How Jesus Changes What We Love, and Why That Changes Everything (Colossians 3:5–11 — Sermon)

Описание: Passage: Colossians 3, verses 5 - 11
Title: Christ Our Holiness
Preacher: Pastor Donny Cho
Series: The Supremacy of Christ
Aired: Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM

In this sermon from Colossians 3:5–11, we're invited into an honest and hopeful conversation about change, freedom, and the deeper roots of our struggles. The Apostle Paul writes to people who are trying—and often failing—to leave behind patterns that hurt themselves and others. Instead of offering quick fixes or religious rules, this passage names a truth many of us already feel: the problem isn't just what we do, but what we love. Sin, in the Bible's language, isn't merely breaking rules—it's looking to something other than God to give us identity, comfort, or control. This message gently challenges the modern story of "follow your heart" and asks a more searching question: What is your heart actually living for?

The sermon centers on Paul's call to "put to death" the old self—not through willpower or self-improvement, but by going deeper than behavior to the desires beneath it. We're encouraged to "look in" honestly, naming the ways over-desire, comparison, anger, lust, or greed can quietly rule us. But the message doesn't stop there. It also calls us to "look up"—to see Jesus not as a distant moral example, but as the one who steps into our brokenness, bears the weight of sin and judgment on the cross, and offers us a new heart. Real change, the sermon argues, doesn't come from managing sin, but from replacing lesser loves with a greater one—Jesus himself.

At the heart of this passage is good news for skeptics, strugglers, and longtime churchgoers alike: you are not asked to fix yourself before coming to God. In Christ, God offers forgiveness, renewal, and a new identity that reshapes how we relate to ourselves and to others. When Jesus becomes our deepest affection, Paul says, divisions lose their power—there is no "better" or "worse," no insider or outsider. "Christ is all, and is in all." This sermon paints a picture of a new kind of community and a new kind of freedom—one rooted not in shame or self-effort, but in grace, truth, and the transforming love of Jesus.

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