Faith and Love Towards Christ. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. The peace of God. 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." The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. 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? Here is the sum of religion. 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. 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. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! For the confirmation of faith. (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. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. 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?" Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." You care about what your children are wearing, but do they know that God cares . IIRisen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 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. 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. 5. A. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. 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. 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. 21. Points of Information: Colossians. To Dominicus. 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. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. 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. 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. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. ITS UNIVERSAL OBLIGATION "Whatsoever ye do," etc. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. (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. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. A. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 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. 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. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. IIRisen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. The Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. A. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. As to daily life. The life of the saint and of the sinner are made up very much of the same commonplace duties, and in all that is patent to the world there may be little difference between them: but the spirit by which they are actuated constitutes a gulf between them as wide as that which divides light and darkness, heaven and hell.3. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Application:1. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. 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. De Witt Talmage, D. D.Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like this: He said spirits of the other world came back to this world to find, body and find a sphere of work. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 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. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). 21. Without Him we can do nothing, with Him every thing (1 Corinthians 15:10).4. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? I have three packets which most of you will recognize. This is the way with worldly people. 3). "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. i. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. 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. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13).7. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. 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. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. 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. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. (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. And who has not seen the dullest rain-cloud, when it turned its weeping face to the sun, change into glory, and, in the bow that spans it, present to the eyes of age and infancy, alike of the philosopher who studies, and of the simple joyous child who runs to catch it, the most brilliant and beautiful phenomenon in nature? "The love of Christ constraineth us."III. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. 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. 4. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 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. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. One phrase holds it all "He died for 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. It is a privilege to have peace, but it would appear, Observe in this chapter that he begins by reminding the saints of their having risen with Christ. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of Glory, Christ Our Life. "Whatsoever," etc. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. 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. 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. iii 15. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. There is something in these words that might surprise us. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. 5. 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. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. 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. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. 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. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. (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. 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. 5. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. 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. 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. Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. 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. Farag, Jun 26, 2020. 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? There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." Here is the sum of religion. how we can obtain it? Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. If you have frequent thought 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. We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23). act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. 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. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. TOPIC: SECOND INTERACTIVE SECTION (SUMMARY OF LESSONS 14-25) MEMORY VERSE: "Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience". To follow His example (Matthew 16:24; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:21-23).II. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. )The acceptable prayerH. This is the way with worldly people. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. O wretched Man! 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. 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. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." 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." 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. 5. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. (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. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? )Every-day religionT. This is the way with worldly people. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. 5. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Colossians 3:1-17 Jim Davis Brand name clothes mean something in our world. 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. Absolute dependence on Christ at all times. Factories and railways, camps and courts of law, mansions, museums, and picture-galleries, to say nothing of the world of trees, and rivers, and birds, and flowers, form part of the world which belongs to Him, the Heir of all things. Then was it a sacred or a secular work to write "Paradise Lost," Wordsworth's "Excursion," or Cowper's "Task"? WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life, Cups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. 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. 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. As to deeds of grace. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. Not more cer tainly does the law of gravity reach from world to world than does this law prevail wherever intelligence exists.2. 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. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. Do St. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. 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. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. To live a life of faith for a supply of all things for life and godliness (2 Peter 1 ; John 16:23).6. 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." 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. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. 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