Look around, above, beneath, and all things work. Have they not had the desire that it might turn out that all these divine realities were a delusion, a farce, and an imposture? To prove that, however, I will refer you to the express words of scripture: Romans 11:29 "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." He gives to us his raiments, and thus we stand arrayed. 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. Amen. I am in this boat myself. "Begotten not made," says the Athanasian Creed, and it says truly too, "being of one substance with the Father." I repeat it, there is nothing in the highest heaven which Christ has reserved unto himself, "for all things are yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.". He goes into the tent of King Pyrrhus with the intention to put him to death, because he is the enemy of his country; he slays the wrong man; Pyrrhus orders him to be taken captive. Hath he joy? Oh, how sweet it is to believe our names were on Jehovah's heart, and graven on Jesus' hands before the universe had a being! I do not wish for anything more than I have here, I am perfectly satisfied, so far as this goes, but I long to look upon my household, and to be once more in my own sweet home, and until I reach it, I shall not cease to groan." but another thought comes up, "You know that he died; but then you have slain your Lord. Then all thy love, as though there were not another to be loved, is mine, O God, and all thy grace, as though there were never another sinner to partake of it, is mine. Yet am I there in Christ. We all know that the word "carnal" here signifies fleshly. Brethren, we are debtors to our covenant God; that is the point which swallows up all. 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." 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. Not in one sense, for the members of our body, which were instruments of unrighteousness, become by sanctification, the instruments of righteousness unto the glory of God; and the body which was once a workshop for Satan, becomes a temple for the Holy Ghost, wherein he dwells; but we are all perfectly aware that the grace of God makes no change in the body in other respects. How are we to judge between them? Beside that, I suppose that the apostle was persuaded through reasoning with himself from other grand truths. 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." If he could, if there were yet a chance of risk, Christ would not be sitting down; if the work were not so fully done, that every redeemed one should at last be received into heaven, he would never rest, nor hold his peace. When I wish such a man dead and rotting in his grave; when I desire that he were non est, I must hate that man; otherwise I should not wish him to be extinct. You said to yourselves, "We have no doubt we ought to be there; that is our debt; nevertheless we should like to gratify our curiosity for once, by hearing this singular preacher, who will be sure to say something extravagant that will furnish the occasion for a joke for the next fortnight." Ah, then, the Roman eclipses the Christian. thou art bitten. The Holy Spirit also divinely operates in the strengthening of the faith of believers. The bell of God's house rings every day, sinners hear it, but they put their fingers in their ears, and go their way, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise, and though they are bidden and are called to the wedding (Luke 14:16-18 ), yet they will not come, and by not coming they incur God's wrath, and he declareth of such, "None of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper" (Luke 14:24 ). ", I. Here he is covered with the sweat and dust which he acquired by Adam's fall; there his brow shall be bright with the immortality which is conferred upon him by the resurrection of Christ. What is God to us? The apostle ends the list by saying, "nor any othe creature." 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. 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. If you are joint heir and would claim one part of the estate, you must take the rest. Soul, thou art linked with Christ in the Eternal business of the Eternal Father. Christ loved you when he died; he will love you when you die. Turn thy tearful eye to yonder Mount of Calvary! God worketh, and he worketh in you not to sleep, but to will and to do according to his own good pleasure. What consolation then to be called: for if I am called, then I am predestinated. If we are at enmity with God, what merit can we have? I can see that death does not break the believer's peace; it seems rather to strengthen it. No separation: that is the end of the chapter. Therefore leaving the principles. He comes within the gates. The Christian understands the word "good" in another sense. We may well hang our harps upon the willows, while we listen to the voice of Jehovah solemnly speaking to his rebellious creature. "No," says another, "there is some truth in it, certainly; men do get bettered by their afflictions, but it is a truth that is not valuable to me, for I do not realize the good that these things bring." And, then O ye people of God, let this last thought abide with you, what condescension is this that Divine Person should dwell in you for ever, and that he should be with you to help your prayers. Into that matter, however, we will not dive lest we intrude where our knowledge would be drowned by our presumption. Romans 8:16-17 . Nothing is idle. Abel, the protomartyr, entering alone into heaven, shall not have a more secure title to the inheritance than he who, last of woman born, shall trust in Christ, and then ascend into his glory. Jesus now heads a race assailed but victorious; sorely tempted but enabled to overcome. how long wilt thou not avenge thine own elect?" Well, we confess that too; but then Christ suffered in his spirit. They are gone, and gone for ever! What a mind that must be! He has discharged the debt; and we have still another assurance that it is all gone, for the apostle goes on to speak of Christ "who is even at the right hand of God." 