Not even named among you (Ep.5:3) Self-sacrifice, love, 1-2; self-indulgence, perversion, 3-5 (fornication, unclean….) Not even named… 1. Not even a hint of these sins (something they consider doing) 2. No indelicate mention of these sins in ordinary conversation  Avoid talk that encourages lust and greed... And don’t listen 3. Does not forbid condemnation of sin

Unfit life, unbridled tongue (5:4) 1.Filthiness, indecency, obscenity, shameful (Ro.6:21) 2.Foolish talking: talk of fools (foolish- ness and sin together) 3.Coarse jesting: wit in connection w. lewdness; double-entendre; dexterity Not fitting (proper) Ro.1:28 Thanks. Cf. Ph.4:8

Light tells it like it is (5:13)  Does not say everything that is made manifest is good –Darkness hides realities –“A cover-up was brought to light”  But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible (ESV) –Word exposes the secrets of sin –Jn.3:19-21; 1 Co.4:5; Hb.4:12; 2 K.5

Kill your members! (Col.3:5) Parallel passages – 1.Ro.6:4, 11; 8:13; Ga.5:24; Mk.8:34 –“Don’t give me any lip” 2. Spread process of death (dying to sin) through members of body 3. If heart is dead, let organs it once supported die too. Mt.15:18; 5:29

Dead…or Not? (Col.3:1-5)  Raised (1)  You died (3)  Put to death (5) – deprive of power  “On the earth” … (sinful things that characterize life on earth)  Ro.7:23, what used to happen  Practice must match state (Ga.2:20; Ph.1:21; 2 Pt.1:4)

Christ is all and in all (Col.3:11) Christ is all: Ro.10:11-12 o Judaizers thought Christians needed something more than Christ o Col.2:3; Ep.1:3 Christ in in all: Ga.3:28 (no distinctions) o Christians already have all they need in Christ; no secret initiations will add anything to them