When we hear the term “put to death” with regards to Jesus, it is easy to see the brutal crucifixion that Jesus endured some 2000 years ago.

  • Betrayed
  • Denied
  • Falsely accused
  • Silent before His accusers
  • Mocked
  • Men gambling over His clothes
  • Quoting Psalm 22:  “My God why have you forsaken me?”
  • Taking care of His mom … and His friends
  • Declaring it is “paid in full”

But He died to “put to death” the things that we carry.  He died to give us freedom from what we encounter.  He died so that we could stand innocent in the court of character.

He died that we could be free.

Colossians 3 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Anyone who has tried to walk this out has failed.

His death sentence was not because the above things were easy.  His death sentence was to give us the opportunity to pursue Him and to change our inner being.

Freedom is not always something that is immediately attained.

Greed?

Idolatry?

Lust?

Anger?

Slander?

You can find all of those in good measure in every Christian circle.

And this is what an outsider looking in has a hard time understanding.

We have a hard enough time walking out this call when we can identify our shortcomings.

But our society’s newfound attempt to say “nothing is evil” makes us all sitting ducks for Hell.

So spread the gospel.  We, if we are honest, are all aware that we have done wrong.  We know in our inner being that we are guilty.

What the world needs to know is that He fought this fight … for us.

That He died … for us.

That He endured all of those things … for us.

On a cross on calvary and all through His ministry, He FOUGHT FOR US and for all we love.

And so we must respond and fight for Him.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J