Why call him? who is fully assured of his interest in the covenant of grace, in the blood of atonement, and in the glories of heaven! The Spirit of God never prompts us to ask for anything that is unholy or inconsistent with the precepts of the Lord. Is there a place into which your Master went that you would be ashamed to enter? I have told you what that groan is, I need not explain it further. I trust you will lay hold upon that thought; if Christ as God's heir has a perfect right to what his Father has bestowed upon him, even so have we, for our rights are nonexistent. Yes, say we, we have many corruptions. And yet it is within reach of every truly penitent sinner. We expect to see the New Jerusalem descend out of heaven from God. This is a good seaworthy vessel: "It is Christ that died." As sure as thou art God's called child today, thy poverty shall soon be at an end, and thou shalt be rich to all the intents of bliss. But, perhaps, the sweetest proof that the Christian cannot be condemned, is derived from the intercession of Christ, if we view it thus. So shall we be, for because he lives, we shall live also. This truth divides itself thus: it is the will of God that conforms us to Christ's image rather than our own will. But yonder is the Saviour,, and he is called Jesus, "For he shall save his people from their sins." To him fine language is as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, but a groan has music in it. We are priests unto our God. But distinguishing grace has made a difference where no difference naturally was; we are now no longer treated as criminals condemned, but as children and heirs of God. So might I accuse the conscience, and tell you how blind it is, and how it winks at the greatest follies. As for the child of God, he knows no more about his immediate future than you do; but he knows this, that there is nothing in the future that can separate him from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jesus when he was on earth, had a baptism to be baptised with, and how was he straitened until it was accomplished! 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. Then again I say to you, "Tell it not in Gath and publish it not in Askelon, then has a heathen eclipsed a Christian." Remarks upon the Catalogue of Commentaries. Where are those words which you have added, "Whom he did foreknow to repent, to believe, and to persevere in grace?" You went to some place, and asked the price, and thought it too high; then you went away to half-a-dozen other stablekeepers, and could not do any better, so you came back to the first; but he, displeased with you, very possibly said, "I do not want your custom. Shall we not want to have our voices made more loud till they become as thunders, or like many waters, or surely we shall not be able to praise him as we would? no, the poor legalist is like a blind horse going round and round the mill, or like the prisoner going up the treadwheel, and finding himself no higher after all he has done; he has no solid confidence, no firm ground to rest upon. Is he a victor? Paul had been persuaded of this truth by his own experience. We groan within ourselves. I wonder what the things present are with you, my dear hearers. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. Will you take the cross? As Jonathan of old, with his armor, climbed up the steep place in the cleft of the rock and began to mow down his enemies, so, believer, alone or with your friend, as God has called you, climb up, for verily the possession is yours, and you may take it. In this chapter he exhorts them to seek to attain to this standard. Saved by your works! no; but the whole Bible tells us, from beginning to end, that salvation is not by the works of the law, but by the deeds of grace. Ah! Oh! 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. Be not drugged with the laudanum of self-security! Then all thy love, as though there were not another to be loved, is mine, O God, and all thy grace, as though there were never another sinner to partake of it, is mine. They love God as their future Inheritance, they believe that when days and years are past they shall enter into the bosom of God; and their highest joy and delight is the full conviction and belief, that one day they shall dwell for ever near his throne, be hidden in the brightness of his glory, and enjoy his everlasting favor. Now, do you hate God for sparing you? Have I any reason to believe that I have been called according to his purpose? Stay, stay, brother; I have known you do so already, for when all that is Christ's belongs to you, do ye forget that Christ once had a cross, and that belongs to you? First, then, my brethren, a SPECIAL PRIVILEGE mentioned in the text. All God's children are heirs, however numerous the family, and he that shall be born of God last, shall be as much his heir as he who was born first. God would not go down to the earth for payment; it must be brought to him. You come into court with your case, and the counsel on the other side condemns you. He could not be persuaded that nothing could separate us from a thing which did not exist, so he is persuaded, first of all, of the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 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. The young crocodile, I have heard, when broken from the shell, will in a moment begin to put itself in a posture of attack, opening its mouth as if it had been taught and trained. 'The Believer's Challenge' and 'A Challenge and a Shield', Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 5th, 1859, by the. Some have thought that it simply, means that God predestinated men whose future history ho foreknow. The law condemned us in former days, and would again overthrow us if we ventured to meet it unarmed. Therefore, beloved, all the glory must be unto God and not to us. I go to one brother, and I say, "Brother, there is such-and-such an office in the Sabbath-school; will you take it?" Listen to the divine apostle John, where in one of his epistles he is carried away in rhapsody of devout admiration, "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God." God has accepted Christ in the place of his people; and you, accepting Christ to stand in your stead, shall find that your sin is put away, that his righteousness is yours, and that you are "accepted in the Beloved." "To as man as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God"; and to the sons of God alone cometh the Spirit of adoption, and all his helping grace. The Prince of Preachers, Charles H. Spurgeon (19th June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was not only a wonderful orator but also magnificent with his pen. Even as Solomon built the temple because he superintended and ordained all, and yet I know not that he ever fashioned a timber or prepared a stone, so doth the Holy Spirit pray and plead within us by leading us to pray and plead. Rest thou secure. It is a pleasant and precious thing so to wait and so to hope. What is to be done when a man condemns himself? You were not as some who were mere drudges to sin. When bowing before his throne we can boldly say "Abba Father." It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. Ay, but Christ was co-heir with theirs, and when Saul persecuted the poor servants of Jesus, he pet the Master too. 