He that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. "Say to the North, give up, and to the South, keep not back; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth." It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. 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. 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. Thou hast lain among the pots, but he hat made thee as a dove whose wings are covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. As many of you as have been born again have been conformed to the image of Christ in the matter of his birth, and you are now partakers of his nature. Having once looked upon the city of David, they longed to carry the holy city by storm, to overthrow the crescent, and place the cross in its place. Now, there are some of you here incommoding us to-night, and making us very hot. May God help you, and help me, to groan all our days with that kind of groaning. They never had any seats to sit on. See, brethren, he enters into glory, but not for himself alone, for it is written, "Whither the forerunner is for us entered." The tug of war is now with us. And now this brings me to the challenge. You will bear in mind that I discussed the doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ's atonement by his death, in the sermon of last Sunday morning. Taking away this corner-stone, this fancy theory tumbles to the ground, and that theory which seemed to be as tall as Babel, and threatened to make as much confusion, may right soon be demolished, if you will batter it with the Word of God. We are deficient in those things for which we groan and wait. 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. If according to law we are only heirs-presumptive, whose rights may be superseded, then our great joint heir, so far as he is co-heir with us, is superseded also. But there are one or two doctrines which we will try to deduce from this. We want the mind of the spirit in prayer, and not he mind of the flesh. But rather, lest there should be a shadow of a doubt, that thou canst not be condemned, thy debts are cancelled. You could not doubt the affliction, for you smarted under it, but you might almost as soon have doubted the divine help, for your confidence was firm and unmoved. C. H. Spurgeon At Exeter Hall, Strand. If the sermon is printed, pray get me a copy that I may read it when I come home, for I felt the power of it, and I prayed there and then that God would bring me to my mother's God, and save me." The whole "carnal mind is enmity against God. What a happy man in his law-suit would such a poor man be, and how happy are you and I that we have the Holy Ghost to be our Counsellor! Man, unless thou art a stranger here, and heaven is thy home, thou hast not been called with a heavenly calling, for those who have been so called, declare that they look for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, and they themselves are strangers and pilgrims upon the earth. Above all, commune much with Christ. What shall we say to that? My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. 26. The first is, that this body of ours is not delivered. Hear David: he was none of those who boast of a holy nature and a pure disposition. They are ever working too, in opposition to the word play. You have felt as sure about the promise as you felt about the trial. I tell thee, thou poor brother in Christ, there is a dignity about thee that even angels may well envy. We are to groan after perfection, but we are to wait patiently for it, knowing that what the Lord appoints is best. 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 dwells in the heart by faith. Look! Be not drugged with the laudanum of self-security! I thought I saw you the other day looking amazingly great, because on such an occasion you really had done some little service to Christ's Church; and you looked astonishingly proud about it. Wait awhile; that weary head shall soon be girt with a crown. There is a publican living in it, who is a hard, griping, grasping, miserly extortioner. We are panting, longing after something greater, better, nobler, and it is coming. ", "Ay, ay!" O friends, I sometimes feel a strange trembling when I stand upon this platform to speak to you, because the words that I utter are often so remarkably fulfilled of God as really to amaze me. However much the Arminian may try to fritter away the meaning of this 8th chapter of the Romans we are obliged as long as we use terms and words to say, that the 8th chapter of the Romans and the 9th, are the very pillars of that Gospel which men now call Calvinism. Christ was in his death the hostage of the people of God. We are to be like him then in nature, in relation, in experience. Jesus now heads a race assailed but victorious; sorely tempted but enabled to overcome. 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. 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." Nor need we say a word to explain that it is "enmity against God." It is "an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." When he is about to favour an individual he casts the shadow of hopeful expectation over his soul. God is angry with them, and they know it. We have, indeed, in the death of Christ, a great atonement; an atonement so great, that none can measure its height and depth, its length and breadth. No separation: that is the end of the chapter. I know my brethren, it is very hard for you to believe this. You have not come of age, so you do not possess it yet, but the day shall come when Christ shall come to this earth, and take possession of it, and then his saints shall reign with him. The doctrine that I am quite sure to gain the victory, makes me fight. I hear a ribald song; that music of hell shall jar in my ear when gray hairs shall be upon my head. The wilderness has its manna; the desert is gladdened with water from the rock. repeat not that challenge." His work is never superficial, but always deep and inward. That prayer which came from heaven will certainly go back to heaven. 