If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. Go, for example, into many of the farms round here, and notice the fire-dogs that stand in the yawning chimney: how they are wrought at the sides into those most blessed of all letters, the I.H.C., by which our dear Lord is set forth. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. 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." If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we Dwight L. MoodyThe Way to God and How to Find ItBut, after that He had Made Mention of These Evils30. 3). MY devout hearers! TEXT: COL. iii. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. Just as the Israelites were his chosen people in Old Testament times, so those composing the church are his family today. It is not necessary that a motive should be based on reality to be all-constraining, but it is in order that it may be a worthy motive for an intelligent being. Application:1. Recur to the motive of the text. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. THY REMEDY. Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. One or two of the world's heroes and sages have won wide admiration and respect, but who has laid his hand on so many hearts and touched for good so many lives? How many, if they pray at all, hope to do right and escape flagrant wrong almost through the intention of doing or not doing, and think that if they call upon God in some general way things will not be much amiss with them.3. 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. We are "the Lord's. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? These words may be taken as an independent precept (Ephesians 5:20) or a reason for the preceding rule, a title under which we ought to do all things in the name of Christ, so that our whole life may be an act of gratitude through Christ, which is to be preferred. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. To Dominicus. UNITY AND PEACE. A. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. i. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." 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. Westminster Abbey. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. 15. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. A. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadWhat have I to do with Idols?MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. Stewart. Observe the extent of this saying. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 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. 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. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. 1). "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. The stress lies on "the name of the Lord Jesus."1. He infers holiness from this also. Daille. It is there that the young souls who are to be our successors in cultivating the vineyard of God are to be trained and developed; it is there the process is to begin of restraining and cleansing away the corruption inherent in them as the children of sinful men; there that their earliest longings after fellowship Friedrich SchleiermacherSelected Sermons of SchleiermacherUnity and Peace. The best music consists in thankfulness to God. A. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. 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. Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. 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." 5. When thou hast learned to do all things to Jesus, it will shed pleasure over all dull things, softness over hard things, peace over trial. IIRisen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 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. iii 15. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. 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. 11.) Recur to the motive of the text. Here is the sum of religion. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. For this, which may be understood also figuratively, is said to the former, Children, obey your parents in the Lord: but to Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatThird Sunday after Trinity Humility, Trust, Watchfulness, SufferingText: 1 Peter 5, 5-11. 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. (Admonition 5.) There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Application:1. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. This clever object lesson demonstrates that something can be there but invisible. 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. What are we to think about? Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. To do all through the office and name of Christ as Mediator. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. Application:1. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. Because we are more observed than others. In the realm of spirit as of matter when we see a great result we know that behind it is a great cause; and we may search the world and we shall not find a power over human hearts comparable with that which lies in this name. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. 1 Observe I. Although these two commands are similar, they are not synonymous. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. It is there that the young souls who are to be our successors in cultivating the vineyard of God are to be trained and developed; it is there the process is to begin of restraining and cleansing away the corruption inherent in them as the children of sinful men; there that their earliest longings after fellowship Friedrich SchleiermacherSelected Sermons of SchleiermacherUnity and Peace. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. 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. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. It is that we are slow to learn in. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. He exhorts to holiness;10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ;12. exhorting to charity, humility, 18. and other duties.Dictionary of Bible ThemesColossians 3:171512Trinity, equality of2224Christ, the Lord5629work, ordained by God5636work, and rest5909motives, importance8223dedication8409decision-making, and providence8676thanksgiving8809richesColossians 3:1-173254Holy Spirit, fruit ofColossians 3:12-177125elect, theColossians 3:15-176746sanctification, means and results8352thankfulnessColossians 3:16-173218Holy Spirit, and praise5549speech, positive8666praise, manner and methodsLibraryThe Peace of GodBaltimore, U.S., 1874. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." A. 1. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. Christian families, founded on the holy bond of marriage, are appointed, in the divine order of things, to be the nurseries of the future generation. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Through Jesus, God forgives all our trespasses and triumphs over all earthly rulers and authorities. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. 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." (Dean Alford. Pure religion is when the sense of God's love, of the vastness of His claims, of the breadth of His commandments, so works through the life as to make it one organic whole, and when the poor unworthy distinction of secular and sacred is forgotten; when what is most religious is most human, and what is commonest is ennobled and justified by the grace which flows from "Christ our Life."(J. Be thine own judge? O wretched Man! But, after that he had made mention of these evils, he added and said, "On account of which cometh the wrath of God on the sons of unbelief." It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. J. W. Buxton, M. All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. The faithful neither rejoice, nor speak, nor act, but in the name of God but here it is required that our whole life be referred to the name of Christ. 4. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Colossians 3:17. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? The first is a packet of sugar, the second is called Sweet'n Low, and the third is called Nutrasweet. It is there that the young souls who are to be our successors in cultivating the vineyard of God are to be trained and developed; it is there the process is to begin of restraining and cleansing away the corruption inherent in them as the children of sinful men; there that their earliest longings after fellowship Friedrich SchleiermacherSelected Sermons of SchleiermacherUnity and Peace. Neale. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. Colossians. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. 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. 11.) 1. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." A. Jacob, D. D.)Doing all in the name of ChristI. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. save that lest they should not think that they did those evils and lived in them with impunity on this account, because their faith set them free from wrath, which cometh upon the sons of unbelief, doing these things, and living in them without faith. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's Indwelling, Meditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. 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. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. The spirit we are of determines the character of our actions whether they are holy or unholy. 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. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." (1) Nothing is more common than a man with a powerful motive which rules his whole life gain, ambition, love of family, science, art, victory, the exercise of an energetic nature. i. Or is not their influence for the most part rather a constraining power of which he is unconscious, rather than a stimulus carried on by conscious effort? THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. 3. But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. 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. To Dominicus. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. (Admonition 5.) able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. 2. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? O wretched Man! 2. Colossians 3:14 It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. A. He infers holiness from this also. Neale.Those old saints of the Middle Ages, how dearly they loved to set the name of Jesus forth everywhere, by all means, in every curious work of art not merely of Church art, mind you, but of household and domestic furniture. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." 3). Recur to the motive of the text. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" 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 Great, How Subjects and Prelates are to be Admonished. Ulysses said, "What's that?" Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. It is not necessary that a motive should be based on reality to be all-constraining, but it is in order that it may be a worthy motive for an intelligent being. "Because God hath bestowed upon them more blessings, and therefore as he gives more wages, requires more work.". cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. Then was it a sacred or a secular work to write "Paradise Lost," Wordsworth's "Excursion," or Cowper's "Task"? 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. Lesson Text 6. The author of nature and the author of Christianity give tokens of being one and the same, in that their principles are alike simple, universal, imperious, inexorable. 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. )The acceptable prayerH. The spirit we are of determines the character of our actions whether they are holy or unholy. This is the way with worldly people. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. It will have all or nothing, the first place or none. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." [1924] St. "Whatsoever," etc. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. It's a life of thankful worship: The Lord's people should be marked by thankful worship engaging the whole person in all of life. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. [1923] Surely it was a wholesome alarm that believers might not think that they could be saved on account of their faith alone, even although they should live in these evils: the Apostle James with most clear speech crying out against that notion, and saying, "If any say that he have faith, and have not works, shall his faith be able to save him?" It is not necessary that a motive should be based on reality to be all-constraining, but it is in order that it may be a worthy motive for an intelligent being. MY devout hearers! Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. A. Jacob, D. D.)Doing all in the name of ChristI. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. 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