Man, what can I do for her today; she's such a doll. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. He is answerable to God, just as his workmen are answerable to him. To quote C. F. D. Moule, "idolatry is an attempt to use God for man's purposes, rather than to give oneself to God's service." One of the best tests of any action is: "Can we do it, calling upon the name of Jesus? It is most true in its place; but it addresses rather the sense of responsibility than the communion of affections of the children of God. But he adds: "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled;" and we must not weaken this. Next, the doctrine is applied still more definitely. He meant to reconcile man spite of himself; He would prove His own love to be the conqueror of his hatred. In his pre-Christian days Joad could write: "Birth control (he meant the use of contraceptives) increases the possibilities of human pleasure. He is all, and He is in all. Hence, too, a main part of the difference between these two epistles. Hence he infers that we must seek those things which are above. It is as if Paul said, "For you the treasures of wisdom are hidden in your secret books; for us Christ is the treasury of wisdom and we are hidden in him.". Who ever appealed in distress, and did not find in Him bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering? T. K. Abbott points out how this passage shows in summary fashion the barriers which Christianity destroyed. The word we have translated foul talk is aischrologia ( G148) ; it could well mean obscene language. Then you have a happy relationship. True, and known to some from the first, the Spirit would brook no hiding of it in order to meet the daring of men and the subtilty of the enemy, who were taking advantage of the lower glory of Christ, so as to deny all that was higher His deity and eternal Sonship. It remains, however, that He is the first-born of all creation, because he is the Creator of all things, above or below, material or spiritual: "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible." 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. Thus they have a closer connection than any others in the New Testament. The Christian owns his death in his very baptism; and what is wanted is not effort to attain, but the Spirit's power in acting on the truth by faith. He explains this duty (Colossians 3:2; Colossians 3:2): Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Whatever insinuates it denies that He has adequately provided for His church here below: this He has surely done in every form in His word. The essence of idolatry is the desire to get. And what was to be done? "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing here into heaven, this same Jesus is going to come again" ( Acts 1:11 ). Yet the cross was the precise and only place where the foundation that cannot be moved was laid. (a) Set your mind on the things above. There is no feature of the present day more remarkable than the success with which Satan is massing as it were, his forces, bringing together at the very same point, where they are wanted, these two parties; that is to say, the heavier arms of human tradition, and the lighter ones of man's philosophy. Resources . 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. We must walk the more closely with God in all the instances of evangelical obedience. I have been crucified with Christ, thus I am dead to the flesh and to the things of the flesh and to the life of the flesh; I should not be living after the flesh. It is a quite different state of things from what could be gathered from the Old Testament. And that is, I've seen fathers sometimes tease their little babies until the baby screams in frustration. Philosophy is an idol of man or nature, a blind substitute for the knowledge of God. 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. And if we are dead to the earth, and have renounced it as our happiness, it is absurd for us to set our affections upon it, and seek it. So, says he, "being fruitful in every good work, and growing (not exactly in, but) by the knowledge of God." It was not so in the Ephesian epistle, where one of the richest developments of divine truth precedes any particular allusion to the saints in that city. "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." If a man does not own Him to be Lord, he is nothing whatever; but one may bow to Him as Lord, and yet be painfully insensible to the higher glory of His person, and to the depths of His grace. Then she finds it easy to submit to him, because she knows that he loves her supremely. We don't have distinctions in Jesus Christ, religious, ethnic or whatever; Christ is everything. How He would have been exalted, if He had consented to shed the halo of His own glory on the race as such! Then he brings in, accordingly, his first solemn caution. The more conscientious a parent is, the more he is likely always to be correcting and rebuking the child. Again we could translate "If" as "Since" (first class condition). And how is this to be accomplished? 89-90; David A. Thus is seen first of all, in virtue of the dead and risen Christ in whom they believed, that they were quickened and all their trespasses forgiven, two things here strikingly united together. Have you not got the substance? Boy, if he'd told me that, I would've just really said, 'Hey you take this job, man and stuff it.' The Christian doctrine of work is that master and man alike are working for God, and that, therefore, the real rewards of work are not assessable in earthly coin, but will some day be given--or withheld--by God. How then could He that came and was seen in the midst of men four thousand years after Adam was made, how could He be in any sense first-born of all creation? They should occupy a large place in our thought lives. Satan knew well what he sought in alienating many a Christian from this blessed man of God, and in carping at his ministry, and the testimony he was given to bear. Can anything be sweeter than this genuine simplicity of affection and mutual interest? This remains for the day of Christ's glory, and will fill a most important part in the purposes of God. And as he becomes cold, then she feels all the more insecure and she has to challenge all the more. Simply because he wishes the child to do well, he is always on his top. They were a people living in the world, and the whole system of Judaism supposed and dealt with a people in the world. Nowadays to mortify the flesh means rather to practise ascetic discipline and self-denial. . Let them beware of philosophy and tradition; "for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." But beside the rod keep an apple to give him when he does well.". Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. He can no longer be concerned with the trivial passing things of earth; he must be totally concerned with the eternal verities of heaven. When the slave was past his work, he could be thrown out to die. "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry." this was the serious question, and this it was which God was waiting to solve. 3. The story goes that a French merchant purchased an enormous 112-3/16-carat diamond. Blasphemia is insulting and slanderous speaking in general; when that insulting speech is directed against God, it becomes blasphemy. Because He was the greatest, the best, the holiest? 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. The incarnation, blessed and precious as it is, never reconciled man to God. He it is, the Holy Spirit of God, who we are warned not to grieve. I don't know if he loves me or not. And here we come back to where this passage started--that is precisely why the Christian sets his mind and heart on the things which are above and not on the things of this world. It is not to be found in tradition, still less in philosophy. They defined it as the sinful desire for what belongs to others. He has annulled the power of him that had the power of death that word so terrible for the heart of man, and most surely foreign to the mind and heart of our God and Father, but a stern necessity that came in through rebellion. If a man says he abides in Christ then he ought to be walking as Christ walked. But the great basic Christian virtues are those which govern human relationships. (Colossians 1:13-14) As believing in Him, this is our place. This cannot be forgiven by all who cleave to the first man, on the side either of ordinances or of philosophy. For the Christian and the church must sing their own psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. See the same thing in the famous seventy weeks of Daniel. How is it to be done? The fit time and suited speech, always in grace, not without faithfulness Godward, how good and needful they are! They needed to know, I will not say, that Christ suffices only; but that there is such fulness of blessing and glory in Christ as utterly to eclipse and condemn all that flesh would glory in. it is impossible to look for it from human nature. "They went out from us, because they were not of us." If the peace of Jesus Christ is the umpire in any man's heart, then, when feelings clash and we are pulled in two directions at the same time, the decision of Christ will keep us in the way of love and the Church will remain the one body it is meant to be. Here was an amazing thing. It was neither a gospel contributed, nor a sublime series of prophetic visions. Yet it remains true, that "the hope is laid up for you," as he says, "in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; which is dome unto you, as it is in all the world: and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, as also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth." Both must be directed at things above. They had really themselves slipped away in heart: no such hope had found favour otherwise. Such is the only sure root of all blessing, and in this above all is real faith and spirituality shown. There is a certain kind of constant criticism which is the product of misguided love. . But I must repeat that there is not a single apostle who so much as speaks of being justified by faith, except the apostle of the Gentiles. The Christian will see things, not as they appear to men, but as they appear to God." 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. 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. "I don't need you; I don't need anybody. It is all well for a Jew, because he has got his abstinences and his restrictions. Like others, they may have reasoned that if Christianity had done such great things in the hands of fishermen, tax-gatherers, or the like (who could be of no great account in the world's scale, or in the schools of men), what might it not accomplish if it were but arrayed in the wisdom of philosophy; if it possessed the ornaments of literature and science; if it went forth on its career of victory with that which attracts the feelings and commands the intellect among humanity? So, not only am I to just put off the works of the flesh, the old life, I am to put on Jesus Christ, living after Him. They were created by Him, and for Him, equally with the Father. What believers must do now, enabled by the Holy Spirit, is to fight the good fight of faith by focusing upward rather than downward and "around-ward". Every Christian is crucified unto the world, and the world is crucified unto him,Galatians 6:14. It is a spiritual kingdom for those who are living and walking after the Spirit, regardless of what you may say or affirm to be so. The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes here to press upon us our duty as inferred thence. They were shadows. Archippus was to take heed to the ministry he had received in the Lord. II. I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,Galatians 2:20. This is the fountain of all true knowledge, and so Christ is the truth as to everything and every one. Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Colossians 3 Chapter 3 I. It is rather "your mind;" for here, however important the state of the heart, it is a question simply of the whole bent and judgment. He who believes this would understand that it was still an unrevealed secret during Old Testament times. And, to anger, is not in the original text. It is the word used when Jesus said, "My yoke is easy." Do not be uneasy at the talk of critics: it is natural for dealers to cry up their wares. Is it all we want to draw from Him? They are not indeed to reign with Him: this was by no man and at no time promised to them. Hence his unflagging expenditure of labour. But, as truly and fully making God known, there is none but Christ. Undoubtedly the one word would suggest the other. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. In contrast to the Gnostics, they do not try to climb a ladder of countless intermediate spirit beings. There is no reference to a question of evil within, but of arriving at maturity in Christ, instead of babes, resting merely in forgiveness. B. Lightfoot reminds us that one of the greatest tributes paid to Christianity was paid not by a theologian but by a master linguist. 2. Mark and Luke, although they were not apostles, were surely prophets. Oh, but how important that we are able to say, "Christ who is my life." Every thought of man is vain in the presence of His wisdom. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." There is malice. Others may be as the Christian is we know, and man even in a certain and real way as a creature. Let us hearken, "But now, ye also put off all these." As we have reason to love him whom we have not seen (1 Peter 1:8), so we may take the comfort of a happiness out of sight, and reserved in heaven for us. The supreme example was the Roman Patria Potestas, the law of the father's power. Then follows that which could be said of us alone. That we are dead; that is, to present things, and as our portion. We must live such a life as Christ lived here on earth and lives now in heaven, according to our capacities. There is the sin which the Revised Standard Version calls covetousness (pleonexia, G4124) . Thus we are "strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. It was his confidence in their love; and this is shown not merely in his desire to hear about them, but in the conviction that they would like to hear about him. Observe, (1.) 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. Thus the striving of the apostle was by no means only in the way of evangelizing. 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. 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. He does not say that they may be healthy, and merry, and rich, and great, and prosperous; but that their hearts may be comforted. "Put on, therefore" (says he, in the enjoyment of such grace. We may be content to be hidden while He is hidden; but He is not always to be out of sight. (3.) 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. In Colossians the argument requires that our resurrection with Christ, as well as death and burial, should be distinctly stated. In Colossians 3:4 Paul gives to Christ one of the great titles of devotion. When he was writing to the Philippians, he said, "For me to live is Christ" ( Php_1:21 ). But to play up to that is to open the door for all kinds of demonstrations of love. Make sure that we're not making unreasonable demands upon them, taking away their humanness, causing discouragement. As also, looked at individually, the Christian is a son of God, so there should be a growth up to Christ in all things. * [3:1-4] By retaining the message of the gospel that the risen, living Christ is the source of their salvation, the Colossians will be free from false religious evaluations of the things of the world (Col 3:1-2). We may put this in more modern language, as C. F. D. Moule expresses it. Trench calls this a lovely word for a lovely quality. There is more said even here to maintain the full glory of Christ. The Jew looked only for a mighty King Messiah; the Christian is baptized into the death of Him who suffered on the cross, and finds not alone his sins forgiven, but sin, the flesh, condemned, and himself now viewed of God as dead to all; for nothing less is set forth in baptism. Having this in the soul, one is entitled to have it in the body also at His coming. 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. Have you mortified the deeds of the flesh? In the presence of God the social distinctions of the world become irrelevant. Every right-minded person revolts from it as a lusus naturae, and a piece of affectation or acting. We may have proved how sadly everything of the sort has been perverted; but there is a sense, and a most weighty one too, in which we cannot too much strengthen the links of love between the saints of God, and that too where there is a real holy ministry for their good. Certainly they have no relation to me now risen with Him. If we live a life of Christian purity and devotion now, when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, we shall also appear with him in glory,Colossians 3:4; Colossians 3:4. We must note carefully what Paul means by that. 3:18-25 Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Had you to do with the law? That real object is Jesus Christ. The maimed and the sickly went to the wall. Men's Ministry Home Women's Ministry Home Children's Ministry Home Pastor's Ministry Home. Am I entitled, as I look upon Christians henceforth, to see nothing but Christ in any and Christ in every one? 