Are your arms about the neck of the great Father? If any confront you with other confidences, still keep you to this almighty please, "Christ has died." It should be, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." But the crime may seem to be worse when we think of what God is. Do I suffer with him, suffer for him? You will remember the last one had, "Yea, rather." Paul's Desire to Depart Philippians 1:23 Adam's death was not simply his own private loss, for in Adam all died, and Christ's life and all the consequences of his obedience are not merely his own, but the joint riches of all who are in him, of whom he is the federal head, and on whose behalf he accomplished the divine will. They are gone, and gone for ever! Come on thou world in arms! This does not exclude even infants at the mothers' breast. If it were some little thing, my narrow capacity could comprehend and describe it, but I need all covenant blessings. Even when ignorance and perplexity are removed, we know not what we should pray for "as we ought." I always find when I have to deal with these "fat things full of marrow," that words fail us; and perhaps it is well, for then the excellency of the power is proved to be not by words of man but in the weight, and fullness, and richness of gospel matter. Now, if I cannot say the first things because of diffidence, though they be true, yet can I say this, that I feel myself to be a sinner, that I loathe my sinnership, that I detest my iniquity, that I feel I deserve the wrath of God on account of my transgressions? We cannot be condemned for "Christ hath died. you shall not be uncrowned. time is gone, and change is over, and I am floating on thy pacific waves where winds can never howl and tempests never lower. There is great sin; that we know only too well: but we also rejoice in the knowledge that there is a great atonement to cover all our sin, "For it is Christ that died. If they drink but little from the river of pleasure, his draughts must be shallow too, for their joy is his joy, and his glory he has given them. I. And I do not, I cannot imagine that he would be sitting down in heaven in the posture of ease, unless he had accomplished all unless "It is finished!" He standeth up and beareth his own faithful testimony; but some great one of the land some nobleman who lives near rises, stands in the witness box, and confirms his witness. that love belongs to us. when I can find enough for my faith to be satisfied with even in the digging of the well, what shall be my satisfaction when I see it overflowing its brim, and springing up with life everlasting? The blood of heaven runs in thy veins; thou art one of the blood royal of eternity a son of God, descendant of the King of kings. Thou camest here to-day from thy toil, and thy bones have scarce forgotten yesterday's weariness; but thou art coheir with him who rules all heaven; thou art come here in poverty and thou wilt go home to a scant meal in a narrow room, but thou art co-heir with him who made the worlds, by whom: all thinks consist; you have come here weak and feeble, doubting, distrustful, and cast down, but I tell thee, weak though thou be, and in thine own judgment less than the least of all yet the same hand that wrote Christ heir of all things wrote thy name with his, and till a hand can be found that can blot out thy Redeemer's name thine shall stand and abide fair ever and ever. 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. There was a table for the shew-bread, an altar, and a brazen lover; yet there was no seat. In full tale hath every sin received sentence in his death. Impossible! That lie had in it a residuum of truth, for by sovereign grace we have become such. This is the voice of reason and of nature. We all know that the word "carnal" here signifies fleshly. We may be remarkably indebted to members of parliament, but for the little they do they are tolerably well rewarded; at least, we take it that the place is more an honour to some of them than they are to their place. May we have this faith on our dying bed, when the pulse is faint and feeble, and heart and flesh begin to fail! Yea, thy law is within my heart. Now, observe, that this conformity to Christ lies in several things. Here stands the case. So they are, but he that is with you is mightier far. But why is this? "No, I did not," you say; "I was a debtor." Why, sometimes, it can drive us to Christ; let us pray that it may. Pause and think of thy state; and if thou knowest thine own sinfulness this day, believe on Christ, who came to save sinners, and that done, all things shall work for thee, the tumbling avalanche, the rumbling earthquake the tottering pillars of heaven, all, when they fall or shake, shall not hurt thee, they shall still work out thy good. A thorn in the flesh may be as painful a thing as a sword in the bones, and yet we may go and beseech the Lord thrice about it, and getting no answer we may feel that we know not what to pray for as we ought; and yet it makes us groan. When the Emperor Charles the Fifth went to war with Francis the First, King of Naples, he sent a herald to him, declaring war in the name of the Emperor of Germany, King of Castille, King of Aragon, King of Naples, King of Sicily, and he went on with many more titles, giving his sovereign all the honours that were his due. There is no terror to him like the terror of the cross. Heavenly calling means a call from heaven. Now Secondly, we are called upon to notice the universality of this evil. When I wish such a man dead and rotting in his grave; when I desire that he were non est, I must hate that man; otherwise I should not wish him to be extinct. He will write the prayers which I ought to offer upon the tablets of my heart, and I shall see them there, and so I shall be taught how to plead. See how his father teaches him. The effectual call of grace is precisely similar; the