1. Context-Asceticism is not the way to deal with sin 2:21-23, but the dying with Christ. Similarly, if we want to live with Christ we need to follow the command of the Bible (not the worldly ways)
2. 2 commands when we raised with Christ
Keep Seeking-(BDAG)to devote serious effort to realize one’s desire or objective, strive for, aim (at), try to obtain, desire, wish (for)...desire to possess
Keep thinking-(BDAG) to give careful consideration to someth., set one’s mind on, be intent on,
(BKC) That is, believers’ lives should be dominated by the pattern of heaven, bringing heavenly direction to their earthly duties...This is His seat of divine authority because He has defeated the forces of evil and death (Heb. 2:14–15).
Set your hearts on things above” is ta anō zēteite, and “Set your minds on things above” is ta anō phroneite. The first suggests striving; the second suggests concentrating.
Paul was not enjoining an other-world asceticism; he had just condemned that (2:20–23)...The “earthly things” (ta epi tēs gēs, lit., “things upon the earth,” 3:2; the same Gr. words are used in v. 5) to be avoided are moral, not physical (cf. immorality, impurity, lust, etc., in v. 5).
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