1 Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. What He was and did for us, and above all what He now is and does, explains it. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ is AllMY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. Everything falls under the two heads of words and deeds. Very many of those prayers are like letters with no name and address upon them, which never reach their destination. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. Colossians. Even now the good is gaining the victory, and the King is Christ. But can, one will say, all the little acts of life be done to Him? "If ye then be risen" (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. (2) Observe how such motives act. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. TEXT: COL. iii. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. (1)All grace and strength (1 Corinthians 1:30). "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." 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. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. (Preacher's Analyst. But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. [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?" As to daily life. (1) He is the channel by which all God's goodness is poured upon us. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. February 17. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." Blot out that name and you blot out the best part of history, all that is purest in morals, elevating in literature, gentle in manners, merciful in laws. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. Observe the extent of this saying. Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. OPENING ACTIVITY: Family Portrait. 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. 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. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. Time weakens other forces, but it adds vigour to this.2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 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. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. It says not, "Give your bodies to be burned for the glory of God," but, "Whether ye eat or drink," etc.2. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. (b)That we act according to His will. Churches are, but not houses we live in. There is nothing left for me" And some one replied, "Ah! The purest motive to duty. The life of the saint and of the sinner are made up very much of the same commonplace duties, and in all that is patent to the world there may be little difference between them: but the spirit by which they are actuated constitutes a gulf between them as wide as that which divides light and darkness, heaven and hell.3. 1. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. To Dominicus. Application:1. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. Here is the sum of religion. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. Do St. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Churches are, but not houses we live in. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. 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. Very many of those prayers are like letters with no name and address upon them, which never reach their destination. UNITY AND PEACE. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. Yet, the believer is keenly aware that every good thing comes from God. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. 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 His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; John 5:23; Revelation 5:12, 13).5. 3. Colossians 3:1-17 is a recognizable section of the letter. Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. ii. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." The spirit we are of determines the character of our actions whether they are holy or unholy. What it is? (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. Art, science, politics, business, everyday duty, instead of being detached from religion, have such intimate relations with it that they are, or may be, and ought to be, themselves essentially religious. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. Our little ones are learning lots of new things and recognizing item of clothing is no exception. VERSES: Colossians 3:1-15. 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. None but pure gold may receive the special goldsmith's mark, none but true, honest work can bear the mark of the Lord Jesus.(H. IIRisen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? 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? Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 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. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. Supposing this we must exercise faith upon Him, and have constant recourse to Him, in all that we do for the supplies of His grace and Spirit (1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 5:7; John 16:16, 23, 26).3. 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. (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. The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures. II. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. There is something in these words that might surprise us. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. 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. 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. 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? A. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. 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. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." 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