"It came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him." Now, first, brethren, as co-heirs with Christ, we are heirs of God so the text tells us. He who has never seen the New Jerusalem, has never clapped his hands with holy ecstasy, he has never sighed with the unutterable longing which is expressed in words like these, Take another picture to illustrate that the obtaining of something makes us groan after more. man, there is an answer to thy inquiry; the book cannot be opened, but God himself hath published many a page thereof. Look around you and learn your duty. "A night and a day," said he, "I have been in the deep," and I will warrant you that many a night and many a day he had been in spiritual deeps; yet he had survived them all, and he could testify to the faithfulness of his God, and say at the end, as the issue of his sufferings, "I am persuaded that nothing in creation is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be." Satan was no friend to Christ, but finding him in the desert he came to him with this accursed "if" "If thou be the Son of God." And then he holds up a shield so broad that he is completely concealed behind it, and every enemy is defeated in the conflict, because "It is Christ that dies." While sense is grovelling down below, faith with eagle wing cuts through the cloud and mounts to heaven. If a man walks the streets, sticking his bill upon his breast, and proclaiming with pride that he is a debtor, you would say, "Sure he must be a madman; lock him up." Taking away this corner-stone, this fancy theory tumbles to the ground, and that theory which seemed to be as tall as Babel, and threatened to make as much confusion, may right soon be demolished, if you will batter it with the Word of God. His early years had been spent in opposition to his Saviour. in that thought "The carnal mind is enmity with God;" there is something which may make us shake; for it is a terrible sin to be at enmity with God. Romans 8:22-23 . Fellowship in his sufferings is needful to communion with his glory. Then we are heirs of all things heaven and earth, time and eternity, anything that you can conceive of the things that can be named and cannot be named, things conceivable and inconceivable, finite and infinite, human and divine. But, secondly, the object of grace is that there may be some in heaven with whom Christ can hold brotherly converse. His death was the digging of the well of salvation. While dwelling upon this joint heirship, let us remark what an honor is conferred upon us. 26. Thou Church of God, surely it must survive in thee; for to whom should it more belong to die and sacrifice all, than to those who are the sons of God. Sonship towards an earthly parent brings with it a host of duties, and shall the Everlasting Father be unregarded? God bless you, ye sons of God, and may those of you who are strangers to him, be convinced and converted by this sermon, and seek that grace by which alone you can have your prayer fulfilled: Delivered on Sunday Morning, July the 28th, 1861 by the, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, THE APOSTLE has proceeded through a simple but exceedingly forcible train of reasoning till he gains this glorious point "Joint heirs with Christ." Brethren, grieve at your failures; when you see anything in yourselves that is not Christlike mourn over it, for it must be put away, it is so much dross that must be consumed; you cannot keep it, for God's predestination will not let you retain anything about you which is not according to the image of Christ. 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. say you? What shall I do? (1) They seem to have misunderstood Paul's teachings and to have charged that he taught that the greater the sin the greater the glory of God (3:8). I believe that there have been some professors, such as Judas and Simon Magus, who have come very near to this condition, and others who are said, after a certain sort, to have believed, to have received the Holy Spirit in miraculous gifts, and to have been specially enlightened so as to have been able to teach others; but the work of grace did not affect their hearts, it did not renew their natures, it did not transform their spirits, and so it was impossible to renew them to repentance. Yet one more illustration: it is that of a father aiding his boy. The beggar shivering in his rags, may owe thee something, if thou givest him alms; but thou owest him something more. 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." But he says, "Get thee hence, Satan, I know I am the son of God." As this is a legal question, and as in matters of wills everything should be proven and sworn to, let us have, concerning our inheritance, the evidence of God: that cannot lie. Surely no one is so daring as to say, that all men are led by the Spirit of God; yet may it readily enough be inferred from our text, that those who are not led by the Spirit of God are not the sons of God, but that they and they alone who are led, guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit, are the sons of 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." "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?" Nay, he himself is ours. Keep your model before you. He see the disease, but the name of the medicine is not known to us. Oh! "What!" The saints in heaven are perfectly free from sin, and, so far as they are capable of it, they are perfectly happy; but a disembodied spirit never can be perfect until it is reunited to its body. In verses 1-11, Paul contrasted those "who live according to the flesh" with . were to be understood in its broadest and most unlimited sense. If he had willed it, thou wouldst have been among the damned; if he had not willed thy salvation, all thou couldst do would have been utterly powerless to deliver thee from perdition. If I be called I must have been elected, and I need not doubt that. 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. