We are deficient in those things for which we groan and wait. 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! 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. Christ hath a kingdom that shall never be moved. Those who are called, are men who before the calling, groaned in sin. Who can tell us what Christ's suffering really was? You will notice here, my beloved, that there are two witnesses in court two who are ready to prove our filiation to the eternal God. Do you know I am one of the best churchmen in the world; the very best, if you will judge me by the articles, and the very worst, if you measure me in any other way. Yes, say we, we have many corruptions. You have had many mercies in your family, but you have felt that in them all there was a lack of something which could satisfy your heart, and you have felt that that something was God. 19. 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. And so if a man walk through the earth and lift up his head because of what God has given him, and say, "I am not to notice the poor, I am not to shake hands with the ignorant, because I am so great and mighty," you may with equal reason say, "Take away that poor creature, his pride is his insanity; put him in safe custody, and let him learn that all he has is his debt, and that he has no cause for pride. 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. Look! In illustrating the effectual call of grace, which is given to the predestinated ones, I must first use the picture of Lazarus. Regulus returns to Rome; he stands up in the senate and conjures them never to make peace in Carthage, but ot his wife and children, and tells them that he is going back to Carthage, and of course the tell him that he need not keep faith with an enemy. He is sometimes in the light and sometimes in the dark. Charles Haddon Spurgeon October 18, 1857 Scripture: Romans 8:28 From: New Park Street Pulpit Volume 3 The True Christian's Blessedness "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."Romans 8:28 That was his triumphant entry. His works bore witness of him. Will he judge the nations? 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. Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" 1. I want you, dear friends, to get this persuasion into you. That faith is at first of his creating, and afterwards it is of his sustaining and increasing: and oh, brothers and sisters, have you not often felt your faith rise in proportion to your trials? When you have been sitting on the judgment bench; there has been some favourite sin brought up, and you have, oh, let me blush to say it, you have wished to spare it, it was so near your heart, you have wished to let it live, whereas should you not as the son of God have said, "If my eye offend me, I will pluck it out and cast it from me, if my right hand offend me, I will cut it off, rather than I should in anything offend my God." The Lord bless this assembly, for Christ's sake. If the vessel tarries, he groans over the delay; and if the voyage be tedious, and adverse winds blow back the barque from the white cliffs of Albion, his thirst for his own sweet land compels him to groan. I am a little more acquainted with the depths, and I meet with many Christian people who are very familiar with those depths. Who can condemn when Christ hath died, hath risen from the dead, is enthroned on high, and intercedes? "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. Are you persuaded of this love of God to you? The work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian's behalf is described in the first 27 verses of this chapter. But it is added, "We groan within ourselves." Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 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. The Spirit is one with the Father, and the Father knows what the Spirit means. That is, his great love in giving his dear Son to die for us. but it is possible to pay too dear, especially when you could get on as well without them as with them.) His intercession is not in or for the unregenerate. He died for me. Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. I know it is good for me that my faith, my love, my every grace should grow and increase, and that I should be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Master." There are opposite currents; the wind bloweth to the north and to the south. These are God's words; if any man doth cavil at them, let him cavil; he rejecteth the testimony of God against himself. These are they who can now say, "Draw us, and we will run after thee.". all his wisdom is engaged in our behalf. Is he a victor? London: Passmore & Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row, and all Booksellers. He did not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax; neither should we. The affliction was, as it were, in your very bones, but the promise was also in your very heart. But this cannot be; the time has not yet come when the book shall be opened, and even then the seals shall not be broken by mortal hand, but it shall be said, "The lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to open the book and break the seven seals thereof.". You quenched conscience. The joint heirship reaches from the gloomy patina of deep affliction up to the bright ineffable splendor of the throne of bliss, nor can any man reverse the record. God requires us to remember the poor, and their poverty is a claim upon our generosity. True Advocate is he, and Comforter most effectual. 