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Chapter 3: Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above (seek the things above), where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ (GK  Kroop-two To be concealed, a secret escape… you escape away to which is greater) in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

5 Put to death (to deprive, starve out, cut off, sever its food supply), 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. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves  (take off, renounce, cast off) 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 (strengthened with energy and vigor, grow up, higher and higher stage) in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. (You are known by only one thing *growing in God, renewing daily or a non-believer- there is no middle ground)- quit thinking with your old self v.10, that is thinking with the old mind.

 

Colossians 3 is a transitional chapter… Chapters 1,2 why, and now 3 is how.

 

V. 1 Set your hearts on things above/God - seek what he seeks

V. 2 Set your minds on things above/God - think what he thinks 

 

 

*you cannot seek what you do not think

 

 

HOW? you set your mind on things above. V.2 

 

How do you gain mind control over someone? The experts will tell you its not so much lies you program into their mind as much as Keeping information from them and getting them to say yes… this builds an avalanche of habitual thinking which leads to action in the direction they want.

We saw this in the garden of eden with satan.

Satan does not tell lies as much as he withholds all the information given… and he gets Eve to say yes to an easy impulse. 

But a renewed/transformed mind constantly wants to know more and know what Christ knows. 

  - It wants to know all that God has for them

  - It wants to hear No, Yes and not right now

 

 

*if you can’t think greater than how you feel - your mind has not yet been transformed

If you can’t think greater than your circumstances - Your mind has not yet been transformed

If you can’t think greater than your past - your mind has not yet been transformed

If you can’t think beyond your parents expectations - Your mind has not yet been transformed

If you can’t think beyond your spouses expectations - your mind has not yet been transformed.

If you can’t think beyond…

 

 

Do you want to see things the way Christ sees them? Transform you mind. 

 

A transformed mind allows you to live in the invisible… others may even think you have a perfect life - you don’t, you just have an invisible life… that is supernaturally empowered. 

 

v1 if Christ is seated at the right hand of God, and we are seated with him, then we can only see satan and his kingdom as beneath us, below us, under us. 

 

You are were your mind is