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits." Spurgeon takes us back to the previous verses in the opening remarks of his sermon on Romans 8:37 Look attentively at the champion. Well, my dear brother, you up there on the topmost bough, you will not frighten me with all your heights, though I cannot get up there, and I could not stay there if I could get up so high. 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. You may walk the broad acres of this round globe, and never look upon a single spot that is not yours. He had been a drunkard, a spendthrift, and had not a penny to bless himself with, and his house had become a little hell; he was groaning at the thought of going home to such a scene of quarrelling and distress. We call them innocent, and so they are of actual transgression, but as the poet says, "Within the youngest breast there lies a stone." Let me suppose an impossible case for a moment. You may have seen very beautiful prayers in print, and you may have heard very charming compositions from the pulpit, but I trust you have not fallen in love with them. They surrounded it; they were about to sack it, and Camillus was the only man who could deliver it. Camillus had been banished from Rome by false accusations. "Ah!" 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. Why, sometimes, it can drive us to Christ; let us pray that it may. There is nothing new in the book; no, for "the old is better," it tells of ancient covenants, and everlasting love, and full atonement, and final perseverance, grand old doctrines on which a soul may stand without fear when heaven and earth are passing away, and the Son of Man comes in His glory. "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. A great gulf had opened in the Forum, perhaps caused by an earthquake, and the auspices had said that the chasm could never be filled up, except the most precious thing in Rome could be cast into it. He means that, if we were tempted by the love of life to deny Christ' we should be strengthened so that we should not deny him even to save our lives, for his people have been brave enough in this respect in all times. Some groan continually under the troubles of life; they are merely impatient there is no virtue in that. How shall a celestial spirit be satisfied until it sees celestial things? (+44) 01236 827 978. Oh, yes, I am sure ye ought. And let the idle and slothful remember that they are a great anomaly; they are blots in the great work-writing of God; they mean nothing; in all the book of letters with which God has written out the great word "work," they are nothing at all. God is angry with them, and they know it. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. We who are but babes cannot hold the great ocean of Godhead in our infantile palms. Let us, who believe in inspired Scripture, unite our prayers that it may be even so. And he could not think that it could be so; as he turned the matter over mentally, he said, "If they be indeed one with Christ, I am persuaded that nothing can separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. They love him as their King, they are willing to obey him, to walk in his commands is their delight; no path is so soft to their feet as the path of God's precepts, the way of obedience thereunto. My illustrations do not touch the mystery, but set forth the grace. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 8:14-39 . He hath suffered, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. It is as if a poor man were called into court to prove his right to some piece of land which was disputed. Edwards's theological work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his . You do not know the love of Christ. But here we have a more uncommon and a sublimer theme. On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. It is only where God's hand has been that the vessel begins to assume the form of the model. The practical part follows, wherein we find, 1. "Brethren, ye have been called into liberty." Oh! === Sample: Romans 8:1-3 === Romans 8 Some people talk about "getting out of the 7th chapter, into the 8th." But our liberty is incomplete. I pray you never think well of fine prayers, for before the thrice holy God it ill becomes a sinful suppliant to play the orator. Now why call Zaccheus? Creation glows with a thousand beauties, even in its present fallen condition; yet clearly enough it is not as when it came from the Maker's hand the slime of the serpent is on it all this is not the world which God pronounced to be "very good." I thought that had I to intercede for anybody, and do a mediating part, if I had to intercede for my brother with my father, I should feel I had got a safe case in hand. It means, first of all, that Christ is now in the honourable position of an accepted one. Who can condemn? And he went and lay down." There are opposite currents; the wind bloweth to the north and to the south. He is the ambassador; he it is who can make peace through his blood; and though you came in here an enemy, it is possible you may go out through that door a friend yet, if you can but look to Jesus Christ, the brazen serpent which was lifted up. Paul has, in this case, only one answer to the question, "Who is he that condemneth?" But this should not be so. 