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. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." --Colossians iii. It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. It is a detestable, an irreligious distinction.I. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. The belief in Christ is not only the unavoidable conclusion of a sound mind from evidence, but the only satisfactory way to account for the state of the world in which we find ourselves. 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. (Preacher's Analyst. (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. 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. 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. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. Observe the extent of this saying. The Gospel Lived Colossians 3:1-17 A new life (1-4). THE WHOLE EXTENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE IS CONSECRATED TO THE LORD. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. (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. 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. 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. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 1). 3). IT IS A DISTINCTION WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN UTTERLY FOREIGN TO THE MIND OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND IS QUITE OPPOSED TO THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. The church is full of half dead people who have been trying, like poor Nero, to slay themselves for years, and have not had the courage to strike the fatal blow. iii 15. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. Westminster Abbey. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. 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. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. How, then, can they be done? SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS Commentary by Michael Sigler May 16, 2010 A Chosen Community Colossians 3:12-17 Key verse: "As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience" (Colossians 3:12) You have watched this scene or one like it in a dozen TV shows and movies. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. 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. 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 must have points of contact with every part of my life. A strained and exaggerated view of religion has been put before them, alien from their habits of thought, and by no means supported by the example of its professors.II. 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? Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. Nothing so mean that it was thought unworthy of this monogram; nothing so glorious that it was considered unfit to have that excelling glory added thereto. Solomon was called to build the temple of the Lord, but every man who is an honest worker, who does his best in the place where heaven has put him, is building up a temple, holy, acceptable to God. The life of the saint and of the sinner are made up very much of the same commonplace duties, and in all that is patent to the world there may be little difference between them: but the spirit by which they are actuated constitutes a gulf between them as wide as that which divides light and darkness, heaven and hell.3. 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. Guthrie, D. D. He who lives for the glory of God has an end in view which lends dignity to the man and to his life. Application:1. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 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. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. 21. What combination of forces has cut so deep a groove across the world? HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. If religion consists in entering the service of a God who looks not on the outward appearance but on the heart, that religion will be the only true one which produces right dispositions towards Him of faithfulness in all things, the smallest as well as the biggest. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? 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. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ is AllMY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. Faith and Love Towards Christ. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. 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. Do you know what it is? A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. That is what He became man for; as a man to live a life of trust in God, and so to show to us how we ought to live. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. 3. 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 It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. How, then, can they be done? 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. Mallock. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? What it is? "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. To Dominicus. The belief in Christ is not only the unavoidable conclusion of a sound mind from evidence, but the only satisfactory way to account for the state of the world in which we find ourselves. [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?" 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. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life, Cups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. Differently to be admonished are subjects and prelates: the former that subjection crush them not, the latter that superior place elate them not: the former that they fail not to fulfil what is commanded them, the latter that they command not more to be fulfilled than is just: the former that they submit humbly, the latter that they preside temperately. Stewart. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? A workbook for the biblical lesson on the book of Colossians, that teaches we should be light to the world. UNITY AND PEACE. It is worth while to do so. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God. )Every-day religionT. 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? They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. Sunday, February 17, 2013 L.G. Factories and railways, camps and courts of law, mansions, museums, and picture-galleries, to say nothing of the world of trees, and rivers, and birds, and flowers, form part of the world which belongs to Him, the Heir of all things. II. For the glory of Christ (Acts 15:26). Was this a hindrance? And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." i. It is worth while to do so. 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. (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. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. Clergymen, but not men of other professions and employments. 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? He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 4. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. 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? AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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 Great, Third Sunday after Trinity Humility, Trust, Watchfulness, SufferingText: 1 Peter 5, 5-11. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. This is the way with worldly people. Guthrie, D. D.)The name of Jesus set in workDr. UNITY AND PEACE. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." 4. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 5. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Was this a hindrance? "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Even now the good is gaining the victory, and the King is Christ. 2. 2. Observe the extent of this saying. I don't think you'll find any of these clothes at the mall, but you can find them by getting to know God and by becoming more like Him. [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?" Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. 3). 3. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. It is as a Father. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. 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. Bible Passage: Col. 3:12. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. 3). In Jesus we have not a man dead long ago, but a living Saviour and King ever near us, bearing the one name by which we may be saved. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." There is no higher name for it "is above every name. Daille.I. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. Here is the sum of religion. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 5. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. He infers holiness from this also. One phrase holds it all "He died for me." Will not work be done carelessly? He is your King. 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. 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. (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. 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 as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. Observe the extent of this saying. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. J. W. Buxton, M. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. 11.) (Dean Alford. Be thine own judge? THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. For when Adam and Eve, being created after God's own image, and placed in Paradise, that they and their posterity might live in a blessed state of life immortal, having dominion over all earthly creatures, and only restrained from the fruit of one tree, as a sign Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyChrist all and in All. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. 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. 1). Lesson 11: February 12, 2023-Full Life in Christ-Colossians 2:6-15. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. In both is the same quiet exertion of power, the same calm majesty of law, and the laws of each can never be trifled with with impunity. 4. (Romans 14:8.) Do, To Dominicus. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. 3. 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. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. What it is? Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. Application:1. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13). IT IS A DISTINCTION WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN UTTERLY FOREIGN TO THE MIND OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND IS QUITE OPPOSED TO THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Colossians. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? to put off the old self, and put on Christ; May 5. 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. 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. MEMORY VERSE: Colossians 3:2 "Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth." BOOK TO REMEMBER: 1 Corinthians. The first is a packet of sugar, the second is called Sweet'n Low, and the third is called Nutrasweet. Bible Verse: Colossians 3:12-17 Created Date: May, 2016 Video Length: 35:39 Transcript Length: 7 minute read PDF Buy PDF Buy Watch YouTube Prime Vimeo Without Him we can do nothing, with Him every thing (1 Corinthians 15:10).4. Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. (Admonition 6). (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). 4. (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. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. Do you know what it is? 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. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. [1924] St. A. The monk or the nun is a "religious;" if any be not a priest, or monk, or nun, that person need not be so religious. J. W. Buxton, M. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? They have put to death anything that steals their affections away from Christ and have put on the new self as God . 5. It will make contradiction sweet, to bear it meekly with Jesus; poverty, honourable to be poor with Jesus; toil, gladsome to labour for Jesus. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. Because we have the prospect of an abundant reward according to our works. Have Him before thee as the pattern whom thou art to copy; the Redeemer in whom is thy strength, the Master and Friend whom thou art to serve and please, thy Creator and thy heaven.1. 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. III. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." [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?" And who looks down upon us? Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. To Dominicus. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc. 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. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? Westminster Abbey. 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