Holy Living, Disobedience, And The Wrath Of God

Continuing through Colossians in chapter 3, we are given guidelines to live by. These precious guidelines are also filled with very serious warnings. 

How can so many teachers and watchmen not warn the people? The Holy Spirit has given us guidelines/commands for holy living and warns the disobedient of the coming wrath of God. 

Please note our personal responsibility to obey what we are told to do.

Colossians 3 ISV

1Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, 

• keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God. 
• 2Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. 3For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God. 4When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.

5So put to death your worldly impulses:

• sexual sin, 
• impurity, 
• passion, 
• evil desire, 
• and greed (which is idolatry). 

6It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.7You used to behave like them as you lived among them. 8But now you must also get rid of 

• anger, 
• wrath, 
• malice, 
• slander, 
• obscene speech, 
• and all such sins. 

9Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices 10and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it. 

11In him there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free person. Instead, the Messiah is all and in all.

12Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with 

• compassion, 
• kindness, 
• humility, 
• meekness, 
• and patience. 

13Be tolerant of one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive. 

14Above all, 

• clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity. 
• 15Let the peace of the Messiah also rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body, and be thankful. 
• 16Let the word of the Messiah inhabit you richly with wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts. 
• 17And whatever you do, whether by speech or action, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.