As sure as thou art God's called child today, thy poverty shall soon be at an end, and thou shalt be rich to all the intents of bliss. "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Death is terrible to them; the tomb affrights them, they can scarcely understand the possibility of having any confidence this side of the grave. What! and no one dares to speak, for man himself cannot accuse; with all his malevolence, and acrimony, and malice, he can bring nothing against him; no charge can stand at the bar of God against the man whom he hath absolved through the merits of the death of Christ, and the power of his resurrection. As long as you go with evil companions, they will applaud you. 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. Our text speaks not only of what we ought to be, but of what we shall be, for we are predestinated to be conformed to the image of God's Son. The statement of this verse succinctly expresses the core of Christian victory. Sonship towards an earthly parent brings with it a host of duties, and shall the Everlasting Father be unregarded? Then it appears if we are called joint heirs with Christ, we legally and strictly have no inheritance apart from him. He is bold to declare that he has the petition which he has asked of God, and he therefore begins to rejoice and to praise God, even before the blessing has actually arrived. What fiery lips shall ever speak of his possessions, of his riches, the unsearchable riches of God in Christ Jesus. Bible > Romans > Chapter 8 > Verse 35 Library Free Downloads eBibles Romans 8:35 But distinguishing grace has made a difference where no difference naturally was; we are now no longer treated as criminals condemned, but as children and heirs of God. It is not left to my pleasure whether I will do it or no; but I am a debtor, and I must serve him. A New Interpretation of Pilgrim's Progress. The law of God says, "Thou shalt," and we have not done what it commands. I shall not refer to any class of society, and say of them, we are debtors, except to one, and that is the poor. This shall be an all-sufficient argument to shut their clamorous mouths, "Christ hath died." 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. So the Spirit confirms the witness of my spirit that I am born of God. Down thou shalt come, sinner, if God cries down; there is no standing when he would have thee fall. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. But no; take a child away, place it under the most pious influences, let the very air it breathes be purified by piety; let it constantly drink in draughts of holiness; let it hear nothing but the voice of prayer and praise; let its ear be always kept in tune by notes of sacred song; and that child, notwithstanding, may still become one of the grossest of transgressors; and though placed apparently on the very road to heaven, it shall, if not directed by divine grace, march downwards to the pit. We groan within ourselves. Why is this? The title of joint heir contains another mystery which I cannot withhold, although it must be judiciously handled Christ, as coheir, has (of his own free grace) so identified himself with what his rights as co-heir are not to be separated or viewed apart from ours. "Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen again." But while I have thus mentioned some of the different classes to whom we are debtors, I have not yet come to the point on which I desire to press your attention. Yet these are the strongest forces imaginable death, life, angels, principalities, powers, the dreary present and the darker future. Yes, say we, we have many corruptions. LONDON: PASSMORE AND ALABASTER, Paternoster Buildings; and of all Booksellers. Well, the good angels cannot separate us from the love of God; we are sure that they would not wish to do so, and whatever spiritual creatures may frequent the earth, they cannot separate us from the love of Christ. In a measure, through our ignorance, we never know what we should pray for until we are taught of the Spirit of God, but there are times when this beclouding of the soul is dense indeed, and we do not even know what would help us out of our trouble if we could obtain it. At this time our subjects for consideration shall be, firstly, the help which the Holy Spirit gives; secondly, the prayers which he inspires; and thirdly, the success which such prayers ore certain to obtain. Therefore leaving the principles. We expect to see the New Jerusalem descend out of heaven from God. ", I. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 6th, 1859, by the, "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called." The holiest men, the most free from impurity, have always felt it most. No Jew was ever content with the first-fruits. A second consolation is drawn from the grand truth, that if a man be called he will certainly be saved at last. ", Paul was fully persuaded of this great truth. Here am I, a creature of a day, a mortal born to die, but yet an immortal! All manner of evil things we commit in our thoughts; sin runs to riot in our spirit. Second, the people being described as having no katakrima are not all who believe in Christ for everlasting life, but a particular type of believer. Here we must bow our heads. However, dear friends, we have often found that the nuts which are hardest to crack have the sweetest kernels, and when the bone seems as if it could never be broken, the richest marrow has been found within. Wherefore, since it is only our Judge who can condemn us, and since he is the very Person who has paid our debt for us, and put our sin away, we dare to repeat again, with additional emphasis, our ringing challenge to all the universe, "Who is he that condemneth?". As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. It will be the Spirit's own self pleading in me, and by me, and through me, before the throne of grace. "'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above. So that wish and I do not think there has been a man in this world who has not had it proves that "the carnal mind is enmity against God. 