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If the Holy Ghost prompts it, the Father must and will accept it, for it is not possible that he should put a slight upon the ever blessed and adorable Spirit. Let your faith and your imagination work together to portray the unutterable glories of Immanuel, God with us, as he sits at the right hand of the Father. That is how we ought to be the one to the other, not only the pastor to the people, but the people to the pastor, and the members of the church the one towards the other, all anxious for the good of the rest; no man living unto himself, but each one endeavouring to live for the benefit of the entire community in Christ Jesus. I would recommend that to many Christians. Justice makes a black mark against those who do not ascribe their good things to God, from whom they flow with such sweet constancy of kindness. A pan of hot coals is blazing in the tent; Scoevola puts out his right hand and holds it; it crackles in the flame; the young man flinches not, though his fingers drop away. A man's heart is moved when he groans. July 7th, 1889 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Oh! 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. poor Abraham, as the world would have had it, what a trial his call cost him! To such who have preceded us we owe the purity of the Church, and to them we are debtors. why needeth the Christian to have such firm, such massive foundations? Having once looked upon the city of David, they longed to carry the holy city by storm, to overthrow the crescent, and place the cross in its place. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. If there be some points in the covenant of grace where wisdom has been deficient, and therefore by error it may miscarry, or by lack of legal right may prove null and void, it is as surely null towards Christ as towards ourselves, for he is jointly concerned therein. God is infinitely glorious; and unless we treat him as such, we have not treated him as he ought to be treated. Then the apostle says, "nor things to come." Then I felt that I could not hold out any longer." Christian men, do you feel this with regard to your sins. Justification must be seen for what it truly is: It is essential, but it is only the beginning of the salvation process. We must have more preaching of the Holy Spirit, if we are to have more conversion work. So, brethren, as we are going to the same heaven, let us have heaven begun below as we live in love one towards another. It is a great honor to any man to be like Christ; God does not intend that his children should have no honor, for he puts honor upon his own people; but, still, the true glory lies with him, since he has made us and not we ourselves. 4-6. When the Lord has to say They come as my people, and they sit as my people, and they sing as my people, but their heart is far from me, can he take any pleasure in them? I tell you, sirs, if you change yourselves, and make yourselves better, and better, and better, a thousand times, you will never be good enough for heaven, till God's Spirit has laid his hand upon you; till he has renewed the heart, till he has purified the soul, till he has changed the entire spirit and new-made the man, there can be no entering heaven. 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!" 9. No; the blood must he taken to the mercy-seat, God will not stoop when he is just; it must be brought to him. Let us not be backward in doing our work. I do not know a more beautiful sight to be seen on earth than a man who has served his Lord many years, and who, having grown grey in service, feels that, in the order of nature, he must soon be called home. He helps our infirmity; and with a helper so divinely strong we need not fear for the result. The great white throne is set, the books are opened, men are trembling, fiends are yelling, sinners are shrieking "Rocks hide us, mountains on us fall;" these make up an awful chorus of dismay. It is not a single carnal mind, or a certain class of characters, but "the carnal mind." He sees hosts of angels; but those hosts are the servants of his enemy. Is there not any word of special commendation to this? "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be praise." If they prospered, they were "lucky"; this was instead of gratitude to God. Read the sixth verse: "Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ." Oh! And now I come to my last point, upon which briefly but I hope interestingly. 12. and silence reigns through earth and heaven. The time shall come when thou shalt yet be his disciple." WE have here the description of a true Christian, and a declaration of that Christian's blessedness. You trust your old uncle; but you never trust your God. And, brethren, we are debtors to the future. Hezekiah said, "like a crane or a swallow did I chatter." II. A thorn in the flesh may be as painful a thing as a sword in the bones, and yet we may go and beseech the Lord thrice about it, and getting no answer we may feel that we know not what to pray for as we ought; and yet it makes us groan. And I think I may stand firmly while I argue here, that if a Roman, a worshipper of Jupiter or Saturn, became great or glorious, a Son of God ought to be nobler far. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's own Son, cleanseth us from all sin; so away foul fiend, that also has received its due. You have only acted according to truthfulness. In one of his most read writings, his amazing 4 volume manual on pastoring, ‘Lectures to my Students,’ he includes in the final volume a massive help to pastors in choosing the best commentaries. Whatever mind may properly be called carnal, not having been spiritualized by the power of God's Holy Ghost, is "enmity against God. They think that if they cry, "Lord, have mercy upon me," when they lay a-dying, they shall go to heaven directly. Yet there are some who know God, but they glorify him not as God: they rob him of that which it should be their life to bring. may God grant that you may turn unto Jesus with full purpose of heart! If the grace of God does not enable them to overcome the world, if the blood of Christ does not purge them from sin, what more can be done? ", I. You remember that Jonah was asked, "What is thine occupation, and of what people art thou?" 