Would you forge the iron and strike the dagger into the heart of your best friend? This is too absurd to need an answer, for if so, horses and cows, rats and mice, snakes and flies are children of God, for they are surely creatures as well as we. They bare their backs, the rod scourgeth them. 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. As the wave-sheaf was the first of the harvest, so the spiritual life which we have, and all the graces which adorn that life, are the first gifts, the first operations of the Spirit of God in our souls. 20. We were once an undistinguished part of the creation, subject to the same curse as the rest of the world, "heirs of wrath, even as others." how true it is that some who have had the best of parents, have been the worst of sons; that many who have been trained up under the most holy auspices, in the midst of the most favorable scenes for piety, have nevertheless, become loose and wanton! EP-1975 784dbl.col.pp. why art thou at enmity with God? Remember the bloody day of St. Bartholomew, the valleys of Piedmont, and the mountains of Switzerland. Here cometh one and he cries, "Thou hast been a blasphemer." The text before us cannot be so understood, because the Lord foreknows the history of every man, and angel, and devil. Why, Paul, Satan will bring thundering accusations against thee; art thou not afraid? 1. He has not done enough "never enough;" conscience always says, "this is not perfection; it ought to have been better," Salvation for enemies must be by an ambassador, by an atonement, yea, by Christ. You can hear it in the streets of the city. I doubt not that God at first supernaturally revealed it to him; but yet, in order that he might be still more sure of it, God was pleased to reveal it to him again and again, till his trembling heart was more and more completely persuaded of it. If it be possible that by some decree in heaven's high court, it should be certified and determined that the inheritance is not rightly ours, because some one part of the covenant was left in a precarious state so that it became void and of no effect, then, thine inheritance, O thou King of kings, has failed thee in the very day when it hath failed us. I shall not enlarge further, except to say that our glory is not yet revealed, and that is another subject of sighing. On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. Ah, brethren! 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. if thou art called, if thou art called truly, there will be a going out, and a going out alone. and what is election, but God's purpose to do what he does do? We have the witness of the Spirit within, bearing witness with our spirits that we are born of God. See what effectual calling can do. It is Christ that died. Dost thou abide in his commandments, and desire to be conformed unto his Image? The idle man that folds his arms or lies upon the bed of sloth is an exception to God's rule; for except himself all things work. Last of all, I have another practical point. Who can condemn? Now election shuts up the precious treasury of God's covenant blessings for his children for penitents, for seeking sinners. And if we be his sons, are we not thereby bound to love, serve, and obey him? We have seen that Christ's death enables us to conquer our foes, and frees us from our sins. Stern justice swayed his spirit, and no other feeling could for a single moment make him turn aside. There are too many thorns in your nest, to permit you to hope for an abiding city below the skies. An exile, far away from his native country, has been long forgotten, but on a sudden a vessel brings him the pardon of his monarch, and presents from his friends who have called him to remembrance. Ah! I think I may say to those who are the beginners in the divine life, so long as your call is real, rest assured it is divine. 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. These men will not repent, will not believe; they will not go God's way, and then they grumble and growl, and fret, and fume, because God has locked the treasure up against them. How, then, can election be unjust, if its effect is not unjust? Coming events cast their shadows before them, and when God is about to bless his people his coming favour casts the shadow of prayer over the church. The thoughts are too great to need to be spun out, or you can do that in your private meditations. Merchant; though you have been sore pressed this week, and it is highly probable that next week will be worse still for you, believe that all things even then are working for your good. believe that thou art secure; that voice which called thee, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours; Rest assured, the heart that called thee, beats with infinite love towards thee, a love undying, that many waters cannot quench, and that floods cannot drown. You shall find, when your biography is written, that the black page did but harmonize with the bright one that the dark and cloudy day was but a glorious foil to set forth the brighter noon-tide of your joy. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," so runs our commission, Isa 40 1. Are you intelligently persuaded not only that God is love, but that God loves you? He was content with them for what they were, but the first-fruits enlarged his desires for the harvest. If you like to call it so, you may; but I would rather that you made the mistake of the good old Christian woman who did not know much about these things, and who said that she herself was "a high Calvarist." : I took pleasure in sin; but, "he, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame." Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor! The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God January 1, 1970 The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."Romans viii. Yet one more illustration: it is that of a father aiding his boy. Why, the Jew would then have been compelled to believe that it was all over, the dispensation was ended; for a sitting priest would be the end of all. But why is this? Have they not had the desire that it might turn out that all these divine realities were a delusion, a farce, and an imposture? So the little volume is now ready, and I shall be a happy woman if God will use it to make music in any worn and weary heart. This is an instructive emblem of a great fact. He lives, and because he lives I shall live also. When another says, "I am a sound, orthodox Presbyterian," you stick to this solid ground, "Christ has died." We shall take the words one by one, and try to explain them. I do not much wonder that thou shouldst despise spiritual good, for thou art yet "in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity;" a stranger to spiritual things, and let thy despising of spiritual things teach thee that thou art not spiritual, and therefore thou canst not understand the spiritual, because it must be spiritually discerned. Some groan continually under the troubles of life; they are merely impatient there is no virtue in that. Those things may be desirable, but they are not the ultimatum of the saints. I will not say, "Let us sink or swim together," for there is no sinking to a soul that rests in Christ. Yea, thy law is within my heart. An adversary in the court might plead against him, and overthrow him, for he could not answer him. Overleap the boundaries of Christ's possession if you can, and then dream of ending a limit to the possessions of the elect of God. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above." "Look," says one, "there is sin. 8. There is a publican living in it, who is a hard, griping, grasping, miserly extortioner. ( Romans 8:1) No condemnation. Amen and Amen. How can a heavenly one be content till he ascends to the heavenlies? Coming to our aid in our bewilderment he instructs us. Moses prayed that he might enter Canaan, but God denied him; and the man that was healed asked our Lord that he might be with him, but he received for answer, "Go home to thy friends." 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. If we be debtors we never ought to be proud. If he could, if there were yet a chance of risk, Christ would not be sitting down; if the work were not so fully done, that every redeemed one should at last be received into heaven, he would never rest, nor hold his peace. There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. But I ask you, does your spirit say to-day "I am God's child." Consider how much you owe to his forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts he loves you as infinitely as ever; and after a myriad of sins, his Spirit still resides within you. I can stop his accusation with this perpetual care of Jesus for his people." I did not know till afterwards, when I was led to know Christ as all my salvation, and all my desire, that the Lord had called the child, for this could not have been the result of nature, it must have been the effect of grace. says one, "but dying is such hard work." Look ye again at Camillus. He has given thee hope, ask for faith; and when he gives thee faith, ask for assurance; and when thou gettest assurance, ask for full assurance; and when thou hast obtained full assurance, ask for enjoyment; and when thou hast enjoyment, ask for glory itself; and he shall surely give it thee in his own appointed season. Thus runs the decree, and thus shall the fulfillment follow "I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am." And who amongst us has not been so foolish as to desire that there were no God? 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." God grant to you all to be believers in Christ, now and for ever. Eli said, "I called not, lie down again. Did he not say, "In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world?" When you get upstairs into your chamber this evening to pray, and find you cannot pray, but have to moan out, "Lord, I am too full of anguish and too perplexed to pray, hear thou the voice of my roaring," though you reach to nothing else you will be really praying. Did he clothe you, would you abuse him to his face? We are co-heirs; if he be truly an heir, so are we; and if he be not, neither are we. I. Consider the relation in which we stand to God, and then remember what God is; and after I have spoken of these two things, I hope you will see, indeed, that it is a sin to be at enmity with God. God was so well pleased with his Son, and saw such beauties in him, that he determined to multiply his image. Be it so, then; but until