There is no one that rises before our mind's eye more readily and strikingly in this respect than the apostle Paul himself. "They went out from us, because they were not of us." Another reason is this, that the presence of the Spirit of God, both in the individual and in the church, is a most essential part of christian privileges, while, for the reasons already alleged, it was not for the well-being of their souls that it should be unfolded here. We must mind the concerns of another world more than the concerns of this. Of God He is the image, not exactly in an exclusive, but assuredly in the only adequate sense. Treasures are often hidden for the sake of keeping them safe. The more conscientious a parent is, the more he is likely always to be correcting and rebuking the child. May the word of Christ dwell richly in you with all wisdom. The Revealed Jesus, the treasury of all wisdom and knowledge (2:2-3). (i) The wife is to be submissive to her husband; but the husband is to love his wife and to treat her with all kindness. But there is always a problem in the relationship of parent and child. It has often been said that humility was a virtue created by Christianity. For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Christianity brought mercy into this world. 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. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 2:1-7 The soul prospers when we have clear knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. That which brought in thousands on the day of Pentecost and afterwards was the preaching and the faith that Jesus was made Lord. The sense of the phrase can be captured with "direct your mind to minding things above.". Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (ii) The really new thing about the Christian ethic of personal relationships is that all relationships are in the Lord. It is the word used when Jesus said, "My yoke is easy." How blessed! Lesson 1: In Christ, In Flagstaff (Colossians 1:1-2) Lesson 2: Authentic Christianity (Colossians 1:3-8) Lesson 3: What Spiritual Growth Looks Like (Colossians 1:9-12) Lesson 4: Forgiven by God! And the tragedy is that many people have become so habituated to unclean talk that they are unaware that they are using it. He judges everything in the light of the Cross and in the light of the love which gave itself for him. As for the gospel, it is not a question whether every creature hears, but such is the sphere; and doubtless if the apostle could have preached to every individual in the world, he would have gladly done it. What is there here to make us fond of it? In the light of that Cross the world's wealth and ambitions and activities are seen at their true value; and, the Christian is enabled to set his whole heart on the things which are above. The apostle could not but dread the slide on which the Colossians found themselves; and the more so as they themselves had no fears, but on the contrary thought highly of that which had attracted their minds. God aside. Thus it is that He rises into a new condition, leaving behind that which had fallen under vanity or death through its sinning chief, the first Adam. It was they that yielded to these feelings of hostility. The cross of Christ is the death-knell of the world in all its pretensions before God. 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. He exhorts to the mortification of sin, in the various instances of it, ver 5-11. They defined it as the sinful desire for what belongs to others. We might well suppose that there was some hindrance to the full flow of affection an their part. "And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. Ought I not to wait to enter the same glory with the Christ of God? Impossible that He could be aught but the first-born. But alas! The Christian is one with Him. For inasmuch as the Spirit does act in the church in man, if the eye be not on Christ and only on Him, the action of the Spirit, whether in the individual or the church, gives importance to both. The stronger our faith, and the warmer our love, the more will our comfort be. This it is that always settles the difficulties in the great conflict that rages now as ever, and more than ever, between human religion and the truth of God. So then, as the chosen of God, dedicated and beloved, clothe yourself with a heart of pity, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience. There was no hindrance to the flow of the Spirit in unfolding the truth. from now on the Christian will see everything in the light and against the background of eternity. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world, ver 1-4. The sexual appetite was regarded as a thing to be gratified, not to be controlled. Leave off therefore earthly things. I shall not contend against others who are of a different mind; but certainly the Apostle appears to me to go on step by step, so that, in the first instance, he places traditions as to trivial matters in contrast with meditation on the heavenly life, and afterwards, as we shall see, goes a step farther. Not that others did not supplement this or that. It pertains to a life in this world to say, "Touch not; taste not; handle not." 