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. II. Those teachings which are commonly called Calvinistic doctrines are usually most beloved and best received by those who have had much conflict of soul, and so have learned the strength of corruption and the necessity of grace. Whatever God would have done under the circumstances, that Jesus did. "I have been sick for many a day, and wife and children, dependent on my daily labor, are crying for food: will this work together for my good?" You may walk the broad acres of this round globe, and never look upon a single spot that is not yours. Romans 8:22-23 . Christ is risen from the dead, how can we be condemned? No condemnation: that is the beginning of the chapter. I take it thus: Christ by his death paid to his Father the full price of what we owed to him. 13:1-14. Let us, then, weigh the words of the text, for they are solemn words. Through many troubles you have passed, but you can say, they have all been for your good. If all things are working, let us work too "work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work." I remember a saying of old Matthew Wilkes: "Saved by your works! Let me imagine a man entering heaven without a change of heart. being made bold to do so because we have believed in the Christ that died. That was on the Sunday, mark you; on the Wednesday, he was at Gravesend, there was a collision, and he and five others were drowned. Oh! In that light he makes the promise shine in all its truthfulness, certainty, sweetness, and suitability, so that we, poor trembling sons of men, dare take that word into our mouth which first came out of God's mouth, and then come with it as an argument, and plead it before the throne of the heavenly grace. "Yet," said the Judge, "I will not come down to earth to receive the payment; bring it to me." Whatever mind may properly be called carnal, not having been spiritualized by the power of God's Holy Ghost, is "enmity against God. Who shall accuse the Redeemer? My brethren, we ought not to do so. 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. 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. I did not know till afterwards, when I was led to know Christ as all my salvation, and all my desire, that the Lord had called the child, for this could not have been the result of nature, it must have been the effect of grace. On, that you would know and feel your dependence upon the Holy Ghost that he may prompt the once crucified but now ascended Redeemer that this gift of the Spirit, this promise of the Father, is shed abroad upon men. Now, there is but one Judge the man Christ Jesus. I hear a ribald song; that music of hell shall jar in my ear when gray hairs shall be upon my head. If he had taken the first-fruits home, and said, "I have all I want," and had rested satisfied month after month, he would have given proof of madness, for the first-fruit does but whet the appetite does but stir up the desire it never was meant to satisfy. The children look up to the firstborn. Then, I shall leave off these plebeian garments, and be robed as becomes my senatorial rank." Look at our history. The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. It is not the hypocrite's groan, when he goes mourning everywhere, wanting to make people believe that he is a saint because he is wretched. We are deficient in those things for which we groan and wait. Our second point rises before us WHEREIN ARE BELIEVERS DEFICIENT? The wolf of famine cannot gnaw the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link, the hammer of hell cannot break the chain; old time cannot devour it with rust, nor eternity dissolve it, with all its ages. Are you ready to throw up your own claim, and say, "I will not be heir of anything?" He said to himself, "If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." I do not much wonder that thou shouldst despise spiritual good, for thou art yet "in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity;" a stranger to spiritual things, and let thy despising of spiritual things teach thee that thou art not spiritual, and therefore thou canst not understand the spiritual, because it must be spiritually discerned. There are few people who sincerely believe this. Look around you and learn your duty. Will you not be satisfied to serve God though you lose by it; to stand up and be thought an arrant fool, because you will not learn the wisdom of this world; to be esteemed a mad fanatic, because you cannot swim with the current. You go to your bed, but your conscience is there, and it will not sleep. 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." Here is an argument which hath much more power, much more strength, much more force than even Christ's death. We have, indeed, in the death of Christ, a great atonement; an atonement so great, that none can measure its height and depth, its length and breadth. The statement of this verse succinctly expresses the core of Christian victory. I say, it is utterly needless for me to refresh your memories about your present condition; but I feel it will be a good and profitable work if I remind you that there are high privileges of which you are possessors even now; there are divine joys which even this day you may taste. "The glorious liberty" may be translated, "The liberty of glory." You will remember the last one had, "Yea, rather." If I promulgated the doctrine on my