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What is that? As Paul's exposition in 5:12-21 has shown, "through one . Christ's property extends to all, and we are co-heirs. That is "good," the vat bursting with wine, the barn full of corn! But, again, there is another point in which the saint is deficient as yet, namely, in the manifestation of our adoption. This entry was posted in New Park Street - Vol 5 and tagged believer's challenge, gospel, Jesus died rose again, spurgeon podcast, spurgeon romans 8, Spurgeon sermon 256 on February 11, 2020 by zachkispert. The world is a great machine, but it is never standing still: silently all through the watches of the night, and through the hours of day, the earth revolveth on its axis, and works out its predestinated course. Romans 8:1 is widely misunderstood for two reasons: first, katakrima, the word typically translated as condemnation, does not mean that. Suppose it to be a time of war centuries back. You will remember while the sinner is dead in sin, he is alive enough so far as any opposition to God may be concerned. "We know that all things work." At times this very spirit of resignation appears to increase our spiritual difficulty, for we do not wish to ask for anything that would be contrary to the mind of God and yet we must ask for something. II. Oh, that you would come and learn it! How, then, can election be unjust, if its effect is not unjust? My brethren, we are debtors to the poor. If there be work to do for him in future ages we will be the first to volunteer for service; if there be battles to be fought in times to come with other rebellious races, if there be wanted servants to fly over the vast realms of the infinite to carry Jehovah's messages, who shall fly so swiftly as we shall, when once we feel that in his courts we shall dwell not as mere servants, but as members of the royal family, partakers of the divine nature, nearest to God himself. ", When you have overcome Satan, the world will come forth to attack you, and to dispute your claim to be numbered amongst the people of God. "For I am persuaded." 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? "There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life," that there is so much longer time for temptation and trial. We have love, which sweetens all the rest. In this discourse I am only going to handle the topic of Paul's persuasion. It is not left to my pleasure whether I will do it or no; but I am a debtor, and I must serve him. O my beloved, do not ask the question. I have such a happy house, I do not like to be out of it." You will have to carry it. Did you hear that groan just now? 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!" 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." "No, I did not," you say; "I was a debtor." PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 8:26-39 . If we be not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. No Jew was ever content with the first-fruits. The charioteers of the Roman circus might with much cleverness and art, with glowing wheels, avoid each other; but God, with skill infinitely consummate, guides the fiery coursers of man's passion, yokes the storm, bits the tempest, and keeping each clear of the other from seeming evil still enduceth good, and better still; and better still in infinite progression. Dear brethren, let us not wonder if we have to work too. 2. We call them innocent, and so they are of actual transgression, but as the poet says, "Within the youngest breast there lies a stone." In us the living and incorruptible seed abode and grew. Yes, he quickens sinners into spiritual life, and he strives with them to overcome their sinfulness and turn them into the right way; but in the saints he works with us and enables us to pray after his mind and according to the will of God. The heart, though it be deceitful, is positively deceit; it is evil in the concrete, sin in the essence; it is the distillation, the quintessence of all things that are vile; it is not envious against God, it is envy; it is not at enmity, it is actual enmity. Yet one more remark before we leave this point. It means, first of all, that Christ is now in the honourable position of an accepted one. 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." He who hung on high Calvary was such a lover of the souls of men that from that glorious fact I am brought to this blessed persuasion, "I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Oh unhappy souls, that cannot call one of these your own! This is not fearful fatalism and determinism. Paul says, "Who can lay anything to my charge?" While we have an Almighty Saviour, the redeemed must be saved; until omnipotence can fail, and the Almighty can be overcome, every blood-bought redeemed child of God is safe and secure for ever. I feel that to the knee that dandled me and the breast that gave me sustenance, I owe more than I can ever pay; and to him who taught me, and led me in the paths of truth I owe so much, that I dare not speak of the tremendous weight of obligation due to him. 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. Is it wisdom, O my fellow-creatures, is it wisdom to hate your Creator? Now that is the way to act; to feel and acknowledge that you are a debtor; when there is a thing to be done, to do it, and to say, "Do not thank me for it, I have only done what I ought to have done; I have only paid the debt that I owed.". Above all, commune much with Christ. Live with Christ and you will soon grow like Christ. And now I must return to the word "work" to notice the tense of it. how long wilt thou not avenge thine own elect?" What Paul are you at? Oh, speak! But this should not be so. I shall not refer to any class of society, and say of them, we are debtors, except to one, and that is the poor. 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. Come, I know as you look down the inventory, you are apt to look a little askance on that cross, and you think, "Well, the crown is glorious, but I love not the spittle, I care not to be despised and rejected of men." And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Yet one more illustration: it is that of a father aiding his boy. Nor need we say a word to explain that it is "enmity against God." 