Oh for 400 Scoevolas, 400 men who for Christ's sake would burn, not their right hands, but their bodies, if indeed Christ's name night be glorified, and sin might be stabbed to the heart. When he sits down, he has done his worst; and his witnesses also condemn you; but if the verdict is in your favour, and the judge says that you leave the court with a stainless character, you do not care about the condemnation of others. This counsellor would suggest the line of pleading, arrange the arguments, and put them into right courtly language. for if not, inasmuch as you reject one part of the inheritance you reject the rest. Joyfully and cheerfully for ever shall it be our delight to do the Father's will. 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. says one; "a pleasant fiction, sir!" What a trial to Abraham's faith, when he had to leave all that was so dear to him, and go he knew not whither! Still, this foe is fierce and terrible. We see not yet all things put under man, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor; and in the person of Christ Jesus this day we, the men who are made in his image, have dominion over all things, being all made kings and priests unto God, and in Christ Jesus ordained to reign with him forever and ever. I can look upward without distressing fear." I showed you, just now, the difference between a groan and a groan. My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. It is simply "Look!" 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. It is a sad, sad world. The glory of the Person who died, the anguish and the suffering he endured, the love that moved him to give himself up to death for us, all make us see how great the atonement is. Not we shall have, but we have. I also am of that persuasion. He could not be persuaded that nothing could separate us from a thing which did not exist, so he is persuaded, first of all, of the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. "All things work together for good." 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. Then did his Father stamp the atonement with his own image and his own superscription. 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. In English history, the days of Mary, when the saints at Smithfield bore witness for Christ at the stake, were grand days; and in Madagascar, did you ever read a more thrilling story than the record of the bravery of those Christian men and women who suffered the tyrant's cruelty? Hezekiah said, "like a crane or a swallow did I chatter." This truth divides itself thus: it is the will of God that conforms us to Christ's image rather than our own will. Sproul's Expositional Commentary Set - 8 Volumes. "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man" (Proverbs 8:4 ). Five Divine acts, through each of which in regular succession the purpose of salvation advances to its accomplishment, are linked by St. Paul into one golden chain, of which one end is let down out of the unknown past, and the other returns to lose itself in the unknown future. And if we be his sons, are we not thereby bound to love, serve, and obey him? We shall have joy too, for we shall have his joy. I have thus given you the four props and pillars of the believer's faith. Christ once wore a thorny crown, and if you are to have all that he has, you must bear the thorny crown too? He cannot bring us in debt to divine justice; for in his own hands and feet are the nail-prints, which are the receipts of justice in full settlement of all claims against us. IN VIEWING THE ESTATES we must remark that to our present apprehension they are divided into two parts, the first part of the inheritance is one which flesh and blood would fain do without it is the inheritance of suffering. He whose garments are the whitest, will best perceive the spots upon them. Our second subject is THE PRAYER WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRES, or that part of prayer which is especially and peculiarly the work of the Spirit of God. Sovereign Mercy comes, and there lies this unconscious, lifeless mass of sin; Sovereign Grace cries, either by the minister, or else directly without any agency, by the Spirit of God, "come forth!" He can arouse us from our lethargy, he can warm us out of our lukewarmness, he can enable us when we are on our knees to rise above the ordinary routine of prayer into that victorious importunity against which nothing can stand. All the prayers which the Spirit of God inspires in us must succeed, because, first, there is a meaning in them which God reads and approves. Believer, would you be ashamed to stand and be accused as he was, and have false witness born against you? Are the great Father's loving arms about your neck? "Loose him and let him go," saith the Redeemer; and then he walks in all the liberty of 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." You have felt as sure about the promise as you felt about the trial. If you are living in sin, you are not called; if you can still continue as you were before your pretended conversion, then it is no conversion at all; that man who is called in his drunkenness, will forsake his drunkenness; men may be called in the midst of sin, but they will not continue in it any longer. Yes, as we look, we must confess that it is true, there is the sin. "Who is he that condemneth? If not, tremble, for there are but two vast families in this world. Then, I shall leave off these plebeian garments, and be robed as becomes my senatorial rank." A little more than he said about the others. And with united breath they reply, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." When he decreed Christ to be blessed above all the blessed, he decreed thee to be a partaker with him. The words of the Scriptures are words of infinite wisdom, and if reason cannot see the ground of a statement of revelation, it is bound, most reverently, to believe it, since we are well assured, even should it be above our reason, that it cannot be contrary thereunto. 