Colossians 3:1-14 ASV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:5-9

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESColossians 3:5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth.—“Quite so!” the heretic teacher might say; “this is just what we ourselves advise.” “Yes,” rejoins the apostle; “but let us know what it is we are to slaughter.” It is no hewing and hacking of the body, but what is as much more difficult as it is noble—the excision or eradication of evil thoughts (Matthew 15:19-20). Inordinate affection, evil concupiscence.—R.V. “passion, evil desire.” The... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:9-11

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Colossians 3:9-11The New Spiritual Nature.In the primitive Church it was customary for the new converts, after putting aside their heathenish vestments, to array themselves in white garments, that they might indicate, in the most public manner, the great change which had taken place. It was perhaps in allusion to this custom that the apostle bases his exhortation. A courtier would not dare to insult his sovereign by appearing before him in squalid and tattered... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:12-13

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESColossians 3:12. Bowels of mercies.—R.V. “a heart of compassion.” A case of concrete for abstract. The physical effect of pity lies at the bottom of the phrase.Colossians 3:13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another.—Literally it would be, “Bearing with one another, and dealing graciously with yourselves”; for not only the verbs but the pronouns also change with a delicate shade of meaning. Forbearance, like a peacemaking angel, passes to and fro between... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:14

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESColossians 3:14. Above all these things put on charity.—Reminding us of the exalted place which the queenly virtue holds in St. Paul’s triad. As the outermost dress of an Oriental was perhaps that which was most serviceable, so whatever else is put on, “above everything” love must be remembered. Which is the bond of perfectness.—“That in which all the virtues are so bound together that perfection is the result and not one of them is wanting to that perfection”... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:1

Colossians 3:1 I. "Seek things that be above." This is the business first of all of a man's understanding, of the understanding of a Christian who is risen with Christ. Seek those things that be above, seek the conversation of the wise and the instructed. Study if you will the masterpieces, the highest masterpieces of literature: make the most of whatever enlarges and ennobles your conceptions of nature and of human life; in all the higher and purer regions of thought you are nearer Christ even... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:2

Colossians 3:2 I. What does the Apostle mean by the words Set your affections? Our affections are that part of our nature by which we go out in sentiments of interest, complacency or delight. What the Apostle requires of us is to let our minds go out upon these "things above," and rest in quiet contemptation of them. He would have us take them as settled and indubitable facts, clearly revealed to us, and make them the object of our deep, continuous and interested study. He calls us not to pry... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:3

Colossians 3:3 The Hidden Life. If we are true Christians, we have passed through a death of some kind, and our life, if we have one, is a hidden life, a life not seen by men, a life safe in the company and the custody of Christ. I. Now, doubtless, there was a more visible and palpable contrast in the days of St. Paul, between the life of one who was and one who was not a Christian, than there can ever be in a country like our own. But though the contrast is more vivid in a heathen country than... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:5

Colossians 3:5 However startling this phraseology may appear at first, it is perfectly easy to point out, by instancing a few particulars in analysis, the plain reason for such an application of terms. Gold seems in many respects very like a god; not the only living and true God, but some human conception of the deity, resembling those of the savage or unchristianised regions of the world. I. No matter where we begin. Take the attributes it possesses, if you will, for examination. (1)... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:11

Colossians 3:11 Christ All, and in all. I. Christ is the substance or fulness of "all" things that which really goes to make the being of everything. Let us pause a little, and help ourselves to begin this year with worthy views of the dignity of Christ in the whole physical and spiritual universe. Everything that is was first a thought in the mind of Christ. There it lay from all eternity, till, by His will and power, that thought became matter. That was creation. Therefore every created thing... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Colossians 3:1

DISCOURSE: 2181OUR RESURRECTION WITH CHRIST A MOTIVE TO HEAVENLY-MINDEDNESSColossians 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 entirely new motives to action. The inducements which reason could offer, were (as all antiquity proves) altogether weak and inefficient — — — Those alone which Christianity proposes are capable of... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:5-9

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:9-11

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:12-13

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:14

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:1

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:3

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:5

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:11

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Colossians 3:1

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