Christian obedience must all the while be mingled with thanksgiving to God the Father. 21. Then, have them take turns rolling the die and placing the clothes on the doll (do . Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! (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. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. There is something in these words that might surprise us. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Colossians 3:1-17 Jim Davis Brand name clothes mean something in our world. 1). 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. 15. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Be their case, Brokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. 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. A. November 8, 1874. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. 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. 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. impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? 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." 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. 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. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. 2. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 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. So they are ready to think that they cannot help themselves, that they must fall into sins of infirmity, and thus they cast their faults on God, or they look upon them as no great faults at all, and so they act as though they could not sin. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." 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. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. O wretched Man! The merest crystal fragment, that has been flung out into the field and trampled on the ground, shines like a diamond when sunbeams stoop to kiss it. 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. Focus on the Meaning: The basic principle is this. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. How, then, can they be done? 1. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. Recur to the motive of the text. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. He was in advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be waiting for us before the break of day with His glad "All Hail," if we have only eyes to see Rev. )The acceptable prayerH. J. W. Buxton, M. A.As a petition to the Queen can only reach her through the hands of a minister, so we can only approach God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? He eats and drinks to the glory of God, who does so not for pleasure, but for strength for God's service; He sleeps to God's glory, who rests in Christ, hoping to rise to do Him honour; he does his daily task to the glory of God who plies it under the eye of God, and does it or not as and how he thinks God would have it done or not.3. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." (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. 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. The name of Christ is the greatest power in the universe. Refer all things to Him. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. SEEK, THEN, TO MAKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE RELIGIOUS. i. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. Sunday, but not other six days. 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. To go to God through Him (John 15:3, 16; John 16:23-26).2. 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. Therefore we must "walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise" (Ephesians 5:15). 3). Daille. It is that we are slow to learn in. It is worth while to do so. Preached February 9, 1851. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. 3. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. A. There is no higher name for it "is above every name. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. Hugh BinningLinksColossians 3:17 NIVColossians 3:17 NLTColossians 3:17 ESVColossians 3:17 NASBColossians 3:17 KJVColossians 3:17 Bible AppsColossians 3:17 ParallelColossians 3:17 Biblia ParalelaColossians 3:17 Chinese BibleColossians 3:17 French BibleColossians 3:17 German BibleColossians 3:17 CommentariesBible Hub. 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. 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. International Bible Lessons. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth, February 17. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. Main Objective: The Christian concept of being "born again" is a bit strange-sounding, if thought of in a literal sense. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. 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." Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. 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 have a higher calling. 11.) But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. November 8, 1874. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. We may put too much emphasis on the way we, and others dress. 1). 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, (Colossians iii. 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. 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. "Whatsoever," etc. how we can obtain it? II, Risen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." The gospels are filled with the wonderful works of Jesus and His wonderful words. J. W. Buxton, M. 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. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. He was in advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be waiting for us before the break of day with His glad "All Hail," if we have only eyes to see Rev. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. 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. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915, Some General Uses. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Be thine own judge? UNITY AND PEACE. "The love of Christ constraineth us."III. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. (2) He perfects and enlivens those of our works which of themselves are commanded of God, engrafting on them the true motive and directing them to the true end. The peace of God. TEXT: COL. iii. Listen to Colossians 3:12 which says, "As God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.". 1). The . Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. (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. What it is? 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. Be thine own judge? It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. 1. Guthrie, D. D.)The name of Jesus set in workDr. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. ITS UNVARYING SPIRIT "Giving thanks to God and-the Father by Him." Do St. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Dean Alford. A. )Every-day religionT. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. "Whatsoever," etc. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. Do you like to take walks? 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. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. 2 Tim. THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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