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. Oh Christian, this should ever be your spirit, only in a higher degree. he assures and consoles directly, by coming into immediate contact with the heart. He could not join the song, for he would not know the tune. He felt within him affinities with all the blood-bought race, and loved them all. Now, I am not sure that the doctor is perfectly right. If you have faith enough brethren, you may this mourning be raised up to sit together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Another will say, "Ah, it is an insidious disease that will soon carry me to my grave!" He dwells within us as a counsellor, and points out to us what it is we should seek at the hands of God. He did not bring the mercy-seat outside the veil, to carry the mercy-seat to the blood. Now here is the first touchstone by which we may try our calling many are called but few are chosen, because there are many kinds of call, but the true call, and that only, answers to the description of the text. 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. Now Jesus by his death paid all the debt; to the utmost farthing that was due from us to God Christ did pay by his death. If it sinks, I am lost; but it will not sink, for the Plot of the Galilean Lake is on board. In Philippians 3:13-14 you find these words. 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. It does not say that they shall work, or that they have worked; both of these are implied, but it says that they do work now. But while I have thus mentioned some of the different classes to whom we are debtors, I have not yet come to the point on which I desire to press your attention. In this very place, where sin has triumphed, we expect that grace will much more abound. I do fear, my brethren, that very often when we consider our state, we think not so much of the guilt as of the misery. A mother can translate baby-talk: she comprehends incomprehensible noises. "All things work." 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. 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. We will answer these and other questions along the way: Should sin in my life cause me to question whether or not I am in Christ? His death was the digging of the well of salvation. This calling forbids all trust in our own doings and conducts us to Christ alone for salvation, but it afterwards purges us from dead works to serve the living and true God. The mind of God is one and harmonious; if, therefore, the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and he move you to any desire, then his mind is in your prayer, and it is not possible that the eternal Father should reject your petitions. Lo! They all work to bring him to Paradise all work to bring him to the Saviour's feet. 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. The snow is numbing his limbs, and his soul is breathed out with many a groan. ", A further argument I might find in the fact, that the best of men have been always the readiest to confess their depravity. ", This is a subject upon which I delight to speak; for here is all my hope and confidence. The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. I do not wish for anything more than I have here, I am perfectly satisfied, so far as this goes, but I long to look upon my household, and to be once more in my own sweet home, and until I reach it, I shall not cease to groan." Nothing is idle. 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. On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. You went to some place, and asked the price, and thought it too high; then you went away to half-a-dozen other stablekeepers, and could not do any better, so you came back to the first; but he, displeased with you, very possibly said, "I do not want your custom. You observe the text speaks of waiting for the adoption; and another text further back, explains what that means, waiting for the manifestation of the children of God. Therefore do we say to that law, "Law, thou hast nothing to do with me; I am 'not under law, but under grace.' God is angry with them, and they know it. And yet this is just through our ignorance and through the blindness of our eyes; for verily to the enlightened believer there is more consolation in Jesus arising from the tomb, than there is in Jesus nailed to the cross. MY venerable friend, who, on the first Sabbath of the year, always sends me a text to preach from, has on this occasion selected one which it is very far from easy to handle. May we have this faith on our dying bed, when the pulse is faint and feeble, and heart and flesh begin to fail! Happy man, happy woman, who can truly say, "I am persuaded that God loves me. I might appeal to scores and hundreds here, and I might say, brethren, you with grey heads, rise up and speak. Is there anything here that can console me? Side by side with you there sits an ungodly person; you two have been brought up together, you have lived in the same house, you have enjoyed the same means of grace, you are converted, he is not; will you please to tell me what has made the difference? Are ye brothers and sisters of the saints, and think ye that ye ought not to love and serve them, even to the washing of their feet? Say not, "In my baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, and a child of God." But the crime may seem to be worse when we think of what God is. So must we be, for we shall be made like him. Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon is remembered today as the Prince of Preachers. I know thou dost not seriously ask the question, for thou knowest the answer of it. Hallelujah to the grace that makes all things work together for good! But I think must go a little further than this. The beggar shivering in his rags, may owe thee something, if thou givest him alms; but thou owest him something more. If Christ owed anything to the justice of God by reason of his suretyship engagements, he would not be at God's right hand: but he owes nothing whatever. 12-15. He can arouse us from our lethargy, he can warm us out of our lukewarmness, he can enable us when we are on our knees to rise above the ordinary routine of prayer into that victorious importunity against which nothing can stand. He has, in fact, no right at all, except as he is taken in connection with his co-heir. Catalogue of Commentaries & Expositions. She will retain evil, she will lose good. Let me suppose an impossible case for a moment. Simply because the call of God comes to unworthy sinners. "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. Have I been born again from above? Jesus now heads a race assailed but victorious; sorely tempted but enabled to overcome. Reprinted from "Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon's Work-room" in "The Sword and the Trowel," December, 1896. But lo, a light shines round about him and he falls to the ground, and he hears a voice crying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." When first we dared to come forward and say "we are on the Lord's side," some