Do all under the authority of Jesus Christ. If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we Dwight L. MoodyThe Way to God and How to Find ItBut, after that He had Made Mention of These Evils30. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. The law of gravity does not admit of dispute, neither does the law that eternal life is to be found through the Son of God. We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23).IV. 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. 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. "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God."(T. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. "The love of Christ constraineth us."III. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Stewart. Specifically the name of Christ is the rule. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." There is no higher name for it "is above every name. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." AugustineOn Continence, "But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. 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. 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. 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. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we Dwight L. MoodyThe Way to God and How to Find ItBut, after that He had Made Mention of These Evils30. 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? 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. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. What are we to think about? Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. 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. Application:1. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. Contrariwise, consider what are generally classed as sacred works praying, preaching, administering sacraments, visiting the sick. Westminster Abbey. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. 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. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. If by a subtle process it is taken away, all become tarnished and discoloured.(W. Here is one on Colossians 3:12 called "What Should I Wear?". The impiety of those who invoke Christ's name on their wicked courses.3. 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. MY devout hearers! A good fable for the world, and just as good a fable for the Church. (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. Daille. (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. We regularly try but fail to live up to human expectations and traditions. 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. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 5. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. 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. Whatever mystery a man makes of his object in life, spectators generally arrive at correct conclusions.2. 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. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. First, in verses 1-4 readers are admonished to seek heavenly ways because they have been raised with Christ. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. 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. We believe clothes make the person. 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. A. 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 might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. 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. 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. 3). (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. 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. To Dominicus. Great, moreover, is the power of charity, beloved brother, which binds hearts one to another in mutual affection with the Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatHow Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. Has it these points? It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. 4. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. --Colossians iii. It makes us strong and lifts our . By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. Neale. 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. 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. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. 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