sinner is dead in sin; he is not only in sin but dead in sin, without any power whatever to give to himself the life of grace. I trust you will lay hold upon that thought; if Christ as God's heir has a perfect right to what his Father has bestowed upon him, even so have we, for our rights are nonexistent. Would you forge the iron and strike the dagger into the heart of your best friend? Brethren, we are free! Shall we not want to have our voices made more loud till they become as thunders, or like many waters, or surely we shall not be able to praise him as we would? The apostle then turns to a third source of comfort, namely, the abiding of the Holy Spirit in and with the Lord's people. O God, thou Judge of all, my spirit meets thee robed in my Saviour's righteousness, and salutes thee as my Father and my all. Why is this? If I cannot understand I will not question, for I am not his counsellor, but I will adore and obey, for I am his servant. This detailed study of Romans 8 will encourage you to live free of sin's shackles and enjoy victorious, confident communion with Christ. "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. The first witness is our spirit; the second witness is The Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, who beareth witness with our spirit. Commentaries; Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible; Romans 8; Verses 38-39 - Romans 8:38-39. . Oh! Men do not reach what they do not aspire to, and Paul says, "We are more than conquerors." He is our legislator, our law-maker; and then, to make our crime still worse and worse, he is the ruler of providence; for it is he who keeps up from day to day. The rich man hoards wealth, the poor man makes it. The SPECIAL CONDUCT naturally expected from those who are partakers of the peculiar privileges of being the children of God. O eternity, eternity eternity! It may be read, "Nor anything in creation, nor anything that ever is to be created," nothing shall ever separate us-from the love of Christ. Does he challenge purity to convict him of guilt? but another thought comes up, "You know that he died; but then you have slain your Lord. Rowland Hill. He knows and comprehends the cryings, and meanings, and sighings, and chatterings of his bewildered children. Though without sin, he was not without suffering. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. I tell thee No; Christ never called the righteous; and if he has not called thee, and if he never does call thee, thou art not elect, and thou and thy self-righteousness must be subject to the wrath of God, and cast away eternally. you converted? I repeat it, there is nothing in the highest heaven which Christ has reserved unto himself, "for all things are yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.". 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. "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. There must be a change, if ye consider the future state; for how can enemies to God ever sit down at the banquet of the Lamb? Still, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.". Here, I say again, is the pinch of faith. The body is redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, it is redeemed by price, but it has not as yet been redeemed by power. Some men groan because of their great losses or sufferings; well, this may be nothing but a rebellious smarting under the rod, and if so, no blessing will come of it. 1 & 2 Peter: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $13.20 $22.00. Such men there are here this very day. All that he has, all that he is, therefore, belongeth to us. The grandest, most heroic, days in Christendom were the days of the Pagan persecutions, wined, to be a Christian, meant to be doomed to die. Now, who is he that condemns the people that have such a head as this? I do not wish for anything more than I have here, I am perfectly satisfied, so far as this goes, but I long to look upon my household, and to be once more in my own sweet home, and until I reach it, I shall not cease to groan." Is he everlasting? says yet another accuser; "but you have sinned with delight. Hath he joy? The time shall come when thou shalt yet be his disciple." But Solomon did not add, that things are not what they seem. O my soul! If you are now led to repent of sin; if you will now cast yourself on the blood and righteousness of Christ, your eternal salvation shall be as sure as your present existence. When we are poor, and in eternity have no shelter; when we in the next world shall find no heaven and no bliss, then, wandering as outcast orphans, we shall see our Elder Brother an outcast orphan too; if we be portionless and penniless, the Firstborn among many brethren must be portionless and penniless also, for with him we stand or we fall. We are like Israel in the wilderness, and are footsore, but blessed be God, we are on the way to Canaan. REV. All the troubles of a Christian do but wash him nearer heaven; the rough winds do but hurry his passage across the straits of this life to the port of eternal peace. Remember that this is grace, and parentage, look back to the hole of the pit whence thou art digged, and the miry clay whence thou wast drawn. We fall into such heaviness of spirit, and entanglement of thought, that the one remedy of prayer, which we have always found to be unfailing, appears to be taken from us. There is much to sadden us in a view of the ruins of our race. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 537, 553, 297. 