All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. Colossians 3:17 Introduction This morning we come to the culmination of Paul's general exhortations to the Colossians to live according to the new nature they received when they became Christians. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. 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. Will not work be done carelessly? Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? 1). It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. 3. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. Be thine own judge? Colossians 3 Commentary . "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." --Colossians iii. 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. 21. Although these two commands are similar, they are not synonymous. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Daille. How, then, can they be done? The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. 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. A. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." 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. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. 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.II. II. 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. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. Very many of those prayers are like letters with no name and address upon them, which never reach their destination. The Faith and Love Towards Christ. 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. --Colossians iii. By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. [1924] St. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. 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. [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?" (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. The other letter being Philemon. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 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. 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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (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. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. Neale. How, then, can they be done? iii 15. 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 TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. O wretched Man! (1) There is a wide difference between persons who pursue objects which only appear real to them, and those whose objects are absolutely real. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. 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. 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?" 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. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. 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. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. "The love of Christ constraineth us."III. 3). "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. 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. Faith and Love Towards Christ. 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. (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. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? 2. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. 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. [1924] St. Colossians. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. (Preacher's Analyst. There is no higher name for it "is above every name. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. For the instruction of our faith. We must be supposed to be in Christ first (John 15:4-5).2. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. 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. Men have taken it into their heads to invent various systems of religion and if you look round the world, you will see scores of different sects; but it is a great fact that, while there is a multitude of false religions, there is but one that is true. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. As a little square serves an artificer to design and mark out a multitude of lines, and to correct those that are amiss, so by this little rule there is no human action respecting which we cannot ascertain whether it is right or wrong; nor is there any part of our lives which this rule is not capable of guiding and forming to perfection.3. And who looks down upon 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. Get our app to see bulletins, watch live video, give online, and more! 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. Scripture. - T. C. I. HOLY WALKING DESCRIBED. J. W. Buxton, M. A.As a petition to the Queen can only reach her through the hands of a minister, so we can only approach God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ. 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. i. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? (Colossians iii. 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. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. 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?" He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 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. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. THIS DISTINCTION IS BAD, BECAUSE IT VANISHES ON NEARER OBSERVATION. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. To go to God through Him (John 15:3, 16; John 16:23-26).2. (Admonition 5.) A. 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. Involves one rule of life for the person in holy orders, and another for the man who has not received a religious vocation. There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! (2) Observe how such motives act. 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. O wretched Man! How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. Westminster Abbey. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. 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. Men have taken it into their heads to invent various systems of religion and if you look round the world, you will see scores of different sects; but it is a great fact that, while there is a multitude of false religions, there is but one that is true. 15. "Your life is hid" (Col. 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. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. 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. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? 21. 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." Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self, MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. 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. Churches are, but not houses we live in. 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. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. 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. Colossians. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. Hugh BinningLinksColossians 3:17 NIVColossians 3:17 NLTColossians 3:17 ESVColossians 3:17 NASBColossians 3:17 KJVColossians 3:17 Bible AppsColossians 3:17 ParallelColossians 3:17 Biblia ParalelaColossians 3:17 Chinese BibleColossians 3:17 French BibleColossians 3:17 German BibleColossians 3:17 CommentariesBible Hub, (b)That we act according to His will. These words may be taken as an independent precept (Ephesians 5:20) or a reason for the preceding rule, a title under which we ought to do all things in the name of Christ, so that our whole life may be an act of gratitude through Christ, which is to be preferred.1. To do all by His strength (Acts 4:6-7, 10; 1 Samuel 17:45; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). 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. Do all under the authority of Jesus Christ. - read Col. 3:17. 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. 5. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. 21. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. Stewart. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." (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). 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. Read Proverbs 17:9 (NLT) Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. 1). WHY WE ARE TO DO IT.1. Without Him we can do nothing, with Him every thing (1 Corinthians 15:10). 15. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." Whatever we do in word and in deed no matter what it is, let us do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in total dependence upon Him. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. The highest end of duty. 3). 11.) 2. 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. 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. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? Has it these points? 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. 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. 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. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. (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). (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. 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. 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? Today, we are going to memorize . He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. 3. We ought to be more circumspect than others in our words and deeds: 1. Everything falls under the two heads of words and deeds. - where all that you say, and all that you do--is done in His name. For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. How We are Addressed, The Power of the Word and the Name of Christ, Method and music, or the art of holy and happy living, Christian ends lend grandeur to human life. The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. There are always interesting things to see along the way and it feels good to be outside. The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. Do St. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. TEXT: COL. iii. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." how we can obtain it? 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. (2) Observe how such motives act. John 17:1-9 God's voice always leads us to glorify Him and accomplish His purposes. 3). 3). (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. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. 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. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 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. [1924], 31. So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? 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