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. How shall a celestial spirit be satisfied until it sees celestial things? "Well, sir, you know how much I love the cause, and how earnest I am in doing everything that I can to serve my Maker; but (now comes the end of it all) I really work so hard all the week that I cannot afford to go out on the Sabbath to Sunday-schools." He might have sent you to hell; but you are here. I owe nothing to the past, I owe nothing to the future, I owe nothing to the rich, and nothing to the poor, compared with what I owe to my God. "Look," says one, "there is sin. I owe no man anything after the debt has been paid, whether by myself, or by somebody else; and if Christ took our sin upon himself, and suffered for it, the sins for which he suffered are gone, plunged as in a shoreless sea, drowned in the Redeemer's blood. It is an oft-repeated truth, and one which, perhaps, has almost lost its meaning from being so oft repeated, that this is the very crisis. For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. Now election shuts up the precious treasury of God's covenant blessings for his children for penitents, for seeking sinners. But he says, "Get thee hence, Satan, I know I am the son of God." I am treating the text as you see, verbally. Here is a youth who is to be initiated in the art of archery, and therefore he carries a bow. When I think how the poor toil day after day and receive barely enough to keep their souls within their bodies: when I think how frequently they serve their Church, unhonored and unrewarded, when I know some of them who perform the hardest deeds of service for our common Christianity, and are yet passed by with neglect and scorn; when I remember how many of them are toiling in the Sabbath-school, having neither emolument nor reward; when I consider how many of the lower classes are as prayerful, as careful, as honest, as upright, as devout, as spiritual as others are, and frequently more so, I cannot but say that we are debtors to all God's poor in a very large degree. Whatever God would have done under the circumstances, that Jesus did. You had a share in his death. "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Did not they, by bitter suffering, achieve our liberty for us? He has not done enough "never enough;" conscience always says, "this is not perfection; it ought to have been better," Salvation for enemies must be by an ambassador, by an atonement, yea, by Christ. The Holy Spirit acts to his people somewhat as a prompter to a reciter. On, that you would know and feel your dependence upon the Holy Ghost that he may prompt the once crucified but now ascended Redeemer that this gift of the Spirit, this promise of the Father, is shed abroad upon men. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. Even when ignorance and perplexity are removed, we know not what we should pray for "as we ought." The Christian understands the word "good" in another sense. Well, my dear brother, you up there on the topmost bough, you will not frighten me with all your heights, though I cannot get up there, and I could not stay there if I could get up so high. Psalms 16:5 . Did he not learn it by revelation? So shall we be, for because he lives, we shall live also. See you that stone rolled at the mouth of the sepulchre? Now this is yours. What was to be done? Sad would it be to our thoughts if it were always to be so. Very well, be it so; but then it is Christ's interest that is at stake as well as mine; he will be co-respondent in the suit. But next: why cannot we administer also to the blessed part of the glorious testament! Renewed men are made fit companions for the Son of God. The holiest men, the most free from impurity, have always felt it most. Bblia; Leia a Bblia; Verses da Bblia; . Jesus the Mediator must lose the glory which his finished work has procured for him, ere one of his co-heirs can miss of it; he must come down from that glory which he now inhabiteth, and cease to be honored as "the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us unto God by his blood," if any one of his people shall be deprived of that glory, and be cast into hell. Nay, his law never asked for more than human righteousness divine. It is not poured out on the ground; it is on the mercy-seat, it is on the throne; it speaks in the very ears of God, and it must of a surety prevail. Those in heaven, have, as it were, stolen there. Enemies in the children's house? Therefore do we say to that law, "Law, thou hast nothing to do with me; I am 'not under law, but under grace.' When the poor man was baffled by a question asked in court, he would run home and ask his adviser, and he would tell him exactly how to meet the objector. Oh! We are like Adam now in weakness and pain, and we shall soon be like him in death, returning to the ground whence we were taken; but we shall rise again to a better life, and then shall we wear in glory and incorruption the image of the second Adam, the Lord from heaven. O Christian, thou canst not be condemned, for Christ has paid the debt. We shall see his face; the devils in hell cannot hinder it; we shall possess the promised rest, still the fiends that are beneath shall not rob us of the heirloom. He may have thought, with a great many in the present day, that it was necessary to caution believers against falling from grace, and to be a little dubious about their final perseverance in the ways of God; but, if he ever had such fears, he gave them up, and said, "I am, yes, I am persuaded that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". Yes, blessed be God, even this foe can be