iii 15. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. (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. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. November 8, 1874. (Dean Alford. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. (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. 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. For the confirmation of faith. Recur to the motive of the text. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. A. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. 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. SEEK, THEN, TO MAKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE RELIGIOUS. 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. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. Will not work be done carelessly? 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?" It is through Christ that life is worthy of the name of life. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. And who looks down upon us? To Dominicus. 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? how we can obtain it? To Dominicus. A. The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? 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. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. 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. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. 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. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. Ulysses said, "What's that?" What it is? 11.) Because we are more observed than others. 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. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? 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. (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. 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. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." II. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. HOLY MOTIVES INCULCATED. (Admonition 6). Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. 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. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? 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. Colossians, Lesson #6 Colossians 3.18 - 4.18 / Family Life, etc. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. )Every-day religionT. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. To Dominicus. 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. - read Col. 3:17. 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. 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. 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. some uses.1. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." (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. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 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. 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. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871, Christ 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. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. 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, (b)That we act according to His will. For the confirmation of faith. (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. 11.) A. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. 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. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. 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? (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. 1. That is no religion which we cannot carry with us wherever we go; into our pleasures and sorrows, our business and closets.(J. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. 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. 11.) For the instruction of our faith. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. 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. In Colossians Chapter 3, Paul lists ten things that followers of Jesus should not partake in: Immorality, Passion, Evil desire, Greed, Anger, Wrath, Malice, Slander, Abusive speech, Lying. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. 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. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. J. W. Buxton, M. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. 2. 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. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. 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. UNITY AND PEACE. Do St. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? Here is the sum of religion. (Romans 14:8.) The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. What it is? 2. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. --Colossians iii. Faith and Love Towards Christ. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. O wretched Man! 3). Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. 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. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. There are always interesting things to see along the way and it feels good to be outside. (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. In Jesus we have not a man dead long ago, but a living Saviour and King ever near us, bearing the one name by which we may be saved. 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. (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. Application:1. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23).IV. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. As to daily life. 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. 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. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? 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