The following sermon was preached on February 7th, 2010.
Preached by: Pastor Aaron Youngren
Text: Colossians 3:12-15
This week, we see that our union with Jesus gives us a radically new moral outlook. We act with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience that most can only dream of.
Christian morality is unique in its source and internal consistency. Christians are never asked to do something which Jesus didn’t do. In matters of morality, Christians do what Jesus has done for them. Christians love because Jesus loved them. Christians forgive because Jesus forgave them. Christians have compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience because Jesus has acted that way toward them.
For Christians, it is the union of their entire person with Jesus that transforms them, as they experience the divine nature firsthand.
Incredibly, this experience of Jesus’ graces are not a once-for-all event. Rather, the Christian life is permeated with continual compassion, continual kindness, continual communion with the love of Jesus Christ.
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The following sermon was preached on January 31st, 2010.
Preached by: Pastor Aaron Youngren
Text: Colossians 3:9-11
Every Christian is united to the present king of the universe, Jesus Christ. The foundation for the life of a Christian is not a new moral code, philosophy, or idea, but the fact of his or her marriage to Jesus.
This week, we see that our union with Jesus creates a new, radical, almost absurd level of honesty in his people. This honesty is contrasted with the dishonesty of our former life.
Paul shows us that self-protection is not what we were created for. In fact, we were created in the unified-yet-diverse, Trinitarian image of our creator.
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The following sermon was preached on January 24th, 2010.
Preached by: Pastor Aaron Youngren
Text: Colossians 3:7-8
This week, we see how our union affects our temptation to anger.
The believer able to put anger to death in two ways. First, by remembering who he or she is. That is to say, by remembering that he or she has done countless things deserving the anger of others and the wrath of God himself. Second, by remembering who Jesus is. It is difficult to sustain anger in view of Jesus’ everlasting mercy, love, grace, and power. It is the grace of Jesus, not his anger, which at last puts our anger to death.
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The following sermon was preached on January 17th, 2010.
Preached by: Pastor Aaron Youngren
Text: Colossians 3:5-6
Every Christian is united to the present king of the universe, Jesus Christ. The foundation for the life of a Christian is not a new moral code, philosophy, or idea, but the fact of his or her marriage to Jesus. This marriage affects every aspect of their lives.
This week, we see how our union with Jesus affects our sex lives. Paul uses five words to describe sex in the old kingdom:
Sexual Immorality: A blanket term describing all extramarital activity,
Impurity: Especially used to denote ritual impurity,
Passion: Uncontrollable or unchecked desire,
Evil Desire: Not desire itself, but desire toward evil things,
Covetousness: Desiring sexual experience that is nor yours; greed.
Those who are married to Jesus are to put these old sexual practices “to death.”
Many religions and worldviews demand that their participants adopt a new sexual morality. What is striking about Jesus’ call to a new sexual ethic is what powers it. Whereas many religions control sex by attacking its follower’s desires, Jesus subverts our sexual dysfunction by fulfilling them.
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