying about nothing. Bring worry is the alarm. The causeless wants us to bring our needs. The Lord and while we supposed to do, thanking God the father every step of the way you see whenever we're shuffling along, looking down, we don't see God 's purpose. We don't look out and look out and see what God is doing. See Christ involvement in our life putting on the garments with garments that are specially made for our life and things begin to change special made garments with God label and of course love with the all-purpose one makes everything fit. So was so change your wardrobe, compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline, even-tempered content with second place, meaning content. Don't try and destroy people that seemingly are above you replace one habit I put the one guy says there's always room at the top step up to the bottom source crowd. God gives us a different perspective on how we live. Forgive, love, make a difference. It all begins with Jesus, forgive me if I said forgive me of my sins forgive me of my sense my shortcomings. My misconceptions may I put off these old garments and burn them. They don't longer exist in this new life that you have given me all things pass away all things become new. Thank you Lord for loving me that much and then a man put on the new garments that God labels on themThe Scriptures that we are looking at today is Colossians chapter three verses one through seventeen. Colossians chapter three verses one through seventeen. I've entitled the message that a wrong beliefs don't make life right wrong beliefs don't make life right. I know the negatives and such of the said right police make right life) automated anyhow, we look at this and we say right believes make life right and if if is wrong beliefs don't make it right. And as so many subway beliefs and so many concepts going on around our lives that justification trying to justify how we see things justify what we believe. And even though it's wrong that it doesn't is not very change our life crisis, one who is changing our life from the inside out. The Paul is writing to the church Colossians, and he is saying that Christ is our life. So watch this chapter three verses one through seventeen. So if you're serious about learning this new resurrection life with Christ. Act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, I see the ground absorbed with the things right in front of you look up, be alert to what is going on around Christ that's where the action is see things from his perspective, your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life. Even though invisible to spectators is with Christ in God. He is your life with Christ. Your real life. Remember shows up again on this earth you'll show up to the really view the glorious you meanwhile be content with obscurity like Christ and that means killing off everything connected with that way of death, sexual promiscuity, the majority must doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy, but the life shake my things and feelings instead of by God is the cause of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better, but you know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good, bad tempered, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk. Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life is like a filthy set up ill fitting clothes you're stripped off and put in the fire. Now you're dressed in the new wardrobe every item on your new way of life is custom made by the creator with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete words like Jewish and non-Jewish religious at your religious insider outsider uncivilized than uncouth, slave and free mean nothing from now on. Everyone is defined by Christ. Everyone is included in Christ so chosen by God for this new life of love, dress, and the wardrobe talk picked out for you compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline, the even-tempered content with second place quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the master forgave you. And regardless of what else to put on where love. It's your basic all-purpose garment. Never be without it. Let the peace of Christ you wouldn't tune with each other in step with each other. None of us going off and doing your own thing and call and cultivate thankfulness. Let the word of Christ. The message have the run of the house, give it plenty of room in your lives, instruct and direct one another using good common sense and saying saying your hearts out to God. Let every detail of your lives were actions whatever be done in the name of the master Jesus thanking God the father every step of the way the neck writer but a list of things and quite a description of what Paul is giving to the church. There saw the life we live for God is a life of choice in the life we live his life of choice. We are where we are because of the chart. The choices we make. We chose to be who we are now. There's a lot of circumstances. A lot of things out of our control, but we choose how we respond to them. And Paul is telling and and and Paul is explaining here that true Christian behavior is like putting on the new self putting on the wardrobe putting something on taking off what doesn't fit, and Barnett. Okay, taking off what doesn't fit. It is so ragged and torn and smells you despise). Don't try and wash and clean it up, put on the new garments a new south that is the new south that has accepted Christ and as regarding this earthly nature, this old nature. Consider it so we change who we are. We change our moral behavior are ethical behavior by letting Christ within us. Christ is most shape us into what we should be Christ will be the one who works in our hearts in our