I have no doubt that Paul also argued with himself from the nature of the work of grace, which is the implantation of a living and incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth for ever. The charioteers of the Roman circus might with much cleverness and art, with glowing wheels, avoid each other; but God, with skill infinitely consummate, guides the fiery coursers of man's passion, yokes the storm, bits the tempest, and keeping each clear of the other from seeming evil still enduceth good, and better still; and better still in infinite progression. AMEN. Here we must bow our heads. It is not the Spirit that groans, but we that groan; but as I have shown you, the Spirit excited the emotion which causes us to groan. "The carnal mind," he says, "is ENMITY against God." When Christ was God's heir, and was here on earth, he was heir of the cross, heir of shame, and spitting, and cruel mockings, and scourgings. ", Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, January 5TH, 1868, by. An angel's tongue might fail to sing their sweetness, or tell their brightness and their majesty; mine has failed but this is well. Merchant; though you have been sore pressed this week, and it is highly probable that next week will be worse still for you, believe that all things even then are working for your good. And I can shut his mouth again 'yea rather, that is risen again,' for he took him captive on that day; I will add, 'who sitteth at the right hand of God.' "So he bringeth them to their desired haven," said the Psalmist by storm and tempest, flood and hurricane. Yes, but Christ died a blasphemer's death, and he died tor blasphemers. Though thou hast changed a thousand times, he has not changed once; though thou hast shifted thy intentions, and thy will, yet he has not once swerved from his eternal purpose, but still has held thee fast. The same legacy that left peace with you, also left tribulation with you, while you are in this world. "Yet," says Paul, "I am persuaded that life cannot separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus." In verses 1-11, Paul contrasted those "who live according to the flesh" with . I come, therefore, to notice the second argument. Here is a youth who is to be initiated in the art of archery, and therefore he carries a bow. Let us try to meet this question, "Why does Christ intercede to day in heaven?" Do you suppose for a moment that there is any injustice in God in having given you grace which he did not give to another? Now, who is he that condemns the people that have such a head as this? Earth wears upon her brow, like Cain of old, the brand of transgression. Notice, our difficulty is that we know not what we should pray for; but the Holy Spirit does know, and therefore he helps us by enabling us to pray intelligently, knowing what we are asking for, so far as this knowledge is needful to valid prayer. If the call be effectual, and you are brought out and brought in brought out of sin and brought to Christ, brought out of death into life, and out of slavery into liberty, then, though thou canst not see God's hand in it, yet it is there. Second, being born in human likeness and living among us as a sinless man, Jesus "condemned sin in the flesh"beat sin on its own turf. Have you forgotten that he had shame and spitting, the reproach, the rebuke of men, and that he conceived all those to be greater riches than all the treasures of this world? The sighing of a true heart is infinitely more acceptable, for it is the work of the Spirit of God. As he turns over each of these love-tokens, and as he reads the words of his reconciled prince, he asks "When will the vessel sail to take me back to my native shore?" My God, thou art my all in all the circle where my passions move, the centre of my soul. "Who is that? When Napoleon was on the island of St. Helena, he was watched by many guards, but after many complaints, he enjoyed comparative liberty, and walked alone. Wait awhile; that weary head shall soon be girt with a crown. The first one is, "Yea rather;" the second one is, "Much more." that love belongs to us. There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. You and I are also groaning for it. was the means of his quickening. They are discontented enough with life and yet they are afraid to die. You know that every sinner is guilty of the murder of Christ." We must have more preaching of the Holy Spirit, if we are to have more conversion work. II. Another doctrine we gather from this is, the necessity of an entire change of our nature. Keep your model before you. If you had not been a child he would have left you where you were in your natural state; but inasmuch as he hath wrought in you to will and to do of his own good pleasure, he that put his stamp on you as being one of the family of the Most High. Home; Shop. The text says, "we groan." But wherefore, conscience, should I go thus round about? But one more word, and that circles the argument, namely, that the work of the Spirit in the heart is not only the mind of the Spirit which God knows, but it is also according to the will or mind of God, for he never maketh intercession in us other than is consistent with the divine will. These men will not repent, will not believe; they will not go God's way, and then they grumble and growl, and fret, and fume, because God has locked the treasure up against them. Paul, a Christian! If this is his devotion, what must be his impiety? In too many instances ministers of religion has propagated doubt, and the result is a general hardening of the popular feeling, and a greatly-increased neglect of public worship. He did not bring the mercy-seat outside the veil, to carry the mercy-seat to the blood. Perhaps the little one stutters, stammers, and cannot get its words out, but the mother sees what he would say, and takes the meaning. We cannot break the bread and multiply it, we can, however, generously distribute what we have, and thus in feeding the hungry we shall prove ourselves children of our Father who is in heaven; we cannot heal the diseased with our touch, still we can care for the sick, and so in love towards the suffering we can prove ourselves to be children of the tender and ever-pitiful God. I do not wonder, therefore, that in his epistles he often discourses upon the doctrines of foreknowledge, and predestination, and eternal love, because these are a rich cordial for a fainting spirit. He has called not the righteous but sinners to repentance. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be." 1 & 2 Peter: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $13.20 $22.00. Let us begin with the word "work." Yet, what liberty was it? If the black thought then comes up, "Ah! Silently the forest groweth, anon it is felled; but all the while between its growing and felling it is at work. For when God made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us" Romans 8:34 . "We know," and the apostle lifts his hand to where the white-robed hosts are praising God for ever. If we are predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son, the Lord has predestinated us to much tribulation, and through it shall we inherit the kingdom. It is "an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." We are co-heirs; if he be truly an heir, so are we; and if he be not, neither are we. Upon this supposition, God's utmost has been tried, and has failed. C. H. Spurgeon At Exeter Hall, Strand. I believe that the apostle was persuaded that these two blessed links existed between him and the great God, and he was persuaded that neither of those two links would ever be broken. Lecture 1: A Chat about Commentaries. The fact is, brethren, that the relationship of a son of God belongs only to those who are "predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of the Father's will:" Ephesians 1:5 . Those in heaven, have, as it were, stolen there. I do feel that he loves me better than I love myself. Their anchor goes within the veil of the waters into the deeps of the sea; ours goes within the veil of glory, into the heights of heaven, where Jesus sits at the right hand of God: "within the veil;". As God, by his own right, the Lord Jesus is possessor of all things, since he made and supports all things; but as Jesus, the mediator, the federal head of the covenant of grace, he hath no rights apart from his people. Whether you will receive it, or not, must rest with yourselves. We always want to be putting in some little scrap of our own virtue; we want to be doing something. It is a strong bow, and therefore very hard to draw; indeed, it requires more strength than the urchin can summon to bend it. Christ was always considered as having you in him, and you were always considered by God as being in Christ. As to our spirits, we have liberty to soar into the third heaven, and sit in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus; but as for our bodies, we can only roam about this narrow cell of earth, and feel that it is not the place for us. At times this very spirit of resignation appears to increase our spiritual difficulty, for we do not wish to ask for anything that would be contrary to the mind of God and yet we must ask for something. If you have proved by your works that the grace of God is within you, God will not forget you; he will not leave you, he will not cast you away. The believer is here the brother to the worm; in heaven he shall be next of kin to the angels. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Even so did our Lord Jesus Christ. There he would stand, silent, motionless; till Christ would say, with a voice louder than ten thousand thunders, "What dost thou here? Oh! I do not find them either in the English version or in the Greek original. The work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian's behalf is described in the first 27 verses of this chapter. I have wished I might indulge in folly; I have wished there were no laws to restrain me; I have wished, as the fool, that there were no God." It is true the world is always active, but it is with the activity of the battle-field, wherein hosts encounter hosts and the weaker are overcome." Romans 8:28 . He did not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax; neither should we. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's own Son, cleanseth us from all sin; so away foul fiend, that also has received its due. The Holy Spirit has a wonderful power over renewed hearts, as much power as the skillful minstrel hath over the strings among which he lays his accustomed hand. Now, why did you come here till you had paid your debt? The world will begin to throw in the believer's teeth all his former iniquities, when he sets forth with the cry, "Who is he that condemneth?" It is as when two dear friends lovingly embrace with their arms around each other's neck, there is a double link binding them together. Now which shall it be! Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" Come, will you wade with him through the deep waters, and then at last climb up the topless hills with him? Oh! If so, why doth God promise them what they have already. Regard the Holy Spirit as your prompter, and let your ear be opened to his voice. It will cost you many a pang to keep that confidence; but oh! In the days when this Epistle was written, the saints had to die very cruel deaths by fire, by the cross, by wild beasts in the amphitheatre; they were sawn asunder, they wandered about in sheep skins and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; yet they never feared death. weary slaves of sin, are not your ways the paths of folly? "Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen again." Will you be willing to endure the revilings of slanderous tongues? The slave is not called. Romans 8:2. Some men are the cisterns that hold God's rain; but other men are those who pray the rain from heaven, like very Elijahs, and many of these are to be found in the lower ranks of society. "What!" They can't get away this time!" General Douglas McArthur "My words are Spirit and Life, and not to be weighed by the understanding of man. God is well pleased with the death of Christ as the vindication of his justice, and for Christ's sake he says to me, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." We cannot at times command even the earnestness which is the life of supplication: a torpor steals over us, our heart is chilled, our hand is numbed, and we cannot wrestle with the angel. Come in with me, let us sail together to glory. You will have to carry it. If God should choose this morning to call the hardest-hearted wretch within hearing of the gospel, he must obey. What a sin it is! "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Impossible! Such a scene did not occur, but had there been any remonstrance given by men you may easily conceive that such would have been Saul's answer. We are all of us under obligations; let us consider the fact in the following manner: First, how are we to understand this? And whereas our experience sometimes leads our spirit to conclude that we are born of God, there are happy times when the eternal Spirit from off the throne, descends and fills our heart, and then we have the two witnesses bearing witness with each other, that we are children of God. All men are called by the ministry, by the Word, by daily providence, to love God, there is a common call always given to men to come to Christ, the great bell of the gospel rings a universal welcome to every living soul that breathes; but alas! I wish you now to observe that we are linked with the creation. Ye may train him up, ye may make his intellect almost angelic, ye may strengthen his soul until he shall take what are riddles to us, and unravel them with his fingers in a moment; ye may make him so mighty, that he can grasp the iron secrets of the eternal hills and grind them to atoms in his fist; ye may give him an eye so keen, that he can penetrate the arcana of rocks and mountains; ye may add a soul so potent, that he may slay the giant Sphinx, that had for ages troubled the mightiest men of learning; yet, when ye have done all, his mind shall be a depraved one, and his carnal heart shall still be in opposition to God. The body is still subject to the evils which Paul mentions, when he says of it that it is subject to corruption, to dishonour, to weakness, and is still a natural body. Well, then, thou owest ten talents, and thy brother owes only one; why should you be proud that you owe more than he does? They seek in vain; for there is no Saviour to be found, except at Calvary; and after you have made the circuit of the globe, and compassed heaven and hell to find another way of salvation, you will have to come back to Christ. There is such a thing on earth as an infallible assurance of our election. This will appear in two ways. And this persuasion helped him to gain his aspiration. The right hand of God is the place of majesty, and the place of favour too. The glory of the Person who died, the anguish and the suffering he endured, the love that moved him to give himself up to death for us, all make us see how great the atonement is. "We have," says the text, not "we hope and trust sometimes we have," nor yet "possibly we may have," but "we have, we know we have, we are sure we have." "Christ has died, yea, rather, is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." III. The trial, too. Up with your shield, and say, "Yes, it is all true, or it might have been, for my heart is so evil that it would have led me to any sin; but 'It is Christ that died.'" This does not exclude even infants at the mothers' breast. What is God to us? It is so; but then my Lord Christ delighted to come to be my Saviour. Or, to come nearer the truth, it is as when a mother puts her arms around the neck of her little child, and her child puts its tiny arms about the mother's neck; that is how we and God are joined together. May God help you, and help me, to groan all our days with that kind of groaning. Firm as this rock I stand, though nature reels and all things pass away. Romans 8:1 is widely misunderstood for two reasons: first, katakrima, the word typically translated as condemnation, does not mean that. Once thou didst wallow in the mire, and if thou shouldst adopt a swine to be thy child, thou couldst not then have performed an act of greater compassion than when God adopted thee. God forbid! Let us go forward into the future, however dark it is, with this confidence, that, one thing at least we know, the love of Christ will hold us rest, and by his grace we will hold fast to him. As the wave-sheaf was the first of the harvest, so the spiritual life which we have, and all the graces which adorn that life, are the first gifts, the first operations of the Spirit of God in our souls. Five Divine acts, through each of which in regular succession the purpose of salvation advances to its accomplishment, are linked by St. Paul into one golden chain, of which one end is let down out of the unknown past, and the other returns to lose itself in the unknown future. Hear another, 2 