Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and that child might be treated as his for a long time; but there was a second adoption in public, when the child was brought before the constituted authorities, and in the presence of spectators its ordinary garments which it had worn before were taken off, and the father who took it to be his child put on garments suitable to the condition of life in which it was to live. This and this alone can restore the peace of divided families, and unite disputing relatives. Our confidence is therefore strong, and it is so because Christ's dying has removed all sin from all believers. I want to sit down, and suck all the sweetness out of this blessed truth: "It is Christ that died." The SPECIAL CONDUCT naturally expected from those who are partakers of the peculiar privileges of being the children of God. 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. The first is the general call, which is in the gospel sincerely given to everyone that heareth the word. 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.". I believe that there have been some professors, such as Judas and Simon Magus, who have come very near to this condition, and others who are said, after a certain sort, to have believed, to have received the Holy Spirit in miraculous gifts, and to have been specially enlightened so as to have been able to teach others; but the work of grace did not affect their hearts, it did not renew their natures, it did not transform their spirits, and so it was impossible to renew them to repentance. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. Wherefore, seek the Lord now ere it be too late. The mind of God is one and harmonious; if, therefore, the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and he move you to any desire, then his mind is in your prayer, and it is not possible that the eternal Father should reject your petitions. We remember to be grateful to all except our God. "Yet," said the Judge, "I will not come down to earth to receive the payment; bring it to me." Who will garnish my back with purple and make my table groan with plenty?" We have some splendid specimens of what men could write, when they have been under the accursed influence of ardent spirits. Let us mark a yet more positive passage, Romans ix. that love belongs to us. As to his humanity our blessed Lord, when he came into this world, underwent a birth which was a remarkable type of our second birth. Let us now notice these four stupendous doctrines. I see the reverend man rise, leaning on his staff, and with the tears "uttering his old cheeks, he says, "Young man it is true, I have proved it; even down to grey hairs I have proved it; he made, and he will carry; he will not desert his own!" He is evermore transforming the chosen, removing that defilement of sin, and moulding them after the perfect model of his Son, Jesus Christ, the second Adam, who is the firstborn amongst the "many brethren.". This is an instructive emblem of a great fact. Now, farewell to such of you as are debtors in that sense; but just one word to those who are debtors in the other sense; Sinner, thou who owest to God's justice, thou who hast never been pardoned; what wilt thou do when pay-day comes/ My friend over there, you who have run up a score of black sins, what will you do when pay-day comes, and no Christ to pay your debts for you? "If Satan bring an accusation before God against any of the Lord's redeemed, that accusation is made against the Redeemer himself, for God's people are so one with Christ, that you must first bring the charge against Christ himself ere you dare to lay it against any of his elect. This is our witnessing that we are born of God. It is Christ that died. They love God also as their Portion, for in him they live and move and have their being; God is their all, without him they have nothing, but possessing him, however little they may have of outward good, they feel that they are rich to all the intents of bliss. ", Another says, "Yes, but then you have been specially guilty, there is great sin against a great God. Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon is remembered today as the Prince of Preachers. If such be the bright hope that cheers us, we may well groan for its realisation, crying out. The first is, that this body of ours is not delivered. A Methodist brother cries, "Amen," and you say, "I cannot bear such Methodistic noise"; no, but if it comes from the man's heart God can bear it. But, remember, the text tells us that all God is, is ours. If he cannot afford to pay, he ought to keep at home till he can." In this very place, where sin has triumphed, we expect that grace will much more abound. Now, beloved, the practical use to which I put this, I am afraid somewhat discursive, discourse of this morning is just this. However troubled, downcast, depressed, and despairing, the Christian may be, all things are working now for his good; and though like Jonah he is brought to the bottom of the mountains, and he thinks the earth with her bars is about him for ever, and the weeds of despair are wrapped about his head, even in the uttermost depths all things are now working for his good. 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. 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." 6. The Necessity of the Spirit's Work Ezekiel 36:27 274. I pray you never think lightly of the supplications of your anguish. I. 