We believe that the tabernacle of God will be among men, that he will dwell among them, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. "All things are yours, for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.". He sees a throne, and on it sits one who is glorious; but it is his enemy. I have once more preached the gospel to you as plainly and as simply as I can. We have not yet the royal robes which become the princes of the blood; we are wearing in this flesh and blood just what we wore as the sons of Adam; but we know that when he shall appear who is the "first born among many brethren," we shall be like him; that is, God will dress us all as he dresses his eldest son "We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." Whatever happens to him sickness or health, adversity or prosperity, everything is his here below. Can you not do it? The apostle ends the list by saying, "nor any othe creature." It is one of the ever-blessed exhibitions of the infinite love of God which without any cause in us, has set itself upon us. Heavenly calling means a call from heaven. So we are persuaded of these three things: first, that God loves us; next, that God has shown his love to us by the gift of his Son Jesus Christ; and then, that his divine love comes streaming down to us because we are in Christ, and are loved for his sake. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. The enemies of truth are more numerous and subtle than ever, and the needs of the Church are greater than at any preceding time. Can you now detect in your calling, the hand of God, and the voice of God? And then suppose that, in winding up the estates, it should be found that, though there be something left, yet it be a mere trifle, scarcely worth an acknowledgment: enough to excite appetite but not sufficient to satisfy it what if it should come out at last, that heaven is not the infinite joy we have been taught to expect; suppose its bliss should be but inferior joy, such as might be found even in this world below suppose that the harps have no melody, the crowns but little glory, and heaven's streets but slight magnificence what then? Romans 8:30, THE GREAT BOOK OF GOD'S DECREES is fast closed against the curiosity of man. It is as when two dear friends lovingly embrace with their arms around each other's neck, there is a double link binding them together. View the Saviour in his agonies, with streams of blood purchasing thy soul, and with intensest agonies enduring thy punishment. Now, this is not my assertion, it is the declaration of God's word, and you must leave it if you do not believe it; but quarrel not with me, it is my Master's message; and it is true of every one of you men, women, and children, and myself too that if we have not been regenerated and converted, if we have not experienced a change of heart, our carnal mind is still at enmity against God. Conscience, I will put thee in the witness-box, and cross-examine thee this morning! May the sweet Spirit lead you to Jesus, cause you to look to him upon the cross, and trust in him; then you will have something worth hearing, for you will have a love that changeth never, a love that shall never be separated from you nor you from it. There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. As an old countryman once said to me, from whom I gained many a pithy saying "Ah! Now, observe, that this conformity to Christ lies in several things. And this solemn text drops an awful warning: "How shall ye escape, if ye neglect so great salvation." Catalogue of Commentaries & Expositions. Now, my hearers, before I proceed to enter into the text, let the question go round. He is in an enemy's house; for he is at enmity with God. It is very wonderful how the Church of Christ seems always to brighten up at the idea of death by martyrdom. rail on as pleases you. 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." the mind of that Spirit who arranged all the order which now pervades this earth! There once was chaos and confusion, but the Holy Spirit brooded over all, and His mind is the originator of that beautiful arrangement which we so admire in the visible creation. Oh Christian, this should ever be your spirit, only in a higher degree. Recollections of the Rev. 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. He is the ambassador; he it is who can make peace through his blood; and though you came in here an enemy, it is possible you may go out through that door a friend yet, if you can but look to Jesus Christ, the brazen serpent which was lifted up. The curse has fallen on it since the fall, and thorns and thistles it bringeth forth, not from its soil alone, but from all that comes of it. This is a good seaworthy vessel: "It is Christ that died." Oh! What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. Second, the people being described as having no katakrima are not all who believe in Christ for everlasting life, but a particular type of believer. Again, I hear him cry, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" Tell me, oh, tell me, if ye know, seers and prophets, is my name recorded in that book of life? If the call be effectual, and you are brought out and brought in brought out of sin and brought to Christ, brought out of death into life, and out of slavery into liberty, then, though thou canst not see God's hand in it, yet it is there. It also delivers us from every fear and doubt. Curtius puts on his helmet, and his armour, mounts his horse and leaps into the cleft, which is said to have filled at once, because courage, valour, and patriotism, were the best things in Rome. I have heard that in the Marshalsea of old they did take rank according to the greatness of their debts. Who among us would change with Gabriel? And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according the to will of God." For, first, if I am called then I am predestinated, there is no doubt about it. 