Sunday, October 8, 2017

Mortify your members-- keep your focus on heaven!

Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 
Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 
Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth

Mortify ourselves here and now.

When we set our affections on things above we are not setting them down here on earth. If our affections are not being set here on earth we have a lot less chance of getting caught up in the sins prevalent here and now. Mortifying our members- keeping ourselves from sin BY setting our affections on things above and not on earth is very important.

How much harder is it to give into temptation when you know by waiting longer you have a reward that is not sinful.

When we take our minds- our affections- off the things above we open ourselves up to temptation.

How attached are we to our sins? Seriously, how attached are we to things that bring us pleasure, happiness, joy, contentment, laughter, and so on? We believe that being happy is an excuse to ignore things that are sinful. We change sinful things into good things in our minds so we can do them without feeling guilt. We need to set our affection on things above!

God wants to protect us from the things on earth and He gives us means to do this. We have to mortify ourselves not give in to the sins that so easily corrupt us. We can do this by HIS grace in looking to things above, making our affections heaven bound NOT earth bound!

Let us examine ourselves--

2Co_13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you…

Let us set our affections on things above!

All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR, now and forever!!!!!!!

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