Consider how much you owe to his forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts he loves you as infinitely as ever; and after a myriad of sins, his Spirit still resides within you. He attacks us on the right hand and on the left, from beneath and from above. leaving not so much as a single drop of wormwood or gall for any to drink who put their trust in him. Oh, what a glorious doctrine is that of election, when a man can see himself to be elect. "Ah!" And lo, there upon the throne of judgment sits the only one who can condemn; and who is that? It will be the Spirit's own self pleading in me, and by me, and through me, before the throne of grace. Let the sacred mounds of our fathers' sepulchres speak to us. Look at our history. Do observe with care the fact that he is always described in heaven as sitting down. He died for thee, if now thou dost confess thy guilt. When the speaker has almost lost the thread of his discourse he turns his ear, and the prompter gives him the catch-word and aids his memory. 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 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. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 1009, 978, 400. There were no seats whatever provided tor the priests. No one has come to rescue him, and indeed he has fallen into a place from which escape is impossible. Furthermore, this conformity to Christ lies in relationship as well as in nature. "I don't know," said he, "how it will, but for my good I know it will work, and you shall see it so." What a debtor thou art to Divine Sovereignty! Your very happiness makes you groan; your joy, like a swollen spring, longs to leap up like some Iceland Geyser, climbing to the skies, and it heaves and groans within the bowels of your spirit for want of space and room by which to manifest itself to men. Now, please to notice that my text is in the present tense. God is angry with them, and they know it. In these words I see first, a challenge to all comers: "Who is he that condemneth?" Then, consider our Lord's experience with regard to the prince of the power of the air. The trumpet of the gospel sounds aloud to every man in our congregations "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." "All things are yours, for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.". I know that I have robbed God of his glory, but Christ has brought all the glory back again. If the believer can take anything and everything to God, then he learns to glory in infirmity, and to rejoice in tribulation; but sometimes we are in such confusion of mind that we know not what we should pray for as we ought. Did an earthly benefactor feed you, would you hate him? Brethren, we have repentance, that gem of the first water. There is a picture for you to contemplate, God and ourselves joined together by the bonds of love in Christ Jesus. Some may say, "It is the prospect of bankruptcy." 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? The world will begin to throw in the believer's teeth all his former iniquities, when he sets forth with the cry, "Who is he that condemneth?" We are heirs with Christ. And let the idle and slothful remember that they are a great anomaly; they are blots in the great work-writing of God; they mean nothing; in all the book of letters with which God has written out the great word "work," they are nothing at all. Has it lifted up your tastes, so that they are no longer grovelling, but you choose the things that are of God? Is he exalted? Be patient, and you only feel the rod as it is in God's hands, but when you are impatient and clutch at the rod, you briny it down with the weight of God's hand and your own hand too. Now, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." The rod has been upon our back and we have smarted very sore, but in the darkest hour we have been able to say, "The time is in my Father's hands; I cannot murmur; I would not repine; I feel it is but right that I should suffer, otherwise my Father would never have made me suffer." If it be but an adjunct of his nature to be an enemy, he may change himself into a friend; but if it is the very essence of his existence to be enmity, positive enmity, enmity cannot change itself. The Lord bless this assembly, for Christ's sake. Commentaries; Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible; Romans 8; Verses 38-39 - Romans 8:38-39. . I know, besides this, nothing which could support this new theory. Tell the men of the world that it is right that they condemn you for all your past life, for doubtless you have been what they say you are, you will not dispute that fact; but tell them also that what Paul wrote to the Christians at Corinth is true of you, "Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." There is therefore now no condemnation: The simple declaration of no condemnation comes to those who are in Christ Jesus. 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. Man was originally made in the image of God, but by sin he has defaced that image, and now we who are born into this world are fashioned, not in the heavenly image of God, but in the earthy image of the fallen Adam. But anyhow, things present cannot separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. What they are to us they are to our co-heir. Now, if I understand the passage before us, it means this. It is curious to see how some men are proud of being greater debtors than others. Brethren, faith can do wonders. If there had been a man, in the history of the world, who from his infancy had known God, and who had grown up serving him, devoting himself entirely to the cause of the Lord Christ; and if he had kept the commandments without fail, as far as man could judge, it would be a very hazardous thing even for him to say. We shall be called upon to notice, this morning, first, the truthfulness of this assertion; secondly, the universality of the evil here complained of; thirdly, we will still further enter into the depths of the subject, and press it to your hearts, by showing the enormity of the evil; and after that, should we have time, we will deduce one or two doctrines from the general fact. I thought Christians were a humble, timid people." Coming events cast their shadows before them, and when God is about to bless his people his coming favour casts the shadow of prayer over the church. I must confess that I am more afraid of life than of death. then I must love him," and he was quickened in that selfsame hour. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. The Lord bless you! Romans 8:28 . So the high priest takes off his royal robes, and puts on the garments of the minor priest, and goes within the veil, and sprinkles the blood upon the mercy-seat. If not, I beseech thee, stop and consider! But this should not be so. 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?" Brutus slays his sons; but some Christians would spare their sins. and in order to excuse his boldness, he gives us four reasons why he can never be condemned. We generally receive more comfort at the cross than we do at the empty sepulchre. I wish you now to observe that we are linked with the creation. It is not with us a matter of doubt; we have tried it, we have proved it. I. It is a pleasant and precious thing so to wait and so to hope. For which of these works do ye hate God? No ungodly man loves God at least not in the Bible sense of the term. "Well," said he, "if you must know my persuasion, this is it, 'I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'" Our first reason for knowing that we cannot be condemned is, because Christ has died for us. At least, they seem to have lost their first love to him far sooner than they did to his servant. 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. The adoption is not manifested yet, the children are not yet openly declared. We have before us in the text the four marvellous pillars upon which the Christian rests his hope. There is in the carnal mind of an infant, enmity against God; it is not developed, but it lieth there. 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? "These," says he, "passed through great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb: ask them!" But no, Camillus gathers together his body of followers, falls upon the Goths, routs them and enters in triumph into Rome though he was an exile. When you get upstairs into your chamber this evening to pray, and find you cannot pray, but have to moan out, "Lord, I am too full of anguish and too perplexed to pray, hear thou the voice of my roaring," though you reach to nothing else you will be really praying. But there is nothing in the-depths that can separate us from the love of Christ. You see what you are to come to, therefore, set Christ before your eyes always. is this the cause of thine enmity? You cannot imagine, surely, that God is to allow heathens to eclipse his children. Wherefore, since it is only our Judge who can condemn us, and since he is the very Person who has paid our debt for us, and put our sin away, we dare to repeat again, with additional emphasis, our ringing challenge to all the universe, "Who is he that condemneth?". Did not they, by bitter suffering, achieve our liberty for us? The evil one may whisper, "If thou be the son of God." So is it with our text. It needs no stretch of imagination to conceive this place to be a Roman amphitheatre. If I have, then God purposed that I should do so, and the whole of this great promise is mine. Can those lips say, "Depart, ye cursed," to the man for whom they once did intercede? Why call him? Yes, I know that it was so; and Christ, to meet my sin against knowledge brings a sacrifice offered with his own full knowledge of all that it involved. Ah! 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"? A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Romans taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. The Eternal Son desired association with beings who should be sons as he was, towards whom he could stand in a close relationship as being like to them in nature and Sonship, and the Father therefore ordained that a seed whom he has chosen should be conformed to the image of the Son, that his Son might head up and be chief among an order of beings more nearly akin to God than any other. I think I could indeed plead if I were pleading for myself. Are you ready to throw up your own claim, and say, "I will not be heir of anything?" 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. There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. We believe in Christ, and so we come to be in Christ by our believing; and now we are persuaded that, to as many as receive Christ, to them gives he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, and therefore all who believe in Jesus are beloved of the Lord, not because of anything good in them, but for Jesus Christ's sake. Believing supplications are forecasts of the future, He who prayeth in faith is like the seer of old, he sees that which is to be: his holy expectancy, like a telescope, brings distant objects near to him. If it be settled in our mind by the true witness the spirit within us, and the Spirit of God, that we are God's children, what a NOBLE PRIVILEGE now appears to our view. If ever there lived a man who has reason to be grateful to Almighty God, I think I am that man. 