Bible Verse of the Day Sunday October 18th 2020

Colossians 3:5-6 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

Paul starts this verse of scripture with the strongest of terms, telling all Christians to "put to death" or kill all worldly longings, cravings, and yearnings. He is not saying that we should somehow constraint or limit the works or deeds of evil. Paul is telling all that follow and believe in Christ Jesus that we should eradicate and exterminate our old human nature. We "put to death" these things in seeing ourselves dead to sin (Romans 6:14); to indulge or even entertain any worldly or carnal desires is to give it the nourishment it requires to thrive. Paul created this extensive list of carnal sins because we must acknowledge these as sins, so that we might not drift into an unrecognizable sin.

All of our sins were washed clean through the substitutionary work of Christ Jesus on Calvary's Cross. All of our dirty, grimy, and tattered rags have been replaced with the unblemished cloak of uprightness and blamelessness. Every human being who has ever lived, living now or will ever live has placed their faith and trust in Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior is recognized and acknowledged with Him. For this reason, the Apostle Paul is telling us that we must deem and count the parts of our human body dead to carnal and worldly things. Furthermore, he reminds all followers and believers in Christ Jesus that we were crucified along with Christ Jesus, and we should not voluntarily allow ourselves to be taken back into servitude by Satan and his evil followers. Our old sinful nature will raise its ugly head now and then while we are in these frail and weak bodies that we inhabit in this life. However, we are to shun and turn away from any impure, evil things that would lead to our desire for greed and self-worth.

God does not want us to impair or injure the evil things in this life, nor does he desire that we take them as hostages. In this battle with Satan and his evil followers, both spiritual and human, we are to take no prisoners. We are to "put to death" any things affiliated with Satan's evil works.

We must never forget the shame, humiliation, and excruciating pain that our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus went through leading up to and on the Cross of Calvary to atone for our sins. There was a time in our lives that we were children of disobedience, alienated, and distanced from God. However, through the utmost supreme and grandest act of love that this world will ever experience, we are separated from our sins as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12). Allowing ourselves to mingle with the evil that does exist in this world instead of "putting it to death," is to belittle the sacrifice Christ Jesus made on the Cross of Calvary. Let us never disregard or ignore the price Jesus paid for us on the "Old Rugged cross" for the salvation and deliverance from our sins. 

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