Colossians 3:5-9 The Old Self

I am so excited to get to this lesson and the next lesson. This part of Colossians was major in my life. God used it to show me change that needed to happen in my life. 

Begin this week by asking God to reveal to you sin in that is in your life. Ask Him to expose any areas of the Old Self that might remain in you. Now stop, read Colossians 3:5-17. Let's consider what the old self is. In your journal list what you learn about the old self. Please write down as much detail in your journal as possible. Now ask yourself why are we to consider these things as dead? 

Now let's break apart some of these verses. Look at Colossians 3:5-7 and look for words that you think we need to look up in the greek. Write them down in your journal. Now use Blue Letter Bible to investigate those words. Look up the greek definition, see if you can figure out the mood, tense, and voice. 

So what words did you look up? I looked up the words: consider, immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, greed, idolatry. If you missed it, go back and try to determine the mood, tense, voice of the word consider. 

Did you notice what verse 6 had to say about the result of these sins? Go back and look at it and write down the answer in your journal. Did you notice what Paul says in verse 7? Write down what Paul is saying about the Old Self in verse 7. 

The lists we see at the first part of this section of verses contrast how believers walked before Jesus and then how they walk in Jesus. But what about those people who profess to be in Jesus yet walk in sin? Let's consider some cross references on this subject!

• 1 Cor 6:9-11
• Eph 5:3-10
• Gal 5:19-21
• 1 John 3:4-10

Now let's look at the second command Paul wrote about in Colossians 3:8-9. What is the second list that we find? Write it down. What does Paul command them to do? Where do these things come from?

Paul is calling them to put aside several things. Let's look up what it means to "put aside". Using Blue Letter Bible, find the definition for this word along with 2-3 cross references that help us gain insight to this word. Write down the address to the verse and what you learn in that verse about putting aside. 

Now let's look specifically at Paul's second list. Let's look up each word in the greek and write down the definition. 

That is the end of our homework this week. Next week we will contrast the Old Self with the New Self. I pray this week as you look at the Old Self, if there are any parts of the Old Self still in your life that God will reveal that to you. Praying for you this week!!!