6) No Longer Living on The Line: You choose, either conquer rebellion, or let it conquer you.
BIBLE VERSE: Colossians 3
He Is Your Life
1-2 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with
Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't
shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in
front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around
Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
3-4Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even
though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life.
When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth,
you'll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be
content with obscurity, like Christ.
5-8And that means killing off
everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity,
impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it,
and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That's a life shaped by
things and feelings instead of by God. It's because of this kind of
thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you
were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know
better now, so make sure it's all gone for good: bad temper,
irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
9-11Don't lie to
one another. You're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set of
ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put in the fire. Now you're
dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is
custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions
are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and
irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and
free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone
is included in Christ.
12-14So, chosen by God for this new life of
love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion,
kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered,
content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as
quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what
else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never
be without it.
15-17Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with
each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing
your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the
Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives.
Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing
your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions,
whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the
Father every step of the way.
MESSAGE:
I decided life is
already complicated enough, so please tell me, where is the sense in
making it even harder on ourselves? come on, I dare you to tell me what
is the point of that? Because that’s all that sin-filled, rebel poser
lifestyle does for us, the things that that lifestyle consists of make
life straight up complicated. And honestly living with additional
complications on top of the ones we already have basically prevents you
from getting anywhere at all in life. You guys have mad potential,. SO
USE IT!!!! Don’t be average like everyone else is choosing to be, why
try to fit into this mess when you were meant to stand out, meant to be a
part of something incredible something mad cool rad beyond belief. You
don’t need to be stuck in this constant tribulation, these pointless
degrading lifestyles. be great like I know you can. Because you know it
will make your lives the best they can be. Don’t go down into the
hopelessness like the rest of this world. Everyone is doing that,
everyone seems to be tearing each other down so that they can appear as
the best or the coolest. But guess what? They’re all fighting a game
that can’t be won. They’re fighting to see who can screw their lives up
the most. Seriously do you have any idea how many people are in that
competition? How many people think they’re the coolest of cool, that
they rule they’re hometown, that they are whats up. It’s a battle of
deceit, it’s a competition that can only bring you down, even if you are
winning it!!! (if you would like I can give you some personal
experiences I’ve had to back this up. For now though I assure you it’s
fact) You have got to know your better then that!!! Seriously I think
you guys are winners, god thinks you guys are winners. That’s the reason
he freed you from your chains. So heres what it comes down to. You can
sit there like the rest of this world, so deceived that you still think
your chained down and locked up and continue to be the pawn of sin, the
sadness we all so badly long to be rid of, or you can run into glory.
You can rebel. Choose to stand against all the pointless nonsense that
is destroying people and their lives. Get creative, do something
different, do something worthwhile. You aren’t constrained anymore, your
free, you can work together, you can make a difference in so many
peoples live. You can change this freaking world! And best of all you
can wallow in the uncontainable joy that god gives. That feeling where
every part of you screams out with joy because you know that your free,
your burdens are got, you can run around and scream praises, your heart
is pure, you are filled with goodness and you have more goodness then
you can even handle. You can look around and see all of the poor people
who think they’re still chained down, who are caught in hopelessness and
you can show them that theres so much more. You can share the goodness
and the freakishly intense joy that god has poured into you. Gosh he
gives us so much of it that it pours out on its own. You can watch them
be freed, you can help them be freed! Seriously do you know how
meaningful that is? God’s kingdom has no fighting, no quarelling, no
hatred, no stealing, no lust, no rape, no murder, no self glorification
because all are in glory, because all want to build one another up,
cause all love each other and because they truthfully love each other
they actually care about each other. They couldn’t bring themselves to
rape someone, or to even hurt someone, they couldn’t steal from their
neighbor because they would actually care about their neighbor and they
want him to have the absolute best, think about it. What if everyone on
this planet were fighting to get the best for each other, fighting for
one another instead of against one another? How insane would that be?!
And the fact of the matter is that God gave us the wisdom to decipher
right from wrong. He put within us the power to tell good from bad, and
he expects us to choose what’s good , and when we don’t, we’re gonna be
held accountable for it. God gave us wisdom to decipher good and
capability to enact it, so why not work toward making these things a
reality? If you think about it, the absolute only thing that is holding
us back from these dreams becoming a reality is our daily decisions to
choose to prevent these things. If we’re so fed up with a messed up
world, then why don’t we choose to change it? If we really want a better
future and better humanity, then why don’t we use the gifts God gave us
to make that way. The only thing that’s preventing heaven on earth is
you and I. We are the ones who are deeming it impossible by choosing not
to pursue it. Why though? Do we not want it? Do we not want to better
our lives? Do we not want a better world? Or are we just to lazy to
fight for what we want? Let’s change this world as we know it you guys,
one person at a time. . Starting with you and I. There’s nothing holding
us back but ourselves, and with God the possibilities are endless.
