Colossians 3:5-7
Introduction: This is a violent passage of scripture. It attacks sin where it is, right where one
lives. We all need this passage. It covers the violent demands of the
believers New Life in Christ. Two main points
that will be covered – One – Put to death all sins that enslaves the body and it’s members. Two –
Strip off all the sins that enslave the emotions and the tongue.
A. The first demand is violent – put to death the
sins that enslave
1. What the word “MORTIFY” means
a. To put to death
b. To act as though the body is dead
2. The believer is to take the
various parts of his body - -
a. Put them to death where sin
is concerned
3. How does a believer do this - -?
a. He considers his body “Hid
in the Death of Christ”
b. He acts as though his body is dead
with Christ
c. Remember a dead man can’t
sin
d. He cannot do anything
e. Therefore the believer is
dead to sin
B. The point is this - -
1. It is all an act of the mind or
spirit
2. When a person wants to live for
God
a. He looks at his body and at
sin
b. Must decide the only way to
conquer sin is treat his body as dead with Christ
c. He must live as though his
body has no part in sin
d. And that sin has no part of his
body
3. Note: This life is possible in Christ
a. Christ alone - - through the
Holy Spirit
b. The Holy Spirit works within the
human heart
c. The Holy Spirit gives energy
and power to conquer sin
1. PERMANENTLY AND ETERNALLY
4. Some overcome some sins
a. But not all sin, permanently
and eternally
b. This can be done only through
Christ
c. The is much difference
between human discipline and Godly control
d. That difference is Jesus Christ
A. The Bible is very specific about these - -
1. There are several specific sins
that enslave the body
B. Note the term – “Children of
Disobedience”
1. Not only acts of disobedience to
God, but tend to enslave the body
2. Makes a
“Child of Disobedience” out of a person
C. What are the sins that enslave the human body
so much?
1. The sin of fornication -
-
a. A broad word including all
forms of immoral and sexual acts
b. It is pre-marital sex and adultery, it is abnormal sex, all kinds of sexual vice
c. 1 Corinthians 6:18, Ephesians 5:3-4
2.
The sin of uncleanness - -
a. Moral impurity, doing things
that are dirty, that pollute and soils ones life
b. Matthew 5:28-29, Romans 1:24, Romans 6:19
3. The sin of inordinate
affections - -
a. Passion, craving, strong
desire, intense arousal, a driving lust
b. It is a desire or craving for the
wrong things such as - - -
1. Over eating
2. Alcohol and drugs
3. Nudity – pornography
4. Suggestive TV – filthy literature
5. Illicit affaire – extra marital
sex - - -
6. Romans 1:26-27, Galatians 5:16-17, 24,
2 Timothy 2:22
4. Evil Concupiscence -
-
a. Evil desire – a yearning and
aching for all kinds of evil
b. These desires that are within a
person that pulls him to desire evil
c. The kind of evil that gives
pleasure to the body and it’s members
d. It is the kind which drives man to
- -
1. Look and look
2. Feel and feel
3. Touch and touch
4. Listen and listen
5. Seek and seek
e. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-6, James 1:13-15, 1 Peter 2:11-12
5.
There is covetousness - -
a. Craving, grasping, grabbing,
desiring to have something
b. It is desiring
to have something when it is not needed
c. It is
desiring more than what we need and more than what we should have
d. Covetousness is idolatry
1. To look at something so much to
covet
2. One has made a god of it
3. Something pursued with much energy
and effort
4. Exodus 20:17, Jeremiah 6:13, Ezekiel 33:31,
Micah 2:2,
Habakkuk 2:9, Luke 12:15,
1 Timothy 6:10
Conclusion:
These are the sins that will destroy and condemn a person to hell. These verses are giving us fair warning as to
the consequences if we indulge in these sins.
Next week we will see two powerful reasons we must mortify the flesh