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First, he flings down the gauntlet, and challenges a battle, crying, "Who is he that condemneth?" Come, take your cross up and bear it with joy. To hate the all-lovely to despise the essentially good to abhor the constantly merciful to spurn the ever beneficent to scorn the kind, the gracious one; above all, to hate the God who sent his son to die for man! Here cometh one and he cries, "Thou hast been a blasphemer." Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. He has borne the penalty which I ought to have borne, and I am clear. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of low, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. When thou art commanded to believe and repent, when thou art exhorted to flee from the wrath to come, the sin lies on thy own head if thou dost despise the exhortation, and reject the commandment. Would that he would be merciful and pass them by without an atonement! Brethren, we are debtors to our covenant God; that is the point which swallows up all. 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." Stern was the labour, toilsome was the work; he dug on, and on, and on, through rocks of suffering, into the deepest caverns of misery; but the resurrection was the springing up of the water. I also am of that persuasion. Again; how many a man is there who says, "I want such-and-such a luxury; I know the cause of God demands of me more than I give it, but I must have that luxury, that shilling shall go to myself, and not to God." Let but the Church know her rights and claim them, let her cease to assimilate herself to the sons of earth, let her cease from her accursed fornication with the state, and she shall become the pure, chaste bride of Christ. It will cost you many a pang to keep that confidence; but oh! Impossible. These are they who can now say, "Draw us, and we will run after thee.". Well said our poet just now, "It doth not yet appear, how great we must be made.". I would recommend that to many Christians. God worketh, and he worketh in you not to sleep, but to will and to do according to his own good pleasure. Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon is remembered today as the Prince of Preachers. The first is the general call, which is in the gospel sincerely given to everyone that heareth the word. Simply because it is depraved; and until he had entered a foul element until the body had begun to quiver with a kind of intoxication the fancy would not hold its carnival. It should be, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." Such prayers will rise within us when the mind is far too troubled to let us speak. We are all of us under obligations; let us consider the fact in the following manner: First, how are we to understand this? "So then," he said, "we are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God." Sin and death no longer have authority over you. There is an amazing glory in reserve for us, and though as yet we cannot enter upon it, but in harmony with the whole creation must continue to groan and travail, yet the hope itself should minister strength to us, and enable us patiently to bear "these light afflictions, which are but for a moment." Communion is the fountain of conformity. Come, believer, will you be partaker with Christ to-day in the battle, and then divide this spoil with him? Who will feed my belly with hid treasures? Would you have David's crown, but not his caves of Adullam, and rocks of the wild goats? 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." Negatively, he will forbid you to pray for such and such a thing, even as Paul essayed to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered him not: and, on other hand, he will cause you to hear a cry within your soul which shall guide your petitions, even as he made Paul hear the cry from Macedonia, saying, "Come over and help us." My cause is quite safe in his hands, especially when I remember again that he pleads with my father, and that he is his own Father's beloved Son, and that he is my brother and such a brother a brother born for adversity. In what way could the Father put greater honor on his Son than by forming a race like to himself, who shall be the many brethren among whom he is the well-beloved firstborn? Christ once wore a thorny crown, and if you are to have all that he has, you must bear the thorny crown too? He would say, "My labor is all thrown away on such a plot of ground as this, nothing more can be done with it, for after having done my utmost nothing but weeds is produced, so now it must be left to itself." Then it appears if we are called joint heirs with Christ, we legally and strictly have no inheritance apart from him. He could not join the song, for he would not know the tune. 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. "He is faithful by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." "Christ has died, yea, rather, is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." Beside that, I suppose that the apostle was persuaded through reasoning with himself from other grand truths. What a trial to Abraham's faith, when he had to leave all that was so dear to him, and go he knew not whither! 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. That secret we must keep separate from all earthly things; that treasure which he has committed to us we must watch both night and day against those profane intruders who would defile the consecrated ground. If he were an uneducated man he would be in a poor plight. "Well, sir, you know how much I love the cause, and how earnest I am in doing everything that I can to serve my Maker; but (now comes the end of it all) I really work so hard all the week that I cannot afford to go out on the Sabbath to Sunday-schools." 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. 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. Let the truths of Christianity work out their perfect work: and pride, bitterness, wrath, envy, and malice, must see their graves. We shall have joy too, for we shall have his joy. The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God January 1, 1970 The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."Romans viii. I utter them not in the spirit of controversy, but the reverse. The debt is paid, and Christ is at the right hand of God. Romans 8:35 Sermons: Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Self-righteous man, I can tell thee in the tick of a clock, whether thou hast any evidence of election. The heathen may rage, and the kings of the earth take counsel together, but God saith, "I will declare the decree, yet have I set my Son upon any holy hill of Zion." Here is another test. 