2. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:11-14

3. transferred May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:11-14

4. TRUTH: You have been transferred into the kingdom of Christ

5. TRUTH: You have been transferred into the kingdom of Christ You have been made new You have been reborn

6. LIE #5 I can’t change

7. LIE #5 I can’t change Things will always be this way It’s my personality I need to be true to myself

8. We are dead to sin

9. Romans 6:2-7 We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

10. Romans 6:2-7 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

11. Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12. We are dead to sin We are alive to God

13. Strangers to Fellow Citizens of God’s Household Enemies of God to Children of God Far off to Brought Near Identified with Adam to Identified with Christ

14. Romans 6:12 Therefore…

15. Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness…

16. Romans 6:12 let offer Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness…

17. Romans 6:13 …but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

18. Romans 6:14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

19. Change in our thoughts…

20. Leads to a change in our lives

21. Believe the truth of christ…

22. Live the life of christ

23. Colossians 3:1-3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

24. Colossians 3:5-10 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. … put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.