own authority, I could not blame you if you should turn against me, and reject it; but when, on the authority of Holy Scripture, I propound it, God forbid that any man should quarrel therewith. if thou art called, if thou art called truly, there will be a going out, and a going out alone. And as we are debtors to all times, so we are all debtors to all classes. It resets the dislocated bones of society, rivets the bonds of friendship, and welds the broken metal of manhood into one united mass. For it is true, beloved, the bodies that have mouldered into dust will rise again, the fabric which has been destroyed by the worm shall start into a nobler being, and you and I, though the worm devour this body, shall in our flesh behold our God. So, brethren, when God gives us "Faith, hope, charity these three," when he gives us "whatsoever things are pure, lovely, and of good report," as the work of the Holy Spirit, these are to us the prognostics of the coming glory. poor Abraham, as the world would have had it, what a trial his call cost him! was the means of his quickening. But the text, you see, furnishes us with a higher witness than this. He covers his face for a moment with his hands, and then looking down at his sons, and finding that the testimony is complete against them, he says, "Lictors, do your work." Who enters the lists against the believer? Ah! Have the manacles of justice been snapped, and am I delivered set free by him who is the great ransomer of spirits? Oh! And who amongst us has not been so foolish as to desire that there were no God? Is that the reason? 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. The strifes of barons and kings for mastery might have been thought to be likely to tread out the last spark of British liberty; but they did rather kindle the pile. Romans 8:28 . 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. He walks streets of gold, but those streets belong to his enemy. There is therefore now no condemnation: The simple declaration of no condemnation comes to those who are in Christ Jesus. O God, my God, thou hast not forsaken me: thou art not far from me, nor from the voice of my roaring. We have a sacred secret which belongs to Jesus, as the first-fruits belong to Jehovah. 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? If the sermon is printed, pray get me a copy that I may read it when I come home, for I felt the power of it, and I prayed there and then that God would bring me to my mother's God, and save me." But this know, O man, whatever thou sayest of this doctrine, it is a stone upon which, if any man fall, he shall suffer loss, but if it fall upon him it shall grind him to powder. Now, let us march with joyful footsteps onward to the other part of the inheritance. So with the child; you may bind him with the green withes of education, you may do what you will with him, since you cannot change his heart, that carnal mind shall still be at enmity against God; and notwithstanding intellect, talent, and all you may give to boot, it shall be of the same sinful complexion as every other child, if not as apparently evil; for "the carnal mind is enmity against God.". Are you among the number? For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. The first is, that this body of ours is not delivered. But the great high priest of our profession, Jesus, the Son of God, hath taken his seat at the right hand of the majesty on high. God loves Christ, and we love Christ, so we have a meeting-place; we love the same blessed Person, and that brings us to love one another. Now, I do believe with him this morning, that the chief witness of God the Holy Spirit lies in this the Holy Spirit has written this book which contains an account of what a Christian should be, and of the feelings which believers in Christ must have. What shall we say then? We see, in many a land, the proudest dynasties and tyrannies still crushing, with their mountain-weight, every free motion of the consciences and hearts of men. You should have rallied round your own minister and strengthened his hands in the work of the Lord. The force that is conforming us to Christ is the will of God in predestination. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Suppose it to be a time of war centuries back. Can those eyes flash lightnings on the man whom once they saw in sin, and thence with rays of love they did lift him up to joy, and peace, and purity? 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. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." 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. Our Lord is the Son of the Highest, the Son of God; and truly, beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. If he had willed it, thou wouldst have been among the damned; if he had not willed thy salvation, all thou couldst do would have been utterly powerless to deliver thee from perdition. If you have the Spirit of God in your soul, you may rejoice over it as the pledge and token of the fulness of bliss and perfection "which God hath prepared for them that love him.". Stay, then, ye who are puffed up by your achievements, consider ye have but poorly performed, not a deed of supererogation, but of ordinary duty. The effectual call may be illustrated in its sovereignty by the case of Zaccheus. Illustration, examination, consolation. A second consolation is drawn from the grand truth, that if a man be called he will certainly be saved at last. Let these few sentences suffice for a preface. The world's barque, it is true, is always tossed with waves, but these waves toss her first to the right and then to the left; they do not steadily bear her onward to her desired haven. He gave to us his person, it has become our meat and our drink; we eat his flesh and drink his blood. Christ himself, the great and mighty God is the "Interpreter, one among a thousand", able to stand between me and God. 