Brotherhood has its ties of debt, and to my brother I owe what I shall not yet pay him. He looked at me, and picked me out as if I was the only man there, and described me exactly." When you came here this morning you were troubled, and as you came in you were envying your neighbor. says one; "a pleasant fiction, sir!" If so, then I have a hope that I may be among the called host whom God has predestinated. Those whom the Lord looked upon with favor as he foresaw them, he has predestinated to he conformed to the image of his Son. Holland, Belgium, Russia, and Poland, belong not to their kings and czars, Christ is the King of kings, these lands belong to us. The sermons he preached touched the lives of thousands. 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"? My brethren, what a glorious model! Our Lord is the Son of the Highest, the Son of God; and truly, beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be baptized, and thou shalt be saved," for so runneth the gospel. I think I may say to those who are the beginners in the divine life, so long as your call is real, rest assured it is divine. 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. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: It seems a great change in this chapter from the sad tone at the beginning to the joyous note at the end; but, indeed, there is no contradiction between the two. Psalms 73:26 . There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. None but he shall ever unroll that sacred record and read it to the assembled world. Suppose that a poor man had a great law-suit, touching his whole estate, and he was forced personally to go into court and plead his own cause, and speak up for his rights. And if this applies to children, equally does it include every class of men. I feel, sir, that I could believe God; but then at the time I feel so there is not much to believe." Oh, it is no hard task to plead, when you are pleading with a Father for a brother, and when the advocate can say, "I go to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God." May not this electrify a man of joy, and make him dance for very mirth? Well said our poet just now, "It doth not yet appear, how great we must be made.". Forty cubits upwards hath this red sea prevailed. He has to intercede with his Father, and mark, with our Father too. Yea, I am certain that we do not. Be it so, then; but until you are, you must be ready to suffer in this world the afflictions of the chosen eons, for they are a part of the inheritance. For, first, if I am called then I am predestinated, there is no doubt about it. "Oh!" We are to be conformed to the image of his Son, fifthly, as to our inheritance for he is heir of all things, and what less are we heirs of, since all things are ours? Romans 8:12 . The carnal mind is at all times enmity against God. Have you been called, not of man but of God? I must not speculate, for I know nothing about it; but it is no speculation to say that we look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness; and that there will come a time when the lion shall eat straw like an ox, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. What then is to be said to this, "These are not the children of God." There are different senses to the word "good." The beggar shivering in his rags, may owe thee something, if thou givest him alms; but thou owest him something more. A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Romans taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. 8. was the means of his quickening. Oh! Romans 8:26-27 . He goes on to say, "Heirs of God;" for if they are heirs they inherit their Father's property. So it must be, "If so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together." My Substitute has kept the law on my behalf. Why will you inflict more sorrow on yourself than God indicts? Oh! He has discharged the debt; and we have still another assurance that it is all gone, for the apostle goes on to speak of Christ "who is even at the right hand of God." Oh! Why is this? The cross and Christ are nailed together by four nails, and they will never be disassociated in the experience of any Christian. Oh! And yet this is just through our ignorance and through the blindness of our eyes; for verily to the enlightened believer there is more consolation in Jesus arising from the tomb, than there is in Jesus nailed to the cross. Let me say now, before I turn from this point, that it is possible for a man to know whether God has called him or not, and he may know it too beyond a doubt. If thou pantest, and criest, and groanest after Christ, even this is his gift; bless him for it. But the great high priest of our profession, Jesus, the Son of God, hath taken his seat at the right hand of the majesty on high. You, that were going to thrash mountains, find that molehills cast you down. You went to the house of God, not to pray, but to laugh. All that they endured came from a Father's hand, and this should comfort them. 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. 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. Every carnal mind in the world is at enmity against God. ", "Ay, ay!" As a shepherd loves his sheep, as a king loves his subjects, so Jesus loves to have his people around him; but deeper yet is the mystery, as it is not good for a man to be alone, and as for this cause doth a man leave his father and mother and is joined unto his wife, and they twain are one flesh, even so is it with Christ and his church. He has rendered more of good to men than you ever rendered of evil. We need only the gospel thoroughly preached to bring about "liberty, equality, and fraternity," in the highest and best sense of these words. Very gently did He lead me into this unthought-of service, and most graciously has He hitherto sustained me in it; first giving me in my own heart the joy of His Word, and then enabling me to minister of that rejoicing to others. Much more, let me now tell you, is his life, much more the fact that he lives, and is at the right hand of the Father. what angelic tongue shall hymn his glory? 