There are opposite currents; the wind bloweth to the north and to the south. This day, if we do not break fish and barley loaves, we bring you better food; this day, if we cannot give to men opened eyes and unstopped ears, yet in the teaching of the gospel of Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, the mental eye is cleansed, and the soul's ear also is purged; so that in every child of God, in proportion as he labors in the power of the Spirit for Christ, the works which he does bear witness of him that he is the son of God. Then he adds "If children then heirs" though this does not hold true in all families, because all children are not heirs, frequently the first-born may take all the estate; but with God so long as they are children they have equal rights. The carnal mind is at all times enmity against God. "No," says he, "I can stop his mouth with this cry, 'It is Christ that died;' that will make him tremble, for he crushed the serpent's head in that victorious hour. Let the sacred mounds of our fathers' sepulchres speak to us. If we are joint heirs with him, we, too, must partake of the same. Some say that children learn sin by imitation. When Satan stood forth to accuse Joshua, the high priest, he did in effect accuse Christ as well as that chosen disciple, and the Lord was not slow to put in his rejoinder to the objection: "The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? You shall find, when your biography is written, that the black page did but harmonize with the bright one that the dark and cloudy day was but a glorious foil to set forth the brighter noon-tide of your joy. 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. my brethren, let us revel with delight for a moment in the contrast which I might present to you. Can you heartily say that you can never rest satisfied till you. He replies, "Youth! Spirit-taught prayers are offered as they ought to be. This call is sincere on God's part; but man by nature is so opposed to God, that this call is never effectual, for man disregards it, turns his back upon it, and goes his way, caring for none of these things. I will make no answer to that accusation but this: "It is Christ that died." "Ah!" Hear his reply! 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. He can lay certain desires so pressingly upon our hearts that we can never rest till they are fulfilled. We will go into the next. The alternative of this bond, if not paid, was, that we should be sold for ever under sin, and should endure the penalty of our transgressions in unquenchable fire. What is that? Oh! Adam's death was not simply his own private loss, for in Adam all died, and Christ's life and all the consequences of his obedience are not merely his own, but the joint riches of all who are in him, of whom he is the federal head, and on whose behalf he accomplished the divine will. We do not ask for these persecutions, but their might do us great good if they came. It is very wonderful how the Church of Christ seems always to brighten up at the idea of death by martyrdom. I always find when I have to deal with these "fat things full of marrow," that words fail us; and perhaps it is well, for then the excellency of the power is proved to be not by words of man but in the weight, and fullness, and richness of gospel matter. A mother will say, "It is rebellious children who are breaking my heart." Oh! The saints in heaven are perfectly free from sin, and, so far as they are capable of it, they are perfectly happy; but a disembodied spirit never can be perfect until it is reunited to its body. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." But, on a certain set day, the gates were thrown wide open, and the general, victorious from the wars in Africa or Asia, with his snow-white horses bearing the trophies of his many battles, rode through the streets, which were strewn with roses, while the music sounded, and the multitudes, with glad acclaim, accompanied him to the Capitol. Note yet a little further concerning the special privilege of heirship, we are joint heirs with Christ. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 8:1-39 . Let me attempt a second simile: he is as an advocate to one in peril at law. We expect to see the New Jerusalem descend out of heaven from God. He allows nothing to mar the glory of this one blessed fact, "It is Christ that died." Thunderbolts and tornadoes are nothing in force compared with the charges of a guilty conscience. (1) No condemnation. I can look upward without distressing fear." We shall have joy too, for we shall have his joy. The 6,000 years of continual labor, and toil, and travail, have happened not to us alone, but to the whole of God's great universe; the whole world is groaning, and travailing. Do not you recollect how, in your schoolboy days, you used to make a little almanack with a square for every day, and how you always crossed off the day as soon as ever it began, as though you would try and make the distance from your joy as short as possible? Yea rather, is risen again; (much more) is even at the right hand of God." I take it that it is the meaning of the text, that the Lord would have Christ to be the first of a nobler order of beings. Well, I wonder what is "to come." Is Christ a priest? Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. And the Father says, "Yes, my beloved Son, I will love them; Jesus, I will love them for thy sake.". I say it boldly and without a figure, the eternal arm of God now nerved with strength, now released from the bondage in which justice held it, is able to save unto the uttermost them that come unto God by Christ. But again, everything that is good in a Christian you know to be the work of God the Holy Ghost. Perhaps, also, there was one who had travailed in birth till Christ was formed in us the hope of glory, and how happy was that spirit to see us born unto God; how did our spiritual parent ponder each gracious word which we uttered, and thank God for the good signs of grace which could be found in our conversation. Now, he never would sit if the work were not fully done. I tell thee No; Christ never called the righteous; and if he has not called thee, and if he never does call thee, thou art not elect, and thou and thy self-righteousness must be subject to the wrath of God, and cast away eternally. You long rejected Christ." OBSERVE the title whereby he addressed the Church "Brethren." We morally speak of work, especially on this day, as being the opposite of sacred rest and worship. *See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. In these days of daring infidelity, and awful treason against the Most High, I count it an unspeakable honour to be permitted to testify to the power of the old truths, and the pleasantness of the old paths, and the unfailing faithfulness of God in the fulfilment of each and all of His precious promises; and though my voice is less than a Whisper amid the roar and turmoil of conflicting opinions and blasphemous theories, I know that God can hear it, and that He will accept the loving tribute which my heart thus offers to Him. Our Lord Jesus Christ will say, in the judgment, concerning certain persons, "I never knew you," yet in a sense he knew them, for he knows every man; he knows the wicked as well as the righteous; but there the meaning is, "I never knew you in such a respect as to feel any complacency in you or any favor towards you." Self-righteous man, I can tell thee in the tick of a clock, whether thou hast any evidence of election. Our text begins by the expression, "Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate," and many senses have been given to this word "foreknow" though in this case one commends itself beyond every other. This would be a very bold challenge even for a man who had been righteous from his youth up. what angelic tongue shall hymn his glory? Oh! When he was seized by the officers of Queen Mary, to be taken to the stake to be burned, he was treated so roughly on the road that he broke his leg; and they jeeringly said, "All things work together for good, do they? What a broad assertion it is. They said of Achilles, the greatest of the Grecian heroes, that when he was a child they fed him upon lion's marrow, and so made him brave; feed upon Christ and be Christlike. We are heirs with Christ. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Forth it steps into the arena, and we behold the law of God. Speak the truth! And shall a Christian man break his promise? We have the witness of the Spirit within, bearing witness with our spirits that we are born of God. This calling forbids all trust in our own doings and conducts us to Christ alone for salvation, but it afterwards purges us from dead works to serve the living and true God. It is astonishing where men will go to seek salvation. 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!" Is it not my duty, as well as my happiness, to ask whether there be a way to be reconciled to God? Now, the apostle sets the whole matter before us when he said, "The whole creation groaneth," and you know what comes after that, "travaileth." He was fighting evil in the high places and evil in the low, evil among the priests and evil among the people, evil in a religious dress, in Pharisaism, and evil in the dress of philosophy amongst the Sadducees; he fought it everywhere: he was the foe of everything that was wrong, false, selfish, unholy or impure. Are you persuaded of this love of God to you? Yet one more illustration: it is that of a father aiding his boy. When you sinned, you were not like the common people of the street, who know no better. "Thou hast wrought all our works in us." He is persuaded that things present cannot separate us from Christ. He said, "Reproach hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness." There is the worldling's sense: "Who will show us any good?" To give a simple figure: if I were to come into your house I might find there a little child that cannot yet speak plainly. The sea is the house of storms, even when it is glassy as a lake; the thunder is still the mighty rolling thunder, when it is so much aloft that we hear it not. In a measure, through our ignorance, we never know what we should pray for until we are taught of the Spirit of God, but there are times when this beclouding of the soul is dense indeed, and we do not even know what would help us out of our trouble if we could obtain it. Be persuaded of that truth, and you are indeed happy men and happy women; what more could you wish to say than