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. 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. It is so; but then my Lord Christ delighted to come to be my Saviour. The world is not at play; it hath an object in its wildest movement. Our sighs are sacred things; these griefs and sighs are too hallowed for us to tell abroad in the streets. And then he goes on giving a description of those who are the sons of God, who could not mean any but those who by a living faith in Christ Jesus, have cast their souls once for all on him. Nay, he himself is ours. He has rendered more of good to men than you ever rendered of evil. How much have you done after all, young man? Look here, this is my confession of faith; here will I hale thy brothers and thy sisters to prison, and beat them in the synagogue and compel them to blaspheme and even hunt them to death, for my breath is threatening, and my heart is as fire against Christ." The Holy Spirit has a wonderful power over renewed hearts, as much power as the skillful minstrel hath over the strings among which he lays his accustomed hand. As far as his own experience went I dare say he was right, but there may be some far inferior to the doctor in genius, who nevertheless were superior in nearness of fellowship with God, and who could therefore go a little farther than the eloquent divine. 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. Be not deceived; it is not so; things are not what they seem; "all things work together." Speak the truth! Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. Recollect, if you are truly called it is a high calling, a calling from on high, and a calling that lifts up your heart, and raises it to the high things of God, eternity, heaven, and holiness. Five Divine acts, through each of which in regular succession the purpose of salvation advances to its accomplishment, are linked by St. Paul into one golden chain, of which one end is let down out of the unknown past, and the other returns to lose itself in the unknown future. He gave to us his heaven, for "where I am, there shall my people be." No ungodly man loves God at least not in the Bible sense of the term. Our little debts we can pay. Christ coined, so to speak, the gold which should be the redemption of his children, but the resurrection was the minting of that gold; it stamped it with the Father's impress, as the current coin of the realm of heaven. 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. It was after death remember that, it was after death that his heart poured out the tribute of blood and water by which we have the double cure; see, then, how he loves us in death and after death. Condemn a man that is at the right hand of God! How can we deserve anything from the being we hate? Let me remind you, that there is a passage in scripture which may tend very much to your edification, and help you in your examination. Therefore, let the future bring with it what it may, all will be well with him. My Substitute has kept the law on my behalf. Well, I wonder what is "to come." For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. I want nothing more. Romans 8:16-17 . Now we must take the next words. Now, Christ is his people's representative. If our title be true and just, so is his, and if his rights of heritage be true and just, so are ours. He said, "Reproach hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness." We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. We believe that in the death of Christ there was a full penalty paid to divine justice for all the sins which the believer can possibly commit. To prove that, however, I will refer you to the express words of scripture: Romans 11:29 "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." He took the great mass of the sins of believers, and piled the whole on Christ; and when he hung upon the cross as his people's Substitute, even his Father hid his face from him. And I do not, I cannot imagine that he would be sitting down in heaven in the posture of ease, unless he had accomplished all unless "It is finished!" "There be moments," says one, "when I feel rebellious; at times my passions lead me astray; but surely there are other favorable seasons when I really am friendly to God, and offer true devotion. His intercession is not in or for the unregenerate. He will write the prayers which I ought to offer upon the tablets of my heart, and I shall see them there, and so I shall be taught how to plead. Oh! If I may be allowed the simile, I would say that this represents in part the work of the Spirit of God in us, suggesting to us the right desire, and bringing all things to our remembrance whatsoever Christ has told us. He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied, and ye who long for his appearing shall be satisfied also when ye wake up in his likeness. Then in James 2:5 ., we are spoken of as being heirs of the kingdom. Little did they know that they had already what they asked for for all the church is now at the right hand of the Father; all the church is now raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Has it lifted up your tastes, so that they are no longer grovelling, but you choose the things that are of God? I showed you that the difficulty is that we know not what we should pray for "as we ought," and the Spirit meets that difficulty by making intercession for us in a right manner. The law has, therefore, more than it asked for, and I am thus not afraid of the anger of the great God. What a heritage lies before us! These are they who can now say, "Draw us, and we will run after thee.". I see "the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." We are deficient in those things for which we groan and wait. 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. ", Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, January 5TH, 1868, by. "It is Christ that died. His precious blood takes away every stain of guilt. O brethren, what honors are ours! So that wish and I do not think there has been a man in this world who has not had it proves that "the carnal mind is enmity against God. He has borne the penalty which I ought to have borne, and I am clear. "What!" Paul himself counted not his life dear unto him that he might win Christ, and be found in him; wherefore he says that he is persuaded that neither death, nor life, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I hear a note of holy praise; alas! 