Brake free 1.If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 2.Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. 3.For ye died, and your #life is hid with Christ in God. 4.When Christ, who is our #life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. 5.Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;6. for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: 7.wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things; 8.but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth: 9.lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, 10.and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11.where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all. 12.Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13.forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14.and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. 15.And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16.Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns (‭Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭1-16‬ ASV) This is a good picture of how many people live in our society today. They’re searching for something because they know there’s got to be more to #life. But, they’ll never find it if they don’t know what it is that they’re missing. We’re going to discover this morning from Colossians 3:1-11 that if you want to break free from your past, then where you put your eyes is very important. Instead of looking down, Paul challenges us to: Look up (1-4) Look out (5-9a) Look in (9b-1 Look around (11) As we come to Colossians 3, we move from doctrine to conduct. This is very similar to the outline of the Book of Romans, where the first eleven chapters contain rich truths and the final chapters focus on how to live them out. The same is true of the Book of Ephesians. What we believe determines in large part how we behave. We've learned that if we get Christ right we get everything else right. Jesus is supreme over His creation, His church, and now we’ll see in chapters 3 and 4 that He is supreme over the Christian. There are practical implications that should be evident if one surrenders to the supremacy of Jesus. As such, we move from principle to practice, from the indicative to the imperative, from the “is” to the “ought.” It does little good if we can declare and defend the truth but fail to demonstrate it in our lives. Let’s pray that we’re not like those described in Titus 1:16: “They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him.” Paul has been arguing that we are set free from the powers around us, now he tells us that we have been set free for living a #life above moral reproach. God’s plan is to first make us new; then He challenges us to live as new people. In short, we don’t have to be like we’ve always been. We can break free from the past, if we know where to look.