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, conscience, I have another question! Inasmuch as we are of the seed of the woman, there must be enmity between us and the seed of the serpent. He must come out from his very dearest friends, from all his old acquaintances, from those friends with whom he used to drink, and swear, and take pleasure; he must go straight away from them all, to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. He does not say, "I am persuaded;" he does not say, "I believe;" but with unblushing confidence he appears before you and says, "We" (I have many witnesses) we know that all things work together." Thus much upon the sacred end of predestination. We may be brought into such perturbation of mind, and perplexity of heart, that we do not know how to pray. II. no, the poor legalist is like a blind horse going round and round the mill, or like the prisoner going up the treadwheel, and finding himself no higher after all he has done; he has no solid confidence, no firm ground to rest upon. There is such a thing on earth as an infallible assurance of our election. But there are times when the heir of heaven is as sure that he is God's child as he is sure that he is his own father's son. This call is sent to the predestinated, and to them only; they by grace hear the call, obey it, and receive it. 14. 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. No man after having read these chapters attentively, and having understood them, can deny that the doctrines of sovereign, distinguishing grace, are the sum and substance of the teaching of the Bible. As the Carthaginian, who might tread the desolate site of his much-loved city, would shed many tears when he saw it laid in heaps by the Romans; or as the Jew, wandering through the deserted streets of Jerusalelm, would lament that the ploughshare had marred the beauty and the glory of that city which was the joy of the whole earth; so ought we to mourn for ourselves and our race, when we behold the ruins of that goodly structure which God had piled, that creature, matchless in symmetry, second only to angelic intellect, that mighty being, man when we behold how he is "fallen, fallen, fallen, from his high estate," and lies in a mass of destruction. So is it with our text. Now, I am not sure that the doctor is perfectly right. "No, I did not," you say; "I was a debtor." No. His intercession is not in or for the unregenerate. says one, "but dying is such hard work." We hear of tornadoes, of earthquakes, of tempests, of volcanoes, of avalanches, and of the sea which devoureth its thousands: there is sorrow on the sea, and there is misery on the land; and into the highest palaces as well as the poorest cottages, death, the insatiable, is shooting his arrows, while his quiver is still full to bursting with future woes. If we are joint heirs with him, we, too, must partake of the same. I know it; I know it to my shame and confusion; yet do I live by him I slew, I am saved by him I murdered; and I glory in the grace that makes such a miracle of mercy possible.". Is then your calling a high calling, has it lifted up your heart, and set it upon heavenly things? If we be debtors we never ought to be proud. Have not you found it so too? There is not only enough to put our sins to death, but enough to bury them and hide them out of sight. I have thus illustrated the call in two ways, by the state of the sinner in his sin, and by the omnipotence which overwhelms the resistance which he offers. Is there anything to be proud of in having paid a farthing in the pound? 20. What will you do if you are out of God and out of Christ at the last pay-day, when the whole roll of your debts to God shall be opened, and you have no Christ to give you a discharge? It is not the Spirit that groans, but we that groan; but as I have shown you, the Spirit excited the emotion which causes us to groan. You go out to your pleasures, but your conscience goes with you, and spoils your mirth. For that very reason they began to groan. Thou art not there, because of thine original, thou art a scion from an evil tree, and the Divine Spirit hath changed thy nature, for thou wast once nothing but a branch of the vine of Gomorrah. Oh! He cannot reverse his grace; it cannot be that the throne of condemnation shall be exalted on the ruins of the cross. Until this question be answered my heart cannot rest, for I am intensely anxious about it. We may safely entreat the Lord to do what he has ordained to do. But why is this? there is more joy even in the groan of a Christian after heaven, than in all the mirth and merriment, and dancing, and lewdness of the ungodly when their mirth is at its greatest height. If this be his ardent love of the Godhead, what must his hatred thereof be? At this present time, the groaning and travailing which are general throughout creation, are deeply felt among the sons of men. Tell the world, once for all, that it may condemn you, if it pleases, for it condemned the Lord Jesus long ago, and say that, therefore, you think but little of the condemnation of your fellow-men. 