Howdy, Pastor Mark Triscoll here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Really excited to provide for you the series of sermons based on the Book of Colossians.

It's an amazing book of the New Testament where the Apostle Paul is writing from prison to a newly planted

church and we took a few months here at the Trinity Church to go verse by verse through

this book of the Bible. I've had the honor of preaching

and teaching perhaps a few dozen books of the Bible in my career and this is the first time

I've ever been through Colossians and I'm really excited that you can join me.

Well, every day we wake up and evening is concluded, day begins,

so what do we do?

We take off our pajamas, we put on our clothes,

and we make that transition from what was to what is.

And thank you for doing that by the way.

What we understand is that once we are done with that particular season or time,

transition requires a change of clothing.

And so Paul, he's the author of this book to the Colossians, today in this section of scripture. He's going author of this book to the Colossians today in this section of scripture.

He's going to use this cross-cultural kind of universal experience.

People wake up every day, take their pajamas off, put their clothes on.

And what he's saying is, as we dress our body every day we also

need to prepare our soul we need to dress it in the character of Christ and what

he's gonna use is this analogy of put off your old way of life before you knew Jesus,

put on your new way of life once you meet Jesus, put off earthly ways of doing things, put on heavenly ways of doing things.

What he's saying there is that life is to be lived,

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