lives. The illustration of the potter Nicollet, you know, the clay can tell upon her how to make it, but we allow God 's word to shape us, not the circumstances of life, not the problems of life, not the difficulties and by we let the Word of God, the hand of God shape our vessel in others a story on this lieutenant is addressing his platoon and he says I'm looking for volunteers, chances are the mission will not be successful, and many of you. Welcome back if you're interested step forward while everyone looks around, and then takes a collective step backwards, leaving uncertain suspecting volunteers standing alone, the food, drug, and okay, so when you're not an unsuspecting volunteer in our relationship with God. We are not an unsuspecting volunteer like that. I volunteer for this euro where did everybody go on God, you know, I'm standing all alone here. What's going on when everybody left me about the call of God upon our lives is that God wants to be involved in our life and that we are not involuntarily volunteering. We are making choices to follow God, and what happens is you are a member whenever whenever we went right a lot of counseling that we always let people know what choices are you making while admitting a byline was not my fault this happened that happen, you know, it's, you know, my husband is my wife with my kids. It's my work. It's the politics is that the neighbors. It's whenever any caviar. Those things have impacts, but where's still making choices because if we allow ourselves of the ability to choose, then we have no control be if they win, we are going to be in control of who we are and our life, we have to recognize the power of choice and that's what God does all learn over in the Scriptures. He empowers us by choosing I choose Christ as far as asked for me at my house with all the Lord know that Joshua/ Amir house were falling off the rest of you do, that's up to you, but this is what we're going to do anything that we look at the power of choosing and God is the one who influences our power of choice and he tells us put off the old man put on the new where garments wear garments that represent the power of choice that you want to make the others, but to say that dressing for success, a replica years ago. What is the address and you act like that for the position you want to occupy and in what we are doing is in MR and our life of faith was a life of faith, a life of faith is declaring what we believe God wants to bring into our life. So we are choosing to follow Christ where choosing the put upon ourselves but on the garments that God wants us to have so that we we honor the part we are the person from the inside of we are the person that God wants us to be. It isn't yelp and actor a hypocrite is one who plays a part. They dress the part, but they didn't spin. They themselves inside are not the person okay, that's a hypocrite, a Christian who is you are amazing and bad health is not a hypocrite, but the person making choices and living up to an expectation and fall& hypocrite, not the person who is in the process of change. Show me a child and present will follow when it's trying to learn to walk you out even when world or we fall down was not my fault you receiving from a fall negative roundabouts right upfront involved in the nineteen L M N lives of real money embarrassed with a lot of diversity. We look at this and an insight. Our life is a life in which were choosing to follow Christ and Paul is outlining here. What this life is about one beliefs don't make life right wrong beliefs don't make life for no matter how you slice it, it still comes up wrong, no matter how you get with it a step of that taking away from the character that God wants us to become so no matter how much we think you're alone in this life. No matter how much you think it's impossible for you to change. That's a wrong thought. Because God is never going to leave us nor forsake us, and we may be the arson standing up and everybody is taking a step back but you're not alone. Christ is with us. Christ is with us, so you are, how much you always know what I want to be seen. So no matter how much JVC tells me that I need an apple peeler is David in the kitchen this week. I just ate an apple peeler. What's the reasoning I love David in the kitchen. Biggest reminds me make body doesn't it. I'm not in the kitchen if I like to watch value out of examining why would we need those bands you as Bill run and run around us. All we need an apple peel and then he has beautiful cookware you noticed in the desolate, which is a cook in this mold. Wow, that my son lives in the nap this date, you know that I love BPL and especially look good, looks good in others frozen meat and is not Omaha steaks is Arkansas 's states or something. I don't know where I always stays juicy. Every time Donald juice runs up to us. I thought we need out there. When I race you raise on the farm anytime. Our freezer was empty. My mama tell that dad said in a willing we need me, will eventually pick out accounting the butcher and that child brought back and we bring in boxes and boxes of needs. I mean, and brain and put on the table and we would wrap so we wrapped every piece of meat and my mother inspected every package that every guy she knew what was in every package and there was the oldest of the good old is the bigot, so I know what good meat looks like up and die. So you see these guys and I know it's all I like that the bought to guess what much to my surprise, I can survive without these things are trying to get me to buy something, always trying to get us to buy something and whether it's on QVC or TV or the newspaper are people with wrong beliefs about life there, trying to convince you that this