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 remember to be grateful to all except our God. To us, indeed, the things are scarcely comparable, since we are deeply interested in one, though not in the other. "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. Should thine house of business threaten to tumble about thine ears so long as thou hast acted honourably, still bear thy cross. "Who is he that condemneth? Oh! traitor against God!" In the midst of his agony on the tree, he still had full understanding concerning his sacrifice: "Knowing that all things were now accomplished," he bowed his head, and died. believe that thou art secure; that voice which called thee, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours; Rest assured, the heart that called thee, beats with infinite love towards thee, a love undying, that many waters cannot quench, and that floods cannot drown. Mark that Paul does not say that all this could ever happen; but that, if it could, the person concerned would be like apiece of ground which brought forth nothing but thorns and briers. 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. Ah, and blessed be God they will too, by the work of the Spirit. Amen. 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. That bereavement is working for thy good. Remember the bloody day of St. Bartholomew, the valleys of Piedmont, and the mountains of Switzerland. Still the bond was not cancelled until the day when Christ rose from the dead; then did his Father, as it were, rend the bond in halves, and blot it out, so that thenceforward it ceases to have elfect. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." 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. So it is: prayer prompted by the Holy Spirit is the footfall of the divine decree. "To as man as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God"; and to the sons of God alone cometh the Spirit of adoption, and all his helping grace. He has borne the penalty which I ought to have borne, and I am clear. The mass of men are all in uncertainty; they do not know what will become of them at last. Now, there is but one Judge the man Christ Jesus. He was happy enough in the bosom of his father's household, but idolatry crept into it, and when God called Abraham, he called him alone and blessed him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and said to him, "Go forth, Abraham!" So with the judgement I might prove how ill it decides. "'We know;' In the mouth of two or three witnesses it shall all be established; but I have tens of thousands of witnesses." Time and ability alike fail us to speak of this. We have that work of the Spirit within our souls which always comes before admittance into glory. But, do you know, I have never felt that with regard to Christ. Do I sympathize with him in his objects and aims? Can you not do it? He cannot perish who relies on Christ, and he who hath faith in Jesus may see the heavens pass away, but not God's Word. Come, I know as you look down the inventory, you are apt to look a little askance on that cross, and you think, "Well, the crown is glorious, but I love not the spittle, I care not to be despised and rejected of men." You have had God's utmost effort expended upon your behalf, and there remains no other method of salvation for you. The sister of that corrupt body stands at the side of the tomb, and she says, "Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days." Oh! In many things we all offend. These are they who can now say, "Draw us, and we will run after thee.". You took a pleasure in it. Such and so bright shall our glories be in the day of the redemption of the body. Have I been born again from above? Debts of honor, as we call them which are no debts in some men's eyes we can discharge; but the great and solemn debt we owe to God is ofttimes passed by, neglected and forgotten. But another bitter taunt comes to me, "You have sinned in spirit. Ah! Do I love God? It cannot be that Christ should transform himself at last; but till he can do so, none can condemn. "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." The gold itself was fused in the atoning sacrifice, but the minting of it, making it into that which should be the current coin of the merchant, was the resurrection of Christ. 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. 1. No. 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. Coming to our aid in our bewilderment he instructs us. There he would stand, silent, motionless; till Christ would say, with a voice louder than ten thousand thunders, "What dost thou here? NVIPT. how true it is that some who have had the best of parents, have been the worst of sons; that many who have been trained up under the most holy auspices, in the midst of the most favorable scenes for piety, have nevertheless, become loose and wanton! The various rebellions of nations, the heavings of society, the strife of anarchy, the tumults of war all, all these things, overruled by God, have but made the chariot of the church progress more mightily; they have not failed of their predestinated purpose "good for the people of God." Would you take Job's jewels, but not his dung-hill? "Brethren, we are debtors;" what I have is not my own, but God's; and if it be God's, then it belongs to God's poor. We must not pry into it, but we know that he was verily of the nature of God. Go up; take them. I repeat it again, any one of them is all-sufficient. O Christian, thou canst not be condemned, for Christ has paid the debt. It will be a terrible thing to have to answer to the great and mighty God for having so sinned." The Roman had his iron foot on the Jew; yet Paul addresses those, who subjugated his race, as "brethren." If this be his ardent love of the Godhead, what must his hatred thereof be? He shall joy in their joy, and be glad in their gladness. Then, next, it is the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. He was dead, absolutely dead, rotten in his sin; the life is given