We are thankful to have such a groaning. He cannot reverse his grace; it cannot be that the throne of condemnation shall be exalted on the ruins of the cross. We may understand it in a thousand sense, for indeed we are debtors. I hear a brave, strong voice, crying, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" And let me further remark, that the right hand is the place of power. 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. And now I must return to the word "work" to notice the tense of it. But what I do not like is when they look down from those awful heights upon us poor Christians and say that they cannot believe in us because we are anxious, because we practice self-examination, because we have to struggle against sin. "To the very uttermost" he is able to save, seeing he ever lives to intercede the strongest argument of the whole four. 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." You go out to your pleasures, but your conscience goes with you, and spoils your mirth. But the man that yearns after more holiness, the man that sighs after God, the man that groans after perfection, the man that is discontented with his sinful self, the man that feels he cannot be easy till he is made like Christ, that is the man who is blessed indeed. I feel that to the knee that dandled me and the breast that gave me sustenance, I owe more than I can ever pay; and to him who taught me, and led me in the paths of truth I owe so much, that I dare not speak of the tremendous weight of obligation due to him. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. You think you can do wondrous things; you say. There was a young man here, who exactly answered to the description I gave, and who wrote home to his mother something like this (I have the letter): "I went to Spurgeon's Tabernacle on Sunday night, and I heard such a sermon. Therefore it is that we groan. Oh! I owe nothing to the past, I owe nothing to the future, I owe nothing to the rich, and nothing to the poor, compared with what I owe to my God. Into predestination itself I will not now pry. Self-righteous man, I can tell thee in the tick of a clock, whether thou hast any evidence of election. Come, lift up thine head; envy no man his dukedom; think no man's princeship worth thy coveting; thou art greater than the greatest, for thou art joint heir with Christ; in dignified relationship thou hast no superior upon earth; and except those who are joint heirs with thee, thou hast not an equal, since thou art joint heir with Christ. Our two interests are intertwined and made one, we have neither of us any heirship apart from the other; we are joint heirs, Christ jointly with us; ourselves jointly with Christ. We may be remarkably indebted to members of parliament, but for the little they do they are tolerably well rewarded; at least, we take it that the place is more an honour to some of them than they are to their place. He was born into this world in a very humble place, amidst the oxen, and in the manger; but yet he lacked not the songs of angels, and the adoration of the heavenly hosts. Consider thou art as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God. First, then, there is A LEGAL TERM IN THE WILL UPON WHICH THE WHOLE MATTER WILL HINGE. Those in heaven, have, as it were, stolen there. 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. There is all the difference between the groan of death and the groan of life. I fear many of us here must acknowledge that we do not charge the sin of it to our own consciences. by which he means transient good, the good of the moment. Dost thou frequent his mercy-seat? And lastly, I see here, an answer to every accusation arising from sin. And there may be many differences between godly men, as there undoubtedly are; they may belong to different sects, they may hold very opposite opinions, but all godly men agree in this, that they love God. He reads the heart itself: "he knoweth,' says the text, "what is the mind of the Spirit." I can stop his accusation with this perpetual care of Jesus for his people." 3. And perhaps he goes to Eli to ask what he wants with him. When the Church rejects you, casts you out, annoys, despises you, still be ready to defend her, and when you have an ill name even in the lips of God's people, still stand up for the common cause of Zion, the city of our solemnities. So is it also with us. And now I come to the fourth; and this also hath an encomium passed upon it "WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US." Therefore, our rights and our property extend to all things whatsoever they may be. you are quarreling with this divine arrangement, you are beginning to differ with this blessed policy of God. There are not many in England, I think, who believe those words. "There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life," that there is so much longer time for temptation and trial. 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." Poor prodigal sinner, may our Father bring thee home, for there is an inheritance even for thee. The influence of his holy religion has made abundant atonement to the world for any wrong that you ever did to it. I hear a note of holy praise; alas! 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. No; the blood must he taken to the mercy-seat, God will not stoop when he is just; it must be brought to him. Well, whatever it may be, and the woes of the present are very many, there is nothing that can separate us from the love of Christ. No. Have I any reason to believe that I have been called according to his purpose? 