All duty gathers its significance and blessedness from its relation to Christ. 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. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. (Admonition 6). 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." Be cause all we are, have, or can do, is of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:22, 23). Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? 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. Our words, thoughts, desires, labours, etc., are to be under the habitual influence of a sacred and sanctifying power which lies lurking in the name of the Lord Jesus. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. HOLY MOTIVES INCULCATED. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. The World Is Watching Us - Colossians 3:12-14 - Thursday, June 25th, 2020. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. (Admonition 5.) It is this: "Christ must live it in me." And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. 4. Ulysses said, "What's that?" Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. To do all by His authority (Matthew 18:18-20; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Timothy 6:15).3. 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. I want to emphasize that word "all." Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. 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. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. 3). CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. 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. (Admonition 5.) Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. You could work every day, hour, and minute the rest of your life and never earn those two gifts. Faith and Love Towards Christ. 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. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. 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. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? It is to them a mere night of stars to wonder and gaze at, not a sun to light them to their daily work, and warm their hearts with love. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. 4. 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. 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. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. i. 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. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. (Admonition 5.) 1. 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. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. 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) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. (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. 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. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. 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. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 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. Be thine own judge? "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. Below is the plan for you to follow as you lead out this study of Colossians 3:1-4. Neale. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. 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. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).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. 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. (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. 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.1. 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. 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 must have points of contact with every part of my life. 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. 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. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! The But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. 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? "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. Observe the extent of this saying. 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? A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? The peace of God. Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Because we cannot be accepted but by Him (Ephesians 1:6; Hebrews 13:15; Hebrews 5:1).4. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. The worthiness of Christ. A. 3. This is the way with worldly people. 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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. 15. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. Preached February 9, 1851. This implies three things.1. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. One of the leading peculiarities of the religion of Jesus is that it virtually annihilated the distinction between the secular and the sacred. Do St. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Neale. 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. 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. A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. 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? 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. 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. (2) We must use words of wisdom (Book of Proverbs), words of truth and soberness (Acts 23:25), words of righteousness (Job 6:25), wholesome words (2 Timothy 1:13), words of eternal life (John 6:68). If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. 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? Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. 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. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. It is as we, O wretched Man! This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God."(T. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 4. 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. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. 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. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. 2 Tim. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. (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). 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. 2. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. A. Guthrie, D. D.)The name of Jesus set in workDr. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? To Dominicus. This implies three things.1. 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. 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." Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. 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. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. But what is it, that it is not enough for him to say, "Do ye put down all," but that he added the conjunction and said, "ye also?" 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. Colossians. 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. 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. 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? Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. TEXT: COL. iii. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. 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. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. 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. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? 21. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. 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. Has it these points? Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. 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. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also you must forgive. 1). It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. 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. 2. 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. (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. UNITY AND PEACE. 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. Because the Father has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name (Philippians 2:8-10). All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 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. 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." "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." It is worth while to do so. But what is it, that it is not enough for him to say, "Do ye put down all," but that he added the conjunction and said, "ye also?" A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. 5. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. A. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. The business of a Christian upon earth is not an independent one; he is a steward for Christ. 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. 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. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 5. 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. Preached February 9, 1851. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." 3). 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