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June 5
Friday


ADOPTED

READ:
Colossians 3:1-12
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Put to death your
members which are on
the earth: fornication,
uncleanness, passion,
evil desire, and
covetousness.
__Colossians 3:5
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In ancient Rome, adoption was occasionally used by the emperors to pass on succession to competent heirs. Augustus Caesar was adopted by his great-uncle Julius Caesar. Other notable adoptees include the emperors Tiberius, Trajan, and Hadrian. All of them proved to be strong rulers because each lived like a child of his adoptive father.

Every Christian is an adopted child of the King of kings. We are greatly indebted to Him for His favor. But God, who has everything, does not need us to repay Him.

What does God desire? He wants us to live in a way that befits His children. Activities and values that are not in keeping with our position as God's children must be done away with (col. 3:5). Selfish and destructive ways are to be replaced by activities and values that showcase our gratitude and love for God and reflect our status as His children. Paul wrote, "Put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering" (v.12).

Can others around you tell that you are indeed a child of the King? Ask the Holy Spirit what you need to put off and put on in your life so that you can reflect more truly your status as God's adopted child. C. P. Hia
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````````````````I once was an outcast stranger on earth,```````````
````````````````A sinner by choice and an alien by birth;```````````
`````````````But I've been adopted, my name's written down--```````
``````````And heir to a mansion, a robe, and a crown. __Buell```````
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We honor God's name when we call Him our Father
and live like His children.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Colossians 3:1-12***********

1 If then you were raised
with Christ, seek those
things which are above,
where Christ is, sitting at
the right hand of God. 2 Set
your mind on things above,
not on things on the earth.

3 For you died, and your life
is hidden with christ in
God. 4 When Christ who is
our life appears, then you
also will appear with Him
in glory.

5 Therefore put to death
your members which are on
the earth: fornication,
uncleanness, passion, evil
desire, and covetousness,
which is idolatry. 6 Because
of these things the wrath of
God is coming upon the
sons of disobedience, 7 in
which you yourselves once
walked when you lived in
them.

8 But now you yourselves
are to put off all these:
anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy language
out of your mouth. 9 Do not
lie to one another, since you
have put off the old man
with his deeds, 10 and have
put on the new man who is
renewed in knowledge
accoring to the image of
him who created him,

11 where there is neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcised
nor uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave
nor free, but christ is all
and in all. 12 Therefore, as
the elect of God, holy and
beloved, put on tender
mercies, kindness, humility,
meekness, longsuffering.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In typical Pauline fashion, the letter to Colosse begins with a
theological section (chs. 3-4). Here, the connecting thought is 3:1; "If then you were raised with Christ...." He begins with commands to "put
to death" (v.5), "put off" (v.8), and "put on" (v.12). The practical
responses that follow fill the remainder of the epistle. __Bill Crowder