615. You are daily acquiring strength to build a relationship with God

You are daily acquiring strength to build a relationship with God – Colossians 3:1-10

Colossians 3:1-10

3 If ye then be risen (were raised with) with Christ, seek (endeavor to find) those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

² Set your affection (mind) on things above, not on things on the earth (land).

³ For ye are dead (died), and your life is (has been) hid (laid up in store) with (in conjunction with) Christ in (resting within) God.

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear (be manifested make visible) with him in glory.

¹⁴ And above all these things put on charity (love), which is the bond of perfectness.

¹⁵ And let the peace of God (Christ) rule (be umpire) in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

⁵ Mortify (put to death) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection (passion or lust), evil concupiscence (desire), and covetousness (wantoness), which is idolatry:

⁶ For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

⁷ In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

⁸ But now ye also put off (like a tee shirt) all these; anger, wrath (causal passion that could lead to anger), malice (every form of evil), blasphemy (slander), filthy communication (the license of the ungoverned tongue, obscene language) out of your mouth.

⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man (man’s nature) with his deeds;

¹⁰ And have put on (like a tee shirt) the new man, which is renewed (newly made, daily acquiring strength) in (motion to) knowledge (epignosis: a true and personal relationship with an object, where you hear from it and heed it’s advice) after (in parallel motion with) the image (pattern) of him that created him:

You are daily acquiring strength to build a relationship with God