They were, therefore, encouraged to take part and lot with Christ, the elder brother, with whom they had become joint heirs; and they were exhorted to suffer with him, that they might afterwards be glorified with him. Such men there are here this very day. "'We know;' In the mouth of two or three witnesses it shall all be established; but I have tens of thousands of witnesses." God has accepted Christ in the place of his people; and you, accepting Christ to stand in your stead, shall find that your sin is put away, that his righteousness is yours, and that you are "accepted in the Beloved." He was a man of many trials; he went from one tribulation to another for Christ's sake; he swam through many seas of affliction to serve the church. Come on, slanderers! If all things work together for good (all events, all circumstances, all trials, all happenings, etc. Have not you found it so too? Well, but God hath another Son, one who is the first-born of every creature. "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Man was originally made in the image of God, but by sin he has defaced that image, and now we who are born into this world are fashioned, not in the heavenly image of God, but in the earthy image of the fallen Adam. And shall a Christian man break his promise? Communion is the fountain of conformity. We are heirs with Christ. It is only where God's hand has been that the vessel begins to assume the form of the model. You will remember while the sinner is dead in sin, he is alive enough so far as any opposition to God may be concerned. They are lambs in the harmlessness of their dispositions, but they have the courage of lions when they defend the honours of their King. See also John 10:14-15 , and 2 Timothy 2:19 . And, did not that suffice, I would point you to the delusions of the heathen; I would tell you of their priestcraft, by which their souls have been enthralled in superstition; I would drag their gods before you; I would let you witness the horrid obscenities, the diabolical rites which are to these besotted men most sacred things. May my blessed Master help you to come to him, and draw you to his Son, for Jesu's sake. The angels of heaven veil their faces; and the angels of God on earth, his chosen people, must always veil their faces with humility, when they think of what they were. Now, we also, though we at our conversion are new creatures, are also said to be "begotten again into a lively hope." If it were some little thing, my narrow capacity could comprehend and describe it, but I need all covenant blessings. Without a solitary exception the answer would be this "If I am a Christian and he is not, unto God be the honor." by which he means transient good, the good of the moment. Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. If ever there lived a man who has reason to be grateful to Almighty God, I think I am that man. Our third and last point is THE SURE SUCCESS OF ALL SUCH PRAYERS. "He was tempted in all points like as we are." And yet this is just through our ignorance and through the blindness of our eyes; for verily to the enlightened believer there is more consolation in Jesus arising from the tomb, than there is in Jesus nailed to the cross. 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. Did not they, by bitter suffering, achieve our liberty for us? Great men get the blessing, but poor men bring it down from heaven. "Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and now ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are against me," said the old Patriarch. Thus have I tried to set forth the cheering fact that the Spirit helps the people of God. Forth it steps into the arena, and we behold the law of God. But did I need witnesses, I would conjure up the nations of antiquity; I would unroll the volume of ancient history; I would tell you of the awful deeds of mankind. Ye would, I am sure, at once confess, did ye know what the race is, that the indictment is proven, and that the world must unreservedly and truthfully exclaim, "guilty. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and that child might be treated as his for a long time; but there was a second adoption in public, when the child was brought before the constituted authorities, and in the presence of spectators its ordinary garments which it had worn before were taken off, and the father who took it to be his child put on garments suitable to the condition of life in which it was to live. This is styled by our new philosophers as old cumbersome scheme of theology, and it is proposed that it be swept away a proposition which will never be carried out, while the earth remaineth, or while God endureth. Therefore, over against my delight in sin, I set his delight in presenting to the Father his perfect righteousness and his all-sufficient substitutionary sacrifice: "It is Christ that died. Some have thought that it simply, means that God predestinated men whose future history ho foreknow. They are his own intercession in some respects, for we read that the Holy Spirit not only helps us to intercede but "maketh intercession." Thou movest about this world as a prince among the crowd. Is he full of love and grace? Therefore, beloved, all the glory must be unto God and not to us. But I feel a darkness coming down over my spirit, and in the darkness there is a fiendish voice that says, "But you have committed unknown sins, sins that nobody else knows, and there have been sins which you yourself did not know. Much need is there for the stone that it should be well secured, for within the sepulchre there is a putrid corpse. