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. Here is the sum of religion. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? We can glorify God by honoring God in how we speak and live. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. UNITY AND PEACE. Has it these points? There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." Westminster Abbey. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Lesson 11: February 12, 2023-Full Life in Christ-Colossians 2:6-15. 3). 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? i. Contrariwise, consider what are generally classed as sacred works praying, preaching, administering sacraments, visiting the sick. Doctors tell us that walking is good for our health. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. 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. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. 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. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. (Preacher's Analyst. It will make contradiction sweet, to bear it meekly with Jesus; poverty, honourable to be poor with Jesus; toil, gladsome to labour for Jesus. THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. 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. These are . 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. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. This implies three things. 3). It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. Be thine own judge? 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. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. 5. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. 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. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." I want to emphasize that word "all." Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? 1. 3. 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. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." 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? Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? 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. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. 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. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. But it is not thus taken here as if Paul simply intended that in our actions and discourses we should always intermix the word Jesus, or at least preface it. 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. 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. Observe the extent of this saying. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. Colossians 3:17 Introduction This morning we come to the culmination of Paul's general exhortations to the Colossians to live according to the new nature they received when they became Christians. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. There is something in these words that might surprise us. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. III, What the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. The ultimate Goal of the Christian life is to please God. [1924] St. Where, then, is there any room for dependence on God even with prayer for protection and blessing, since the feeling assumes that they will be granted without any prayer at all.2. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Be cause all we are, have, or can do, is of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:22, 23). How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? [1924] St. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. i. 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. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (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. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. 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. Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. He infers holiness from this also. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. (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). (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. 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. (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. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God. You cannot walk as a believer if you have not believed. This is the only religious view of life.IV. When thou hast learned to do all things to Jesus, it will shed pleasure over all dull things, softness over hard things, peace over trial. A. It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. iii 15. (2) Observe how such motives act. A. (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. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. )The acceptable prayerH. Why is it that some of us look on church-going as an irksome task, and the hours spent in God's house as the most wearisome of our lives? [1924] St. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. MY devout hearers! 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. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. 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. (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. 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. 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. 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. OPENING ACTIVITY: Family Portrait. 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? THIS DISTINCTION IS BAD, BECAUSE IT VANISHES ON NEARER OBSERVATION. Without Him we can do nothing, with Him every thing (1 Corinthians 15:10).4. 3. Observe I. Because we cannot be accepted but by Him (Ephesians 1:6; Hebrews 13:15; Hebrews 5:1).4. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. ! What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! The conceptions, affections, and resolutions of the soul refer to words and works as being the principles and motives of them. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. They have put to death anything that steals their affections away from Christ and have put on the new self as God . There is something in these words that might surprise us. 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. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. 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? 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. 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. The . 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. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that they lose not recollection of their nature, in which they are constituted on an equality with servants. Here is the sum of religion. 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. He also gave you eternal life. Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. UNITY AND PEACE. A. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. The Epistle to the Colossians is one of the four "Prison Epistles" (see Ephesians, "Introduction"). (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. 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. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. 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. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Nothing is too small to be done for one deeply loved, and nothing but deep love will do unweariedly all little things to please whom it loves. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! 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. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. 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