Sinner! I believe that the apostle was persuaded that these two blessed links existed between him and the great God, and he was persuaded that neither of those two links would ever be broken. Now, you have heard your Father's will read, and you find that you are joint heirs with Christ. "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." 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. "Who wilt put honey into my mouth? Christ was always considered as having you in him, and you were always considered by God as being in Christ. We cannot at times command even the earnestness which is the life of supplication: a torpor steals over us, our heart is chilled, our hand is numbed, and we cannot wrestle with the angel. There in the midst of the arena stands the hero. You are as bad as any one of us. How can we deserve anything from the being we hate? If he hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from his love. Yea, and when we cannot even utter our groanings, he doth not only help us but he claims as his own particular creation the "groanings that cannot be uttered." Down thou shalt come, sinner, if God cries down; there is no standing when he would have thee fall. There is a third black portion, too, namely, temptation. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. That is, his great love in giving his dear Son to die for us. I know the world turns this into ridicule and says, "That the hypocrite loves persecution;" no, not the hypocrite, but the true believer; he feels that though the suffering must ever be painful, yet for Christ's sake, it becomes so glorious that the pain is all forgotten. "It came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him." God has punished sin; and when men say, "God must punish sin," we answer, "Sin has been punished, for Christ has died.". I beseech thee, "Agree with thy creditor quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest he deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer to cast thee into prison: verily I say unto thee, thou shall not come out till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." I can look upward without distressing fear." 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 is Christ that died.". The influences of the Holy Ghost at times pass through the soul like winds through an Eolian harp, creating and inspiring sweet notes of gratitude and tones of desire, to which we should have been strangers if it had not been for his divine visitation. "All things work together," for that kind of good to God's people. Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. Here comes in this blessed word taken out of the Greek litany, "By thine unknown sufferings." Exactly so, therefore if we be heirs, as Christ Jesus is the heir of all things, we are "joint heirs with Christ." So are the affections. And then he adds this blessed argument, "Father those for whom I plead are thine own children, and thou lovest them as much as I do," yea, "thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me." "To as man as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God"; and to the sons of God alone cometh the Spirit of adoption, and all his helping grace. Many times you put him away. rail on as pleases you. III. "There are 400 youths," says he, "in Rome as brave as I am, and that will bear fire as well; and tyrant," he says "you will surely die."" Go to the next house, and hear another groan. Then the apostle says we are "waiting," by which I understand that we are not to be petulant, like Jonah or Elijah, when they said, "Let me die," nor are we to sit still and look for the end of the day because we are tired of work; nor are we to become impatient, and wish to escape from our present pains and sufferings till the will of the Lord is done. Our spirit bears witness that we are the children of God, when it feels a filial love to God. It is only where God's hand has been that the vessel begins to assume the form of the model. Even so doth our Father in heaven know all about our poor baby talk, for our prayer is not much better. His own dear Son came, and stood in my place, and took my sin upon him. The whole of the mind is enmity against God. Listen at that door on the left, there is a deep, hollow, awful groan. First, then, there is A LEGAL TERM IN THE WILL UPON WHICH THE WHOLE MATTER WILL HINGE. Man! 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. The rich man hoards wealth, the poor man makes it. We morally speak of work, especially on this day, as being the opposite of sacred rest and worship. We may understand it in a thousand sense, for indeed we are debtors. If the guilty sinner dies, the law is honoured; but if God shall assume human flesh, and die for that sinner, the law is even more honoured. Communion is the fountain of conformity. Where he is every saint shall be ere long. Again and again let this blow, from the sword of the Spirit, descend upon him, "It is Christ that died," and you will soon be acclaimed the victor over your greatest foe. He had not seen many of those whom he addressed; yet they were known to him, in the Spirit, as partakers of one glorious and blessed hope, and, therefore, he called them "brethren." We know not how to mingle these sacred spices in the incense of prayer. 