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The saints in heaven are perfectly free from sin, and, so far as they are capable of it, they are perfectly happy; but a disembodied spirit never can be perfect until it is reunited to its body. Grace links mankind in a common brotherhood; grace makes the great man give his hand to the poor, and confess a heavenly relationship; grace constrains the intellectual, the learned, the polite, to stoop from their dignity to take hold of the ignorant and unlettered, and call them friends; grace weaves the threads of our separate individualities into one undivided unity. Hear me, what remarkably beautiful language he used in prayer!" Now, believer, thou mayest be very poor, and very sick, and very much unknown and despised, but sit thee down and review thy calling this morning, and the consequences that flow from it. Then again I say to you, "Tell it not in Gath and publish it not in Askelon, then has a heathen eclipsed a Christian." 3. So strange and startling a doctrine as this asserted with such dogmatic impudence? We are like Israel in the wilderness, and are footsore, but blessed be God, we are on the way to Canaan. 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? This will appear in two ways. What fiery lips shall ever speak of his possessions, of his riches, the unsearchable riches of God in Christ Jesus. The trumpet of the gospel sounds aloud to every man in our congregations "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." And as I look on them, and they on me, I turn to you all and say, "Brethren, we are debtors." And lastly, I see here, an answer to every accusation arising from sin. A lack of depth in the inner life accounts for most of the doctrinal error in the church. Ah! Romans 8:1 is widely misunderstood for two reasons: first, katakrima, the word typically translated as condemnation, does not mean that. It should be, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." I thought that had I to intercede for anybody, and do a mediating part, if I had to intercede for my brother with my father, I should feel I had got a safe case in hand. I imagine that he said, "I promised to go back, and though it is to pangs indescribable, I will return." We must have more preaching of the Holy Spirit, if we are to have more conversion work. I know thou dost not seriously ask the question, for thou knowest the answer of it. I never felt anything like it before. Live with Christ and you will soon grow like Christ. The will, if valid for one, is valid for all. Verse 1. When Christ gave himself for us, he gave us all the rights and privileges which went with himself, so that now he has, as our Brother, no heritage apart from us, although, as Eternal God, he hath essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend. So are the affections. Again, I hear him cry, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" We cannot be condemned for "Christ hath died. Here is an argument which hath much more power, much more strength, much more force than even Christ's death. Like a bird uncaged, how will it mount with more than eagles' wings! He reads the heart itself: "he knoweth,' says the text, "what is the mind of the Spirit." We find that the word "know" is frequently used in Scripture, not only for knowledge, but also for favor, love, and complacency. So the Spirit confirms the witness of my spirit that I am born of God. Otherwise, he could not have said, "I am persuaded that things present and things to come shall not be able to separate us." The sighing of the prisoner surely cometh up into the ears of the Lord. We shall be called upon to notice, this morning, first, the truthfulness of this assertion; secondly, the universality of the evil here complained of; thirdly, we will still further enter into the depths of the subject, and press it to your hearts, by showing the enormity of the evil; and after that, should we have time, we will deduce one or two doctrines from the general fact. As to his humanity our blessed Lord, when he came into this world, underwent a birth which was a remarkable type of our second birth. 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? Hear another, 2 Corinthians, vi. Then let me give you just one piece of homely advice before I send you away. Then he gave the words I used, and continued, "It was a true description of myself. OLD TESTAMENT. Nay, my brethren, all that the most advanced of God's people know as yet, should but excite in them an insatiable thirst after more. What then is to be said to this, "These are not the children of God." It is proven to a demonstration in our own lives; it is a fact which runs like a golden clue through all the labyrinth of our history "All things work together for good to them that love God." Go up; take them. 