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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. We are deficient in those things for which we groan and wait. I tell you, sirs, if you change yourselves, and make yourselves better, and better, and better, a thousand times, you will never be good enough for heaven, till God's Spirit has laid his hand upon you; till he has renewed the heart, till he has purified the soul, till he has changed the entire spirit and new-made the man, there can be no entering heaven. Can he still be valiant, and maintain his ground, calling out, "Who is he that condemneth?" The Necessity of the Spirit's Work Ezekiel 36:27 274. why art thou at enmity with God? Dost thou abide in his commandments, and desire to be conformed unto his Image? We are to be holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. The tall archangel before the throne is not called God's Son, he is one of the most favoured of his servants, but not his child. Ah! Then he gave the words I used, and continued, "It was a true description of myself. Brethren, we are like warriors fighting for the victory; we share not as yet in the shout of them that triumph. But in the case of the believing poor, their claim upon us is far more binding, and I beseech you do not neglect it. Well, the good angels cannot separate us from the love of God; we are sure that they would not wish to do so, and whatever spiritual creatures may frequent the earth, they cannot separate us from the love of Christ. You are born with a body not deformed; you have had a tolerable share of health; you have been recovered many times from sickness; when lying at the gates of death, his arm has held back your soul from the last step to destruction. Some esteem it nothing. Men do not reach what they do not aspire to, and Paul says, "We are more than conquerors." Is it not a noble thing for a Christian to be able to go where he may, and feel that he cannot meet his accuser; that wherever he may be, whether he walketh within himself in the chambers of conscience, or out of himself amongst his fellow men, or above himself into heaven, or beneath himself into hell, yet is he a justified one, and nothing can be laid to his charge. Man as a necessary piece of political policy, may give to the heir that which surely he can have not more real right to in the sight of God, than the rest of the family may give him all the inheritance, while his brethren, equally true born, may go without; but it is not so in the family of God. He said, "Reproach hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness." Now, to come to what is evidently in the text, and to dwell upon it for a little while, Paul being thus persuaded that there was a love of God, and that there was a union through love between the soul and its God, now says that HE IS PERSUADED THAT NOTHING CAN EVER BREAK THOSE BONDS. Without a solitary exception the answer would be this "If I am a Christian and he is not, unto God be the honor." We believe in Christ, and so we come to be in Christ by our believing; and now we are persuaded that, to as many as receive Christ, to them gives he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, and therefore all who believe in Jesus are beloved of the Lord, not because of anything good in them, but for Jesus Christ's sake. Another will say, "If I am a child of God, I shall not want to live as I like, but as God likes, and I shall be led by the grace of God into the path of holiness, and through divine grace I shall persevere in that way of holiness right to the end." For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of low, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. Is he exalted? First, I shall give illustrations of the call; second, we shall come to examine whether we have been called; and then third, what delightful consequences flow therefrom. Is there anything to be proud of in having paid a farthing in the pound? We must be joined together, or else the apostle would not talk of separation. We are saved by hope. This poor man knows very little about law, and is quite unable to meet his cunning opponent. Some do not believe in the personality of the devil; but I am as sure of it as I am of the personality of his children who deny their own father. He sees hosts of angels; but those hosts are the servants of his enemy. When bowing before his throne we can boldly say "Abba Father." It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. 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. If you are joint heir and would claim one part of the estate, you must take the rest. The Holy Spirit also divinely operates in the strengthening of the faith of believers. Mark, if you anxiously desire to know, you may know. "Who is he that condemneth? OBSERVE the title whereby he addressed the Church "Brethren." The mother received that letter about an hour before she heard the news that her son was dead, and the parents write to tell me what a balm it was to their spirits that God's providence should bring their boy in here just before he was to meet his God. To God's cause you are debtors. It is a bold, brave challenge; but it never could have been uttered by Paul if it had not been accompanied by the next sentence, "It is Christ that dies." I fear that some of you, seeing ye have never come and put your trust in Christ, will have to say, when your time comes to die, what Wolsey is said to have declared, with only one word of alteration: Had I but served my God with half the zeal. Negatively, he will forbid you to pray for such and such a thing, even as Paul essayed to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered him not: and, on other hand, he will cause you to hear a cry within your soul which shall guide your petitions, even as he made Paul hear the cry from Macedonia, saying, "Come over and help us." Verse 1. "Who wilt put honey into my mouth? To him fine language is as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, but a groan has music in it. "He was despised and rejected of men." 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. It should be, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." Forget the steps thou hast already trodden, and reach forward towards that which is before, looking unto Jesus. When he decreed Christ to be blessed above all the blessed, he decreed thee to be a partaker with him. You must endure persecution; but then, remember, he will be joint heir with you. Saul's eyes are filled with tears, and then again with scales of darkness, and he cries, "Who art thou?" He has rendered more of good to men than you ever rendered of evil. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, Note that Paul does not say, "If they shall fall;" but, "If they shall fall away," if the religion which they have professed shall cease to have any power over them, then, it shall be impossible. I hear a brave, strong voice, crying, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" Mark then, with care, that OUR CONFORMITY TO CHRIST IS THE SACRED OBJECT OF PREDESTINATION. And he came before his Father's throne and said, "There it is; the full price: I have brought it all." The law condemned us in former days, and would again overthrow us if we ventured to meet it unarmed. and hence he is "a very present help in time of trouble.". There were no seats whatever provided tor the priests. Well, then, thou owest ten talents, and thy brother owes only one; why should you be proud that you owe more than he does? Have not you found it so too? There are other things for which we are allowed to ask, but we scarcely know whether, if we had them, they would really serve our turn, and we also feel a diffidence as to praying for them. So it must be, "If so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together." O friends, I sometimes feel a strange trembling when I stand upon this platform to speak to you, because the words that I utter are often so remarkably fulfilled of God as really to amaze me. Oh! And wilt thou think, yet again, what cause there is that thou shouldest realize to-day thy union with Christ, since thou art joint heir with him. The Secret Power in Prayer January 8, 1888 by . "Who is he that condemneth? You not only sinned with your body, with your eyes, your lips, your hands; but you have sinned in imagination and desire very horribly." "It is Christ that died. The statement of this verse succinctly expresses the core of Christian victory. 14:1 - 15:14. 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 signature of the one will not avail to alienate the estate, nor can he sell it by his own right, nor have it all at his own separate disposal, or in his own sole possession or holding. I am afraid none of us feel enough how much we are debtors to God. Will you take the cross? Christ has died, and there is more than enough virtue in his death to atone for the blackest or most crimson sins ever committed by men. This truth seems to me to have struck its roots into all the other truths of Scripture and to have twisted itself among the granite rocks which are the very foundation of our hope. He is chosen Dictator, but as soon as ever his dictatorship is over he retires to his little farm of three acres, and goes to his plough, and when he is wanted to be absolute monarch of Rome he is found at his plough upon his three acres of land and his little cottage. "Ah!" May God in mercy put his hand to the helm of the ship, and steer her safely. By Vernon J. Charlesworth. Oh! Now, beloved, the practical use to which I put this, I am afraid somewhat discursive, discourse of this morning is just this. holy Immanuel, exalted as thou art, thy co-heirs here below begin by faith to partake of thy glory. These prayers are sometimes "groanings that cannot be uttered," because they concern such great things that they cannot be spoken. The other might have said, "Ah, you pretend to be a happy man, and here you are groaning." You must enter your suit against the Head if you would attack the members, for verily the action at law which can be pleaded against the member of the body must be pleaded against the Head itself, for no court can allow a distinction between the body and the head in an notion at law. You can understand in this sense why it is that we groan, for if this body really is still, though redeemed, a captive, and if it is one day to be completely free, and to rise to amazing glory, well may those who believe in this precious doctrine groan after it as they wait for it. 5. We know that young lions, when tamed and domesticated, still will have the wild nature of their fellows of the forest, and were liberty given them, would prey as fiercely as others. We must not pry into it, but we know that he was verily of the nature of God. Eli said, "I called not, lie down again. It still lingers in the realm of bondage, and is not brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God. repeat not that challenge." Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. And perhaps he goes to Eli to ask what he wants with him. ( Romans 8:1) No condemnation. Because, now the sacrifice is complete for ever, and the priest hath made a full end of his solemn service. The angels in heaven had known good, and only good, and preserved by grace had not fallen; the evil spirit had fallen, and he knew evil, but he had forgotten good, and was incapable of ever choosing it again; he is now for ever banished from hope of restoration. Are you ready to throw up your own claim, and say, "I will not be heir of anything?" So shall we be when he shall say unto us, "Enter ye into the joy of your Lord." As the Carthaginian, who might tread the desolate site of his much-loved city, would shed many tears when he saw it laid in heaps by the Romans; or as the Jew, wandering through the deserted streets of Jerusalelm, would lament that the ploughshare had marred the beauty and the glory of that city which was the joy of the whole earth; so ought we to mourn for ourselves and our race, when we behold the ruins of that goodly structure which God had piled, that creature, matchless in symmetry, second only to angelic intellect, that mighty being, man when we behold how he is "fallen, fallen, fallen, from his high estate," and lies in a mass of destruction. In Hebrews 3:1 , you find this sentence. Report of Visitor from the Sunday School Union (Lambeth Auxiliary). When the Spirit of God writes a prayer upon a man's heart, the man himself may be in such a state of mind that he does not altogether know what it is. cries a third; "a downright lie." "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Martha is correct; but by Martha's side there stands a man who, despite all his lowliness, is very God of very God. I take it that it is the meaning of the text, that the Lord would have Christ to be the first of a nobler order of beings. The doctrine that I am quite sure to gain the victory, makes me fight. If thou hast a desire, God has given it thee. Have I been born again from above? may seem too mean to pray about. He can arouse us from our lethargy, he can warm us out of our lukewarmness, he can enable us when we are on our knees to rise above the ordinary routine of prayer into that victorious importunity against which nothing can stand. 