Consider —(1)Your sins are many, and it is only by Him they can be pardoned (1 John 2:1). If we love Him, we shall desire to glorify Him: but what can tend so much to His glory, as to let men see the efficacy of His doctrine on our character? When Kemble made his first appearance he was laughed down; so was Disraeli.4. Spurgeon. Edmond, D.D. His humility and self-denial.2. (2)To correct and rectify our judgment on all points of necessary belief. That we may best prepare for a dying hour, and for the solemn scenes beyond. For defence against error, sin, misery, the wrath of God, an accusing conscience, and all the consequences of neglect.4. Love what Christ loved, hate what Christ hated. It is not our natural dress.2. A study of what Christ taught and required.4. Alexander carried a copy of Homer with him in all his campaigns. The first words spoken by God, after all, in scripture are “Let there be light!†To his followers gathered on a hillside, Jesus says, “ You are the light of the world. Sacred historian, psalmist, and prophet are continually figuring certain characters before our minds as examples or warnings. Whoever conceals his religion must accept the consequence. (1)They are signs of a carnal mind (1 Corinthians 3:3; Galatians 5:19, 20; James 3:14, 15). Every fact and emotion rendered by an image. When Kemble made his first appearance he was laughed down; so was Disraeli.4. Farrar.The Hebrew language one continual picture. But He embodied the principle of universal obedience, and fulfilled every obligation arising from all the relations which He could or did sustain towards God and man. But let no man go on sinning in the supposition that some day by Divine grace he may become converted and then put on Christ. And as it means this hope for the future, and this strength in the present, so also it means forgiveness for the past. (Robert Hall, M.A. But He embodied the principle of universal obedience, and fulfilled every obligation arising from all the relations which He could or did sustain towards God and man. He, if lovable, with whom we can have the most free, constant, and uninterrupted access, will impress us most easily with his characteristics. (Children's Sermon): — It is —I. )Persuasives and dissuasivesJ. The most valuable thing in the world is moral goodness, whose most perfect form is the character of Christ. THEREFORE, IF WE WOULD BE HAPPY, WE MUST MAKE USE OF CHRIST FOR OURSELVES. You bid us seek for nobler manners and purer tastes; you might as well bid the snared bird to fly, or the worm to throw off the rock which is crushing it to earth." It fills the soul with peace and joy (Romans 15:13).III.COMPLETE. Robinson, D.D.cast every other in the shade.I.COSTLY. The parables of our Lord are commonly but portraitures to our spiritual fancy of diverse moral characters; and we can learn the lesson He intends only by a vigorous use of this representing and reproducing power. (iv)Patience (Luke 21:19; James 1:3). Like the painter who drew in a single likeness the transcript of what was best in each selected countenance, we shall be continually transferring from the vast galleries of Providence and Holy Writ, from the society of the present and the past, and from the face of those on earth or in heaven, the manifold moral beauty which is "every creature's best," and thus put that imitative and personating faculty, by which we pass into another's heart, to its highest designed use. WHY WE OUGHT TO DO SO.1. A saint had a vision of Christ on which he gazed so long that he afterwards found in his own hands and feet the marks of the nails. WHY ARE WE TO PUT ON CHRIST?1. You never knew a person, however depressed by poverty or sickness, who, if he sincerely served the Lord, was not happy.3. You will wear this dress in heaven. It might not be right for us to go into the company of sinners as He did, nor employ His terrible invectives; but we can cherish the spirit which led Him to seek the lost, and sympathise with His repugnance to evil. Lyth, D.D.Here is —I. and He says, 'Why, thou art all fair, My love; there is no spot in thee.' Therefore is not the Divine wisdom toward us shown, when the Scripture fixes on this fundamental instinct as a moral power to be dedicated, for its main employment, to our spiritual growth? How widely Dickens observed! TRY TO BE LIKE CHRIST. You heard Mr. Weaver say on this platform — I thought it was a good illustration — that one day he met with a very poor man who was in rags. )The believer's dressT. To put on Christ is to put on —1. (1)To give light to our understanding in the knowledge of the Scriptures. )The garment of salvationR. His purity and fervent zeal.II. That "being clothed, we may not be found naked," destitute of the robe of righteousness, and garment of salvation.2. The text gives us the meaning of "the armour of light."4. Your help.4. )Christian sincerityC. A consideration of some of the modes in which this representing, realising power operates may help us to understand it as a moral faculty, and consecrate it to the highest uses. "As many as have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ," etc.4. A COURT DRESS. remarks, "It is a common phrase that a person has put him on, whom he imitates." Your sanctification.3. The exercises, too, of the human voice in recitation and oratory, only set before us in tones what the pen has first traced in simple words. remarks, "It is a common phrase that a person has put him on, whom he imitates." (iii)Temperance (1 Corinthians 7:31). Latent faith can at the best only edify its possessor. Farrar.The Hebrew language one continual picture. The spiritual processes of contrition, faith, forgiveness, dec., are all inward and secret, and so there is a necessity for the practical fruits of these in likeness to Christ, to be brought forth, so that the Christian and others may have full demonstration that he is born of God.2. For ornament; that we may not be without the wedding garment, and therefore be excluded from the marriage feast.(J. It is right to wear the best dress in church.2. The text gives us the meaning of "the armour of light."4. )Putting on the Lord Jesus ChristC. So success in our line cannot be achieved without habitual regard to Christ. The old Pagan world was full of such manufactures, nor is the modern religious world destitute of such self-made robes, but they are all "filthy rags."II. This should be remembered by the children of Christian families particularly. In the Bible, qualities of character are often represented by clothing. Check the first desire.3. Edmond, D.D. Ever beautiful. It is not our natural dress.2. LIKE CHRIST.1. (ii)Self-denial (Matthew 16:24). All the doctrines of Christianity are intended to expel our native corruption, and raise us nearer to the character and will of God. CONSISTENTLY — as in the day.II. It might not be right for us to go into the company of sinners as He did, nor employ His terrible invectives; but we can cherish the spirit which led Him to seek the lost, and sympathise with His repugnance to evil. Conclusion: Such, then, is the meaning of this Divine message. This man being a Christian, he wished to befriend him; he told him if he would go home with him, he would give him a suit of clothes. Sense.3. "How comes it," asked a bishop of Garrick, "that I, in expounding Divine truths, produce so little effect, while you so easily rouse the deepest feelings of your audience by the representation of your fiction?" A DISSUASIVE FROM SIN.1. )Putting on ChristJ. TEMPERATELY — subjecting —1. Christ is infinitely lovable.2. Latent faith can at the best only edify its possessor. "To put on Christ"; "to be found in Him, not having our own righteousness"; to be "clothed" with His meekness and humility; to have "His spirit," and "the same mind in us that was also in Him"; to open our hearts for His "abode," and have Him "formed within us, the hope of glory" — who but recognises at once, in this so controverted and abused language, the burden of the New Testament? All the doctrines of Christianity are intended to expel our native corruption, and raise us nearer to the character and will of God. "Beholding as in a glass," etc. Promote charity—Christian love—for that is the chief grace of our faith. 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