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. How is this? It is often so on earth: we take rank at times according to the greatness of our talents. Look ye, sirs, at Brutus; he has established a republic, he has put down tyranny, he sits upon the judgment seat; his two sons are brought before him, they have been traitors to the commonwealth. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. It there be a touch of our finger anywhere upon the vessel, it mars and does not beautify. "We are joint heirs with Christ.". Even so did our Lord Jesus Christ. Brethren, I pray you, if your thoughts now can bring themselves to the matter, gather up all the honors, glories, treasures, riches, that your thought have ever conceived as belonging to Christ, and while the hymn is ringing in your ear "Crown him, crown him, crown him, Lord of all;" remember that you are co-heirs with him. And indeed this is proved by the very chapter out of which we have taken our text. Prayer is a great outlet for grief; it draws up the sluices, and abates the swelling flood, which else might be too strong for us. It needs no proof, for since it is written in God's word, we, as Christian men, are bound to bow before it. He has paid all we owed and he will vindicate his own death, and claim for the travail of his soul its due reward, which is the forgiveness and the salvation of all guilty men who have come and put their trust in him. When Christ pleads, he does not plead with one who is stronger than him or inimical to him, but with his own Father. The debt is paid, and Christ is at the right hand of God. The world, our own sin, and the devil, he foresaw would be continually molesting us; therefore hath he entrenched us within these four walls, he hath engarrisoned us in four strong lines of circumvallation. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Even this first point of what the saint has attained will help us to understand why it is that he groans. We take our burden to our heavenly Father and tell it out in the accents of childlike confidence, and we come away quite content to bear whatever his holy will may lay upon us. And now, if you and I are enabled this morning to go beneath the bloody tree of Calvary, and shelter ourselves there, how safe we are! The plain, simple spirit of the humble-minded Christian cries, "I am God's child." Would you refuse to go with him to the garden of his agony? He loves Christ so much that he loves us notwithstanding our unloveliness, because Jesus Christ has covered us with his robe of righteousness, and he has said, "My Father, consider them as lost in me, hidden in me, made one with me." II. God's people are known by their outward mark: they love God, and the secret cause of their loving God is this God chose them from before the foundation of the world that they should love him, and he sent forth the call of his grace, so that they were called according to his purpose, and were led by grace to love and to fear him. "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." 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." God the ever blessed is one, and there can be no division between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Now, beloved, the practical use to which I put this, I am afraid somewhat discursive, discourse of this morning is just this. 17. Nor is this little, for the body has a depressing effect upon the soul. And shall a Christian man break his promise? There is a picture for you to contemplate, God and ourselves joined together by the bonds of love in Christ Jesus. That short sentence completely answers to all his accusations. 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." He was content with them for what they were, but the first-fruits enlarged his desires for the harvest. First, he flings down the gauntlet, and challenges a battle, crying, "Who is he that condemneth?" I have no sort of sympathy with those who cannot enjoy the beauties of nature. And yet God had a goodly land for him, and intended greatly to bless him. When I think of my sin, it seems impossible that any atonement should ever be adequate; but when I think of Christ's death it seems impossible that any sin should ever be great enough to need such an atonement as that. Now, you have heard your Father's will read, and you find that you are joint heirs with Christ. We are like Jacob looking at the wagons, and the more we look at the wagons, the more we long to see Joseph's face; but our groaning after Jesus is a blessed groan, for. You were saying of such-and-such an ungodly person, "Everything seems to go well with him, but as for me, all the day long am I plagued, and chastened every morning." The apostle opens with the grandest part of the inheritance first heirs of God heirs not of God's gifts, and God's works, but heirs of God himself. 1,997, "God's Longsuffering: an Appeal to the Conscience.". But in addition to his sermons, he regularly reading a Bible passage before his message and gave a verse-by-verse exposition, rich in gospel insight and wisdom for the Christian life. You can make your wooden cross into an iron one, if you choose, by being of a fretful disposition. I would I could speak more powerfully, but my Master alone can impress upon you the enormous evil of this horrid state of heart. My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. 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. ", 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 only where God's hand has been that the vessel begins to assume the form of the model. What a broad assertion it is. