Colossians 3:5-9 | November 2, 2025 | Pastor Todd Smith

This powerful message from Colossians 3:5-9 confronts us with an uncomfortable but necessary truth: genuine faith requires radical transformation. The passage presents Christianity not as a mere belief system, but as an 'extreme makeover' of our entire being. We're challenged to 'put to death' and 'put off' the old patterns that once defined us—sexual immorality, greed, anger, malicious speech, and deception. What makes this teaching so compelling is its honest acknowledgment that while we've died to sin's penalty through Christ, sin's power still battles within us daily. The message doesn't shy away from specific sins that entangle believers, organizing them into three categories: perverted body (sexual sins), perverted heart (covetousness, anger, wrath, malice), and perverted tongue (slander, obscene talk, lying). Yet amid this sobering inventory of human brokenness, we find liberating hope: our past is truly past. When we confess and turn from sin, we're not defined by yesterday's failures. The call isn't to perfectionism but to daily, deliberate choices to kill sin before it kills us—to take off the 'dirty clothes' of our former life and prepare to wear the righteousness Christ offers.

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