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 . Let her, then, as Christ's queen, claim the earth as hers, and send her heralds forth from sea to sea to bid all men bow before him, and confess him to be their King. Now, I think I hear somebody say, "you see these godly people who profess to be so happy and so safe, they still groan, and they are obliged to confess it." 3. The greatest faith is only what God has a right to expect from us, yet do we never exhibit it except as the Holy Ghost strengthens our confidence, and opens up before us the covenant with all its seals and securities. His righteousness becomes our beauty. Added to this you must also be the heir of persecution. You went to the house of God, not to pray, but to laugh. The text says, "The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." Should another say, "I was baptized an adult," let your confidence remain the same: "Christ has died." If there had been a man, in the history of the world, who from his infancy had known God, and who had grown up serving him, devoting himself entirely to the cause of the Lord Christ; and if he had kept the commandments without fail, as far as man could judge, it would be a very hazardous thing even for him to say. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com. Why, the Jew would then have been compelled to believe that it was all over, the dispensation was ended; for a sitting priest would be the end of all. It is not many minutes before he begins to feel his sin in having persecuted Jesus, nor many hours ere he receives the assurance of his pardon, and not many days ere he who persecuted Christ stands up to preach with vehemence and eloquence unparalleled, the very cause which he once trod beneath his feet. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Did not Jesus say, "Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of these things before you ask them"? It is just as subject to sickness as before, pain thrills quite as sharply through the heart of the saint as the sinner, and he who lives near to God, is no more likely to enjoy bodily health than he who lives at a distance from him. I think I could indeed plead if I were pleading for myself. Nay, he is not only dead, but he is corrupt; his lusts, like the worms, have crept into him, a foul stench riseth up into the nostrils of justice, God abhorreth him, and justice crieth, "Bury the dead out of my sight, cast it into the fire, let it be consumed." ", I. Whether it was by mine or by any other wicked hands, yet it was by "the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God," that Jesus died, in the stead of all who believe in him: I believe in him, therefore he has died for me. Paul's Desire to Depart Philippians 1:23 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. No man ever desired Christ in his heart with a living and longing desire, who did not find him sooner or later. His first public appearance, when he came to the waters of baptism, was signalled by a voice out of the excellent glory, which said, "this is my beloved Son," and the descending Spirit, like a dove, rested upon him. Now, Christian, consider how thou art a debtor to thy God. "The glorious liberty" may be translated, "The liberty of glory." 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. Consider this, believer. says the accuser, but you are still sinful. What is to be done when a man condemns himself? There were no wild beasts to rend him, no rough winds to cause him injury, no blighting heats to bring him harm; but in this present world everything is contrary to us. If it be settled in our mind by the true witness the spirit within us, and the Spirit of God, that we are God's children, what a NOBLE PRIVILEGE now appears to our view. Cry, "Lord, melt me, pour me out like wax, and set thy seal upon me until the image of Christ be clearly there." The rod has been upon our back and we have smarted very sore, but in the darkest hour we have been able to say, "The time is in my Father's hands; I cannot murmur; I would not repine; I feel it is but right that I should suffer, otherwise my Father would never have made me suffer." Get thee gone? ", Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, January 5TH, 1868, by. Oh! Being the father of lies, he will accuse us of things of which we are not guilty, or, when it suits his purpose, he will exaggerate our guilt, and make it appear worse than it is, in order that he may drive us to despair. The snow is numbing his limbs, and his soul is breathed out with many a groan. I do not know a more beautiful sight to be seen on earth than a man who has served his Lord many years, and who, having grown grey in service, feels that, in the order of nature, he must soon be called home. Until this question be answered my heart cannot rest, for I am intensely anxious about it. We do cry, "Abba, Father." weary slaves of sin, are not your ways the paths of folly? What would the Jew have thought if it had been possible for a seat to have been introduced into the sanctuary, and for the high priest to sit down? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of him who rose again from the dead? 