We're going to be talking in the book of Colossians tonight.

So if you have your Bibles, turn there to the Book of Colossians chapter 3.

But while you're doing that, I'm going to share just a little story with you.

Some of you might have heard the story, so if you have, don't give it away.

But a husband fell ill with some very serious symptoms.

His wife took him to the doctor who examined him and ran a couple of battery or a complete

battery of tests.

He told the man to get dressed and step outside.

After the husband was gone, the wife said, give it to me straight, doc.

What's wrong with my husband? Well, your husband is going to die

unless you take some special measures for him. Of course, Doc, I'll do it. Anything, I'll do it. I'll love to

help my husband. So this is what you must do. First of all, you must not allow him to have any stress whatsoever. Do whatever he

asked you to do. You must make him three healthy meals a day. Smother him with kisses all the time.

Tell him how much you love him. Give him whatever he wants or needs. Spoil him rotten

and wait on him, hand and foot. And then your husband shall live. On the way home, the husband

asked his wife, well, honey, you know, what did the doctor say? Am I going to get well?

And without missing a beat, she said, man, I'm sorry, it's terminal. So tonight, we're going to talk

about this need for us to die to more of ourselves.

And so I imagine that's what that wife needed, just a need to die to herself.

But more specifically, we're going to be talking about this issue of dying to more of our sin.

Dying to more of our sin.

And so let's go ahead and pray.

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