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Paul says, "Who can lay anything to my charge?" And, as to all evil, our Lord's entire life was one perpetual battle. Heir of God! Thus he was persuaded of this truth by revelation, by argument, and by experience; and I should like you to notice that he was not only persuaded that none of the powers he mentions will separate us from the love of Christ, but that they cannot do it. "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." Look! We cannot be precisely as God is, yet as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly, whatever that image may be. And with united breath they reply, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." So it is true; we constantly forget that salvation is by grace alone. And now at Gods right hand there is not left a record of thy sin; for when our Lord Jesus Christ quitted the tomb, he left thy sin buried in it once for all cast away never to be recovered. His soul is translated from death unto life, but the body, this poor flesh and blood, doth it not remain as before? No man ever desired Christ in his heart with a living and longing desire, who did not find him sooner or later. It may have seemed to him, as it does to some of us, to be almost too good to be true, and therefore the Holy Spirit so shed abroad this truth in the apostle's mind that he yielded to it, and said, "I am persuaded." 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. He was persuaded that Christ would not leave him, and that he would not be allowed to leave Christ, and this stirred him up to deeds of daring. Why, I see you, sirs, if there is a new and perilous work to be done for Christ, you like to be in the rear rank this time; if there were something honourable, so that you might ride on with your well caparisoned steeds in the midst of the dainty ranks ye would do it; but to leap into certain annihilation for Christ's sake Oh! And O my soul, thy portion cannot be slender nor thy dowry narrow, since it is the same inheritance which Christ has from his Father's hands. I only pray that God's Spirit may make our lives to speak of it. The glorious Spirit, one with God, attests the truth of the testimony, and beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. III. O thou that art high in spirits to-day, thou with the flashing eye and joyous countenance, ere the sun doth set some evil shall befal thee, and thou shalt be sad. Come with me, believer, to your estates, and behold, just on the edge of your Father's great inheritance, lies the swamp and morass of affliction. For spiritual blessings which we know to be according to the divine will we could ask with confidence, but perhaps these would not meet our peculiar circumstances. The other might have said, "Ah, you pretend to be a happy man, and here you are groaning." Now I must call your attention to this clause, remarking that in other passages of God's Word, Christ is said to have sat down for ever at the right hand of God. It should be, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." I recommend that we should, each one of us, have but one hope of salvation. 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. Have you not, like Noah's ark, mounted towards heaven as the flood deepened around you? The more you search the Bible, the more sure will you be that sonship is the special privilege of the chosen people of God and of none beside. If God should choose this morning to call the hardest-hearted wretch within hearing of the gospel, he must obey. Paul would turn round and laugh him to scorn "Get thee gone thou fisherman, get thee gone I a disciple of that imposter Jesus of Nazareth! Once more I will appeal to his advocacy 'Who maketh intercession for us.' I have sometimes read sermons upon the inclination of the sinner to evil, in which it has been very powerfully proved, and certainly the pride of human nature has been well humbled and brought low; but one thing always strikes me, if it is left out, as being a very great omission; viz. Yet, further, to illustrate the full meaning of the joint heirship suppose, after the via had been proved and acknowledged to be right, it shall be found in winding up the affairs of the testator, that nothing is left to distribute suppose, after all this boast and talk about being heirs, the property should be nil, or there should even be found a debt against the estate what then? Go to www.ccontario.com for an . Now, to come to what is evidently in the text, and to dwell upon it for a little while, Paul being thus persuaded that there was a love of God, and that there was a union through love between the soul and its God, now says that HE IS PERSUADED THAT NOTHING CAN EVER BREAK THOSE BONDS. Even so did our Lord Jesus Christ. His first public appearance, when he came to the waters of baptism, was signalled by a voice out of the excellent glory, which said, "this is my beloved Son," and the descending Spirit, like a dove, rested upon him. Nay, he is not only dead, but he is corrupt; his lusts, like the worms, have crept into him, a foul stench riseth up into the nostrils of justice, God abhorreth him, and justice crieth, "Bury the dead out of my sight, cast it into the fire, let it be consumed." 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. Do not expect to get thanked at last for doing much, for after all you have done, you will only have done what is your duty. 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. The city has turned me out; let it rue the day that it ever drove me away." Perhaps some of God's professed people will leave you; you will have to go without a solitary friend, maybe you will even be deserted by Sarah herself, and you may be a stranger in a strange land, a solitary wanderer, as all your fathers were. It must condemn sin, for "the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good." And therefore the surety first groped through death to fight his way up to the eternal throne, and then mounting aloft by a glorious ascension, dragged his conquered foes behind him, and scattering mercies with both his hands, like Roman conquerors who scattered gold and silver coins in their triumph, entered heaven. Hope operated spiritually upon our spiritual faculties, and so does the Holy Spirit, in some mysterious way, divinely operate upon the new-born faculties of the believer, so that he is sustained under his infirmities. 