Keep Seeking Things Above

1. The Command (Colossians 3:1)

• “Keep Seeking” means “to deliberately pursue, endeavor to obtain, strive for.”

• “Things above” clearly refers to the throne of heaven. (Matthew 6:33)

• It’s not just a command to focus on the physical things of heaven but on the Person of Jesus Christ.

2. The Choice (Colossians 3:2)

• “Set your mind” means ”to exercise the mind, to have a mindset, to think about.”

• To make a willful choice to think on Christ and to think like Christ. (Philippians 2:5; Romans 12:1-2)

• To make a willful choice to stop thinking about pleasing people and acquiring possessions. (Matthew 6:21; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Philippians 4:13)

3. The Reasons (Colossians 3:3-4)

• It’s because of what Christ has done for us in the past. 

- The power of the sin nature is cut off. 

- We are safe and secure in Christ.

• It’s because of what Christ will do for us in the future. 

- He will return to take us home.

- He will give us resurrected bodies, and we will be with him forever. (Philippians 3:20-21)