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. How, then, can they be done? )The motive power of a holy lifeJ. the best one has been left for you." (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? (Colossians iii. 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. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. 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. 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 is through Christ that life is worthy of the name of life. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. The peace of God. "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." iii 15. (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. 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. 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? )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. iii 15. 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. A. There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! 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. "Whatsoever," etc. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. A recognition of Christ in everything. "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God."(T. A. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." 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. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. 4. We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12).4. 11.) 4. 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. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. (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. i. TEXT: COL. iii. One of the leading peculiarities of the religion of Jesus is that it virtually annihilated the distinction between the secular and the sacred. 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. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. 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. (Admonition 5.) That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. 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. 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. With Him is the residue of the Spirit, and the Spirit is the believer's power. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." 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. Churches are, but not houses we live in. 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." Not more cer tainly does the law of gravity reach from world to world than does this law prevail wherever intelligence exists. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 3. Was this a hindrance? 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. Will not work be done carelessly? 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. Yes, silver and gold and gems conspired together to mark out this name on the paten, or the chalice, or the shrine; the manufacturer of Limoges worked it out in his enamel; in the monastery potteries they burnt it in on their tiles; in convents they embroidered it on chasuble and cope; in the glorious windows of churches the light came in, sanctified, as it were, and hallowed by the name of the True Light; the poor peasant was encouraged, with his clasp knife, to consecrate his house by carving the same name on the hutch of his door or the barge-boards of his roof; the name of salvation could not be out of place among the dwellings of those who looked to be saved; the name which to adore will be the work of eternity, could never be out of place for the meditation and the worship of earth.(Dr. It is that we are slow to learn in. 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?" Do St. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. [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?" --Colossians iii. SEEK, THEN, TO MAKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE RELIGIOUS. 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. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 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. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 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. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. Sunshine is especially nice, but it's fun to walk, even if it's raining. What it is? 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. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. THIS DISTINCTION IS BAD, BECAUSE IT VANISHES ON NEARER OBSERVATION. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. TEXT: COL. iii. 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. (Admonition 6). Application:1. Write "1 Corinthians" on small slips of paper and give them out at the end of class for the students to take home and . (Colossians iii. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. i. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 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. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. 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. 1). 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. Preached February 9, 1851. 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? 5. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. 3). the best one has been left for you." For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. "WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED," etc.1. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. 1). There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." 2. Preached February 9, 1851. 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