is a lousy life and it doesn't get any better and that things are never donated any better because often they go through their belief system. And guess what they are wrong. Christ and the word the Scriptures outline for us. What is what, are to be article these actions and how that God is going to do a new work in us. Paul puts it this way today into the Colossians first chapter three verse one. So if you're serious about living. This new resurrection life with Christ, Susan, and if you are serious about living. This new resurrection life of Christ. I like I like her and I say that act like it. I think I like that me is not too complicated act like it in your mind about a person act like it was in the smile you began July began to anticipate beginning to look like act like become that person. If you are missing. This is something they were going. I'm going to give you a script in the slightest both address and desires. And besides, both the Lord 's eyes was developed on a regular to Paul Bassett and he tells us that we are to live the Christian life as Christ has given it to us and he fell the Colossians year act like a person of the things over which Christ presides over godly things Christ presides over love, forgiveness, Jones make Christ presides over these things, and what you mean by precise either he wants to give them out now endorsing him. They think in part these things into our life. So don't shuffle along, I like this. This is a group that great visual thing don't shuffle along in iPhone ground member Tim Conway, Gabriel left the Riverton Conway my favorite room. Those shuffle along pioneer Marie of grievances. The class is limited to, I plugged in, so all I like his golfer. I will try that whenever I get down on his knees, any box around enhances Legault think it is a Rino on V Alec and I probably will get back up wardrobe malfunction, but the other I wear my belt. They might notice I don't have my own subalpine, now I got a identity without it so often leads that will follow-up again. But we have always think they don't solve all your eyes on the ground absorbed with the things right in front of you look up, be alert to what is going on around Christ, not just necessarily around you around Christ and Christ is a you know God is in all of our our lives. Beings of the Lord campground about those inferior angels in your life around your life sentencing things as if you then be risen with Christ, they those things which are above think the things which are above are currently just to be risen with Christ, our privileges, though there's a new life in us that it begins in Christ we have taken on a new South a resurrected life easier. We've already started to live for eternity. We just haven't got there yet, no heaven is our home. We just have arrived against the worker process of getting there. You see me all things pass away the new things come into our life all things become new. Everything takes on a different perspective. All things become new line because of the relationship with Jesus Christ. Don't shuffle along eyes on the ground absorbed with thing in front of you look at there is another world around you. The world beyond this one have an is are home to see the shuffling of the world gets us to look at to our way of life in the immediate presence and that things we don't have are the things that are going to make us happy. We crave peaceful circumstances that prove that we are correct, we whenever we aren't chasing peas were looking after thrills or looking for that one person who was solely exists to make us happy in all of these things are counterfeit. They're not real, and they offer themselves to Watson, bargains that will cost you your life so don't be like the person who gets to the top of the latter only to recognize that it's the letters against wrong building NL look forward growing lookup lookup and be alert, alert to what is going on around Christ and what is Christ want to do in our life. He wants the Creek and I I I I a dismiss this whole concept of God. What were yet in our mother 's womb, God formed us made us newest and while out all of what we need is in their and the circumstances of life are going to bring out what's on the inside but with whenever the circumstances of life for bringing out twice, once to bring out the good in it and so that the circumstances that don't have Christ circumstances in life have two options. Without God, and with God circumstances of life have two options without dotted with we choose how we are going to respond, Christ wants us to choose correctly and to allow the word of God to dwell in us richly had an error are two different perspectives, heaven and earth are two different perspectives and guess what they are opposed to each other. There opposed to each other verses three and four. The shuffling along life -year-old life is that you which is your real life. Even though invisible to spectators no crisis come into my life he saved me. He's forgiven me of my sins. I have a new life when you look the same spectators at which see not to say and Christians are not the same as nonbelievers that our life is different because God is in us, and we know that God is working in us, and God has a plan for us in the purpose of our life is greater than the life that we now live that we would live on our own so it's invisible to spectators, but is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ your real life. Remember shows up again on this earth you'll show up to Paul and Paul just jumping ahead here for a moment what you get it and get you get an internal and I want you to get an eternal perspective here. That when Christ returns and begin the life your to be there with him. The real you is going to show up