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. Christ was always considered as having you in him, and you were always considered by God as being in Christ. You have felt as sure about the promise as you felt about the trial. *See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. 5. There is never a clash in the world: men think so, but it never is so. Believing supplications are forecasts of the future, He who prayeth in faith is like the seer of old, he sees that which is to be: his holy expectancy, like a telescope, brings distant objects near to him. The evil one may whisper, "If thou be the son of God." Then all thy love, as though there were not another to be loved, is mine, O God, and all thy grace, as though there were never another sinner to partake of it, is mine. Those whom the Lord looked upon with favor as he foresaw them, he has predestinated to he conformed to the image of his Son. Sustained by distinguishing grace, a man learns to glory in tribulations also; and strengthened by electing love, he defies the hatred of the world and the trials of life. Perhaps the little one stutters, stammers, and cannot get its words out, but the mother sees what he would say, and takes the meaning. These are blessed subjects, though I cannot speak upon them as I would. In the previous chapter, Paul was writing to some who ought to have been teachers, but who needed still to be taught the first principles of the gospel; they were such babes in grace that they needed the milk of the Word, the very simplest elements of gospel truth, and not the strong meat of solid doctrine. When like David we can say, "I opened my mouth and panted," we are by no means in an ill state of mind. And I say it this morning, it is a shameful thing that ever idolatry should be able to breed better men than some who profess Christianity. says yet another accuser; "but you have sinned with delight. Then, next, it is the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. "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. 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. 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. The third foe that will seek to condemn you, and one that you have great cause to fear, is your own conscience; but the weapon which has discomfited your other foes will also avail you against this one. It is the power of the Holy Ghost in us which creates all real prayer, even that which takes the form of a groan because the mind is incapable, by reason of its bewilderment and grief, of clothing its emotion in words. Here the heir of heaven is unknown; he is in disguise, full often clad in the habiliments of poverty, but there his princely character shall be discerned and acknowledged, he shall be waited upon by angels, and shall share in the admiration which the universe shall pour upon the glorified Redeemer. "As many are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." We all confess that if we are brought to the marriage-banquet, "'Twas the same love that spread the feast. But our Lord has told us that greater works than his own shall we do, because he is gone to his Father; and these greater works we do. Now, if I understand the passage before us, it means this. Can he still be valiant, and maintain his ground, calling out, "Who is he that condemneth?" 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. Oh, it is no hard task to plead, when you are pleading with a Father for a brother, and when the advocate can say, "I go to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God." This week, mother, thou mayest see thy first-born carried to the tomb. Here are two sorts of children, therefore all are not the children of God. I must confess my reason revolts against such a supposition, and though I think I might exercise a little imagination, yet I could not make my imagination sufficiently an acrobat to conceive of a man being at the same time a child of the devil, and yet a real child of God. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Our nation is fast learning to forget God. Now, you have heard your Father's will read, and you find that you are joint heirs with Christ. They surrounded it; they were about to sack it, and Camillus was the only man who could deliver it. "We," says the apostle again and he puts his hand upon his poor distressed brethren he looks at his companions in the prisonhouse at Rome; he looks at that humble band of teachers in Rome, in Philippi, in all the different parts of Asia, and he says, "We!" And men of every kindred, and of every tribe, shall see in the face of every man, a relative allied to them by ties of blood. Yet our heavenly Father, who looks immediately upon the heart, reads what the Spirit of God has indited there, and does not need even our groans to explain the meaning. that cry is directed to a mass of putridity, to a body that has been dead four days, and in which the worms have already held carnival; but, strange to say, from that tomb there comes a living man; that mass of corruption has been quickened into life, and out he comes, wrapped about with graveclothes, and having a napkin about his head. Thine omnipotence is ours, O God, to be our defense. Now, there are some of you here incommoding us to-night, and making us very hot. It is a wonderful thing. Very well, be it so; but then it is Christ's interest that is at stake as well as mine; he will be co-respondent in the suit. I am not going to expatiate upon this wondrous theme. The Roman had his iron foot on the Jew; yet Paul addresses those, who subjugated his race, as "brethren." Oh, what an enterprise! you shall not be uncrowned. If so, then am I called with the effectual calling, which is the work of God's grace, and is the sure sign of my predestination. (1) No condemnation. 16-18. Perhaps our fullest thought upon the text is this. We must keep on going forward; there is no such thing in the Christian life as standing still, and we dare not turn back. Now, beloved, it is in such a plight as this that the Holy Ghost aids us with his divine help. Behold his goodness that he hath spread before you! He has given thee hope, ask for faith; and when he gives thee faith, ask for assurance; and when thou gettest assurance, ask for full assurance; and when thou hast obtained full assurance, ask for enjoyment; and when thou hast enjoyment, ask for glory itself; and he shall surely give it thee in his own appointed season. "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. In illustrating the effectual call of grace, which is given to the predestinated ones, I must first use the picture of Lazarus. 