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. He was consecrated to God; so are we to be. It Jesus is thine all-prevailing king, and hath trodden thine enemies beneath his feet, if sin, death, and hell, are now only parts of his empire, for he is Lord of all, and if thou art represented in him, and he is thy guarantee, thy sworn surety, it cannot be by any possibility that thou canst be condemned. I think I see him sitting on a jutting crag by the edge of Jordan, listening to the harpers on the other side, and waiting till the pitcher shall be broken at the cistern, and the wheel at the fountain, and the spirit shall depart to God that made it. The enemy is to the right and the left of us. But there is nothing in the-depths that can separate us from the love of Christ. Be it so, then; but until you are, you must be ready to suffer in this world the afflictions of the chosen eons, for they are a part of the inheritance. Happy will he count himself when he is able to preach with the living voice. There is no fear whatever that, by any accident or by mistake, Christ should miss the honor to which his Father hath ordained him, he must be with his Father where he is. There is nothing here below which does not belong to a believer. However, just or unjust as man may choose to think it, God has done it, and the fact stands in man's face, let him reject it as he pleases. Our first birth gave us humanity; our second birth allies us with Deity. What about your present sinfulness?" ", I. "For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Cry, "Lord, melt me, pour me out like wax, and set thy seal upon me until the image of Christ be clearly there." who is fully assured of his interest in the covenant of grace, in the blood of atonement, and in the glories of heaven! He is a man of a loving heart and loves his sons, but there they stand. 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. Therefore, beloved, all the glory must be unto God and not to us. I see "the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." If my friend over yonder has paid my debt, it is gone. Though they could not entirely rid their souls of the idea of the Godhead, did they not wish that there might not be a God? Did he clothe you, would you abuse him to his face? In this very place, where sin has triumphed, we expect that grace will much more abound. The carnal mind is at all times enmity against God. There is nothing that pains me so much as sin; I desire to be quit and rid of it; Lord help me to be holy"? That old preacher Solomon once said as much as that. It appears from the text that this groaning is universal among the saints: there are no exceptions; to a greater or less extent we all feel it. Renewed men are made fit companions for the Son of God. It is not the pain of death we feel, but the pain of life. Upon looking carefully at my Bible again I do not perceive such a statement. So it is with your children when they look forward to their holidays; they are not unhappy or dissatisfied with the school, but yet they long to be at home. 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. Dost thou love God, not with lip-language, but with heart-service? ", A further argument I might find in the fact, that the best of men have been always the readiest to confess their depravity. It is a wonderful story this old, old story, of Jesus and his love to guilty sinners; let me tell it once again. May we still, between the very jaws of death, have solid confidence in God, and dare to ask for the presence of men and devils, too, "Who is the that condemneth?" He attacked the Shepherd, and he will never cease to worry the sheep. I can stop his accusation with this perpetual care of Jesus for his people." 3. Above all, commune much with Christ. There is real prayer in these "groanings that cannot be uttered." 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." He see the disease, but the name of the medicine is not known to us. We pray evermore on such matters with this reserve, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." The prophet cried, "My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart: my heart maketh a noise in me." Examine yourselves then whether you have been called. We have love, which sweetens all the rest. But there are one or two doctrines which we will try to deduce from this. 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. You read your Bible in early youth, and you went astray with a vengeance; for when you sinned, you knew that you were sinning, and yet you transgressed." Would that he would be merciful and pass them by without an atonement! I have been saved from the snow. 2 If you belong to Christ Jesus, God's Spirit has given you a new life. Again he speaks, and fixing his eyes full on the Judge himself, he cries, "Who is he that condemneth?" Post navigation 251. Charity to the poor is a debt. The Prince of Preachers, Charles H. Spurgeon (19th June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was not only a wonderful orator but also magnificent with his pen. Let me feel the worm that never dies rather than the stings of an offended conscience, if indeed this is not itself, "the worm that dieth not." The blood of Jesus Christ, God's own Son, cleanseth us from all sin; so away foul fiend, that also has received its due. Oh! As the wave-sheaf was the first of the harvest, so the spiritual life which we have, and all the graces which adorn that life, are the first gifts, the first operations of the Spirit of God in our souls. Is there unrighteousness with God? Now which shall it be! holy Immanuel, exalted as thou art, thy co-heirs here below begin by faith to partake of thy glory. What is God to us? Well, that wish to change God, proves that thou art not in love with the God that now is, the God of heaven and earth; and though thou mayest talk of natural religion, and boast that thou dost reverence the God of the green fields, the grassy meads, the swelling flood, the rolling thunder, the azure sky, the starry night, and the great universe though thou lovest the poetic beau ideal of Deity, it is not the God of Scripture, for thou hast wished to change his nature, and in that hast thou proved that thou art at enmity with him. The whole creation is said to be groaning for its share in that freedom. Even when ignorance and perplexity are removed, we know not what we should pray for "as we ought." 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. We are predestinated to be conformed to Christ in that respect; the serpent's subtlety and cruelty will assail us also. 