{"id":3032,"date":"2014-09-08T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:15:30","slug":"colossians-chapter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"Colossians Chapter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Colossians\"<\/a>Colossians chapter three calls us to change.\u00a0 Don\u2019t change for salvation but because you are raised with Christ (The power of the new birth is equal to the power that it took to raise God from the dead) you should seek heavenly things.\u00a0 We are called to kill, which is to separate ourselves from are old fleshly ways, and become spiritual, to change our minds by thinking about scriptural things, and not the things of this world.\u00a0 Salvation brings transformation where we should not go back to the old ways or as some put it, the \u201cnormal\u201d way.\u00a0 We are not just like everyone else.\u00a0 Yes we are forgiven, but we are also transformed into a new creation where old things are done away with.\u00a0 We now can see spiritual, heavenly works of God.<\/p>\n

How do we change?\u00a0 First, we can only change through repentance of our sins and acceptance of Christ\u2019s death, burial and resurrection for our sins.\u00a0 By this confessing with our mouth and believing in our hearts, we become a child of God filled with the spirit.\u00a0 Second, we continue to surrender our lives over to Christ as living sacrifices for His glory.\u00a0 Third, we seek a renewing of our mind and life by the Spirit that now dwells in us and though the word of God which we must take in as truth.\u00a0 The fourth step is to make sure we connect with \u201cspiritually living people\u201d in a church that seeks to live out biblical truth as we continue to grow in God.\u00a0 Maybe you got saved and felt a drawing to be this new creation but you fell back into the old ways.\u00a0 Surrender and follow Jesus in the new ways.\u00a0 Maybe you followed for a while and have found a comfortable plateau in your spirituality; surrender and continue to grow in sanctification.\u00a0 God changes us daily, and continually until He calls us home and this flesh puts on immortality.\u00a0 There is power, peace and spiritual possessions as we grow in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}