colossians 3:17 object lesson

UNITY AND PEACE. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). (E B. Pusey, D. D.)Common work in the name of JesusH. Christian obedience must all the while be mingled with thanksgiving to God the Father. I want to emphasize that word "all." "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Read Proverbs 17:9 (NLT) Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. 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. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. (Admonition 5.) If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. 11.) Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. It will have all or nothing, the first place or none. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. 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. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. 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. 15. The labourer working under the useful light and genial warmth does not lose his time and dazzle his sight in gazing on the sun, but plies his arm with his eye fixed on his work, and so uses for its intended purpose the light God has bestowed. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. 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. 1. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! The stress lies on "the name of the Lord Jesus."1. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. 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. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. 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. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. There is something in these words that might surprise us. 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. Sunday, but not other six days. 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. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Time weakens other forces, but it adds vigour to this.2. It is worth while to do so. Observe the extent of this saying. i. 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. 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. To do all through the office and name of Christ as Mediator. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. 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. Westminster Abbey. 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? Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. (Dean Alford. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. One phrase holds it all "He died for me." 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. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. 2. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. To live a life of faith for a supply of all things for life and godliness (2 Peter 1 ; John 16:23).6. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. (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. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." 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. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? ", II. How, then, can they be done? There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. Because the Father has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name (Philippians 2:8-10). "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy Scripture, The Christian Training of Children. 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. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. For the instruction of our faith. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. 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. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. [1924] St. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. 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. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). During the lesson, give each child a paper doll and put the clothes in the middle of the table. THIS DISTINCTION IS RADICALLY IRRELIGIOUS, Implies that all things are not of God. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. Easter Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. 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. What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. [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?" That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Just as the Israelites were his chosen people in Old Testament times, so those composing the church are his family today. 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?" 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. 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. (Admonition 6). How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. In the first seventeen verses of the third chapter, Paul has described that those who truly belong to the Lord are those whose lives are hidden in Christ. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. 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. 2. 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