It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8). 2 Tim. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. 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. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand. 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. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. 11.) A. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." 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. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. Daille. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. 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. 2. For the glory of Christ (Acts 15:26). 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. 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. For the confirmation of faith. 3). 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 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. This implies three things.1. He infers holiness from this also. (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. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." Neale. 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. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. SEEK, THEN, TO MAKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE RELIGIOUS. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. 3. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. Colossians 3:17 Sermons: Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. A thankful spirit is happy in enterprise, brave in difficulties, and patient in reverses. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Get our app to see bulletins, watch live video, give online, and more! The distinction between things secular and things sacred has wrought unspeakable mischief. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ is AllMY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. (2) Observe how such motives act. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. 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. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. O wretched Man! Shall. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. 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. 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. There is something in these words that might surprise us. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. This is the way with worldly people. Stewart.I begin to see that religion consists not so much in joyous feelings as in a constant exercise of devotedness to God, and in laying ourselves out for the good of others.(D. Hugh BinningLinksColossians 3:17 NIVColossians 3:17 NLTColossians 3:17 ESVColossians 3:17 NASBColossians 3:17 KJVColossians 3:17 Bible AppsColossians 3:17 ParallelColossians 3:17 Biblia ParalelaColossians 3:17 Chinese BibleColossians 3:17 French BibleColossians 3:17 German BibleColossians 3:17 CommentariesBible Hub, (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. 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. 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. 3). (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." 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. Lesson 3: The point of lesson three was that your students would truly grasp the concept of being . 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. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. It is that we are slow to learn in. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Colossians. Before the lesson, cut out the die and fold it and glue it together. 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. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. In the first seventeen verses of the third chapter, Paul has described that those who truly belong to the Lord are those whose lives are hidden in Christ. the best one has been left for you." (Admonition 5.) 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. For the instruction of our faith. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. 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. (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. There are one or two simple explanations which show that there is no real extravagance in this large demand. 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. Mallock. Clergymen, but not men of other professions and employments. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? 5. Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. 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. 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. He infers holiness from this also. 4. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? [1924] St. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." Colossians. Scripture: Colossians 3:12-17 Memory Verse: Colossians 3:14 "But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection." Lesson Focus: Continuing in our "Jesus is Risen!Now What?" theme, our answer this week is "LOVE".These few verses in Colossians describe a kind of recipe for the model Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. As to daily life. TEXT: COL. iii. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. 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. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. That is no religion which we cannot carry with us wherever we go; into our pleasures and sorrows, our business and closets. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. Guthrie, D. D.)The name of Jesus set in workDr. TEXT: COL. iii. But, after that He had Made Mention of These Evils "But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All How Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. Do you know what it is? THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. SEEK, THEN, TO MAKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE RELIGIOUS. THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. 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. 2. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? (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. 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. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and, Text: Colossians 3, 12-17. (Preacher's Analyst. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 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