SUNDAY'S SACRED SCRIPTURES: PUT AWAY THE OLD SELF...

While Christians yet live in the mortal body, we are constantly challenged to put to death the evil deeds of the body, through the life of the spirit!

We are to be able to withstand the onslaught of weaponry of the deceiver, and, his associates! We are to be able to battle sin, in an instant, with the FAITH, knowledge, wisdom, and, understanding we have IN THE LORD! We are to resist temptations, for we KNOW they are of darkness, and, death, but, we are of LIGHT, and, LIFE, THROUGH our LORD, CHRIST JESUS!!!

COLOSSIANS 3:1-14...

1/ If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

2/ Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.

3/ For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

4/ When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

5/ Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. 
6/ Because of these the wrath of God is coming (upon the disobedient).

7/ By these you too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way.
8/ But now you must put them all away:  anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths.
9/ Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices
10/ and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator.
11/ Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.
12/ Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
13/ bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do.
14/ And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection.

EPHESIANS 4: 17-27...
17/ So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;
18/ darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,
19/ they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess. 
20/ That is not how you learned Christ, 
21/ assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus, 
22/ that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, 
23/ and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 
24/and put on the new self, created in God's way in righteousness and holiness of truth. 
25/ Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 
26/ Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, 
27/ and do not leave room for the devil.

 

1 PETER 2: 1-11... 

1/ Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander; 

2/ like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, 

3/ for you have tasted that the Lord is good. 

4/ Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, 

5/ and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

6/ For it says in scripture: "Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not be put to shame." 

7/ Therefore, its value is for you who have faith, but for those without faith: "The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," 

8/ and "A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall." They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny. 

9/ But you are "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises" of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 

10/ Once you were "no people" but now you are God's people; you "had not received mercy" but now you have received mercy. 

11/ Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.

Read also, the BOOK of JAMES...