He is in an enemy's house; for he is at enmity with God. Our little debts we can pay. Then did his Father stamp the atonement with his own image and his own superscription. Romans 8:26-27 . Oh! And if this applies to children, equally does it include every class of men. The co-heir is heir to the entire estate; and if he says, "No, not to that portion," then he is not heir to any; and if he makes exemption anywhere, he makes exemption to the whole. Happy, happy man! The Saviour walks along preaching and talking with the people until he comes under the sycamore tree, then lifting up his eyes, he cries "Zaccheus, make haste and come down, for today I must abide in thy house." Just a sentence upon another point. If it be wisdom, it is hell's wisdom; if it be wisdom, it is a wisdom which is folly with God. Now I must come to the third point, upon which with brevity. He gave to us his heaven, for "where I am, there shall my people be." Hast thou never said that, my heart? Your being sick very probably might not be for your good only God has something to follow your sickness, some blessed deliverance to follow your poverty, and he knows that when he has mixed the different experiences of your life together, they shall produce good for your soul and eternal good for your spirit. no; but the whole Bible tells us, from beginning to end, that salvation is not by the works of the law, but by the deeds of grace. I feel that to the knee that dandled me and the breast that gave me sustenance, I owe more than I can ever pay; and to him who taught me, and led me in the paths of truth I owe so much, that I dare not speak of the tremendous weight of obligation due to him. "For I am persuaded." My unknown sins are buried in the unknown deeps of his almighty sacrifice. I do consider that in this there is an argument why no believer ever can perish. But again, everything that is good in a Christian you know to be the work of God the Holy Ghost. All we can do for God is but a trifling acknowledgment of an infinite obligation; yea, more, our good works are gifts of his grace, and do but put us under greater debt to the author of them. This is readily granted, but a reader must wear very powerful magnifying spectacles before he will be able to discover that sense in the text. I have been dwelling upon the black side in order to bring the bright one out by contrast. But next: why cannot we administer also to the blessed part of the glorious testament! Oh, beloved, if we have a God for our Redeemer, though our sins against God be very many, and though they be very black and foul, yet Christ's infinite sacrifice meets them all. 14:1 - 15:14. May my blessed Master help you to come to him, and draw you to his Son, for Jesu's sake. It is an ugly knock that a man's heart gives when it smites him. You know that every sinner is guilty of the murder of Christ." We were once an undistinguished part of the creation, subject to the same curse as the rest of the world, "heirs of wrath, even as others." Commentaries; Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible; Romans 8; Verses 38-39 - Romans 8:38-39. . But what I do not like is when they look down from those awful heights upon us poor Christians and say that they cannot believe in us because we are anxious, because we practice self-examination, because we have to struggle against sin. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 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. So the high priest takes off his royal robes, and puts on the garments of the minor priest, and goes within the veil, and sprinkles the blood upon the mercy-seat. Come, will you wade with him through the deep waters, and then at last climb up the topless hills with him? You remember the case of Samuel; the Lord called Samuel, and he arose and went to Eli, and he said, "Here am I, for thou calledst me." No. All that they endured came from a Father's hand, and this should comfort them. You can say, "God has given these souls to Christ, I am going to take them in Christ's name." We must suffer with him if we would be glorified with him. 17. I can foil him with that, for he sits there to judge him and to condemn him for ever. Well, in the first place, there is one part of the property which we may enjoy at once. 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. "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered." And if we be his sons, are we not thereby bound to love, serve, and obey him? God so loved me that he willed to forgive me; but for the sake of the world which he governs righteously he could not forgive me without an atonement for my sin. We cannot be destroyed. Go to the next house, and hear another groan. And now at Gods right hand there is not left a record of thy sin; for when our Lord Jesus Christ quitted the tomb, he left thy sin buried in it once for all cast away never to be recovered. You cannot deny it. Such a hope as this is "an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast"; and the man who has this anchor on board the barque of his life can never suffer spiritual shipwreck. As much as to say, it is a powerful argument for our salvation, that Christ died; but it is a still more cogent proof that every believer shall be saved, that Christ rose again from the dead. Romans: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $22.80 $38.00. "The carnal mind is enmity against God." What a sin it is! Now, observe, that this conformity to Christ lies in several things. We heard of a certain clergyman who was said to have given forth "the finest prayer ever offered to a Boston audience." Oh! The first witness is our spirit; the second witness is The Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, who beareth witness with our spirit. Are your arms about the neck of the great Father? But the crime may seem to be worse when we think of what God is. No man ever desired Christ in his heart with a living and longing desire, who did not find him sooner or later. We would stand upon our watch-tower and cry aloud to the Strong for strength, that the adversary may be repelled, that the sacred castle of our heart may be for the habitation of Jesus, and Jesus alone. These are God's words; if any man doth cavil at them, let him cavil; he rejecteth the testimony of God against himself. 