⏳When Ye Lived 🌃

Don’t worry about what you can’t do; focus instead on what you can do and then do it. ~Billy Graham~

Colossians 3:7 (KJV) In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

That is exactly what you would expect. If somehow a person came into a lot of wealth what would you expect to see? Do you think Bill Gates lives in a really nice double-wide? I don’t think so. Oh know we are reading about living in them.  In what? A life of sexual sins. Oh, I’m not doing any of that so I’m good. Think so? Well does any of these fit your lifestyle? 1 Corinthians 6:9 (KJV) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Corinthians 6:10 (KJV) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Then notice what the Apostle writes next.

1 Corinthians 6:11 (KJV) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

And such were some of you? Sounds like those words in Colossians 3:7 “when ye lived in them” something changed, what was it and how. One can’t live what they don’t have. I can’t live like a billionaire nor like a millionaire. Know why I can’t? Because I’m not. Paul is saying that something wonderful has happened. At one time you were doing sexual sins, you were a thief, a drunk, greedy, you used abusive language, but not anymore. Paul says here’s what made the difference: “but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” You are “washed” made clean; You are “sanctified” made holy; you are “justified” just as if none of those awful things ever happened; How Can this be? “in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” If you were given a check today for 62 million dollars your lifestyle would change. Oh but in Christ your lifestyle will also change. Here’s the difference the 62 million dollars no matter how well you keep it growing when you are dead it’s all gone. Now in Christ you never lose, you only gain. Wealth in this life and in the next too.