February 23, 2025 Messages Notes

North Attleboro | Fix Your Focus.

From Colossians 3

📖 Colossians 3:2 ESV Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Distractions That Derailed Their Focus:

1. Philosophies and Traditions. (Colossians 2:8)
2. and Rules. (Colossians 2:16-17)
3. and Worship. (Colossians 2:18-19)  
4. Worldly and Living. (Colossians 3:5-10) 

My Fight, God’s Way

My Fight:

1. I struggle with .

📖 Colossians 3:5 ESV Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire…

God’s Way:

I win by putting on a in Christ.

📖 Colossians 3:10 ESV and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

My Fight:

2. I struggle with and .

📖 Colossians 3:8-9 ESV But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

God’s Way:

I win by with .

📖 Colossians 3:12:14 ESV Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

My Fight:

3. I struggle with .

📖 Colossians 3:5 ESV … and covetousness, which is idolatry.

God’s Way:

I win by letting Christ in my .

📖 Colossians 3:15-17 ESV And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.