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." We have a sacred secret which belongs to Jesus, as the first-fruits belong to Jehovah. Behold from heaven's mint golden pieces of inestimable value are sent forth, and each one bears the image and superscription of the Son of God. (+44) 01236 827 978. ", I. Where he is every saint shall be ere long. 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. No one has come to rescue him, and indeed he has fallen into a place from which escape is impossible. Some say that this doctrine would send us to sleep; it never does, it wakes us up. It is astonishing how much gratitude a man will feel to you if you have been only the instrument of doing him good; but how little gratitude he feels to God, the first cause of all! He could not join the song, for he would not know the tune. The influence of his holy religion has made abundant atonement to the world for any wrong that you ever did to it. This is styled by our new philosophers as old cumbersome scheme of theology, and it is proposed that it be swept away a proposition which will never be carried out, while the earth remaineth, or while God endureth. Live with Christ and you will soon grow like Christ. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 537, 553, 297. If it be wisdom, it is hell's wisdom; if it be wisdom, it is a wisdom which is folly with God. And he came before his Father's throne and said, "There it is; the full price: I have brought it all." You know the contrast in the speech between different persons concerning this doctrine. "Who is he that condemneth? It means, first of all, that our right to the divine heritage stands or falls with Christ's right to the same inheritance. If ye continue in sin, if ye walk according to the course of this world, according to the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience, then are ye still dead in your trespasses and your sins; but as he that hath called you is holy, so must ye be holy. 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. He says, "I fear not that assize, for who can condemn?" Well, certainly, you made no pretension to it six months ago; you were about as black as a man could be." "We are the children of God." Thine infinite wisdom, O God, is mine to guide me. He said "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. That man is not called who cannot look back upon darkness, ignorance, and sin, and who cannot now say, that he knows more than he did know, and enjoys at times the light of knowledge, and the comfortable light of God's countenance. The first witness is our spirit; the second witness is The Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, who beareth witness with our spirit. There you see, that man does not know that he is a debtor. 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. There is nothing that pains me so much as sin; I desire to be quit and rid of it; Lord help me to be holy"? You had a godly father; you had a Christian mother; you were trained in the fear of God. do thy shoulders forbid, and refuse themselves the pain of bearing it? "Thou hast wrought all our works in us." He whose garments are the whitest, will best perceive the spots upon them. Now, conscience, answer another question! Amen. If we are born into his family it is a miracle of mercy. for if not, inasmuch as you reject one part of the inheritance you reject the rest. There is no getting away from yourself, and when you yourself condemn yourself, then you are condemned indeed. Oh! II. With some, who can tell? Can it be supposed that those who are the children of the devil are nevertheless the children of God? The sister of that corrupt body stands at the side of the tomb, and she says, "Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days." The saints of God must not expect crowns where Christ found a cross; they must not reckon to ride in triumph through those streets which saw the Savior hurried to a malefactor's death. Oh! There is nothing about death that should make Christ cease to love us; our bodies will be under his protection and guardian care, and our souls shall be with Christ, which is "far better" than being anywhere else. We groan within ourselves. He is a little short fellow, and he cannot see Christ, though he has a great curiosity to look at him; so he runs before the crowd and climbs up a sycamore tree, and thinking himself quite safe amid the thick foliage, he waits with eager expectation to see this wonderful man who had turned the world upside down. Note yet a little further concerning the special privilege of heirship, we are joint heirs with Christ. We want the mind of the spirit in prayer, and not he mind of the flesh. He served his country, not for himself, but for his country's sake; and can it be that you will not be poor yet honest for Christ's sake! Is it not a noble thing for a Christian to be able to go where he may, and feel that he cannot meet his accuser; that wherever he may be, whether he walketh within himself in the chambers of conscience, or out of himself amongst his fellow men, or above himself into heaven, or beneath himself into hell, yet is he a justified one, and nothing can be laid to his charge. Debts of honor, as we call them which are no debts in some men's eyes we can discharge; but the great and solemn debt we owe to God is ofttimes passed by, neglected and forgotten. So, beloved friends, there is nothing in death to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. O God, thou Judge of all, my spirit meets thee robed in my Saviour's righteousness, and salutes thee as my Father and my all. And all between is full of grace and truth. But the man that yearns after more holiness, the man that sighs after God, the man that groans after perfection, the man that