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. We may understand it in a thousand sense, for indeed we are debtors. When Christ Jesus took away our guilt, and "his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree," justice was more terribly displayed than when guilty sinners sink to hell. With some, who can tell? In heaven's logic it is true, "if children, then heirs.". 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. Then he mentions angels, principalities, and powers. 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. I do not think it always for my good to increase in treasure, but I know it is good to grow in grace. He died, the Prince of glory died the ignominious felon's death, in the room and place and stead of guilty men. Some say that children learn sin by imitation. Though thou hast changed a thousand times, he has not changed once; though thou hast shifted thy intentions, and thy will, yet he has not once swerved from his eternal purpose, but still has held thee fast. 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. Nothing is idle. Here comes in this blessed word taken out of the Greek litany, "By thine unknown sufferings." "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." They are ever working too, in opposition to the word play. He is delivered and I am delivered too. But the blessed Spirit does more than this, he will often direct the mind to the special subject of prayer. So shall we be when he shall say unto us, "Enter ye into the joy of your Lord." We are co-heirs; if he be truly an heir, so are we; and if he be not, neither are we. "Who is he that condemneth? Now I want your attention while I try to show that this blessed sentence, "It is Christ that died," is AN ANSWER TO EVERY ACCUSATION which, under any circumstances, may arise from sin. May he who comes from Jesus lead you to Jesus. I have been astonished in looking though old Roman history at the wonderful prodigies of integrity and valour which were produced by idolatry, or rather, which were produced by patriotism, and that principle which ruled the Romans, namely, love of fame. "Sentimentalism!" In preaching of this call this morning, I shall divide my sermon into three brief parts. There is in the death of Christ enough and more than enough. I have died in Christ, and my life now is that of a child of God, for I have been lifted to that high estate by my redeeming Lord. Ah! It resets the dislocated bones of society, rivets the bonds of friendship, and welds the broken metal of manhood into one united mass. They never had any seats to sit on. And, once more, we are persuaded of the love of God to all who are in Christ. Ye would, I am sure, at once confess, did ye know what the race is, that the indictment is proven, and that the world must unreservedly and truthfully exclaim, "guilty. saith he, "I do not call gold good, but I call faith good! Here is A CHALLENGE TO ALL COMERS. The old translators rendered the passage thus; "The mind of the flesh is enmity against God" that is to say, the natural mind, that soul which we inherit from our fathers, that which was born within us when our bodies were fashioned by God. Many times you put him away. He was persuaded that Christ would not leave him, and that he would not be allowed to leave Christ, and this stirred him up to deeds of daring. On Lord's-Day Evening, August 24th, 1890. I fear, if all the truth were written, we should rise up from reading the lives of earth's mightiest heroes and proudest sages, and would say at once of all of them, "They are clean gone out of the way; they are altogether become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. We have a sacred secret which belongs to Jesus, as the first-fruits belong to Jehovah. But I think must go a little further than this. Thou canst bear faithful witness, if thou wouldst speak the truth, that each person here has so transgressed against God, so continually broken his laws, violated his Sabbath, trampled on his statutes, despised his gospel, that it is true, aye, most true, that "the carnal mind is enmity against God. Do you suppose for a moment that there is any injustice in God in having given you grace which he did not give to another? When we consider how many have died, your chaplain is very grateful to be alive, to be able to send forth his usual discourse from the press, and to be, as he hopes, half an inch nearer to his pulpit. What then is to be said to this, "These are not the children of God." While we have an Almighty Saviour, the redeemed must be saved; until omnipotence can fail, and the Almighty can be overcome, every blood-bought redeemed child of God is safe and secure for ever. Romans: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $22.80 $38.00. It is astonishing where men will go to seek salvation. Beside that, I suppose that the apostle was persuaded through reasoning with himself from other grand truths. He can make the zeal for God's house to eat us up, and the passion for God's glory to be like a fire within our bones; and this is one part of that process by which in inspiring our prayers he helps our infirmity. It is as when a man doth marry. "These," says he, "passed through great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb: ask them!" Now we must take the next words. We are told by modern false prophets, that God in everything acts to all men as a father, even when he cast them into the lake of fire, and send upon them all the plagues that are written in his book. But mark, although this call be rejected, man is without excuse in the rejection; the universal call has in it such authority, that the man who will not obey it shall be without excuse in the day of judgment. Now be quiet. Why, dying is the end of work; it is living that is hard work. Romans 8:28 . I wish that all here present had a share in my blessed text. Much need is there for the stone that it should be well secured, for within the sepulchre there is a putrid corpse. AP&A-c1970 lfpb. We are all born God's creatures, and as such we are debtors