1. Grace links mankind in a common brotherhood; grace makes the great man give his hand to the poor, and confess a heavenly relationship; grace constrains the intellectual, the learned, the polite, to stoop from their dignity to take hold of the ignorant and unlettered, and call them friends; grace weaves the threads of our separate individualities into one undivided unity. And now I must return to the word "work" to notice the tense of it. Is there nothing to commend this? says the accuser, but you are still sinful. So it is: prayer prompted by the Holy Spirit is the footfall of the divine decree. But we may be permitted to live on to extreme old age; do you dread it? sir, I could always do wonders when there were no wonders to do. There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. When the herald of Francis the First took up the gage of battle, he would not be outdone in the list of honours, so he said, "I take up the challenge in the name of Francis the First, King of France; Francis the First, King of France; Francis the First, King of France; Francis the First, King of France; Francis the First, King of France." Oh, what a sweet persuasion is this! For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. To use another figure, Christ's death was as it were the digging out of the gold of grace out of the deep mines of Jesus' sufferings. In us the living and incorruptible seed abode and grew. Romans: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $22.80 $38.00. Speak of pedigrees, the glories of heraldry thou hast more than heraldry could ever give thee, or all the pomp of ancestry could ever bestow. 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. If all the processes of grace fail in the case of any professors, what is to be done with them? We would stand upon our watch-tower and cry aloud to the Strong for strength, that the adversary may be repelled, that the sacred castle of our heart may be for the habitation of Jesus, and Jesus alone. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 7th, 1860, by the. REV. He comes within the gates. I can sit down and let him plead, and I do not want to get up and conduct the pleading myself. "Brethren, we are debtors. ", I. Delivered on Sabbath Evening, August 10, 1856, by the. First, then, for ILLUSTRATION. These prayers are sometimes "groanings that cannot be uttered," because they concern such great things that they cannot be spoken. He was ill-treated, abused, and slandered, and went away to retirement. That lie had in it a residuum of truth, for by sovereign grace we have become such. There in the midst of the arena stands the hero. Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. You know the story of old Jacob. Is he glorious? Oh! I cannot mention all the accusations which sin makes, but I will mention a great many of them very quickly, and show how the man who believes in Christ, the dying Christ, the risen Christ, the reigning Christ, is able to meet and overcome them. Look around you and learn your duty. Yes, but Christ died a blasphemer's death, and he died tor blasphemers. Come, believer, will you be partaker with Christ to-day in the battle, and then divide this spoil with him? Browse all categories; New Books; Used Books Oh, sinner! Well, that wish to change God, proves that thou art not in love with the God that now is, the God of heaven and earth; and though thou mayest talk of natural religion, and boast that thou dost reverence the God of the green fields, the grassy meads, the swelling flood, the rolling thunder, the azure sky, the starry night, and the great universe though thou lovest the poetic beau ideal of Deity, it is not the God of Scripture, for thou hast wished to change his nature, and in that hast thou proved that thou art at enmity with him. Oh, yes, I am sure ye ought. Now, by this shall ye know whether ye be called of God or not. Upon looking carefully at my Bible again I do not perceive such a statement. We take our burden to our heavenly Father and tell it out in the accents of childlike confidence, and we come away quite content to bear whatever his holy will may lay upon us. Upon these two words the meaning of my text will hinge. "Put your right hand here, my boy, and place your left hand so. "HEIRS OF GOD, and joint heirs with Christ." And as I look on them, and they on me, I turn to you all and say, "Brethren, we are debtors." "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. The shot took effect, the bird fell, down came Zaccheus, invited the Saviour to his house, and proved that he was really called not by the voice merely but by grace itself, for he said, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give unto the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore unto him fourfold;" and Jesus said, "This day is salvation come unto thy house." The fact is, brethren, that the relationship of a son of God belongs only to those who are "predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of the Father's will:" Ephesians 1:5 . Regulus returns to Rome; he stands up in the senate and conjures them never to make peace in Carthage, but ot his wife and children, and tells them that he is going back to Carthage, and of course the tell him that he need not keep faith with an enemy. Romans 8:3-4. I have wished I might indulge in folly; I have wished there were no laws to restrain me; I have wished, as the fool, that there were no God." 6. The first contains an outward manifestation of the second "Them that love God." "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Oh, when you start aside at a little jest, let your conscience prick you, and say, "Am I not a joint heir with Christ, and am I about to quarrel with the legacy? Simply because it is depraved; and until he had entered a foul element until the body had begun to quiver with a kind of intoxication the fancy would not hold its carnival. I have thus illustrated effectual calling. We are heirs with Christ. He is sometimes in the light and sometimes in the dark. We are like the dove that flutters, and is weary, but thank God, we have an ark to go to. Or, to come nearer the truth, it is as when a mother puts her arms around the neck of her little child, and her child puts its tiny arms about the mother's neck; that is how we and God are joined together. The body is redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, it is redeemed by price, but it has not as yet been redeemed by power. 