"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." One phrase holds it all "He died for me." What combination of forces has cut so deep a groove across the world? Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. To do all by His authority (Matthew 18:18-20; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Timothy 6:15). It is plain that it must propose some motive and rule which shall touch daily life at every point. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. 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. Unlike other religions, that of Christ admits of no compromises. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. (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. God is waiting this morning to mark the opening hours for every ready and willing heart with a touch of life and power that will lift our lives to higher pleasures and offer to our vision grander horizons of hope and holy service. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life, Cups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. (2) Observe how such motives act. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. )The motive power of a holy lifeJ. 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? O wretched Man! That is what He became man for; as a man to live a life of trust in God, and so to show to us how we ought to live. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. 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. 1). There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. 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. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. 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. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of 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?" It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. Daille. Contrariwise, consider what are generally classed as sacred works praying, preaching, administering sacraments, visiting the sick. 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. Will not work be done carelessly? But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. 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. 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. [1924] St. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? A. Do St. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. "The love of Christ constraineth us.". Read Colossians 3:13 (NLT) Make allowance for each other's faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. 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. 2. How, then, can they be done? (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Sunday School Lesson Segments -2 February 26, 2023 4. To Dominicus. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. For the instruction of our faith. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. 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. Colossians. Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. Faith and Love Towards Christ. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. Lessons: 1. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. To follow His example (Matthew 16:24; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:21-23).II. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. "Whatsoever," etc. 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. Do you like to take walks? It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. 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. Be sure to point out the three following points: Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. 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. Therefore we must "walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise" (Ephesians 5:15). Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. He infers holiness from this also. God chose us to be holy people. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. REASONS FOR THE CONSECRATION OF OUR WHOLE LIFE TO THE LORD. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. It is that we are slow to learn in. Was this a hindrance? 11.) 3). Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. 1). Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. 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. 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. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. 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. 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. (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) Observe how such motives act. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Here is one on Colossians 3:12 called "What Should I Wear?". . (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. 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. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. Has it these points? "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. TOPIC: SECOND INTERACTIVE SECTION (SUMMARY OF LESSONS 14-25) MEMORY VERSE: "Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience". (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. To Dominicus. 1). 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. 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. 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. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and, Text: Colossians 3, 12-17. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. 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. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. Recur to the motive of the text. 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. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. 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. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. 4. (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. 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. (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. 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 Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. 2. 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. Stewart. 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. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." 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. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. 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? He is the goal towards which all actions tend. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. What it is? (Dean Alford. 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. Daille. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? James tells us the sins of the tongue (James 3:2). Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. Recur to the motive of the text. (Admonition 5.) Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. 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. And who looks down upon us? We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's Indwelling, Meditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. 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. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. 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. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. TEXT: COL. iii. Get our app to see bulletins, watch live video, give online, and more! 1. Observe I. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 1. UNITY AND PEACE. That is what He became man for; as a man to live a life of trust in God, and so to show to us how we ought to live. To live a life of faith for a supply of all things for life and godliness (2 Peter 1 ; John 16:23).6. However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. (1) Nothing is more common than a man with a powerful motive which rules his whole life gain, ambition, love of family, science, art, victory, the exercise of an energetic nature. 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. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. 3). But it is necessary that we have this deposition so formed in our hearts, that when circumstances allow us to think of Christ our souls may lean that way as being habituated to it. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. Without Him we can do nothing, with Him every thing (1 Corinthians 15:10).4. 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. [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?" (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. 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