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. Can it be supposed that those who are the children of the devil are nevertheless the children of God? There is nothing in man that can deserve this call; nothing in the best of men that can invite it; but God quickeneth whom he will, and when he sends that call, though it come to the vilest of the vile, down they come speedily and swiftly; they come down from the tree of their sin, and fall prostrate in penitence at the feet of Jesus Christ. We have that work of the Spirit within our souls which always comes before admittance into glory. We see, on the other hand, the truest heroism for the right, and the greatest devotion to the truth in hearts that God has touched. And so addressing you, who love the Lord, under that title; I come at one to the text, "Brethren, we are debtors." I trust that even while I am speaking this morning, Christ may speak with me, and some word that may fall from my lips, unpremeditated and almost without design, shall be sent of God as a message of life unto some dead and corrupt heart here, and some man who has lived in sin hitherto, shall now live to righteousness, and live to Christ. Impossible! We must not pry into it, but we know that he was verily of the nature of God. I beseech thee, "Agree with thy creditor quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest he deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer to cast thee into prison: verily I say unto thee, thou shall not come out till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. The first who takes up the believer's challenge is Satan. I can see that part of the chain, which is named "calling," but blessed be God, that is joined to the side that is called "election," and I may be also quite clear that it is joined on to the other side, the glorious end of "glorification." I cannot of course picture what your precise trouble is. He first of all stirred up their pure minds by way of remembrance as to their sonship, for saith he "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." Hope is the grand anchor by whose means we ride out the present storm. Does he contribute anything to his new life? Edwards's theological work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his . So the enquirer asked him again, "But what is . It is Christ that died." Directions for our behaviour, as members of civil society, Rom. 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 firstborn of the divine family was more sorely chastened than any other of the household; he was smitten of God and afflicted till, as the climax of all, he cried Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani. "Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved. Stand up ye warriors of the truth, stand up firmly, for ye are debtors to the future, even as ye are debtors to the past. Therefore leaving the principles. I will say no more; only may God give us all an interest in these four precious things. Sow well, for others must reap. Do you know I am one of the best churchmen in the world; the very best, if you will judge me by the articles, and the very worst, if you measure me in any other way. You had a godly father; you had a Christian mother; you were trained in the fear of God. says the accuser "but you sinned against light and knowledge. He whose crown shineth the brightest, will know when he hath lost a jewel. 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. I would recommend that to many Christians. May he help us to expound, as he has already given us the passage to explain. Now which shall it be! You know the contrast in the speech between different persons concerning this doctrine. So in regard to God. In his light shall we see light: I pray, therefore, that we may be helped of the Spirit while we consider his mysterious operations, that we may not fall into error or miss precious truth through blindness of heart. Then, too, a worse than Herod sought to kill us. And this solemn text drops an awful warning: "How shall ye escape, if ye neglect so great salvation." I take it thus: Christ by his death paid to his Father the full price of what we owed to him. Suddenly the Goths, the old enemies of Rome, fell upon the city. Memory is fallen. "If children then heirs." "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors." traitor against God!" Now, observe that PREDESTINATION IS THE IMPELLING FORCE TOWARDS THIS CONFORMITY. This and this alone can restore the peace of divided families, and unite disputing relatives. The first is, that this body of ours is not delivered. Oh! Now, therefore, the one thing to which the Lord is working us through his Spirit, both by providence and by grace, is the likeness of the Lord from heaven. If such be the bright hope that cheers us, we may well groan for its realisation, crying out. And now at Gods right hand there is not left a record of thy sin; for when our Lord Jesus Christ quitted the tomb, he left thy sin buried in it once for all cast away never to be recovered. Look around, above, beneath, and all things work. They all work to bring him to Paradise all work to bring him to the Saviour's feet. Romans 8:1 is widely misunderstood for two reasons: first, katakrima, the word typically translated as condemnation, does not mean that. "If thou be the Son of God." It seems, then, dear friends, that PAUL'S PERSUASION HELPED TO BRING HIM TO VICTORY. Yet it is not the natural innocence of his heart, but the perfect mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, which gives him this amazing confidence. The traveller has reached the hospice. Some say that this doctrine would send us to sleep; it never does, it wakes us up. Can those eyes flash lightnings on the man whom once they saw in sin, and thence with rays of love they did lift him up to joy, and peace, and purity? He will guide you both negatively and positively. We heard of abundant harvests, but we soon discovered that they were all a dream, and that there would be scant in the worker's cottage. First, in 8:37 he says that "we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.". Napoleon had been used to gilded halls, and all the pomp and glory of imperial state, and it was hard to be reduced to a handful of servants. were to be understood in its broadest and most unlimited sense. HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THIS, "Brethren, we are debtors"? Yes, it would. Or, perhaps, you were more polite; you did not curse and swear, but the accusation comes: "You argued against God and his Son, and against his blessed gospel; you have robbed him of his glory." Still, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.". Here are two very wonderful challenges thrown out by the apostle Paul. O Paul, the thunderbolt of God will smite thee! We will answer these and other questions along the way: Should sin in my life cause me to question whether or not I am in Christ? Thine infinite wisdom, O God, is mine to guide me. 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