Living Like the New You in 2022 
Colossians 3:1-11



2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Colossians 3:1 (ESV)
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 

Colossians 3:2 (ESV)
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 

Colossians 3:3 (ESV)
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 

Colossians 3:4 (ESV)
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. 

Colossians 3:5 (ESV)
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 

Colossians 3:6 (ESV)
On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 

Colossians 3:7 (ESV)
In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 

Colossians 3:8 (ESV)
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 

Colossians 3:9 (ESV)
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 

Colossians 3:10 (ESV)
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator. 

Colossians 3:11 (ESV)
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

1. Concentrate on a New Reality!
Colossians 3:1 (ESV)
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 

Colossians 3:2 (ESV)
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 

Colossians 3:3 (ESV)
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 

Colossians 3:4 (ESV)
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. 

2. Live with a New Purity!

Colossians 3:5 (ESV)
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 

Colossians 3:6 (ESV)
On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 

Colossians 3:7 (ESV)
In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 

Colossians 3:8 (ESV)
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Colossians 3:9 (ESV)
Do not lie to one another … 

3. Grow into a New Identity!

Colossians 3:9 (ESV)
… seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 

Colossians 3:10 (ESV)
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator. 

Colossians 3:11 (ESV)
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.