4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. 1). II. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. 2. THY REMEDY. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 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." permeating this life that it hallows everything. 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. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. 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. 4. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. MY devout hearers! 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 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. Preached February 9, 1851. These are . "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." Colossians 3 Commentary (A S Peake) EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE - Colossians authored by Alexander Maclaren Colossians 3 Commentary - excellent; EXPOSITORY DICITONARY OF TEXTS. A thankful spirit is happy in enterprise, brave in difficulties, and patient in reverses. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. (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. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). A. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. 3). (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. Do you know what it is? This round world may therefore become to us a temple, and this little life a song of praise.II. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. (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. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. 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. For this, which may be understood also figuratively, is said to the former, Children, obey your parents in the Lord: but to, Text: 1 Peter 5, 5-11. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. But, after that He had Made Mention of These Evils "But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All How Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. But it is necessary that we have this deposition so formed in our hearts, that when circumstances allow us to think of Christ our souls may lean that way as being habituated to it.II. 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. Because we cannot be accepted but by Him (Ephesians 1:6; Hebrews 13:15; Hebrews 5:1).4. 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. 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. 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? What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. Jesus paid the price, and he gave it to you. (Admonition 5.) 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. 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." 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. Observe the extent of this saying. Preached February 9, 1851. 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. 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. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. 11.) It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. 4. 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 Schleiermacher, Unity and Peace. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8). 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. 15. Lesson Context 5. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. A. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. 3). Application:1. All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. 1). Faith and Love Towards Christ. )Every-day religionT. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. 1). "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. 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. It will make contradiction sweet, to bear it meekly with Jesus; poverty, honourable to be poor with Jesus; toil, gladsome to labour for Jesus. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. Remember These Things . Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." 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. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. 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. It is a detestable, an irreligious distinction.I. 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. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. 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. (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. 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. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. 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 cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. 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. 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. 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. Neale. Wilkinson, D. D.)Doing all to the Lord JesusE B. Pusey, D. D.All have felt at times a painful void after absorption in active duty. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." This is the way with worldly people. To follow His example (Matthew 16:24; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:21-23).II. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. 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 . A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. AugustineOn Continence, Epistle xxxiii. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. I want to emphasize that word "all." 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. 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. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities.
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