1 & 2 Peter: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $13.20 $22.00. The portals of heaven stand wide open for thee. Provision for Christian living is in the Person of the Holy Spirit. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Paul, a Christian! His death was the digging of the well of salvation. They are lambs in the harmlessness of their dispositions, but they have the courage of lions when they defend the honours of their King. There is the worldling's sense: "Who will show us any good?" You not only sinned with your body, with your eyes, your lips, your hands; but you have sinned in imagination and desire very horribly." And I see him look downwards; there lies the old dragon, bound in chains, the accuser of the brethren; and the apostle stares him in the face, and says, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" Christ had to be persecuted and so must you. Do you shrink from being tempted? View the Saviour in his agonies, with streams of blood purchasing thy soul, and with intensest agonies enduring thy punishment. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. You can make your wooden cross into an iron one, if you choose, by being of a fretful disposition. The rich man hoards wealth, the poor man makes it. When God said, "Let my Anointed go free, I am satisfied and content in him," then every elect vessel went free in him; then every child of God was released from durance vile no more to die, not to know bondage or fetter for ever. If it were some little thing, my narrow capacity could comprehend and describe it, but I need all covenant blessings. Can he still be valiant, and maintain his ground, calling out, "Who is he that condemneth?" ", When you have overcome Satan, the world will come forth to attack you, and to dispute your claim to be numbered amongst the people of God. 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! Remember, it is not the one thing alone that is for your good; it is the one thing put with another thing, and that with a third, and that with a fourth, and all these mixed together, that work for your good. This truth seems to me to have struck its roots into all the other truths of Scripture and to have twisted itself among the granite rocks which are the very foundation of our hope. If all things work together for good (all events, all circumstances, all trials, all happenings, etc. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." It is not so in the family of God. Let us try to meet this question, "Why does Christ intercede to day in heaven?" 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. Our confidence is therefore strong, and it is so because Christ's dying has removed all sin from all believers. It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. Having thus, as far as I can, established my point, that the privilege of our text is a special one, let me dwell upon it for a moment and remark that, as a special one, it is an act of pure unmistakeable grace. Is not the wretch smitten dead? Now, you have heard your Father's will read, and you find that you are joint heirs with Christ. He that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Sad would it be to our thoughts if it were always to be so. What! Now, observe that PREDESTINATION IS THE IMPELLING FORCE TOWARDS THIS CONFORMITY. There are other things for which we are allowed to ask, but we scarcely know whether, if we had them, they would really serve our turn, and we also feel a diffidence as to praying for them. Now, I am not sure that the doctor is perfectly right. 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. ", Now, my hearers, "the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants;" but whenever I find a certain book much held in reverence by our Episcopalian brethren, entirely on my side, I always feel the greatest delight in quoting from it. it is a well-known truth, that if you want help you must go anywhere for it, save to your brother's house. He lives, and because he lives I shall live also. We are joint heirs. The cross and Christ are nailed together by four nails, and they will never be disassociated in the experience of any Christian. You go out to your pleasures, but your conscience goes with you, and spoils your mirth. And all between is full of grace and truth. Romans 8:38-39. When the Emperor Charles the Fifth went to war with Francis the First, King of Naples, he sent a herald to him, declaring war in the name of the Emperor of Germany, King of Castille, King of Aragon, King of Naples, King of Sicily, and he went on with many more titles, giving his sovereign all the honours that were his due. The angels of heaven veil their faces; and the angels of God on earth, his chosen people, must always veil their faces with humility, when they think of what they were. diabolical crime! Tell him that you are a sinner, and that if he should paint your sin in its blackest colours, you would not even then despair, for it would still be true that Christ "is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him." If we now suffer the good vessel of gospel truth to be drifted by adverse winds upon the rock, if we keep not good watch to her helm, and cry not well to her great Master that she may led to a prosperous end, surely those who are to succeed us will look on us with scorn, and say, "Shame on the men, who had so great and glorious a mission, and neglected it, and handed down to us a beclouded gospel and an impure Church." Hope is the grand anchor by whose means we ride out the present storm. See the victim of justice the sacrifice of atonement for your transgression. When a Roman general came home from the wars, he entered Rome by stealth, and slept at night, and tarried by day, perhaps for a week or two, among his friends. His interpretation of it is a groan, and that is all. Now, sir, if it is not wrong for God to do the thing, how can it be wrong for God to purpose to do the thing? Now, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." The more I have read it, the more certainly have I come to the conclusion that this is one of the things in Paul's epistles to which Peter referred when he said, "Wherein are some things hard to be understood." He may see the earth burned, but into the fire of hell he can never go. The Spirit teaches wisely, as no other teacher can do. There is one thing I have noticed, in looking over the old levitical law, under the description of the tabernacle. It is not the hypocrite's groan, when he goes mourning everywhere, wanting to make people believe that he is a saint because he is wretched. 