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What Are You Seeking?
02/20/2021 - Dave Riddle
Key Passage: Colossians 3:1-2

Keep Seeking Christ

Colossians 3:1
- zēteō (ζητέω): to seek by thinking, meditating, or reasoning. As a Hebraism: to worship God.
Colossians 3:2
- Stay focused, set your attention.

Don’t Seek After The Things of Earth

Colossians 3:2
- phroneō (φρονέω) To direct one's mind to a thing, to seek, to strive for
What has your truest, deepest, most foundational affection?
Philippians 3:17-19
- Enemies of the cross focus on earthly things.
Matthew 16 - Peter rebukes Jesus.
- 16:23 “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s.”

Pick up your cross and follow Jesus

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
Galatians 5:24 - Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh.
Galatians 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live but Christ lives in me.
- Bonhoeffer- “When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die”

Jesus flips the tables of our lives