Colossians 3:6

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

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Kayode Crown
March 14, 2025

Because of these things. Which things? The sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed.

There cannot be sexual immorality without impurity or shameful passion (a passion that, if you give expression to, means you become covered with shame). You cannot have shameful passion without evil desire, and all these functions as a lack of contentment and greed.

It's as if Paul was describing the same thing but using different phrases, seeing them from various angles.

You don't have a basis for saying you are better than others in your ability or because you mark yourself for having passed a self-assigned mark of righteousness, like the Pharisee in Luke 18:11-12.

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’

The five things on Paul’s list mean we have no ground of self-justification before God. That is why Paul said we should put them to death and act contrary to them in the previous verse, leaning on the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. See them as your mortal enemy and deal with them as such continuously.

That was why Jesus revised the sin of adultery to include what occurs in the heart (Matthew 5:27-28).

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

He is digging more deeply than what is evident so you are not too quick to pat yourself on the back and say you are good.

He is shedding light on what goes on deep inside, beyond the view of others. He is moving you to see things from God's point of view and not just man's limited vision.

Because no one can claim innocence of the five things mentioned in the last verse, everyone is assured of the wrath of God coming on them, except we find refuge in Christ.

There is no name given under heaven by which we might be saved (Acts 4:12).

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

And we are talking about being saved like Noah and his family were saved from the wrath of God at that time (Hebrews 11:7).

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

The word of God will be fulfilled, and the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. They are sons of disobedience because they are not doing what God wants.

Make no mistake about it: the death of Jesus did not remove the sinfulness from sin; it brings us under the shadow of his blood so that when the wrath comes, we would be spared.

Sin is defined from the point of view of the holiness of God, nothing else, not from the excused laden point of view of man.

Men would call sexual immorality, other words, also impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed different words, and they will and have.

But as children of God, we are called to see things from God’s point of view.

Also, the focus verse removes the false cover people want to give themselves for their evil: the wrath of God is coming. It's now a question of when.

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