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. Just so, we are kings we are of the blood imperial; but we have not our proper state and becoming dignities we have not our royalties here. I will count it to be my highest glory if I may be made a knight of the cross, and may carry that cross upon my shoulder: to the world a badge of dishonor, but to me the ensign of glory, the escutcheon of honor. "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." When I think how the poor toil day after day and receive barely enough to keep their souls within their bodies: when I think how frequently they serve their Church, unhonored and unrewarded, when I know some of them who perform the hardest deeds of service for our common Christianity, and are yet passed by with neglect and scorn; when I remember how many of them are toiling in the Sabbath-school, having neither emolument nor reward; when I consider how many of the lower classes are as prayerful, as careful, as honest, as upright, as devout, as spiritual as others are, and frequently more so, I cannot but say that we are debtors to all God's poor in a very large degree. The heathen often attributed their prosperity, to "fortune"; some of them talked of "chance;" others discoursed of "fate." How shall a celestial spirit be satisfied until it sees celestial things? It Jesus is thine all-prevailing king, and hath trodden thine enemies beneath his feet, if sin, death, and hell, are now only parts of his empire, for he is Lord of all, and if thou art represented in him, and he is thy guarantee, thy sworn surety, it cannot be by any possibility that thou canst be condemned. Did you ever take up a single ten minutes with the tale of the Lord's lovingkindness to you? Today, also, we can preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, casting it about us as it were as our garment, and he that toucheth the hem thereof shall he not also be made whole to-day, even as when Jesus was among men? There is a double precedent to strengthen our confidence that he must prevail. The Hindoo said, "Well, if it has not been written since you came here, all I can say is, that it might have been so written, for it is a fearfully true description of the sin of India." It should be, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." It is a sea out of which you shall bring pearls or dead men's bones. Some say that this doctrine would send us to sleep; it never does, it wakes us up. Strange to say, it proved true that it was for his good; for being delayed a day or so on the road through his lameness, he just arrived in London in time enough to hear that Elizabeth was proclaimed queen, and so he escaped the stake by his broken leg. The tug of war is now with us. Again, dear friends, there are some who think of God a little, but they never offer him any humble, spiritual worship. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row, and all Booksellers. So with the judgement I might prove how ill it decides. Oh! We look over the many things which we might ask for of the Lord, and we feel that each of them would be helpful, but that none of them would precisely meet our case. Say not, "In my baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, and a child of God." God grant to you all to be believers in Christ, now and for ever. According to some, the Epistle to the Romans closed with this chapter. July 7th, 1889 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." Charles Spurgeon, who was used of God to bring thousands to genuine conversion through his preaching, understood this even early in his ministry. Beloved, if you would be saved, you must be persuaded of this truth; and when you are persuaded of it, you will know the joy of it. No, there must be something done more than we can accomplish. He could not be persuaded that nothing could separate us from a thing which did not exist, so he is persuaded, first of all, of the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. So, you see, I cannot help wondering what the "things to come" will be for you who are here. "Oh!" Dost thou treat God so?" I must confess that I am more afraid of life than of death. My brother with great experience, my sister with enlarged acquaintance with Christ, ye have not yet known the harvest, you have only reaped the first handful of corn. Here stands the case. "He lives at such a house, in such a city." Paul had been persuaded of this truth by his own experience. "Well!" And lo, there upon the throne of judgment sits the only one who can condemn; and who is that? One blow might, we should have imagined, have been enough to have smitten to death our unbelief for ever; the cross ought to have been enough for the crucifixion of our infidelity, yet God, foreseeing the strength of our unbelief, hath been pleased to smite it four times that it might be razed to rise no more. He is persuaded that things present cannot separate us from Christ. Will you never be grateful? Somehow, he did not like the Latin nearly as much as the Greek. We are joined to him by a living, loving, lasting union that never shall be broken. The co-heir is heir to the entire estate; and if he says, "No, not to that portion," then he is not heir to any; and if he makes exemption anywhere, he makes exemption to the whole. Since the day when Adam fell all things have had to toil and labor. To us, indeed, the things are scarcely comparable, since we are deeply interested in one, though not in the other. Have we not among us those who on Sunday feel some kind of reverence of God, but during the six days of the week are godless? If such be the bright hope that cheers us, we may well groan for its realisation, crying out. When they come to a king who was at war with the empire, they said to him, "Will you have peace with Rome, or not?" 6. In this way "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Oh, what a glorious doctrine is that of election, when a man can see himself to be elect. "Put your right hand here, my boy, and place your left hand so. Weigh the riches of Christ in scales and his treasures in balances and then think to count the treasures which belong to the saints. Brethren, as soon as a man believes in Christ, he is no longer under the curse of the law. We generally receive more comfort at the cross than we do at the empty sepulchre. Did I not say that