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. The call of our text is of a different kind; it is not a universal call, it is a special, particular, personal, discriminating, efficacious, unconquerable, call. And so, too, it is rather God's work than our work. "All things work together for good." We are not at liberty to give or to refuse. "No," says he, "I can stop his mouth with this cry, 'It is Christ that died;' that will make him tremble, for he crushed the serpent's head in that victorious hour. Here are four pillars. Moreover, the appetites of the body have a natural affinity to that which is sinful. 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." They do not struggle; they have risen beyond all struggling, they rub their hands, and sing of everlasting victory. 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. It is as when a man doth marry. Now, beloved, the practical use to which I put this, I am afraid somewhat discursive, discourse of this morning is just this. I am now dead to the law. I know thou dost not seriously ask the question, for thou knowest the answer of it. Simply because it is depraved; and until he had entered a foul element until the body had begun to quiver with a kind of intoxication the fancy would not hold its carnival. He has to intercede with his Father, and mark, with our Father too. Thine infinite wisdom, O God, is mine to guide me. We read of "the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." They are discontented enough with life and yet they are afraid to die. Brethren, we have repentance, that gem of the first water. 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. There is the worldling's sense: "Who will show us any good?" If any confront you with other confidences, still keep you to this almighty please, "Christ has died." Here comes in this blessed word taken out of the Greek litany, "By thine unknown sufferings." Happy in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get the fulness of what is promised him. Is that the tenor of thy life towards God, and towards his law? 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. Do not you recollect how, in your schoolboy days, you used to make a little almanack with a square for every day, and how you always crossed off the day as soon as ever it began, as though you would try and make the distance from your joy as short as possible? Through many troubles you have passed, but you can say, they have all been for your good. You may judge of a man by what he groans after. Thunderbolts and tornadoes are nothing in force compared with the charges of a guilty conscience. I have had many troubles that thou reckest not of, I have buried all my kindred, and I am like the last oak of the forest, all my friends have been felled by death long ago. Here is an argument which hath much more power, much more strength, much more force than even Christ's death. Let the gospel be really felt in the mind and it will toll the knell of selfishness, it will bring down the proud from their elevated solitude, and it will restore the down-trodden to the rights of our common manhood. 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. So are the affections. Thus he was persuaded of this truth by revelation, by argument, and by experience; and I should like you to notice that he was not only persuaded that none of the powers he mentions will separate us from the love of Christ, but that they cannot do it. Oh! He guides us in prayer, and thus he helps our infirmity. If, at your leisure, you read through the fifth chapter of this epistle to the Romans, you will there very readily discover that the apostle proves, that if Christ's death be an argument for our salvation, his life is a still greater one. She suffereth the glorious timbers from the forest of Lebanon to swim down the stream of oblivion, but she stoppeth all the draff that floateth from the foul city of Sodom. he hath made us kings. "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come nor height, nor depth nor any other creatures, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." What was the nature of Christ, then, as divine? It may be I might move your souls to detestation, if I spake of the cruelty of this race to itself, if I showed you how it made the world an Aceldama, by its wars, and deluged it with blood by its fightings and murders; if I should recite the black list of vices in which whole nations have indulged, or even bring before you the characters of some of the most eminent philosophsers, I should blush to speak of them, and you would refuse to hear; yea, it would be impossible for you, as refined inhabitants of a civilized country, to endure the mention of the crimes that were committed by those very men who, now-a-days, are held up as being paragons of perfection. Thus runs the decree, and thus shall the fulfillment follow "I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am." It may be that all the different providences that shall happen to thee will come wave upon wave, washing thy fortune upon the rocks, till it shall be wrecked, and then waves shall break o'er thee, till in that poor boat, the humble remnant of thy fortune thou shalt be out on the wide sea, with none to help thee but God the Omnipotent. We are like Jacob looking at the wagons, and the more we look at the wagons, the more we long to see Joseph's face; but our groaning after Jesus is a blessed groan, for. That old preacher Solomon once said as much as that. Out of stock. leaving not so much as a single drop of wormwood or gall for any to drink who put their trust in him. May the Spirit of God enable you so to live, that you can bequeath your example as a legacy to the future. There were no seats whatever provided tor the priests. You see what you are to come to, therefore, set Christ before your eyes always. In the golden age of Rome, if a man were tempted to dishonesty, he would stand upright, look the tempter in the face, and say to him, "I am a Roman." I like this thought. A groan cometh not from the lips, but from the heart. We have before us in the text the four marvellous pillars upon which the Christian rests his hope. He is persuaded that things present cannot separate us from Christ. My hands