4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. How easily may their motive come to be that so well expressed in Bible words "Put me into one of the priest's offices, that I may eat a piece of bread."III. They have put to death anything that steals their affections away from Christ and have put on the new self as God . and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? 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. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. 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. To Dominicus. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. 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. 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. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" Baltimore, U.S., 1874. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. Sunday, but not other six days. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Colossians 3:1-2 Bible Study Notebook Bible Study Tips Bible Study Journal the best one has been left for you." Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. 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. Macgregor, D. D.This is one of the bold sweeping statements of Scripture. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." 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. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. ITS UNIVERSAL OBLIGATION "Whatsoever ye do," etc. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in 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. 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. 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. Churches are, but not houses we live in. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 1). Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Westminster Abbey. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. 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. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. 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. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. 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. 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. What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. A. 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." And who looks down upon us? A. (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. 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. 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." There is something in these words that might surprise us. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. 1). Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 2. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. If you have frequent thought "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. Here is the sum of religion. 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. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Neale. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. As to deeds of grace. (2) Observe how such motives act. MY devout hearers! "Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour.". 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. 2. Macgregor, D. D.)Things sacred and things secularJ. Has it these points? (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. . 4. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. 3). It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. Observe the extent of this saying. By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. 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. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. Now, seeing that we are raised with Christ, certain behavior is appropriate to us. 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. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 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. 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? You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 12 Therefore, God's chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, 13 accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13).7. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. 2 Tim. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 3). Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. 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. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. Do we desire to draw attention to ourselves? The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. . (1) Nothing is more common than a man with a powerful motive which rules his whole life gain, ambition, love of family, science, art, victory, the exercise of an energetic nature. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. 21. A. Jacob, D. D.)Doing all in the name of ChristI. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. 1. 15. 1). Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. 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 Great, How Subjects and Prelates are to be Admonished. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. Before we come to speak of some particular cases of deadness, wherein believers are to make use of Christ as the Life, we shall first propose some useful consequences and deductions from what hath been spoken of this life; and, I. A. Jacob, D. D.)Doing all in the name of ChristI. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. Faith and Love Towards Christ. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. Be cause all we are, have, or can do, is of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:22, 23). 4. the best one has been left for you." It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. 1. To live a life of faith for a supply of all things for life and godliness (2 Peter 1 ; John 16:23).6. Today's Lesson: Thursday, February 23 Podcast Version: Soundcloud, iTunes, or Spotify Colossians 3:10-14 10 and have put on the new self. 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. Lesson Text 6. IT IS A DISTINCTION WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN UTTERLY FOREIGN TO THE MIND OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND IS QUITE OPPOSED TO THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 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. 15. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 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. (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. O wretched Man! 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. Daille.I. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? Then was it a sacred or a secular work to write "Paradise Lost," Wordsworth's "Excursion," or Cowper's "Task"? )The acceptable prayerH. By grace through faith in Him we are eternally joined with the Lord Jesus, identified with His righteousness, in union with Him, and a member of His body. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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 were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. And who looks down upon us? 6. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. Inscribed on our hearts are reasons which must secure obedience. (Dean Alford. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. 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. 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, Preached February 9, 1851. 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. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. how we can obtain it? He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. 11.) To do all by His strength (Acts 4:6-7, 10; 1 Samuel 17:45; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS Commentary by Michael Sigler May 16, 2010 A Chosen Community Colossians 3:12-17 Key verse: "As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience" (Colossians 3:12) You have watched this scene or one like it in a dozen TV shows and movies. Application:1. It will make contradiction sweet, to bear it meekly with Jesus; poverty, honourable to be poor with Jesus; toil, gladsome to labour for Jesus. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. 3). Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. 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. It is that we are slow to learn in. 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. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. 1). (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. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. 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. 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. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. "Do all." AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Jesus gave you forgiveness of sins. [1924] St. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. 3. Mallock. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in 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. Was this a hindrance? 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. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." (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. In Colossians 3:12-17 Paul is continuing to show what a life raised with Christ looks like. (Admonition 5.) While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. 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. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. 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. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. (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. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. There is something in these words that might surprise us. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. III, What the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. Be thine own judge? 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. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. 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. 3). )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. And who looks down upon us? "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. (E B. Pusey, D. D.)Common work in the name of JesusH. how we can obtain it? It is worth while to do so. 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. 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. 15. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. 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. 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. 15. 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. Show your audience the vase is still visible. 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. 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. Ulysses said, "What's that?" UNITY AND PEACE. Sunday School Lesson Segments -2 February 26, 2023 4. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." Do all as to the glory of Christ. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION. 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. THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. 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. 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. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. Colossians. the best one has been left for you." 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