All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. 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. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. Do St. 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) How many of us fall short of this.(J. "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God."(T. It is as a Father. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. Do St. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. 21. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. some uses.1. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? 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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. (2) Observe how such motives act. 1. 5. ", II. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." 3). 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. 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. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). 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. THIS DISTINCTION IS BAD, BECAUSE IT VANISHES ON NEARER OBSERVATION. 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. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. (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. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. UNITY AND PEACE. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? some uses.1. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." 21. 3. Lessons: 1. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 1). "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Observe the extent of this saying. 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. Bible Verse: Colossians 3:12-17 Created Date: May, 2016 Video Length: 35:39 Transcript Length: 7 minute read PDF Buy PDF Buy Watch YouTube Prime Vimeo While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. i. The faith of those things, which have been mentioned, would be of great use and advantage to believers; and therefore they should study to have the faith of this truth fixed on their hearts, and a deep impression thereof on their spirits, to the end, that, 1. For the confirmation of faith. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. A. (2) You are to abound in prayer. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. 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." Even now the good is gaining the victory, and the King is Christ. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Do you know what it is? 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. Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? 3. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. (Admonition 5.) At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Daille.I. As to daily life. 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?" 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. Colossians 3:1-17 is a recognizable section of the letter. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. 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. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Scripture. I. 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. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Lesson 3: The point of lesson three was that your students would truly grasp the concept of being . (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. MY devout hearers! And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. A. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. Colossians 3:1-17 1. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! how we can obtain it? So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. (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. This is the way with worldly people. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. I want to emphasize that word "all." (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. "Whatsoever," etc. TEXT: COL. iii. Do, To Dominicus. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." February 17. (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. The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. 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. UNITY AND PEACE. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. 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. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. (Admonition 6). And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. 1). (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? 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, (Colossians iii. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. This is the way with worldly people. 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. 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. For the confirmation of faith. Neale. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. To go to God through Him (John 15:3, 16; John 16:23-26). Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. O wretched Man! "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." (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. Colossians 3:17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. (1) You are bound to offer daily praise: it must be in the name of the Lord Jesus. 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." 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. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. 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. Colossians Study Supplement by Bible Lessons for Teens 5.0 (1) $4.99 PDF Many of the lessons I create focus on a theme, but this material takes a different approach. Do you like to take walks? 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. This clever object lesson demonstrates that something can be there but invisible. 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." (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. It must have points of contact with every part of my 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." and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? 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. 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. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 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? Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 3). 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. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. 11.) He was in advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be waiting for us before the break of day with His glad "All Hail," if we have only eyes to see Rev. (2) The name of God is taken for the power, authority, and will of God (Deuteronomy 18:19; 2 Kings 2:24; Psalm 20:7; Psalm 89:16, 24; 1 Samuel 17:45; 2 Chronicles 14:11). 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. 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." )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. As to deeds of grace. 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. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? Westminster Abbey. Faith and Love Towards Christ. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. 5. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 3). iii 15. 1). It is a privilege to have peace, but it would appear Frederick W. RobertsonSermons Preached at Brighton, Christ is AllObserve in this chapter that he begins by reminding the saints of their having risen with Christ. UNITY AND PEACE. "Whatsoever," etc. 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. How, then, can they be done? 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 reality of religionDean Alford.I. - read Col. 3:17. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.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. (Admonition 5.) A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. What it is? 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. Here is the sum of religion. The faith of those things, which have been mentioned, would be of great use and advantage to believers; and therefore they should study to have the faith of this truth fixed on their hearts, and a deep impression thereof on their spirits, to the end, that, 1. And who looks down upon us? Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. 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. 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? A. By Lois Parker Edstrom. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Do St. 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. 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. 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. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. 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. Colossians 3:16 Sermons: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to God. [1924] St. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. 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? Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. It is worth while to do so. 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. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. 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. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. J. W. Buxton, M. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 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