New Clothes for the New Year

Colossians 3:8-16

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Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church

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This sermon focuses on the “putting off” aspect of sanctification, using the metaphor of changing clothes to describe the Christian’s duty to discard the “old man” and his sinful practices. Pastor Tuuri exhorts the congregation to “name and slay” specific sins, identifying lists from Colossians 3 that include sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness (idolatry), as well as anger, wrath, malice, and lying1,2. The message emphasizes that the peace of Christ is intrinsically linked to the “word of Christ” dwelling richly within the believer, providing the necessary weapon—the “sword of the Spirit”—to combat these sins1,3. The sermon calls for active mortification of sin, urging believers to not merely struggle vaguely but to identify and kill specific sins in the new year1.

SERMON OUTLINE

Colossians 3:8-16

New Clothes for the New Man in the New Year

Sermon Notes for January 10, 2016 by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Intro – Between The Feast of Christ’s Circumcision and Epiphany

Eighth Day, New Creation, Room and Reality, Clothing and Character

I. Keep Putting Off – vv. 8,9a

sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry

anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk

Do not lie to one another

Having Definitively Put Off and Put On – The Centrality of Christ – vv. 9b-12a

Gal. 3:27; Personal and Corporate

Gen. 1:27

Keep Putting On – vv. 12b-14a

Rom. 13:14; 2 Cor. 4:16; Eph. 3:6

compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience

bearing with one another….forgiving each other,.,,love

The Peace of God and the Word of Christ – vv.14b-16

The Old Year Now Away is Fled,

Alternate Title: Carol For New Year’s Day

Words: English Traditional, From a Black Letter Collection, 1642,

Ashmolean Library, Oxford

Music: Greensleeves

Source: A. H. Bullen, A Christmas Garland (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885), pp. 211-3.

The old year now away is fled,

The new year it is enter-ed; Then let us all our sins down tread, And joyfully all appear.

Let’s merry be this holiday,

And let us run with sport and play, Hang1 sorrow, let’s cast care away

God send us a merry new year!2 3

For Christ’s circumcision this day we keep,

Who for our sins did often weep; His hands and feet were wounded deep, And his blessed side, with a spear.

His head they crowned then with thorn,

And at him they did laugh and scorn, Who for to save our souls was born; God send us a happy New Year!

And now with New-Year’s gifts each friend

Unto each other they do send; God grant we may our lives amend, And that truth may now appear.

Now like the snake cast off your skin Of evil thoughts and wicked sin, And to amend this new year begin:

God send us a merry new year!

And now let all the company

In friendly manner all agree,

For we are here welcome all may see Unto this jolly good cheer.

I thank my master and my dame,

The which are founders of the same, To eat, to drink now is no shame:

God send us a happy new year!4

Come lads and lasses every one,

Jack, Tom, Dick, Bess, Mary and Joan, Let’s cut the meat unto the bone, For welcome you need not fear.

And here for good liquor you shall not lack, It will whet my brains and strengthen my back; This jolly good cheer it must go to wrack:

God send us a happy new year!

Come, give’s more liquor when I do call,

I’ll drink to each one in this hall, I hope that so loud I must not bawl, So unto me lend an ear.

Good fortune to my master send, And to our dame which is our friend, Lord bless us all, and so I end:

God send us a happy new year!

Questions for Young Hearers

Jesus was circumcised ___ days after he was born.

God made the world in ___ days.

The 8th day is a sign of a new ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __.

The temple, altar, priest & sacrifice all were ready on the ___th day.

Circumcision is a sign of a new ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ replaces circumcision.

Circumcision meant that the ___ ___ ___ ___ had been reversed.

Jesus bled for us at the beginning and ___ ___ ___ of his life.

A “regular” man ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ others sacrificially.

10 The12 days of Christmas end with ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

We ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Christ to others by our character.

We put on Christ at our ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

Jesus came to stop us from___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

We should name and ___ ___ ___ ___ our sins.

What’s your New Year’s resolution?

Lord, Make A Regular Man Out Of Me

By Edgar Guest

This I would like to be- braver and bolder,

Just a bit wiser because I am older,

Just a bit kinder to those I may meet,

Just a bit manlier taking defeat; This for the New Year my wish and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me.

This I would like to be- just a bit finer,

More of a smiler and less of a whiner,

Just a bit quicker to stretch out my hand

Helping another who’s struggling to stand, This is my prayer for the New Year to be, Lord, make a regular man out of me.

This I would like to be- just a bit fairer,

Just a bit better, and just a bit squarer,

Not quite so ready to censure and blame,

Quicker to help every man in the game,

Not quite so eager men’s failings to see, Lord, make a regular man out of me.

This I would like to be- just a bit truer,

Less of the wisher and more of the doer, Broader and bigger, more willing to give, Living and helping my neighbor to live! This for the New Year my prayer and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me.