4. And there may be many differences between godly men, as there undoubtedly are; they may belong to different sects, they may hold very opposite opinions, but all godly men agree in this, that they love God. and no one dares to speak, for man himself cannot accuse; with all his malevolence, and acrimony, and malice, he can bring nothing against him; no charge can stand at the bar of God against the man whom he hath absolved through the merits of the death of Christ, and the power of his resurrection. You must be chastened, you must feel the goad; will you kick against the pricks and so wound yourself more than you would have been by the goad itself? Oh! It is a traveller lost in the deep snow on the mountain pass. do I converse with him, commune with him? We do cry, "Abba, Father." But there is nothing in the-depths that can separate us from the love of Christ. Yet we are persuaded that he did it, and that the love of God is most clearly to be seen in the faot that he gave his Son Jesus Christ to die instead of us. It goes into the region of things unknown; it goes beyond the knowable; for flesh and blood will never be able to comprehend what Jesus suffered when the great flood of human sin came rushing down upon him, and filled his spirit to the brim. Are you persuaded that it is so with you, dear friends? Mark that Paul does not say that all this could ever happen; but that, if it could, the person concerned would be like apiece of ground which brought forth nothing but thorns and briers. This was thought to be a singular instance of his affability, and his kindness to his courtiers. And I see him look downwards; there lies the old dragon, bound in chains, the accuser of the brethren; and the apostle stares him in the face, and says, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" This is a good seaworthy vessel: "It is Christ that died." "Thou hast wrought all our works in us." Did he not learn it by revelation? The wolf may sleep, but it is a wolf still. The title of joint heir contains another mystery which I cannot withhold, although it must be judiciously handled Christ, as coheir, has (of his own free grace) so identified himself with what his rights as co-heir are not to be separated or viewed apart from ours. So that what seemed to be against him, even in temporal matters, was for him. When you have been sitting on the judgment bench; there has been some favourite sin brought up, and you have, oh, let me blush to say it, you have wished to spare it, it was so near your heart, you have wished to let it live, whereas should you not as the son of God have said, "If my eye offend me, I will pluck it out and cast it from me, if my right hand offend me, I will cut it off, rather than I should in anything offend my God." "If Satan bring an accusation before God against any of the Lord's redeemed, that accusation is made against the Redeemer himself, for God's people are so one with Christ, that you must first bring the charge against Christ himself ere you dare to lay it against any of his elect. I, too, am persuaded by a thousand arguments, and persuaded beyond all question, that nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 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. All things work together for the Christian's eternal and spiritual good. Moses prayed that he might enter Canaan, but God denied him; and the man that was healed asked our Lord that he might be with him, but he received for answer, "Go home to thy friends." We love everything earthly better than we ought; we soon fix our heart upon a creature, but very seldom on the Creator; and when the heart is given to Jesus, it is prone to wander. If he hath poverty, it is better for him, for poverty is his to help him, to be sanctified, and to long for heaven. Why will you inflict more sorrow on yourself than God indicts? Joint heirs with Christ Jesus! That is, the entire man, every part of him every power, every passion. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 7th, 1860, by the. For human righteousness is only human; being human, it is finite; and, being finite, it falls short somewhere or other. A mother will say, "It is rebellious children who are breaking my heart." May the Spirit of God enable me to expound to you this most blessed portion of God's Word. It will be a terrible thing to have to answer to the great and mighty God for having so sinned." It must condemn sin, for "the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good." "I don't know," said he, "how it will, but for my good I know it will work, and you shall see it so." O my hearer, art thou a believer in Christ? There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. Is not the free air we breathe the purchase of their death? Not only is our sin punished, but the sin is gone. Will he be ruler over many things? The Spirit saith Come, and the bride saith Come not the bride on earth only, but the bride in heaven saith the same, bidding the happy day speed on when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. I think, dear friends, you will all admit that if a man can pray, his trouble is at once lightened. Now what has the resurrection of Christ from the dead to do with the justification of a believer? Yet am I there in Christ. Here is A CHALLENGE TO ALL COMERS. Cry, "Lord, melt me, pour me out like wax, and set thy seal upon me until the image of Christ be clearly there." There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. Death hath no more dominion over him and no more dominion over me; his deliverance is mine, his freedom mine for ever. He was dead, absolutely dead, rotten in his sin; the life is given when the call comes, and, in obedience to the call, the sinner comes forth from the grave of his lust, begins to live a new life, even the life eternal, which Christ gives to his sheep. May the sweet Spirit lead you to Jesus, cause you to look to him upon the cross, and trust in him; then you will have something worth hearing, for you will have a love that changeth never, a love that shall never be separated from you nor you from it. What a heritage lies before us! 