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. If the grace of God does not enable them to overcome the world, if the blood of Christ does not purge them from sin, what more can be done? Paul is but giving us two sides of the truth, both equally true, the one needful for our warning, the other admirable for our consolation. He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied, and ye who long for his appearing shall be satisfied also when ye wake up in his likeness. 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." ", I am anxious not to tarry over controverted matters, but to reach the subject of my sermon this morning. 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. Christian, stop and ponder for a moment! I know not how to open my lips in thy majestic presence: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Now, to-day, seeing we are here taught the object of his predestination, it will be our business to labor after it, to bless God that he has set such an object before him, and pray that we may be partakers in it. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 537, 553, 297. And now I come to my last point, upon which briefly but I hope interestingly. He had not time so much as to eat bread, full often, so eager was he to accomplish all his work. Or, read you that old legend of Curtius, the Roman knight. So it may by possibility be this morning; so it will be if the Spirit of God shall be our instructor, and fulfil his gracious promise to "lead us into all truth.". Oh, it is no hard task to plead, when you are pleading with a Father for a brother, and when the advocate can say, "I go to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God." C. H. Spurgeon At Exeter Hall, Strand. Romans 8:26-27 . "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above." We see the mercy-seat, and we perceive that God will hear us: we have no doubt about that, for we know that we are his own favoured children, and yet we hardly know what to desire. It does not appear on the surface of the text; but if you look a minute, you will see that PAUL WAS PERSUADED THAT HE AND ALL THE SAINTS ARE JOINED TO GOD BY LOVE. Napoleon had been used to gilded halls, and all the pomp and glory of imperial state, and it was hard to be reduced to a handful of servants. He felt within him affinities with all the blood-bought race, and loved them all. He shall joy in their joy, and be glad in their gladness. Home; Shop. The text before us cannot be so understood, because the Lord foreknows the history of every man, and angel, and devil. I am afraid none of us feel enough how much we are debtors to God. So is it also with us. The doctrine that I am quite sure to gain the victory, makes me fight. YOU WILL DIEYOU WILL LIVE. You see, my dear hearers, if it were possible for the work of grace in your souls to be of no avail, nothing more could be done for you. Yet these are the strongest forces imaginable death, life, angels, principalities, powers, the dreary present and the darker future. This is the part of the subject from which our craven spirit often shrinks, but if we were wise it would not be so. And now I come to the fourth; and this also hath an encomium passed upon it "WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US." 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. If you are living in sin, you are not called; if you can still continue as you were before your pretended conversion, then it is no conversion at all; that man who is called in his drunkenness, will forsake his drunkenness; men may be called in the midst of sin, but they will not continue in it any longer. "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man" (Proverbs 8:4 ). My Substitute has kept the law on my behalf. His death was the digging of the well of salvation. "What!" The liberating message of Romans 8 is that God never intended man to live the Christian life by his own efforts and in his own strength. I can see that death does not break the believer's peace; it seems rather to strengthen it. ", "Ay, ay!" If you have faith enough brethren, you may this mourning be raised up to sit together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Somebody says, "That is Calvinistic doctrine." And are we not debtors to them? Bblia; Leia a Bblia; Verses da Bblia; . So it is true; we constantly forget that salvation is by grace alone. Methinks my head wears the crown; the white robe is girt about me, and my feet tread no more the battle fields, but the streets of peaceful bliss. So, you see, beloved, that because we have the "first-fruits of the Spirit," for that very reason, if for no other, we cannot help but groan for that blissful period which is called "the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body.". The Eternal Son desired association with beings who should be sons as he was, towards whom he could stand in a close relationship as being like to