1. Drawing Near Through the Second Adam Leviticus 1-10

A Reminder of the Creation and the Fall Chapters 8-10

A Husband’s Morning

Action in Leviticus 8-10

Significance

Husband and Wife Wash

Aaron and Sons Washed – 8:1-

Cleansing from Sin, New Birth of

New Adam and Helpmate

Husbands Dresses

Aaron Robed with Linen

Garments– 8:7-9

God’s Glory and Empowerment for Office

Husband Applies Cologne in

Room

Aaron and Tabernacle

Anointed with Oil – 8:10-12

Spirit Brings Power to the Garden and the New Adam

Wife Dresses

Aaron’s Sons Robed – 8:13

Helpmate Provided for Ministry

Wife and Husband Pray,

Pleading Christ’s Blood

Purification, Ascension (with

Tribute) and Peace Offerings,

Blood Applied to Right Ears, Thumbs and Toes of Aaron and Sons – 8:14-29

The Work of God’s Sacrifice

Guides All We Hear and Do in All

Places We Go

Husband and Wife Pray for

Their Work

Aaron, Sons and Their

Garments Anointed with

Blood and Oil – 8: 30

God’s Spirit Empowers Us For

Ministry, Based on the Son’s

Work

Guard Work

Aaron and Sons Guard the

Door – 8:31-36

Man and Woman Recalled to

Dominion Work, Replacing the

Cherubim at the Door of the

Garden

Nurture Work, Positive

Evaluation

Aaron and Sons Perform

Sacrifices, God Accepts Them–

Chapter 9

Man and Woman Do Nurturing

Work, Acceptable in God’s Sight

Prideful Sin

Nadab and Abihu Offer

Autonomous Fire – Chapter 10

Another Fall (Eve, Cain)

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COMMUNION HOMILY

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Q&A SESSION

Questioner: I was thinking about this morning and I don’t know if you know who Tim Grover is.

Pastor Tuuri: Not really.

Questioner: He’s Michael Jordan’s ex-trainer. Trains Kobe and Dwayne Wade. He had a couple things to say last night I thought that were very insightful about the game. See if I can bring it up here. Basically, he echoed what you were saying about—he said when you play with one steady emotion you get wins. When you play with a mess of uncontrolled emotions you get the Bengals.

Pastor Tuuri: That’s right. Yeah, that’s good.

Questioner: Yeah. And so what do you want your life to be like? Yeah. And you know, I was telling Jared and I were talking about it, and probably that guy Jones, the guy that did the last penalty, he will be forever known and will probably have a really hard time living that down the rest of his life. You know, that he was the guy that threw that threw the game out for him.

Pastor Tuuri: Right.

Questioner: But I was, you know, probably if I look back on it, probably 80 to 90% of the stupid things and sins that I’ve committed are due to impatience and self-control issues.

Pastor Tuuri: Yeah. You know, so just a real good, real good lesson and I appreciate you’re really hammering on that today.

Questioner: Good. Yeah. And we’ll talk about longsuffering and patience next week and you know, kind of preparation for it. There’s a list of five virtues to put on, but then that becomes a seven and then love is the capping eighth.

Pastor Tuuri: So that sequence is kind of nice too. That good. Thank you for those words.

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Victor: Hi. This is Victor. I got the mic back after my gracious handing it off. And I hope I’m not going to spoil what you have here in the near future and reading this. Ephesians 6: “Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for the saints.”

When you’re talking about name it and slay it, that’s been one way that has worked well for me. In my prayer life—and you know, I need to actually maybe with much diligence recommit to all this—but the praying in the Spirit and for all saints, especially, is important in my life to actually ask the Lord that His Spirit would remind me of His law and being set apart, being holy as the Spirit is holy, and having that helmet of salvation, so the sword of the Spirit—to be reminded of the word by the Spirit and the power of the word in my life and in slaying those things that you’re talking about.

Pastor Tuuri: Name it and slay it. And I think those are those are important things to remember and to be not so strive so much as trying to maybe remember the spirit, but being—ask the spirit to remind you to listen good to him.

Victor: Yeah, I appreciate those comments. The last point of the outline which we should get to next week relates the peace of Christ to the word of Christ. And then in the King James or New King James, it says peace of God in one verse in Colossians, and the very next one talks about the word of Christ dwelling in you richly. And most modern translations use a different text, and it’s peace of Christ and word of Christ. So that relationship between peace—which is what we all want—and the word of Christ. And as we’ll see two weeks when we deal with the last verse, you know, the work of the Holy Spirit, particularly in building community and worship, is you know, kind of the culmination of that section of Colossians.

Pastor Tuuri: Thank you for that.

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John S.: That’s really heavy sports talk. You know, it’s another thing interesting. I didn’t actually hear it, but I guess Roethlisberger—that’s how you say his name. I never think I’m pronouncing that correctly. The Steelers quarterback has his own radio show or TV show, something. And he talked on his show about how one of the other Steelers had to really step up his game and needed to kind of get going on his game, being somewhat critical.

And he’d actually called that player before his show, his radio show, to let him know he’s going to say it. And he told the player that “I’m going to be saying this out of love for you, you know, to help you.” And we’ll talk about love as the capstone, the eighth virtue next week. But that’s another interesting—I don’t know, Roethlisberger, you know, at one time he was at least identified as a Christian athlete. I don’t know, you know, what his current spiritual state is, but I thought that was interesting that he would have the grace to call and say, “I’m doing this out of love.”

Pastor Tuuri: Speaking truth and love. Okay, if that’s it, we’ll go have our meal. Thank you.