The book of Colossians discusses holiness and what it means to be holy. It encourages believers to set their minds on heavenly things rather than earthly concerns. It instructs Christians to put off their old sinful nature and put on the new self through Christ. Holiness is presented not as a list of rules but as living a life of obedience and faith motivated by God's grace. Believers are called to do all things in the name of Jesus Christ with wholehearted dedication to God.

1. Colossians 3
It’ s all about holiness
It’ s all about holiness
It’ s all about holiness

3. What does it mean to be
holy?

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of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it,
do you submit to its rules:
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C Such regulations indeed have an appearance of
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wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false
humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but
they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
These are all destined to perish with use, because
they are based on human commands and
teachings.

7. 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,
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where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
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things.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.

8. 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,
C your hearts on things above,
set
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where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
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things.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.

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C Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,
set your hearts on things above,
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
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12. set your hearts on things above,
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Colossians 1:1-2
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
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things.
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things.
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things.
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things.

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14. greed, which is idolatry.
6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
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once lived.
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15. What does it mean to be
holy?

18. When we think of holiness what things come to
mind?
Holiness is unfashionable
Holiness is boring
Holiness is unattainable
Holiness is a list of dos and donts
Holiness is an other-worldliness
Holiness is an other-worldliness
Holiness is an other-worldliness
Holiness is an other-worldliness
Holiness is an other-worldliness
Holiness is an other-worldliness

19. For the Pharisees it was keeping
the Torah, the Law.
Holiness became a series of things
to avoid - the law provided a hedge
around them.
For the Stoic it was an attempt to ‘ rise
above passion to the state of total
tranquillity’ .

20. Simeon the Stylite
37 years at the top of a pillar

21. H. N. Ridderbos:
‘it is necessary to
recognise that it
[holiness] does not in
the first instance have
a moral content’.

22. v 5 put to death
v 6 rid yourselves of all such things
put on the new self
v 10 taken off your old self
v12 clothe
yourselves
v 14 put on

23. unfailing divine initiative. Such a life
of obedience is motivated and
directed by a faith which finds
God's grace its source of strength.
T summons to sanctified living
he
calls, therefore, not for superficial
moralistic acts of self-exertion, but
for a sturdy kind of ‘ worldy’
holiness, rooted in wholehearted
dedication to the Lord in all our
Christian callings. It calls for
covenant faithfulness, kingdom
loyalty, in full reliance on an
unfailing divine initiative. Such a life
of obedience is motivated and
directed by a faith which finds
God's grace its source of strength.
T summons to sanctified living
he
calls, therefore, not for superficial
moralistic acts of self-exertion, but

24. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed,
do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God the Father through him.
23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord, not for men, 24 since you
know that you will receive an inheritance from the
Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are
serving.