Read Colossians 3:14-17 Prayer Lord, first of all we lift up all the firefighters and workers who are laboring around the clock to put out these fires, we ask for wisdom and strength and that you Lord would send more laborers. To follow His example (Matthew 16:24; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:21-23).II. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. (Dean Alford. 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. Was this a hindrance? - Colossians 3:1-17 Introduction In our previous study in Colossians, we saw how Paul contrasted the philosophies of his day with the Truth of God's Word. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. 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. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. 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. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. 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." 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. 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. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. I. --Colossians iii. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth, February 17. 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? A. 3. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. 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. 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. 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. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. 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 GreatHow Subjects and Prelates are to be Admonished. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. He infers holiness from this also. Because we are entrusted with such blessings. To write hymns sacred. Westminster Abbey. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. For the confirmation of faith. 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. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. The Minister of State in his cabinet, labouring to do right and caring nothing for popularity; and the little servant-maid in the kitchen, who scorns to tell a lie, or neglect her daily duties, are both in their respective stations working for God, doing their duty. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." how we can obtain it? "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? 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. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. 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 can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? 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. 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. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6). What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. 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. 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. (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. During the game part of the lesson, be really energetic and cheer the kids, and encourage the kids to cheer their team mates on as well. Blot out that name and you blot out the best part of history, all that is purest in morals, elevating in literature, gentle in manners, merciful in laws. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12). "Whatsoever," etc. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" As to daily life. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. 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. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. 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. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. A. 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. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. In the first seventeen verses of the third chapter, Paul has described that those who truly belong to the Lord are those whose lives are hidden in Christ. 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. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. 2 Tim. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. 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. 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? 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. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? Here is the sum of religion. 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" (Col. iii. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. 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. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. (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. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. (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. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. A bad sermon on the text, "Behold I stand at the door and knock," is (it would seem) sacred; but to paint the well-known picture illustrating same text was secular. 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. He infers holiness from this also. 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. (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. The peace of God. There is something in these words that might surprise us. REASONS FOR THE CONSECRATION OF OUR WHOLE LIFE TO THE LORD. A. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. He infers holiness from this also. iii 15. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? As to deeds of grace. ii. 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. 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. 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. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. 1. WHY WE ARE TO DO IT.1. If you like this lesson, be sure to check out all our free Bible Lessons for Kids. 3). HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. 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. 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. 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. UNITY AND PEACE. 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. Refer all things to Him. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. 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. . Lesson - The Letter to the Colossians - The New Man and the Old Man. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. The purest motive to duty. Be thine own judge? All, both words and deeds, must be done in the Name of the Lord. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. 11.) The law of gravity does not admit of dispute, neither does the law that eternal life is to be found through the Son of God. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. Where, then, is there any room for dependence on God even with prayer for protection and blessing, since the feeling assumes that they will be granted without any prayer at all. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. The name of Christ is the greatest power in the universe. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." It will make contradiction sweet, to bear it meekly with Jesus; poverty, honourable to be poor with Jesus; toil, gladsome to labour for Jesus. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. 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. (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. Recur to the motive of the text. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 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. The peace of God. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. O wretched Man! able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. As to deeds of grace. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. 3. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. Colossians, Lesson #6 Colossians 3.18 - 4.18 / Family Life, etc. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Many Christians seem to think that in the daily deeds and words of life they either cannot or else must sin, and that these two are much the same. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. You care about what your children are wearing, but do they know that God cares . Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. 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. 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. 2. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. 4. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. 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. Recur to the motive of the text. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? 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. 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. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. 1). There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. Stewart. 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. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? 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. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. It will have all or nothing, the first place or none. 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. Object Lessons from the Gospels (Matthew through John) Once children see the big picture of God using Israel to prepare the world for redemption, you can teach children about the means God uses for that redemption: JESUS! It is worth while to do so. Do, To Dominicus. A Member of the Grace Advance Fellowship of Churches. 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? Will not work be done carelessly? 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. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. THY REMEDY. 3. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. Has it these points? 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? 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. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. (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. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? To Dominicus. 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. 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. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. 5. TEXT: COL. iii. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. . Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. 2. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. 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. 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. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. There has been nothing sinful, on the contrary the work, it may be, has been sacred, undertaken with prayer, and been for the good of man and the glory of God, and yet there is no satisfaction.I. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. O wretched Man! If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. 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. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Begin with him, and end with him; invoke his name, and pray for his direction and support, in all that ye do; and thus every work will be crowned with all requisite success. 1). (b)That we act according to His will. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. Colossians 3 Spiritual Inspiration Word Of God Christian Quotes Gods Love "Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand 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. 1). Here is the sum of religion. (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. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." [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?" God chose us to be holy people. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. --Colossians iii. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
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