AMEN. Only the sinner, the awakened sinner, can be at all assured that he has been called; and even he, as he gets older in grace, must look for those higher marks of the high heavenly and holy calling in Christ Jesus. Ah, my hearers, what would you give if you could obtain this confidence? He uses a noun, and not an adjective. "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." It is enough; he has the cause, nor would we take it from his hand even if we could, Well did the apostle say, "To the very uttermost he is able to save them that come unto God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.". Ye may train him up, ye may make his intellect almost angelic, ye may strengthen his soul until he shall take what are riddles to us, and unravel them with his fingers in a moment; ye may make him so mighty, that he can grasp the iron secrets of the eternal hills and grind them to atoms in his fist; ye may give him an eye so keen, that he can penetrate the arcana of rocks and mountains; ye may add a soul so potent, that he may slay the giant Sphinx, that had for ages troubled the mightiest men of learning; yet, when ye have done all, his mind shall be a depraved one, and his carnal heart shall still be in opposition to God. How can I pray? Is thy calling of God? I have said that I would endeavor, in the third place, to show the great enormity of this guilt. never let it be so. "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered." Have you forgotten that he had shame and spitting, the reproach, the rebuke of men, and that he conceived all those to be greater riches than all the treasures of this world? Secondly, I see here, a remedy for all sin. 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. All that the Church wants to-day is courage and devotion. YOU WILL DIEYOU WILL LIVE. $140.00 $258.00. 2. Then the apostle says, "nor things to come." 1. The world's barque, it is true, is always tossed with waves, but these waves toss her first to the right and then to the left; they do not steadily bear her onward to her desired haven. "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" You had a share in his death. When the soldiers of Godfrey of Bouillon came in sight of Jerusalem, it is said they shouted for joy at the sight of the holy city. If the wings of the Eternal are thy shelter, what plague can attack thee? If, at your leisure, you read through the fifth chapter of this epistle to the Romans, you will there very readily discover that the apostle proves, that if Christ's death be an argument for our salvation, his life is a still greater one. It is a wonderful thing. Enlarge thine expectations seek great things from the God of heaven and he will give them to thee; but by no means fold thine arms in sloth, and sit down upon the bed of carnal security. We are debtors to the past. The soul is like an eagle, to which the body acts as a chain, which prevents its mounting. 10. There is a chain on this side of the river fixed into a staple, and the same chain is fixed into a staple at the other side, but the greater part of the chain is for the most part under water, and you cannot see it: you only see it as the boat moves on, and as the chain is drawn out of the water by the force that propels the boat. We know not what God is, nor the measure of his attributes. In heaven's logic it is true, "if children, then heirs.". Brethren, as soon as a man believes in Christ, he is no longer under the curse of the law. There is no difficulty in our believing that as one human mind operates upon another mind, so does the Holy Spirit influence our spirits. It sends a shiver through some when we begin to speak of death, and the bravest man who ever lived may well tremble at the thought that he must soon meet the king of terrors; but, brothers and sisters, if Christ loves us, and we love Christ, we may well be persuaded that death will not break the union which exists between us. The highest good a Christian has here is good spiritual. When Christ gave himself for us, he gave us all the rights and privileges which went with himself, so that now he has, as our Brother, no heritage apart from us, although, as Eternal God, he hath essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.. Consider again, I pray you, what a dignity God hath conferred upon you even upon you in making you his son. He gave to us his person, it has become our meat and our drink; we eat his flesh and drink his blood. And now I come to my last point, upon which briefly but I hope interestingly. It is the free man that has been brought out of Egypt, who proves that he has been called of God and is precious to the heart of the Most High. 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. His death was the digging of the well of salvation. He has written concerning the spirit of bondage, and the spirit of adoption, the infirmities of the flesh, and the helpings of the spirit; the waiting for the redemption of the body, and the groanings which cannot be uttered. I remember a saying of old Matthew Wilkes: "Saved by your works! "What!" "Oh, I want to get home to my dear wife and children. It is true that death was the payment of the debt, but resurrection was the public acknowledgment that the debt was paid. He supplys our wants; he keeps the breath within our nostrils; he bids the blood still pursue its course through the veins; he holdeth us in life, and preventeth us from death; he standeth before us, our creator, our king, our sustainer, our benefactor, and I ask, is it not a sin of enormous magnitude is it not high treason against the emperor of heaven is it not an awful sin, the depth of which we cannot fathom with the line of all our judgment that we, his creatures, dependent upon him, should be at enmity with God? Or, read you that old legend of Curtius, the Roman knight. If it is a call that will suit the remarks which I am about to give you in the second part of the discourse, even though you may have thought that God's hand is not in it, rest assured that it is, for nature could never produce effectual calling. Now, first, brethren, as co-heirs with Christ, we are heirs of God so the text tells us. Much need is there for the stone that it should be well secured, for within the sepulchre there is a putrid corpse. The more I have read it, the more certainly have I come to the conclusion that this is one of the things in Paul's epistles to which Peter referred when he said, "Wherein are some things hard to be understood." I do not believe that the Bible is to be understood except by receiving these doctrines as true. But we may be permitted to live on to extreme old age; do you dread it? To him fine language is as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, but a groan has music in it. How will we, when we once get to heaven, love and adore him as our dear elder brother with whom we shall be on terms of the closest familiarity and most reverent obedience. I heard of one who sat up at the end of last year to groan last year out; it was ill done, but in truth it was a year of groaning, and the present one opens amid turbulence and distress. On Lord's-day Evening, November 7th, 1886. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. We are like Adam now in weakness and pain, and we shall soon be like him in death, returning to the ground whence we were taken; but we shall rise again to a better life, and then shall we wear in glory and incorruption the image of the second Adam, the Lord from heaven. Not only does faith believe it, but our own history convinces us of the truth of it." But then because we are not debtors to God in that sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been otherwise. Now we must take the next words. Note the expression, "Many brethren" not that he might be the firstborn among many, but among "many brethren," who should be like himself. Yea, I am certain that we do not. Now, farewell to such of you as are debtors in that sense; but just one word to those who are debtors in the other sense; Sinner, thou who owest to God's justice, thou who hast never been pardoned; what wilt thou do when pay-day comes/ My friend over there, you who have run up a score of black sins, what will you do when pay-day comes, and no Christ to pay your debts for you? The actual mode of his working upon the mind we may not attempt to explain; it remains a mystery, and it would be an unholy intrusion to attempt to remove the veil. It was not long ago there came unto this hall, a man who was without God and without Christ, and the simple reading of the hymn. You can hear it in the streets of the city. He was Lord of angels, seraphim and cherubim obeyed his behests; but the Son desired to be at the head of a race of beings more nearly allied to him than any existing spirits. I believe that the Spirit of God sometimes comes into a mysterious and marvellous contact with the spirit of man, and that at times the Spirit speaketh in the heart of man by a voice not audible to the ear, but perfectly audible to the spirit which is the subject of it. Psalms 73:26 . But what I do not like is when they look down from those awful heights upon us poor Christians and say that they cannot believe in us because we are anxious, because we practice self-examination, because we have to struggle against sin. The sacred record of God's hand is this day published everywhere under heaven, and he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto him. We shall first look over these four pillars of the believer's faith, and then, afterwards, we shall ourselves take up the apostle's challenge, and cry, "Who is he that condemneth?". Here is the full receipt; the resurrection hath rent the bond in twain. Soul, this suggests to thee a solemn enquiry, "Art thou in Christ or not?" He hears a sonnet. We love everything earthly better than we ought; we soon fix our heart upon a creature, but very seldom on the Creator; and when the heart is given to Jesus, it is prone to wander. 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. Browse all categories; New Books; Used Books That prayer which came from heaven will certainly go back to heaven. A lack of depth in the inner life accounts for most of the doctrinal error in the church. Sometimes a bow of steel is not broken by our hands, for we cannot even bend it; and then the Holy Ghost puts his mighty hand over ours, and covers our weakness so that we draw; and lo, what splendid drawing of the bow it is them! He was happy enough in the bosom of his father's household, but idolatry crept into it, and when God called Abraham, he called him alone and blessed him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and said to him, "Go forth, Abraham!" "He had not persecuted Christ," you say, "it was only some poor men and women that he had haled to prison, or scourged in the synagogue, to compel them to blaspheme." He proclaimed the doctrine of the "one blood," and gloried in the fact of "one family" in Christ. And shall a Christian man break his promise? 19. The lad draws the bow: ay, but it is quite as much his father, too. What will you do if you are out of God and out of Christ at the last pay-day, when the whole roll of your debts to God shall be opened, and you have no Christ to give you a discharge? God is King over all, and able to govern the world according to his own mind, which mind is always infinitely just. The Roman had his iron foot on the Jew; yet Paul addresses those, who subjugated his race, as "brethren." "Thou hast wrought all our works in us." Though without sin, he was not without suffering. The believer continues to hope for the time when death and sin shall no more annoy his body; when, as his soul has been purified, so shall his body be, and his prayer shall be heard, that the Lord would sanctify him wholly, body, soul, and spirit. 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." Said he, "All things work together for good; but perhaps, any one of those 'all things' might destroy us if taken alone. How can we do that, say you? Let us notice in the first place, how it is that our spirit is able to bear witness; and as this is a matter of experience, I can only appeal to those who are the true children of God; for no others are competent to give testimony. "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be praise." I am not going to expatiate upon this wondrous theme. He surely doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of man for nought; and when in these dark gloomy times we have looked up to a Father's face, and have said, "Though thou slay me, yet will I trust in thee; thy blows shall not drive thee from me; they shall but make me say, "Show me wherefore thou contendest with me, and purge me from my sin."" but you have aforetime refused Christ. He shall be joyful when he declares the Lord's name unto his brethren. Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. In verses 1-11, Paul contrasted those "who live according to the flesh" with . It shall work for thy good. God requires us to remember the poor, and their poverty is a claim upon our generosity. It resets the dislocated bones of society, rivets the bonds of friendship, and welds the broken metal of manhood into one united mass. Perhaps he does not even get so far as that in expressing the mind of the Spirit, but he feels greenings which he cannot utter, he cannot find a door of utterance for his inward grief. Is he full of joy and rejoicing? Oh! We want the mind of the spirit in prayer, and not he mind of the flesh. Silently the forest groweth, anon it is felled; but all the while between its growing and felling it is at work. For which of these works do ye hate God? The help which the Holy Ghost renders to us meets the weakness which we deplore. He rose again, I must rise, and though I die yet shall I live again. Should thine house of business threaten to tumble about thine ears so long as thou hast acted honourably, still bear thy cross. Down thou shalt come, sinner, if God cries down; there is no standing when he would have thee fall. Do you not remember that the two sons of Zebedee asked to sit, one on the right hand and the other on the left? Now that which God reads in the heart and approves of for the word to "know" in this case includes approval as well as the mere act of omniscience what God sees and approves of in the heart must succeed. Pentateuch and Other Historical Books of the Old Testament. God can do all things, but I see not any way by which he could give to his only-begotten Son beings that should be akin to himself, except through the processes which we discover in the economy of grace. And as Paul thought of the nature of this new life, he felt persuaded that it would not die; he was convinced that he would never be separated from the love of God. Cry, "Lord, melt me, pour me out like wax, and set thy seal upon me until the image of Christ be clearly there." Some think that the fall was only felt by the affections, and that the intellect was unimpaired; this they argue from the wisdom of man, and the mighty discoveries he has made, such as the law of gravitation, the steam-engine, and the sciences. Even as Solomon built the temple because he superintended and ordained all, and yet I know not that he ever fashioned a timber or prepared a stone, so doth the Holy Spirit pray and plead within us by leading us to pray and plead. Suppose that a poor man had a great law-suit, touching his whole estate, and he was forced personally to go into court and plead his own cause, and speak up for his rights. 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. He shall feast all the more joyously because they shall eat bread with him in his kingdom. When the work of grace begins in the heart, the man is not always clear that it is God's work; he is impressed under the minister, and perhaps he is rather more occupied with the impression than with the agent of the impression; he says, "I know not how it is, but I have been called; Eli, the minister, has called me." Did you notice how the text begins? A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Romans taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. 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. As to his spirit, sin hath no more dominion over him, and the law hath no further claims against him. 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. Suppose one who was perfect in the law should take up his cause warmly, and come and live with him, and use all his knowledge so as to prepare his case for him, draw up his petitions for him, and fill his mouth with arguments, would not that be a grand relief? He died for me. And now a little capful of wind blows on you and the tears run down your cheeks, and you say, "Lord, let me die; I am no better than my fathers." Oh! 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. If we drink in our nutriment from the world, we shall be worldly; but, if we live upon Christ and dwell in him, our conformity with him shall be readily accomplished, and we shall be recognized as brethren of that blessed family of which Jesus Christ is the firstborn. 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." you shall not be uncrowned. may seem too mean to pray about. Sproul's Expositional Commentary Set - 8 Volumes. It is true we can work no miracles, yet can we do works which mark God's children. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, all the mighty ones that have gone before, tell out the tale of their history, write their autobiography, and they say, "We!" Abel, the protomartyr, entering alone into heaven, shall not have a more secure title to the inheritance than he who, last of woman born, shall trust in Christ, and then ascend into his glory. MY DEAR READERS, Your weekly preacher is still weakly; but though his progress towards strength is slow, it has been steadily maintained during the late trying weather. See you that stone rolled at the mouth of the sepulchre? 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. True believers love God as their Father; they have "the spirit of adoption, whereby they cry Abba, Father." "Loose him and let him go," saith the Redeemer; and then he walks in all the liberty of life. God bless you, for Christ's sake! Turning, however, more strictly to the words of the text, "Who is even at the right hand of God" what meaneth this? I imagine that he said, "I promised to go back, and though it is to pangs indescribable, I will return." When we have broken his commandments, as we all of us have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him a vast amount of punishment, which we are not able to pay. He was ill-treated, abused, and slandered, and went away to retirement. is this the cause of thine enmity? "As many are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." Tell the world, once for all, that it may condemn you, if it pleases, for it condemned the Lord Jesus long ago, and say that, therefore, you think but little of the condemnation of your fellow-men. The signature of the one will not avail to alienate the estate, nor can he sell it by his own right, nor have it all at his own separate disposal, or in his own sole possession or holding. If it were some little thing, my narrow capacity could comprehend and describe it, but I need all covenant blessings. Romans 8:3-4. My brethren, we are debtors to the poor. If you have proved by your works that the grace of God is within you, God will not forget you; he will not leave you, he will not cast you away. Stay, then, ye who are puffed up by your achievements, consider ye have but poorly performed, not a deed of supererogation, but of ordinary duty. Adam in this world was in liberty, perfect liberty; nothing confined him; paradise was exactly fitted to be his seat. 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