Oh let me spend them in adoring our great Redeemer..." He then expatiated in the most striking manner upon these words of St. Paul, "All things are yours." Since work implies service, it is a beneficent endowment that it is honourable. The last of the mercies I undertook to set before you is HOME. Just as in those grand old Hebrew psalms you may hear different voices; as you may hear, now the broken voice of the broken and contrite heart as it sobs out its confession of sin, and now the soft cooing as of the infant falling asleep in perfect peace upon its mother's bosom; just as you may hear, now the dull groan of anguish wrung from the heart almost overburdened with sorrow, and now the peal of laughter, as of one who is bounding over the mountain side, breathing God's pure air, and rejoicing in God's glad sunshine; as you may hear, now the sharp cry of pain as of a soldier who has been hit by the archers, and now the shouts of triumph rising from the throats of those who have been victors in the fight; and yet in all the psalms, running like an accompaniment, you may detect the perpetual sense of God's nearness and of God's love: so we shall not fail to find many varied experiences in the Christian life, some joyful and some painful — many voices in one psalm; and yet, if that life is what it should be, the accompaniment of every experience will be the music of a thankful heart.1. For all who know God as Lord and Savior should live lives marked by continual Spirit filled praise for all that God has done in and through Jesus Christ. 4. (4) it cureth spiritual pride when we consider who is to be praised for all the good that is in us. We are a nation of workers. The one life wrestles and leaps onward in endless unrest, the other dwells in calmness and peace. Idleness enfeebles both mind and body. And anyone who knows the misery of the state indicated by the words "out of employment," also knows the greatness of the blessing. 1. )LinksEphesians 5:20 NIVEphesians 5:20 NLTEphesians 5:20 ESVEphesians 5:20 NASBEphesians 5:20 KJVEphesians 5:20 Bible AppsEphesians 5:20 ParallelEphesians 5:20 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 5:20 Chinese BibleEphesians 5:20 French BibleEphesians 5:20 German BibleEphesians 5:20 CommentariesBible Hub, (1)If the heart be brought near to God by every mercy we receive from Him (Psalm 96:8). It is a world whose courtesies are those of love. St. Paul is not intending (I think) so much to enjoin an unceasing course of thanksgiving, as to warn us against allowing our thankfulness to depend upon our own state of mind, or upon the prosperity or adversity of our outward condition. All the dispensations of God should be regarded as the acts of a Father, and therefore as demanding our thanks. How is this possible? Ephesians 5:20a giving thanks always (and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ) (ESV) A revelation of God older than the Bible shines in the home. St. Paul is not intending (I think) so much to enjoin an unceasing course of thanksgiving, as to warn us against allowing our thankfulness to depend upon our own state of mind, or upon the prosperity or adversity of our outward condition. A suspected leaky vessel we try with water first, and then with wine. It is the sure destruction of self-respect and courage. Fuller.Praise is the believer's help in his trials, and his companion after trial. )The music of the Christian lifeW. I am neither merchant, nor student, nor craftsman, nor politician. 5 1 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. B. Thanksgiving should always be found in our addresses to God. A working man is one of God's noblemen. 5. Specific instructions for Christian living - Ephesians 4:1-6:10. St. Paul says, "giving thanks ALWAYS"; the word "always" is sufficiently strong and comprehensive in itself, and becomes additionally so by being joined to the words "all things." A mother's love is a Jacob's ladder by which we ascend to the love of God. And the stream that leapt and churned higher up, lay still as a sleeping child. For friends and privileges and just laws and liberties; for our native land and our memories of heroic ancestors; for Christian principle and the Christian Church; for life and strength and reason; for our bodies fearfully and wonderfully made; for our place in society, our opportunities for good, our means of usefulness, our knowledge, insight, and growth; and for faith, hope, and charity in ourselves and others.I. All the dispensations of God should be regarded as the acts of a Father, and therefore as demanding our thanks. This throws a remarkable light upon the nature of thanksgiving. In his last moments he exclaimed two or three times, "Precious salvation!" III. St. Paul says, "giving thanks ALWAYS"; the word "always" is sufficiently strong and comprehensive in itself, and becomes additionally so by being joined to the words "all things." In our offices, workshops, and studies; at our crafts, domestic duties, and professional tasks, we are all supposed to have some employment. Every way it is a comfort to us. A revelation of God older than the Bible shines in the home. You are not only to worship Him on the Sabbath, but during the week: indeed, the week is to show in you what the Sabbath does for you. Second pair. But here and there, in its descent, it came to solitary spots, quiet basins of stone, where all the hasting and furious turbulence was at an end. When our Maker appointed us to labour, He made labour one of the dignities in His kingdom. It is our shelter from the weather, our banqueting house, our hospital and place of rest. Ordinary mercies are our constant diet (Psalm 68:19). There is one other expression in the text which deserves notice, and to which a remark applies similar to that just now made upon the expression "all things." I know the difficulty of realizing this state of mind; a time may perhaps come, when we shall be able to look back from our place of rest upon the way by which God hath led us, and when we shall be able to see that in all its turns and twistings (so far as they were the result of God's leading, and not due to our own perversity), and in all its darker passages, in its roughest as well as its smoothest portions, it was indeed "the right way," and all demands our gratitude to Him, who led us by a way that we knew not. It is a world whose courtesies are those of love. In my home I am at ease, and free to be myself. Labour itself is a blessing. We are born into it, we die in it. It is the sure destruction of self-respect and courage. Jehoshaphat's army sang praises before the battle. I. 5. 2. They are immense, innumerable, unconceivable, and unexpressible. Just as the stem which is full of sap throws out many branches, so the believer who is full of a spirit of praise will give vent to it in many different forms.(P. But there is a blessing in our homes greater than either its seclusion, or comfort. Macleod, D. D.)Praise in deathRomaine.James Hervey, when Dr. Stonehouse saw him for the last time, about two hours before he expired, pressed upon the doctor in the most affectionate manner his everlasting concerns, telling him "here is no abiding place." Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh evangelical minister who preached and taught in the Reformed tradition. Stonehouse, seeing the great difficulty and pain with which he spoke, desired that he would spare himself. But again; St. Paul in the text gives a very wide range to thanksgiving, when he speaks of "GIVING THANKS FOR ALL THINGS." Believers are not to be deceived by lies (Ephesians 5:6) and must not be partners with those who deceive (Ephesians 5:7). Macleod, D. D.)Praise in deathRomaine.James Hervey, when Dr. Stonehouse saw him for the last time, about two hours before he expired, pressed upon the doctor in the most affectionate manner his everlasting concerns, telling him "here is no abiding place." Nevins. 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