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? YOU WILL HAVE NOTICED that in this chapter, Paul has been expounding a very deep inward, spiritual experience. The Father knew how happy his Son would be to associate his chosen with himself, for of old his delights were with the sons of men. If ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons; but, if ye be true sons, like to the firstborn, the rod will make you smart, and sometimes you will have to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" It may be true that we owe a great deal to the higher ranks of society; we may possibly, in some mysterious way, be much under obligation to the sacred personages who are styled lords and bishops, but it is not necessary that I should stand up for their claims, for I have no doubt they will take good care of themselves; at any rate they have usually done so, and have not allowed themselves to be robbed of much of their deservings. What they are to us they are to our co-heir. 2. And if this applies to children, equally does it include every class of men. The first contains an outward manifestation of the second "Them that love God." And now a little capful of wind blows on you and the tears run down your cheeks, and you say, "Lord, let me die; I am no better than my fathers." 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.'" Yet our heavenly Father, who looks immediately upon the heart, reads what the Spirit of God has indited there, and does not need even our groans to explain the meaning. He has been charitably received, he has been warmed at the fire, he has received abundant provision, he is warmly clothed. thou shall rest for ever and ever. 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? However much the Arminian may try to fritter away the meaning of this 8th chapter of the Romans we are obliged as long as we use terms and words to say, that the 8th chapter of the Romans and the 9th, are the very pillars of that Gospel which men now call Calvinism. To be cheered under many things, which otherwise would depress him, the believer may betake himself to the matchless mysteries of the grace of God, which are wines on the lees well refined. At such times we should thank God for direction and give our desire a clear road: the Holy Spirit is granting us inward direction as to how we should reckon upon good success in our pleadings. Romans: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $22.80 $38.00. Yea, that harp is mine, and my soul by faith would make every string resound with melody. A passage from Galatians iii. We always want to be putting in some little scrap of our own virtue; we want to be doing something. So, then, it follows that if there be any flaw in the will, so that it be not valid, if it be not rightly signed, sealed, and delivered, then it is no more valid for Christ than it is for us. As for my own convictions, I never can doubt it, I am fully persuaded concerning it. It is simply "Look!" This is condescension indeed! That which is thrown up from the depth of the soul, when it is stirred with a terrible tempest, is more precious than pearl or coral, for it is the intercession of the Holy Spirit. Whether you take it up or not, your murmuring will not lighten your afflictions. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. 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." And now I press forward to notice that in order that we may know whether we are partakers of this high this royal relationship of children of God, the text furnishes us with a SPECIAL PROOF "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Today, can we not stand at the grave of the dead sinner, and say, "Lazarus, come forth?" Who would be the pleader in such a case? Remember again, we are Christ's brethren, and there is a debt in brotherhood. Everything that is and is done, worketh out some great end and purpose. Let me attempt a second simile: he is as an advocate to one in peril at law. We have a work to do, as great as our forefathers, and, perhaps, far greater. 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. Many times you put him away. Have they not had the desire that it might turn out that all these divine realities were a delusion, a farce, and an imposture? The sermons he preached touched the lives of thousands. The Spirit of God never prompts us to ask for anything that is unholy or inconsistent with the precepts of the Lord. I know, besides this, nothing which could support this new theory. How is this? Creation glows with a thousand beauties, even in its present fallen condition; yet clearly enough it is not as when it came from the Maker's hand the slime of the serpent is on it all this is not the world which God pronounced to be "very good." The fool does not say in his heart there is no God, for he knows there is a God; but he says, "No God I don't want any; I wish there were none." Now, we also, though we at our conversion are new creatures, are also said to be "begotten again into a lively hope." So is it with our text. It is as though one bartered a diamond to buy a common pebble from the brook, or gave away an empire to purchase some foul thing not worthy of being picked off a dunghill. No hint is given in the text of foreseen virtue any more than of foreseen sin, and, therefore, we are driven to find another meaning for the word. The desires which the Spirit prompts may be too spiritual for such babes in grace as we are actually to describe or to express, and yet the Spirit writes the desire on the renewed mind, and the Father sees it. You should have rallied round your own minister and strengthened his hands in the work of the Lord. I must not speculate, for I know nothing about it; but it is no speculation to say that we look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness; and that there will come a time when the lion shall eat straw like an ox, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. Even up in heaven they have not their full reward. Home; Shop. ", But, conscience, I have another question! It is called "first-fruits," again, because the first-fruits were always the pledge of the harvest. May God help you, and help me, to groan all our days with that kind of groaning. Is he full of joy and rejoicing? 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. Now Jesus by his death paid all the debt; to the utmost farthing that was due from us to God Christ did pay by his death. What then is to be said to this, "These are not the children of God." Is that the reason? Now, when effectual calling comes into a house and singles out a man, that man will be compelled to go forth without the camp, bearing Christ's reproach. I can look upward without distressing fear." "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors." But, again, there is another point in which the saint is deficient as yet, namely, in the manifestation of our adoption. 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