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. he assures and consoles directly, by coming into immediate contact with the heart. But if he could have read God's secrets, he might have found that Simeon was not lost, for he was retained as a hostage that Joseph was not lost but gone before to smooth the passage of his grey hairs into the grave, and that even Benjamin was to be taken away by Joseph in love to his brother. You will notice here, my beloved, that there are two witnesses in court two who are ready to prove our filiation to the eternal God. "For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Even so we know concerning our great Father: Do you therefore rejoice in this, that because the prayers of the Spirit are known and understood of God, therefore they will be sure to speed. Suppose you have been enabled to believe in Jesus Christ for your salvation; that faith has produced love to Christ; that love to Christ has led you to work for Christ; you come to the Bible, and you find that this was just the very thing which was felt by early believers; and then you say, "Good Lord, I am thy son, because what I feel is what thou has said by the lips of thy servant must be felt by those who are thy children." You feel you must have your Father, or else the gifts of his providence are nothing to you. The poor client would plead, but still, when he won the suit, he would trace it all to the advocate who lived at home, and gave him counsel: indeed, it would be the advocate pleading for him, even while he pleaded himself. "I have been in trade," says another, "and this commercial pressure has brought me exceedingly low, and distressed me: is it for my good?" Therefore, over against my delight in sin, I set his delight in presenting to the Father his perfect righteousness and his all-sufficient substitutionary sacrifice: "It is Christ that died. The old translators rendered the passage thus; "The mind of the flesh is enmity against God" that is to say, the natural mind, that soul which we inherit from our fathers, that which was born within us when our bodies were fashioned by God. And whereas our experience sometimes leads our spirit to conclude that we are born of God, there are happy times when the eternal Spirit from off the throne, descends and fills our heart, and then we have the two witnesses bearing witness with each other, that we are children of God. You perceive at once, by his deeds, that his nature was godlike. There are some brethren who dwell in the heights; I am rather pleased to meet with dear friends who never have any doubts or fears, but are always full of joy and ecstasy, and who go on to tell us that they have left all these things behind, and have risen to the heights of bliss. The body is still subject to the evils which Paul mentions, when he says of it that it is subject to corruption, to dishonour, to weakness, and is still a natural body. "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." 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. Hallelujah to the grace that makes all things work together for good! Enemies at a marriage banquet? As to our spirits, we have liberty to soar into the third heaven, and sit in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus; but as for our bodies, we can only roam about this narrow cell of earth, and feel that it is not the place for us. Provision for Christian living is in the Person of the Holy Spirit. "We know that all things work." So that though I said the drift of the text was spiritual good, yet sometimes in the main current there may be carried some rich and rare temporal benefits for God's children as well as the richer spiritual blessings. Yet for our strong consolation, that we may never tremble or fear, God hath been pleased to give us these four eternal rocks, these four immovable foundations upon which our faith may rest and stand secure. "Look," says one, "there is sin. So it may by possibility be this morning; so it will be if the Spirit of God shall be our instructor, and fulfil his gracious promise to "lead us into all truth.". Live with Christ and you will soon grow like Christ. So shall we be when he shall say unto us, "Enter ye into the joy of your Lord." We come and spend our time and our money upon our pleasures before we pay our just and fair debts. Be not drugged with the laudanum of self-security! Jerusalem, my spirit is come to thee, and unto thy glorious assembly. Where are those words which you have added, "Whom he did foreknow to repent, to believe, and to persevere in grace?" Some men groan because of their great losses or sufferings; well, this may be nothing but a rebellious smarting under the rod, and if so, no blessing will come of it. This poor man knows very little about law, and is quite unable to meet his cunning opponent. he says, "I had rather be a bankrupt in business than I would be a bankrupt in grace; let my fortune be decreased better that, than that I should backslide; there! Do I love what he loves; do I hate what he hates? But did I need witnesses, I would conjure up the nations of antiquity; I would unroll the volume of ancient history; I would tell you of the awful deeds of mankind. "All things work together for good." Oh! It is said that every strand of them would bear the entire onnage, and consequently, if every strand bears the full weight that will ever be put upon the whole, there is an absolute certainty of safety given to the whole when twisted together. Weigh the riches of Christ in scales and his treasures in balances and then think to count the treasures which belong to the saints. If we be not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. Remember how much thou owest to his disinterested love, which rent his own Son from his bosom that he might die for thee! Then who should be proud of having paid only a part of his debt, when, after all, he owes a great deal more than he is worth? He might have sent you to hell; but you are here. First, he flings down the gauntlet, and challenges a battle, crying, "Who is he that condemneth?" Amen and amen. Life in the Spirit contrasted with life in the flesh. it is a well-known truth, that if you want help you must go anywhere for it, save to your brother's house. 