them in nature and Sonship, and the Father therefore ordained that a seed whom he has chosen should be conformed to the image of the Son, that his Son might head up and be chief among an order of beings more nearly akin to God than any other. Our Lord Jesus Christ will say, in the judgment, concerning certain persons, "I never knew you," yet in a sense he knew them, for he knows every man; he knows the wicked as well as the righteous; but there the meaning is, "I never knew you in such a respect as to feel any complacency in you or any favor towards you." And dost thou hate God for that? Note the expression, "Many brethren" not that he might be the firstborn among many, but among "many brethren," who should be like himself. The young crocodile, I have heard, when broken from the shell, will in a moment begin to put itself in a posture of attack, opening its mouth as if it had been taught and trained. WE have here the description of a true Christian, and a declaration of that Christian's blessedness. Go up; take them. How I wish every one here had a share in the text: I mourn that some have not, for he that believeth not on the Son hath not life, and therefore cannot have conformity to a living Christ. He first of all stirred up their pure minds by way of remembrance as to their sonship, for saith he "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of 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. We want the mind of the spirit in prayer, and not he mind of the flesh. If he had not been a Christian, his Jewish dignity would never have condescended to call a Roman "brother;" for a Jew sneered at the Gentile, and called him "dog." O ye first-born whose names are written in heaven, I take my seat with you and join your rapturous adoration. Yea, and when we cannot even utter our groanings, he doth not only help us but he claims as his own particular creation the "groanings that cannot be uttered." Thou art not there, because of thine original, thou art a scion from an evil tree, and the Divine Spirit hath changed thy nature, for thou wast once nothing but a branch of the vine of Gomorrah. I tell thee, thou poor brother in Christ, there is a dignity about thee that even angels may well envy. That is, the entire man, every part of him every power, every passion. I cannot be punished for my sin. Naturally we never will towards good without God, but God works in us to will and to do. How then am I to know whether I am predestinated by God unto eternal life or not? Having received something, we desire more. Others of you have affliction in your children, many of you are tried in your business, and some of you in your bodies with chronic or acute diseases. Enemies at a marriage banquet? First, there is the will declared in the proclamations of holiness by the Ten Commandments. Ay, but Christ was co-heir with theirs, and when Saul persecuted the poor servants of Jesus, he pet the Master too. In praying for temporal things we plead with measured voices, ever referring our petition for revision to the will of the Lord. Here, I say again, is the pinch of faith. Paul says, "I am persuaded," and it is implied that, first, HE IS PERSUADED OF THE LOVE OF GOD. If we be debtors we never ought to be proud. Why, sometimes, it can drive us to Christ; let us pray that it may. The sermons he preached touched the lives of thousands. I will now proclaim to you the way of salvation. Brethren, we are free! My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. Speak to him on the road, send out the apostle Peter to him, let Peter say, "Saul, why dost thou oppose Christ? Brethren, we are like warriors fighting for the victory; we share not as yet in the shout of them that triumph. 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. 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. Saul was anointed to be king when he was seeking his father's asses; and many a man has been called when he has been seeking his own lust, but he will leave the asses, and leave the lust, when once he is called. Enemies in heaven? The inheritance cannot be divided; if you will have the glory, you must have the shame. If one might have his choice, one might be content to have a short warfare, and to enter upon the crown at once. Paul himself counted not his life dear unto him that he might win Christ, and be found in him; wherefore he says that he is persuaded that neither death, nor life, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This call is sent to the predestinated, and to them only; they by grace hear the call, obey it, and receive it. It is not merely that our judgment leads us in that direction, though usually the Spirit of God acts upon us by enlightening our judgment, but we often feel an unaccountable and irresistible desire rising again and again within our heart, and this so presses upon us, that we not only utter the desire before God at our ordinary times for prayer, but we feel it crying in our hearts all the day long, almost to the supplanting of all other considerations. The holiest men, the most free from impurity, have always felt it most. We, if left to ourselves at our very best, get too much of one ingredient or another, and spoil the sacred compound, but the Holy Spirit's intercessions have in them such a blessed blending of all that is good that they come up as a sweet perfume before the Lord. 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