Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? The peace of God. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. As to deeds of grace. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. What it is? 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. 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. It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. Colossians 3:1-17 is a recognizable section of the letter. Daille. 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. There is something in these words that might surprise us. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." 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. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. Colossians 3:1-14 Since Jan. 22, 2023, the Bible Studies for Life have been focused on the issue of discerning the voice of 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. It is that we are slow to learn in. Colossians, Lesson #6 Colossians 3.18 - 4.18 / Family Life, etc. 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. WHAT IS TO BE DONE? As to daily life. (2) Observe how such motives act. That is no religion which we cannot carry with us wherever we go; into our pleasures and sorrows, our business and closets.(J. Ulysses said, "What's that?" If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. III. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. Colossians. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. A. Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. 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. Refer all things to Him. 3). "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." Daille. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. (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. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ 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. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. 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. 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. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? II. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." So the apostle means (a)That we refer all to His glory. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. THY REMEDY. 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. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. 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. We ought to be more circumspect than others in our words and deeds: 1. Stewart. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. In verse 5 Paul gave a list of things to put to death. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." 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. 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. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" (Admonition 5.) 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 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. Because "we live and die to the Lord." Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? 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. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 2. (Admonition 6). (2) Observe how such motives act. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 2. Do you know what it is? Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. The other letter being Philemon. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. A. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. 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. permeating this life that it hallows everything.1. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Sunday, but not other six days. 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." It is worth while to do so. And who looks down upon us? Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. To Dominicus. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. (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. Recur to the motive of the text. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." MY devout hearers! What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. 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. 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. 1). B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. There is something in these words that might surprise us. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." 2 Tim. 1. What combination of forces has cut so deep a groove across the world? Has it these points? B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. 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