Thank you. What does it mean to be in Christ?

Where do we find our true identity as individual believers and as a church?

We'll hear the answers to these important questions today on Truth for Life.

Alistairbeg explores an important reminder from the Apostle Paul.

Our scripture reading this morning comes from the letter of Paul to the Colossians and chapter three, and reading from

verse 12 to verse 17. Colossians chapter 3 and beginning to read at the 12th verse.

Put on then as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness,

humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another, and if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other, as

the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love,

which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed

you were called in one body, and be thankful. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly,

teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Amen. Almighty God you have given to is your Word,

and it is to your Word we now turn. It is the longing of our heart that we might hear your voice

through your Word by your spirit,

and that in hearing we may both trust and believe, obey, and live in the light of it

in order that you might be glorified, and in order that our friends and family and neighbors

may know that you are God. And we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. I woke up early in the morning,

and I had just a phrase in my mind. It was a King James Version phrase,

and it is the phrase that you can actually see in the ESV, right there in verse 15, if you opened your

Bibles. In the King James Version, it reads, be ye thankful. Be ye thankful. Now, why I wakened up with that phrase, I don't know.

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