have never been stained with the blood of any man." So that though I said the drift of the text was spiritual good, yet sometimes in the main current there may be carried some rich and rare temporal benefits for God's children as well as the richer spiritual blessings. Romans 8:38-39 . Here is the 9th article, upon Original or Birth Sin: "Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam; (as the Pelagians do vainly talk); but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and, therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation. Let these few sentences suffice for a preface. Yes, that is quite true, and it would be a great mercy for you if you knew how to groan in the same way. Now, as long as he was in prison, although there might be ground of hope, it was but as light sown for the righteous; but when the hostage came out, behold the first fruit of the harvest! III. They seek in vain; for there is no Saviour to be found, except at Calvary; and after you have made the circuit of the globe, and compassed heaven and hell to find another way of salvation, you will have to come back to Christ. He has, in fact, no right at all, except as he is taken in connection with his co-heir. Jerusalem, my spirit is come to thee, and unto thy glorious assembly. That man is not called who cannot look back upon darkness, ignorance, and sin, and who cannot now say, that he knows more than he did know, and enjoys at times the light of knowledge, and the comfortable light of God's countenance. Still, true as it is that we are free agents, yet the Lord is the potter and we are the clay upon the wheel, and it is his work, and not ours, that makes us like to Christ. You have perhaps received an increase to your wealth, and after the first flush of pleasure which was but natural, you have said, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity; this is not my joy." The apostle says that those who love God are "the called according to his purpose" by which he means to say two things first, that all who love God love him because he called them to love him. We have seen that chapters 5-8 have a kind of sandwich structure. It there be a touch of our finger anywhere upon the vessel, it mars and does not beautify. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. When the Church rejects you, casts you out, annoys, despises you, still be ready to defend her, and when you have an ill name even in the lips of God's people, still stand up for the common cause of Zion, the city of our solemnities. And then he goes on giving a description of those who are the sons of God, who could not mean any but those who by a living faith in Christ Jesus, have cast their souls once for all on him. He shall joy in their joy, and be glad in their gladness. Now, brethren, in the very proportion in which we are conformed to the image of Christ we shall have to "go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach:" for the disciple, if he be a true disciple, is not above his Master, nor the servant above his Lord. 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. Here stands the case. The surety paid the debt." Is this true or not? The old divines, the Puritans, the Reformers, are now in these last days, to be superseded by men whose teaching flatly contradicts all that we have received of our forefathers. In his light shall we see light: I pray, therefore, that we may be helped of the Spirit while we consider his mysterious operations, that we may not fall into error or miss precious truth through blindness of heart. So, beloved friends, there is nothing in death to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Now, sir, if it is not wrong for God to do the thing, how can it be wrong for God to purpose to do the thing? The Christian understands the word "good" in another sense. He argued that, if the death of Christ reconciled God's enemies to himself, the life of Christ will certainly preserve safely those who are the friends of God; that was good argument, was it not? But here are we who know both good and evil; we understand the one, and the other too, and now there is begotten in us a nature which loves holiness and cannot sin, because it is born of God; we are left free agents, yea, we are freer than ever we were, and yet in this life, and in the life to come, our path is like that of the just which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Judge these things rightly. But the man that yearns after more holiness, the man that sighs after God, the man that groans after perfection, the man that is discontented with his sinful self, the man that feels he cannot be easy till he is made like Christ, that is the man who is blessed indeed. Our blessed Lord delights in fellowship; such is the greatness of his heart that he would not be alone in his glory, but would have associates in his happiness. I wish that all here present had a share in my blessed text. He went through the streets, and people whispered, "That is the general, the valiant one," but he was not publicly acknowledged. Regard the Holy Spirit as your prompter, and let your ear be opened to his voice. All manner of evil things we commit in our thoughts; sin runs to riot in our spirit. God forbid! There is no holiness in us of our own creating; no good thing in us of our own fashioning. When at any time then the Holy Spirit comforts you sheds a sweet calm over your disturbed spirit; when at any period he instructs you, opens to you a mystery you did not understand before; when at some special period he inspires you with an unwonted affection, an unusual faith in Christ; when you experience a hatred of sin, a faith in Jesus, a death to the world, and a life to God, these are the works of the Spirit. that the Holy Spirit may so convince us of sin, that we may unanimously plead "guilty" before God. Ay, and when Christ would have pulled you away, you held hard on to your sin! On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. God can do all things, but I see not any way by which he could give to his only-begotten Son beings that should be akin to himself, except through the processes which we discover in the economy of grace. I can stop his accusation with this perpetual care of Jesus for his people." You groaned for it, not with