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!" "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above." Rather judge that such prayers are like Jabez, of whom it is written, that "he was more honourable than his brethren, because his mother bare him with sorrow." Doth he call himself a King? "My Father," saith he "it is my delight to do thy will and it is thy delight to do my will, I will then that they, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am." Look! I hear a brave, strong voice, crying, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" The sacred record of God's hand is this day published everywhere under heaven, and he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto him. We can work spiritual miracles. And so, my friends, the wish that there were no God, proves that we dislike God. He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. II. Lecture 1: A Chat about Commentaries. It is impossible! Taking away this corner-stone, this fancy theory tumbles to the ground, and that theory which seemed to be as tall as Babel, and threatened to make as much confusion, may right soon be demolished, if you will batter it with the Word of God. I will not say, "Let us sink or swim together," for there is no sinking to a soul that rests in Christ. Our prevalence in prayer lies in the plea, "Lord, do as thou hast said." The answer, therefore, to the statement, "There is sin," is this, "Christ has died. The practical part follows, wherein we find, 1. It is called "first-fruits," again, because these were always holy to the Lord. I am in this boat myself. There are opposite currents; the wind bloweth to the north and to the south. You and I are free, but what is our liberty? Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world! When you have been sitting on the judgment bench; there has been some favourite sin brought up, and you have, oh, let me blush to say it, you have wished to spare it, it was so near your heart, you have wished to let it live, whereas should you not as the son of God have said, "If my eye offend me, I will pluck it out and cast it from me, if my right hand offend me, I will cut it off, rather than I should in anything offend my God." They can't get away this time!" General Douglas McArthur "My words are Spirit and Life, and not to be weighed by the understanding of man. we may look around and defy all our sins to destroy us. Here are beings that know evil, and know also good, beings placed under infinite obligations by bonds of love and gratitude to choose for ever the good, beings with a nature so renewed that they always must be holy beings; and these beings can commune with the incarnate God upon spurring as angels cannot, upon the penalty of guilt as angels cannot; upon heart-throes, conflicts, reproaches, and brokenness of spirit as angels cannot: and to them the Lord Jesus can reveal the glory of holiness, the bliss of conquering sin, and the sweetness of benevolence as only they can comprehend them. If it is a call that will suit the remarks which I am about to give you in the second part of the discourse, even though you may have thought that God's hand is not in it, rest assured that it is, for nature could never produce effectual calling. Such guidance will the Spirit give to each of you if you will ask him to illuminate you. "It is Christ that died." You drank it down like sweet wine, and you could not have too much of it." "Surely," said he, "the minister knew me, and spoke something personally to me, because he knew my case." He is the Son of God the infinitely rich, and God will not give to his Son a petty dowry or a trifling portion. Having summarily disposed of all of them, Paul adds, "nor things present." Death has not abated a single note of their song; nay, more, I have known some of them who are like the fabled swan which is said never to sing till it dies. Then, remember, it cannot be; when you refuse the one, you relinquish all claim to the other. Oh, that you would come and learn it! If, after having ploughed this ground, and sown it, and after it has been watered by the dew and rain of heaven, no good harvest ever comes of it, every wise man would leave off tilling it. 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. IV. Let me show you that you have not been hearing strange doctrine. 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. We repeat, a third time, it was the gospel which implanted in the soul of Paul the feeling of brotherhood, and removed every wall of partition which divided him from any of the Lord's elect. We pray evermore on such matters with this reserve, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." When Adam was in the garden the world had its Sabbath: and it shall never have another Sabbath till the Millennium shall dawn, and then when all things have ceased to work, and the kingdoms shall be given up to God, even the Father, then shall the world have her Sabbath, and shall rest; but at present all things do work. but it is possible to pay too dear, especially when you could get on as well without them as with them.) When Lord was born a few choice spirits welcomed his birth; an Anna and a Simeon were ready to take the new-born child into their arms and bless God for him: and even so there were some that hailed our new birth with much thanksgiving; friends and well-wishers who had watched for our salvation were glad when they beheld in us the true heavenly life, and gladly did the take us up into the arms of Christian nurture. This entry was posted in New Park Street - Vol 5 and tagged believer's challenge, gospel, Jesus died rose again, spurgeon podcast, spurgeon romans 8, Spurgeon sermon 256 on February 11, 2020 by zachkispert. The true son of God will never blush to acknowledge that he is in subjection to the Father of spirits. I will say no more; only may God give us all an interest in these four precious things. I have lately