If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. 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. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. Not more cer tainly does the law of gravity reach from world to world than does this law prevail wherever intelligence exists.2. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. 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." I. "The love of Christ constraineth us."III. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. A. 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. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. Westminster Abbey. Because "we live and die to the 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. What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? 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. 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. To Dominicus. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 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. 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. Guthrie, D. D.)The name of Jesus set in workDr. 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. A. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to 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. 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. 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. 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." THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. 2. 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. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. To do all by His authority (Matthew 18:18-20; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Timothy 6:15).3. 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, (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. TEXT: COL. iii. I want to emphasize that word "all." For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. The stress lies on "the name of the Lord Jesus."1. 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. 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. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. The labourer working under the useful light and genial warmth does not lose his time and dazzle his sight in gazing on the sun, but plies his arm with his eye fixed on his work, and so uses for its intended purpose the light God has bestowed. 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. 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. MY devout hearers! 2 Tim. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. Artizan, labourer, soldier, slave, would learn the truth that God cared for him, and designed him for a glorious destiny. 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. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. )The motive power of a holy lifeJ. Faith and Love Towards Christ. It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. 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. (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. By this(1) Paul banishes, from our mind all unfruitful works of darkness, it being evident that we can do nothing that is opposed to His will. A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. 2. Points of Information: Colossians. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? 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. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. 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. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." It is well, as people's devotions now are, if Christians really prayed to God to carry them through the trials of the day, as really believing that for this they needed the special help of God. 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. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.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 Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyChrist all and in All. 6. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. 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. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." 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. 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. A. Because the Father has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name (Philippians 2:8-10). AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. De Witt Talmage, D. D.Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like this: He said spirits of the other world came back to this world to find, body and find a sphere of work. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. Do St. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? 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. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. 3). (E B. Pusey, D. D.)Common work in the name of JesusH. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. 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. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. 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. iii 15. To do all by His strength (Acts 4:6-7, 10; 1 Samuel 17:45; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). It is this: "Christ must live it in me." Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. 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.2. 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 a detestable, an irreligious distinction.I. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. (Admonition 6). 3). 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. Will not work be done carelessly? In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. There is no higher name for it "is above every name. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." Do you like to take walks? Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. 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. 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. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. The distinction between things secular and things sacred has wrought unspeakable mischief. 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. 3). We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Refer all things to Him. Ulysses said, "What's that?" Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. To write hymns sacred. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. (Dean Alford. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? 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