colossians 3:2 commentary

The slave and the free man came together in the Church. Therefore he might well press, "If ye continue. But there is far more than growth in knowledge, or even by the knowledge of God. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." You're not really bound to these things of the world, the rudiments of the world. The man who has praotes ( G4236) is the man who is so self-controlled, because he is God-controlled, that he is always angry at the right time and never angry at the wrong time. 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. That the word of Christ might dwell in our hearts richly. 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) . Undoubtedly the one word would suggest the other. What Paul is saying is, "Put to death every part of your self which is against God and keeps you from fulfilling his will." Here we have the mingling, I apprehend, of natural man's philosophy, and religions man's tradition. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. This, then, shows Christ, in a certain sense, in the Gentiles here below; as, in the Ephesians, Christ is seen above and we in Him. Human words fail to add to such a thought. Satan being invariably the personal and persistent antagonist of Christ, whatever is God's purpose in Christ becomes peculiarly the object of Satan's hatred and hostility. for if we have any part or lot in Christ, if we belong to the church of God, we ought clearly to know the character of our own blessing. 209.]. More than that, in the Early Church it could, and did, happen that the slave was the leader of the Church and the master the humble member. But beside the rod keep an apple to give him when he does well.". Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord ( Colossians 3:16-18 ). Since God raised us with Christ and we are already as good as seated with Him in heaven, we should "keep seeking" heavenly things. But he adds: "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled;" and we must not weaken this. But whereas he said, "that you, being dead," were now thus raised, so he says, "blotting it out against us;" for all that we, poor Jews, could boast the ordinances were against us instead of being for us, and they are gone now. The epistle to Laodicea is not said: so we have no sufficient reason to trouble ourselves about there being a lost portion of the inspired writings. For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. 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. He also urged them to continue living in keeping with their position in Christ. Your Hidden Life Now; perhaps this could be the subtitle of the letter to the Colossians. And now the apostle would recall them: "Walk in him, rooted and built up in him." The supreme example was the Roman Patria Potestas, the law of the father's power. Hence, though the Holy Ghost is really on earth, dwelling in the saint and in the church, yet under such circumstances, to occupy the mind even with the blessed Spirit, would clearly have interfered with His own great aim in glorifying Jesus. He died this is the point here and therefore I am dead too. We must and do judge all things as they are. Commentary on Colossians 3:1-11 Karl Jacobson Your best life nowis hidden. When a man becomes a Christian, there ought to be a complete change in his personality. Had you to do with the law? No man, I will not say anticipated, but approached in thought such a portion for souls on earth. "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." How we want them to be better than we were. Thus no room was left for striving to die. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord ( Colossians 3:20 ). Such is the only sure root of all blessing, and in this above all is real faith and spirituality shown. Sir Arnold Lunn, in Memory to Memory, quotes an incident about Field-Marshal Montgomery from a book by M. E. Clifton James. Practices taught in the law may be compared to shadows. Observe, (1.) "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. It is not a mere duty that has to be done; but the heart is in presence of the objective fact that He died for us, His body. In this we have what the Spirit occupies Himself with as sent down from heaven. This new creation is a continual renewal. Were He among the Jews, it would be the introduction of the promised earthly glory. (ii) Christian speech must be pure. As believing in Him, this is our place. The Colossians, like others, would have liked this well enough; it is just what they were about, and the very thing that the apostle is here correcting. To a Jew a man of any other nation was unclean; when he became a Christian, every man of every nation became a brother. Do we feel and know that we can add nothing to Him? In this case, the knowledge and wisdom are kept in Christ, but made available to those who believe in Him. He was God's chosen One in the highest sense; He was the holy and beloved. It is not, as in the Ephesian epistle, the riches of the glory of God's inheritance in the saints, but closely resembles a comparatively lower line of things which comes before us in the first epistle of Peter. Paul sometimes spoke of the "hidden wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 2:7; see also Colossians 1:26; 3:3). There is no new means of grace; there is no development, still less supplement to Christ. If He is, the fulness, you are made full in Him, "which is the head of all principality and power." None could pretend that He had ever refused a single soul; none could say that they had gone empty away. Trench calls this a lovely word for a lovely quality. How is it?" 