Colossians 3:1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.(above what?.2Corinthians 6:17), where Christ is, on the right hand of God.

Being on the right hand of God is being right there with God.

Colossians 3:2 Set your affection.(original, 'thinking'; how to set your affection).on things above, not on things on the Earth.

Philippians 4:8.

Colossians 3:3 For you are dead and your life.(now).is hid with Christ in God.(*).

In other words you now act from God in you, like, ask yourself if in doubt about something, Would God do this or What would God think of this? Always consider these choices. God answers if you ask. How?

Your old selfish self is as good as dead. It's on its way to the grave and the more so the more knowledge you learn. Avoid now acting from the ego as this lawyer did:.Matthew 22:35-40. You are now dead in this way:.Romans 7:6; Colossians 2:13; 1Peter 2:24.

How are you 'dead'? You are dead now to the low consciousness of the selfishisness part of the ego and now open to the higher consciousness of God, where you love, care, serve to help and respect others. When you are in Christ, you are on a new pathway:.2Corinthians 5:17. 

When Emmanuel was crucified, we all were there too in spirit, just as we all have been there before the physical world was even here. As He was resurrected, so us:.Luke 20:38. See also the two verses just above here. Your former life of ego living based on the lower consciousness of man ended by your union with Christ:.Ephesians 2:1 "And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." Titus 1:2 "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began."

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, appears, you also appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life.(John 1:4; 11:25,26), appears.(original is 'becomes manifest' and Christ is a manifestation of a spiritual state of consciousness {high consciousness in us} developed by attention to the spiritual trinity; the spiritual trinity is the work of the spirit in us:.Ephesians 2:10), you also appear with him in glory.

And how are our acts toward a reward recorded?

And can also be referring to Christ's actual coming back to Earth where all people see it. So it is important to comprehend all about Christ and what this really means.

Colossians 3:5.Mortify therefore your members which are upon the Earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:5.Mortify therefore your members.(our physical members {one is} are used for expressions by our minds).which are upon the Earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection.(having affection for those things that take one away from focusing on spiritual solutions to his or her problems; when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping or to the bar or hunting or to someone else's arms, etc.), evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry.

List of evils in us. If life is allowed for evil, it grows. Matthew Henry Concise Commentary adds:."appetite and passions need curbing"..How?) See also Romans 6:19; 8:13; Galatians 5:24,25.

Colossians 3:6 For which things sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.(Ephesians 2:2,3).

How does the wrath of God come upon such children of disobedience?

Colossians 3:7 In the which you also walked some time when you lived in them.

They were a part of the subconscious and we live out of our subconscious.

Colossians 3:8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:8 But now you also put off all these; anger.(angry being a nature developed over a long term from resentment), wrath.(wrath being angry over some immediate thing), malice,blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:9.Lie not one to another seeing that you have put off the old man.(what's the old man?).with his deeds;

Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man.(Ephesians 4:23; 2:15; 2Corinthians 4:16), which is renewed.(or, as the original has it 'created/creating a new man as he grows':.Ephesians 2:10; so, how does he grow?).in knowledge after.(Ephesians 4:24).the image of him that created him.

If you don't feel renewed, you need more knowledge of God:.Colossians 1:10. But for knowledge to do any good, one really must understand the gift God gave us to use, the subconscious mind..Adam Clarke's Commentary by Gary Gallant has it "we are not saved for or by our good works, yet we are saved.(when was this that we were saved? Surprise!.2Timothy 1:9).that we may perform good works.(why?), to the glory of God and the benefit of man.".And just what could God be delighted about regarding your life?.John 10:10; 1Timothy 6:17.

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Judean, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

Galatians 3:28.

Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

These are the things of the heart.

Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel.(original is 'a reason to blame', meaning some hurt was done to you).against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also, do you.

Romans 12:18 "If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all people."
Ephesians 4:32 "And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God because of Christ has forgiven you."

Colossians 3:14 And above all these things put on charity.(charity is an old English word for love), which is the bond of perfectness.(the end or that which finishes it off).

"The bond" is one's attitude of love which keeps him or her in a state of perfectness, your state of being that is always with you. Why? This."bond of perfectness".is Christ, binding us to the Father-Creator of all and for all time unless we choose to go away from God and even then God hasn't left us, we have left God:.Hebrews 13:5; John 5:19: 15:5; 2Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:13. Dyed in the wool satanists do not allow their heart anything to do with love:.Matthew 7:16-20; 1Timothy 4:2.

Colossians 3:15 And let the peace.(*).of God rule in your hearts to the which also you are called in one body and.be you thankful.(*).

Original is closer to 'And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also you are called in one body and be you thankful.' We are all connected, called into the body of Christ to be in peace with each other. So, you are called to be in one body. Which body you choose is your prerogative. There is also the evil satanic choice. 

Peace in our hearts guides us in life. The Old Testament law didn't produce peace in their heart as the people then were missing something. What was it?.Deuteronomy 5:29; Ezekiel 11:19.

How do we not let the peace of God rule in us? By overriding the many prompts coming from God to us each day. How are they overridden? By the mind's direction toward low consciousness thinking. How can you change this propensity? Absorb the movie documentary.The Grand Self.

You were called to let the peace of God rule in you:.1Thessalonians 5:18; 2Thessalonians 2:13. Be all out for God, as that's all you really need:.John 14:8.

Colossians 3:16 Let the words of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.(songs with words that put one's attention on the things of Creator-God, the things of love, for that is what the true real God is), singing with grace in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of Christ Emmanuel, giving thanks to God the Father for him.

Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name.(what's His name mean?).of the Lord.(what's 'the Lord' mean?).Emmanuel.(follow the high standards of the God family), giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Be grateful. God has given you much. Don't have it? Here's why and how to get it.

Colossians 3:18.Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it keeps you in line with God.

What.really.does this mean?

Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter.(word 'bitter').against them.

Colossians 3:20.Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well pleasing unto God.(or, this is one of the things to continually be in alignment with the true God of creation).

Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

God follows what He tells us to follow:.Isaiah 57:16.

Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever you do, do it heartily as to the God and not unto men.

Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of God you'll receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve Christ. 

Colossians 3:25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done.(one reaps what he has sown).and there is no individual respect.(that is, God's laws work without favoritism).

...continues to Chapter 4

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