Last week we dove into what walking in the Spirit looks like in our families. Today, Pastor David takes a look at the apostle Paul's teaching on how believing slaves and masters were to walk in the Spirit in his day, and how that applies to employees and bosses who are believers in our day.
Keep seeking and setting your minds on things above, putting to death what's sinful in you, putting on spiritual character, letting Christ's peace rule, letting His word live in you richly, and being thankful in all circumstances. All of that comes before and sets the foundation for what Paul teaches next in his letter - how to have the best family ever! Pastor David shares Paul's instructions on how wives, husbands, kids, and dads all work together to create this!
After writing about how believers are to "put to death" sinful things and to "put on" spiritual things, the apostle Paul turns his focus onto two things believers need to let happen and one all-encompassing "whatever" instruction when it come to what they say and do. Pastor David explores these, drawing out their importance and application in our lives.
Love, agape love, love that, at its core, is passionate about sacrificing itself to benefit others, is what demonstrates to the world that we're Jesus disciples. But what does agape love look like in our lives, what does it do? Pastor David delves deeper into what it means to put on love above all the other qualities listed in Colossians 3, revealing what true and authentic agape loves does.
We've been exploring Colossians chapter 3 where it talks about how believers are to put on certain spiritual qualities. Today, Pastor David teaches on the most important quality, the quality that is to go on over top of all those other qualities and that wraps them all up together in perfect harmony - love.
Having worked through a step-by-step process for putting on the new self (aka, walking in step with the Spirit), Pastor David unpacks what the apostle Paul says next in his letter to the church at Colossae: there are two foundational ways of relating that every Spirit-filled church consistently and constantly lives out.
In Colossians 3 we're told to put on things like a compassionate heart, kindness, patience, etc. In Galatians 5 we told if we live by the Spirit, then we're to walk in step with the Spirit. Ok, I know I should, but how exactly? That's a question that often plagues believers. Pastor David explores how those two commandments are fundamentally similar, and shares a step-by-step process that will enable you to experience the incredible blessing God has in store as you put on those things, and walk in step with His Spirit.
Our spiritual life - our spiritual union with God - is found in Jesus, who has risen from the dead, ascended to the Father, and is right now seated at the right hand of His throne. Pastor David looks at what Scripture has to say about what that truth means for our spiritual life and how that's meant to impact our daily living.
All too often, eternal life is thought to be ongoing, unending, existence in heaven. What we picture is spending eternity enjoying things like mansions, gold streets, pearly gates, playing harps on clouds, and hanging out with our favorite people (and maybe our pets!). In his ongoing series on what spiritual life is, Pastor David exposes the problem with thinking about eternal life like that and digs into what Scripture has to say about what eternal life really is.