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. Do you say, Yes, but why not God create by the highest as an instrument? I wonder, then, if we can read Col. 3:4 as referring to the present and future before the parousia. Many who really love the Lord are in this quite misguided as to the duty of the Christian here below. 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. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." You're His servant. When we not only believe with the heart, but are ready, when called, to make confession with the mouth. The thoughts should be occupied about the things where Christ now dwells, where our final home is to be, where our great interests are. Christ in them. Of course it is not at all being dead to what a man had as a natural life in the world. To a Jew a man of any other nation was unclean; when he became a Christian, every man of every nation became a brother. It, therefore, represents more fully than any other of Paul's epistles his doctrine of the person and preeminence of Christ. Our true life lies in the other world: You are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God,Colossians 3:3; Colossians 3:3. The Rheims version translates it benignity. It was at the cross of Christ And so it was that, when all seemed to fail, all was won. The Christian's standard of values will be God's not men's. They use freely His name; they in word and bodily exercise do Him no small reverence; but without faith all is vain. Certainly they have no relation to me now risen with Him. First, on the divine side, it is based on the awareness of the creatureliness of humanity. The New Testament never hesitates to demand with a certain violence the complete elimination of everything which is against God. (iv) It destroyed the barrier between class and class. [Note: Lightfoot, p. He must say, "This is God's business. Christ will appear again. It is necessary to mortify sins, because if we do not kill them, they will kill us. The Christian never stood on any such fleshly ground. I'm able to handle. The slave was a thing in the eyes of the law. If there was one thing the ancient world needed it was mercy. 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. Can we do it, asking for his help?" "Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. It's heaven on earth. We may be content to be hidden while He is hidden; but He is not always to be out of sight. Because at the second coming of Christ we hope for the perfection of our happiness. Read full chapter Colossians 1 Colossians 3 The duty of the parent is discipline, but it is also encouragement. Now, you may be making your living by working there at that office, or factory, or wherever. There is the sin which the Revised Standard Version calls covetousness (pleonexia, G4124) . Everything which would keep him from fully obeying God and fully surrendering to Christ must be surgically excised. Now he is alive, because God raised him from the dead (2:12). Then you have a happy relationship. The slave was not even classified in ancient law as a human being; he was merely a living tool, with no rights of his own. Then follows that which could be said of us alone. But Paul goes on: "The day is coming when Christ will return in glory and then the Christian, whom no one recognized, will share that glory and it will be plain for all to see." The slave and the free man came together in the Church. We are not Jews; we have our place in Christ dead and risen, or are nothing. The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. Infinitely vainer is the thought for any man to impart fresh worth to Christ, than for David to have met Goliath in Saul's armour. "Behold, He comethevery eye shall see Him" ( Revelation 1:7 ). In this we have what the Spirit occupies Himself with as sent down from heaven. They needed to learn especially the vanity of all that man's mind delights in. The words "set" and "affection" are very much alike. . They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.". These are alas! To make laws to live by is the way of the worldly person, not the way of the Christian. When we not only believe with the heart, but are ready, when called, to make confession with the mouth. But there is far more than that: "If ye then be risen with Christ." Not Adam, but Christ is the standard Christ who is God as well as man; "where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." To the Colossians the Holy Ghost has to speak about their state, and along with this to present the truth of Christ as a remedy for it; not so much as the centre of blessedness and joy in the communion of the saints, but as supplying the true and only divine corrective to the efforts of Satan, who would drag them down into tradition on the one hand, and into philosophy on the other, the too common snares of human nature, and the latter more particularly for cultivated and reasoning minds. Don't do that. For this is the sign not so much of what would expiate as cleanse. And how is He the Head of the body? How is it?" In any home the tone of personal relationships must be dictated by the awareness that Jesus Christ is an unseen but ever-present guest. I am aware that men have reasoned much about it; but this is a proof that evidence fails. In such a state dwelling on it would detract from Christ's glory; whereas when Christ alone is the object of believers, they can bear to know and to dwell upon, and to enter into, and understand, the various operations of the Spirit, which turns so much the more to the glory of Christ. Literally what he says is, "Let the peace of God be the umpire in your heart." The children of Israel made a tragic mistake thinking, "Well, we are God's chosen people, and we can live like the nations around us." Such prohibitory commands had their day; but the time of reformation is come. (ii) The Christian ethic lays down the duty of the child to respect the parental relationship. One of the best tests of any word is: "Can we speak it and in the same breath name the name of Jesus? Christ who is my life. They were created by Him, and for Him, equally with the Father. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." A man does not decide to be an *apostle. 1 Paul, a an apostle of Christ Jesus b by the will of God, and Timothy c our brother,. As she rebels, then he's got to show that he's macho. Make sure that we're not making unreasonable demands upon them, taking away their humanness, causing discouragement. If He is, the fulness, you are made full in Him, "which is the head of all principality and power." 2.Not the things that are on earth. The ancient world was full of barriers. In his autobiography, Memory to Memory, Sir Arnold Lunn has a chapter on Cyril Joad, the well-known philosopher, whom he knew well. All momentous and blessed, but nevertheless by no means the same fulness of privilege of which he could discourse at once in writing to the Ephesians. If you knew Him better, you would feel it yourself. His was by no means a love inactive or limited. Not appreciating His glory and fulness, they did not see that the secret of true wisdom and blessing, is in going on to know more of Christ than is already possessed. How was it then to be filled up? The universe goes on as before, the lower creation at least subject to vanity; but God (and it is like Him) hastens to use His victory, though not yet as far as outward things are concerned. Oh, what majesty, as well as adaptation to need, in the truth of God! That is the meaning of all that seems good in the world's piety. Look busy." Yes, but Christ is "all" as truly as He is "in all." In material science it is not so, in schools of doctrine it is not so: there is something altogether circumscribed, in known limits, and definite enough to satisfy the mind of man. That is to say, there may be a difference of reading here and there which impairs the full beauty and accuracy of the blessed word of God; but, as to the substance, the most timid may be assured that you have it in the worst editions of Christendom. The Christian should never forget that he will give account for every idle word he speaks. At any rate this was his mission. Colossians Colossians 2 Colossians 2 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Yet it is never the sign either of life or of bloodshedding, but of a state of privilege beyond. It is interesting to see that from the beginning the Church was a singing Church. The word we have so translated is kakia ( G2549) ; it is a difficult word to translate, for it really means that viciousness of mind from which all the individual vices spring. Observe, To seek heavenly things is to set our affections upon them, to love them and let our desires be towards them. That my life be so completely bound up and centered in Christ that He is my life. The needed and only remedy was to turn the eyes of the saints from other objects, even their own privileges, and to fix them on Christ. He begins with exhorting them to set their hearts on heaven, and take them off from this world: If you then have risen with Christ. He calls him Christ our life. Yet there were men not wanting then that denied him to be an apostle. The verse is an extension and emphasis of the preceding one. He lives in us by his Spirit, and we live to him in all we do. Knowledge and faith make a soul rich. What is there not there to draw our hearts to it? He is certainly not pleading for an other-worldliness in which the Christian withdraws himself from all the work and activities of this world and does nothing but contemplate eternity. Surely union with Him in His death will lead us to die to the world which is alien to us, and to live in aspiration, thought, desire, love, and obedience with Him in His calm abode, whence He rules and blesses the souls whom, through their faith, He has made to live the new life of heaven on earth. He is now hid; and the heavens must contain him; but he will appear in all the pomp of the upper world, with his holy angels, and in his own glory and his Father's glory,Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26. "The description of Christ as seated at the right hand of God is another implied rejoinder to those who were seeking to diminish Christs role as mediator, inasmuch as the right hand of God is a metaphor for the place of supreme privilege and divine authority." In Romans one he says, "For the wrath of God is going to be revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness" ( Romans 1:18 ). On the other hand, the epistle to the Ephesians abounds with such allusions. Everything which could break the heart of a holy man from day to day he passed through. He has put me in charge of it. Paul could think more deeply than any man who ever tried to express the Christian faith; he could travel along uncharted pathways of thought; he could scale the heights of the human