you are, you must be ready to suffer in this world the afflictions of the chosen eons, for they are a part of the inheritance. And at the present moment, in Central Africa, where Bishop Hannington has been put to death, we hear that there is an edict for the killing of Christians, yet hundreds of black men come forward to confess that they are followers of Christ. But, at any rate, certain knight-errants have set themselves to do battle with windmills, and really believe that they shall actually destroy from the face of the earth that which is a fundamental and abiding distinction, without which the Scriptures are not to be understood. Let us take these things for granted, and never dispute about them any more, but go on to still higher matters. "The meek shall inherit the earth, and delight themselves with the abundance of peace." He was ill-treated, abused, and slandered, and went away to retirement. What would you give, some of you, if you could have such a hope as this? but it is possible to pay too dear, especially when you could get on as well without them as with them.) He whose crown shineth the brightest, will know when he hath lost a jewel. 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. They are his own intercession in some respects, for we read that the Holy Spirit not only helps us to intercede but "maketh intercession." And now I come to the fourth; and this also hath an encomium passed upon it "WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US." In us the living and incorruptible seed abode and grew. So, then, it follows that if there be any flaw in the will, so that it be not valid, if it be not rightly signed, sealed, and delivered, then it is no more valid for Christ than it is for us. 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. If, after having ploughed this ground, and sown it, and after it has been watered by the dew and rain of heaven, no good harvest ever comes of it, every wise man would leave off tilling it. The whole "carnal mind is enmity against God. But again, everything that is good in a Christian you know to be the work of God the Holy Ghost. 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? It is a sad, sad world. Even as Christ had to drink the cup of suffering, for sin, we also have sipped of it. Perhaps after those great fires of which Peter speaks when he says, "The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat," earth will be renewed in more than pristine loveliness. If so, methinks your heart is not in a right state. HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THIS, "Brethren, we are debtors"? This is the voice of reason and of nature. Romans 8 - A New and Wonderful Life in the Spirit A. Now I want your attention while I try to show that this blessed sentence, "It is Christ that died," is AN ANSWER TO EVERY ACCUSATION which, under any circumstances, may arise from sin. I do not wonder, therefore, that in his epistles he often discourses upon the doctrines of foreknowledge, and predestination, and eternal love, because these are a rich cordial for a fainting spirit. I go to one brother, and I say, "Brother, there is such-and-such an office in the Sabbath-school; will you take it?" An enemy may possibly make himself a friend; but enmity cannot. Brethren, as soon as a man believes in Christ, he is no longer under the curse of the law. I knew there was a work; I knew I prayed, and cried, and groaned for mercy, but I did not know that was the Lord's work; I half thought it was my own. Two Sunday nights ago, when I stood here to preach about the longsuffering of God being salvation,* I spoke, in the middle of the sermon, as if personally addressing someone who was present, who had lately been ill with fever, and who had come to the Tabernacle, still weakly, and scarcely recovered. A thorn in the flesh may be as painful a thing as a sword in the bones, and yet we may go and beseech the Lord thrice about it, and getting no answer we may feel that we know not what to pray for as we ought; and yet it makes us groan. He dwells in the heart by faith. The help which the Holy Ghost renders to us meets the weakness which we deplore. Catalogue of Commentaries & Expositions. Yet at that selfsame moment, where human eyes saw nothing seraphic eyes beheld marvels of grace, and angels in heaven rejoiced over one sinner that repented, singing once again "glory to God in the highest." We are forced to use words if we would influence our fellow-men, but the Spirit of God can operate upon the human mind more directly, and communicate with it in silence. Now, beloved, the practical use to which I put this, I am afraid somewhat discursive, discourse of this morning is just this. If all things work together for good (all events, all circumstances, all trials, all happenings, etc. Paul says, "Who can lay anything to my charge?" 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. Resignation to God's will takes the weight out of the cross, but a proud spirit that will not bow to God's will change a wooden cross into an iron one. The work is not yet done, the time of folding of hands has not yet arrived; our swords must not yet see their scabbards, for the foe is not yet slain. We are willing now to be conformed to the image of Jesus, yea, we are more than willing, we are anxious and desirous for it; but still the main and first motive power lay not in our will, but in his will, and to-day the immutable force which is best to be depended upon does not lie in our fickle, feeble will, but in the unchanging and omnipotent will of God. III. You took a pleasure in it. 