when the call comes, and, in obedience to the call, the sinner comes forth from the grave of his lust, begins to live a new life, even the life eternal, which Christ gives to his sheep. Consider, then, how much thou owest to his Sovereignty! "Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands," poured out water, and began to wash his disciples' feet, and then went, with full knowledge of all that was before him, to pour out his blood to wash their souls from guilt. Suppose you have been enabled to believe in Jesus Christ for your salvation; that faith has produced love to Christ; that love to Christ has led you to work for Christ; you come to the Bible, and you find that this was just the very thing which was felt by early believers; and then you say, "Good Lord, I am thy son, because what I feel is what thou has said by the lips of thy servant must be felt by those who are thy children." The whole "carnal mind is enmity against God. Some men are the cisterns that hold God's rain; but other men are those who pray the rain from heaven, like very Elijahs, and many of these are to be found in the lower ranks of society. When first we dared to come forward and say "we are on the Lord's side," some of us had sacred tokens of sonship which have never been forgotten by us, and oftentimes since then we have received renewed seals of our adoption from the Great Father of our spirits. Words fail, and even the sighs which try to embody them cannot be uttered. Be not drugged with the laudanum of self-security! Now, first, brethren, as co-heirs with Christ, we are heirs of God so the text tells us. Let us take these things for granted, and never dispute about them any more, but go on to still higher matters. I. The text speaks "of the mind of the Spirit." ", And more, I will summon one other witness to the truthfulness of this fact, who shall decide the question; it shall be your conscience. I look on them, and see among their glorious ranks, some whose names are celebrated in every Christian land as the bold "lions of God," the immovable pillars of truth; men of whom the world was not worthy, whose praise is in all the churches, and who are now nearest the eternal throne. The Holy Spirit works in us humility, earnestness, intensity, importunity, faith, and resignation, and all else that is acceptable to God in our supplications. The doctrine must be stated in its naked truth. 17. The same legacy that left peace with you, also left tribulation with you, while you are in this world. The more you search the Bible, the more sure will you be that sonship is the special privilege of the chosen people of God and of none beside. The man is perfectly safe, and quite content, so far as that goes, and exceedingly grateful to think that he has been rescued; but yet I hear him groan because he has a wife and children down in yonder plain, and the snow is lying too deep for travelling, and the wind is howling, and the blinding snow flakes are falling so thickly that he cannot pursue his journey. Camillus had been banished from Rome by false accusations. There is not a silent nook within the deepest forest glade where work is not going on. They said of Achilles, the greatest of the Grecian heroes, that when he was a child they fed him upon lion's marrow, and so made him brave; feed upon Christ and be Christlike. It would be a foolish pride indeed, if two prisoners in the Queen's Bench were to boast, one saying, "I owe a hundred pounds," and the other replying, "I am a greater gentleman than you are, for I owe a thousand." (1) No condemnation. Say, "I count it to be my joy to be permitted to be a partaker of the sufferings of Christ. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." And now I come to my last point, upon which briefly but I hope interestingly. Did not Jesus say, "Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of these things before you ask them"? He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth; he bears up the pillars of the universe; his breath perfumes the flowers; his pencil paints them; he is the author of this fair creation; "we are the sheep of his pasture; he hath made us, and not we ourselves." For ever with Christ at our head he shall be the nearest to the eternal throne; the most attached of servants, because also sons; the most firmly adhesive to good, because we once knew the bitterness of evil. 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?" Ever let humility bow thee to the very earth while thine adoption lifts thee up to the third heaven. One of two joint heirs has no right apart from the other. as the Lord liveth, there may be but a step between you and death; and if you have no Christ, and have never tasted of his love, you are running awful risks even in going one step further. And are we not debtors to them? sir, I could always do wonders when there were no wonders to do. This one thing I know, I am sure that there is nothing in those heights that can separate me from the love of Christ; I will stick to that, whatever revelations there may be to the enthusiastic, whatever raptures and ecstasies and extreme delights any may have, they cannot separate me from Christ. He meets it by the blessed fact that "It is Christ that died." Happy, happy man! Thunderbolts and tornadoes are nothing in force compared with the charges of a guilty conscience. Still the accuser continues reminding us of our past life: "you have trusted in others, and turned away from Christ; you went everywhere before you came to him." God could not withdraw from Paul his embrace of love, and Paul felt that, by divine grace, he could not withdraw his embrace of love from his God; but he must have been first of all persuaded that both those embraces were there. Liberty to walk round the rock of St. Helena, nothing more. It is dreamed that this is an age when men do not need to be thundered at; when everybody is become so tender-hearted that there is no need for the sword to be held "in terrorum" over mortals; but that everything is to be conducted now in a new and refined