to be able truthfully to say that? When he is about to favour an individual he casts the shadow of hopeful expectation over his soul. He gave to us his heaven, for "where I am, there shall my people be." We are reduced to such straits that we must pray, but what shall be the particular subject of prayer we cannot for a while make out. From the first, and now, and to the last, "he that hath wrought us to the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit." Now, as long as he was in prison, although there might be ground of hope, it was but as light sown for the righteous; but when the hostage came out, behold the first fruit of the harvest! In English history, the days of Mary, when the saints at Smithfield bore witness for Christ at the stake, were grand days; and in Madagascar, did you ever read a more thrilling story than the record of the bravery of those Christian men and women who suffered the tyrant's cruelty? To such who have preceded us we owe the purity of the Church, and to them we are debtors. It is naught but "Look!" "No," says he, "it is God that justifieth, I am not afraid to face the highest heaven, since God has said that I am just. The call of our text is of a different kind; it is not a universal call, it is a special, particular, personal, discriminating, efficacious, unconquerable, call. Our apostle, in the epistle to the Hebrews, puts a very strong encomium upon this sentence. Another doctrine we gather from this is, the necessity of an entire change of our nature. "He was tempted in all points like as we are." What shall we say then? 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! 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. First, God sent his Son as a sacrificial lamb to absorb the penalty for our sinsto make forgiveness possible. Well, we confess that too; but then Christ suffered in his spirit. Thou in the midst of thy sickness and infirmity art girt about with robes of glory, which make the spirits in heaven look down upon the earth with awe. He may know it as surely as if he read it with his own eyes; nay, he may know it more surely than that, for if I read a thing with my eyes, even my eyes may deceive me, the testimony of sense may be false, but the testimony of the Spirit must be true. Note the expression, "Many brethren" not that he might be the firstborn among many, but among "many brethren," who should be like himself. If all things are working, let us work too "work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work." We are debtors to the past. Heir of God! He was dead, absolutely dead, rotten in his sin; the life is given when the call comes, and, in obedience to the call, the sinner comes forth from the grave of his lust, begins to live a new life, even the life eternal, which Christ gives to his sheep. He shall feast all the more joyously because they shall eat bread with him in his kingdom. There he would stand, silent, motionless; till Christ would say, with a voice louder than ten thousand thunders, "What dost thou here? Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" I will not say, "Let us sink or swim together," for there is no sinking to a soul that rests in Christ. A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Romans taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. The Spiritual Resurrection of our Mortal Body (8:1-13) 8:1. Now, believer, thou mayest be very poor, and very sick, and very much unknown and despised, but sit thee down and review thy calling this morning, and the consequences that flow from it. 12-15. 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." Our little debts we can pay. To be begotten is something more than to be made: this is a more personal work of God; and that which is begotten is in closer affinity to himself than that which is only created. Our nation is fast learning to forget God. Where are your hearts, then? The Holy Spirit also divinely operates in the strengthening of the faith of believers. The Secret Power in Prayer January 8, 1888 by . 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. He had been exceedingly mad against the disciples of Christ, and had persecuted them even unto strange cities. It is Christ that died." There have been many who have been won from drunkenness by hearing the preaching of God's Word even under myself, and those persons have been ready to carry me on their shoulders, from very gratitude, for joy; but I would be bound to say they make a far more feeble display of their thankfulness to my Master. If we be not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. Where is the blessedness of the title, for they might be lovers of strife, and yet according to modern theologians they might still be the sons of God. "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup." No ungodly man loves God at least not in the Bible sense of the term. There be others of acute intellect, who, searching into mysteries of science, discover things that have been hidden from the creation of the world; men of keen research, and mighty erudition; and yet of each of these poet, philosopher, metaphysician, and great discoverer it shall be said, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." We see the mercy-seat, and we perceive that God will hear us: we