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Said he, "All things work together for good; but perhaps, any one of those 'all things' might destroy us if taken alone. The highest good a Christian has here is good spiritual. We are already made "new creatures in Christ Jesus," by the effectual working of the mighty lower of God the Holy Ghost. Would you believe it, that the man whom Christ intends to call is the worst man in Jericho the extortioner? As God, by his own right, the Lord Jesus is possessor of all things, since he made and supports all things; but as Jesus, the mediator, the federal head of the covenant of grace, he hath no rights apart from his people. "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. It is not poured out on the ground; it is on the mercy-seat, it is on the throne; it speaks in the very ears of God, and it must of a surety prevail. 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. 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. Now in proportion as God's determination has been carried out in us, we also act to God as children towards a loving father, and whereas the children of darkness speak of their own, and like their father, who is a liar, speak the lie; and like their father, who is a murderer, act out wrath and bitterness, even so the children of God speak the truth, for God is true, and they are full of love, for God is love; and their life is light, for their God is light. And he could not think that it could be so; as he turned the matter over mentally, he said, "If they be indeed one with Christ, I am persuaded that nothing can separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". So that though I said the drift of the text was spiritual good, yet sometimes in the main current there may be carried some rich and rare temporal benefits for God's children as well as the richer spiritual blessings. Another text. With that attack upon his Sonship the fiend commenced the battle. O God, thou Judge of all, my spirit meets thee robed in my Saviour's righteousness, and salutes thee as my Father and my all. He is delivered and I am delivered too. ", Another says, "Yes, but then you have been specially guilty, there is great sin against a great God. Tell him that you are a sinner, and that if he should paint your sin in its blackest colours, you would not even then despair, for it would still be true that Christ "is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him." One of two joint heirs has no right apart from the other. I think, dear friends, you will all admit that if a man can pray, his trouble is at once lightened. There is a result to come of it of the best kind. Consider what you owe to his power; how he has raised you from your death in sin, and how he has preserved your spiritual life, how he has kept you from falling, and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way! Exactly so, therefore if we be heirs, as Christ Jesus is the heir of all things, we are "joint heirs with Christ." Everything that is and is done, worketh out some great end and purpose. All things work together for a Christian's lasting good. I can always believe the past, and always believe the future, but the present, the present, the present, that is what staggers faith. He might have sent you to hell; but you are here. It is as when two dear friends lovingly embrace with their arms around each other's neck, there is a double link binding them together. Now, suppose I should put the following question to any converted man in this hall. Yes, but "Jesus died;" and say what thou wilt, O conscience, remind me of what thou wilt; lo this shall be my sure reply in "Jesus died." Ay, and when Christ would have pulled you away, you held hard on to your sin! 19. But I ask you, does your spirit say to-day "I am God's child." Not all the sophisms of the learned, nor all the legerdemain of the cunning, will ever be able to sweep the doctrine of election out of Holy Scripture. You can say, "God has given these souls to Christ, I am going to take them in Christ's name." LONDON: PASSMORE AND ALABASTER, Paternoster Buildings; and of all Booksellers. For memory graspeth with an iron hand ill things, but the good she holdeth with feeble fingers. Again, I hear him cry, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" He may have thought, with a great many in the present day, that it was necessary to caution believers against falling from grace, and to be a little dubious about their final perseverance in the ways of God; but, if he ever had such fears, he gave them up, and said, "I am, yes, I am persuaded that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.". when I can find enough for my faith to be satisfied with even in the digging of the well, what shall be my satisfaction when I see it overflowing its brim, and springing up with life everlasting? Now, sir, if it is not wrong for God to do the thing, how can it be wrong for God to purpose to do the thing? God's people are known by their outward mark: they love God, and the secret cause of their loving God is this God chose them from before the foundation of the world that they should love him, and he sent forth the call of his grace, so that they were called according to his purpose, and were led by grace to love and to fear him. They are lambs in the harmlessness of their dispositions, but they have the courage of lions when they defend the honours of their King. If so, then the sweet things which we shall have to say this morning are thine. And this solemn text drops an awful warning: "How shall ye escape, if ye neglect so great salvation." But the blessed Spirit does more than this, he will often direct the mind to the special subject of prayer. 