Now each of these four articles of our faith is sufficient to bear the weight of the sins of the whole world. Let me suppose an impossible case for a moment. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." "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." The first reason why the Christian never can be condemned is because CHRIST HATH DIED. My Substitute has kept the law on my behalf. 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. Consider the relation in which we stand to God, and then remember what God is; and after I have spoken of these two things, I hope you will see, indeed, that it is a sin to be at enmity with God. If I could so read them the passage would certainly he very easy, and would very greatly alter my doctrinal views; but, as I do not find those words there, begging your pardon, I do not believe in them. What a happy man in his law-suit would such a poor man be, and how happy are you and I that we have the Holy Ghost to be our Counsellor! Look ye, sirs, at Brutus; he has established a republic, he has put down tyranny, he sits upon the judgment seat; his two sons are brought before him, they have been traitors to the commonwealth. Can those lips say, "Depart, ye cursed," to the man for whom they once did intercede? No ungodly man loves God at least not in the Bible sense of the term. Dear brethren, let us not wonder if we have to work too. Hearken ye to this passage in the 9th of Romans! Now, beloved, the practical use to which I put this, I am afraid somewhat discursive, discourse of this morning is just this. 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? Brethren, we are debtors to the past. Satan was eager that the new-born child of grace should be put to death, and, therefore, sent forth fierce temptations to slay us; but the Lord found a shelter for our infant spiritual life, and preserved the young child alive. Brethren, the work of the Spirit is called "first-fruits," because the first-fruits were not the harvest. Are you intelligently persuaded not only that God is love, but that God loves you? We are to be holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Now, his fellow workman, who worked beside of him, as it was getting very late, wished himself at home, and therefore groaned. My illustrations do not touch the mystery, but set forth the grace. "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. He begins thus "Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." We pray evermore on such matters with this reserve, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." If any confront you with other confidences, still keep you to this almighty please, "Christ has died." We are heirs with Christ. Then let me give you just one piece of homely advice before I send you away. Mark, if you anxiously desire to know, you may know. It seems to be, so far as we can judge, much more painful than the first, and has an anguish in it of the severest sort. Methinks my head wears the crown; the white robe is girt about me, and my feet tread no more the battle fields, but the streets of peaceful bliss. O my hearer, by thy name I know thee not, and by thy name God's Word doth not declare thee, but by thy character thou mayest read thy name; and if thou hast been a partaker of the calling which is mentioned in the text, then mayest thou conclude beyond a doubt that thou art among the predestinated "For whom he did predestinate, them he also called." "Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee," and "by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." Have I passed from death unto life by the quickening agency of the Holy Ghost? I thought that had I to intercede for anybody, and do a mediating part, if I had to intercede for my brother with my father, I should feel I had got a safe case in hand. 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. IV. "For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. He gloated over the crucifixion once, and he has been distressed and terrified by it ever since. That is damnable doctrine. They record on the other hand of blood-thirsty Nero, that he became so because he was suckled by a woman of a ferocious, barbaric nature. He says in the tenth verse of that chapter, "If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more" that's the word I wanted "much more we shall be saved by his life." I doubt not that God at first supernaturally revealed it to him; but yet, in order that he might be still more sure of it, God was pleased to reveal it to him again and again, till his trembling heart was more and more completely persuaded of it. Thus we are sighing that our entire manhood, in its trinity of spirit, soul, and body, may be set free from the last vestige of the fall; we long to put off corruption, weakness, and dishonour, and to wrap ourselves in incorruption, in immortality, in glory, in the spiritual body which the Lord Jesus Christ will bestow upon all his people. Another will say, "If I am a child of God, I shall not want to live as I like, but as God likes, and I shall be led by the grace of God into the path of holiness, and through divine grace I shall persevere in that way of holiness right to the end." Suppose one who was perfect in the law should take up his cause warmly, and come and live with him, and use all his knowledge so as to prepare his case for him, draw up his petitions for him, and fill his mouth with arguments, would not that be a grand relief? It may be that all the different providences that shall happen to thee will come wave upon wave, washing thy fortune upon the rocks, till it shall be wrecked, and then waves shall break o'er thee, till in that poor boat, the humble remnant of thy fortune thou shalt be out on the wide sea, with none to help thee but God the Omnipotent. When bowing before his throne we can boldly say "Abba Father." "HEIRS OF GOD, and joint heirs with Christ." I know not how to open my lips in thy majestic presence: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I feel, sir, that I could believe God; but then at the time I feel so there is not much to believe." (Who would wish that they should? The apostle then turns to a third source of comfort, namely, the abiding of the Holy Spirit in and with the Lord's people. By three figures I will endeavour to describe the work of the Spirit of God in this matter, though they all fall short, and