manner; God the Universal Father, and all men universal sons. Ungodly men prosper well enough in this world, they root themselves, and spread themselves like green bay trees: it is their native soil; but the Christian needs the hothouse of grace to keep himself alive at all and out in the world he is like some strange foreign bird, native of a warm and sultry clime, that being let loose here under our wintry skies is ready to perish. Within this narrow house of my body, this tenement of clay, if I be a true believer, there dwells the Holy Ghost, and when I desire to pray I may ask him what I should pray for as I ought, and he will help me. Methinks I see the fathers at their midnight lamps, the ancient saints in their much-frequented closets, the thrice brave preachers in their pulpits denouncing error, and the faithful pastors reproving wrong. That is "good," the vat bursting with wine, the barn full of corn! If so, why doth God promise them what they have already. Now election shuts up the precious treasury of God's covenant blessings for his children for penitents, for seeking sinners. 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. Some say that this doctrine would send us to sleep; it never does, it wakes us up. Will he execute justice as a judge, or will he prefer his family to his country? He was made like to her for her salvation, and now she is made like to him for his honor. He looked at me, and picked me out as if I was the only man there, and described me exactly." It has been the good pleasure of the Lord to bless my "Personal Notes On a Text" to many of His tried and afflicted people, and to make them messengers of comfort in hours of sorrow or darkness. all his wisdom is engaged in our behalf. It shall work, it is working for thy good. "Oh, yes," he says, "I see; there is the cash." The enemies of truth are more numerous and subtle than ever, and the needs of the Church are greater than at any preceding time. Come let us at the sovereignty which has called us, and let us remember the words of the apostle, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according the to will of God." The Holy Spirit acts to his people somewhat as a prompter to a reciter. A man has to deliver a piece which he has learned; but his memory is treacherous, and therefore somewhere out of sight there is a prompter, so that when the speaker is at a loss and might use a wrong word, a whisper is heard, which suggests the right one. We read of "the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." All these terrible things in righteousness, the awful proofs of holy vengeance in the judge of all the earth, and successfully neutralized in their arousing effect, by being quietly written among the loving acts and words of the Universal Father. The world is a great machine, but it is never standing still: silently all through the watches of the night, and through the hours of day, the earth revolveth on its axis, and works out its predestinated course. Jesus Christ is coming in to call some one, for it is written he must abide in some man's house. What does that mean? 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. Once more I will appeal to his advocacy 'Who maketh intercession for us.' We are to be conformed to Christ Jesus as to character. 6. "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. "There are 400 youths," says he, "in Rome as brave as I am, and that will bear fire as well; and tyrant," he says "you will surely die."" 14. All that the Church wants to-day is courage and devotion. We will answer these and other questions along the way: Should sin in my life cause me to question whether or not I am in Christ? Though the sins of the whole world should press on any one of these sacred columns, it would never break nor bend. Even up in heaven they have not their full reward. Some would have said within themselves "Let the caitiff nation be cut off. Has the Spirit operated in my heart in a manner to which flesh and blood never can attain? Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 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. 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. A groan is a matter about which there is no hypocrisy. Wait awhile; that weary head shall soon be girt with a crown. On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. This was pictured by the high priest of old. We all confess that if we are brought to the marriage-banquet, "'Twas the same love that spread the feast. So shall we when his Father shall say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." 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. Do you hate God because he loves you? My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. He had been a drunkard, a spendthrift, and had not a penny to bless himself with, and his house had become a little hell; he was groaning at the thought of going home to such a scene of quarrelling and distress. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who sitteth on the right hand of God, who maketh intercession for him. See how his father teaches him. It is almost as good as Scripture; for Scripture leads us to think of the sufferings of Christ as an unfathomable deep. He standeth up and beareth his own faithful testimony; but some great one of the land some nobleman who lives near rises, stands in the witness box, and confirms his witness. But let us consider a second phase of it. 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. We have received a divine life, by which we are made partakers of the divine nature, having "escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust." Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. I am not going to expatiate upon this wondrous theme. And they speak not; "because," says Paul, "I have obtained mercy who was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious, that in me first he might show forth all longsuffering." All that they endured came from a Father's hand, and this should comfort them. 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