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.. The bow bends so easily we wonder how it is; away flies the arrow, and it pierces the very centre of the target, for he who giveth have won the day, but it was his secret might that made us strong, and to him be the glory of it. ", "But, interrupts another, "God must punish sin. That is the first illustration I will give you of what is meant by effectual calling. "We know that all things work together far good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." We know not what God is, nor the measure of his attributes. I cannot stay longer on that point, except just to notice, that we must never quarrel with this divine arrangement. When Napoleon was on the island of St. Helena, he was watched by many guards, but after many complaints, he enjoyed comparative liberty, and walked alone. And these appear to be four at least. The Holy Spirit's mind is seen in our intercessions when under his sacred influence we order our case before the Lord, and plead with holy wisdom for things convenient and necessary. It was after death remember that, it was after death that his heart poured out the tribute of blood and water by which we have the double cure; see, then, how he loves us in death and after death. Then again I say to you, "Tell it not in Gath and publish it not in Askelon, then has a heathen eclipsed a Christian." You have had God's utmost effort expended upon your behalf, and there remains no other method of salvation for you. "You have robbed God of his glory," another voice seems to say. Christ digged the well to its very bottom, but not a drop did spring up; still was the world dry and thirsty, till on the morning of the resurrection a voice was heard, "Spring up O well," and forth came Christ himself from the grave, and with him came the resurrection and the life; pardon and peace for all souls sprang up from the deep well of his misery. Without faith prayer cannot speed, for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed, and such an one may not expect anything of the Lord; happy are we when the Holy Spirit removes our wavering, and enables us like Abraham to believe without staggering, knowing full well that he who has promised is able also to perform. The shot took effect, the bird fell, down came Zaccheus, invited the Saviour to his house, and proved that he was really called not by the voice merely but by grace itself, for he said, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give unto the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore unto him fourfold;" and Jesus said, "This day is salvation come unto thy house." God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. CHILDREN are expected to bear some likeness to their parent. Jesus now heads a race assailed but victorious; sorely tempted but enabled to overcome. Sometimes I have thought that impossible. If you understood how delightful it is to get out of yourself into Christ, and to live because Jesus died, you would not linger and doubt, and fear, but you would say, "If it be so, I will come to Christ, and I will trust him, that with you I may say, 'The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.'" This was in accord with God's plan. I think I have shown this; only may God give us grace to rest upon this precious "yea, rather, who is risen from the dead.". "Ah!" I remember an old divine using a very pithy and homely metaphor, which I shall borrow to-day. The sea is the house of storms, even when it is glassy as a lake; the thunder is still the mighty rolling thunder, when it is so much aloft that we hear it not. Do you hate God for all this? What is that? If you had not been a child he would have left you where you were in your natural state; but inasmuch as he hath wrought in you to will and to do of his own good pleasure, he that put his stamp on you as being one of the family of the Most High. Many of you will not feel the force of Christian reasons, let me remind you, that even you are obliged to the laboring poor. Strange to say, it proved true that it was for his good; for being delayed a day or so on the road through his lameness, he just arrived in London in time enough to hear that Elizabeth was proclaimed queen, and so he escaped the stake by his broken leg. Beloved, if you would be saved, you must be persuaded of this truth; and when you are persuaded of it, you will know the joy of it. It needs no stretch of imagination to conceive this place to be a Roman amphitheatre. III. "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." This entry was posted in New Park Street - Vol 5 and tagged believer's challenge, gospel, Jesus died rose again, spurgeon podcast, spurgeon romans 8, Spurgeon sermon 256 on February 11, 2020 by zachkispert. "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be praise." The apostle ends the list by saying, "nor any othe creature." He sees hosts of angels; but those hosts are the servants of his enemy. There are four things of which I shall speak this morning. I conjure thee, give no sleep to thine eyes, no slumber to thine eyelids, till by this divine mysterious agency, thou art new made, new born, and new begotten, and so admitted not only nominally but really into the living family of the living God. Waiting implies being ready. 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. He beckons me, and I must be brought at length to see his face, and to be with him where he is. Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 11th, 1880, by. Just a sentence upon another point. Oh! 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