Lessons in Colossians
Readable Notes
3/10/2024 - Lessons in Colossians #1: Starting in chapter 3, looking at the practical side of Christianity. We are to seek and to set our affection on those things that are above, and to put to death the self-willed life. I then go through a list of sins that Paul tells us that we are to "mortify".
Audible Lessons
3/17/2024 - Lessons in Colossians #2: What it means to put off the old man and to put on the new man. What is the nature of true conversion, and what does it mean to be "renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him"?
3/24/2024 - Lessons in Colossians #3: What it means to "put on the new man". From Col. 3:12 we look at several traits that characterize the new man in Christ, namely, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, and longsuffering.
4/14/2024 - Lessons in Colossians #4: From Col. 3:13 on forbearance and forgiveness. What does it mean to forbear, or bear with one another? We are to strive together for the faith, and to see God's kingdom expanded. Also on the crucial need of forgiveness, so that God will forgive us, so that we can follows Christ's example, and to avoid even physical effects of unforgiveness. What to so when there are offenses against us.
5/19/2024 - Lessons in Colossians #5: From 3:14-15, a study on three Christian virtues that we are to live in - charity (love), peace, and thanksgiving.
5/26/2024 - Lessons in Colossians #6: From 3:16 - "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."