- we're talking about letting the name of the Lord Jesus motivate you. MY devout hearers! Observe I. After a while Ulysses came, and he said, "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. 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. (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. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. This implies three things.1. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? how we can obtain it? It will have all or nothing, the first place or none. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Colossians iii. 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. How, then, can they be done? some uses.1. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. THE MOTIVE POWER OF A HOLY LIFE. 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. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. Do all under the authority of Jesus Christ. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. LESSON: But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. What it is? Observe the extent of this saying. It is that we are slow to learn in. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a 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. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? 'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. By this(1) Paul banishes, from our mind all unfruitful works of darkness, it being evident that we can do nothing that is opposed to His will. Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. 3. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. For the confirmation of faith. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. 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? But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? 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. Do St. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. Pure religion is when the sense of God's love, of the vastness of His claims, of the breadth of His commandments, so works through the life as to make it one organic whole, and when the poor unworthy distinction of secular and sacred is forgotten; when what is most religious is most human, and what is commonest is ennobled and justified by the grace which flows from "Christ our Life."(J. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast, 2 Tim. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. Daille.I. He infers holiness from this also. 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. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. (NASB: Lockman)Greek: kai pan o ti ean poiete en logo e en ergo, panta en onomati kuriou Iesou, eucharistountes to theo patri di' autou.. Amplified: And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in . For His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; John 5:23; Revelation 5:12, 13).5. Stewart. 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. Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? Solomon was called to build the temple of the Lord, but every man who is an honest worker, who does his best in the place where heaven has put him, is building up a temple, holy, acceptable to God. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. 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. It makes us strong and lifts our . For the instruction of our faith. 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. The author of nature and the author of Christianity give tokens of being one and the same, in that their principles are alike simple, universal, imperious, inexorable. There is something in these words that might surprise us. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. Pure religion is when the sense of God's love, of the vastness of His claims, of the breadth of His commandments, so works through the life as to make it one organic whole, and when the poor unworthy distinction of secular and sacred is forgotten; when what is most religious is most human, and what is commonest is ennobled and justified by the grace which flows from "Christ our Life."(J. 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. Colossians 3 Commentary . THY REMEDY. (Dean Alford. 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? 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, (Admonition 5.) But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? 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. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. 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. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. Before we come to speak of some particular cases of deadness, wherein believers are to make use of Christ as the Life, we shall first propose some useful consequences and deductions from what hath been spoken of this life; and, I. Stewart. 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. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. This round world may therefore become to us a temple, and this little life a song of praise.II. 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. We find it perfectly impossible to draw a sharp line. But . Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. 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. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. 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. 11.) It must have points of contact with every part of my life. TEXT: COL. iii. What combination of forces has cut so deep a groove across the world? Lesson - The Letter to the Colossians - The New Man and the Old Man. Artizan, labourer, soldier, slave, would learn the truth that God cared for him, and designed him for a glorious destiny. A. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. 3). And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. We believe that Botany 500, Guest Jeans, Gucci, Christian Dior, etc, all say something about the person wearing those clothes. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? To go to God through Him (John 15:3, 16; John 16:23-26).2. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. 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. 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. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon 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. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. 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. 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. 2. 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. 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. 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. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. A. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. 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. HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." Westminster Abbey. 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. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. This implies three things.1. 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. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. Think how it would bear on the obscure toilers of Ephesus, Corinth, or Rome. He infers holiness from this also. 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