DISCOURSE: 2181 OUR RESURRECTION WITH CHRIST A MOTIVE TO HEAVENLY-MINDEDNESS Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God_. ONE of the most distinguished peculiarities of our holy religion is, that it suggests en... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2182 HEAVENLY-MINDEDNESS Colossians 3:2. _Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth_. IT seems harsh and paradoxical, to say that Christianity is very imperfectly understood amongst us. Respecting its mysterious _doctrines,_ perhaps, the allegation would be admitted... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2183 THE EXALTED STATE OF A CHRISTIAN Colossians 3:3. _Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory_. INNUMERABLE are the advantages which revelation gives us over the heathen philosophers:... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2184 CHRIST IS ALL Colossians 3:11. _Christ is all, and in all_. MEN are ever ready to value themselves upon their natural endowments, their civil distinctions, or their religious privileges; and to imagine that a preeminence in these things gives them some kind of claim to honour and re... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2186 CHRISTIAN CONSTANCY DISPLAYED Colossians 3:12. _Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Chris... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2187 LOVE TO THE SCRIPTURES RECOMMENDED Colossians 3:16. _Let the word of Chist dwell in you richly in all wisdom_. IT was declared to be one of the principal advantages which the Jews enjoyed above the heathen, that they had “the Oracles of God committed to them [Note: Romans 3:1.]:” an... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2188 DOING ALL IN THE NAME OF CHRIST Colossians 3:17. _Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him_. SUPPOSING the existence of one Supreme Being to be acknowledged, our obvious duty towards him must be, to exercise s... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2189 THE RELATIVE DUTIES EXPLAINED Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. F... [ Continue Reading ]