The Serious Business of a Transformed Life – Colossians 3:1-17

The Serious Business of a Transformed Life                                                      May 12, 2024 

Colossians 3:1-17

1.   Serious About Heaven (1-4)

2.   Serious About Killing Sin                       (5-9)

“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.” JOHN OWEN

“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” JOHN OWEN

5     Practical Ways to Kill Sin

1.   Say NO
2.   Starve Sin
3.   Develop a new Affection
4.   Read God’s Word                            
5.   Pray

3.           Serious About New Life                          (10-17)

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 

“The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.” JOHN OWEN