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. Where he is every saint shall be ere long. What must be the strength when the whole four are interlaced and intertwisted, and become the support of the believer? The Lord bless this assembly, for Christ's sake. If all things work together for good (all events, all circumstances, all trials, all happenings, etc. MY venerable friend, who, on the first Sabbath of the year, always sends me a text to preach from, has on this occasion selected one which it is very far from easy to handle. We do not know why it is so, but we sometimes find our minds carried as by a strong under current into a particular line of prayer for some one definite object. In too many instances ministers of religion has propagated doubt, and the result is a general hardening of the popular feeling, and a greatly-increased neglect of public worship. We read of "the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." 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. Can you not do it? There is the worldling's sense: "Who will show us any good?" He may know it as surely as if he read it with his own eyes; nay, he may know it more surely than that, for if I read a thing with my eyes, even my eyes may deceive me, the testimony of sense may be false, but the testimony of the Spirit must be true. Of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; Let us go from the school to the university, let us have done with our first spelling-books, and advance into the higher classics of the kingdom. There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. He goes on to say, "Heirs of God;" for if they are heirs they inherit their Father's property. The apostle then turns to a third source of comfort, namely, the abiding of the Holy Spirit in and with the Lord's people. If we are born into his family it is a miracle of mercy. For, first, if I am called then I am predestinated, there is no doubt about it. God is their Father, they are therefore God's heirs! OBSERVE the title whereby he addressed the Church "Brethren." "To the very uttermost" he is able to save, seeing he ever lives to intercede the strongest argument of the whole four. Moreover, the Holy Spirit's intercession creates prayers offered in a proper manner. I recommend that we should, each one of us, have but one hope of salvation. There he would stand, silent, motionless; till Christ would say, with a voice louder than ten thousand thunders, "What dost thou here? my brethren, let us revel with delight for a moment in the contrast which I might present to you. Now, the next word, "All things work together." It is true that God is great, but he cannot ask for more than divine righteousness, and in Christ I present that. Then, remember, thy head must deny itself the pleasure of wearing the crown. "Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. If you, for fear of shame, and out of the love of the flesh, will not follow Christ through an evil generation, neither shall you follow him when he marches through the streets of heaven in triumph, amidst the acclamations of angels. Oh, the bitterness of that cry "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" But I feel a darkness coming down over my spirit, and in the darkness there is a fiendish voice that says, "But you have committed unknown sins, sins that nobody else knows, and there have been sins which you yourself did not know. Thou shall soon be with the glorified, where thy portion is; thou art only waiting here to be made meet, for the inheritance, and that done, the wings of angels shall waft thee far away, to the mount of peace, and joy, and blessedness, where. It does not always follow in human reasoning "if children, then heirs," because in our families but one is the heir. Overleap the boundaries of Christ's possession if you can, and then dream of ending a limit to the possessions of the elect of God. The great white throne is set, the books are opened, men are trembling, fiends are yelling, sinners are shrieking "Rocks hide us, mountains on us fall;" these make up an awful chorus of dismay. I want nothing more. Now, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." There is not only enough to put our sins to death, but enough to bury them and hide them out of sight. Did he give you talents, would you turn those powers against him? We repeat, a third time, it was the gospel which implanted in the soul of Paul the feeling of brotherhood, and removed every wall of partition which divided him from any of the Lord's elect. "Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen again." Not the "liberty, equality and fraternity," which the democrat seeks for, which is frequently another name for his own superiority, but that which is true and real that which will make us all free in the Spirit, make us all equal in the person of Christ Jesus, and give us all the fraternity of brethren, seeing that we are all one with our Lord, in the common bond of gospel relationship. Have I been born again from above? I also am of that persuasion. Now, if I cannot say the first things because of diffidence, though they be true, yet can I say this, that I feel myself to be a sinner, that I loathe my sinnership, that I detest my iniquity, that I feel I deserve the wrath of God on account of my transgressions? I used this argument; I thought it might be a new one; I am sure it is a forcible one. 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. Say not, "In my baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, and a child of God." For memory graspeth with an iron hand ill things, but the good she holdeth with feeble fingers. Blessed is the man to whom this reasoning is not abstract, but experimental. His intercession is not in or for the unregenerate. If not, tremble, for there are but two vast families in this world. 