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? you a saint? ", Note the second phrase, which contains also a description of the Christian "the called according to his purpose." 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. "You have robbed God of his glory," another voice seems to say. Secondly, I see here, a remedy for all sin. We can work spiritual miracles. I think you will see that, like links in a chain, these different truths draw each other on the spirit of adoption proves the fact of adoption; by the act of adoption we are children; if children then heirs; if heirs, heirs of God; but since there is another heir, we must therefore be joint heirs with Christ Jesus. Men do not reach what they do not aspire to, and Paul says, "We are more than conquerors." In the days when this Epistle was written, the saints had to die very cruel deaths by fire, by the cross, by wild beasts in the amphitheatre; they were sawn asunder, they wandered about in sheep skins and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; yet they never feared death. He gloated over the crucifixion once, and he has been distressed and terrified by it ever since. 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. If it sinks, I am lost; but it will not sink, for the Plot of the Galilean Lake is on board. Then we are heirs of all things heaven and earth, time and eternity, anything that you can conceive of the things that can be named and cannot be named, things conceivable and inconceivable, finite and infinite, human and divine. I. cries a third; "a downright lie." These are God's words; if any man doth cavil at them, let him cavil; he rejecteth the testimony of God against himself. For that very reason they began to groan. Paul. The world is a great machine, but it is never standing still: silently all through the watches of the night, and through the hours of day, the earth revolveth on its axis, and works out its predestinated course. Still, this foe is fierce and terrible. : I took pleasure in sin; but, "he, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame." What! Many times you put him away. And are we not debtors to them? Beloved, what a different view of prayer God has from that which men think to be the correct one. Is that the tenor of thy life towards God, and towards his law? Saul's eyes are filled with tears, and then again with scales of darkness, and he cries, "Who art thou?" If he adds anything at all, it is still something about that same Christ "yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. "But thou hast stained thyself with lust." shall a son of God be less true than a Roman or a heathen? He is powerless to obey, but he is mighty enough to resist the call of divine grace. Do you say, "I would not be a Christian, if I must always be on my guard, and always fighting against temptation from without and from within?" Now we must take the next words. I shall not enlarge further, except to say that our glory is not yet revealed, and that is another subject of sighing. I have known a surly man act in that way; but Christ never turns us away because we only come to him when others fail us. Why call him? and a voice calls, "I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest." The law condemned us in former days, and would again overthrow us if we ventured to meet it unarmed. Do you not remember that the two sons of Zebedee asked to sit, one on the right hand and the other on the left? Christ spoke of it as the putting of a well into us, and he said, "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." You must endure persecution; but then, remember, he will be joint heir with you. I conjure thee, give no sleep to thine eyes, no slumber to thine eyelids, till by this divine mysterious agency, thou art new made, new born, and new begotten, and so admitted not only nominally but really into the living family of the living God. 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." If this is his devotion, what must be his impiety? His death was the digging of the well of salvation. If you have the Spirit of God in your soul, you may rejoice over it as the pledge and token of the fulness of bliss and perfection "which God hath prepared for them that love him.". To atone for the sin of my soul there is the sorrow of his soul; if I poured out my soul in sin, he poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors. He hath suffered, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Men hate election just as thieves hate Chubb's patent locks; because they cannot get at the treasure themselves, they therefore hate the guard which protects it. Earth wears upon her brow, like Cain of old, the brand of transgression. It does not appear on the surface of the text; but if you look a minute, you will see that PAUL WAS PERSUADED THAT HE AND ALL THE SAINTS ARE JOINED TO GOD BY LOVE. What must be the strength when the whole four are interlaced and intertwisted, and become the support of the believer? Perhaps after those great fires of which Peter speaks when he says, "The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat," earth will be renewed in more than pristine loveliness. What shall I do? That is, his great love in giving his dear Son to die for us. 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. Is Christ a priest? God could not withdraw from Paul his embrace of love, and Paul felt that, by divine grace, he could not withdraw his embrace of love from his God; but he must have been first of all persuaded that both those embraces were there. Even as Christ had to drink the cup of suffering, for sin, we also have sipped of it. When he had kept all his Master's law he was but an unprofitable servant; he had done no more than he ought to have done; he had no surplus, no balance. 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. 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