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Sermon Video: Set your hearts on things above - Colossians 3:1-4
Having refuted legalism and asceticism as being illegitimate paths to piety for disciples of Jesus Christ, Paul turns his focus upon the appropriate direction for God's people, that is, their need to set their hearts and minds on "things above". Instead of spelling individual things out, Paul focuses upon the direction and focus of the passions and thought processes of those who know that they will one day appear, with Christ, when he returns in glory.
What does it mean to have your heart or mind set upon things above? For the Christian, this means living here and now as a citizen of heaven. Having the perspective of someone who knows the future and lives today in light of it. It means having a spiritual perspective as well, one that sees beyond the material and one that invests in eternity (though self-sacrifice today).
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