we have not received the whole of our portion, and that what we have received is to the whole no more than one handful of wheat is to the whole harvest, a very gracious pledge, but nothing more? "Roll ye away the stone," saith he, and it is done; and now, listen to him; he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" Scripture everywhere represents the chosen people of the Lord, under their visible character of believers, penitents, and spiritual men, as being "the children of God," and to none but such is that holy title given. Whatever the persons in authority over us themselves may be, yet the just power they have, must be submitted to and obeyed. Remember how much thou owest to his disinterested love, which rent his own Son from his bosom that he might die for thee! Living the Christian Life. There is no other sun for our sky than your sun in the heavens: there is no other source of good but the ever-blessed God, who has made himself known to us, whom with all our hearts we now adore. You know the story of old Jacob. Nor can any creature accuse his saints, nor can heaven, or earth, or hell disprove our rights or infringe upon our title so long as his title stands undisputed and indisputable. Will you be willing to endure the revilings of slanderous tongues? So it may by possibility be this morning; so it will be if the Spirit of God shall be our instructor, and fulfil his gracious promise to "lead us into all truth.". 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." You have continued in it, and persisted in it." The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. You have been to everybody else; you may go to them now." I have been saved from the snow. Waiting implies being ready. 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. He leads the spiritual eye to take good and steady aim at the very centre of the target, and thus we hit the mark in our pleadings. "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." *See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. God loves Christ, and we love Christ, so we have a meeting-place; we love the same blessed Person, and that brings us to love one another. Consider what you owe to his power; how he has raised you from your death in sin, and how he has preserved your spiritual life, how he has kept you from falling, and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way! Did he not tell us this as an encouragement to believe that we shall receive all needful blessings? As many of you as have been born again have been conformed to the image of Christ in the matter of his birth, and you are now partakers of his nature. In this chapter he exhorts them to seek to attain to this standard. This has been done on a large scale by nations, whose downward course of crime began with want of thankfulness to God. The lad draws the bow: ay, but it is quite as much his father, too. We are willing now to be conformed to the image of Jesus, yea, we are more than willing, we are anxious and desirous for it; but still the main and first motive power lay not in our will, but in his will, and to-day the immutable force which is best to be depended upon does not lie in our fickle, feeble will, but in the unchanging and omnipotent will of God. The apostle says that those who love God are "the called according to his purpose" by which he means to say two things first, that all who love God love him because he called them to love him. "Brethren, we are debtors. So saith the word, my brother, and so shalt thou find it ere long. The adoption is not manifested yet, the children are not yet openly declared. "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." We owe everything to God; shall we not give God nothing? Hearken ye to this passage in the 9th of Romans! Oh, sirs, when the Lord is glorified as God, we yield ourselves to his control without a murmur. We are all, in some respects, partakers of the love of God. "If so be that we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified together.". You who love God will not find much fellowship up and down these streets. If all the processes of grace fail in the case of any professors, what is to be done with them? And with united breath they reply, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." He must come out from his very dearest friends, from all his old acquaintances, from those friends with whom he used to drink, and swear, and take pleasure; he must go straight away from them all, to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. Man was originally made in the image of God, but by sin he has defaced that image, and now we who are born into this world are fashioned, not in the heavenly image of God, but in the earthy image of the fallen Adam. "You know how you used to blaspheme his name." "All things work together for good." An adversary in the court might plead against him, and overthrow him, for he could not answer him. III. Sound conviction of sin, deep humiliation on account of it, and a sense of utter weakness and unworthiness naturally conduct the mind to the belief of the doctrines of grace, while shallowness in these matters leaves a man content with a superficial creed. As surely as Jesus is a son, so surely are we, for the same Spirit bears witness to both, as it is written "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." The answer, therefore, to the statement, "There is sin," is this, "Christ has died. In verse 10, Paul states, "We shall be saved by His life." Thou shall soon be with the glorified, where thy portion is; thou art only waiting here to be made meet, for the inheritance, and that done, the wings of angels shall waft thee far away, to the mount of peace, and joy, and blessedness, where. They take the golden candlestick of the sanctuary into their hands, and by its help they perform their evil deeds the more dexterously, and run in the way of wickedness the more swiftly. Without the fire of love no incense will ever rise from the censer of praise. One such difficulty worth discussing here involves the question of to whom the passage is directed. The excellency of the power is in the doctrine, and not in my preaching. I believe in St. Matthew; I expect that there are two or three St. Matthews here to-night. And I doubt not that each of you, in looking back upon your past experience as