mind, where even the best equipped theologian finds it hard to follow him; but always at the end of his letters he turns to the practical consequences of it all. Paul returned to his thought about the believers union with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Colossians 2:9-15). This is the reason why at each grave juncture you will find that ritualists will as a rule support rationalists, and rationalists will try to extenuate the proceedings of ritualists. Love heavenly things; study them; let your hearts be entirely engrossed by them. Let us take the cases one by one and look at them in the light of this new principle. It is in baptism rather than in Him. For really you are dead to them, and that's the principal he is teaching. Mark and Luke, although they were not apostles, were surely prophets. He must remember that he will receive his inheritance. We must never allow one truth to be either shut out or enfeebled by another; but then we need also to remember that there are, and have always been, those that, having begun seemingly well, have ended by becoming the enemies of Christ and the church. THE THINGS WHICH MUST BE LEFT BEHIND ( Colossians 3:5-9 a continued). Of course the Ephesian saints were so; but here it is expressed. Have you not got the substance? You're not under the laws: touch not, handle not, taste not. Trench calls this a lovely word for a lovely quality. While that would be awkward speech in our culture, such repetition was then a way of laying emphasis. Since men have a certain knowledge of Christ's death, they are striving to die. They needed to be drawn away from every theme and object but Christ Himself. "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. For you have. No right-minded man, as such, could take for granted that others would care to know about his affairs any more than be theirs, unless indeed in case of a relation, or a friend, or a public and extraordinary personage. For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. While He lived, this work was wholly unaccomplished. That we might teach and admonish one another.] NASB Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. this was the serious question, and this it was which God was waiting to solve. Why should we heed conjecture? Neither His headship of all creation as the Heir of all things, nor His creatorial rights, would in themselves give a sufficient title to be the Head of the body. 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." They have undoubtedly taught that which is consistent with it and even supposes it. Our affections should not be fixed on houses and lands; on scenes of fashion and gaiety; on low and debasing enjoyment. But this is not at all the divine way of dealing with the Christian. To the husband: love your wife, be not bitter against them. But, even in making your living, if you will do things heartily as unto the Lord, it will open up many opportunities for you to witness. 3:18-25 Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. We want them to get all A's. The slave must not be content with eye-service; he must not work only when the overseer's eye is upon him. In any parent-child relationship the dominating thought must be the Fatherhood of God; and we must try to treat our children as God treats his sons and daughters. Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Colossians 3 Chapter 3 I. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." Utterly impossible that man should see Him who is invisible: he needed one to bring God down to him, and display His word and ways, and Christ is that one image of the invisible God. THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE CHRISTIAN ( Colossians 3:18-25 ; Colossians 4:1 ). He will no longer live as if this world was all that mattered; he will see this world against the background of the larger world of eternity. e. We may proceed to trace now the course of the Spirit of God in this deeply instructive epistle. The one and same Christ it is who has settled everything. If a man brings every word and deed to the test of the presence of Jesus Christ, he will not go wrong. Then come general injunctions. Is it merely that all the universe has thus, in the cross of the Lord Jesus, a foundation laid for their reconciliation? A father's stroke that chastises the erring is a mercy. "For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea." He does not say that they may be healthy, and merry, and rich, and great, and prosperous; but that their hearts may be comforted. Let man be unmendable, let his enmity be beyond all thought, God, in the calmness of His own wisdom, and in the strength of His unwearied grace, accomplishes His purpose of redeeming love at the very moment when man consummates his wickedness. CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. The stronger our faith, and the warmer our love, the more will our comfort be. When the apostle was told to wash away his sins, calling on the name of the Lord, blood does not seem to have been meant, but water. The cross terminated the awful struggle and heartbreaking sight of man thus manifestly led captive of the devil at his will. In the next place, we have the apostle's prayer: "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and growing by the knowledge of God." 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