to him; to obey him with all our body, and soul, and strength. And would you blush to sit side- by-side with him, and be made nothing of as he was? God is well pleased with the death of Christ as the vindication of his justice, and for Christ's sake he says to me, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." Unless we are the sons of God the Holy Spirit's indwelling shall not be ours: we are shut out from the intercession of the Holy Ghost, ay, and from the intercession of Jesus too, for he hath said, "I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me.". Surely no one is so daring as to say, that all men are led by the Spirit of God; yet may it readily enough be inferred from our text, that those who are not led by the Spirit of God are not the sons of God, but that they and they alone who are led, guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit, are the sons of God. "HEIRS OF GOD, and joint heirs with Christ." He is in an enemy's house; for he is at enmity with God. Hear his reply! We are not at liberty to give or to refuse. Romans 1:7-8. Does he do nothing for sinners, then? "All things work together for good." Moreover, the Holy Spirit's intercession creates prayers offered in a proper manner. when I can find enough for my faith to be satisfied with even in the digging of the well, what shall be my satisfaction when I see it overflowing its brim, and springing up with life everlasting? The plain, simple spirit of the humble-minded Christian cries, "I am God's child." 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. That is, whatever Christ possesses, as heir of all things, belongs to us. When he died for them they had rest; when he rose again for them, they had liberty; when he was received into his Father's favour, yet again, and sat at his own right hand, then had they favour, and honour, and dignity. The encounter to which he challenges them is not to be a mere tilt in a tournament, but a battle for life or death. 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. You will remember while the sinner is dead in sin, he is alive enough so far as any opposition to God may be concerned. is this the cause of thine enmity? How joyfully will we serve him, how rapturously adore him. III. says yet another accuser; "but you have sinned with delight. "Ah!" 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. Even if we were pure as Adam, we could not have any merit; for I do not think Adam had any desert before his Creator. Cataracts of trouble descend if you will, and you, ye floods of affliction, roll if so it be ordained, for God has written my name in the book of life. How seriously, then, should each stand and think. He can lay certain desires so pressingly upon our hearts that we can never rest till they are fulfilled. The same legacy that left peace with you, also left tribulation with you, while you are in this world. Expect not, O Christian, that all things will work together to make thee rich; it is just possible they may all work to make thee poor. Look at our memory; is it not true that the memory is fallen? If we suffer orthodoxy to fail, or God's truth to be dishonored, future generations will despise and execrate our name. 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. If the guilty sinner dies, the law is honoured; but if God shall assume human flesh, and die for that sinner, the law is even more honoured. 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? ", We are not only debtors to God in the light of gratitude for all these things; but because of our relationship to him. All men are called by the ministry, by the Word, by daily providence, to love God, there is a common call always given to men to come to Christ, the great bell of the gospel rings a universal welcome to every living soul that breathes; but alas! Now here is the first touchstone by which we may try our calling many are called but few are chosen, because there are many kinds of call, but the true call, and that only, answers to the description of the text. This is too absurd to need an answer, for if so, horses and cows, rats and mice, snakes and flies are children of God, for they are surely creatures as well as we. Purity, holiness, unselfishness, all the virtues, should glow in us as they shone in him. In this world, saints are God's children, but you cannot see that they are so, except by certain moral characteristics. Will you be willing to endure the revilings of slanderous tongues? Ah! To the Christian, however, the highest good he can receive on earth is to grow in grace. It is curious to see how some men are proud of being greater debtors than others. 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. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." And this solemn text drops an awful warning: "How shall ye escape, if ye neglect so great salvation." Only let the gospel be preached, and there shall be an end of war; let it thoroughly pervade all ranks of society, and saturate the mind of nations, and there shall be no more lifting of the spears, they shall be used for pruning hooks; no bathing of swords in blood, for they shall be turned into the peaceful ploughshares of the soil; we shall then have no hosts encountering hosts; we shall have no millions slain for widows to deplore; but every man shall meet every other man, and call him "brother." And see what it is that we are heirs of. May the Spirit of God enable me to expound to you this most blessed portion of God's Word. The help which the Holy Ghost renders to us meets the weakness which we deplore. "Look," says one, "there is sin. 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. Amen and amen. He draws near to teach us how to pray, and in this way he helps our infirmity, relieves our suffering, and enables us to bear the heavy burden without fainting under the load. If, then, you give the honor to God, you are bound to confess that God has done more for the man that is saved than for the man that is not saved. 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