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. You have heard of Regulus the Roman general; he was taken prisoner by Carthagenians, who anxiously wished for peace. Say, "I count it to be my joy to be permitted to be a partaker of the sufferings of Christ. Do you shrink from being tempted? There is the worldling's sense: "Who will show us any good?" Here comes in this blessed word taken out of the Greek litany, "By thine unknown sufferings." "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be baptized, and thou shalt be saved," for so runneth the gospel. "If Satan bring an accusation before God against any of the Lord's redeemed, that accusation is made against the Redeemer himself, for God's people are so one with Christ, that you must first bring the charge against Christ himself ere you dare to lay it against any of his elect. You quenched conscience. He draws near to teach us how to pray, and in this way he helps our infirmity, relieves our suffering, and enables us to bear the heavy burden without fainting under the load. However wise and advisable a human interpolation may be, it has no authority with us; we bow to holy Scripture, but not to glosses which theologians may choose to put upon it. How many an event has seemed to be conflicting in its day, that has worked out good for us? Nor can any creature accuse his saints, nor can heaven, or earth, or hell disprove our rights or infringe upon our title so long as his title stands undisputed and indisputable. WE have here the description of a true Christian, and a declaration of that Christian's blessedness. (2) They may have thought him to teach that we should sin in order to get more grace (6:1) and, therefore, may have made his teaching of justification by faith an excuse for immoral conduct. My spiritual distress robs me of the power to pour out my heart before my God. This is the Christian's brightest hope. Happy in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get the fulness of what is promised him. What about your present sinfulness?" Brethren, we who know and love the Lord, are debtors, not to one creditor, but to many. and he went forth, not knowing whither he went. When Christ pleads, he does not plead with one who is stronger than him or inimical to him, but with his own Father. He gave to us his heaven, for "where I am, there shall my people be." 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! He proclaimed the doctrine of the "one blood," and gloried in the fact of "one family" in Christ. There is no holiness in us of our own creating; no good thing in us of our own fashioning. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, much more will they call them of his household by some yet more opprobrious title, if they can invent it. The sighing of the prisoner surely cometh up into the ears of the Lord. You groaned for it, not with the unhappy groan that marks one who is to perish, but with the groan of one who, having tasted of the sweets of home, is not content until again he shall be indulged with the fulness of them. 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." Regard the Holy Spirit as your prompter, and let your ear be opened to his voice. He first of all stirred up their pure minds by way of remembrance as to their sonship, for saith he "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." The enemies of truth are more numerous and subtle than ever, and the needs of the Church are greater than at any preceding time. when I can find enough for my faith to be satisfied with even in the digging of the well, what shall be my satisfaction when I see it overflowing its brim, and springing up with life everlasting? This day, if we do not break fish and barley loaves, we bring you better food; this day, if we cannot give to men opened eyes and unstopped ears, yet in the teaching of the gospel of Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, the mental eye is cleansed, and the soul's ear also is purged; so that in every child of God, in proportion as he labors in the power of the Spirit for Christ, the works which he does bear witness of him that he is the son of God. Expect not, O Christian, that all things will work together to make thee rich; it is just possible they may all work to make thee poor. Come, men, put your face against all weathers; be ready to come up hill, with the snow blowing in your face, be ready to march on when the tempest howls, and the lightnings flash over head, and the snow becomes knee-deep; nay, be ready to go into the crevasse with him, and perish, if need be. 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 naught but "Look!" II. And if an angel could exalt a gnat to equal dignity with himself, yet would not the boon be such-an-one as that which God hath conferred on thee. We have at this present moment in us certain priceless things which distinguish us as believers in Christ from all the rest of God's creatures. 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 groan then is a part of prayer which we owe to the Holy Ghost, and the same is true of all the prayer which wells up from the deep fountains of our inner life. Is thy calling of God? Moreover, the Holy Spirit's intercession creates prayers offered in a proper manner. As long as you go with evil companions, they will applaud you. What! 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." God bless you, my beloved brethren, and may you feel the Spirit of the Lord thus working in you and with you. I have said that I would endeavor, in the third place, to show the great enormity of this guilt. But another bitter taunt comes to me, "You have sinned in spirit. We are like Israel in the wilderness, and are footsore, but blessed be God, we are on the way to Canaan. 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. And now I press forward to notice that in order that we may know whether we are partakers of this high this royal relationship of children of God, the text furnishes us with a SPECIAL PROOF "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. shall a son of God be less true than a Roman or a heathen? The law condemned us in former days, and would again overthrow us if we ventured to meet it unarmed. I shall not enlarge further, except to say that our glory is not yet revealed, and that is another subject of sighing. But our God doeth more than this, he doth not send merely bread from his table, as in the day when man did eat angel's food; he doth not give us merely to drink the wines on the lees well refined the rich wines of heaven but he gives himself himself to us. Jesus Christ is coming in to call some one, for it is written he must abide in some man's house. It is just as subject