It is only in Christ we find the holiest and purest motive; in Him love takes the place of selfishness (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15). How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." 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. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. Application:1. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. J.D. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. CHRISTIANITY IS A REALITY, AND DEALS WITH REALITIES.1. 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. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. J. W. Buxton, M. Westminster Abbey. Do St. 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. Therefore we must all honour the Son as the Father (John 5:23).3. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. 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. 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. Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that they lose not recollection of their nature, in which they are constituted on an equality with servants. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. 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. 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, (3)Reconciliation with God (2 Corinthians 5:18). 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. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? Owing to this enormous abuses have sprung up under the shadow of the Church. A Member of the Grace Advance Fellowship of Churches. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. 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. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. 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. 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. If a man be a Christian, men will take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus. One or two of the world's heroes and sages have won wide admiration and respect, but who has laid his hand on so many hearts and touched for good so many lives? That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 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. 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. 2 Tim. 7. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. 21. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and Rev. Be cause all we are, have, or can do, is of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:22, 23). Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. 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. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. 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. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? 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. "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. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. 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. MY devout hearers! TEXT: COL. iii. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. The stress lies on "the name of the Lord Jesus."1. What a multitude of religions there is in this poor wicked world of ours! And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. - read Col. 3:17. (E B. Pusey, D. D.)Common work in the name of JesusH. 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. 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. 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. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? (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. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Do them as thou wouldest if thou sawest God by thee, with prayer that they may be done aright. 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. 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. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. some uses.1. November 8, 1874. So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." 3). What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? HOW IT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT "In the name of the Lord Jesus." At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. Recur to the motive of the text. 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. (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. Didst thou find that thou toiledst for them less diligently because thou thoughtest of and toiledst for them? And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. 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.
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