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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
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23 - COLOSSIANS 3:5-17 - RESURRECTION: LEADS US TO PUT ON CHRIST</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:5-7 (NNT) RESURRECTION: ENABLES US TO PUT OFF WORKS OF FLESH.
<font size="3">“Put to death therefore the members which </font><font size="3"><i>are</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and
:covetousness, which is idolatry; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">6
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">for which
comes the wrath of :God: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">7
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">wherein
you also once walked, when you lived in these;” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we hear Your Word: we see what You have delivered us from. We will
</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">not</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
be as the dog which returns to its vomit. We are new creations. We
will walk in Your Kingdom. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
3:8-10a (3:8-11) RESURRECTION: ENABLES US TO PUT ON THE NEW MAN.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But now do
you also put the</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">m</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of
your :mouth: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">9
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">lie
not one to another; </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">seeing</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
you have put off the old man with his :doings, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10a
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
have put on the new.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is a picture of us, Father. You see us perfect and perfected in
Christ. This is Your will for our proper behavior! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
3:12-13. RESURRECTION: FREES US TO PUT ON CHRIST’S FRUIT AND
FORGIVENESS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Put
on therefore, as chosen of :God, holy and beloved, bowels of
compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">13
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">forbearing
one another, </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
forgiving each other, if any one have a compliant against any; even
as the Lord forgave you, so also </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">do</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, Your nature and character we would have shine out from us,
especially the forgiving spirit of Jesus. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
3:14. RESURRECTION: FREES US TO PUT ON PERFECT LOVE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
above all these </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things
put on </span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">:love,
which is </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
bond of perfectness.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
Father, are sons of the Resurrection. The Resurrection Spirit of
Jesus abides in us! Agap</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-love
is the unique manifestation of Resurrection life, and bonds us
together in maturity. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
3:15. RESURRECTION: FREES US INTO BODY PEACE AND THANKSGIVING.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
let the peace of the Christ arbitrate in your :hearts, to which all
you were called in one body; and be you thankful.” </span></font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Peace</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
by this we know we are wal</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">k</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ing
well-pleasing to you, Father! May we never walk in a way that causes
Your peace to flee away! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
3:16. RESURRECTION: FREES US INTO SINGING CHRIST’S WORD! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Let
the word of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching
and admonishing yourselves with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with
:grace singing in your :hearts unto :God.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
it is the rich Word of Christ indwelling us that births the Song of
the Lord! As we walk in and experience this truth, how You can then
expand our life! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
3:17. RESURRECTION: FREES US IN USE OF JESUS’ NAME. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
whatever you do in word or in deed, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">do</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
all in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Lord Jesus’ name, thanking :God </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Father through him.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we rejoice in this word. We immerse ourselves in it and in You. You
in us, we in You: by this we apprehend all You would have us
perceive. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
3:10-11 </b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(3:8-11)
RESURRECTION: BASIS FOR NEW MAN RENEWAL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
have put on the new, who is being renewed after </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
image of him that created him: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">where
is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian,
Scythian, bond, free; but Christ is all, and in all.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
accept this state of oneness, Father. We receive one another as
fellow members of Christ’s spiritual body.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Always Forgiving” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
are often sinning, but he is always forgiving you; you are often
wandering, often erring, often grieving him, but “he forgives all
your iniquities.” I do not feel like preaching when I touch this
text. I heartily wish I could sit down and have a happy cry over this
blessed truth that my God is at this moment forgiving me.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 83:17-18 (83, ESV). O GOD, DO NOT KEEP SILENCE.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Let them
be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">18
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">that
they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most
High over all the earth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You confounded Your enemies who crucified Your Son. Out of it You
made the wrath of man and Satan to praise You. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are the Master chess player! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Title:
“A Psalm, or Song of Asaph.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is the last occasion upon which we shall meet with this eloquent
writer. Asaph the seer is well aware of the serious dangers arising
from the powerful confederate nations, but his soul in faith stays
itself upon Jehovah, while as a poet-preacher he excites his
countrymen to prayer by means of this sacred lyric.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">83:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your enemies
make a tumult. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
adversaries of the church are usually a noisy and a boastful crew.
Their pride is a brass which sounds, a symbol which is ever tinkling.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">83:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">They have
said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Easier said than done. Yet it shows how thorough-going are the foes
of the church. Theirs was the policy of extermination. They laid the
axe at the root of the matter. Rome has always loved this method of
warfare, and hence she has gloated over the massacre of Bartholomew
and the murders of the Inquisition.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">83:9.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">As to
Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
God wills it, a brook can be as deadly as a sea. Kison was as
terrible to Jabin as was the Red Sea to Pharaoh. How easily can the
Lord smite the enemies of His people! God of Gideon and of Barak,
will You not again avenge Your heritage of their bloodthirsty foes?</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">83:11.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Make their
nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah and
Zalmunna. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
Psalmist, seeing these four culprits hanging in history upon a lofty
gallows, earnestly asks that others of a like character may, for
truth and righteousness’ sake, share their fate.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">83:17.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Let them be
confounded and troubled forever; yes, let them be put to shame, and
perish. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a terrible doom it will be to the enemies of God to be “confounded,
and troubled forever” - to see all their schemes and hopes
defeated, and their bodies and souls full of anguish without end:
from such a shameful perishing, may our souls be delivered. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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