overcome by the weapon the believer wields in the power of God, for he can tell conscience, as he told his former opponents, "It is Christ that died." Paul is but giving us two sides of the truth, both equally true, the one needful for our warning, the other admirable for our consolation. Oh, wherefore art thou at enmity with him? This he does by arousing our desires. Enlarge thine expectations seek great things from the God of heaven and he will give them to thee; but by no means fold thine arms in sloth, and sit down upon the bed of carnal security. So with the judgement I might prove how ill it decides. CHILDREN are expected to bear some likeness to their parent. These are blessed subjects, though I cannot speak upon them as I would. That is, his great love in giving his dear Son to die for us. I fear many of us here must acknowledge that we do not charge the sin of it to our own consciences. It is our will now, but it was God's will when it was not our will, and it only became according to our will when we were converted, because God's grace had made us willing in the day of its power. Speak we of his omniscience? If I have, then God purposed that I should do so, and the whole of this great promise is mine. Now, I speak with bated breath. "Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and now ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are against me," said the old Patriarch. Our first birth gave us humanity; our second birth allies us with Deity. 5:1-11 Suffering with assurance of future glory 5:12-21 The basis for assurance in the work of Christ 6:1-23 Slavery to sin 7:1-25 The weakness of law 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. God bless you, my beloved brethren, and may you feel the Spirit of the Lord thus working in you and with you. We bathe our wound in the lotion of prayer, and the pain is lulled, the fever is removed. Now which shall it be! is this the cause of thine enmity? Hear another, 2 Corinthians, vi. The encounter to which he challenges them is not to be a mere tilt in a tournament, but a battle for life or death. I am the king of that inheritance, and without me doth not a dog move his tongue." 19. He leads the spiritual eye to take good and steady aim at the very centre of the target, and thus we hit the mark in our pleadings. It speaks of the regenerate, of a special class me as having a claim to be God's children. III. Is he full of love and grace? I trust you will lay hold upon that thought; if Christ as God's heir has a perfect right to what his Father has bestowed upon him, even so have we, for our rights are nonexistent. We shall take the words one by one, and try to explain them. The effectual call may be illustrated in its sovereignty by the case of Zaccheus. Close beside the bottomless pit of our iniquity stands the cross whereon Christ has made recompense for all our faults; and when we set Christ over against the gulf of our sin, we see that he far transcends it. "It is Christ that died. This is a very solemn indictment which the Apostle Paul here prefers against the carnal mind. Happy shall you and I be if, though covered with sin, though guilty and unclean, we nevertheless shall have faith to believe in the Christ that dies, a faith so strong, and confident that we shall dare to stand both now, and at the judgment-seat of Christ, and say, "Who is he that condemneth?" It would not have been consistent with his justice for him to pass by my sin. The right hand of God is the place of majesty, and the place of favour too. So is it with the Spirit, it is free from corruption and death; but the poor body is still under the bondage of corruption, and therefore the soul groans until the body itself shall be set free. Amen. It is true that you are a believer, but you have sinned often, for years, in all sorts of way." Brother owes to brother what he cannot pay until he dies. And with united breath they reply, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." "He that believeth on the Son hath the witness in himself," so that he can with his brethren say plainly "we know that we have passed from death unto life." So are the affections. This is something more than helping us to pray, something more than encouraging us or directing us, but I venture no further, except to say that he puts such force of his own mind into our poor weak thoughts and desires and hopes, that he himself maketh intercession for us, working in us to will and to pray according to his good pleasure. Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. The pinch of faith always lies in the present tense. The Judge is now on our side; and none of us need fear anybody's condemnation if the Judge does not condemn us. And now, what with strifes between men and masters, which are banishing trade from England, and what with political convulsions, which unhinge everything, the vessel of the state is drifting fast to the shallows. 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. So it is with those prayers which are all broken up, wet with tears, and discordant with those sighs and inarticulate expressions and heavings of the bosom, and sobbings of the heart and anguish and bitterness of spirit, our gracious Lord reads them as a man reads a book, and they are written in a character which he fully understands. He turned round upon the men who carried him, as they thought, to his death, and said to them, "Now will you believe that all things work together for God?" 