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. Lecture 2: On Commenting. "We know it. "The carnal mind is enmity against God" Romans 8:7 . For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Oh unhappy souls, that cannot call one of these your own! you have had many troubles, have you not? "Now," says Paul, "yea rather, he is risen from the dead." We are all of us under obligations; let us consider the fact in the following manner: First, how are we to understand this? I utter them not in the spirit of controversy, but the reverse. The highest good a Christian has here is good spiritual. Then, what can it do? 14. Saved by your works! The title of joint heir contains another mystery which I cannot withhold, although it must be judiciously handled Christ, as coheir, has (of his own free grace) so identified himself with what his rights as co-heir are not to be separated or viewed apart from ours. Then secondly, there is the secret mind of God, the will of his eternal predestination and decree, of which we know nothing; but we do know this, that the Spirit of God never prompts us to ask anything which is contrary to the eternal purpose of God. Oh for 400 Scoevolas, 400 men who for Christ's sake would burn, not their right hands, but their bodies, if indeed Christ's name night be glorified, and sin might be stabbed to the heart. And so, my friends, the wish that there were no God, proves that we dislike God. 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." I. When, indeed, we are in our bewilderment almost driven to give up prayer, the whisper of his love drops a live coal from off the altar into our soul, and our hearts glow with greater ardour than before. No; though you should be weary of your life, though you should never have a ray of light by the month together, there is nothing there to separate you from the love of Christ. Our little debts we can pay. Believing in Jesus, we speak confidently, we have unspeakable blessings given to us by the Father of spirits. There stands the believer, and looking round on the assembled universe of men and angels, he cries, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" It needs no stretch of imagination to conceive this place to be a Roman amphitheatre. Moreover, I doubt not that Paul remembered the doctrine of the union of believers with Christ, and he said to himself, "Shall Christ lose the members of his body? Ah! We heard of abundant harvests, but we soon discovered that they were all a dream, and that there would be scant in the worker's cottage. Some men groan after wealth, they worship Mammon. Should thine house of business threaten to tumble about thine ears so long as thou hast acted honourably, still bear thy cross. There is a publican living in it, who is a hard, griping, grasping, miserly extortioner. Spurgeon takes us back to the previous verses in the opening remarks of his sermon on Romans 8:37 Look attentively at the champion. saith he, "I do not call gold good, but I call faith good! Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and that child might be treated as his for a long time; but there was a second adoption in public, when the child was brought before the constituted authorities, and in the presence of spectators its ordinary garments which it had worn before were taken off, and the father who took it to be his child put on garments suitable to the condition of life in which it was to live. This is the grandest message of the gospel, that "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures." As this is a legal question, and as in matters of wills everything should be proven and sworn to, let us have, concerning our inheritance, the evidence of God: that cannot lie. We will think of our bodies, for that is a point surrounded with consolation, since he shall change our vile body and make it like unto his glorious body. Here is a test for us all. You may have heard also the story of that eminent martyr who was wont always to say, "All things work together for good." Condemn a man who sits next to his Father, the King of kings! If not, I beseech thee, stop and consider! how long wilt thou not avenge thine own elect?" I wish you now to observe that we are linked with the creation. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above." If all things work together for good (all events, all circumstances, all trials, all happenings, etc. We are to groan after perfection, but we are to wait patiently for it, knowing that what the Lord appoints is best. Do I love what he loves; do I hate what he hates? Sometimes the accusing whisper comes to your ear, "You have sinned against a great God. Oh! To us, indeed, the things are scarcely comparable, since we are deeply interested in one, though not in the other. he assures and consoles directly, by coming into immediate contact with the heart. Oh! The blood of heaven runs in thy veins; thou art one of the blood royal of eternity a son of God, descendant of the King of kings. Good men are labouring, at least with usual zeal, and bad men are strenuously plying their craft of evil. All that they endured came from a Father's hand, and this should comfort them. Little did they know that they had already what they asked for for all the church is now at the right hand of the Father; all the church is now raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." Thus he was persuaded of this truth by revelation, by argument, and by experience; and I should like you to notice that he was not only persuaded that none of the powers he mentions will separate us from the love of Christ, but that they cannot do it. How could they have been the sons of God before, for "to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, who were born not of blood," then they were not make the sons of God by mere creation "nor of the will of the flesh," that is to say, not by any efforts of their own "but of God." Do you shrink from being tempted? There is never a clash in the world: men think so, but it never is so. Therefore, he aspired to be a complete and perfect conqueror. But yonder is the Saviour,, and he is called Jesus, "For he shall save his people from their sins." We are priests unto our God. These men will not repent, will not believe; they will not go God's way, and then they grumble and growl, and fret, and fume, because God has locked the treasure up against them. That short sentence completely answers to all his accusations. He gave to us his person, it has become our meat and our drink; we eat his flesh and drink his blood. It may be I might move your souls to detestation, if I spake of the cruelty of this race to itself, if I showed you how it made the world an Aceldama, by its wars, and deluged it with blood by its fightings and murders; if I should recite the black list of vices in which whole nations have indulged, or even bring before you the characters of some of the most eminent philosophsers, I should blush to speak of them, and you would refuse to hear; yea, it would be impossible for you, as refined inhabitants of a civilized country, to endure the mention of the crimes that were committed by those very men who, now-a-days, are held up as being paragons of perfection. There lie the bodies of the saints he has martyred, and they cry from under the altar "O Lord! 