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. As we know, the church is built on the foundation, not of Paul, but of His holy apostles and prophets. The apostle addresses the Colossian Christians in terms substantially similar to those which are addressed to the saints at Ephesus. So again by Him alone do all, Jews and Gentiles, draw near to the Father. "You must not only seek heaven, you must think heaven" (Lightfoot). Ah! Colossians 3:1-2. They may wear the semblance of being altogether hostile to each other: they are both of them only hostile to the truth. Nor is continuance in prayer all; but vigilant watch in the same, which does not let slip the just occasion for supplication; and as all things were to be done with thanksgiving, so prayer also, which would assuredly not forget the need of those in the forefront of the spiritual warfare and toil of love. You cannot live after your flesh and inherit the kingdom of God. A substantially similar blessing is stamped on the table of the Lord. Let us take the cases one by one and look at them in the light of this new principle. (i) Paul begins by addressing the Colossians as chosen of God, dedicated and beloved. But there is always a problem in the relationship of parent and child. We don't have distinctions in Jesus Christ, religious, ethnic or whatever; Christ is everything. Colossians Colossians 2 Colossians 2 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. It does not present the Spirit of God as a person down here, though He is a person of course, but rather as characterizing the love. In the which you also walked sometime, when you lived in them. 209.]. He lives in us by his Spirit, and we live to him in all we do. He who probed it all cannot be endured. NIV Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. The Colossians, insignificant ex-pagans from a third-rate country town, will be seen in a glory which, if it were now to appear, one might be tempted to worship." (Wright) 2. 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. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged ( Colossians 3:21 ). Besides, Christ is the first-born of all creation. Servants [or employees], obey in all things your masters [bosses] according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ( Colossians 3:22-23 ); Oh, that you could have employees like that, that are doing things as unto the Lord. 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. . Pleonexia ( G4124) is basically the desire to have more. The Christian ethic insists on chastity, regarding the physical relationship between the sexes as something so precious that indiscriminate use of it in the end spoils it. And how is He the Head of the body? No doubt the hint is wanted by some of us still. "Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily." Paul begins with a heart of pity. And what a deliverance from self to see Christ in them! How blessed! (iii) Paul then turns to the greatest problem of all--the relationship between slave and master. You had such a good attitude. The apostle, however, speaks of his service in these two respects: the gospel, which is universal in its aspect to every creature under heaven; and the church, which is a special and chosen body. 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. Love heavenly things; study them; let your hearts be entirely engrossed by them. Under both Jewish and Greek laws and custom all the privileges belonged to the husband and all the duties to the wife. Such is the basis of the liberty wherewith Christ has set us free. His master could thrash or brand or maim or even kill him at his caprice; he had not even the right of marriage. There was no class under ban, nor was any individual refused the beams of its heavenly light. The Christian will have all the desires of the new man gratified. "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing," urges he, "being fruitful in every good work." Colossians 3:2-3 "Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. The King James Version translates the first part of this section: "Mortify your members which are upon earth." There is a present witness of the victory of Jesus. Mark and Luke, although they were not apostles, were surely prophets. He it is who has now revealed the mystery that was kept hid through ages and generations. And as if that were not precise enough, it is added, "Set your affection on things above." Now. (2) He is at the right hand of God. This is not holding the Head. The Scythian was notorious as the lowest of the barbarians; more barbarian than the barbarians, the Greeks called him; little short of being a wild beast, Josephus calls him. And so, are you walking after the Spirit? Every Christian is crucified unto the world, and the world is crucified unto him,Galatians 6:14. The Jew looked down on every other nation. Meanwhile, instead of the Jews enjoying glory along with Christ in their midst, rejected by the Jews, Christ is in the Gentiles; and they who receive His name are waiting for heavenly glory with Christ. His glory is in heaven. The pursuit of tradition or of philosophy, as a graft on Christianity, continually tends to bring in that which poisons the springs of truth, and grace is always annulled by either. Set your mind -- Greek think of - phroneite. 