. Paul begins with a vivid demand. And the tragedy is that many people have become so habituated to unclean talk that they are unaware that they are using it. 1. He it is finally who gives vigour for all the holy conflicts we have to wage with the adversary. Somehow or another, freethinkers and superstitious men coalesce in reality. How can man brook that lie, and the world that he has built up since he lost Eden, should be made nothing of? Because He was the greatest, the best, the holiest? 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. He judges everything in the light of the Cross and in the light of the love which gave itself for him. This is to be spiritually minded (Romans 8:6), and to seek and desire a better country, that is, a heavenly,Hebrews 11:14; Hebrews 11:16. e Grace to you and peace from God our Father.. Thanksgiving and Prayer. Max Miller was one of the great experts of the science of language. 3:14-17 On top of all these things, clothe yourselves with love which is the perfect bond; and let the peace of God be the decider of all things within your hearts, for it is to that peace you were called, so that you might be united in one body. Yes, but Christ is "all" as truly as He is "in all." Observe, To seek heavenly things is to set our affections upon them, to love them and let our desires be towards them. He is the truth; He is the expression of what God is. "And 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." It was at the cross of Christ And so it was that, when all seemed to fail, all was won. Christian life and growth come from God through a direct relationship between the believer and Christ. The ceremonies of the law have no further use (16-17).Neither should Christians listen to those who want to show their superior knowledge by mixing their own philosophies with the gospel. At this point we come to one of the main and distinctive objects of the epistle. Note well again that it is not here man striving to become dead, which is a notion unknown to the revelation of God, new or old. They live in minute points and uncertainty. In no case indeed is it really so. Here this letter makes the change that Paul's letters always make; after the theology comes the ethical demand. He it is who fills the saints, guarding them from the excitement of the flesh, and guiding into that holy joy which issues in thanksgiving and praise. They may wear the semblance of being altogether hostile to each other: they are both of them only hostile to the truth. Now you make your living over here. It is interesting to see that from the beginning the Church was a singing Church. This cannot be forgiven by all who cleave to the first man, on the side either of ordinances or of philosophy. And as she says, "Well, honey, whatever you want." When we not only believe with the heart, but are ready, when called, to make confession with the mouth. So the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell in Him. Chastity was the one completely new virtue which Christianity brought into the world. For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. Since God raised us with Christ and we are already as good as seated with Him in heaven, we should "keep seeking" heavenly things. As to tradition, it invariably puts man as far off from God as it can, and calls this religion. Seek marks the practical striving; set your mind, the inward impulse and disposition. So don't be deceived; don't let men deceive you. It is not merely bringing the heavenly into them, so to speak; and decidedly not of joining the two things together. The treatment of the idiot and the simple-minded was unfeeling. The two words are orge ( G3709) and thumos ( G2372) , and the difference between them is this. No doubt Simon the Pharisee was a good man; but Jesus was more than good, he was chrestos ( G5543) . There could be no fellowship in the ancient world between a slave and a free man. They are not solid or permanent, but their existence enables the viewer to know that there is some real object that casts the shadows. Dean, "A Study of the Enthronement of Christ in Acts 2, 3" (Th.M. The significant thing is that every one of these three words originally belonged, as it were, to the Jews. It is of this Christ is the objective centre and Head. In his pre-Christian days Joad could write: "Birth control (he meant the use of contraceptives) increases the possibilities of human pleasure. The Rheims version translates it benignity. Now he is alive, because God raised him from the dead (2:12). But here writes the lowly-minded apostle, in the full assurance that, though he had never seen them, or they him, it would be real and mutual gratification to know about one another from him who went between them. Had you to do with the law? When a man becomes a Christian, there ought to be a complete change in his personality. Am I then false or true to the constant sign of my Master's death? So, in spiritual things, the mere taking up and repeating thoughts, deep and high but unproved experience, cannot be the fruit of the Spirit of God's teaching. Nor does it offer a man escape from difficult situations; it enables him to meet these situations better. He is the first-born from among the dead, as well as the Head and firstborn Heir of all subsisting creation. Make sure that we're not making unreasonable