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. 4. and by that was meant, that what'er his people owed was wiped away for ever from the book of remembrance. The inheritance cannot be divided; if you will have the glory, you must have the shame. Oh! I can see black storms that have lowered o'er my head, and torrents of opposition that have run across my path, but I can thank God for every incident that ever occurred to me from my cradle up to now, and do not desire a better pilot for the rest of my days, than he who has steered me from obscurity and scorn, to this place to preach his word and feed this great congregation. 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. See, brethren, he enters into glory, but not for himself alone, for it is written, "Whither the forerunner is for us entered." If we now suffer the good vessel of gospel truth to be drifted by adverse winds upon the rock, if we keep not good watch to her helm, and cry not well to her great Master that she may led to a prosperous end, surely those who are to succeed us will look on us with scorn, and say, "Shame on the men, who had so great and glorious a mission, and neglected it, and handed down to us a beclouded gospel and an impure Church." The cross and Christ are nailed together by four nails, and they will never be disassociated in the experience of any Christian. We have at this present moment in us certain priceless things which distinguish us as believers in Christ from all the rest of God's creatures. And perhaps he goes to Eli to ask what he wants with him. Who would be the pleader in such a case? When I think of my sin, it seems impossible that any atonement should ever be adequate; but when I think of Christ's death it seems impossible that any sin should ever be great enough to need such an atonement as that. He had been exceedingly mad against the disciples of Christ, and had persecuted them even unto strange cities. though that bell hath the very sound of heaven, and though all men do in a measure hear it, for "their line is gone out into all the earth and their Word unto the end of the world" yet there was never an instance of any man having been brought to God simply by that sound. Nor is this all, for the spirit of God is not sent merely to guide and help our devotion, but he himself "maketh intercession for us" according to the will of God. Now, dear brethren, if I could extend the time for this service to four-and-twenty hours, I might give you all the arguments, or the most of the arguments, which support the blessed truth of the nonseparation of believers from the love of Christ. In this volume we give you Charles H. Spurgeon commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Who is he that condemneth." We have this. Yet these are the strongest forces imaginable death, life, angels, principalities, powers, the dreary present and the darker future. Come, lift up thine head; envy no man his dukedom; think no man's princeship worth thy coveting; thou art greater than the greatest, for thou art joint heir with Christ; in dignified relationship thou hast no superior upon earth; and except those who are joint heirs with thee, thou hast not an equal, since thou art joint heir with Christ. Nor is this little, for the body has a depressing effect upon the soul. "Things present." Many a Jonah, who now rejects the doctrines of the grace of God, only needs to be put into the whale's belly and he will cry out with the soundest free-grace man, "Salvation is of the Lord." If not, tremble, for there are but two vast families in this world. but you have aforetime refused Christ. Harsh as the apostle's words may seem, they are not meant for you who are really believers in Christ, and in whom the Holy Spirit has wrought a complete change of heart and life; Paul is not speaking of such as you. The text says, "The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." 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." We can work spiritual miracles. I am not going to expatiate upon this wondrous theme. None but he hath a right to condemn, for he is the sole judge of right and wrong, and if he hath died shall he put us to death, and if he hath risen for us, shall he thrust us downwards to the pit, and if he hath reigned for us and hath been accepted for us, shall he cast us away, and if he hath pleaded for us, shall he curse us at the last? God requires us to remember the poor, and their poverty is a claim upon our generosity. Consider again, I pray you, what a dignity God hath conferred upon you even upon you in making you his son. We cannot be condemned for "Christ hath died. This truth seems to me to have struck its roots into all the other truths of Scripture and to have twisted itself among the granite rocks which are the very foundation of our hope. Having received something, we desire more. Thou movest about this world as a prince among the crowd. Conecte-se Inscrever-se; Incio. You come into court with your case, and the counsel on the other side condemns you. A little more than he said about the others. Now let me ask my congregation, do any of you know that you are God's children? Romans 8:28-30 I. Is he a victor? I now come to finish up with CONSOLATION. It is called "first-fruits," again, because these were always holy to the Lord. I do really think I should be impatient to speak for myself. I see "the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." Christian men, do you feel this with regard to your sins. I see the reverend man rise, leaning on his staff, and with the tears "uttering his old cheeks, he says, "Young man it is true, I have proved it; even down to grey hairs I have proved it; he made, and he will carry; he will not desert his own!" And would you blush to sit side- by-side with him, and be made nothing of as he was? Many have gone round the world to look for a saviour other than the Lord Jesus Christ, and they have only come to him when all others have failed them. Here we must bow our heads. Now, please to notice that my text is in the present tense. He has to intercede with his Father, and mark, with our Father too. Here cometh one and he cries, "Thou hast been a blasphemer." 