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5:18), Word of God for us to feed on and live on (Ps. 5:6, 13-15 Others are Peace of God (John 14:27) for our soul harmony and to co-ordinate our heart whereby all worries or questions are decided and finally settled by it Thankfulness by appreciating God always (Eph. 3:14) and harmonises other components for perfection – God, yourself and your neighbour – everything should be done in Love as Love is indispensable – our faith (new identity in Christ) expresses itself through Love – e.g. Love – God is Love – the 7 th component and ‘7’ stands for perfection – perfect binding component (Col. Forgiving – readily pardoning and gracious – forbearing one another – e.g. Patience – tireless and long suffering – power to overcome whatever comes with good temper – e.g. Gentleness – going about things in gentle ways (words and deeds) – e.g. Humility – having a lowly opinion of oneself – e.g. Kindness – having a kind feeling and acting on it – e.g.

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Compassion – to be tender heartedness full of pity and mercy – e.g. 5: 19-21 1 Peter 2:1 (deceitfulness, hypocrisy, envy, evil speaking, stealing or defrauding, dishonest living, grieving the Holy Spirit, bitterness or holding a grudge, lust and sensual craving of the flesh, lust of the eyes, boastful pride, adultery or sexual immorality, lewdness or indecency, idolatry, sorcery, hatred or hostility, contentions or strife, jealousies, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revelries). fornication, uncleanness or impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, covetousness or greed, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy or slander, filthy language, lying) and elsewhere – Eph. The components of the old garment are acts of carnality and are highlighted in preceding texts from our referenced scriptural texts – Col.

However, we can only recognise the different garment by their components. Christ Himself warns us in Mark 2:21-22 & Matthew 9:17 that the old and new garment cannot be sewn together just like we cannot put a new wine in old wineskin otherwise there will be confusion or chaos! There has to be a separation in order to preserve our life for the Christian journey. This is doing away with the old way of life we inherited from a sinful world before coming to Christ for the purpose of separation unto God. To put on new garment will require us to put off old or obsolete garment. Hence the need to be reminded of our garment that labels us as the ‘elect of God, holy and beloved’ (Col. There are lots of mixing and matching the Truth of Christ ideas and practices from surrounding non-Christian culture. It is imperative to note here that similar situation faced by the Colossae Christians exist in today’s Christianity as genuine born again Christians are difficult to be distinguished nowadays. The character of the new man is the character of Christ and it is important for us to put it on because our new identity as Christians is in Jesus Christ (Col. The Christian journey begins when we give our life to Christ, then we sojourn on earth till our final destination in Heaven where our citizenship is in (1 Peter 2:11 John 17:16 Philippians 3:20). These challenges resulted to polluted ideas and practices that led to destructive results such as misused liberty in Christ and immorality. It is something we put on just as Apostle Paul in the referenced biblical text admonishes the Colossae Christians who were facing challenges of religious pluralism and ethical uncertainty in their new life in the Christian journey to put on character of the new man. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” (Colossians 3:12-17 NKJV) Garment, according to Oxford dictionary meaning, is a piece or article of clothing. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body and be thankful. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. NEW GARMENT FOR THE CHRISTIAN JOURNEY (Life Charge by Elijah Obadimu) “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

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