For, first, if I am called then I am predestinated, there is no doubt about it. I pray you take the possession now. My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. 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. The apostle ends the list by saying, "nor any othe creature." Every one knows that it is a disgrace to a matchless prayer-book, that such words should be permitted to stand there-words so infamously untrue that by their gross untruthfulness they cease to have the destructive effect which more cunning language might have produced, because the conscience of man revolts against the idea that the sprinkling of drops of water upon the infants's brow can ever make it a member of Christ, and a child of God. He has come on purpose to put away our sin, and when he died, he made an end of it. Here is the full receipt; the resurrection hath rent the bond in twain. Christ at the right hand of God signifies that all power is given unto him in heaven and in earth. Because he has remitted all our debt of sin, we are all the more indebted to him in another sense. Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God. The Eternal Son desired association with beings who should be sons as he was, towards whom he could stand in a close relationship as being like to them in nature and Sonship, and the Father therefore ordained that a seed whom he has chosen should be conformed to the image of the Son, that his Son might head up and be chief among an order of beings more nearly akin to God than any other. We have a work to do, as great as our forefathers, and, perhaps, far greater. Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $18.00 . Whatever may be the confidences of others, and whatever may be your own, put them all away, and keep to this one declaration, "It is Christ that died." Old Testament or Considerable Portions Thereof. First, a special privilege; second, a special proof of it, the Spirit bearing witness with our spirit; then thirdly, a special privilege, that of heirship; and fourthly, the practical part of the sermon and the conclusion shall be a special manner of life demanded of such persons. 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." It is as when two dear friends lovingly embrace with their arms around each other's neck, there is a double link binding them together. Yet it is not the natural innocence of his heart, but the perfect mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, which gives him this amazing confidence. We cannot be condemned for "Christ hath died. 12-15. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. for that ours will be. In the golden age of Rome, if a man were tempted to dishonesty, he would stand upright, look the tempter in the face, and say to him, "I am a Roman." God's great love for us is supremely demonstrated in Christ Jesus our Lord, who gave Himself for us on the cross. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. I. I think you will see that, like links in a chain, these different truths draw each other on the spirit of adoption proves the fact of adoption; by the act of adoption we are children; if children then heirs; if heirs, heirs of God; but since there is another heir, we must therefore be joint heirs with Christ Jesus. Are you, my dear hearer, persuaded that it is so with you? Take away that sigh why sigh when the everlasting song is almost on thy lip? I have broken away from its thralldom; the new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law of grace has set me free from the domination of the law of sin and death. None but he hath a right to condemn, for he is the sole judge of right and wrong, and if he hath died shall he put us to death, and if he hath risen for us, shall he thrust us downwards to the pit, and if he hath reigned for us and hath been accepted for us, shall he cast us away, and if he hath pleaded for us, shall he curse us at the last? Again, notice the universality of this at all times. no, the poor legalist is like a blind horse going round and round the mill, or like the prisoner going up the treadwheel, and finding himself no higher after all he has done; he has no solid confidence, no firm ground to rest upon. Can those lips say, "Depart, ye cursed," to the man for whom they once did intercede? The city has turned me out; let it rue the day that it ever drove me away." holy Immanuel, exalted as thou art, thy co-heirs here below begin by faith to partake of thy glory. They are lambs in the harmlessness of their dispositions, but they have the courage of lions when they defend the honours of their King. Do you curse your father, who so wisely watched over you? Curtius puts on his helmet, and his armour, mounts his horse and leaps into the cleft, which is said to have filled at once, because courage, valour, and patriotism, were the best things in Rome. "Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee," and "by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." It is an intense regret to me that I cannot present it to some of you. Therefore, beloved, all the glory must be unto God and not to us. Now I shall conclude with WHAT OUR STATE OF MIND IS. What they are to us they are to our co-heir. And I do not, I cannot imagine that he would be sitting down in heaven in the posture of ease, unless he had accomplished all unless "It is finished!" Oh! Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. There is no holiness in us of our own creating; no good thing in us of our own fashioning. Thus much upon the sacred end of predestination. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. What was the experience of Christ in this world? Are you fully persuaded of the love of God, the love of the Father who chose us, because he would choose us, for nothing but his love; the love of Jesus, the Son of God, who bowed himself from his glory that he might redeem us from our shame; the love of the Holy Ghost who has quickened us, and who comes to dwell in us that we may by-and-by dwell with him? Thirdly, we are to be conformed to the image of Christ in our experience. If I may be allowed the simile, I would say that this represents in part the work of the Spirit of God in us, suggesting to us the right desire, and bringing all things to our remembrance whatsoever Christ has told us. 2. It was because they longed to enter it. None but he shall ever unroll that sacred record and read it to the assembled world. 