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. Simply because it is depraved; and until he had entered a foul element until the body had begun to quiver with a kind of intoxication the fancy would not hold its carnival. He would say, "My labor is all thrown away on such a plot of ground as this, nothing more can be done with it, for after having done my utmost nothing but weeds is produced, so now it must be left to itself." Art thou so estranged that thou givest enmity for love? 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?" He was gentle and kind and tender; as he was, so are we to be in this world. 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. First, in 8:37 he says that "we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.". though that bell hath the very sound of heaven, and though all men do in a measure hear it, for "their line is gone out into all the earth and their Word unto the end of the world" yet there was never an instance of any man having been brought to God simply by that sound. Come on, slanderers! The proof of love to the uttermost is that "It is Christ that died.". You said to yourselves, "We have no doubt we ought to be there; that is our debt; nevertheless we should like to gratify our curiosity for once, by hearing this singular preacher, who will be sure to say something extravagant that will furnish the occasion for a joke for the next fortnight." Oh would you not pray confidently if you knew that your prayer corresponded with the sealed book of destiny? "All things work together," for that kind of good to God's people. If any confront you with other confidences, still keep you to this almighty please, "Christ has died." What can you be at? You had a share in his death. And this solemn text drops an awful warning: "How shall ye escape, if ye neglect so great salvation." Joint heirs with Christ Jesus! Then, too, a worse than Herod sought to kill us. First, I shall give illustrations of the call; second, we shall come to examine whether we have been called; and then third, what delightful consequences flow therefrom. He was consecrated to God; so are we to be. "This world is ours," says the apostle in another place, and ours because it is Christ's by right of inheritance. 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! It is true, that by birth we are at enmity with God. You would forget your guilt in your daily business, but your conscience calls out at such a rate that there is no hearing anything else. I may illustrate it in the case of Saul of Tarsus: this proud Pharisee abhors the Lord Jesus Christ; he has seized upon every follower of Jesus who comes within his grasp; he has haled men and women to prison; with the avidity of a miser who hunts after gold, he has hunted after the precious life of Christ's disciple, and having exhausted his prey in Jerusalem, he seeks letters and goes off to Damascus upon the same bloody errand. And what if some of us should live very many years? Thus have I tried to set forth the cheering fact that the Spirit helps the people of God. But how! "Who wilt put honey into my mouth? If there should be no thrones for us, there would be no throne for him; if the promise should utterly fail of fulfillment to the least of the joint heritors, it must also fail of accomplishment to our Lord Jesus Christ himself. "What!" By an Old Member of Surrey Chapel. Though the sins of the whole world should press on any one of these sacred columns, it would never break nor bend. It needs no stretch of imagination to conceive this place to be a Roman amphitheatre. So that what seemed to be against him, even in temporal matters, was for him. "A fiction!" I do consider that in this there is an argument why no believer ever can perish. I. I can see that there is no better place than the brink of Jordan, after all. God has accepted Christ in the place of his people; and you, accepting Christ to stand in your stead, shall find that your sin is put away, that his righteousness is yours, and that you are "accepted in the Beloved." Let her, then, as Christ's queen, claim the earth as hers, and send her heralds forth from sea to sea to bid all men bow before him, and confess him to be their King. You see, my dear hearers, if it were possible for the work of grace in your souls to be of no avail, nothing more could be done for you. Believing in Jesus, we speak confidently, we have unspeakable blessings given to us by the Father of spirits. leaving not so much as a single drop of wormwood or gall for any to drink who put their trust in him. He decrees that Christ Jesus, the Well-Beloved, even his own other self, who is one with him, should come into the world and bear the sin of man, make amends to the injured honour of God, and magnify the law before the eyes of the whole universe. Listen to me for a moment. He rose again, I must rise, and though I die yet shall I live again. And as Paul thought of the nature of this new life, he felt persuaded that it would not die; he was convinced that he would never be separated from the love of God. Examine yourselves then whether you have been called. Do you hate him because he spared your life by his tender mercy? If it be settled in our mind by the true witness the spirit within us, and the Spirit of God, that we are God's children, what a NOBLE PRIVILEGE now appears to our view. Conecte-se Inscrever-se; Incio. Remember how much thou owest to his disinterested love, which rent his own Son from his bosom that he might die for thee! I have been able again to revise a sermon without assistance. Before Adam's fall the world kept high and perpetual holiday; but now the world has come to its work-days, now it hath to toil. He took the great mass of the sins of believers, and piled the whole on Christ; and when he hung upon the cross as his people's Substitute, even his Father hid his face from him. And the Father says, "Yes, my beloved Son, I will love them; Jesus, I will love them for thy sake.". 