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." Would you have David's crown, but not his caves of Adullam, and rocks of the wild goats? He did not bring the mercy-seat outside the veil, to carry the mercy-seat to the blood. A New Interpretation of Pilgrim's Progress. Who will feed my belly with hid treasures? They are gone, and gone for ever! 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. Because he has remitted all our debt of sin, we are all the more indebted to him in another sense. 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. Another will say, "Ah, it is an insidious disease that will soon carry me to my grave!" How greatly we ought to value the Holy Spirit, because when we are in the dark he gives us light, and when our perplexed spirit is so befogged and beclouded that it cannot see its own need, and cannot find out the appropriate promise in the Scriptures, the Spirit of God comes in and teaches us all things, and brings all things to our remembrance, whatsoever our Lord has told us. There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. 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. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." The Prince of Preachers, Charles H. Spurgeon (19th June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was not only a wonderful orator but also magnificent with his pen. And would you blush to sit side- by-side with him, and be made nothing of as he was? That was his triumphant entry. He said within himself, "Does Jesus love me? What a mind that must be! "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors." Every priest stands daily ministering and offering sacrifice for sin. 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. Here is the full receipt; the resurrection hath rent the bond in twain. There was a table for the shew-bread, an altar, and a brazen lover; yet there was no seat. So it is true; we constantly forget that salvation is by grace alone. Is it not my duty, as well as my happiness, to ask whether there be a way to be reconciled to God? I can foil him with that, for he sits there to judge him and to condemn him for ever. Now, believer, thou mayest be very poor, and very sick, and very much unknown and despised, but sit thee down and review thy calling this morning, and the consequences that flow from it. 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! 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. We have him first very succinctly, but very fully described in these words "Them that love God, them who are the called according to his purpose." 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. If we could then sweep the telescope along the milky way, and see the millions upon millions of stars that lie clustered together there, and could cry, "All these are mine," yet these possessions were but a speck compared with that which is in the text. He was a man of many trials; he went from one tribulation to another for Christ's sake; he swam through many seas of affliction to serve the church. You can say, "God has given these souls to Christ, I am going to take them in Christ's name." This call is sincere on God's part; but man by nature is so opposed to God, that this call is never effectual, for man disregards it, turns his back upon it, and goes his way, caring for none of these things. I am now dead to the law. Then salvation cannot be by merit; it must be by grace. We may well hang our harps upon the willows, while we listen to the voice of Jehovah solemnly speaking to his rebellious creature. When Jesus came into the world as God's Son, he was not left without attesting proofs. We have bulwarks, none of which can possibly be stormed, but when combined they are so irresistible, they could not be carried, though earth and hell should combine to storm them. Well, but God hath another Son, one who is the first-born of every creature. Much more, let me now tell you, is his life, much more the fact that he lives, and is at the right hand of the Father. The arch enemy, the old dragon, was always nibbling at the heel of our great Michael, who has for ever crushed his head. Sin and death no longer have authority over you. Well, whatever it may be, and the woes of the present are very many, there is nothing that can separate us from the love of Christ. Cry mightily to the Holy Spirit to continue his sanctifying work upon you; beseech him not to be grieved and vexed, and, therefore, in any measure to stay his hand. The trumpet of the gospel sounds aloud to every man in our congregations "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." You have been to everybody else; you may go to them now." Jesus Christ is coming in to call some one, for it is written he must abide in some man's house. Ah, it was the groan of death! Not only does faith believe it, but our own history convinces us of the truth of it." 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