Christians, could say very much the same. The Spirit of God has come unto us so that our "bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost." Moreover, Christ wrought miracles of mercy towards men, which proved him to be the Son of God. They became spiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, and so forth. Commentary on Romans, Charles Spurgeon, Auto-Édition. Romans 1:15-16 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. If it be possible that by some decree in heaven's high court, it should be certified and determined that the inheritance is not rightly ours, because some one part of the covenant was left in a precarious state so that it became void and of no effect, then, thine inheritance, O thou King of kings, has failed thee in the very day when it hath failed us. These were the beloved of the Lord. and do we not feel that we shall lay all our honors, whatever they may be, at his dear feet, who hath according to his abundant mercy predestinated us to be conformed to the image of his Son? that the Holy Spirit may so convince us of sin, that we may unanimously plead "guilty" before God. 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. Oh, may you have that union in the love of God which never will be broken! "So then," he said, "we are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God." There is a great deal in that; for bad thoughts are bad tenants, who pay no rent and foul the house. He does not say it is opposed to God merely, but it is positive enmity. The strifes of barons and kings for mastery might have been thought to be likely to tread out the last spark of British liberty; but they did rather kindle the pile. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth; he bears up the pillars of the universe; his breath perfumes the flowers; his pencil paints them; he is the author of this fair creation; "we are the sheep of his pasture; he hath made us, and not we ourselves." Here we have in the text conformity to Christ spoken of as the aim of predestination; we have, secondly, predestination as the impelling force by which this conformity is to be achieved; and we have, thirdly, the firstborn himself set before us as the ultimate end of the predestinations and of the conformity. He went about his Father's business; so should we ever be occupied. Now, to-day, seeing we are here taught the object of his predestination, it will be our business to labor after it, to bless God that he has set such an object before him, and pray that we may be partakers in it. A man has to deliver a piece which he has learned; but his memory is treacherous, and therefore somewhere out of sight there is a prompter, so that when the speaker is at a loss and might use a wrong word, a whisper is heard, which suggests the right one. Come, my brothers and sisters, are you persuaded of the love of God? Come let us at the sovereignty which has called us, and let us remember the words of the apostle, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. All the sheep of the Great Shepherd are marked with the cross, and this not only in the fleece, but in the flesh. ", I am anxious not to tarry over controverted matters, but to reach the subject of my sermon this morning. While he is writing to them, you can see that he is anxious that they may have the best thing that they can have. Fire such as martyrs felt at the stake were but a plaything compared with the flames of a burning conscience. What is to be done when a man condemns himself? "They knew God," but "they glorified him not as God." Commentaries for Romans Chapter 4 The doctrine of justification by faith is shown by the case of Abraham. So it is with your children when they look forward to their holidays; they are not unhappy or dissatisfied with the school, but yet they long to be at home. Would you have a boy of that kind living with you? If God has put us within the same circle of his infinite affection, may we not safely clasp hands feeling that we shall never have to unclasp them, nay, not even in death? Who will garnish my back with purple and make my table groan with plenty?" And these appear to be four at least. All manner of evil things we commit in our thoughts; sin runs to riot in our spirit. We are like Jacob looking at the wagons, and the more we look at the wagons, the more we long to see Joseph's face; but our groaning after Jesus is a blessed groan, for. How do we honour him when we refuse to believe him? He is father to us both; then what are we two?" This is a very choice privilege; if you possess it, prize it beyond everything else. A dying Saviour brings more glory to the love of God, ay, and to the justice of God, than any mortal sinner could have done; more than any perfect man, though he lived throughout eternity, could have done. 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. That is not his way; he must go forward, ever pressing on toward the city that hath foundations. Go up; take them. It is a very blessed obligation! 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. 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." That is, whatever Christ possesses, as heir of all things, belongs to us. 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. What shall we say then? Read it at home, and be startled at the awful vices of the Gentile world. If his heart is against God, we ought to tell him it is his sin; and if he cannot repent, we ought to show him that sin is the sole cause of his disability that all his alienation from God is sin that as long as he keeps from God it is sin. There is only one way to successfully resist the onset of the arch-enemy; but that one way ensures certain victory. It is not left to my pleasure whether I will do it or no; but I am a debtor, and I must serve him. They love God as their future Inheritance, they believe that when days and years are past they shall enter into the bosom of God; and their highest joy and delight is the full conviction and belief, that one day they shall dwell for ever near his throne, be hidden in the brightness of his glory, and enjoy his everlasting favor. In Romans 11:2 , we read, "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknow," where the sense evidently has the idea of fore-love; and it is so to be understood here. 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