Also, print the paper dolls and clothes (one of each for each child). Contrariwise, consider what are generally classed as sacred works praying, preaching, administering sacraments, visiting the sick. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? And who looks down upon us? Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? 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. 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. (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. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. O wretched Man! 3). 15. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. Daille. 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." Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 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. 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. Remember These Things . To do all by His authority (Matthew 18:18-20; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Timothy 6:15).3. 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. As it overstepped all barriers of climate, colour, and race to call men brethren, so it passed over all barriers of priestly function to make all men holy, and so all men are now made priests unto God. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. The THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. Faith and Love Towards Christ. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. The peace of God. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? It must have points of contact with every part of my life. A. 1. (Admonition 5.) 1). By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. 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. 1. Faith and Love Towards Christ. 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. 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? (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 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. 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. To do all by His authority (Matthew 18:18-20; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Timothy 6:15). It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. What it is? Baltimore, U.S., 1874. 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. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 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. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. UNITY AND PEACE. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. 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. 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. Colossians 3:14 It is that we are slow to learn in. Be thine own judge? (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. For His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; John 5:23; Revelation 5:12, 13).5. Westminster Abbey. 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. Do all under the authority of Jesus Christ. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. 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. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. This study supplement was created to encourage secondary students to spend more time reading through God's word and to model different ways to engage in a text. some uses.1. 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. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. Colossians 3:1-17 1. The unconverted require a radical change before they can carry it out. [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?" 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. 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. 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. (Admonition 5.) and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. Lessons; Activities; Object Talks; Games; Media; . impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" Refer all things to Him. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. These words are a rebuke (1) to those who do nothing in Christ's name;(2) to those who glory in the name of men, as of churches or of saints;(3) to those professors who dishonour the name under which they profess to live. 3). The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. 1. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? [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?" "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. 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. 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 might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. (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). 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. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. 3). Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. 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. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. Unlike other religions, that of Christ admits of no compromises. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. (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. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. Whatever we do in word and in deed no matter what it is, let us do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in total dependence upon Him. 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. It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. 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. (Admonition 5.) THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. Clergymen, but not men of other professions and employments. This is the way with worldly people. 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. Will not work be done carelessly? By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. 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. He infers holiness from this also. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. 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. 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. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. Stewart. To do all by His strength (Acts 4:6-7, 10; 1 Samuel 17:45; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. 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. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. Verse 17. --Colossians iii. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. Although these two commands are similar, they are not synonymous. THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. 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. Dearly loved, they are set apart to serve him. 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.". Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." 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. 21. Again, is it a sacred or a secular work when a young girl, under a deep sense of duty, consecrates her life to attendance upon a suffering mother? II. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. 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. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. i. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? 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? II. 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. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth, Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. Mallock. 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. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? I want to emphasize that word "all." He shows where we should seek Christ.5. Has it these points? cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? 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. 3. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Recur to the motive of the text. 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 has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. This rule applies to those who are in Christ. A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. 3). HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. Parkhurst, Jr. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. 3. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. 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? 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. (Admonition 5.) 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 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." (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. (Romans 14:8.) (b)That we act according to His will. 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. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. 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. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? 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. 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. 11.) (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? Ulysses said, "What's that?" impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? 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?" Observe the extent of this saying. (Colossians iii. The worthiness of Christ. To do all by His strength (Acts 4:6-7, 10; 1 Samuel 17:45; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. 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. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." 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. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. 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. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. 15. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. [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?" A. 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. 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? 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. Application:1. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. - 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. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. J. W. Buxton, M. IV. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. (E B. Pusey, D. D.)Common work in the name of JesusH. 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. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. 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. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we Dwight L. 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