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. Believe then that all things work together for thy good; if thou lovest God, and art called according to his purpose. You have not come of age, so you do not possess it yet, but the day shall come when Christ shall come to this earth, and take possession of it, and then his saints shall reign with him. in that thought "The carnal mind is enmity with God;" there is something which may make us shake; for it is a terrible sin to be at enmity with God. The world, our own sin, and the devil, he foresaw would be continually molesting us; therefore hath he entrenched us within these four walls, he hath engarrisoned us in four strong lines of circumvallation. I pray you take the possession now. Everything that is and is done, worketh out some great end and purpose. We have him first very succinctly, but very fully described in these words "Them that love God, them who are the called according to his purpose." Come, take your cross up and bear it with joy. 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. If you were a free man, and had married a wife, a slave, you could not feel perfectly content, but the more you enjoyed the sweets of freedom yourself, the more would you pine that she should still he in slavery. The Spirit of God has come unto us so that our "bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost." The carnal mind is at all times enmity against God. This is a 12-16 week, in-depth study of Romans 8, averaging less than 3 verses per week (there are 12 weekly preparation guides, but leaders should allow some discussions to take one and a half or two weeks). Mark then, with care, that OUR CONFORMITY TO CHRIST IS THE SACRED OBJECT OF PREDESTINATION. Just a sentence upon another point. Romans 1:7-8. If it were some little thing, my narrow capacity could comprehend and describe it, but I need all covenant blessings. I have no argument with which to convince the man who denies so strong and clear a witness. Satan was no friend to Christ, but finding him in the desert he came to him with this accursed "if" "If thou be the Son of God." You cannot imagine, surely, that God is to allow heathens to eclipse his children. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Old Testament or Considerable Portions Thereof. "It is Christ that died.". "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. But this know, O man, whatever thou sayest of this doctrine, it is a stone upon which, if any man fall, he shall suffer loss, but if it fall upon him it shall grind him to powder. 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. He took the great mass of the sins of believers, and piled the whole on Christ; and when he hung upon the cross as his people's Substitute, even his Father hid his face from him. Yes, but mark, what is true one day is not false another; "the carnal mind is enmity against God" at all times. You were saying of such-and-such an ungodly person, "Everything seems to go well with him, but as for me, all the day long am I plagued, and chastened every morning." First comes Satan; then the world; then conscience; and last of all the law of God. He sees hosts of angels; but those hosts are the servants of his enemy. Yes, as we look, we must confess that it is true, there is the sin. Have I been born again from above? If ye be partakers of that glorious hope, if ye be believers in our glorious Redeemer, if ye have put your trust under the shadow of his wings, my hand and my heart with it, there is that word "brother" for you. Nay, ye say, we have some little gratitude towards earthly relatives. It does not strike man upon the head; it penetrates into his heart; it lays the axe at the root of the tree, and pronounces him "enmity against God," against the person of the Godhead, against the Deity, against the mighty Maker of this world; not at enmity against his Bible or against his gospel, though that were true, but against God himself, against his essence, his existence, and his person. In the East the firstborn is the lord and king of the household. Brethren, we are debtors to our covenant God; that is the point which swallows up all. "So he bringeth them to their desired haven," said the Psalmist by storm and tempest, flood and hurricane. 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. But no; take a child away, place it under the most pious influences, let the very air it breathes be purified by piety; let it constantly drink in draughts of holiness; let it hear nothing but the voice of prayer and praise; let its ear be always kept in tune by notes of sacred song; and that child, notwithstanding, may still become one of the grossest of transgressors; and though placed apparently on the very road to heaven, it shall, if not directed by divine grace, march downwards to the pit. By G. Rogers (Continued.). He hears a sonnet. There is nothing that pains me so much as sin; I desire to be quit and rid of it; Lord help me to be holy"? I hear a ribald song; that music of hell shall jar in my ear when gray hairs shall be upon my head. Would it not be well for all the churches to hold special meetings for prayer concerning the deadly scourge of influenza? The blood of Jesus Christ, God's own Son, cleanseth us from all sin; so away foul fiend, that also has received its due. 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