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3. Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

4. Gaining God’s Perspective! Perspective:
a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

5. #1 God’s perspective of possessions/things
Colossians 3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

6. 2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

7. Luke 12:15-21
15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

8. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
PERSPECTIVE
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

9. 1 John 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  
PERSPECTIVE!
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

10. #2 God’s perspective of Affections./thoughts
Colossians 3:2
Set your affection on things above x2, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

11. #3 God’s perspective on Life. Colossians 3:3
Colossians 3:3
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

12. Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

13. 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Romans 14:7-8 PERSPECTIVE
7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

14. #4 God’s perspective on Strength.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

15. Christ is the Strength of our lives. PERSPECTIVE John 15:4-5
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

16. AT Christ’s return we will be LIKE HIM!!! PERSPECTIVE 1 John 3:1-3
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

17. #5 God’s perspective of holiness/change of actions
ACTIONS/SINS THAT DISPLEASE OUR LORD.
Colossians 3:5-6
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

18. 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

19. “Be very sure of this, people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.” ― J.C. Ryle
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

20. PERSPECTIVE
David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and explorer who spent thirty-three years in the heart of Africa. He endured much suffering as he labored to spread the Gospel and open the continent to missionaries. This godly missionary once remarked:
“People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay?...It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

21. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger now and then with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink, but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk, when we remember the great sacrifice which HE made who left his Father’s throne on high to give himself for us.”
Colossians 2:23
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.