Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. Then, have them take turns rolling the die and placing the clothes on the doll (do . I have three packets which most of you will recognize. It was written by the apostle Paul (1:1) while he was a prisoner in Rome . There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. )Every-day religionT. 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. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." And who looks down upon us? Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. Write "1 Corinthians" on small slips of paper and give them out at the end of class for the students to take home and . But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. iii 15. 4. To Dominicus. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. 3. The law of gravity does not admit of dispute, neither does the law that eternal life is to be found through the Son of God. Recur to the motive of the text. There is something in these words that might surprise us. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. A. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. The spirit we are of determines the character of our actions whether they are holy or unholy. It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. 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. 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. 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. 2. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. November 8, 1874. 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. II. 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. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. I want to emphasize that word "all." (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. He is your King. 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. There is to be , (1)Humbleness of mind;(2)longsuffering;(3)meekness; above all(4)charity.The word of Christ must dwell richly in the heart (see previous verse).II. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: TEXT: COL. iii. 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." Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. This implies three things.1. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION. If religion consists in entering the service of a God who looks not on the outward appearance but on the heart, that religion will be the only true one which produces right dispositions towards Him of faithfulness in all things, the smallest as well as the biggest. 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. 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. 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. 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. Observe the extent of this saying. (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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 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. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. We can glorify God by honoring God in how we speak and live. 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. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 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. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Has it these points? There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. (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. 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? O wretched Man! 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. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. So the apostle means (a)That we refer all to His glory. 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. Recur to the motive of the text. 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. 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. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. 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. Churches are, but not houses we live in. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 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. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. (Admonition 5.) Do all under the authority of Jesus Christ. Now, seeing that we are raised with Christ, certain behavior is appropriate to us. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 2 Tim. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. 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. 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. i. 2. 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. 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. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. There must be . WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. 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. Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." (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. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. One phrase holds it all "He died for me." (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. 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? 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. 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. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. 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. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. how we can obtain it? TEXT: COL. iii. 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. 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? We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. )The motive power of a holy lifeJ. 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? 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. 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. It is through Christ that life is worthy of the name of life. 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. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. What it is? 3). Here is the sum of religion. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. Do St. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. He infers holiness from this also. O wretched Man! To do all by His authority (Matthew 18:18-20; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Timothy 6:15).3. There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! (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 a detestable, an irreligious distinction.I. Colossians. [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?" AugustineOn Continence, Epistle xxxiii. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. Because the Father has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name (Philippians 2:8-10). You cannot walk as a believer if you have not believed. 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. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. )Every-day religionT. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (2) You are to abound in prayer. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? (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. 'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Be thine own judge? "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. Daille. 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. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. 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." 12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. 1. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. 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. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 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. 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. permeating this life that it hallows everything. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). 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 is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! 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. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. Will not work be done carelessly? On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. 21. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. To Dominicus. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. 3. II. Lesson 3: The point of lesson three was that your students would truly grasp the concept of being . 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. There are always interesting things to see along the way and it feels good to be outside. Neale. 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. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. (Admonition 5.) 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Observe I. To live a life of faith for a supply of all things for life and godliness (2 Peter 1 ; John 16:23). "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." Refer all things to Him. 1311 3rd-5th-17, 2014-1312) Know God's Word Work hard with excellence, as working for the Lord. Faith and Love Towards Christ. 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. 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. 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