3:5-9a So, then, put to death these parts of you which are earthly-- fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, the desire to get more than you ought--for this is idol worship; and because of these things the wrath of God comes upon those who are disobedient. ( Matthew 11:30). He calls him Christ our life. Not that others did not supplement this or that. It need hardly be said that they were equally true, and each in its place most appropriate, but not all equally elevated. God is the Creator, man the creature, and in the presence of the Creator the creature cannot feel anything else but humility. Our thoughts should be occupied about the things where Christ now dwells, where our final home is to be, where our great interests are. If it is the desire for money, it leads to theft. People will say, "How is it that on Monday you can be so happy; you're whistling. There was, there could be, no lack of the attractiveness of love and power in Him who went about doing good; yet miserable hearts did not turn to Him, save where the grace of God the Father drew them to the only adequate expression of Himself. For Christianity is not a mere thing of doing this or not doing that; it is a growth, because it is of the Spirit in life and power. Ought I not to wait to enter the same glory with the Christ of God? He it is who works in the various gifts of Christ, welding them together, so that it may be truly Christ through His body. (433) See Calvin on the Corinthians, vol. The more conscientious a parent is, the more he is likely always to be correcting and rebuking the child. Set your affection on things above . The sufferings of animals were nothing to it. Indeed, the trappings which men so cry up are a positive hindrance to Christ; and in the precise measure in which they are prized, they reduce their votaries to slavery, and the faith they profess to zero. The thing which settles any master and servant relationship is that both are servants of the one Master, Jesus Christ. In this context it is much more likely that what is forbidden is slanderous talk against one's fellow-men. Bengel speaks of "the plague of youth, a broken spirit (Fractus animus pestis iuventutis)." Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly. There was no Christianity i.e., no deliverance of man and setting him in the Second Man before Christ became first-born from among the dead. (iv) It destroyed the barrier between class and class. Many who really love the Lord are in this quite misguided as to the duty of the Christian here below. 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. The word signifies to mind them, and think on them, to favour and approve of them, to be affectionately desirous of them, and concerned for them; for where the treasure is, the heart should be; and as the saints' best things are above, their minds and affections should be there likewise; their contemplation should be on those things, and their Such a man finds life and all that it means in music, in sport, in work, as the case may be. In classical Greek there is no word for humility which has, not some tinge of servility; but Christian humility is not a cringing thing. They live in minute points and uncertainty. The one and same Christ it is who has settled everything. We must note carefully what Paul means by that. When she knows she is loved supremely, she is secure, and she feels that security, and thus anything my man does is all right. But now ye also put off all of these; [not just these more overt sins of the flesh, but put these off too, put off] anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Christ was now in these Gentiles who believed the hope of a heavenly glory in prospect for them. 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. . Am I entitled, as I look upon Christians henceforth, to see nothing but Christ in any and Christ in every one? The stronger our faith, and the warmer our love, the more will our comfort be. There was no hindrance to the flow of the Spirit in unfolding the truth. 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. In baptism the Christian dies and rises again. And we do recognize that the highest authority in our life is God. Yet, carrying out his ministry with continual tears, he looked before men as one whom none of these things moved. If there was danger, certainly it was love to admonish them; and in this spirit he therefore says, "If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled.". THE MUTUAL OBLIGATION ( Colossians 3:18-25 ; Colossians 4:1 continued). I can do what I want." Read full chapter Colossians 1 Colossians 3 It was not so unmingled an address as where he views them simply as they were in Christ. Everything which could break the heart of a holy man from day to day he passed through. Ought I not to share my Master's shame and dishonour here? Set your affection on things above . B. Lightfoot reminds us that one of the greatest tributes paid to Christianity was paid not by a theologian but by a master linguist. in the singularly energetic language of the Spirit of God here called the members of the man. There are at least two vivid pictures here. I wonder, then, if we can read Col. 3:4 as referring to the present and future before the parousia. Now he may have the blessed enjoyment of communion with Christ, but it is a Christ crucified on earth. Towards the end of his life Joad came back to religion and returned to the family of the Church; but it was not without a struggle, and it was the insistence of the Christian Church on sexual purity which kept him so long from making the final decision. He who believes this would understand that it was still an unrevealed secret during Old Testament times. This was an entirely new thing. There is no scale of angelic beings forming a ladder to link Christians with God (18-19).Having been set free from the bondage of sin through Christs death, Christians should not get into bondage again by becoming slaves of religious regulations that people want to impose upon them. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. As he was writing to the Galatians and was listing the works of the flesh, he said, "That we know that those who do these things shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven" ( Galatians 5:21 ). To the virtues and the graces Paul adds one more--what he calls the perfect bond of love. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 2:1-7 The soul prospers when we have clear knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. This change was effected by Christianity." I'm macho. Christians have been raised with Christ to new life in a higher world, where their desires and conduct are like Christs (3:1-2). And the husband, he feels so macho, "Hey, she's my little gal; she's trusting me to do the right thing." The Spirit of God, as in the Acts of the Apostles, began with the simplest confession of Christ's name. Do it as unto the Lord, you're the Lord's servant. What we read of there is that, when Christ had come, He forthwith sets up His kingdom, in which the Jews are promised to be His specially favoured subjects. You're called to serve Him. Moreover, worldly lusts, the members which are on the earth, earthly pleasures that are sinful, may be here meant. 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. 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. Thus it begins, not with the incarnation (for sin was not yet judged, nor man brought to God), but with the cross, with redemption. Colossians 2:20). It was Christianity which drew men together sufficiently to make them wish to know each other's languages. They might come for what they could get; but at length they would not have Him or anything He had to give on any terms. See how and for what the apostle gives thanks again. Do not be uneasy at the talk of critics: it is natural for dealers to cry up their wares. It becomes something which is entered into not merely for the convenience of the husband, but in order that both husband and wife may find a new joy and a new completeness in each other. The slave must not be content with eye-service; he must not work only when the overseer's eye is upon him. God aside. Who ever appealed in distress, and did not find in Him bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering? We very often evade the truth on which the New Testament insists, that a Christianity which does not change a man is most imperfect. This is the only allusion to the Spirit, as far as I remember, in the epistle. Wherein is the difference? "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.". There is not only the contemplative side but the active, and this makes the saint truly passive; for if we are strengthened, it is mainly not to do, but to endure in a world which knows not Christ. That may be putting bread on the table, but your life really is bound up in Jesus Christ. All question, therefore, of what existed before His death and resurrection is at once excluded. There could be no fellowship in the ancient world between a slave and a free man. For you have. Only through Him are the eyes of the heart enlightened to know what God has wrought and secured for the saints. Let us look at these things one by one. When we not only believe with the heart, but are ready, when called, to make confession with the mouth. In his pre-Christian days Joad could write: "Birth control (he meant the use of contraceptives) increases the possibilities of human pleasure. e. Christ, and Christ alone, has truly represented God to man, as He alone was perfect man 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. Let the word of Christ" (it was God's word, but still called the word of Christ here) "dwell in you richly in all wisdom." Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. It is true. II. One of the best tests of any word is: "Can we speak it and in the same breath name the name of Jesus? * [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). It is exactly the same line of thought as that of Jesus when he demanded that a man should cut off a hand or a foot, or tear out an eye when it was leading him into sin ( Matthew 5:29-30). And so it is. Every right-minded person revolts from it as a lusus naturae, and a piece of affectation or acting. Can we do it, asking for his help?" (ii) It destroyed the barriers which came from ceremonial and ritual. The Christian is one with Him. In short, the only reason we can even obey the commands in Colossians 3:1-2 is because we are now positionally dead to the world and its magnetic attractions. Not because He is the first-born of all creation simply, nay, nor because He is the creator of all. Is it necessary? A man does not decide to be an *apostle. We must acquaint ourselves with them, esteem them above all other things, and lay out ourselves in preparation for the enjoyment of them. You come to that space from time to time in the prophets. "Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth; for ye are dead.". THE THINGS WHICH LIE BEHIND ( Colossians 3:5-9 a). 1 Paul, a an apostle of Christ Jesus b by the will of God, and Timothy c our brother,. Beloved, the Christ that we know gives no glory to the first man; neither does He put honour on ordinances or human priesthood. Thus we should hold Him fast, not only in other respects, but in this special relation of "Head.". it is impossible to look for it from human nature. Here is a Bible study, commentary, and summary of Colossians chapter three. Ambitions which dominated the world, will be powerless to touch him. So the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. I'm dead to the flesh that I might be alive unto God in Christ, living after the Spirit. For instance, under Jewish law, a husband could divorce his wife for any cause, while a wife had no rights whatever in the initiation of divorce; and the only grounds on which a divorce might be awarded her were if her husband developed leprosy, became an apostate or ravished a virgin. 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