Sermon Text: Colossians 3:5-11 (EHV)
5 So put to death whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 7 You too once walked in these things, when you were living in them. 8 But now, you too are to rid yourselves of all of these: wrath, anger, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to each other since you have put off the old self with its practices, 10 and put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in knowledge, according to the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but rather Christ is all and is in all.
Sermon Theme: Change Your Clothes
- The physical clothes we wear can say a lot about who we are and what we do. What about the spiritual “clothing” we “wear” before the world around us?
- What reasons does Paul give as to why we should “put off” our “old clothes,” in a spiritual sense? (v. 6; v. 7-9)
- What spiritual “clothing” are we to “put on?” (v. 10) How do we do this?
- Is this “putting off” and “putting on” of our spiritual “clothing” a one-time thing, or continual?