7, 8. "Ah!" Our third and last point is THE SURE SUCCESS OF ALL SUCH PRAYERS. You must be chastened, you must feel the goad; will you kick against the pricks and so wound yourself more than you would have been by the goad itself? From this he infers that if God has given us the Spirit whereby we call him "Father," then we are his children, which is plain, fair, and clear reasoning. This is something more than helping us to pray, something more than encouraging us or directing us, but I venture no further, except to say that he puts such force of his own mind into our poor weak thoughts and desires and hopes, that he himself maketh intercession for us, working in us to will and to pray according to his good pleasure. The force that is conforming us to Christ is the will of God in predestination. 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 this be not yours, neither are the rest, for they are in the same indenture, and they are beg seethed to you in the same will. May he help us to expound, as he has already given us the passage to explain. Do you think so? Do you hate God because he loves you? With some, who can tell? The tail feathers of pride should be pulled out of our prayers, for they need only the wing feathers of faith; the peacock feathers of poetical expression are out of place before the throne of God. He was dead, absolutely dead, rotten in his sin; the life is given when the call comes, and, in obedience to the call, the sinner comes forth from the grave of his lust, begins to live a new life, even the life eternal, which Christ gives to his sheep. 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. Like the marvellous structures of Palmyra of Baalbek, in the far off east, the earth in ruins reveals a magnificence which betokens a royal founder, and an extraordinary purpose. Wherefore, be of good courage, and press forward in the divine life, for your work of faith and labor of love are not in vain in the Lord; so let us "lay hold upon the hope set before us:". A groan is a matter about which there is no hypocrisy. 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." We know right well that there are many things that happen to us in our lives that would be the ruin of us if we were always to continue in the same condition. Consider again, I pray you, what a dignity God hath conferred upon you even upon you in making you his son. 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. It was the father bruising the firstborn son; and, if you and I, brethren, are to be conformed to the image of the firstborn, though we may expect from God much fatherly love, we may also reckon that it will show itself in parental discipline. 6. 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. Thou camest here to-day from thy toil, and thy bones have scarce forgotten yesterday's weariness; but thou art coheir with him who rules all heaven; thou art come here in poverty and thou wilt go home to a scant meal in a narrow room, but thou art co-heir with him who made the worlds, by whom: all thinks consist; you have come here weak and feeble, doubting, distrustful, and cast down, but I tell thee, weak though thou be, and in thine own judgment less than the least of all yet the same hand that wrote Christ heir of all things wrote thy name with his, and till a hand can be found that can blot out thy Redeemer's name thine shall stand and abide fair ever and ever. 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. 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. This call is sent to the predestinated, and to them only; they by grace hear the call, obey it, and receive it. As long as we have half-a-dozen, we have half-a-dozen doubtful ones: but when it comes to only one, and that such a sufficient one as the truth that "It is Christ that died," we have a well-founded hope, in which we may rest with confidence. Weigh the riches of Christ in scales and his treasures in balances and then think to count the treasures which belong to the saints. And as we are debtors to all times, so we are all debtors to all classes. After this consummation the believing heart is panting, groaning, and sighing. It goes into the region of things unknown; it goes beyond the knowable; for flesh and blood will never be able to comprehend what Jesus suffered when the great flood of human sin came rushing down upon him, and filled his spirit to the brim. ", I. Romans 8:28 . An adversary in the court might plead against him, and overthrow him, for he could not answer him. Remarks on Beecher's Life of Christ. Now, I do believe with him this morning, that the chief witness of God the Holy Spirit lies in this the Holy Spirit has written this book which contains an account of what a Christian should be, and of the feelings which believers in Christ must have. The apostle tells us that not only is there a groan from creation, but this is shared in by God's people. I can recollect evil things far better than those which savor of piety. You can make your wooden cross into an iron one, if you choose, by being of a fretful disposition. Knowing that my sin deserved death, he willingly died, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring me to God. There is no difficulty in understanding my text; it needs scarcely any explanation. You could not doubt the affliction, for you smarted under it, but you might almost as soon have doubted the divine help, for your confidence was firm and unmoved. Dost thou love to hold communion with him? Then he mentions angels, principalities, and powers. He is powerless to obey, but he is mighty enough to resist the call of divine grace. Still, this foe is fierce and terrible. he hath made us kings. II. No; the blood must he taken to the mercy-seat, God will not stoop when he is just; it must be brought to him. I beseech you, my