Macgregor, D. D.)Things sacred and things secularJ. II. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. A. Jacob, D. D.)Doing all in the name of ChristI. One phrase holds it all "He died for me." All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. The monk or the nun is a "religious;" if any be not a priest, or monk, or nun, that person need not be so religious. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. 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. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. I want to emphasize that word "all." There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. 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. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. THIS DISTINCTION IS BAD, BECAUSE IT VANISHES ON NEARER OBSERVATION. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. 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. It is as we, O wretched Man! And who looks down upon us? (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. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. It was written by the apostle Paul (1:1) while he was a prisoner in Rome . "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. THY REMEDY. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. What it is? He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 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? 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. i. If the Christian law is just another name for the law of truth, love, and holiness, it is quite clear that we shall never get out of the range of that law, neither in this world nor the next. How, then, can they be done? 2. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. 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. 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." Refer all things to Him. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. TEXT: COL. iii. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. 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. 4. 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. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." 3). "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. 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. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. 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. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self, MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. 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. (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. (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. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." (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. Here is the sum of religion. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. 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. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. 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. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. 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. A. 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. Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? And who looks down upon us? Because the Father has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name (Philippians 2:8-10). A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. This round world may therefore become to us a temple, and this little life a song of praise. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. Colossians Kids Bible lessons and ministry resources that teach from the New Testament book of Colossians. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." He infers holiness from this also. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. 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 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. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. 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. Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. 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. 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?" Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. (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. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. Do St. 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. 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. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? Preached February 9, 1851. AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. 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. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? 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. THIS DISTINCTION IS BAD, BECAUSE IT VANISHES ON NEARER OBSERVATION. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. It is worth while to do so. 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? some uses.1. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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. This is the way with worldly people. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 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. [1924] St. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. 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. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. The monk or the nun is a "religious;" if any be not a priest, or monk, or nun, that person need not be so religious. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. 5. 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. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 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. 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. how we can obtain it? 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. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. (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. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. 3. First, in verses 1-4 readers are admonished to seek heavenly ways because they have been raised with Christ. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." Daille.I. 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. 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. iii 15. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. There can be no duty except where there is a matter of obedience; and it might seem to us that peace is a something over which we have no power. A. Jacob, D. D.It is one of the most precious effects of Christianity that it gives interest and dignity to commonplace life. J. W. Buxton, M. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. All, both words and deeds, must be done in the Name of the Lord. II, Risen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. Our words, thoughts, desires, labours, etc., are to be under the habitual influence of a sacred and sanctifying power which lies lurking in the name of the Lord Jesus. He infers holiness from this also. A workbook for the biblical lesson on the book of Colossians, that teaches we should be light to the world. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. 15. Refer all things to Him. 3). )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. 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. 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. 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. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. (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. 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. Preached February 9, 1851. 2. the best one has been left for you." (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. We believe that Botany 500, Guest Jeans, Gucci, Christian Dior, etc, all say something about the person wearing those clothes. THE WHOLE EXTENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE IS CONSECRATED TO THE LORD. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. (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). WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. 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. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. WHAT THIS IS.1. 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? Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. )The acceptable prayerH. Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. November 8, 1874. Be sure to point out the three following points: (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. Be thine own judge? 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. Westminster Abbey. For the confirmation of faith. 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. impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! 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. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." 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. Do you know what it is? THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. 2. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! Colossians. 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. 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. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. 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. 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. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. 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