Reset Your Mind on Jesus: A Live Lab on Colossians 3:1–4

So first, let's get the structure of this text.

The big picture...

Then we're going to go elsewhere to see the meaning of phronema.

Then we're going to come back here and take about six pieces of this, which I think are the things that are above, and talk about what it is to set our minds on them.

And in setting, our minds reset every day.

That's the idea.

So the structure you see is this if clause here, and then the then clause here.

If you have been raised with Christ, then, so that the if, as soon as it's happened, and now something is built on the if, if that's true, seek the things that are above, ta'ano, the above things.

This is plural, neuter, this is above, just the things above, that's all.

Nothing magic about Greek, same problem in Greek as you got in English.

It solves very little problems to know Greek.

It's just wonderful.

Seek where Christ is.

Seated at the right hand of God.

Set your minds on things that are above.

So here you have seek the ta-ano and here you have Set your minds on is that word right there.

That's the verb form of phronimo.

Strange Greek word.

Set your mind on is the way the ESV is translating it here.

I think it means something like have a mindset.

Cultivate a certain mindset, mind slant, mind way of being a mind.

The things above.

So, this is the above things, this is the above things, and this is seek, and this is...

So, I think these are explaining each other.

Right? Not on things that are on the earth.