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. WE have here the description of a true Christian, and a declaration of that Christian's blessedness. If you follow after Christ, and find eternal life, when they hear of it, they will sneer at you, and bring up all your past life against you. It is not possible for us to be divine, yet it is written that we are made "partakers of the divine nature." I feel, sir, that I could believe God; but then at the time I feel so there is not much to believe." Has thy heart never said, "Would to God these sins were not forbidden! We shall have joy too, for we shall have his joy. He that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. It would be a foolish pride indeed, if two prisoners in the Queen's Bench were to boast, one saying, "I owe a hundred pounds," and the other replying, "I am a greater gentleman than you are, for I owe a thousand." Sound conviction of sin, deep humiliation on account of it, and a sense of utter weakness and unworthiness naturally conduct the mind to the belief of the doctrines of grace, while shallowness in these matters leaves a man content with a superficial creed. 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. Well, certainly, you made no pretension to it six months ago; you were about as black as a man could be." "All things work together," for that kind of good to God's people. The great machine of this world is not only in motion, but there is something weaving in it, which as yet mortal eye hath not fully seen, which our text hinteth at when it says, It is working out good for God's people. He means that, if we were tempted by the love of life to deny Christ' we should be strengthened so that we should not deny him even to save our lives, for his people have been brave enough in this respect in all times. 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. Surely the apostle was right when he said, "Yea rather, who hath risen from the dead." He looked forward with glad anticipation to the time when the wain should creak beneath the sheaves, and when the harvest home should be shouted at the door of the barn. Another text. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: Keep it up; be as earnest to-day as you were twenty years ago, when you were baptized and joined the church: "Show the same diligence unto the end." Now, at the present moment all things work. His death was the digging of the well of salvation. Many times you put him away. All that he has, all that he is, therefore, belongeth to us. Oh! *See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. Knowing that my sin deserved death, he willingly died, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring me to God. I shall direct your joyous attention to one precious jewel in your treasury, namely, your adoption into the family of God. and bleeds his life away in agony, then is the law of God abundantly honoured. I have thought it over, I have fully considered it, I have-thoroughly weighed it, and I have come to this persuasion, that the love of God is shed abroad in my heart.". Everywhere the earth works; mountains work: nature in its inmost bowels is at work; even the center of the great heart of the world is ever beating; sometimes we discover its working in the volcano and the earthquake, but even when most still all things are ever working. 13:1-14. I have broken away from its thralldom; the new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law of grace has set me free from the domination of the law of sin and death. Remember, it is not the one thing alone that is for your good; it is the one thing put with another thing, and that with a third, and that with a fourth, and all these mixed together, that work for your good. Did you ever want to hire a horse in a market-town? But all things pass away. Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. The sermons he preached touched the lives of thousands. We are predestinated to be conformed to Christ in that respect; the serpent's subtlety and cruelty will assail us also. (Who would wish that they should? 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. Yonder woman is one of the daughters of the King, but see how pale she is, what furrows are upon her brow! 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. Are you, my dear hearer, persuaded that it is so with you? No; the blood must he taken to the mercy-seat, God will not stoop when he is just; it must be brought to him. As long as you go with evil companions, they will applaud you. Next survey our dear covenant Head in his experience in relation to men. If he were an uneducated man he would be in a poor plight. You see, my dear hearers, if it were possible for the work of grace in your souls to be of no avail, nothing more could be done for you. At this time our subjects for consideration shall be, firstly, the help which the Holy Spirit gives; secondly, the prayers which he inspires; and thirdly, the success which such prayers ore certain to obtain. IV. I will count it to be my highest glory if I may be made a knight of the cross, and may carry that cross upon my shoulder: to the world a badge of dishonor, but to me the ensign of glory, the escutcheon of honor. O dear friends, what comfort lies in this word, "It is Christ that died."! 