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. Lecture 1: A Chat about Commentaries. It does not strike man upon the head; it penetrates into his heart; it lays the axe at the root of the tree, and pronounces him "enmity against God," against the person of the Godhead, against the Deity, against the mighty Maker of this world; not at enmity against his Bible or against his gospel, though that were true, but against God himself, against his essence, his existence, and his person. The first is the general call, which is in the gospel sincerely given to everyone that heareth the word. So it is not by imitation, but it is by nature, that the child is evil. We are like the dove that flutters, and is weary, but thank God, we have an ark to go to. 12. Psalms 16:5 . But mark, although this call be rejected, man is without excuse in the rejection; the universal call has in it such authority, that the man who will not obey it shall be without excuse in the day of judgment. He that is most endowed with worldly goods, and he who has the fewest; he that is blessed in health, and he who is racked with sickness; we all have in our measure an earnest inward groaning towards the redemption of our body. Then in James 2:5 ., we are spoken of as being heirs of the kingdom. Within this narrow house of my body, this tenement of clay, if I be a true believer, there dwells the Holy Ghost, and when I desire to pray I may ask him what I should pray for as I ought, and he will help me. If you are not so persuaded, here is honey, but you do not taste it; here is light, but you do not see it; here is heaven, but you do not enter the pearly gate. I remember a saying of old Matthew Wilkes: "Saved by your works! Now, Christian, consider how thou art a debtor to thy God. Beloved, are ye brothers of Christ, and do ye think that ye owe him no love? The believer continues to hope for the time when death and sin shall no more annoy his body; when, as his soul has been purified, so shall his body be, and his prayer shall be heard, that the Lord would sanctify him wholly, body, soul, and spirit. "He was tempted in all points like as we are." And would you blush to sit side- by-side with him, and be made nothing of as he was? Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God. "Surely," said he, "the minister knew me, and spoke something personally to me, because he knew my case." Yet we are persuaded that he did it, and that the love of God is most clearly to be seen in the faot that he gave his Son Jesus Christ to die instead of us. The law of God says, "Thou shalt not," and we have done exactly what we were forbidden to do. If all the processes of grace fail in the case of any professors, what is to be done with them? C. H. Spurgeon At Exeter Hall, Strand. 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 Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 11th, 1880, by. Have you been called, not of man but of God? "Roll ye away the stone," saith he, and it is done; and now, listen to him; he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" 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. He was ill-treated, abused, and slandered, and went away to retirement. So saith the word, my brother, and so shalt thou find it ere long. Perhaps, also, there was one who had travailed in birth till Christ was formed in us the hope of glory, and how happy was that spirit to see us born unto God; how did our spiritual parent ponder each gracious word which we uttered, and thank God for the good signs of grace which could be found in our conversation. Now be quiet. Can you not do it? The apostle ends the list by saying, "nor any othe creature." As soon as the Israelite had plucked the first handful of ripe ears, they were to him so many proofs that the harvest was already come. Of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; Let us go from the school to the university, let us have done with our first spelling-books, and advance into the higher classics of the kingdom. and a voice calls, "I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest." I wonder what the things present are with you, my dear hearers. O dear friends, what comfort lies in this word, "It is Christ that died."! ", Then again, how zealous we should be for our Master! Purity, holiness, unselfishness, all the virtues, should glow in us as they shone in him. It is Christ that died. We will go into the next. It is not black, but blackness; it is not at enmity, but enmity itself; it is not corrupt, but corruption; it is not rebellious, it is rebellion; it is not wicked, it is wickedness itself. 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. Though without sin, he was not without suffering. True Advocate is he, and Comforter most effectual. you shall not be uncrowned. That is, the entire man, every part of him every power, every passion. who is fully assured of his interest in the covenant of grace, in the blood of atonement, and in the glories of heaven! At all times, at all hours, at every moment, (I speak this as God speaketh it), if ye are carnal, ye are each one of you enmity against God. It is something on the part of a debtor if he will but acknowledge the claim of his creditor. That secret we must keep separate from all earthly things; that treasure which he has committed to us we must watch both night and day against those profane intruders who would defile the consecrated ground. Standing at the foot of the cross, and beholding the Redeemer in his expiring agony, the Christian may indeed gather courage. To atone for the sin of my soul there is the sorrow of his soul; if I poured out my soul in sin, he poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors. but thou wilt not leave one of the "many brethren" for whom he died: the Spirit shall be with them, and when they cannot so much as groan he will make intercession for them with groanings that cannot be uttered. For memory graspeth with an iron hand ill things, but the good she holdeth with feeble fingers. When Satan stood forth to accuse Joshua, the high priest, he did in effect accuse Christ as well as that chosen disciple, and the Lord was not slow to put in his rejoinder to the objection: "The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Just so! Ah! God treats us as men responsible and intelligent, and not as stone or metal; he made us free agents, and he treats us as such. The apostle tells us that not only is there a groan from creation, but this is shared in by God's people. Now God has never promised that "all things shall work together" for such good as that to his people. Last of all, I have another practical point. Wherefore, be confident, dear brethren, that these spiritual beings, these unseen forces, these strange and mysterious powers which you cannot fully understand, can none of them separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus your Lord. I do feel that he loves me better than I love myself. Well did the apostle say of this "much more much more than dying and rising again from the dead, he lives at the right hand of God.". 