Corinthians, vi. It also delivers us from every fear and doubt. He looked forward with glad anticipation to the time when the wain should creak beneath the sheaves, and when the harvest home should be shouted at the door of the barn. Scripture everywhere represents the chosen people of the Lord, under their visible character of believers, penitents, and spiritual men, as being "the children of God," and to none but such is that holy title given. I am glad that you have them, brother, may you always keep them; and if I cannot have them, I shall sit down in my struggles and temptations, and still say that there is nothing in the heights, in high doctrine or in high living, that can separate me from the love of Christ. You have been to everybody else; you may go to them now." When Christ Jesus took away our guilt, and "his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree," justice was more terribly displayed than when guilty sinners sink to hell. Just a sentence upon another point. Stop HIM? to be of that temper before described, Romans 8:5; to mind and affect the things of the flesh, doth cause death, or will end in it: the second or eternal death is chiefly intended. Go to www.ccontario.com for an . The practical part follows, wherein we find, 1. My unknown sins are buried in the unknown deeps of his almighty sacrifice. "Roll ye away the stone," saith he, and it is done; and now, listen to him; he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" Shall we not, in some degree, repay the immense debt of our obligation by seeking to make the future also debtors to us, that our descendants may look back and acknowledge that they owe us thank for preserving the Scriptures, for maintaining liberty, for glorifying God? Now be quiet. thou shall rest for ever and ever. But if he could have read God's secrets, he might have found that Simeon was not lost, for he was retained as a hostage that Joseph was not lost but gone before to smooth the passage of his grey hairs into the grave, and that even Benjamin was to be taken away by Joseph in love to his brother. Now, please to notice that my text is in the present tense. Some of you have a trouble perhaps, in her who is dearest to you. Renewed men are made fit companions for the Son of God. It is an oft-repeated truth, and one which, perhaps, has almost lost its meaning from being so oft repeated, that this is the very crisis. Prosperous professors, who do no business amid David's billows and waterspouts, may set small store by the blessed anchorage of eternal purpose and everlasting love but those who are "tossed with tempest, and not comforted, are of another mind." Let me suppose an impossible case for a moment. God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. II. Thine infinite wisdom, O God, is mine to guide me. Is there anything to be proud of in having paid a farthing in the pound? Now, there are some of you here incommoding us to-night, and making us very hot. that cry is directed to a mass of putridity, to a body that has been dead four days, and in which the worms have already held carnival; but, strange to say, from that tomb there comes a living man; that mass of corruption has been quickened into life, and out he comes, wrapped about with graveclothes, and having a napkin about his head. "You know how you used to blaspheme his name." As long as we have half-a-dozen, we have half-a-dozen doubtful ones: but when it comes to only one, and that such a sufficient one as the truth that "It is Christ that died," we have a well-founded hope, in which we may rest with confidence. But our Lord has told us that greater works than his own shall we do, because he is gone to his Father; and these greater works we do. Enemies in heaven? It is a great honor to any man to be like Christ; God does not intend that his children should have no honor, for he puts honor upon his own people; but, still, the true glory lies with him, since he has made us and not we ourselves. You have no right to heaven in yourself; your right lieth in Christ. The call of our text is of a different kind; it is not a universal call, it is a special, particular, personal, discriminating, efficacious, unconquerable, call. What a heritage lies before us! Our first birth gave us humanity; our second birth allies us with Deity. He supplys our wants; he keeps the breath within our nostrils; he bids the blood still pursue its course through the veins; he holdeth us in life, and preventeth us from death; he standeth before us, our creator, our king, our sustainer, our benefactor, and I ask, is it not a sin of enormous magnitude is it not high treason against the emperor of heaven is it not an awful sin, the depth of which we cannot fathom with the line of all our judgment that we, his creatures, dependent upon him, should be at enmity with God? Side by side with you there sits an ungodly person; you two have been brought up together, you have lived in the same house, you have enjoyed the same means of grace, you are converted, he is not; will you please to tell me what has made the difference? As I have already said, if in time of trouble a man can pray, his burden loses its weight. You have continued in it, and persisted in it." II. Yet one more remark before we leave this point. MY venerable friend, who, on the first Sabbath of the year, always sends me a text to preach from, has on this occasion selected one which it is very far from easy to handle. "Brethren, we are debtors;" what I have is not my own, but God's; and if it be God's, then it belongs to God's poor. III. But no; take a child away, place it under the most pious influences, let the very air it breathes be purified by piety; let it constantly drink in draughts of holiness; let it hear nothing but the voice of prayer and praise; let its ear be always kept in tune by notes of sacred song; and that child, notwithstanding, may still become one of the grossest of transgressors; and though placed apparently on the very road to heaven, it shall, if not directed by divine grace, march downwards to the pit. Be persuaded of that truth, and you are indeed happy men and happy women; what more could you wish to say than to be able truthfully to say that? Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. Can those lips say, "Depart, ye cursed," to the man for whom they once did intercede? There are few people who sincerely believe this. (1) No condemnation. That is quite another doctrine, and it is the true teaching of the Word of God. If you be pardoned, it is through his blood; if you be justified, it is through his righteousness; if you be sanctified, it is because he is made of God unto you sanctification; if you be taught in the ways of God, it is because he becomes your wisdom; if you shall be kept from falling it will be because you are preserved in Christ Jesus; and if you are perfected, it is because you are complete in him, and if you be glorified at the last, it will be because God the Father hath glorified his Son Jesus. Therefore it is that we groan. If thou hast a desire, God has given it thee. Christian men, do you feel this with regard to your sins. Keep that groan in your ear, for I want you to hear another. And mark, every man that is saved, is always saved by an overcoming call which he cannot withstand; he may resist it for a time, but he cannot resist so as to overcome it, he must give way, he must yield when God speaks. They are blessed, but they have not had their public entrance. This was thought to be a singular instance of his affability, and his kindness to his courtiers. You believe that all things will in the end work for your good. Ask ye why? Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, March 24th, 1872, by. and do we not feel that we shall lay all our honors, whatever they may be, at his dear feet, who hath according to his abundant mercy predestinated us to be conformed to the image of his Son? Others of you who can do little yourselves, can this day assist by sending forth men of God to preach the gospel of Christ. The law of God says, "Thou shalt not," and we have done exactly what we were forbidden to do. There were many better men in the city than he. But in addition to his sermons, he regularly reading a Bible passage before his message and gave a verse-by-verse exposition, rich in gospel insight and wisdom for the Christian life. "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.". It may be that all the different providences that shall happen to thee will come wave upon wave, washing thy fortune upon the rocks, till it shall be wrecked, and then waves shall break o'er thee, till in that poor boat, the humble remnant of thy fortune thou shalt be out on the wide sea, with none to help thee but God the Omnipotent. There is nothing about death that the believer should construe it into a fear that it will separate him from the love of Christ. who can tell what God is? If so, methinks your heart is not in a right state. Speak the truth! but it is possible to pay too dear, especially when you could get on as well without them as with them.) Have I any reason to believe that I have been called according to his purpose? Now let me ask my congregation, do any of you know that you are God's children? "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup." says the accuser "but you sinned against light and knowledge. There are two things that join God and a believer together; the first is, God's love to the believer, and the second is, the believer's love to God. "My beloved," said he, "thou shalt be the model by which I will fashion my noblest creature, I will for thy sake make men able to converse with thee, and bound to thee by bands of love, who shall be next akin to myself, and in all things like to thee." But we sit down very contented. How seriously, then, should each stand and think. I am not certain that it is altogether for my good to have kind and generous friends, with whom I may hold fellowship; but I know that it is for my good that I should hold fellowship with Christ, that I should have communion with him, even though it should be in his sufferings. See, brethren, he enters into glory, but not for himself alone, for it is written, "Whither the forerunner is for us entered." "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified," everyone of them. Remember thou art now a debtor to God in a legal sense, as thou art in Adam, thou art no longer a debtor to God's justice as thou once wast. It is true we can work no miracles, yet can we do works which mark God's children. Who would be the pleader in such a case? Sometimes the accusing whisper comes to your ear, "You have sinned against a great God. Here the heir of heaven is unknown; he is in disguise, full often clad in the habiliments of poverty, but there his princely character shall be discerned and acknowledged, he shall be waited upon by angels, and shall share in the admiration which the universe shall pour upon the glorified Redeemer. The cross and Christ are nailed together by four nails, and they will never be disassociated in the experience of any Christian. "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth no righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." 5. saith he, "I do not call gold good, but I call faith good! Better to be a solitary pilgrim to bliss, than one of the thousands who throng the road to hell. 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