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 is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Oh! I want you to notice that Paul does not even rest his confidence as to the believers' safety upon the fact that they are able to say, "We have trusted in Christ; we have loved Christ; we have served Christ." If such be the bright hope that cheers us, we may well groan for its realisation, crying out. When he had kept all his Master's law he was but an unprofitable servant; he had done no more than he ought to have done; he had no surplus, no balance. Here is a smiling cherub, a father with a gladsome face: if you may venture to look at the mother, see how her face smiles for joy that a man is born into the world to cheer a happy and rejoicing family. My illustrations do not touch the mystery, but set forth the grace. Would that he would be merciful and pass them by without an atonement! He attacked the Shepherd, and he will never cease to worry the sheep. Just so, we are kings we are of the blood imperial; but we have not our proper state and becoming dignities we have not our royalties here. "I have been sick for many a day, and wife and children, dependent on my daily labor, are crying for food: will this work together for my good?" It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us" Romans 8:34 . We are like the dove that flutters, and is weary, but thank God, we have an ark to go to. I conclude by saying, see, my dear hearers, the absolute necessity of the Holy Spirit, for if the saints know not what they should pray for as they ought; if consecrated men and women, with Christ suffering in them, still feel their need of the instruction of the Holy Spirit, how much more do you who are not saints, and have never given yourselves up to God, require divine teaching! You remember the case of Samuel; the Lord called Samuel, and he arose and went to Eli, and he said, "Here am I, for thou calledst me." He went through the streets, and people whispered, "That is the general, the valiant one," but he was not publicly acknowledged. It cannot be that Christ should transform himself at last; but till he can do so, none can condemn. Take care then of that class, brethren, for we are debtors to them. ", I. Judge these things rightly. So the Spirit confirms the witness of my spirit that I am born of God. I say, it is utterly needless for me to refresh your memories about your present condition; but I feel it will be a good and profitable work if I remind you that there are high privileges of which you are possessors even now; there are divine joys which even this day you may taste. We remember to be grateful to all except our God. Now that is the way to act; to feel and acknowledge that you are a debtor; when there is a thing to be done, to do it, and to say, "Do not thank me for it, I have only done what I ought to have done; I have only paid the debt that I owed.". Let your faith and your imagination work together to portray the unutterable glories of Immanuel, God with us, as he sits at the right hand of the Father. They love God as their future Inheritance, they believe that when days and years are past they shall enter into the bosom of God; and their highest joy and delight is the full conviction and belief, that one day they shall dwell for ever near his throne, be hidden in the brightness of his glory, and enjoy his everlasting favor. Can we glory that he is full of immutability, and changes not? This is the part of the subject from which our craven spirit often shrinks, but if we were wise it would not be so. Is not that "coming out" necessary to sonship, and were they his sons, were they his daughters, had they any claim or right to call him Father, until they came out from the midst of a wicked world, and were separate? We little know how many a blessing the poor man's prayer brings down upon us. 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. That will be the subject of this blog. I. To be cheered under many things, which otherwise would depress him, the believer may betake himself to the matchless mysteries of the grace of God, which are wines on the lees well refined. 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. "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." It does not appear on the surface of the text; but if you look a minute, you will see that PAUL WAS PERSUADED THAT HE AND ALL THE SAINTS ARE JOINED TO GOD BY LOVE. Condemn a man that is at the right hand of God! Hear his reply! "Brethren, we are debtors. But I ask you, does your spirit say to-day "I am God's child." You observe the text speaks of waiting for the adoption; and another text further back, explains what that means, waiting for the manifestation of the children of God. Will he be ruler over many things? 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. Didst thou never hear the heart say, "I wish there were no God?" "How art thou fallen from heaven, thou son of the morning!" Yes; but I set over against that the fact that he always would have me. The effectual call of grace is precisely similar; the sinner is dead in sin; he is not only in sin but dead in sin, without any power whatever to give to himself the life of grace. "Ah!" 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. Who will feed my belly with hid treasures? that the Holy Spirit may so convince us of sin, that we may unanimously plead "guilty" before God. 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