Clothe Yourselves with Love, the Bond of Perfection

Colossians 3:5-11, NKJV 

In verses 5-7 believers are commanded to put to death their sinful and earthly members of idolatry. Before they became children of God, they walked in the idolatrous desires of their flesh, which led to God’s wrath coming upon the sons of disobedience. Now that they are new creatures in Christ, if they walk in the Spirit, they will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. They can live their best lives ever – enriched and victorious – with the blessed promise of living forever.

Paul told the Colossians: “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth” (v.8). “Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds” (v.9). He encouraged them to stop behaviors that reflected their old way of life and let their daily walk reflect who they are as new creatures in Christ. Since God gave us the ability to be angry, use it for what is right and righteous but do not sin. In Matthew Jesus turned over tables of money changers and those selling doves in the Temple. He said that His house was a house of prayer; they were using it as a den of thieves.

They have put off the old man “and put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (v.10). Verse 11  declared: “Christ is all and in all;” nothing else is above Him. Live every day so God will be glorified.