is discontented with his sinful self, the man that feels he cannot be easy till he is made like Christ, that is the man who is blessed indeed. They are, as Paul puts it in his letter to the Ephesians, "predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will. Condemn a man who sits next to his Father, the King of kings! A groan cometh not from the lips, but from the heart. It will be the Spirit's own self pleading in me, and by me, and through me, before the throne of grace. But in the case of the believing poor, their claim upon us is far more binding, and I beseech you do not neglect it. I shall now pass on to my third point. "Brethren, we are debtors;" what I have is not my own, but God's; and if it be God's, then it belongs to God's poor. In what way could the Father put greater honor on his Son than by forming a race like to himself, who shall be the many brethren among whom he is the well-beloved firstborn? We must have more preaching of the Holy Spirit, if we are to have more conversion work. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. ", We are not only debtors to God in the light of gratitude for all these things; but because of our relationship to him. If we be not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. and silence reigns through earth and heaven. It is not so in the family of God. by which he means transient good, the good of the moment. We have seen that Christ's death enables us to conquer our foes, and frees us from our sins. 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. You can say, "God has given these souls to Christ, I am going to take them in Christ's name." "It is Christ that died," becomes both his sword and his shield; and when the dread conflict is over, and even while it is raging, he sings, "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.". Ah, brethren! Will you be willing to endure the revilings of slanderous tongues? 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. Yes; but I set over against that the fact that he always would have me. We are to be conformed to Christ Jesus as to character. Thus we are sighing that our entire manhood, in its trinity of spirit, soul, and body, may be set free from the last vestige of the fall; we long to put off corruption, weakness, and dishonour, and to wrap ourselves in incorruption, in immortality, in glory, in the spiritual body which the Lord Jesus Christ will bestow upon all his people. Can ye say, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I desire to keep all thy commandments, and to walk blamelessly in thy sight. He died for thee, if now thou dost confess thy guilt. Does he contribute anything to his new life? It there be a touch of our finger anywhere upon the vessel, it mars and does not beautify. So we are persuaded of these three things: first, that God loves us; next, that God has shown his love to us by the gift of his Son Jesus Christ; and then, that his divine love comes streaming down to us because we are in Christ, and are loved for his sake. He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. I know my brethren, it is very hard for you to believe this. There is another point under the first head which I must not omit. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according the to will of God." how can the imagination revel, when the body is in an ill condition? 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. When like David we can say, "I opened my mouth and panted," we are by no means in an ill state of mind. In Hebrews 3:1 , you find this sentence. Am I one of those who are ordained unto eternal life, or am I to be left to follow my own lusts and passions, and to destroy my own soul? Regulus returns to Rome; he stands up in the senate and conjures them never to make peace in Carthage, but ot his wife and children, and tells them that he is going back to Carthage, and of course the tell him that he need not keep faith with an enemy. If the aegis of the Almighty covers thee, what sword can smite thee? Mark then, with care, that OUR CONFORMITY TO CHRIST IS THE SACRED OBJECT OF PREDESTINATION. A wife waiting for her husband's footsteps; a child waiting in the darkness of the night till its mother comes to give it the evening's kiss, are portraits of our waiting. ( Romans 8:1) No condemnation. Well, if not in this text, there is in another. These two expressions are the great distinguishing marks whereby we are able to separate the precious from the vile, by discovering to us who are the children of God. Let the gospel be really felt in the mind and it will toll the knell of selfishness, it will bring down the proud from their elevated solitude, and it will restore the down-trodden to the rights of our common manhood. Thus my ill knowledge is met by the great and heavenly knowledge with which he went about the work of offering a complete atonement in my place and stead. Recollect, if you are truly called it is a high calling, a calling from on high, and a calling that lifts up your heart, and raises it to the high things of God, eternity, heaven, and holiness. "We know it. It cries for something, and it makes very odd and objectionable noises, combined with signs and movements, which are almost meaningless to stranger, but his mother understands him, and attends to his little pleadings. The Holy Spirit also divinely operates in the strengthening of the faith of believers. "'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above. A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Romans taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. 