Colossians | Put on Christ - Season 5, Episode 122
Can a person change their habits without changing their heart? It is possible to learn religious language, attend church faithfully, and still be ruled by pride, bitterness, and anger. In Colossians 3:10-17, Paul shows that the Christian life is not a fresh coat of paint on a rotten fence but a new identity worked from the inside out. Because believers have put on the new man, renewed by the Word of God, their thinking must change before their conduct can, and that renewed mind is seen in mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering, forgiveness, and love. Listeners are challenged to stop excusing their behavior, let the word of Christ dwell in them richly, and do everything under the authority of Jesus' name.