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. Reach the bottom of Christ's sea of joy, and then hope to understand the bliss which God hath prepared for them that love him. The text before us cannot be so understood, because the Lord foreknows the history of every man, and angel, and devil. "Roll ye away the stone," saith he, and it is done; and now, listen to him; he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" Hope is the grand anchor by whose means we ride out the present storm. Perhaps the little one stutters, stammers, and cannot get its words out, but the mother sees what he would say, and takes the meaning. I shall not refer to any class of society, and say of them, we are debtors, except to one, and that is the poor. Is there anything to be proud of in having paid a farthing in the pound? But in the case of the believing poor, their claim upon us is far more binding, and I beseech you do not neglect it. But I ask you, does your spirit say to-day "I am God's child." The fleshly mind, the phronema sarkos, the lusts, the passions of the soul; it is this which has gone astray from God, and become enmity against him. May he who comes from Jesus lead you to Jesus. 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. My mind wanders: I chatter like a crane; I roar like a beast in pain; I moan in the brokenness of my heart, but oh, my God, I know not what it is my inmost spirit needs; or if I know it, I know not how to frame my petition aright before thee. His zeal in doing them proves that he has the spirit of a child of God, and the result of those works proves that God works in him as he will never do in any but his own children. By the grace of God, the apostle stands defiantly in the midst of all the believer's foes, and flings down the gauntlet before them all. 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. I trust that even while I am speaking this morning, Christ may speak with me, and some word that may fall from my lips, unpremeditated and almost without design, shall be sent of God as a message of life unto some dead and corrupt heart here, and some man who has lived in sin hitherto, shall now live to righteousness, and live to Christ. Mark then, with care, that OUR CONFORMITY TO CHRIST IS THE SACRED OBJECT OF PREDESTINATION. Now let me ask my congregation, do any of you know that you are God's children? God will not leave you, my brethren, he has pledged himself by covenant to you, and he has given au oath that his covenant shall stand. We are not at liberty to give or to refuse. Did you ever want to hire a horse in a market-town? There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. What was the nature of Christ, then, as divine? Now, this is not my assertion, it is the declaration of God's word, and you must leave it if you do not believe it; but quarrel not with me, it is my Master's message; and it is true of every one of you men, women, and children, and myself too that if we have not been regenerated and converted, if we have not experienced a change of heart, our carnal mind is still at enmity against God. III. If he adds anything at all, it is still something about that same Christ "yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Cry mightily to the Holy Spirit to continue his sanctifying work upon you; beseech him not to be grieved and vexed, and, therefore, in any measure to stay his hand. If we be debtors we never ought to be proud. We have a sacred secret which belongs to Jesus, as the first-fruits belong to Jehovah. We heard of abundant harvests, but we soon discovered that they were all a dream, and that there would be scant in the worker's cottage. And this persuasion helped him to gain his aspiration. There is nothing about old age to separate you from the love of Christ; he hath made, and he will bear; even to hoar hairs will he carry you; therefore, be not afraid. I like this thought. Here we have in the text conformity to Christ spoken of as the aim of predestination; we have, secondly, predestination as the impelling force by which this conformity is to be achieved; and we have, thirdly, the firstborn himself set before us as the ultimate end of the predestinations and of the conformity. If so, then I have a hope that I may be among the called host whom God has predestinated. He ruleth over all. Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. There is nothing about death that the believer should construe it into a fear that it will separate him from the love of Christ. Do you hate God because he loves you? 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. If so, methinks your heart is not in a right state. Some groan continually under the troubles of life; they are merely impatient there is no virtue in that. 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. 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." Suppose, my dear friends, that any of you were about to be tried for your life, do you think you could trust your advocacy with any man you know? The Spirit saith Come, and the bride saith Come not the bride on earth only, but the bride in heaven saith the same, bidding the happy day speed on when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. May God help me, this morning, solemnly to prefer this indictment against all! I wish you now to observe that we are linked with the creation. To have anything to do with a great man is thought by some persons to be a distinguished mark of honor; to be set down in a will as co-heir with some great prince or noble would be considered indeed a great thing; but what honor is conferred on thee, believer, to be joint heir with the King of kings, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace! Impossible! We have him first very succinctly, but very fully described in these words "Them that love God, them who are the called according to his purpose." Yet one more remark before we leave this point. Will he be received with triumph by his Father? There is but one that can claim the heir 's rights, and heir. A SACRED secret which belongs to Jesus farthing in the art of archery, and the heir rights. Stone rolled at the mouth of the Lord thus working in you with. 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