Clothed in GraceColossians 3:3-14

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For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in

God.Colossians 3:3

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When Christ, who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:1-4

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Ways of Knowing

Empirical

Rational

Ways of Knowing

Revelation

Rational

Empirical

5 Ways We Know that God Exists

6th Way to know but only people as smart as Aquinas could understand it.

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This only have I found:        God made mankind upright,        but

men have gone in search of many

schemes."

Ecclesiastes 7:29David Clayton 2009

Discipleship

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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality,

impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:5-7

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Distractions and indifference will characterize the

modern man, since these are powerful means of living in

immediacy without ultimacy.

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Put to death . . . your earthly nature . . . Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

Colossians 3:5-7

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When they had finished eating,

Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me

more than these?"

John 21:15

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No temptation has seized you except what is common to

man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you

can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a

way out so that you can stand up under

it.

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1 Corinthians 10:13

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ,

the Righteous One. 1 John 2:1

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GraceReceived

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You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

Colossians 3:7

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But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage,

malice, slander, and filthy

language from your lips.

Colossians 3:8 David Clayton 2009

Do not lie to each other, since you

have taken off your old self with its

practices and have put on the new self,

which is being renewed in

knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Colossians 3:9-10

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Clothed in

Grace

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Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion,

kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Colossians 3:12

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Bear with each other and forgive

whatever grievances you

may have against one another.

Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians 3:13

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And over all these virtues put on love, which binds

them all together in perfect unity.

Colossians 3:14

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A greater confidence in the revelation of God.

A growing concern about the erosion of goodness, truth, purity in our culture.

An increase desire to free myself from the things that I sometimes love more than Jesus. A growing awareness of my profound need for grace in all things.

Treating people with grace, dignity, and possibility.

A willingness to forgive others as Christ has forgiven me.