the unhappy groan that marks one who is to perish, but with the groan of one who, having tasted of the sweets of home, is not content until again he shall be indulged with the fulness of them. The SPECIAL CONDUCT naturally expected from those who are partakers of the peculiar privileges of being the children of God. I. Now I must call your attention to this clause, remarking that in other passages of God's Word, Christ is said to have sat down for ever at the right hand of God. There is a third black portion, too, namely, temptation. Here we must bow our heads. "Who is that? II. What Paul are you at? but thou wilt not leave one of the "many brethren" for whom he died: the Spirit shall be with them, and when they cannot so much as groan he will make intercession for them with groanings that cannot be uttered. Who can condemn? ", Observe then, first of all, the universality of this as to all persons. "What!" Then who should be proud of having paid only a part of his debt, when, after all, he owes a great deal more than he is worth? It is almost as good as Scripture; for Scripture leads us to think of the sufferings of Christ as an unfathomable deep. Is there a place into which your Master went that you would be ashamed to enter? Let a man once get that, and it will anoint his head with fresh oil, it will clothe him with the white garment of praise, and put the song of the angel into his mouth. He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Let the sacred mounds of our fathers' sepulchres speak to us. Behold, I present to you the fair cross of your once crucified Elder Brother. How seriously, then, should each stand and think. Now, I consider these things as being a very mean display of wisdom, compared with what is to come in a hundred years, and very small compared with what might have been, if man's intellect had continued in its pristine condition. 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 new birth as surely stands us with the image of Christ as our first birth impressed us with a resemblance to the fathers of our flesh. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us" Romans 8:34 . 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. Now, dear brethren, if I could extend the time for this service to four-and-twenty hours, I might give you all the arguments, or the most of the arguments, which support the blessed truth of the nonseparation of believers from the love of Christ. I am not so much afraid of dying as I am of sinning; that is ten times worse than death. The alternative of this bond, if not paid, was, that we should be sold for ever under sin, and should endure the penalty of our transgressions in unquenchable fire. And whereas our experience sometimes leads our spirit to conclude that we are born of God, there are happy times when the eternal Spirit from off the throne, descends and fills our heart, and then we have the two witnesses bearing witness with each other, that we are children of God. No man has any right to be a son of God. Did he clothe you, would you abuse him to his face? He had been exceedingly mad against the disciples of Christ, and had persecuted them even unto strange cities. II. God that cannot lie, in the person of the Holy Ghost, graciously condescendeth to say "Amen" to the testimony of our conscience. Liberty to walk round the rock of St. Helena, nothing more. THE APOSTLE PAUL was writing to a tried and afflicted people, and one of his objects was to remind them of the rivers of comfort which were flowing near at hand. This is a very solemn indictment which the Apostle Paul here prefers against the carnal mind. Today, can we not stand at the grave of the dead sinner, and say, "Lazarus, come forth?" I pray you never think well of fine prayers, for before the thrice holy God it ill becomes a sinful suppliant to play the orator. If you have faith enough brethren, you may this mourning be raised up to sit together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. You may walk the broad acres of this round globe, and never look upon a single spot that is not yours. There may be a few who do, but it has never been my misfortune to meet with them. Having thus, as far as I can, established my point, that the privilege of our text is a special one, let me dwell upon it for a moment and remark that, as a special one, it is an act of pure unmistakeable grace. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 8:1-39 . When we know the matter of prayer, we yet fail to pray in a right manner. why art thou at enmity with God? How then am I to know whether I am predestinated by God unto eternal life or not? I may illustrate it in the case of Saul of Tarsus: this proud Pharisee abhors the Lord Jesus Christ; he has seized upon every follower of Jesus who comes within his grasp; he has haled men and women to prison; with the avidity of a miser who hunts after gold, he has hunted after the precious life of Christ's disciple, and having exhausted his prey in Jerusalem, he seeks letters and goes off to Damascus upon the same bloody errand. But oh! Once more I will appeal to his advocacy 'Who maketh intercession for us.' 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." May the Spirit of God enable me to expound to you this most blessed portion of God's Word. At any rate, meet the attack of the world as you met the attack of Satan, with this weapon only: "It is Christ that died," and you will be "more than conquerors through him that loved us.". So is it with our text. "These are thy glorious works, parent of good, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then!". That is damnable doctrine. Christ digged the well to its very bottom, but not a drop did spring up; still was the world dry and thirsty, till on the morning of the resurrection a voice was heard, "Spring up O well," and forth came Christ himself from the grave, and with him came the resurrection and the life; pardon and peace for all souls sprang up from the deep well of his misery. 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. The thoughts are too great to need to be spun out, or you can do that in your private meditations. We have a sacred secret which belongs to Jesus, as the first-fruits belong to Jehovah. 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