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. we may look around and defy all our sins to destroy us. Series (High Quality) Series (Low Quality) Buy CD Album This sermon series includes the following 12 messages: The Spirit Takes Us from Sin to Righteousness Romans 8:1-11 Apr 24 1983 45-57 Audio Did he not tell us this as an encouragement to believe that we shall receive all needful blessings? I will not say, "Let us sink or swim together," for there is no sinking to a soul that rests in Christ. How joyfully will we serve him, how rapturously adore him. But rather, lest there should be a shadow of a doubt, that thou canst not be condemned, thy debts are cancelled. He uses the word "likewise" to intimate that in the same manner as hope sustains the soul, so does the Holy Spirit strengthen us under trial. Say, "I count it to be my joy to be permitted to be a partaker of the sufferings of Christ. None but he shall ever unroll that sacred record and read it to the assembled world. The children look up to the firstborn. He uses the aorist (past) tense, not the present. If in your Bible you turn to 2 Timothy 1:9 , you will read these words "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling." The surety paid the debt." Now, conscience, answer another question! Sovereign Mercy comes, and there lies this unconscious, lifeless mass of sin; Sovereign Grace cries, either by the minister, or else directly without any agency, by the Spirit of God, "come forth!" He gave to us the fulness of his joy, for "my joy shall be in you, that your joy may be full." The death of Christ gives us a full salvation. Simply because the call of God comes to unworthy sinners. The wolf of famine cannot gnaw the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link, the hammer of hell cannot break the chain; old time cannot devour it with rust, nor eternity dissolve it, with all its ages. Look! It is true, that by birth we are at enmity with God. Those whom the Lord looked upon with favor as he foresaw them, he has predestinated to he conformed to the image of his Son. The whole creation is said to be groaning for its share in that freedom. *See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. For spiritual blessings which we know to be according to the divine will we could ask with confidence, but perhaps these would not meet our peculiar circumstances. 3. We have at this present moment in us certain priceless things which distinguish us as believers in Christ from all the rest of God's creatures. God bless you, ye sons of God, and may those of you who are strangers to him, be convinced and converted by this sermon, and seek that grace by which alone you can have your prayer fulfilled: Delivered on Sunday Morning, July the 28th, 1861 by the, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, THE APOSTLE has proceeded through a simple but exceedingly forcible train of reasoning till he gains this glorious point "Joint heirs with Christ." Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, March 24th, 1872, by. Oh! All that he has, all that he is, therefore, belongeth to us. I do believe that there is a supernatural way in which apart from means, the Spirit of God communicates with the spirit of man. The snow is numbing his limbs, and his soul is breathed out with many a groan. Then in James 2:5 ., we are spoken of as being heirs of the kingdom. Yes, but mark, what is true one day is not false another; "the carnal mind is enmity against God" at all times. Never martyr suffered more for Christ than that man suffered for his word's sake. Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. The text says, "The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." MY brethren, what a contrast there is between the present and future estate of the child of God! And now my hearers, let me just utter this personal appeal to you. It will cost you many a pang to keep that confidence; but oh! We may be brought into such perturbation of mind, and perplexity of heart, that we do not know how to pray. That is the first illustration I will give you of what is meant by effectual calling. And they speak not; "because," says Paul, "I have obtained mercy who was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious, that in me first he might show forth all longsuffering." When Christ gave himself for us, he gave us all the rights and privileges which went with himself, so that now he has, as our Brother, no heritage apart from us, although, as Eternal God, he hath essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend. Let them "rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say rejoice.". We are saved by hope. God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. The plain, simple spirit of the humble-minded Christian cries, "I am God's child." These are they who can now say, "Draw us, and we will run after thee.". He might say, as Jesus did to the Jews, "For which of these works do ye stone me?" Curtius puts on his helmet, and his armour, mounts his horse and leaps into the cleft, which is said to have filled at once, because courage, valour, and patriotism, were the best things in Rome. I would invite you, my brethren in Christ Jesus, this morning, to do three things; first, let us consider the terms of the will "joint heirs with Christ;" secondly, let us go forth and view the estates what it is of which we are joint heirs; and when we have done so, let us proceed at once to administer, for God hath made his children administrators as web as heirs. The greatest piety cannot preserve a man from growing old, and although in grace, he may be "like a young cedar, fresh and green," yet the body will have its grey hairs, and the strong man will be brought to totter on the staff. In another place he calls himself the very chief of sinners; and yet it is this man who dares to ask the question, "Who is he that condemneth?" how ought we day by day to seek, by living unto God, to acknowledge the debt we owe to him; and, if we cannot pay him the principal, yet to give him some little interest upon the talent which he has lent to us, and upon those stupendous mercies which he has granted to us. You took a pleasure in it. 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. All the troubles of a Christian do but wash him nearer heaven; the rough winds do but hurry his passage across the straits of this life to the port of eternal peace. "He was despised and rejected of men." 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." THE PROTEST OF an innocent man against the charge of an accuser may well be strong and vehement. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. It is something on the part of a debtor if he will but acknowledge the claim of his creditor. ", A further argument I might find in the fact, that the best of men have been always the readiest to confess their depravity. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 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