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. But one more word, and that circles the argument, namely, that the work of the Spirit in the heart is not only the mind of the Spirit which God knows, but it is also according to the will or mind of God, for he never maketh intercession in us other than is consistent with the divine will. "A fiction!" Though they could not entirely rid their souls of the idea of the Godhead, did they not wish that there might not be a God? As he turns over each of these love-tokens, and as he reads the words of his reconciled prince, he asks "When will the vessel sail to take me back to my native shore?" We can work spiritual miracles. We may safely entreat the Lord to do what he has ordained to do. No ungodly man loves God at least not in the Bible sense of the term. What would you give, some of you, if you could have such a hope as this? Are we not his sons, and is there not a debt the son owes to the father which a lifetime of obedience can never remove? The face of Jesus is more lovely to God than all the worlds, his eyes are brighter than the stars, his voice is sweeter than bliss; therefore doth the Father will to have his Son's beauty reflected in ten thousand mirrors in saints made like to him, and his praises chanted by myriads of voices of those who love him, because his blood has saved them. CHILDREN are expected to bear some likeness to their parent. Conscience, I will put thee in the witness-box, and cross-examine thee this morning! Charles Haddon Spurgeon October 18, 1857 Scripture: Romans 8:28 From: New Park Street Pulpit Volume 3 The True Christian's Blessedness "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."Romans 8:28 Others of you who can do little yourselves, can this day assist by sending forth men of God to preach the gospel of Christ. It is the mighty God himself who came here to be a Man, and to die in our stead, for is it not written that God hath bought his people with his own blood? The SPECIAL CONDUCT naturally expected from those who are partakers of the peculiar privileges of being the children of God. I shall not refer to any class of society, and say of them, we are debtors, except to one, and that is the poor. 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? As God, by his own right, the Lord Jesus is possessor of all things, since he made and supports all things; but as Jesus, the mediator, the federal head of the covenant of grace, he hath no rights apart from his people. This is an instructive emblem of a great fact. For which of these works do ye hate God? 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 be but an adjunct of his nature to be an enemy, he may change himself into a friend; but if it is the very essence of his existence to be enmity, positive enmity, enmity cannot change itself. Those of us who have passed through any spiritual conflicts know that Satan is a terribly real personage. So is it also with us. 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? 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. He will write the prayers which I ought to offer upon the tablets of my heart, and I shall see them there, and so I shall be taught how to plead. It is as though one bartered a diamond to buy a common pebble from the brook, or gave away an empire to purchase some foul thing not worthy of being picked off a dunghill. Romans 8:3-4. So strange and startling a doctrine as this asserted with such dogmatic impudence? If you have the Spirit of God in your soul, you may rejoice over it as the pledge and token of the fulness of bliss and perfection "which God hath prepared for them that love him.". I hear a ribald song; that music of hell shall jar in my ear when gray hairs shall be upon my head. 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. If he had not paid the debt, he would have remained in the prison of the grave; but he rose again. I must close this point time goes much too swiftly this morning when descanting upon this delightful theme by observing that we are to be conformed to Christ in his glory. This will appear in two ways. My friends, there is a cementing power in the grace of God which can scarcely be over estimated. I have (continues the objector), stood upon the mountain-top, until my whole soul has kindled with the scene below, and my lips have uttered the song of praise. Turning, however, more strictly to the words of the text, "Who is even at the right hand of God" what meaneth this? When we consider what man once was, only second to the angels, the companion of God, who walked with him in the garden of Eden in the cool of the day; when we think of him as being made in the very image of his Creator, pure, spotless, and unblemished, we cannot but feel bitterly grieved to find such an accusation as this preferred against us as a race. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. I know thou dost not seriously ask the question, for thou knowest the answer of it. Sinner! Every priest stands daily ministering and offering sacrifice for sin. We must not pry into it, but we know that he was verily of the nature of God. How can we do that, say you? The world's barque, it is true, is always tossed with waves, but these waves toss her first to the right and then to the left; they do not steadily bear her onward to her desired haven. Let me attempt a second simile: he is as an advocate to one in peril at law. There is real prayer in these "groanings that cannot be uttered." Otherwise, he could not have said, "I am persuaded that things present and things to come shall not be able to separate us." I cannot of course picture what your precise trouble is. Yes, say we, we have many corruptions. 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. He to whom all these things are but as nothing, gives himself up to the inheritance of his people. It is true that you are a believer, but you have sinned often, for years, in all sorts of way." 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. One other instance let me give you. The death of Christ gives us a full salvation. One will wickedly say, "If I am a child of God, I may live as I like." MY DEAR READERS, Your weekly preacher is still weakly; but though his progress towards strength is slow, it has been steadily maintained during the late trying weather. To use another figure, Christ's death was as it were the digging out of the gold of grace out of the deep mines of Jesus' sufferings. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 22, 1855, by the, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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