and that glorious you. Meanwhile, the content with obscurity with Christ like Christ being that we're not going to try and bring all the attention, and now he was the most toys wins were not going to try accumulation of things we're going to have the changeable life. It gives us a different life. The old life. Instead, the new life in Christ. And when Christ the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, you will quicken your mortal bodies, meaning that when you you may get you just change residence, you just changed addresses. In the meantime, verse five date that means telling off everything connected with the way of death, but the pruning last week 's printing wrong beliefs don't make life right killing off everything connected with the way of death. Killing doesn't mean you go out and get a gun and shoot things and people that disagree with you. Okay, that's not what this is meaning case your case some of you that would like they'll never not somewhat, it says what father Joe is again red sexual promiscuity and your team lost, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy, but the old life. Your rhetoric allow that live in you to die. That's a life shaped by things and feeling that's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God is because of this kind of thinking that God is about to explode in anger ill whenever people you hear people saying how long is God going to continue to put up with the sins of our of our people, people, the nations in the world. How is it. It's going to come to an end, but God is angry and in the in the sense that it hurts God see so many people lost and away from his. His plan. It hurts him to see how that life so different and so good, and people have chosen to be so evil. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better, but you know better now, so make sure it's all work done gone for good. Make sure that all life is all gone for good, bad temper irritability, meanness, profanity and dirty talk. You see when we look at all. I know I'm not just behind Auxerre motives are the things that that initiates what we do look at the motives look at what's going on in your heart. Examine your own heart. Make sure that this this bad tempered, irritability and meanness. There gone in my life is hidden with Christ in God. You see there are reasons why we have. We do these things is always a reason that anyone can give a reason for what their actions ever reason behind the mean it's a good reason and often it ends up hurting them in hurting others. But God 's way of looking at this is don't lie to one another. The law you're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set up ill fitting clothes you're stripped off and put in the fire put the clothes in the fire so you don't end up in the fire of the date meeting inflation and put the clothes in the fire. The guilt filled in the deal fifteen garments one of the ill fitting garments, bad temper, promiscuity, all those negative things. All of him and an annual life destroying principles that were listed earlier here. Those are the things that you need to get rid of their ill fitting. You need to take them off and put them in the fire and burned it means is not to be a part of your life anymore member. The pruning process in which God is the one the husband and who prunes the buying and what happens when it's cut off. It dies, it is not good for nothing but the be thrown in the fire and burn. Let the things of your life that are not going to add to the value of your life, the eternal value life, let them go, and then do what you do. We ended now you're dressed in a new wardrobe ladies. The shopping is already done. Sorry for the shop is already done in the lump I am sorry you don't have the other, the store and purchase. It's already done your trust in a new wardrobe every item on your new way of life custom-made. I've never had a tailor-made suit your tailor made suit. He may have tailor-made suits clothes and dresses of all, it's that no tailor-made. I have been Ivan of weddings where people and had wedding dresses and things specifically made for them I've ever won one wedding we went to years ago was out and it was that we were, we were invited there, and the individual parents. The lady was marrying someone who was a very, whatever I happen the social network on that particular area and the family went and bought this very expensive dress and the family they were marrying into said we can't have that, and they took the bride to this place and I think that this was point five, thirty years ago and the new dress was while over ten thousand dollars for the for the for the bride and it was tailor-made tailor-made was made by seamstress that wasn't made by seamstress. I couldn't help it. But, you know, it was it was a very out as they had to of their station in life. They had to have this. This nuclear dress made to their standard and so is a beautiful and it fit perfectly. I guess what nothing is as fitted for our life as what God has made for us and guess what it has his label on it. Would you buy that, oh, zero year the flow fish shark whatever it is this a great one that means nothing right. That is the Greg Norman Sheraton and it's a golf shirt, I'll play golf, but I like the way they can only fit the resides that they have stink resistance to hope so, but you see what it all at your love. You can look at things and tell by the labeled and I was on some bad night on the back devil like the arrow. Line and on our on gang having all the things that have their symbols on them will guess what God has what it is label on one undergarment that we wear what is the government that we were, where well to find out just a few moments so much like Jewish and