(2) Observe how such motives act. 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. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. 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? )Consistency and gratitudeJ. That is no religion which we cannot carry with us wherever we go; into our pleasures and sorrows, our business and closets.(J. Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. Beginning in verse 12 Paul describes what spiritual clothing followers of Jesus must wear. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." (Colossians iii. 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? Neale. 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? the best one has been left for you." Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. What the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. Be cause all we are, have, or can do, is of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:22, 23). Then, have them take turns rolling the die and placing the clothes on the doll (do . We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. (Colossians iii. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." 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. What people hate is being in earnest at all, and so they do not wish to pray for the grace of God lest they should have to be at the pains of using it. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God."(T. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. 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. Today, we are going to memorize . And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. Daille.I. 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. 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. 5. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. (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). Neale.Those old saints of the Middle Ages, how dearly they loved to set the name of Jesus forth everywhere, by all means, in every curious work of art not merely of Church art, mind you, but of household and domestic furniture. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? Parkhurst, Jr. 1). A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. We-have . AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 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? What combination of forces has cut so deep a groove across the world? (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. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. O wretched Man! 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. Remember these things: The late, great Sunday School teacher . We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23).IV. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. 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. 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. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. 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. 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. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." 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. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. 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. Our words, thoughts, desires, labours, etc., are to be under the habitual influence of a sacred and sanctifying power which lies lurking in the name of the Lord Jesus. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? 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. 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. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. 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. 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. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. (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). If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. 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. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. (2) Observe how such motives act. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." 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. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? Here is the sum of religion. 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. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. UNITY AND PEACE. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." 1512Trinity, equality of2224Christ, the Lord5629work, ordained by God5636work, and rest5909motives, importance8223dedication8409decision-making, and providence8676thanksgiving8809riches, 6746sanctification, means and results8352thankfulness, 3218Holy Spirit, and praise5549speech, positive8666praise, manner and methods, May 5. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. 11.) 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. 2. A. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. For the glory of Christ (Acts 15:26). 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. 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? It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" - T. C. I. HOLY WALKING DESCRIBED. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. 1). 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? Application:1. Daille. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. 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. III. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 18. 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. 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. O wretched Man! Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. As to deeds of grace. Colossians. Little things are the very instances of acceptable service in Scripture. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. These are . It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8). 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. 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. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. 2 Tim. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. For the instruction of our faith. The peace of God. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. There is something in these words that might surprise us. 1. Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." 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? (2) Observe how such motives act. 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. Was this a hindrance? Great, moreover, is the power of charity, beloved brother, which binds hearts one to another in mutual affection with the Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatHow Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? 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?" And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. iii 15. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23).IV. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. 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. 13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. (Dean Alford. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? Observe the extent of this saying. 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? Most objects are everyday items that you can pick up around the house and be ready to teach a fun Bible lesson for children's church, Sunday school, Awana or family devotional in a . "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. 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. For when Adam and Eve, being created after God's own image, and placed in Paradise, that they and their posterity might live in a blessed state of life immortal, having dominion over all earthly creatures, and only restrained from the fruit of one tree, as a sign Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyChrist all and in All. 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. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. For the instruction of our faith. (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. O wretched Man! A bad sermon on the text, "Behold I stand at the door and knock," is (it would seem) sacred; but to paint the well-known picture illustrating same text was secular. J. W. Buxton, M. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." 2 Tim. Colossians Study Supplement by Bible Lessons for Teens 5.0 (1) $4.99 PDF Many of the lessons I create focus on a theme, but this material takes a different approach. 3. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. (Admonition 6). For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. And yet, after all, this is the most Christ-like ministry of all, for the Master Himself does not even appear in the work of the church except as her hidden Life Rev. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." To write hymns sacred. Supposing this we must exercise faith upon Him, and have constant recourse to Him, in all that we do for the supplies of His grace and Spirit (1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 5:7; John 16:16, 23, 26).3. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. 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. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. I want to emphasize that word "all." "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. It is that we are slow to learn in. 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. There must be . That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." 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. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 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. A. 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. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? Faith and Love Towards Christ. AUTHOR: Paul. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 1). 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. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. How, then, can they be done? 3). For when Adam and Eve, being created after God's own image, and placed in Paradise, that they and their posterity might live in a blessed state of life immortal, having dominion over all earthly creatures, and only restrained from the fruit of one tree, as a sign Lewis BaylyThe Practice of Piety, Christ all and in All. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. How easily may their motive come to be that so well expressed in Bible words "Put me into one of the priest's offices, that I may eat a piece of bread."III. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. For the confirmation of faith. 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. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. 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. 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? How Subjects and Prelates are to be Admonished. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. 4. For His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; John 5:23; Revelation 5:12, 13).5. (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. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. 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 Schleiermacher, Unity and Peace. J. W. Buxton, M. And yet, after all, this is the most Christ-like ministry of all, for the Master Himself does not even appear in the work of the church except as her hidden Life Rev. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? 1. Ulysses said, "What's that?" 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