How Can I Be a Better Person?
Scott Maze
Colossians 3:5-17
Keep your Bibles open to Colossians 3 with me. Today, I want to speak to answer this question, ''How Can I be a Better Person?''
This is the completion of my 8th year of serving as your pastor - I am really grateful to be with you. You are a joy to serve alongside. I am privileged to be your pastor - thank you.
Like you, I have made so many attempts at improving in areas of my life. I struggle with patience with certain people - someone put a hand over my family's mouths at this point. If I know anything about anything, I imagine you have your struggles as well.
The Bible offers you some weapons of how to improve yourself. They are often overlooked; let's discover the rich spiritual resources of Colossians 3:5-17.
1. Don't Try to Be a Good Person
Your biggest failure in trying to be a good person is you're JUST trying to be a good person. You think the shortest path to being a better person is JUST to try to be a better person. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were told in school that the quickest path between two points is a straight line. What may be true in geometry, isn't true in right and wrong. The quickest way to repeated moral failure is to only try to do the right thing.
1.1 A Little Experiment
How good of a person are you really? I want you to really do something for me for one week: don't gossip, don't defend yourself, and don't brag. In other words, say nothing bad about anybody else, never defend yourself, and don't brag. You just try that for a week and just see how easy it is. Again, the quickest way to repeated moral failure is to only try to do the right thing.
Look at the link beginning in verse 3: ''For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God'' (Colossians 3:3). Compare this to verse 5: ''Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry'' ...
Scott Maze
Colossians 3:5-17
Keep your Bibles open to Colossians 3 with me. Today, I want to speak to answer this question, ''How Can I be a Better Person?''
This is the completion of my 8th year of serving as your pastor - I am really grateful to be with you. You are a joy to serve alongside. I am privileged to be your pastor - thank you.
Like you, I have made so many attempts at improving in areas of my life. I struggle with patience with certain people - someone put a hand over my family's mouths at this point. If I know anything about anything, I imagine you have your struggles as well.
The Bible offers you some weapons of how to improve yourself. They are often overlooked; let's discover the rich spiritual resources of Colossians 3:5-17.
1. Don't Try to Be a Good Person
Your biggest failure in trying to be a good person is you're JUST trying to be a good person. You think the shortest path to being a better person is JUST to try to be a better person. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were told in school that the quickest path between two points is a straight line. What may be true in geometry, isn't true in right and wrong. The quickest way to repeated moral failure is to only try to do the right thing.
1.1 A Little Experiment
How good of a person are you really? I want you to really do something for me for one week: don't gossip, don't defend yourself, and don't brag. In other words, say nothing bad about anybody else, never defend yourself, and don't brag. You just try that for a week and just see how easy it is. Again, the quickest way to repeated moral failure is to only try to do the right thing.
Look at the link beginning in verse 3: ''For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God'' (Colossians 3:3). Compare this to verse 5: ''Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry'' ...
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