non-Jewish religious in your religious insider outsider uncivilized unproved, slave, free me nothing. From now on. Everyone is defined by Christ. It is our relationship with Jesus Christ. Whether were just beginning beginning, or whether we mature in Christ. It's still Christian first, while so chosen by God, this new life of love. This is the life that God has his mark on dress and the wardrobe, the God has pics for you and what is the wardrobe that God wants us to where one of compassion, kindness, humility, humility and strength under control with it. There is if there is an underlying strength and humility. Quiet strength, discipline, even-tempered contest for second place. Now that doesn't mean while we don't strive into the second places that you don't have to to tear down the guy in front of you so that you look good. You don't have to destroy people in order for you to look good contentless second-place means I know who I am in Christ and Christ is the one who is who is living his life through me and I don't have to be destructive and destroying something that seems to be better than who I am so and that we goes on even-tempered, quick to forgive an offense quick to forget. See the Garman, we wear is quick to forgive that we don't allow circumstances and people to hinder where were going, that which offends us only weakens us. It means that I take steps backward rather than forward quick to forgive an offense means that I don't allow offense to determine my action mother forget as quickly and as completely as God has forgiven us for the master has forgiven you she were not allowing anything to take root in our life. These are the drivers everywhere and regardless of what else to put on what we put on the other, where what is love where love first twenty thirteen. Love doesn't keep score of wrongdoing. I love that part was never dies and you see one has a way of allowing our life to heal and to deal and to be going on in a consistent ongoing manner so in love. It's your basic all-purpose garment. Never be without it. Never leave home without it. What we want and not well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy, the Lord everything done has a motive everything done has a purpose. God wants us to put on the garments, and finally, versus fifteen sixteen seventeen when Lovin all these things are part of us. What happens. Let the peace of Christ. You want to have peace, then put on the right garments put on the right perspective put on the right using we can. We need God. He's the one who make these things and make Taylor. They are tailor-made for us can't knows exactly what you need to wear any knows exactly how it fit a knows exactly what size and I'm sure some of it even has an elastic waist, knows exactly what it what the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, but the peace of Christ, guard your heart and mind keep you intend in step with each other. You're not out of step with life, you're out of step with the people who are wearing the same garments, and that's a good thing none of this going off and doing your own thing. None of this life. I know exactly what God wants me to do, and you can't tell me now, none of that none is going off and doing your own thing. Cultivate thankfulness. If it's something how that love and thankfulness go together that we begin to see that there are good things in our life. Why, because were thankful we begin to see them whenever we are thankful for them, and let the word of Christ. The message let the Scriptures dwell in you richly. That's why we have these daily devotionals and that's why we have these Bibles and all the things if you need. We need to read the Scriptures at least four plus days a week rental. Some of you were here with that one that that whenever we read the Scriptures, four plus days a week. There's a difference between Christians who read Scriptures for what they make and those who don't read along because we need the Word to dwell within us. Anything less than this, but the word of God have been one of your house. We talk about it. You talk about the Scriptures given plenty of room in your life, instruct and direct one another using the common sense meaning. The word of God, and say saying sing your hearts out to God. Let every detail in your lives, words, actions, whatever be done in the name of Jesus. Let every detail be part of God, pray about everything worrying about nothing. Bring worry is the alarm. The causeless wants us to bring our needs. The Lord and while we supposed to do, thanking God the father every step of the way you see whenever we're shuffling along, looking down, we don't see God 's purpose. We don't look out and look out and see what God is doing. See Christ involvement in our life putting on the garments with garments that are specially made for our life and things begin to change special made garments with God label and of course love with the all-purpose one makes everything fit. So was so change your wardrobe, compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline, even-tempered content with second place, meaning content. Don't try and destroy people that seemingly are above you replace one habit I put the one guy says there's always room at the top step up to the bottom source crowd. God gives us a different perspective on how we live. Forgive, love, make a difference. It all begins with Jesus, forgive me if I said forgive me of my sins forgive me of my sense my shortcomings. My misconceptions may I put off these old garments and burn them. They don't longer exist in this new life that you have given me all things pass away all things become new. Thank you Lord for loving me that much and then a man put on the new garments that God labels on them