have no doubt about that, for we know that we are his own favoured children, and yet we hardly know what to desire. The words of the Scriptures are words of infinite wisdom, and if reason cannot see the ground of a statement of revelation, it is bound, most reverently, to believe it, since we are well assured, even should it be above our reason, that it cannot be contrary thereunto. Heavenly calling means a call from heaven. I wish you now to observe that we are linked with the creation. Who is Christ, and who is it with whom he intercedes. He comes within the gates. I, for my part, take only one objection to it, which is that it is perfectly untrue and utterly unfounded, having not the lightest shadow of a pretence of being proved by the Word of God. Stay awhile; that horny hand of labor shall soon grasp the palm branch. "Ask of me," said his rather, "and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." But it may be, beloved, that we groan because we are conscious of the littleness of our desire, and the narrowness of our faith. We little know how many a blessing the poor man's prayer brings down upon us. Why did not his imagination work when his body was in a normal state when it was healthy? ", "But, interrupts another, "God must punish sin. But Christ determined that he would call the man. Thank him for little grace, and ask him for great grace. We have received a divine life, by which we are made partakers of the divine nature, having "escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust." That is, whatever Christ possesses, as heir of all things, belongs to us. 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. Jesus Christ is coming in to call some one, for it is written he must abide in some man's house. Because, now the sacrifice is complete for ever, and the priest hath made a full end of his solemn service. It was because they longed to enter it. For it is true, beloved, the bodies that have mouldered into dust will rise again, the fabric which has been destroyed by the worm shall start into a nobler being, and you and I, though the worm devour this body, shall in our flesh behold our God. let thy waves and thy billows roll over me better an ocean of trouble than a drop of sin, I would rather have thy rod a thousand times upon my shoulders, O my God, than I would once put out my hand to touch that which is forbidden, or allow my foot to run in the way of gainsayers." And, then O ye people of God, let this last thought abide with you, what condescension is this that Divine Person should dwell in you for ever, and that he should be with you to help your prayers. Have I been born again from above? We have known horror caused by guilt, and, therefore, for the future shall be throughout eternity a nobler race, freer to serve, and serving God after a nobler fashion than any other creatures in the universe. Why he is going fast onward in his mad career. I do not wish for anything more than I have here, I am perfectly satisfied, so far as this goes, but I long to look upon my household, and to be once more in my own sweet home, and until I reach it, I shall not cease to groan." We do not like groans: our ears are much too delicate to tolerate such dreary sounds; but not so the great Father of spirits. Are the great Father's loving arms about your neck? II. That bereavement is working for thy good. The law has, therefore, more than it asked for, and I am thus not afraid of the anger of the great God. View the Saviour in his agonies, with streams of blood purchasing thy soul, and with intensest agonies enduring thy punishment. We must understand the word "together," also in another sense. And who amongst us has not been so foolish as to desire that there were no God? Cannot we say this morning with thankful hearts, "By the grace of God I am what I am?" The voice of God in the word has testified to us our Heavenly Father's dove; and the Holy Spirit has borne witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. The proof of love to the uttermost is that "It is Christ that died.". To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast. Now, I do believe with him this morning, that the chief witness of God the Holy Spirit lies in this the Holy Spirit has written this book which contains an account of what a Christian should be, and of the feelings which believers in Christ must have. So it must be, "If so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together." Is that the tenor of thy life towards God, and towards his law? what can destroy thee if omnipotence is thy helper? We know that young lions, when tamed and domesticated, still will have the wild nature of their fellows of the forest, and were liberty given them, would prey as fiercely as others. For human righteousness is only human; being human, it is finite; and, being finite, it falls short somewhere or other. So, then, it follows that if there be any flaw in the will, so that it be not valid, if it be not rightly signed, sealed, and delivered, then it is no more valid for Christ than it is for us. Coming to our aid in our bewilderment he instructs us. 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. He looked at me, and picked me out as if I was the only man there, and described me exactly." It is Christ that died. Ah, brethren! His works bore witness of him. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," so runs our commission, Isa 40 1. So it is with us to-day. They were, therefore, encouraged to take part and lot with Christ, the elder brother, with whom they had become joint heirs; and they were exhorted to suffer with him, that they might afterwards be glorified with him. He hath suffered, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. You drank it down like sweet wine, and you could not have too much of it." There is a third thing in which we are deficient, namely, liberty, the glorious liberty of the children of God. But we sit down very contented. The best of men are but men at the best; to be a man is to be a fallen creature, and being fallen creatures, we cannot of ourselves perfectly please the thrice-holy Jehovah. And whereas our experience sometimes leads our spirit to conclude that we are born of God, there are happy times when the eternal Spirit from off the throne, descends and fills our heart, and then we have the two witnesses bearing witness with each other, that we are children of God. says the accuser "but you sinned against light and knowledge. Christ at the right hand of God signifies that all power is given unto him in heaven and in earth. We know right well that there are many things that happen to us in our lives that would be the ruin of us if we were always to continue in the same condition. And, as to all evil, our Lord's entire life was one perpetual battle. And would you blush to sit side- by-side with him, and be made nothing of as he was? Dries he sit upon a throne? But, perhaps, the sweetest proof that the Christian cannot be condemned, is derived from the intercession of Christ, if we view it thus. Home; Shop. Yes, say we, we have many corruptions. Now, Christ is his people's representative. blessed thought for the believer! Come, my hearer, if what I say to you be true (and I will answer for its truth at God's great judgment-seat), then I pray you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; for "he that believeth in him shall not be ashamed, nor confounded, world without end." "I have been sick for many a day, and wife and children, dependent on my daily labor, are crying for food: will this work together for my good?" "We know it. He shows us where our deficiencies are, what our sins are, and what our necessities are; he sheds a light upon our condition, and makes us feel deeply our helplessness, sinfulness, and dire poverty; and then he casts the same light upon the promises of the Word, and lays home to the heart that very text which was intended to meet the occasion the precise promise which was framed with foresight of our present distress. 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. In this very place, where sin has triumphed, we expect that grace will much more abound. There is nothing new in the book; no, for "the old is better," it tells of ancient covenants, and everlasting love, and full atonement, and final perseverance, grand old doctrines on which a soul may stand without fear when heaven and earth are passing away, and the Son of Man comes in His glory. Perhaps since matter may not be annihilated, and probably cannot be, but will be as immortal as spirit, this very world will become the place of an eternal jubilee, from which perpetual hallelujahs shall go up to the throne of God. how can the imagination revel, when the body is in an ill condition? The Saviour walks along preaching and talking with the people until he comes under the sycamore tree, then lifting up his eyes, he cries "Zaccheus, make haste and come down, for today I must abide in thy house." "We have," says the text, not "we hope and trust sometimes we have," nor yet "possibly we may have," but "we have, we know we have, we are sure we have." The bow bends so easily we wonder how it is; away flies the arrow, and it pierces the very centre of the target, for he who giveth have won the day, but it was his secret might that made us strong, and to him be the glory of it. If the aegis of the Almighty covers thee, what sword can smite thee? Man as a necessary piece of political policy, may give to the heir that which surely he can have not more real right to in the sight of God, than the rest of the family may give him all the inheritance, while his brethren, equally true born, may go without; but it is not so in the family of God. 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. If the guilty sinner dies, the law is honoured; but if God shall assume human flesh, and die for that sinner, the law is even more honoured. 4. It is a wonderful thing. Because he has remitted all our debt of sin, we are all the more indebted to him in another sense. 3. "We are joint heirs with Christ.". Now this is the cause of our groaning and mourning, for the soul is so married to the body that when it is itself delivered from condemnation, it sighs to think that its poor friend, the body, should still be under the yoke. And he could not think that it could be so; as he turned the matter over mentally, he said, "If they be indeed one with Christ, I am persuaded that nothing can separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". 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