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! "Who is he that condemneth? But another bitter taunt comes to me, "You have sinned in spirit. In the second place, I see in our text A REMEDY FOR ALL SIN. He said within himself, "Does Jesus love me? And when Samuel knew it was the Lord, he said, "Speak; for thy servant heareth." We who are but babes cannot hold the great ocean of Godhead in our infantile palms. Now the apostle adds two more expressions, "nor height, nor depth." I cannot of course picture what your precise trouble is. Who can condemn when Christ hath died, hath risen from the dead, is enthroned on high, and intercedes? Yet at that selfsame moment, where human eyes saw nothing seraphic eyes beheld marvels of grace, and angels in heaven rejoiced over one sinner that repented, singing once again "glory to God in the highest." "How art thou fallen from heaven, thou son of the morning!" Is that the panting of thy heart? Stay, stay, brother; I have known you do so already, for when all that is Christ's belongs to you, do ye forget that Christ once had a cross, and that belongs to you? All that they endured came from a Father's hand, and this should comfort them. The having those corruptions is our crime which should be confessed as an enormous evil; and if I, as a minister of the gospel, do not press home the sin of the thing, I have missed what is the very virus of it. Then it appears if we are called joint heirs with Christ, we legally and strictly have no inheritance apart from him. Now, the first groan which you heard was deep and dreadful, as though it were fetched from the abyss of hell; that is the groan of the ungodly man as he perishes, and leaves all his dear delights; but the second groan is so softened and sweetened, that it is rather the note of desire than of distress. I defy you to exhaust that topic, though you should think about it all the days of the next week, nay, though you should muse upon it till eternity commences with your soul. The heart, though it be deceitful, is positively deceit; it is evil in the concrete, sin in the essence; it is the distillation, the quintessence of all things that are vile; it is not envious against God, it is envy; it is not at enmity, it is actual enmity. If we are joint heirs with him, we, too, must partake of the same. Are you persuaded that it is so with you, dear friends? The world, our own sin, and the devil, he foresaw would be continually molesting us; therefore hath he entrenched us within these four walls, he hath engarrisoned us in four strong lines of circumvallation. you are quarreling with this divine arrangement, you are beginning to differ with this blessed policy of God. Let me appeal personally to you in an interrogatory style, for this has weight with it. The whole "carnal mind is enmity against God. As Jonathan of old, with his armor, climbed up the steep place in the cleft of the rock and began to mow down his enemies, so, believer, alone or with your friend, as God has called you, climb up, for verily the possession is yours, and you may take it. And you and I must be conformed to Christ in this respect. Let us make sure that the foundation is laid, but let us not have continually to lay it again. Such and so bright shall our glories be in the day of the redemption of the body. But let us consider a second phase of it. We believe that the tabernacle of God will be among men, that he will dwell among them, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. His righteousness becomes our beauty. This shall be an all-sufficient argument to shut their clamorous mouths, "Christ hath died." IV. 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. Oh, wherefore art thou at enmity with him? Blessed be his name, he will not refuse you even then, if you will but believe him! Whatever may be the confidences of others, and whatever may be your own, put them all away, and keep to this one declaration, "It is Christ that died." And we may add, the text also means good eternal, lasting good. Yes, yes; but God looks at the heart. Here are beings that know evil, and know also good, beings placed under infinite obligations by bonds of love and gratitude to choose for ever the good, beings with a nature so renewed that they always must be holy beings; and these beings can commune with the incarnate God upon spurring as angels cannot, upon the penalty of guilt as angels cannot; upon heart-throes, conflicts, reproaches, and brokenness of spirit as angels cannot: and to them the Lord Jesus can reveal the glory of holiness, the bliss of conquering sin, and the sweetness of benevolence as only they can comprehend them. They compelled him, however, to go, exacting from him this promise, that if the Romans did not make peace he would come back, and if he came back they would put him to death in the most horrid manner that ever cruelty could invent. 