demands upon them, taking away their humanness, causing discouragement. "As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit." You're not teaching them when you do things like that. Sometimes we say of a man, "Music is his life--Sport is his life--He lives for his work." Not on things on the earth - Wealth, honor, pleasure. When we were going through Ephesians, he said, "Obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." For assuredly God is not trusted where there is so much as a desire thus to alter or turn aside a single word, for one's own convenience or any pretext whatsoever. Brethren, the Christ that God has made known to us is the Christ that man scorned, cast out and crucified. Nevertheless, he lets the Colossians know what he went through for their sakes and other saints who were before his heart, even though unknown in the flesh. He always ends with an uncompromising and crystal clear statement of the ethical demands of Christianity in the situation in which his friends are at the moment. That's not a wise thing to do. (2.) Christ it is who determines this, as all else. Before we begin to study the passage in some detail, we must note two great general principles which lie behind it and determine all its demands. Do you say, Yes, but why not God create by the highest as an instrument? Christ who is my life. It's just, "Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged." As Paul saw it, to the Christian Christ is the most important thing in life; more, he is life. ", How good as well as vast the mind of the Spirit of God! from now on the Christian will see everything in the light and against the background of eternity. But the apostle took every pains to, show how great was the love of Epaphras for them; for his faithful spirit knew some little of that which the apostle knew well, that the more abundantly he loved, the less he was loved. in the singularly energetic language of the Spirit of God here called the members of the man. She lived in the women's apartments and did not join her menfolk even for meals. CHRIST OUR LIFE ( Colossians 3:1-4 continued). Judge these same things, and they may become of some account to the glory of God. The Christian must kill self-centredness and regard as dead all private desires and ambitions. To the husband: love your wife, be not bitter against them. Jesus Christs present rule on His Fathers throne over the church is not the same as His rule on Davids throne over Davids kingdom, which will begin when He returns to earth. In the ancient world sexual relationships before marriage and outside marriage were the normal and accepted practice. Indeed we may say that Paul presents the gospel as the display of divine righteousness beyond all, while he alone develops in his epistles the mystery of Christ and the church. Where sin brought man, grace brought Christ. It is not Christ Himself, as inEphesians 3:1-21; Ephesians 3:1-21, the wondrous issue even now in us by the power of the Spirit; but, at least, in His word is found (what the Colossians needed) an active and most pure spring of instruction and counsel, and mutuality of help by it. Its true character will be fully shown on the day when Christs glory is revealed (3-4). We have not to imagine a reason, for the Spirit of God has given His own, and this will be found to set aside all others. ", It is no use denying the plain truth "when ye lived in them;" it is blessed to know that we are dead now. If the parent is too easy-going, the child will grow up indisciplined and unfit to face life. This is the kind of peak of devotion which we can only dimly understand and only haltingly and imperfectly express. but, "What do I owe to others?". There is malice. The maimed and the sickly went to the wall. Is it necessary? What a change! There is a figure especially characteristic of the divine nature morally considered I need not say light, as we are told more fully in the epistle to the Ephesians. When the slave was past his work, he could be thrown out to die. Here the apostle speaks of another system altogether: Christ come, but the glory not yet apparent, but only coming. ", All the blessedness that Christ has procured is for those that believe; but this of course supposes that they hold Him fast. Further, we see how Christian love delights to communicate and to hear. Sections. He it is who has now revealed the mystery that was kept hid through ages and generations. There was no such notion as only caring for the saints in his own particular place. "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." And that is, I've seen fathers sometimes tease their little babies until the baby screams in frustration. There is not a chapter in it where the Holy Ghost has not a most important and essential place. How could it be otherwise if by the knowledge of God? THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE CHRISTIAN ( Colossians 3:18-25 ; Colossians 4:1 ). Atheism and Pantheism are the ultimate results of philosophy, and both in reality set. Put on the new self, which is ever freshly renewed until it reaches fullness of knowledge, in the likeness of its creator. Paul begins with a heart of pity. The whole direction of the Christian ethic is not to ask: "What do others owe to me?" When we not only believe with the heart, but are ready, when called, to make confession with the mouth. not on things on the earth; not mind earth and earthly things, temporal enjoyments, riches, and honours; and though food and raiment, and the necessaries of life, are to be sought after, and cared and provided for, yet not with anxiety and perplexity of mind, in an over thoughtful and distressing manner; nor should the heart be set on those outward things, or happiness placed in the possession of them. The apostle addresses the Colossian Christians in terms substantially similar to those which are addressed to the saints at Ephesus. The tendency of any body of people is sooner or later to fly apart; love is the one bond which will hold them together in unbreakable fellowship. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.". And whatever you may be doing in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Like a mine of unknown and inexhaustible wealth, the treasures of wisdom are all in Him hidden, but not in order to remain so; they only need to be explored for you to attain "unto the riches" in them ( Colossians 2:2 ); but until you, Colossians, press after attaining the full knowledge "hidden." God had given the law; He had embodied His past ways in an inspired history of His people; He had given prophets to proclaim what was future. The fundamental effect of this Christian teaching is that marriage becomes a partnership. So, we're called to thanksgiving; we're called to the peace of God. He applies the truth to the case in hand after this: "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven us all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us." The Greek looked down on the barbarian; and to the Greek any man who did not speak Greek was a barbarian, which literally means a man who says "bar-bar." 224-26.]. It is evident, therefore, that these apostolic epistles were meant to circulate among the saints. He who probed it all cannot be endured. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Paul narrowed himself to no local ties, nor should we allow such a thing for an instant. "Beware," says he, "lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." There is a kind of person who is the slave of his passions (palkos) and who is driven by the desire for the wrong things (epithumia, G1939) . The practical effect of the marriage laws and customs of ancient times was that the husband became an unquestioned dictator and the wife little more than a servant to bring up his children and to minister to his needs. Christ, says he, calls us upwards to himself, while these draw us downwards. For this is the winding-up and exposition of what he had lately touched upon as to the abolition of ceremonies through the death of Christ. Now that he has come, the shadows are of no further interest. there is in fallen man, as such, a will that hates the truth, and despises the grace of God. This is not holding the Head. The life of the Christian is hidden with Christ in God. It was Christianity which drew men together sufficiently to make them wish to know each other's languages. Its basic idea is the desire for that which a man has no right to have. They needed to be drawn away from every theme and object but Christ Himself. It may be added that what is said of the same truth is in Colossians attributed to Christ, or that life which we have in Christ. We remember, for instance, the tragic question of Mary Lamb, whose mind was ultimately unhinged: "Why is it that I never seem to be able to do anything to please my mother?" Beloved, the Christ that we know gives no glory to the first man; neither does He put honour on ordinances or human priesthood. How we want them to be better than we were. If you knew Him better, you would feel it yourself. For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. "Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily." Bengel speaks of "the plague of youth, a broken spirit (Fractus animus pestis iuventutis)." Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve [are a servant of] the Lord Christ ( Colossians 3:24 ). Of course it is not at all being dead to what a man had as a natural life in the world. Here the ethical part of the letter becomes more and more practical. Although there were difficulties and hindrances, how much, he feels, there is for which to praise our God and Father: "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet" (and observe well, it is not merely for the certainty that He will, but in the peaceful assurance that He has made us meet) "to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light." The verse is an extension and emphasis of the preceding one. It need hardly be said that they were equally true, and each in its place most appropriate, but not all equally elevated. Knowledge and faith make a soul rich. THE THINGS WHICH LIE BEHIND ( Colossians 3:5-9 a). Impossible that He could be aught but the first-born. II. It therefore has characteristics of a letter by Continue reading "Commentary on Colossians 3:1-4" Let us take the cases one by one and look at them in the light of this new principle. They had really themselves slipped away in heart: no such hope had found favour otherwise. Leave me alone." Paul moves on to give his list of the great graces with which the Colossians must clothe themselves. They may seem to be far as the poles asunder; but in