Gene Moon

Lord will come like a thief in the night

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 (NIV)
for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Salt of the word

Colossians 4:6 (NKJV)
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Be in earnest prayer for each other

Colossians 4:2-4 (NKJV)
Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;

Always be thankful

Colossians 3:15 (NKJV)
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Above all, love.

Colossians 3:14 (NKJV)
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

God's commands to us as newness in his love

Colossians 3:12-13 (NKJV)
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Take off the old man and put on the new man

Colossians 3:8-10 (NKJV)
But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Where God's wrath will be placed

Colossians 3:5-7 (NKJV)
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Shadow of the things to come

Colossians 2:16-17 (NKJV)
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

"Nailed it to the cross"

Colossians 2:13-14 (NKJV)
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

Buried with Him and raised through Him

Colossians 2:12 (NKJV)
buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Completion in God away from deceit

Colossians 2:8-10 (NKJV)
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

How we should walk as Christians

Colossians 2:6-7 (NKJV)
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Laodicea

Colossians 2:1 (NKJV)
For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Peace made through the blood of his cross

Colossians 1:20 (NKJV)
and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

He created all things and has dominion over all

Colossians 1:16-18 (NKJV)
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Partakers of his inheritance

Colossians 1:12 (NKJV)
giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

I can do all things...

Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

What shall we meditate on?

Philippians 4:8 (NKJV)
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthymeditate on these things.

Do not be anxious but patient in the Lord

Philippians 4:6 (NKJV)
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

My gain is a distancing loss to Him

Philippians 3:7-11 (NKJV)
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.

Obedient to the point of death

Philippians 2:8 (NKJV)
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

Live is Christ, die is to gain

Philippians 1:21 (NKJV)
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Children to honor their parents

Ephesians 6:1 (NKJV)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:4 (NKJV)
And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Husband and wife

Ephesians 5:22-33 (NKJV)
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.