dear friends, take this thought with you wherever you go: "I am a debtor, I must serve my God. Second, the people being described as having no katakrima are not all who believe in Christ for everlasting life, but a particular type of believer. Let us now notice these four stupendous doctrines. Is not the wretch smitten dead? I take it thus: Christ by his death paid to his Father the full price of what we owed to him. When I think of my sin, it seems impossible that any atonement should ever be adequate; but when I think of Christ's death it seems impossible that any sin should ever be great enough to need such an atonement as that. Not only be quiet, but be glad. If so, then the sweet things which we shall have to say this morning are thine. He died for his murderers, for those that mocked and insulted him; for he commanded his disciples to begin preaching the gospel at Jerusalem, where they crucified him, to preach it even to those who had hounded him to his doom. Is there anything here that can console me? It is he that died for us. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. First, there is the will declared in the proclamations of holiness by the Ten Commandments. Take another passage. We take our burden to our heavenly Father and tell it out in the accents of childlike confidence, and we come away quite content to bear whatever his holy will may lay upon us. "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." ), then it follows that God must be over all things and must control all things. Here is an argument which hath much more power, much more strength, much more force than even Christ's death. Oh! O come, thou condemned one, self-condemned, and turn thine eye this way, for one look will save. We believe that the tabernacle of God will be among men, that he will dwell among them, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. So must we be, for we shall be made like him. To be cheered under many things, which otherwise would depress him, the believer may betake himself to the matchless mysteries of the grace of God, which are wines on the lees well refined. He became a partaker of our infirmities and sicknesses that we might be partakers of the divine nature in all its excellence and purity. 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. II. 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. a. We are predestinated to be conformed to Christ in that respect; the serpent's subtlety and cruelty will assail us also. First, in 8:37 he says that "we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.". He may have thought, with a great many in the present day, that it was necessary to caution believers against falling from grace, and to be a little dubious about their final perseverance in the ways of God; but, if he ever had such fears, he gave them up, and said, "I am, yes, I am persuaded that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". "We know it. 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? I am afraid none of us feel enough how much we are debtors to God. The law has, therefore, more than it asked for, and I am thus not afraid of the anger of the great God. He would not be there if he were a debtor. By Vernon J. Charlesworth. He hath not published the page whereon the actual names of the redeemed are written; but that page of the sacred decree whereon their character is recorded is published in his Word, and shall be proclaimed to thee this day. We would stand upon our watch-tower and cry aloud to the Strong for strength, that the adversary may be repelled, that the sacred castle of our heart may be for the habitation of Jesus, and Jesus alone. Hast thou never said that, my heart? It is not poured out on the ground; it is on the mercy-seat, it is on the throne; it speaks in the very ears of God, and it must of a surety prevail. The next argument for making us sure that they will speed is this that they are "the mind of the Spirit." I am not so much afraid of dying as I am of sinning; that is ten times worse than death. Here is another test. Now, who is he that condemns the people that have such a head as this? First, we are to be conformed to him as to our nature. "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.". In preaching of this call this morning, I shall divide my sermon into three brief parts. So the high priest takes off his royal robes, and puts on the garments of the minor priest, and goes within the veil, and sprinkles the blood upon the mercy-seat. Too much joy would intoxicate us, too much misery would drive us to despair: but the joy and the misery, the battle and the victory, the storm and the calm, all these compounded make that sacred elixir whereby God maketh all his people perfect through suffering, and leadeth them to ultimate happiness. If he hath poverty, it is better for him, for poverty is his to help him, to be sanctified, and to long for heaven. "But thou hast stained thyself with lust." But if thou art no lover of God, but a stranger to him, I beseech thee do not pilfer to-day and steal a comfort that was not intended for thee. A Christian's experience is like a rainbow, made up of drops of the griefs of earth, and beams of the bliss of heaven. But, before we enter upon a discussion of the doctrine of the text, observe how strongly the Apostle expresses it. "If thou be the Son of God." This does not exclude even infants at the mothers' breast. Be just before you are generous, and especially before you are generous to yourselves. My brethren, we are debtors to the poor. Yet I have been upheld till now, who could hold me up but my God!" Listen to me for a moment. Man, unless thou art a stranger here, and heaven is thy home, thou hast not been called with a heavenly calling, for those who have been so called, declare that they look for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, and they themselves are strangers and pilgrims upon the earth. He uses the word "likewise" to intimate that in the same manner as hope sustains the soul, so does the Holy Spirit strengthen us under trial. It becomes our business then to take the Spirit's witness through his Word, and through his works, but I would seek to have immediate, actual, undivided fellowship with the Holy Ghost, who by his divine Spirit, should work in my spirit and convince me that I am a child of God. "The carnal mind," he says, "is ENMITY against God." It is a wonderful thing. True Advocate is he, and Comforter most effectual. 