and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? It is a privilege to have peace, but it would appear Frederick W. RobertsonSermons Preached at Brighton, Christ is AllObserve in this chapter that he begins by reminding the saints of their having risen with Christ. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; 7 casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you. If they indeed have risen with him, he argues that they should leave the grave of iniquity and the graveclothes of their sins behind, and act as those who are endowed with that superior life, which accounts sin to be death and corruption. So the apostle means (a)That we refer all to His glory. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. He infers holiness from this also. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. 3). [1924] St. The faith of those things, which have been mentioned, would be of great use and advantage to believers; and therefore they should study to have the faith of this truth fixed on their hearts, and a deep impression thereof on their spirits, to the end, that, 1. 5. And who has not seen the dullest rain-cloud, when it turned its weeping face to the sun, change into glory, and, in the bow that spans it, present to the eyes of age and infancy, alike of the philosopher who studies, and of the simple joyous child who runs to catch it, the most brilliant and beautiful phenomenon in nature? iii 15. (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. As a little square serves an artificer to design and mark out a multitude of lines, and to correct those that are amiss, so by this little rule there is no human action respecting which we cannot ascertain whether it is right or wrong; nor is there any part of our lives which this rule is not capable of guiding and forming to perfection.3. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Some Christians have a very small Saviour, for they are not willing to receive Him fully, and let Him do great and mighty things for them. (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. 3). Art, science, politics, business, everyday duty, instead of being detached from religion, have such intimate relations with it that they are, or may be, and ought to be, themselves essentially religious. Not more cer tainly does the law of gravity reach from world to world than does this law prevail wherever intelligence exists.2. As to deeds of grace. It is an admirable course to ask, "What would Christ have done in these circumstances?". and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? Clergymen, but not men of other professions and employments. It will have all or nothing, the first place or none. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. THY REMEDY. The peace of God. MY devout hearers! Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. Yes, silver and gold and gems conspired together to mark out this name on the paten, or the chalice, or the shrine; the manufacturer of Limoges worked it out in his enamel; in the monastery potteries they burnt it in on their tiles; in convents they embroidered it on chasuble and cope; in the glorious windows of churches the light came in, sanctified, as it were, and hallowed by the name of the True Light; the poor peasant was encouraged, with his clasp knife, to consecrate his house by carving the same name on the hutch of his door or the barge-boards of his roof; the name of salvation could not be out of place among the dwellings of those who looked to be saved; the name which to adore will be the work of eternity, could never be out of place for the meditation and the worship of earth.(Dr. A. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Great, moreover, is the power of charity, beloved brother, which binds hearts one to another in mutual affection with the Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatHow Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. (Colossians iii. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? It is a privilege to have peace, but it would appear Frederick W. RobertsonSermons Preached at BrightonChrist is AllObserve in this chapter that he begins by reminding the saints of their having risen with Christ. Guthrie, D. D.)The name of Jesus set in workDr. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. Nothing is too small to be done for one deeply loved, and nothing but deep love will do unweariedly all little things to please whom it loves. But it is not thus taken here as if Paul simply intended that in our actions and discourses we should always intermix the word Jesus, or at least preface it. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Christian Training of Children. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. None but pure gold may receive the special goldsmith's mark, none but true, honest work can bear the mark of the Lord Jesus.(H. He then goes on to declare that the believer's life is in Christ, "for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." It is only in Christ we find the holiest and purest motive; in Him love takes the place of selfishness (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15). God is waiting this morning to mark the opening hours for every ready and willing heart with a touch of life and power that will lift our lives to higher pleasures and offer to our vision grander horizons of hope and holy service. Has it these points? What it is? Lesson 3: The point of lesson three was that your students would truly grasp the concept of being . There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. A. Supposing this we must exercise faith upon Him, and have constant recourse to Him, in all that we do for the supplies of His grace and Spirit (1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 5:7; John 16:16, 23, 26).3. There has been nothing sinful, on the contrary the work, it may be, has been sacred, undertaken with prayer, and been for the good of man and the glory of God, and yet there is no satisfaction.I. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. 3. Topic: Respect Your Parents Bible Passage: Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:1; Colossians 3:20 . (4) Now suppose a man embrace Jesus as his Saviour let Christ's love become the acknowledged fact of His life, then it will become a constraining motive, and will not be contented with influencing some of his faculties, employing some of his time; from the nature of things it must have all Christ is mine, and I am His, and whatever I do, spiritual or secular, business or recreation, I must do all in His name. There is no higher name for it "is above every name. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. So the apostle means (a)That we refer all to His glory. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Such an object is consciously present when he chooses to reflect on it, but day by day in the toil and struggle he is not ever thinking of it, but he is pursuing it. Why is it that some of us look on church-going as an irksome task, and the hours spent in God's house as the most wearisome of our lives? Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. J. W. Buxton, M. A.Wherever we are called to work we must dedicate the labours of our hands or our brain to God, doing all in the name of the Lord Jesus. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Christian Training of Children. