Wake Up Call to Your Generation

Colossians 3, Romans 6:1, Hebrews 1

People believe that self-righteousness is less of a sin than murder.

Colossians 1 & 2 focus on Jesus.

-Be nervous for those who have no fire for Christ. Just because you know a lot about someone doesn't mean you know them. Just because you know all the answers doesn't mean you're saved. We turn our focus onto the modification of our behaviors, rather than the Savior. We can know that if we fall we don't have to watch for lightning bolts. The life of your mind is important. Trash in, trash out. You conquer sin by focusing on Christ. The Bible focuses on Christ, we focus on the sin. The price of your rebellion has been paid in full.
-Fix your eyes on the things above and everything else will grow dim.
-Who wants crackers when there's stake?
-Put to death the things of below.
-Our energy should be focused on above so we can have the strength to push down that below. Build defenses where you know you're weak.

The gospel pushes us toward holiness and righteousness.

We can't talk about holiness and righteousness that are rooted in joy if you're not a believer.

Is there an internal desire and delight in you for Jesus?

We've got no shot at holiness and righteousness if we haven't been born again.

To grow in holiness, you set your eyes, your mind, and your heart on Christ.

To be conformed to a pattern of religion is not the same thing as being transformed by the Holy Spirit of God.

If intimacy with God, for you, hinges on your ability to manage your behavior you will never walk intimately with God.

The more you pursue Christ and know Him, the more you've transformed into His likeness.

Sin loses its grasp on our hearts when God is a greater delight than the things below.

Actively do two things:
    1. Actively grow in understanding of Jesus Christ and filling our lives with things that help that delight.
     2. Put to death that which is below.

If this is where the Enemy is going to get you and the flesh is going to draw you somewhere, act violently against those things.

Philippians 4:8, Galatians 2:20, Romans 8:1, 2 Corinthians 3:18