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  • Lecture 15 Concluding Exhortations

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 4:2-6 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: that I may make it manifest,…

  • Lecture 14 The Earthly Relationships of the New Man

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 3:18-4:1 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children…

  • Lecture 13 Practical Holiness by Conformity to Christ in Relation to Others

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 3:12-17 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.…

  • Lecture 12 Practical Holiness by Conformity to Christ in Relation to Ourselves

    Colossians Part 2 By H A Ironside Colossians 3:5—11 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; 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: in the which ye also walked some time,…

  • Lecture 11 Christ the Believer’s Life and Object

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 3:1-4 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with…

  • Lecture 10 Christ the Antidote to Carnal Asceticism

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:20-23 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines…

  • Lecture 9 Christ the Antidote to Oriental Mysticism

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:18-19 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints…

  • Lecture 8 Christ the Antidote to Jewish Legality

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:11-17 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of…

  • Lecture 7 Christ the Antidote to Human Philosophy

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:8-10 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which…

  • Lecture 6 Christ the True Wisdom: The Revelation of the Mystery of God

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:1-7 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for 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…

  • Lecture 5 Paul’s Twofold Ministry

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 1:23-29 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; who now…

  • Lecture 4 Christ the Firstborn: Twofold Headship of Christ and Twofold Reconciliation

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 1:15-22 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things…

  • Lecture 3 Paul’s Prayer, and Thanksgiving

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 1:9-14 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…

  • Lecture 2 The Salutation and Introduction

    Colossians By H A Ironside Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, (verses 1-2) Thirteen epistles…

  • Lecture 1 General Considerations and Analysis

    Colossians By H A Ironside No one familiar with the Pauline Letters can fail to see how intimately linked are those to the Ephesians and the Colossians. It is very likely that the letter from Laodicea, referred to in the last chapter of the epistle we are considering, is really our…

  • Chapter Four Christ, The Believer’s Example

    Colossians By H A Ironside Marvelous Principles (Colossians 4:1) It is unfortunate that the break between chapters 3 and 4 comes just where it does. It would seem far more suitable to include 4:1 in chapter 3 and let the next chapter begin with 4:2. Colossians 4:1, which concludes the passage…

  • Chapter Three Christ, The Believer’s Life

    Colossians By H A Ironside Power for Holiness (Colossians 3:1-4) After the somewhat lengthy digression in Colossians 2:13-23, the apostle turned his attention to applying the truth taught in 2:12. I think we can see the connection better if we read 2:12 and 3:1 without anything intervening: “Buried with him in baptism,…

  • Chapter Two Christ, The True Wisdom

    Colossians By H A Ironside The Mystery of God (Colossians 2:1-7) Men who know little of the deep convictions that stirred the heart of the apostle Paul will have difficulty realizing the intensity of his feelings when the truth of God was questioned and the people of the Lord were in…

  • Chapter One Christ, The Head Of The Body

    Colossians By H A Ironside Salutation (Colossians 1:1-2) The Epistle to the Colossians opens with these words: “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother.” Thirteen Epistles in the New Testament begin with the name “Paul.” A fourteenth letter, in spite of considerable dispute…

  • Author’s Introduction

    Colossians By H A Ironside No one familiar with the Pauline letters can fail to see that the Epistles to the Ephesians and the Colossians are intimately linked. The apostle was anxious that both should be read by the same people. It is very likely that the letter “from Laodicea” referred…