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." There is only one way to successfully resist the onset of the arch-enemy; but that one way ensures certain victory. It is not many minutes before he begins to feel his sin in having persecuted Jesus, nor many hours ere he receives the assurance of his pardon, and not many days ere he who persecuted Christ stands up to preach with vehemence and eloquence unparalleled, the very cause which he once trod beneath his feet. 3. Come, take your cross up and bear it with joy. He is a man of a loving heart and loves his sons, but there they stand. Now, therefore, the one thing to which the Lord is working us through his Spirit, both by providence and by grace, is the likeness of the Lord from heaven. 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 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? ", Observe then, first of all, the universality of this as to all persons. When Christ was bound to the tree, I see my own sin bound there; when he died every believer virtually died in him; when he was buried we were buried in him, and when he was in the tomb, he was, as it were, God's hostage for all his church, for all that ever should believe on him. I shall now pass on to my third point. We will come again in a few days: as we are entering the first house we see weeping faces and flowing tears, a coffin, and a hearse. You believe that all things will in the end work for your good. By this expression it cannot be meant that the Holy Spirit ever groans or personally prays; but that he excites intense desire and created unutterable groanings in us, and these are ascribed to him. No. To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast. Romans: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $22.80 $38.00. My own little experience leads me to believe that apart from the Word of God, there are immediate dealings with the conscience and soul of man by the Holy Spirit, without any instrumentality, without even the agency of the truth. If we be not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. (1) No condemnation. If ye be partakers of that glorious hope, if ye be believers in our glorious Redeemer, if ye have put your trust under the shadow of his wings, my hand and my heart with it, there is that word "brother" for you. "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. She is, "when unadorned, adorned the most." I do not think it always for my good to increase in treasure, but I know it is good to grow in grace. The portals of heaven stand wide open for thee. If you were half as happy as a groaning saint is, you might be content to groan on for ever. Jesus now heads a race assailed but victorious; sorely tempted but enabled to overcome. Is this true or not? How can we deserve anything from the being we hate? There is nothing here below which does not belong to a believer. In Hebrews 3:1 , you find this sentence. Now, if I understand the passage before us, it means this. He had endured persecution, imprisonment, famine, shipwreck, he had suffered from scorn and scandal, pain of body, and depression of spirit. It speaks of the regenerate, of a special class me as having a claim to be God's children. I have said that I would endeavor, in the third place, to show the great enormity of this guilt. He shall feast all the more joyously because they shall eat bread with him in his kingdom. "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." How then am I to know whether I am predestinated by God unto eternal life or not? What was the nature of Christ, then, as divine? 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. Now this is the cause of our groaning and mourning, for the soul is so married to the body that when it is itself delivered from condemnation, it sighs to think that its poor friend, the body, should still be under the yoke. Speak we of his omniscience? Do you shrink from being tempted? His own dear Son came, and stood in my place, and took my sin upon him. Death is terrible to them; the tomb affrights them, they can scarcely understand the possibility of having any confidence this side of the grave. First, then, there is A LEGAL TERM IN THE WILL UPON WHICH THE WHOLE MATTER WILL HINGE. There have been many who have been won from drunkenness by hearing the preaching of God's Word even under myself, and those persons have been ready to carry me on their shoulders, from very gratitude, for joy; but I would be bound to say they make a far more feeble display of their thankfulness to my Master. "For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's." In the second place, very briefly, WHAT OUGHT WE TO DRAW FROM THIS DOCTRINE, that we are debtors? I must not speculate, for I know nothing about it; but it is no speculation to say that we look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness; and that there will come a time when the lion shall eat straw like an ox, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. ", But, conscience, I have another question! The desires which the Spirit prompts may be too spiritual for such babes in grace as we are actually to describe or to express, and yet the Spirit writes the desire on the renewed mind, and the Father sees it. And lo, there upon the throne of judgment sits the only one who can condemn; and who is that? Will you take the cross? 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." 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." Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee, and thou hast sinned; therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.". And then suppose that, in winding up the estates, it should be found that, though there be something left, yet it be a mere trifle, scarcely worth an acknowledgment: enough to excite appetite but not sufficient to satisfy it what if it should come out at last, that heaven is not the infinite joy we have been taught to expect; suppose its bliss should be but inferior joy, such as might be found even in this world below suppose that the harps have no melody, the crowns but little glory, and heaven's streets but slight magnificence what then? Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" Tell conscience that Christ has died for your sins, according to the Scriptures, and it will be perfectly satisfied: it will not go to sleep, but it will use its voice for other purposes, and it will no longer seek to condemn you. 4-6. What the wealthiest man has is not his own, but God's, and if it be God's then it is Christ's, and if Christ's, then his children's; and Christ's children are often those who are hungry, and thirsty, and destitute, and afflicted, and tormented. And yet I must say here, that sometimes all things work together for the Christian's temporal good. === Sample: Romans 8:1-3 === Romans 8 Some people talk about "getting out of the 7th chapter, into the 8th." Judge these things rightly. I can see black storms that have lowered o'er my head, and torrents of opposition that have run across my path, but I can thank God for every incident that ever occurred to me from my cradle up to now, and do not desire a better pilot for the rest of my days, than he who has steered me from obscurity and scorn, to this place to preach his word and feed this great congregation. II. What bliss to know that he who is "very God of very God," and sits on the eternal throne, is also of the same nature with ourselves, our kinsman, who is not ashamed even amidst the royalties of glory to call us brethren. Would you believe it, that the man whom Christ intends to call is the worst man in Jericho the extortioner? But, on a certain set day, the gates were thrown wide open, and the general, victorious from the wars in Africa or Asia, with his snow-white horses bearing the trophies of his many battles, rode through the streets, which were strewn with roses, while the music sounded, and the multitudes, with glad acclaim, accompanied him to the Capitol. The fall of Adam was OUR fall; we fell in and with him; we were equal sufferers; it is the ruin of our own house that we lament, it is the destruction of our own city that we bemoan, when we stand and see written, in lines too plain for us to mistake their meaning, "The carnal mind" that very self-same mind which was once holiness, and has now become carnal "is enmity against God." There is not a silent nook within the deepest forest glade where work is not going on. "If children then heirs." I must confess that I am more afraid of life than of death. "These," says he, "passed through great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb: ask them!" traitor against God!" Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles." 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. Wipe away that tear; God shall soon wipe away thy tears for ever. Well, but God hath another Son, one who is the first-born of every creature. 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. He has been charitably received, he has been warmed at the fire, he has received abundant provision, he is warmly clothed. Paul. There is not only a sea in which to drown our sins, but the very tops of the mountains of our guilt are covered. 2. We all know that the word "carnal" here signifies fleshly. Let us make sure that the foundation is laid, but let us not have continually to lay it again. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 22, 1855, by the, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------. The new life which God has given to us is not ours that we should ascribe its excellence to our own merit: the new nature is Christ's peculiarly; as it is Christ's image and Christ's creation, so it is for Christ's glory alone. 20. I tell thee No; Christ never called the righteous; and if he has not called thee, and if he never does call thee, thou art not elect, and thou and thy self-righteousness must be subject to the wrath of God, and cast away eternally. Our sighs are sacred things; these griefs and sighs are too hallowed for us to tell abroad in the streets. The charioteers of the Roman circus might with much cleverness and art, with glowing wheels, avoid each other; but God, with skill infinitely consummate, guides the fiery coursers of man's passion, yokes the storm, bits the tempest, and keeping each clear of the other from seeming evil still enduceth good, and better still; and better still in infinite progression. Look at our history. The soul is like an eagle, to which the body acts as a chain, which prevents its mounting. And now we close by noticing the confidence with which the apostle speaks. When he decreed Christ to be blessed above all the blessed, he decreed thee to be a partaker with him. We are not at liberty to give or to refuse. We look over the many things which we might ask for of the Lord, and we feel that each of them would be helpful, but that none of them would precisely meet our case. You went to some place, and asked the price, and thought it too high; then you went away to half-a-dozen other stablekeepers, and could not do any better, so you came back to the first; but he, displeased with you, very possibly said, "I do not want your custom. 11. and bleeds his life away in agony, then is the law of God abundantly honoured. If he says, "Let there be light," the impenetrable darkness gives way to light; if he says, "Let there be grace," unutterable sin gives way, and the hardest-hearted sinner melts before the fire of effectual calling. There are e'en stronger arguments for the non-condemnation of the believer in the resurrection of Christ than in his precious death and burial. My brethren, what a glorious model! 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