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. God hath not forsaken us; the tokens of his goodness are with us, and we may rejoice in full many a gracious boon which is ours this very day. You know how thrice he assailed him with those temptations which are most likely to be attractive to poor humanity, but Jesus overcame them all. And men of every kindred, and of every tribe, shall see in the face of every man, a relative allied to them by ties of blood. We may well hang our harps upon the willows, while we listen to the voice of Jehovah solemnly speaking to his rebellious creature. Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? So it must be, "If so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together." Will any one who believes in the Prayer Book dissent from the doctrine that "the carnal mind is enmity against God?". Here we must bow our heads. A Methodist brother cries, "Amen," and you say, "I cannot bear such Methodistic noise"; no, but if it comes from the man's heart God can bear it. Sit thee down; rest in peace; lift up thine eye of hope, and sing thy song with fond anticipation. First, God sent his Son as a sacrificial lamb to absorb the penalty for our sinsto make forgiveness possible. There is no difficulty in understanding my text; it needs scarcely any explanation. Yet our heavenly Father, who looks immediately upon the heart, reads what the Spirit of God has indited there, and does not need even our groans to explain the meaning. Who among us would change with Gabriel? A groan is a matter about which there is no hypocrisy. "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." That faith is at first of his creating, and afterwards it is of his sustaining and increasing: and oh, brothers and sisters, have you not often felt your faith rise in proportion to your trials? Oh, speak! "No," says he, "I can stop his mouth with this cry, 'It is Christ that died;' that will make him tremble, for he crushed the serpent's head in that victorious hour. Looking upon the world with the mere eye of sense and reason, we say, "Yes, all things work, but they work contrary to one another. Oh, yes, I am sure ye ought. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. Men hate election just as thieves hate Chubb's patent locks; because they cannot get at the treasure themselves, they therefore hate the guard which protects it. Then secondly, there is the secret mind of God, the will of his eternal predestination and decree, of which we know nothing; but we do know this, that the Spirit of God never prompts us to ask anything which is contrary to the eternal purpose of God. May my blessed Master help you to come to him, and draw you to his Son, for Jesu's sake. I am in this boat myself. Christ is risen from the dead, how can we be condemned? No doubt, however, the text means that these will for ever love and honor the Lord Jesus Christ himself. If his heart is against God, we ought to tell him it is his sin; and if he cannot repent, we ought to show him that sin is the sole cause of his disability that all his alienation from God is sin that as long as he keeps from God it is sin. Ask ye why? 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. Those whom the Lord looked upon with favor as he foresaw them, he has predestinated to he conformed to the image of his Son. If you were half as happy as a groaning saint is, you might be content to groan on for ever. And wilt thou think, yet again, what cause there is that thou shouldest realize to-day thy union with Christ, since thou art joint heir with him. It does not always follow in human reasoning "if children, then heirs," because in our families but one is the heir. Is this true or not? We need only the gospel thoroughly preached to bring about "liberty, equality, and fraternity," in the highest and best sense of these words. 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." I have known a surly man act in that way; but Christ never turns us away because we only come to him when others fail us. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be." "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. All that he has, all that he is, therefore, belongeth to us. Did he clothe you, would you abuse him to his face? If he were an uneducated man he would be in a poor plight. Then, remember, it cannot be; when you refuse the one, you relinquish all claim to the other. My fellow creature, dost thou not know that God sent his Son from his bosom, hung him on the tree, and there suffered him to die for sinners, the just for the unjust? Well, we confess that too; but then Christ suffered in his spirit. He did not bring the mercy-seat outside the veil, to carry the mercy-seat to the blood. It is true the world is always active, but it is with the activity of the battle-field, wherein hosts encounter hosts and the weaker are overcome." God has given Christ the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost ends of the earth for his possession, and we are co-heirs with him. I am afraid none of us feel enough how much we are debtors to God. There is one thing I have noticed, in looking over the old levitical law, under the description of the tabernacle. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 1009, 978, 400. Now, brethren, this word I say and send you home. 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. 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