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." That is, whatever Christ possesses, as heir of all things, belongs to us. We groan within ourselves. I will now proclaim to you the way of salvation. Are you fully persuaded of the love of God, the love of the Father who chose us, because he would choose us, for nothing but his love; the love of Jesus, the Son of God, who bowed himself from his glory that he might redeem us from our shame; the love of the Holy Ghost who has quickened us, and who comes to dwell in us that we may by-and-by dwell with him? The force that is conforming us to Christ is the will of God in predestination. How greatly we ought to value the Holy Spirit, because when we are in the dark he gives us light, and when our perplexed spirit is so befogged and beclouded that it cannot see its own need, and cannot find out the appropriate promise in the Scriptures, the Spirit of God comes in and teaches us all things, and brings all things to our remembrance, whatsoever our Lord has told us. This does not often strike us. That leads me to pass on to the second thing of which Paul was persuaded. for if not, inasmuch as you reject one part of the inheritance you reject the rest. Now, we also, though we at our conversion are new creatures, are also said to be "begotten again into a lively hope." Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 11th, 1880, by. This is just what is forgotten in these days. This counsellor would suggest the line of pleading, arrange the arguments, and put them into right courtly language. HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THIS, "Brethren, we are debtors"? Having reaped handfuls, we long for sheaves. I could indicate some dear friends here who I hope are not in the depths now, but I have seen them there. You go to your bed, but your conscience is there, and it will not sleep. 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!" See, brethren, he enters into glory, but not for himself alone, for it is written, "Whither the forerunner is for us entered." Another doctrine we gather from this is, the necessity of an entire change of our nature. "A fiction!" Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee, and thou hast sinned; therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.". These divine persons always work together, and there is a common desire for the glory of each blessed Person of the Divine Unity, and therefore it cannot be conceived without profanity, that anything could be the mind of the Holy Spirit and not be the mind of the Father and the mind of the Son. I do consider that in this there is an argument why no believer ever can perish. For when God made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 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. Let us make sure that the foundation is laid, but let us not have continually to lay it again. No man has any right to be a son of God. Now, beloved, it is in such a plight as this that the Holy Ghost aids us with his divine help. Pause and think of thy state; and if thou knowest thine own sinfulness this day, believe on Christ, who came to save sinners, and that done, all things shall work for thee, the tumbling avalanche, the rumbling earthquake the tottering pillars of heaven, all, when they fall or shake, shall not hurt thee, they shall still work out thy good. You must be tempted of Satan, you must be tried by the world, the flesh, of the devil. Because he has remitted all our debt of sin, we are all the more indebted to him in another sense. Now Jesus by his death paid all the debt; to the utmost farthing that was due from us to God Christ did pay by his death. Let her, then, as Christ's queen, claim the earth as hers, and send her heralds forth from sea to sea to bid all men bow before him, and confess him to be their King. The strifes of barons and kings for mastery might have been thought to be likely to tread out the last spark of British liberty; but they did rather kindle the pile. Now, why did you come here till you had paid your debt? And he came before his Father's throne and said, "There it is; the full price: I have brought it all." "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." You cannot deny it. When Christ was God's heir, and was here on earth, he was heir of the cross, heir of shame, and spitting, and cruel mockings, and scourgings. were to be understood in its broadest and most unlimited sense. Think of thyself now, not as a man or separate individual, but as a member of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. The whole creation is fair and beautiful even in its present condition. If we are predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son, the Lord has predestinated us to much tribulation, and through it shall we inherit the kingdom. If this be his ardent love of the Godhead, what must his hatred thereof be? Would you forge the iron and strike the dagger into the heart of your best friend? you are quarreling with this divine arrangement, you are beginning to differ with this blessed policy of God. Remember, in this, too, Christ is your co-heir. Now why call Zaccheus? I also am of that persuasion. I have heard that in the Marshalsea of old they did take rank according to the greatness of their debts. The sighing of the prisoner surely cometh up into the ears of the Lord. I hear a ribald song; that music of hell shall jar in my ear when gray hairs shall be upon my head. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. He went through the streets, and people whispered, "That is the general, the valiant one," but he was not publicly acknowledged. and do we not feel that we shall lay all our honors, whatever they may be, at his dear feet, who hath according to his abundant mercy predestinated us to be conformed to the image of his Son? 7, 8. These are they who can now say, "Draw us, and we will run after thee.". In the next verse we are described as hoping. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. It is Christ that died." 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." I wish that all here present had a share in my blessed text. I have thus given you the four props and pillars of the believer's faith. We have a work to do, as great as our forefathers, and, perhaps, far greater. 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