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. God the Father is the proper object of gratitude as the first principle of action, though not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit.3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 11:6). What people hate is being in earnest at all, and so they do not wish to pray for the grace of God lest they should have to be at the pains of using it. The person to whom they are to be given is God the Father, the Father of our spirits, and of our mercies, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of us in him; and the person by whom they are to be given, is Christ, which is just and proper, since all mercies come from, and through him; nor is there any other way of bringing and offering the (1) As the name of God signifies the Hebrew word by which the Lord distinguishes Himself, so Jesus is sometimes taken for the name which was given by express Divine command. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. 6 Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming. There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! Application:1. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! It is a privilege to have peace, but it would appear Frederick W. RobertsonSermons Preached at BrightonChrist is AllObserve in this chapter that he begins by reminding the saints of their having risen with Christ. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. Because we are entrusted with such blessings. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. (5) There are certain solemn times when this great motive is and must be expressly recognized; but when the whole man is possessed with the love of Christ, the whole ordinary being follows the direction of the central impulse. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. Be cause all we are, have, or can do, is of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:22, 23). (2) The name of God is taken for the power, authority, and will of God (Deuteronomy 18:19; 2 Kings 2:24; Psalm 20:7; Psalm 89:16, 24; 1 Samuel 17:45; 2 Chronicles 14:11). Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. Refer all things to Him. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. (2) Some religious people, like the former, strain the Bible to its literal meaning, and then require that meaning in full, and thus lead to the same point, and encourage indolence and unbelief. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. Faith and Love Towards Christ. We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23).IV. A. Do, To Dominicus. The letter of your Holiness, which we received at the hands of the bearer of these presents, so expressed priestly moderation as to soothe us, in a manner, with the bodily presence of its author. iii 15. As to daily life. It is worth while to do so. Daille.I. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. The letter of your Holiness, which we received at the hands of the bearer of these presents, so expressed priestly moderation as to soothe us, in a manner, with the bodily presence of its author. Men have taken it into their heads to invent various systems of religion and if you look round the world, you will see scores of different sects; but it is a great fact that, while there is a multitude of false religions, there is but one that is true. When He had done that upon earth, He went to heaven, that He might do more than show us, might give us, and live in us that life of trust. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. Servants are to be admonished that they despise not their masters, lest they offend God, if by behaving themselves proudly they gainsay His ordinance: masters, too, are to be admonished, that they are proud against God with respect Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatHow Subjects and Prelates are to be Admonished. This is the only religious view of life.IV. As to ordinary matters men, e.g., think it unlikely they will die to-day because they have lived safely through so many dangers, and take it for granted that their food will nourish them because it has always done so. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. 4. Here is the sum of religion. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. This implies three things.1. Westminster Abbey. 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self, MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. It is that we are slow to learn in. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. A. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! Dr. Steve Viars December 24, 1994 Colossians 3:17. document. (b) They are seldom loudly professed, so seldom that a man professing loudly a given motive arouses suspicion that he is acting on some other, and only using this as a blind. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." He infers holiness from this also. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. (b) They are seldom loudly professed, so seldom that a man professing loudly a given motive arouses suspicion that he is acting on some other, and only using this as a blind. Colossians Small Group Series Lesson 1 - Introduction & 1:1-23 Background Colossians is one of two letters written by Paul from prison around 60 AD in Caesarea before he was shipped to Rome. Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that they lose not recollection of their nature, in which they are constituted on an equality with servants. November 8, 1874. J. W. Buxton, M. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. By this(1) Paul banishes, from our mind all unfruitful works of darkness, it being evident that we can do nothing that is opposed to His will. Stewart.I begin to see that religion consists not so much in joyous feelings as in a constant exercise of devotedness to God, and in laying ourselves out for the good of others.(D. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. The spirit we are of determines the character of our actions whether they are holy or unholy. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. For the instruction of our faith. (Preacher's Analyst. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. Most objects are everyday items that you can pick up around the house and be ready to teach a fun Bible lesson for children's church, Sunday school, Awana or family devotional in a . But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. This is the way with worldly people. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. Men have taken it into their heads to invent various systems of religion and if you look round the world, you will see scores of different sects; but it is a great fact that, while there is a multitude of false religions, there is but one that is true. If they indeed have risen with him, he argues that they should leave the grave of iniquity and the graveclothes of their sins behind, and act as those who are endowed with that superior life, which accounts sin to be death and corruption. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. And yet, after all, this is the most Christ-like ministry of all, for the Master Himself does not even appear in the work of the church except as her hidden Life Rev. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. The purest motive to duty. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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