Teaching Outline

GPNAZ Teaching Outline – April 30, 2023
 Breadcrumbs: “Directives…” Colossians
 

• A disciple is a follower of Jesus.

 

• Paul is teaching them to live the way that Jesus wanted them to live.

 
Colossians 3:1-2 says this, “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”

• Get your mind and your heart straight.

 
Colossians 3:5-10, “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[a] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”

Colossians 2:20-23, “Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.”

• The way to kill sin is get to the root of the problem and die out to it.

 
 
The solution is by faith, we surrender everything to God,
and ask Jesus to come and fill us with his spirit.