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If Then You Were Raised With Christ

• Colossians 3

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If Then You Were Raised With Christ (Col. 31)

• We are Christians
• Col. 220, died with Him
• Col. 211-12, Buried with Him
• To be raised, we must first be buried with Him
  Rom. 63-4

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If Then You Were Raised With Christ (Col. 31)

• If not conditional, but observation of fact
• Cf. Col. 220, Phil. 21
• For you died, and your life is hidden with
  Christ in God Colossians 33

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Seek Things Above (31-2)

• Where genuine service begins
• We are serving God, we must learn what He desires
• Above heavenly things Cf. Matt. 2125

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Seek Things Above (31-2)

• Seek, serious effort, to investigate, examine
• His word, 2 Tim. 316,17 James 317
• To look elsewhere is inadequate

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Seek Things Above (31-2)

• Set your mind, (vs. 2)
• When you find it, you seek to obtain it!
• Our citizenship, Phil. 320
• Matthew 1344-46
• Matthew 619-21

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Put to death (35-9)

• Becoming a Christian means a changed life
• Repent! Acts 319 2 Cor. 710-11 Matt.
  2818-20
• Psalm 15

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Put to death (35-9)

• Put to death
• Actions, (5-6)
• Attitudes (8-9)
• Put off the old man Eph. 420-22, 1 Cor. 611
• James 44, 1 Peter 43Galatians 519-21

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Put on the new man (310-14)

• It is not enough to not do that which is wrong,
  we must also do what is right!
• Matthew 1243-45
• Romans 613
• Many will be lost for failure to keep Gods
  positive commands

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Put on the new man (310-14)

• Put on
• Various attitudes and actions (12-14)Tender
  mercies, kindness, meekness, longsuffering,
  forgiving one another, bearing with one another
• Love!

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The Peace of God (315)

• We want peace with god
• Live so that you have peace Phil. 47-9
• Live at peace with the world Rom. 1218
• Live at peace with your brethren (one body)
  Gal. 515, Rom. 1419

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What are you building with your life?