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The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians Put off the Old Man 1 - 11 3.1. Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. If we accept that we have been buried with Christ, that is, we have buried the old man and have been raised with Him and share in His resurrection then we have arisen a new creation in Him (Rom. 6: 5 - 6). We should seek and desire the eternal treasures of heaven where our Saviour Jesus Christ is enthroned at the right hand of God. 3.2. Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, We should firmly set our minds and love on these things and not upon the perishable things of the earth (Math. 6: 19 - 21). 3.3. for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. The old man (nature) has died and in the new life we are joined together with Christ who is in God. 3.4. When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him. Our present life in Christ is but a foretaste of that which is come when He comes again to receive us to Himself we enter into its fullness. 3.5. So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed that is idolatry. Because of this we should kill, deaden, turn away from the evil desires that are in our flesh. Paul lists five of these, two are outward sin's fornication, illegal sex (sex outside marriage, adultery) uncleaness, anything that is done which is impure. Three are inward, inordinate affection a passion a love of fleshly pleasures, evil concupiscience desires a graving for unholy things covetousness a greedy longing for material things that amounts to idolatry worshipping these things instead of God. 3.6. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.