| Frederick Charles Woodhouse - 1883 - 286 sider
...effort. We dishonour Christ by not rising to our due position, by not being what we may be. " Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God." This is the Easter response to the complaint, " My soul cleaveth to the dust." As we put forth energy... | |
| George William Wall - 1884 - 256 sider
...exhortation to " holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord," and to the consequent seeking of " those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God," that so "we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with Him continually dwell." The language... | |
| William Haslam - 1884 - 240 sider
...unhappily, every saved one does not, though risen with Christ, set himself earnestly to seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. I once heard of a child who said to her mother, " Oh, mother ! I have discovered two things : this... | |
| Lucy C. Skey - 1884 - 172 sider
...burden light." " Feed My lambs ; " " feed My sheep ; " " be pitiful ; " " be courteous ; " " seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God." Men are no longer to be persuaded by the " terrors of the Lord," but they are to be led into "green... | |
| John De Witt - 1885 - 442 sider
...all these things shall be added unto you ; " " If ye then be risen with Christ, set your affection on things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God ; " and such descriptions of the Christian life, as: "We look not at the things which are seen and... | |
| Church congress - 1885 - 650 sider
...of it. I will give you a simple verse as an example. " If ye, then, be risen with Christ seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of Gcxl." Here are four great doctrines, the Resurrection, Ascension, and Session at the right hand of... | |
| 1840 - 572 sider
...devotedness to God is pressed on the consciences of the saints. " If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye have died (awtdavtrt), and your... | |
| 1886 - 672 sider
...You are conscious of this vast inferiority immediately. " If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.'' "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy the vocation wherewith ye are... | |
| Herbert A. James - 1887 - 248 sider
...love. What then is the meaning of the Apostle's words, " If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God : set your affection on things above, and not on things on the earth " ? They are no idle words to... | |
| Granville Moody - 1890 - 502 sider
...impoverished in order to displace our affections from its mutable joys, and induce us to look at those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Our earthly adhesions are broken or dissolved, so as" to wean our hearts from earthly things, and produce... | |
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