Good morning. Back to the
book of Colossians: concerning all those bad things we talked about yesterday,
Paul says it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come.
With the way America is today, it deserves the wrath of God. He then says that
in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now we're not
supposed to. That's because we're dead. Put them all aside: anger, wrath,
malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth (there's that tongue
again). So keep seeking the things above; set your mind on the things above;
consider the members of your earthly body as dead; and put all these things
aside. That'll work. And oh yeah – do not lie to one another (tongue). And why
not? Since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on
the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of
the one who created him. That old guy is dead; we have laid him aside - that
is, buried him with Christ. When people see us, they are supposed to be seeing
the image of Jesus. Father thank You that the reader has laid aside the old
self and put on the new. When people see him/her, they see the image of Jesus.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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