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A NEW COMMITMENTS
FOR
THE NEW YEAR (2016)
Colossians 3:12-17
Preached at ChristWay UMC on 1/3/2016
By Rev. Daniel Yang
7 COMMITMENTS FOR 2016
1. COMMIT YOURSELF TO FORGET YOUR
FAILURES
2. COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE UP YOUR
GRUDGES
3. COMMIT YOURSELF TO RESTORE YOUR
RELATIONSHIPS
4. COMMIT YOURSELF TO TURN YOUR BACK TO
TRANSGRESSIONS.
5. COMMIT YOURSELF TO LOVE
6. COMMIT YOURSELF TO SERVICE
7. COMMIT YOURSELF TO CHURCH
Read
Colossians 3:12-17
You are God's chosen people. You
are holy and dearly loved. So put
on tender mercy and kindness as
if they were your clothes. Don't be
proud. Be gentle and patient. 13
Put up with each other. Forgive
the things you are holding against
one another. Forgive, just as the
Lord forgave you.
 12
And over all of those good things
put on love. Love holds them all
together perfectly as if they were
one.
 14
Let the peace that Christ gives rule
in your hearts. As parts of one body,
you were appointed to live in peace.
And be thankful.
 15
Let Christ's word live in you like
a rich treasure. Teach and correct
each other wisely. Sing psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs. Sing with
thanks in your hearts to God. 17 Do
everything you say or do in the name
of the Lord Jesus. Always give
thanks to God the Father through
Christ. Let Pray!
 16
What are some of the activities
at the Hmong New Year?

Ball Tossing (Pov Pob) between two
persons during the Hmong New Year. We
have no so called “dating” in our culture.
Courtship in public means taboo or bring
shameful to the parents and relatives.
Courtship was only allowed at night after
the parents fall sleep. Therefore, New Year
is the only time the parents allowed their
sons and daughters to courtship publicly in
front of the people.
With “Pov Pob” the girls hold their
balls and pick the guy she likes to
have a conversations or perhaps is
attractive to her. New Year is the time
that parents allowed their sons and
daughters to marriage. Hmong believe
that it is a good month to marriage
and start their lives together.
 Bull Fighting (Nyuj Sib Nraus) –
Attractive to all people.
 Top Spin – Attractive to the men.
night to stay warm and having
conversation with each other. Children
learned their story through Grandfather's
foretold story.
 Eating Bread without Yeast – just like
the Israel people in the Bible eat their
unleavened bread for 7 days to
remember when God brought them out
of slavery. God instructed them to
prepared unleavened bread because it
quick to made it.
Every family will prepared bread and
eat at night to stay warm and having
conversation with each other. Children
learned their story through
Grandfather's foretold story.

Well it’s that time of year again when in
a fit of optimism many of us make great
promises to ourselves about what we are
going to do in the New Year that we
usually abandon about the second week
in January.

I am not sure about your, but certainly I
did most of mine.
How many of you feel you have achieved
your dreams in 2015?
 How is your resolutions last year?
 How may of you kept to your diet in 2015?
 For 2016, I have 7 new commitments for us
to start in the New Year that will please God
and help us to have great relationship with
each other called “The ChristWay’s family.”


How many of you actually kept going to the
gym past February?
1. COMMIT YOURSELF TO FORGET
YOUR FAILURES
“Forgetting what is behind and straining
forward to what lies ahead, I press on
towards the goal for which God has
called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.”
Phil 3:13-14
 That advice from God’s Word has stood
the test of time. I don’t know of any
more relevant and practical advice for
us at the start of 2016 then that!


Proverbs 24:16 - "Even if good people
fall seven times, they will get back
up. But when trouble strikes the
wicked, that's the end of them."

Don’t let your failures prevent your
future…

Jeremiah 8:4-5 - "The LORD said: People
of Jerusalem, when you stumble and
fall, you get back up, and if you take a
wrong road, you turn around and go
back. So why do you refuse to come
back to me? Why do you hold so tightly
to your false gods?"

For 2015, we might stumble and fall but
we need to get up and stay focus in
2016.
2. COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE
UP YOUR GRUDGES

For if you forgive men when they sin against you,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you
do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not
forgive your sins. Matthew 6:14-15 (NIV)

And when you stand praying, if you hold anything
against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in
heaven may forgive you your sins. Mark 11:25 (NIV)

Bear with each other and forgive whatever
grievances you may have against one another.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13
(NIV)
3. COMMIT YOURSELF TO RESTORE
YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

Be Sure All are Committed With Love
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into
him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ephesians 4:15
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down
upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26-27
4. COMMIT YOURSELF TO TURN YOUR
BACK ON YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS.

Transgression refers to presumptuous sin. It
means “to choose to intentionally disobey;
willful trespassing.”

David was referring to this kind of sin when
he wrote, “Blessed is the one whose
transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are
covered” (Psalm 32:1). When we knowingly
run a stop sign, tell a lie, or deliberately
disregard an authority, we are transgressing.
5. COMMIT YOURSELF TO LOVE

John 13:34-35 34 “A new command I give you:
Love one another. As I have loved you, so you
must love one another. 35 By this everyone will
know that you are my disciples, if you love
one another.”

Romans 12:10 “Be devoted to one another in
love. Honor one another above yourselves.

First John 4:7-8 “Dear friends, let us love
one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and
knows God. Whoever does not love does not
know God, because God is love.”
6. COMMIT YOURSELF TO SERVICE

Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man came
not to be served but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many.”

Philippians 2:5-7 “Have this mind among
yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God, did
not count equality with God a thing to be
grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the
form of a servant, being born in the
likeness of men
7. COMMIT YOURSELF TO CHURCH
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Hebrews 10:24-25: And let us consider
how to stir up one another to love and good
works, not neglecting to meet together, as
is the habit of some, but encouraging one
another, and all the more as you see the
Day drawing near.

How many churches have opened or
closed? Church closed down not because
they don’t give but because they don’t
come to church. If they are in the church
they should give.

Psalm 122:1-9

A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they
said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
Our feet have been standing within your gates, O
Jerusalem! Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound
firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the
tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give
thanks to the name of the Lord. There thrones for
judgment were set, the thrones of the house of
David. ...
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Let make church is our priority in 2016… Everyone
are committed to come to church unless you sick,
work on Sunday or travel. Without YOU the church
will be closed because YOU are the church.
Conclusion
Let remember that we need to committed ourselves to
1. COMMIT YOURSELF TO FORGET YOUR FAILURES
2. COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE UP YOUR GRUDGES
3. COMMIT YOURSELF TO RESTORE YOUR
RELATIONSHIPS
4. COMMIT YOURSELF TO TURN YOUR BACK TO
TRANSGRESSIONS.
5. COMMIT YOURSELF TO LOVE
6. COMMIT YOURSELF TO SERVICE
7. COMMIT YOURSELF TO CHURCH
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