seen one or two of our friends almost in the very article of death; I think that they cannot long survive, but I have come out from their bed-chamber greatly cheered by their holy peacefulness and joy. I would put the trumpet to my lips while I preach, and sound out this one note, praying that it may be a death-blast to all accusations that can be brought against believers in Christ. He replies, "Youth! Come, my brothers and sisters, are you persuaded of the love of God? For that very reason they began to groan. But while I have thus mentioned some of the different classes to whom we are debtors, I have not yet come to the point on which I desire to press your attention. Added to this you must also be the heir of persecution. You can understand in this sense why it is that we groan, for if this body really is still, though redeemed, a captive, and if it is one day to be completely free, and to rise to amazing glory, well may those who believe in this precious doctrine groan after it as they wait for it. "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." What a mind that must be! Now, the first groan which you heard was deep and dreadful, as though it were fetched from the abyss of hell; that is the groan of the ungodly man as he perishes, and leaves all his dear delights; but the second groan is so softened and sweetened, that it is rather the note of desire than of distress. "So he bringeth them to their desired haven," said the Psalmist by storm and tempest, flood and hurricane. Conscience must reply, "Thou hast." This was my subject last Sabbath day, therefore I take it I shall be fully justified in leaving the first point that Christ hath died, while I pass on to the other three. A few winged hours must fly; a few more billows must roll o'er thee, and thou wilt be safely landed on the golden shore. He proclaimed the doctrine of the "one blood," and gloried in the fact of "one family" in Christ. The face of Jesus is more lovely to God than all the worlds, his eyes are brighter than the stars, his voice is sweeter than bliss; therefore doth the Father will to have his Son's beauty reflected in ten thousand mirrors in saints made like to him, and his praises chanted by myriads of voices of those who love him, because his blood has saved them. methinks I see the martyrs and confessors rising from their tombs I mark their hands still stained with blood, and their bodies scarred with the wound of persecution. At times this very spirit of resignation appears to increase our spiritual difficulty, for we do not wish to ask for anything that would be contrary to the mind of God and yet we must ask for something. In prayer we might grow weary, but the Comforter encourages and refreshes us with cheering thoughts. I shall direct your joyous attention to one precious jewel in your treasury, namely, your adoption into the family of God. Many times you put him away. And now I must return to the word "work" to notice the tense of it. But there is nothing in the-depths that can separate us from the love of Christ. Oh, what an enterprise! His experience with regard to God, what was that? 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? But the crime may seem to be worse when we think of what God is. 12:1-21. Do you hate God because he loves you? 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.". My fellow creature, dost thou not know that God sent his Son from his bosom, hung him on the tree, and there suffered him to die for sinners, the just for the unjust? It may be read, "Nor anything in creation, nor anything that ever is to be created," nothing shall ever separate us-from the love of Christ. Then it appears if we are called joint heirs with Christ, we legally and strictly have no inheritance apart from him. We shall have joy too, for we shall have his joy. Hear another, 2 Corinthians, vi. Turn to Romans, the 4:chapter, 13th verse (Romans 4:13 ) and you will find that there the promise that was made to the seed was that he should be heir of the world. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." you shall not be uncrowned. Christ hath a kingdom that shall never be moved. Will you not be satisfied to serve God though you lose by it; to stand up and be thought an arrant fool, because you will not learn the wisdom of this world; to be esteemed a mad fanatic, because you cannot swim with the current. The Holy Spirit's mind is seen in our intercessions when under his sacred influence we order our case before the Lord, and plead with holy wisdom for things convenient and necessary. This is styled by our new philosophers as old cumbersome scheme of theology, and it is proposed that it be swept away a proposition which will never be carried out, while the earth remaineth, or while God endureth. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, Note that Paul does not say, "If they shall fall;" but, "If they shall fall away," if the religion which they have professed shall cease to have any power over them, then, it shall be impossible. I can foil him with that, for he sits there to judge him and to condemn him for ever. if thou art called, if thou art called truly, there will be a going out, and a going out alone. And as we are debtors to all times, so we are all debtors to all classes. You would forget your guilt in your daily business, but your conscience calls out at such a rate that there is no hearing anything else. Christ is risen from the dead, how can we be condemned? As he turns over each of these love-tokens, and as he reads the words of his reconciled prince, he asks "When will the vessel sail to take me back to my native shore?" Remember thou art now a debtor to God in a legal sense, as thou art in Adam, thou art no longer a debtor to God's justice as thou once wast. 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. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 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