Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. 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. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 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. Colossians. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. (Colossians iii. O wretched Man! Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. Colossians 3: "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. how we can obtain it? Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. 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. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. Has it these points? "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. There is something in these words that might surprise us. UNITY AND PEACE. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." He shows where we should seek Christ.5. 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. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. Read Proverbs 17:9 (NLT) Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. (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). "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. . We take it for granted and so forget it.1. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Solomon was called to build the temple of the Lord, but every man who is an honest worker, who does his best in the place where heaven has put him, is building up a temple, holy, acceptable to God. In Colossians 3:16-17, Paul describes a life that is happy in God. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 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. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? The business of a Christian upon earth is not an independent one; he is a steward for Christ. 2 Tim. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. i. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. He infers holiness from this also. The peace of God. 2. 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. 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. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. 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. 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. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." Colossians 3:12-17. Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. 1. Sunshine is especially nice, but it's fun to walk, even if it's raining. 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. Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. For His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; John 5:23; Revelation 5:12, 13). )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. One of the leading peculiarities of the religion of Jesus is that it virtually annihilated the distinction between the secular and the sacred. 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. permeating this life that it hallows everything. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. 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? Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. It is through Christ that life is worthy of the name of life. To follow His example (Matthew 16:24; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:21-23).II. (Dean Alford. 5. 4. Preached February 9, 1851. 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? B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. THY REMEDY. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. It is a privilege to have peace, but it would appear Frederick W. RobertsonSermons Preached at Brighton, Christ is AllObserve in this chapter that he begins by reminding the saints of their having risen with Christ. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. It's a short & simple Bible lesson that begins with a photo of an everyday object that can remind us of God's truth and His presence throughout our day. Observe I. This round world may therefore become to us a temple, and this little life a song of praise.II. (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. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. 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. (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). For the instruction of our faith. 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. 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. For the confirmation of faith. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. 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. (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. WHAT THIS IS.1. THY REMEDY. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc. 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? Col 4:9 seems to say these two letters 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. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. As to daily life. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. Christian families, founded on the holy bond of marriage, are appointed, in the divine order of things, to be the nurseries of the future generation. As to deeds of grace. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. Solomon was called to build the temple of the Lord, but every man who is an honest worker, who does his best in the place where heaven has put him, is building up a temple, holy, acceptable to God. As it overstepped all barriers of climate, colour, and race to call men brethren, so it passed over all barriers of priestly function to make all men holy, and so all men are now made priests unto God.2. O wretched Man! 1). (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). 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. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. 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. 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. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. 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. Love. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. MY 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. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 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. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. He also gave you eternal life. 3). "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. 1. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Art, science, politics, business, everyday duty, instead of being detached from religion, have such intimate relations with it that they are, or may be, and ought to be, themselves essentially religious. 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. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. Daille.I. (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. Mallock. (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. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth, February 17. It's a life of thankful worship: The Lord's people should be marked by thankful worship engaging the whole person in all of life. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 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. 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. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." 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. So the apostle means (a)That we refer all to His glory. 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. The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Mallock. Will not work be done carelessly? 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. 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. In the realm of spirit as of matter when we see a great result we know that behind it is a great cause; and we may search the world and we shall not find a power over human hearts comparable with that which lies in this name. Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? To Dominicus. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. 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?" The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. A. i. This clever object lesson demonstrates that something can be there but invisible. (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of Glory, Christ Our Life. 3). A. Neale. 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. A compend of the Church some men make Him to be `` root! 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