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. The serpent said to Eve, "God doth know that ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Now which shall it be! You could not doubt the affliction, for you smarted under it, but you might almost as soon have doubted the divine help, for your confidence was firm and unmoved. Calvin, John; . Just so! Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Romans 8:28-39 Romans 8:28. Here are four pillars. It is not optional with him, it is an inevitable law of the universe. Upon this supposition, God's utmost has been tried, and has failed. Still, this foe is fierce and terrible. I will have one more illustration. Does he stand in the presence of God he appears in the presence of God for us; Hebrews 9:24 . Are your arms about the neck of the great Father? The voice of God in the word has testified to us our Heavenly Father's dove; and the Holy Spirit has borne witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. What does that mean? 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?" The first is the general call, which is in the gospel sincerely given to everyone that heareth the word. Enemies at a marriage banquet? This would be a very bold challenge even for a man who had been righteous from his youth up. At this time our subjects for consideration shall be, firstly, the help which the Holy Spirit gives; secondly, the prayers which he inspires; and thirdly, the success which such prayers ore certain to obtain. Remember, it is not the one thing alone that is for your good; it is the one thing put with another thing, and that with a third, and that with a fourth, and all these mixed together, that work for your good. No man after having read these chapters attentively, and having understood them, can deny that the doctrines of sovereign, distinguishing grace, are the sum and substance of the teaching of the Bible. Brethren, I pray you, if your thoughts now can bring themselves to the matter, gather up all the honors, glories, treasures, riches, that your thought have ever conceived as belonging to Christ, and while the hymn is ringing in your ear "Crown him, crown him, crown him, Lord of all;" remember that you are co-heirs with him. That passage in the Psalms, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God," is wrongly translated. IN VIEWING THE ESTATES we must remark that to our present apprehension they are divided into two parts, the first part of the inheritance is one which flesh and blood would fain do without it is the inheritance of suffering. But there is nothing in the-depths that can separate us from the love of Christ. Sometimes I have thought that impossible. The death of Christ gives us a full salvation. Can he still be valiant, and maintain his ground, calling out, "Who is he that condemneth?" So, you see, I cannot help wondering what the "things to come" will be for you who are here. Having summarily disposed of all of them, Paul adds, "nor things present." The psalmist said, "I am so troubled that I cannot I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart"; but he added, "Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee." Upon these two words the meaning of my text will hinge. Hear all those holy men who have written in the inspired volume, and ye shall find them all confessing that they were not clean, no not one; yea, one of them exclaimed, "O wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death? "It is Christ that died. We are co-heirs; if he be truly an heir, so are we; and if he be not, neither are we. You were saying of such-and-such an ungodly person, "Everything seems to go well with him, but as for me, all the day long am I plagued, and chastened every morning." If his heart is against God, we ought to tell him it is his sin; and if he cannot repent, we ought to show him that sin is the sole cause of his disability that all his alienation from God is sin that as long as he keeps from God it is sin. Sometimes the accusing whisper comes to your ear, "You have sinned against a great God. When he is about to favour an individual he casts the shadow of hopeful expectation over his soul. Sit thee down; rest in peace; lift up thine eye of hope, and sing thy song with fond anticipation. YOU WILL DIEYOU WILL LIVE. GenesisEarly Chapters, and Patriarchs. "We are the children of God." Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. Enlarge thine expectations seek great things from the God of heaven and he will give them to thee; but by no means fold thine arms in sloth, and sit down upon the bed of carnal security. God is the God of love; he is kind to his creatures; he regards you with his love of benevolence; for this very day his sun hath shone upon you, this day you have had food and raiment, and you have come up here in health and strength. When this fails, he never sticks at an accusation because it does not happen to be true. Psalms 16:5 . No cross no crown. One man has ten talents, and oh how proud he is, and how he looks down upon another who has but one, and says: "Ah, you are a mean man; I have ten talents." The thoughts are too great to need to be spun out, or you can do that in your private meditations. While you shall for awhile sigh for more of heaven, you shall soon come to the abodes of blessedness where sighing and sorrow shall flee away. Into predestination itself I will not now pry. Sow well, for others must reap. ", "Ay, ay!" Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 18, 1857, by the. Satan desires to have us and to sift us as wheat. If he hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from his love. Our first birth gave us humanity; our second birth allies us with Deity. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and then it is that we groan, or utter some other inarticulate sound. We repeat, a third time, it was the gospel which implanted in the soul of Paul the feeling of brotherhood, and removed every wall of partition which divided him from any of the Lord's elect. Stern was the labour, toilsome was the work; he dug on, and on, and on, through rocks of suffering, into the deepest caverns of misery; but the resurrection was the springing up of the water. See how his father teaches him. Will you be scoffed at for his sake? Nay, he himself is ours. Suppose that a poor man had a great law-suit, touching his whole estate, and he was forced personally to go into court and plead his own cause, and speak up for his rights. He hath taken thee from the dunghill, and he hath set thee among princes. You will have to carry it. Thus, that doubt is answered by the same all-powerful argument: "It is Christ that died.". If according to law we are only heirs-presumptive, whose rights may be superseded, then our great joint heir, so far as he is co-heir with us, is superseded also. Come, lift up thine head; envy no man his dukedom; think no man's princeship worth thy coveting; thou art greater than the greatest, for thou art joint heir with Christ; in dignified relationship thou hast no superior upon earth; and except those who are joint heirs with thee, thou hast not an equal, since thou art joint heir with Christ. But there are some that always get well paid for what they do, and, therefore, I shall not mention them, since I am not aware that their claims need my advocacy. Is he exalted? Waiting implies being ready. Expect not, O Christian, that all things will work together to make thee rich; it is just possible they may all work to make thee poor. Suppose, too, that when he had to plead with the judge himself, this advocate at home should teach him how to behave and what to urge, and encourage him to hope that he would prevail, would not this be a great boon? Not only are they ceaselessly active, but they are active for a purpose. I do feel that he loves me better than I love myself. If it be but an adjunct of his nature to be an enemy, he may change himself into a friend; but if it is the very essence of his existence to be enmity, positive enmity, enmity cannot change itself. This is the voice of reason and of nature. He instructs us as to our need, and as to the promises of God which refer to that need. We will come again in a few days: as we are entering the first house we see weeping faces and flowing tears, a coffin, and a hearse. He attacked the Shepherd, and he will never cease to worry the sheep. I take him a bill to-morrow morning, and he says, "Do you coming begging?" Here are two very wonderful challenges thrown out by the apostle Paul. In prayer we might grow weary, but the Comforter encourages and refreshes us with cheering thoughts. They love God as their future Inheritance, they believe that when days and years are past they shall enter into the bosom of God; and their highest joy and delight is the full conviction and belief, that one day they shall dwell for ever near his throne, be hidden in the brightness of his glory, and enjoy his everlasting favor. The doctrine must be stated in its naked truth. Who will garnish my back with purple and make my table groan with plenty?" And that my sins are gone is further clear, for he rose again from the dead. man, there is an answer to thy inquiry; the book cannot be opened, but God himself hath published many a page thereof. Rowland Hill. Well, I wonder what is "to come." I refer to the poets, men who stand aloft like Colossi, mightier than we, seeming to be descended from celestial spheres. So shall we when his Father shall say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." For which of these works do ye hate God? 26. My cause is quite safe in his hands, especially when I remember again that he pleads with my father, and that he is his own Father's beloved Son, and that he is my brother and such a brother a brother born for adversity. repeat not that challenge." Note yet a little further concerning the special privilege of heirship, we are joint heirs with Christ. He who said, "all things work together," will soon prove to you that there is a harmony in the most discordant parts of your life. It needs no proof, for since it is written in God's word, we, as Christian men, are bound to bow before it. 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. 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