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. Nay, he is not only dead, but he is corrupt; his lusts, like the worms, have crept into him, a foul stench riseth up into the nostrils of justice, God abhorreth him, and justice crieth, "Bury the dead out of my sight, cast it into the fire, let it be consumed." My soul was in raptures when I mused yesterday upon two sweet thoughts; they are but simple and plain, but they were very interesting to me. Let these few sentences suffice for a preface. I wish you now to observe that we are linked with the creation. A man may be full of faith and joy spiritually, but I will defy him under some forms of disease to feel as he would. The sighing of the prisoner surely cometh up into the ears of the Lord. Psalms 73:26 . Remember the passage "He is able also to save them unto the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." It is his business to be the accuser of the brethren, and he carries it on with very great vigour. We have seen that Christ's death enables us to conquer our foes, and frees us from our sins. You and I are also groaning for it. Close beside the bottomless pit of our iniquity stands the cross whereon Christ has made recompense for all our faults; and when we set Christ over against the gulf of our sin, we see that he far transcends it. The Spirit saith Come, and the bride saith Come not the bride on earth only, but the bride in heaven saith the same, bidding the happy day speed on when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. The doctrine must be stated in its naked truth. "Who is he that condemneth? My mind wanders: I chatter like a crane; I roar like a beast in pain; I moan in the brokenness of my heart, but oh, my God, I know not what it is my inmost spirit needs; or if I know it, I know not how to frame my petition aright before thee. Why, dying is the end of work; it is living that is hard work. The practical part follows, wherein we find, 1. "If children then heirs," says the apostle; therefore, whatever Christ has we have, and though we may be very poor and unknown, yet whatever belongs to Christ to us. And I see him look downwards; there lies the old dragon, bound in chains, the accuser of the brethren; and the apostle stares him in the face, and says, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" There is nothing about death that the believer should construe it into a fear that it will separate him from the love of Christ. A groan cometh not from the lips, but from the heart. Many times you put him away. There is only one way to successfully resist the onset of the arch-enemy; but that one way ensures certain victory. The new life which God has given to us is not ours that we should ascribe its excellence to our own merit: the new nature is Christ's peculiarly; as it is Christ's image and Christ's creation, so it is for Christ's glory alone. 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." He had endured persecution, imprisonment, famine, shipwreck, he had suffered from scorn and scandal, pain of body, and depression of spirit. believe that thou art secure; that voice which called thee, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours; Rest assured, the heart that called thee, beats with infinite love towards thee, a love undying, that many waters cannot quench, and that floods cannot drown. MY DEAR READERS, Your weekly preacher is still weakly; but though his progress towards strength is slow, it has been steadily maintained during the late trying weather. A lack of depth in the inner life accounts for most of the doctrinal error in the church. William Nicoll Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:28-30. I shall not refer to any class of society, and say of them, we are debtors, except to one, and that is the poor. He who hung on high Calvary was such a lover of the souls of men that from that glorious fact I am brought to this blessed persuasion, "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. "The glorious liberty" may be translated, "The liberty of glory." He instructs us as to our need, and as to the promises of God which refer to that need. III. Oh what riches! how long wilt thou not avenge thine own elect?" It is the challenge of a justified sinner protesting with holy and inspired fervour that his character is clear and his conscience clean, even in the sight of heaven. We are to be like him then in nature, in relation, in experience. Be not deceived; it is not so; things are not what they seem; "all things work together." It is a traveller lost in the deep snow on the mountain pass. Who is Christ, and who is it with whom he intercedes. The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. He may see the earth burned, but into the fire of hell he can never go. But listen to another word of the Lord in the first epistle of John, iii. Catalogue of Commentaries & Expositions. "It is Christ that died. The apostle tells us that "they without us cannot be made perfect;" that is, until our bodies are raised, theirs cannot be raised, until we get our adoption day, neither can they get theirs. OLD TESTAMENT. One blow might, we should have imagined, have been enough to have smitten to death our unbelief for ever; the cross ought to have been enough for the crucifixion of our infidelity, yet God, foreseeing the strength of our unbelief, hath been pleased to smite it four times that it might be razed to rise no more. But, secondly, the object of grace is that there may be some in heaven with whom Christ can hold brotherly converse. 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 shall be joyful when he declares the Lord's name unto his brethren. Sometimes I have thought that impossible. Come on thou world in arms! I will shew you yet again. True believers love God as their Father; they have "the spirit of adoption, whereby they cry Abba, Father." Wait awhile; that weary head shall soon be girt with a crown. Thine eternity, O God, is mine to keep me in existence, that I may ever be preserved. 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. LONDON: PASSMORE AND ALABASTER, Paternoster Buildings; and of all Booksellers. I am now dead to the law. First comes Satan; then the world; then conscience; and last of all the law of God. He loved me to the death; and albeit that he foresaw and foreknew that I should reject him, yet he would not take "No" for answer from me; but he resolved that his true grace should conquer me truly, and make me willing in the day of his power. and that man lives. As to our spirits, we have liberty to soar into the third heaven, and sit in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus; but as for our bodies, we can only roam about this narrow cell of earth, and feel that it is not the place for us. and he went forth, not knowing whither he went. My brother with great experience, my sister with enlarged acquaintance with Christ, ye have not yet known the harvest, you have only reaped the first handful of corn. Well, I wonder what is "to come." 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. The great scheme of salvation is like those chains which we sometimes see at horse-ferries. Provision for Christian living is in the Person of the Holy Spirit. Hezekiah said, "like a crane or a swallow did I chatter." HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 1009, 978, 400. I defy you to exhaust that topic, though you should think about it all the days of the next week, nay, though you should muse upon it till eternity commences with your soul. He turned round upon the men who carried him, as they thought, to his death, and said to them, "Now will you believe that all things work together for God?" Have I been born again from above? you might as well try to go to America in a paper boat!" Do I sympathize with him in his objects and aims? (2) They may have thought him to teach that we should sin in order to get more grace (6:1) and, therefore, may have made his teaching of justification by faith an excuse for immoral conduct. Oh Christian, this should ever be your spirit, only in a higher degree. It there be a touch of our finger anywhere upon the vessel, it mars and does not beautify. In this volume we give you Charles H. Spurgeon commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans. 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. Enlarge thine expectations seek great things from the God of heaven and he will give them to thee; but by no means fold thine arms in sloth, and sit down upon the bed of carnal security. 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. This entry was posted in New Park Street - Vol 5 and tagged believer's challenge, gospel, Jesus died rose again, spurgeon podcast, spurgeon romans 8, Spurgeon sermon 256 on February 11, 2020 by zachkispert. 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. If our title be true and just, so is his, and if his rights of heritage be true and just, so are ours. Having reaped handfuls, we long for sheaves. 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