
Pastor Nate Brosher
Jan 23, 2025
Colossians 3:12 NLT - 12 Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
1. We are a holy people.
Hagios – Saint, sacred, pure, morally blameless.
Matthew 26:41 ESV - 41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
■ Temptation - the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy.
Fidelity - faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
■ Humility – a deep sense of one’s littleness, modesty, lowliness of mind.
■ Patience – endurance, perseverance, longsuffering, slowness in avenging wrongs.
Ephesians 4:2 NLT - 2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.
2. Make allowance for one another
Colossians 3:13 NLT - 13 Make allowance for each other's faults and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
Bishop Keith O’Neal, ““You choose to be offended.”
Colossians 3:14-15 NLT - 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body, you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.
3. Love that binds us together.
Love – (Agape) – affection, good will, brotherly love.
■ Are you wearing the right outfit?
1John 4:20-21 NLT - 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.
- What is ruling your heart?
John 14:16-17, 27 NLT - 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. ... 27 "I am leaving you with a gift--peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid.
Psalm 46:1 ESV - 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Colossians 3:16-17 NLT - 16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. 17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.
4. Let it fill our lives.
- Are you satisfied with Jesus?
Philippians 4:10-13 NLT - 10 How I praise the Lord that you are concerned about me again. I know you have always been concerned for me, but you didn't have the chance to help me. 11 Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. 12 I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.