indeed all that I can say must fall infinitely short of the glory of his work. They bare their backs, the rod scourgeth them. What a heritage lies before us! "Thou art my father," then our spirit concludes that we are sons, for thus it argues, "I feel to thee as a child feeleth to its parent, and it could not be that I should have the feeling of a son if I had not the rights of a son if I were not a child thou wouldst never have given to me that filial affection which no dares to call thee "Father.". Nay, his law never asked for more than human righteousness divine. There is another point under the first head which I must not omit. "Ask of me," saith he, and he gives him unlimited permission to ask, not as Herod who would give only the half of his kingdom, but as one who would give everything to his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things, and by whom he make the worlds. Think not that our longings here below are not shared in by the saints in heaven. There was no kinship between the Lord Jesus and angels, for to which of the angels had the Father said at any time, "Thou art my Son?" As to his humanity our blessed Lord, when he came into this world, underwent a birth which was a remarkable type of our second birth. There is one thing I have noticed, in looking over the old levitical law, under the description of the tabernacle. I am not certain that it is altogether for my good to have kind and generous friends, with whom I may hold fellowship; but I know that it is for my good that I should hold fellowship with Christ, that I should have communion with him, even though it should be in his sufferings. The gold itself was fused in the atoning sacrifice, but the minting of it, making it into that which should be the current coin of the merchant, was the resurrection of Christ. What wise and admirable desires must those be which the Spirit of Wisdom himself works in us! No man has any right to be a son of God. "Oh!" Delivered on Sabbath Evening, August 10, 1856, by the. Any one of them were all-sufficient. 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." But lo, a light shines round about him and he falls to the ground, and he hears a voice crying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." This one thing I know, I am sure that there is nothing in those heights that can separate me from the love of Christ; I will stick to that, whatever revelations there may be to the enthusiastic, whatever raptures and ecstasies and extreme delights any may have, they cannot separate me from Christ. 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. It is very wonderful how the Church of Christ seems always to brighten up at the idea of death by martyrdom. There is a third thing in which we are deficient, namely, liberty, the glorious liberty of the children of God. Shall we not, in some degree, repay the immense debt of our obligation by seeking to make the future also debtors to us, that our descendants may look back and acknowledge that they owe us thank for preserving the Scriptures, for maintaining liberty, for glorifying God? Some may say, "It is the prospect of bankruptcy." There is not a star though it seemeth to sleep in the deep blue firmament, which doth not travel its myriads of miles and work; there is not an ocean, or a river, which is not ever working, either clapping its thousand hands with storms, or bearing on its bosom the freight of nations. Believer, would you be ashamed to stand and be accused as he was, and have false witness born against you? What can you be at? I can sit down and let him plead, and I do not want to get up and conduct the pleading myself. Oh! The tall archangel before the throne is not called God's Son, he is one of the most favoured of his servants, but not his child. Go up; take them. Looking upon the world with the mere eye of sense and reason, we say, "Yes, all things work, but they work contrary to one another. Talk we of his omnipotence? Biblical Commentary (Bible study) Romans 8:12-25. Nay, he himself is ours. Suffering is the college of orthodoxy. Christ is risen from the dead, how can we be condemned? 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. Joyfully and cheerfully for ever shall it be our delight to do the Father's will. and a voice calls, "I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest." Paul. So the little volume is now ready, and I shall be a happy woman if God will use it to make music in any worn and weary heart. The suggestion has, no doubt, been made by others; but I venture to press it upon Christians of all denominations that they may, in turn, urge all their pastors to summon such meetings. There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. We see, in many a land, the proudest dynasties and tyrannies still crushing, with their mountain-weight, every free motion of the consciences and hearts of men. What is that? "Ah!" Prayers which are the offspring of great desires, sublime aspirations, and elevated designs are surely the work of the Holy Spirit, and their power within a man is frequently so great that he cannot find expression for them. "The meek shall inherit the earth, and delight themselves with the abundance of peace." 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. So, when we get the first works of the Spirit of God, we are not to say, "I have attained, I am already perfect, there is nothing further for me to do, or to desire." Above all, commune much with Christ. We go to our lowly homes; we meet with our brethren and sisters here in their earth-built temples; and we are content, so far as these things go, still, how can kings be content till they mount their thrones? Thirdly, we are to be conformed to the image of Christ in our experience. And are we not debtors to them? Silently the forest groweth, anon it is felled; but all the while between its growing and felling it is at work. "Sentimentalism!" for who hath resisted his will? Romans 8:2. Why he is going fast onward in his mad career. If they say that Christ's death does not repair the injury you have done to your fellow-men, tell them that, as far as you can, you mean to make restitution to them; and wherein you have done the world an ill turn, let them know that your Master has done it more good than you ever did it harm. You and I are also groaning for it. 11. 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