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." And as she says, "Well, honey, whatever you want." The Greeks themselves defined it as insatiate desire and said that you might as easily satisfy it as you might fill with water a bowl with a hole in it. When the youngster realized who it was that had given him friendly help, his expression of dumb adoration was a study." Can we do it, asking for his help?" So the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. Literally what he says is, "Let the peace of God be the umpire in your heart." The master must remember that he too has a Master--Christ in heaven. It has often been said that humility was a virtue created by Christianity. Yes, Christ is in all, and Christ is all. That's not a wise thing to do. There is no new means of grace; there is no development, still less supplement to Christ. Set your affection on things above . Under Roman law a slave could not possess any property whatsoever and here he is being promised nothing less than the inheritance of God. And why? 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. We may proceed to trace now the course of the Spirit of God in this deeply instructive epistle. He it is finally who gives vigour for all the holy conflicts we have to wage with the adversary. require us to pronounce on evil ways in order to look into this evil doctrine or that; but the apostle speaks now of the saints in their ordinary and normal manner. What could be more vast than the reconciliation of all things in heaven and earth? It comes from two Greek words; the first half of the word is from pleon ( G4119) which means "more" and the second half is from echein ( G2192) which means to have. There could be no fellowship in the ancient world between a slave and a free man. The word father in his mind stood for nothing but severity. Not only did he preach the one and teach the other (which the others no doubt did too), but he has committed to inspired writings the gospel as none other did; and he has, alone of all, brought out the church in the fullest way. The apostle will not sanction such an amalgam, but refuses it; and we must remember that in these exhortations it was the Lord acting by the Spirit in His servant. "This creep! There was much more than this. And then, as he gives this long list of things, parallel list here, he said that, "They which do such things are deserving death" ( Romans 1:32 ). The ancient world was full of barriers. In Romans the emphatic point is simply death, because the argument of the apostle in chapter 6 does not admit of going beyond the truth that the baptized believer is alive from the dead not exactly risen, but alive unto God. Before we study the list in detail, we must note two very significant things. "Well," you say, "and it would be simple if my husband really knew what he was doing." 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. All things were created by Him, no doubt; but they were created for Him also not by Him for the Father. "Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh." Besides, Christ is the first-born of all creation. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. These things at first sight appear far apart, but they are not so in result. Thus it is then that for these saints the desire is that they should steadily advance. ], "The Christian has to keep his feet upon the earth, but his head in the heavens. Read full chapter Colossians 1 Colossians 3 An *apostle is a person whom God sends to lead Christians. Love heavenly things; studythem; let your hearts be entirely engrossedby them. No matter how clever and religious those laws may appear, they will not succeed in controlling the desires of the body (20-23).Because they have died to sin, Christians are not in bondage to things of the world as the Gnostics are. (Read all of Colossians 3) Complete Concise I. He is dead with Christ; consequently he has passed out of the sphere to which such dealings apply. Because I live you shall live also,John 14:19. The expression "brethren," though of course flowing from Christ, brings forward their relationship by grace to each other. Christ on earth was a blessed pattern of forgiveness and forbearance. There is not rich or poor, there is not favored and special class; we are just all one. How is it?" You notice it's in italics. Hence we learn, it may be seasonable to remark, that the shape given to the mystery here is not that Christ is exalted in heaven, and that the church, by the Holy Ghost sent down thence, is united to Him the Head there. 1. 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?" There was passion and evil desire. Because the wife feels the love and the security and she knows, "Hey, he's my man." There is patience (makrothumia, G3115) . It is false and ruinous, whether it leaves Him out or brings Him in whether it denies the true God, or makes everything a sham god. The whole direction of the Christian ethic is not to ask: "What do others owe to me?" He does not even say worthy of Christ, but "of the Lord." We are offered two realities; things above and things on earth. His grave is man's grave. The essence of idolatry is, in fact, the desire to have more. Set your mind -- Greek think of - phroneite. In this passage Paul speaks of the things of which the Christian must divest himself, and in Colossians 3:12 he will continue the picture and speak of the things which the Christian must put on. "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. You must live as God's people. It is a question now of truth and holiness in the Spirit of Christ, in short. This is a very good general rule: "Be as much in earnest for heavenly and eternal things, as ye formerly were for those that are earthly and perishing.". There is scarce anything more offensive than a child who looks, talks, and acts the old man. We very often evade the truth on which the New Testament insists, that a Christianity which does not change a man is most imperfect. "You that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind," says he (for the full truth is brought before them as to their condition), "enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death." 3 f We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of g your faith in Christ Jesus and of g the love . Two present imperatives identify the Christians responsibilities: "seek" (Colossians 3:1) and "set your affection on" (Colossians 3:2). 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