of us had sacred tokens of sonship which have never been forgotten by us, and oftentimes since then we have received renewed seals of our adoption from the Great Father of our spirits. God the ever blessed is one, and there can be no division between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. It is not merely that our judgment leads us in that direction, though usually the Spirit of God acts upon us by enlightening our judgment, but we often feel an unaccountable and irresistible desire rising again and again within our heart, and this so presses upon us, that we not only utter the desire before God at our ordinary times for prayer, but we feel it crying in our hearts all the day long, almost to the supplanting of all other considerations. I trust you will lay hold upon that thought; if Christ as God's heir has a perfect right to what his Father has bestowed upon him, even so have we, for our rights are nonexistent. And although there is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized, yet the apostle doth confess, that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin." However, dear friends, we have often found that the nuts which are hardest to crack have the sweetest kernels, and when the bone seems as if it could never be broken, the richest marrow has been found within. Our first birth gave us humanity; our second birth allies us with Deity. I want to sit down, and suck all the sweetness out of this blessed truth: "It is Christ that died." Oh! We hear of tornadoes, of earthquakes, of tempests, of volcanoes, of avalanches, and of the sea which devoureth its thousands: there is sorrow on the sea, and there is misery on the land; and into the highest palaces as well as the poorest cottages, death, the insatiable, is shooting his arrows, while his quiver is still full to bursting with future woes. Prosperous professors, who do no business amid David's billows and waterspouts, may set small store by the blessed anchorage of eternal purpose and everlasting love but those who are "tossed with tempest, and not comforted, are of another mind." He it is that leads our soul to cry, "though my house be not so with God, yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure." Notice, our difficulty is that we know not what we should pray for; but the Holy Spirit does know, and therefore he helps us by enabling us to pray intelligently, knowing what we are asking for, so far as this knowledge is needful to valid prayer. "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. Expect not, then, that all things shall work together as for thy good. But, do you know, I have never felt that with regard to Christ. It needs no proof, for since it is written in God's word, we, as Christian men, are bound to bow before it. 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. Do I love what he loves; do I hate what he hates? There are few people who sincerely believe this. But there are times when the heir of heaven is as sure that he is God's child as he is sure that he is his own father's son. Romans 8:2. Therefore, he aspired to be a complete and perfect conqueror. The fool does not say in his heart there is no God, for he knows there is a God; but he says, "No God I don't want any; I wish there were none." "All things work," at this very instant and second of time. When he sits down, he has done his worst; and his witnesses also condemn you; but if the verdict is in your favour, and the judge says that you leave the court with a stainless character, you do not care about the condemnation of others. Forget the steps thou hast already trodden, and reach forward towards that which is before, looking unto Jesus. Any one of them were all-sufficient. They bare their backs, the rod scourgeth them. The having those corruptions is our crime which should be confessed as an enormous evil; and if I, as a minister of the gospel, do not press home the sin of the thing, I have missed what is the very virus of it. a. It is astonishing where men will go to seek salvation. There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. Our second subject is THE PRAYER WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRES, or that part of prayer which is especially and peculiarly the work of the Spirit of God. "Thou madest him to have dominion over all the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea." I fear, if all the truth were written, we should rise up from reading the lives of earth's mightiest heroes and proudest sages, and would say at once of all of them, "They are clean gone out of the way; they are altogether become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and then it is that we groan, or utter some other inarticulate sound. It is written, "When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." Well, the good angels cannot separate us from the love of God; we are sure that they would not wish to do so, and whatever spiritual creatures may frequent the earth, they cannot separate us from the love of Christ. Shall a foot or an arm be lopped off from him? "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified," everyone of them. I remember a saying of old Matthew Wilkes: "Saved by your works! It is our will now, but it was God's will when it was not our will, and it only became according to our will when we were converted, because God's grace had made us willing in the day of its power. The law has, therefore, more than it asked for, and I am thus not afraid of the anger of the great God. Now I must confess there is something very pretty about this theory, something so fascinating that I do not wonder that some of the ablest minds have been wooed and won by it. So that what seemed to be against him, even in temporal matters, was for him. Renewed men are made fit companions for the Son of God. Brotherhood has its ties of debt, and to my brother I owe what I shall not yet pay him. Nay, ye say, we have some little gratitude towards earthly relatives. The raising and elevation of Christ to that throne of dignity and favour, is the elevation, the acceptance, the enshrinement, the glorifying of all his people, for he is their common head, and stands as their representative. Regard the Holy Spirit as your prompter, and let your ear be opened to his voice. Has not thine heart ever desired, since there is a God, that he were a little less holy, a little less pure, so that those things which are now great crimes might be regarded as venial offences, as peccadillos? But, beloved, we are persuaded better thing of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 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. 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