Sunday Evening Live Services

What does it mean to truly set our affections on things above? Colossians 3 opens with a striking challenge that cuts straight to the heart of the Christian life. The passage begins with what might be the most important two-letter word in our faith: 'if.' If we have been risen with Christ, then there is a corresponding response that ought to define everything about how we live. This is not a suggestion or a spiritual upgrade for advanced believers. It is the logical, inevitable conclusion of what has already happened to us through salvation. We explore how this if-then dynamic, much like the foundational logic embedded in computer programming, means that a set input always produces a set output. If Christ is in us, then He is our life, and that reality should shape every word we speak, every affection we carry, and every habit we nurture. The sermon draws a vivid and convicting picture of what it looks like when we allow the old man to linger, comparing the persistence of our flesh to a pest infestation that requires regular, consistent treatment rather than a once-a-week application. We are called not to manage our flesh but to mortify it, to exterminate it, because the Lord Jesus Christ has already done the decisive work. The path forward is not found in religious checklists but in fixing our eyes on the One who endured the cross for the joy set before Him, who is seated at the right hand of God, and who is both the author and the finisher of our faith.