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. Whatever happens to him sickness or health, adversity or prosperity, everything is his here below. 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. 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. The excellency of the power is in the doctrine, and not in my preaching. Little did they know that they had already what they asked for for all the church is now at the right hand of the Father; all the church is now raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So they are, but he that is with you is mightier far. We are to groan after perfection, but we are to wait patiently for it, knowing that what the Lord appoints is best. And the heart, when we perceive not its ebullitions, when it belches not forth its lava, and sendeth not forth the hot stones of its corruption, is still the same dread volcano. What shall we say to that? 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. 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. Turn thy tearful eye to yonder Mount of Calvary! 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. Is there nothing to commend this? For this very reason, that we are saved, we groan for something beyond. But, do you know, I have never felt that with regard to Christ. C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) I do not think it always for my good to increase in treasure, but I know it is good to grow in grace. IN VIEWING THE ESTATES we must remark that to our present apprehension they are divided into two parts, the first part of the inheritance is one which flesh and blood would fain do without it is the inheritance of suffering. My spiritual distress robs me of the power to pour out my heart before my God. That is, your spirit beareth witness that you are the child of God. They record on the other hand of blood-thirsty Nero, that he became so because he was suckled by a woman of a ferocious, barbaric nature. When Napoleon was on the island of St. Helena, he was watched by many guards, but after many complaints, he enjoyed comparative liberty, and walked alone. As a Son he served his Father, you could see the nature of God in him, in his deep sympathy with God and in his exact imitation of God. He hath taken thee from the dunghill, and he hath set thee among princes. Do you say, "I would not be a Christian, if I must always be on my guard, and always fighting against temptation from without and from within?" 19. Another text. "Well!" 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? Glory be unto thee, O God, glory be unto thee; my soul is in heaven, I with the cherubim and seraphim would bow, and sing, and rejoice with them I veil my face in this most joyful moment wiping every tear from my poor eyes, I bid them look upon thy glory in Christ. Some esteem it nothing. So is it with our text. God dwelleth in us, and we are one with Christ. He attacks us on the right hand and on the left, from beneath and from above. Even so we also were born of the Spirit without human observation; men of this world saw no glory whatsoever in our regeneration, for it was not performed by mystic rites, or with sacerdotal pomp. "For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of the light." You said to yourselves, "We have no doubt we ought to be there; that is our debt; nevertheless we should like to gratify our curiosity for once, by hearing this singular preacher, who will be sure to say something extravagant that will furnish the occasion for a joke for the next fortnight." (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). and by that was meant, that what'er his people owed was wiped away for ever from the book of remembrance. One of two joint heirs has no right apart from the other. Our spirit bears witness that we are the children of God, when it feels a filial love to God. Last of all, I have another practical point. And now my hearers, let me just utter this personal appeal to you. It is often so on earth: we take rank at times according to the greatness of our talents. May God in mercy put his hand to the helm of the ship, and steer her safely. 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. Who is Christ, and who is it with whom he intercedes. 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." Oh Christian, this should ever be your spirit, only in a higher degree. It reminds me of what I have sometimes heard of the ropes that are used in mining. You have felt as sure about the promise as you felt about the trial. As sure as thou art God's called child today, thy poverty shall soon be at an end, and thou shalt be rich to all the intents of bliss. May my blessed Master help you to come to him, and draw you to his Son, for Jesu's sake. 5. Grant me that the child is carnal, and my text says, "the carnal mind is enmity against God." Our sighs are sacred things; these griefs and sighs are too hallowed for us to tell abroad in the streets. We are reduced to such straits that we must pray, but what shall be the particular subject of prayer we cannot for a while make out. My hands have never been stained with the blood of any man." O eternity, eternity eternity! You were very low down, brother; we had to stoop to call to you; the waters of God's waves and billows seemed to have gone over you; you have been down to the depths, and I have been there with you. What says Christ? And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. All these terrible things in righteousness, the awful proofs of holy vengeance in the judge of all the earth, and successfully neutralized in their arousing effect, by being quietly written among the loving acts and words of the Universal Father. That bereavement is working for thy good. 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