to sickness as before, pain thrills quite as sharply through the heart of the saint as the sinner, and he who lives near to God, is no more likely to enjoy bodily health than he who lives at a distance from him. Come, lift up thine head; envy no man his dukedom; think no man's princeship worth thy coveting; thou art greater than the greatest, for thou art joint heir with Christ; in dignified relationship thou hast no superior upon earth; and except those who are joint heirs with thee, thou hast not an equal, since thou art joint heir with Christ. The slave is not called. Said he, "All things work together for good; but perhaps, any one of those 'all things' might destroy us if taken alone. Should thine house of business threaten to tumble about thine ears so long as thou hast acted honourably, still bear thy cross. He puts it thus, they are not able to separate us. All the sheep of the Great Shepherd are marked with the cross, and this not only in the fleece, but in the flesh. 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. He rose again, I must rise, and though I die yet shall I live again. Sinner! PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 8:16-39 ; 1 Corinthians 15:39-58 . you also shall be lifted up. We are thankful to have such a groaning. Better to be a solitary pilgrim to bliss, than one of the thousands who throng the road to hell. Oh, if you, my dear hearers, knew the joy and peace that would come to you if you but trusted in the doctrine of substitution, you would not rest until you were able to say, "Christ was in my place, that I might stand in his place: my sins were laid on him, that his righteousness might be girded on me." Go not into thy brother's house in the day of thine adversity. Unless we are the sons of God the Holy Spirit's indwelling shall not be ours: we are shut out from the intercession of the Holy Ghost, ay, and from the intercession of Jesus too, for he hath said, "I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me.". Strange to say, it proved true that it was for his good; for being delayed a day or so on the road through his lameness, he just arrived in London in time enough to hear that Elizabeth was proclaimed queen, and so he escaped the stake by his broken leg. Now, let us march with joyful footsteps onward to the other part of the inheritance. The Holy Spirit also divinely operates in the strengthening of the faith of believers. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee, and thou hast sinned; therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.". We shall have no need to envy angels, for what are they but ministering spirits, servants in our Father's halls; but we are sons, and sons of no inferior order, no sons of a secondary rank like Abraham's children born of Keturah, or like the son of the bondwoman, but we are the Isaacs of God, born according to the promise, heirs of all that he hath, a seed beloved of the Lord for ever. Still the bond was not cancelled until the day when Christ rose from the dead; then did his Father, as it were, rend the bond in halves, and blot it out, so that thenceforward it ceases to have elfect. If you are now led to repent of sin; if you will now cast yourself on the blood and righteousness of Christ, your eternal salvation shall be as sure as your present existence. 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?" In that light he makes the promise shine in all its truthfulness, certainty, sweetness, and suitability, so that we, poor trembling sons of men, dare take that word into our mouth which first came out of God's mouth, and then come with it as an argument, and plead it before the throne of the heavenly grace. If he had not paid the debt, he would have remained in the prison of the grave; but he rose again. You and I are also groaning for it. Suppose it to be a time of war centuries back. Just so! It finds the sinner dead, it gives him life, and he obeys the call of life and lives. So shall we be when he shall say unto us, "Enter ye into the joy of your Lord." I have told you what that groan is, I need not explain it further. I. Having reaped handfuls, we long for sheaves. Sproul's Expositional Commentary Set - 8 Volumes. He has come on purpose to put away our sin, and when he died, he made an end of it. Some men groan after wealth, they worship Mammon. Hallelujah to the grace that makes all things work together for good! "He maketh intercession for us," and "He maketh intercession for the saints." 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." And, did not that suffice, I would point you to the delusions of the heathen; I would tell you of their priestcraft, by which their souls have been enthralled in superstition; I would drag their gods before you; I would let you witness the horrid obscenities, the diabolical rites which are to these besotted men most sacred things. In praying for temporal things we plead with measured voices, ever referring our petition for revision to the will of the Lord. Mark that Paul does not say that all this could ever happen; but that, if it could, the person concerned would be like apiece of ground which brought forth nothing but thorns and briers. And he came before his Father's throne and said, "There it is; the full price: I have brought it all." Can those eyes flash lightnings on the man whom once they saw in sin, and thence with rays of love they did lift him up to joy, and peace, and purity? Oh, when you start aside at a little jest, let your conscience prick you, and say, "Am I not a joint heir with Christ, and am I about to quarrel with the legacy? 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. Take care then of that class, brethren, for we are debtors to them. Now, in considering this solemn subject, let me remark that there are two kinds of callings mentioned in the Word of God. Is then your calling a high calling, has it lifted up your heart, and set it upon heavenly things? 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