Character of a Conqueror

Today we learned how to develop the character of a conqueror. God is chiselling away at us, smoothing our character. Colossians chapter 3 teaches us how to take off the old nature and put on the new nature. We learned that there are obvious and not so obvious works of the flesh that need to be put off and they are 2-fold, the first being sins of the emotion which are progressive. They are anger, an impulsive feeling of emotion, annoyance or offence, which manifests in our attitude, rage, an outburst of anger which manifests in action, and malice which is ill-will toward another. Then, sins of the tongue. They are slander or speech which damages the name of another, filthy language or speech that's offensive and lying or to deliberately mislead or deceive.

After taking off the old, we need to put on the new which is compassion, kindness, humility (lifting others up), gentleness (anger in control), patience (opposite of short-tempered - lengthen your fuse), love (not love for God as He is easy to love, He never does anything wrong to us!)

When we put on love, that binds it all together! God is refining us (taking off) and defining us (putting on)!

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