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. My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. Not he; his life is given solely by God. We shall take the words one by one, and try to explain them. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals. I. I believe that, when Christ died, he took all the sins of all his people, past, present, and to come, and when the whole mass was condensed into one bitter cup, he drank it all up. All that the Church wants to-day is courage and devotion. May he help us to expound, as he has already given us the passage to explain. Now Secondly, we are called upon to notice the universality of this evil. God could not withdraw from Paul his embrace of love, and Paul felt that, by divine grace, he could not withdraw his embrace of love from his God; but he must have been first of all persuaded that both those embraces were there. 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. The apostle challenges the whole world, and heaven and hell too, in the question, "Who is he that condemneth?" 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. Good men are labouring, at least with usual zeal, and bad men are strenuously plying their craft of evil. Can ye say, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I desire to keep all thy commandments, and to walk blamelessly in thy sight. Now, all them that love God love him because they have had a special, irresistible, supernatural call. I used this argument; I thought it might be a new one; I am sure it is a forcible one. Until this question be answered my heart cannot rest, for I am intensely anxious about it. It is often so on earth: we take rank at times according to the greatness of our talents. There lie the bodies of the saints he has martyred, and they cry from under the altar "O Lord! Brethren, we who know and love the Lord, are debtors, not to one creditor, but to many. 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. God is their Father, they are therefore God's heirs! The doctrine must be stated in its naked truth. If so, then the sweet things which we shall have to say this morning are thine. I have known a surly man act in that way; but Christ never turns us away because we only come to him when others fail us. 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." If any man will contradict that flatly well, be it so. But if thou agreest with thy creditor, he will, for Jesus' sake, blot out all thy debts, and set thee at liberty, so that thou shalt never be amenable for thine iniquities. Therefore, our rights and our property extend to all things whatsoever they may be. It also delivers us from every fear and doubt. You will remember the last one had, "Yea, rather." No one has come to rescue him, and indeed he has fallen into a place from which escape is impossible. IV. Others, this afternoon, by teaching your children in the class. The adoption is not manifested yet, the children are not yet openly declared. All God's children are heirs, however numerous the family, and he that shall be born of God last, shall be as much his heir as he who was born first. Examine yourselves then whether you have been called. Let us begin with the word "work." I have been able again to revise a sermon without assistance. The man is perfectly safe, and quite content, so far as that goes, and exceedingly grateful to think that he has been rescued; but yet I hear him groan because he has a wife and children down in yonder plain, and the snow is lying too deep for travelling, and the wind is howling, and the blinding snow flakes are falling so thickly that he cannot pursue his journey. And yet another picture. When at any time then the Holy Spirit comforts you sheds a sweet calm over your disturbed spirit; when at any period he instructs you, opens to you a mystery you did not understand before; when at some special period he inspires you with an unwonted affection, an unusual faith in Christ; when you experience a hatred of sin, a faith in Jesus, a death to the world, and a life to God, these are the works of the Spirit. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row, and all Booksellers. So must we be, for we shall be made like him. He was the representative of all the elect. If they say that Christ's death does not repair the injury you have done to your fellow-men, tell them that, as far as you can, you mean to make restitution to them; and wherein you have done the world an ill turn, let them know that your Master has done it more good than you ever did it harm. No suit in law can stand against Christ; it were idle to dream it for a moment He has satisfied God's law, magnified it and made it honorable; he has discharged all the debts which as surety he took upon himself. 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. Some of them who were rather heavy and sad of spirit in their days of health have grown joyous and glad as they have neared the eternal kingdom. What wise and admirable desires must those be which the Spirit of Wisdom himself works in us! "It is Christ that died." You have walked on, and on, and on, and there has hitherto always been something beneath your footfall; but the next step may precipitate you into the abyss. He does not say, "I am persuaded;" he does not say, "I believe;" but with unblushing confidence he appears before you and says, "We" (I have many witnesses) we know that all things work together." What does that mean? He was persuaded that Christ would not leave him, and that he would not be allowed to leave Christ, and this stirred him up to deeds of daring. This counsellor would suggest the line of pleading, arrange the arguments, and put them into right courtly language. Romans 8:3-4. When Paul had alluded to that consoling subject he turned to the next ground of comfort namely, that we are to be sustained under present trial by hope. Remember again, we are Christ's brethren, and there is a debt in brotherhood. You not only sinned with your body, with your eyes, your lips, your hands; but you have sinned in imagination and desire very horribly." 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. O thou that art high in spirits to-day, thou with the flashing eye and joyous countenance, ere the sun doth set some evil shall befal thee, and thou shalt be sad. Here is A CHALLENGE TO ALL COMERS. 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. My Substitute has kept the law on my behalf. And when Samuel knew it was the Lord, he said, "Speak; for thy servant heareth." 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