point of fact, there is nothing that more shows an energetic spirit of evil at work in the world than the way in which he marshals and combines these two armies, that outwardly look enemies to each other. How can I show her how much I appreciate her and love her?" There were evils to be corrected, dancers to be warned against; but if he thinks of that which the Father has in view for them, and of them in view of His glory, less he could not say, neither could he say more. Mortify [or put to death] therefore your members which are upon the earth [that is the members of your body, those body desires put them to death]; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience ( Colossians 3:5-6 ): Now, as Paul is writing to the Ephesians, he tells them much the same things, that for these things the wrath of God is coming upon the earth. He uses the same line of thought in Romans 8:13: "If you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live." He must not be the kind of servant, who, as C. F. D. Moule puts it, does not dust behind the ornaments or sweep below the wardrobe. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about them. Macho, "I know what I'm doing. The old advice still stands which says that before we repeat anything about anyone we should ask three questions: "Is it true? The answer is important, for in it there is the whole Christian doctrine of work. There is here a picture from the life of the early Christian. While there is no doubt that which requires to be cut down or pruned on every side, there is a gradual development of divine life in the saints of God; and this, as being through the Spirit's use of the truth, by no means can be all at once. The one and same Christ it is who has settled everything. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is our God and Father; and He has blessed with every possible blessing, and in the highest sphere and on the best ground. There is kindness (chrestotes, G5544) . There must be in his life a radical transformation of the will and a radical shift of the centre. Paul returned to his thought about the believers union with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Colossians 2:9-15). If a divine person was pleased to appear here below, and to bring in unimagined goodness and power, dealing with every need and every one with whom He came in contact, and who sought or even accepted His gracious action, it might have been supposed that man could not resist such unhesitating love and unmeasured power. Paul goes on in Colossians 3 to talk about the present life, exhorting to put off the old life because those in Christ have died and have been raised with Christ. For don't be deceived, if you are living after the flesh, you are not an heir of the kingdom of God. Who has done so? But does this so much as resemble the provision of grace for the Christian? "For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; in whom [or rather which] are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Philosophy is an idol of man or nature, a blind substitute for the knowledge of God. So you feel like you've got to challenge everything. (3.) Read full chapter Colossians 1 Colossians 3 The word father in his mind stood for nothing but severity. I love it. The Christian is marked by a goodness which is a kindly thing. Under Roman law a slave could not possess any property whatsoever and here he is being promised nothing less than the inheritance of God. Resources . As to the Jewish rites and feasts that some were endeavouring to re-impose, take for an instance the Sabbath, which is the stronger, because it was from the beginning of the first man, yet unfallen, and of course long before the Jewish people. He puts off his old self and puts on a new self, just as the candidate for baptism puts off his old clothes and puts on the new white robe. I know he is, because I don't know if he loves me or not." We do not work for pay or for ambition or to satisfy an earthly master; we work so that we can take every task and offer it to Christ. The Christian ethic is one of mutual obligation, in which the rights and the obligations rest with every man. A father's stroke that chastises the erring is a mercy. Upon the wings of affection the heart soars upwards, and is carried forth towards spiritual and divine objects. It is not merely the life of a Christ that lived in this world, but the life of Him that was lifted up on the cross, and bore my sins there. Be not deceived; submit not yourselves to creeds, to books, or to men; give yourselves to the study of God's Word, derive your creed and the doctrines of your faith from it alone, and then you will be able to say: "Should all the forms that men devise Assault my faith with treacherous art, I'd call them vanity and lies, Scripture must not be sacrificed rudely to our seeming comfort. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him ( Colossians 3:7-10 ): So we should be as John says, walking as Jesus walked. And when we turn them into positive commands instead of negative prohibitions, we find three laws for Christian speech. They might detract little or nothing as to his personal qualities; they might even affect to condescend and patronize. "Behold, He comethevery eye shall see Him" ( Revelation 1:7 ). 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