There is no pause button in our Sanctification in Christ! Colossians 3:1-11

There is no pause button in our sanctification! Colossians 3 :1-11
There is no pause button in our Christian life and witness, wherever you may find yourself to be; whether it be at work, at parties, gatherings, events, dinners, banquets, award ceremonies, award ceremony after parties, in Church, at retreats, outings, working-out at the gym or club and spa, if you are driving, walking your dog...the list goes on... and you get the point...there is no pause button to your sanctification in your Christian life and witness!
In Colossians 3:1, It begins by saying, "If then " Here is a conditional conjunction followed by "You have been raised" This conditional clause is stating and denoting a condition and reality that has already taken place in the life of the believer, this assumed condition, is factual for the sake of the Apostle Paul's reasoning and is the driving force whereby the Apostle Paul speaks. Hence, in light of your life being raised with Christ, to the heavenly place, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God the Father, and the believer is seated with Him, in the realm of the heavenly place, where God manifests His great glory; it says, "seek" ζητέω- this is a Greek word to seek, earnestly, as if you are seeking after a treasure. It is in the imperfect tense which means the actions did not happen once in the past or will happen one time in the future, but it is an action that is set one time in the past, in being raised with Christ, and it continues in the present which has relative and continual action to continually seek. And in verse 5, it says, "Put to death"- Νεκρώσατε, This is an imperative command, the tense is aorist and means, also, not just one time, "to put to death" but it means a continual action, as if you are in a battle, and we are in a battle, to constantly put to death the misdeeds of the sinful nature. Hence, the driving force that the Apostle Paul gives this command "to put to death " "a taking up of our own cross" if you will, as Jesus spoke of in the Gospels; in light of the Heavenly reality, of being raised with Christ, in the Resurrected life of Christ; we are to continually "seek", in our earthly realm, the place where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God the Father, in the heavenly realm and place. In light of being raised with Christ, we have power and grace, in the earthly realm, to obey this command. The believer does not have an option, whatsoever, to obey or not to obey, to pause or continue, it is commanded! And in light of our positional standing in Christ, we have The grace of God in the Resurrected life of Jesus Christ to obey this command "to put to death" the misdeeds of the flesh in our positional sanctification. And the only rest you have is to pray in the battle. And the very act of praying is,indeed,obedience to the command "to put to death" the misdeeds of the flesh!
Colossians 3:1-11:
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your[a] life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:[b] sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.[c] 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self[d] with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave,[e] free; but Christ is all, and in all.