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? It is clear then the prayers which are indited in us by the spirit of God are those which arise from our inmost soul. Oh! Did you ever want to hire a horse in a market-town? When we consider how many have died, your chaplain is very grateful to be alive, to be able to send forth his usual discourse from the press, and to be, as he hopes, half an inch nearer to his pulpit. Examine yourselves then whether you have been called. Look! Report of Visitor from the Sunday School Union (Lambeth Auxiliary). Do we say that he is love? There you see, that man does not know that he is a debtor. Is he eternal? We will go into the next. Judge these things rightly. This poor man knows very little about law, and is quite unable to meet his cunning opponent. Amen and amen. 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. Brother owes to brother what he cannot pay until he dies. This and this alone can restore the peace of divided families, and unite disputing relatives. Here comes in this blessed word taken out of the Greek litany, "By thine unknown sufferings." "Oh, yes," he says, "I see; there is the cash." I have broken away from its thralldom; the new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law of grace has set me free from the domination of the law of sin and death. II. "Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and now ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are against me," said the old Patriarch. In the volume of the Book it is written of him: "I delight to do thy will, O my God! So far as mere prescience goes, every man is foreknown, and yet no one will assert that all men are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus. Hark! Our second subject is THE PRAYER WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRES, or that part of prayer which is especially and peculiarly the work of the Spirit of God. The great machine of this world is not only in motion, but there is something weaving in it, which as yet mortal eye hath not fully seen, which our text hinteth at when it says, It is working out good for God's people. Until this question be answered my heart cannot rest, for I am intensely anxious about it. Are the great Father's loving arms about your neck? "There are 400 youths," says he, "in Rome as brave as I am, and that will bear fire as well; and tyrant," he says "you will surely die."" He says, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Yea, I am certain that we do not. 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. It is not optional with him, it is an inevitable law of the universe. The fall of Adam was OUR fall; we fell in and with him; we were equal sufferers; it is the ruin of our own house that we lament, it is the destruction of our own city that we bemoan, when we stand and see written, in lines too plain for us to mistake their meaning, "The carnal mind" that very self-same mind which was once holiness, and has now become carnal "is enmity against God." Certainly no true child of God; he would not have it altered, even if he might. I am afraid none of us feel enough how much we are debtors to God. He whose garments are the whitest, will best perceive the spots upon them. He instructs us as to our need, and as to the promises of God which refer to that need. Would you take Job's jewels, but not his dung-hill? Here is a test for us all. And now I come to the fourth; and this also hath an encomium passed upon it "WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US." "Who is he that condemneth? "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Cannot we say this morning with thankful hearts, "By the grace of God I am what I am?" Who among us would change with Gabriel? It is a wonderful thing. Our second point rises before us WHEREIN ARE BELIEVERS DEFICIENT? Nor need we say a word to explain that it is "enmity against God." O man, within a few days, he that hath eaten bread with thee may lift up his heel against thee. But if thou agreest with thy creditor, he will, for Jesus' sake, blot out all thy debts, and set thee at liberty, so that thou shalt never be amenable for thine iniquities. Such and so bright shall our glories be in the day of the redemption of the body. If he could, if there were yet a chance of risk, Christ would not be sitting down; if the work were not so fully done, that every redeemed one should at last be received into heaven, he would never rest, nor hold his peace. Tell the men of the world that it is right that they condemn you for all your past life, for doubtless you have been what they say you are, you will not dispute that fact; but tell them also that what Paul wrote to the Christians at Corinth is true of you, "Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." It will be the Spirit's own self pleading in me, and by me, and through me, before the throne of grace. 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. His experience with regard to God, what was that? We know not what God is, nor the measure of his attributes. Little did they know that they had already what they asked for for all the church is now at the right hand of the Father; all the church is now raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. The great white throne is set, the books are opened, men are trembling, fiends are yelling, sinners are shrieking "Rocks hide us, mountains on us fall;" these make up an awful chorus of dismay. We may say of the prayers which the Holy Spirit works in us that they are prayers of knowledge. He gave to us his crown; he gave to us his throne; for "to him that overcometh will I give to sit upon my throne, even as I have overcome, and have sat down with my Father upon his throne." Fain would I picture the apostle as he appeared when he was uttering it. So it is not by imitation, but it is by nature, that the child is evil. "Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. I have thus given you the four props and pillars of the believer's faith. 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