Colossians 3:1-3 (WEB), “If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead (to the guilt and penalty of the law), and your life is hid with Christ in God (through revelation of Him in you, Gal. 1:16). ”
Setting our affection, Greek “phroneo”, by grace and revelation on things above is not being under law. Putting our affection on things below can put us back under law or entangle, Gal. 5:1. Sin will then use the guilt and judgment of the law as a basis of attack against the believer, Rom. 7:11. “..The letter kills” 2 Cor. 3:6.
By faith and grace, our affections and motive changes supernaturally, Rom. 12:-1-3. We become who we really are who since the before the foundations of the earth, Eph. 1:4-5, Rom. 8:29, Col. 3:10. He who is dead is freed from the guilt and penalty of the law, Rom. 6:7. The freedom that Truth (Col. 1:5-6) brings liberates us from the old person into a new creation bearing His fruit, 2 Cor. 5:17. No self-help book can do this with our conscience per design. Only His pure, holy, precious sacrificial blood can purge our conscience from dead works and the co-knowledge of the judgment and guilt of the law or self-imposed law in our hearts.
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