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. Our prayers, let men laugh at them as they will, and say there is no power in them, are the indicators of the movement of the wheels of Providence. My Substitute has kept the law on my behalf. We have a work to do, as great as our forefathers, and, perhaps, far greater. No doubt, however, the text means that these will for ever love and honor the Lord Jesus Christ himself. First, he boldly defies anyone to charge the chosen of God with sin: "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?" And he just paraphrased it in his own dialect like this "My arm is always strong, and my sickle always sharp, when there is no harvest, and I think I could mow many an acre when there is no grass; but when the harvest is on I am weak, and when the grass groweth then my scythe is blunt." 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. In preaching of this call this morning, I shall divide my sermon into three brief parts. "Holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling." This will defeat your great adversary. So shall we be, for because he lives, we shall live also. Brethren, we are free! The sighing of the prisoner surely cometh up into the ears of the Lord. it is forgotten! Brethren, we can confidently say, then, hearing such a testimony as that, "We know that all things work." "Thou madest him to have dominion over all the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea." Hope is the grand anchor by whose means we ride out the present storm. God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. From this he infers that if God has given us the Spirit whereby we call him "Father," then we are his children, which is plain, fair, and clear reasoning. Let them "rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say rejoice.". We are panting, longing after something greater, better, nobler, and it is coming. Yea, echo O ye skies; reverberate, ye caverns of the deep. Can I bear his reproach; can I carry his cross; do I tread in his steps; do I serve his cause, and is it my grandest hope that I shall see his kingdom come, that I shall sit upon his throne, and reign with him? Now, conscience, answer another question! God forbid! I believe that, when Christ died, he took all the sins of all his people, past, present, and to come, and when the whole mass was condensed into one bitter cup, he drank it all up. Oh, sinner! But let the man that worketh, though it be with the sweat of his brow and with aching hands, remember that he, if he is seeking to bless the Lord's people, is in sympathy with all things not only in sympathy with their work, but in sympathy with their aim. Paul was so persuaded that Christ would never leave him that he became a fighter, and he went in with all his might against the world, the flesh, and the devil. Or, read you that old legend of Curtius, the Roman knight. He is in an enemy's house; for he is at enmity with God. But this should not be so. God is the God of love; he is kind to his creatures; he regards you with his love of benevolence; for this very day his sun hath shone upon you, this day you have had food and raiment, and you have come up here in health and strength. We have seen that chapters 5-8 have a kind of sandwich structure. God has given us full assurance, and infallible testimony, and in all this we rejoice. He has written concerning the spirit of bondage, and the spirit of adoption, the infirmities of the flesh, and the helpings of the spirit; the waiting for the redemption of the body, and the groanings which cannot be uttered. It is a question often asked, "What part of man was injured by the fall?" But I repeat it, this universal call is rejected by man; it is a call, but it is not a attended with divine force and energy of the Holy Spirit in such a degree as to make it an unconquerable call, consequently men perish, even though they have the universal call of the gospel ringing in their ears. Romans 8:30, THE GREAT BOOK OF GOD'S DECREES is fast closed against the curiosity of man. Have they not had the desire that it might turn out that all these divine realities were a delusion, a farce, and an imposture? Ever let humility bow thee to the very earth while thine adoption lifts thee up to the third heaven. I say, it is utterly needless for me to refresh your memories about your present condition; but I feel it will be a good and profitable work if I remind you that there are high privileges of which you are possessors even now; there are divine joys which even this day you may taste. ", "Ay, ay!" Moreover, the Holy Spirit's intercession creates prayers offered in a proper manner. This also is a truth full of sacred refreshment: hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour. Certainly, this wondrous ship of Christ's Church, when she ploughs her way through waves of blood, makes swifter headway to the heavenly haven than she does in times of calm. Thou Church of God, surely it must survive in thee; for to whom should it more belong to die and sacrifice all, than to those who are the sons of God. Above all, commune much with Christ. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. And men of every kindred, and of every tribe, shall see in the face of every man, a relative allied to them by ties of blood. Who will garnish my back with purple and make my table groan with plenty?" I tell you, sirs, if you change yourselves, and make yourselves better, and better, and better, a thousand times, you will never be good enough for heaven, till God's Spirit has laid his hand upon you; till he has renewed the heart, till he has purified the soul, till he has changed the entire spirit and new-made the man, there can be no entering heaven. The text before us cannot be so understood, because the Lord foreknows the history of every man, and angel, and devil. My brethren, we ought not to do so. I utter them not in the spirit of controversy, but the reverse. === Sample: Romans 8:1-3 === Romans 8 Some people talk about "getting out of the 7th chapter, into the 8th." Are you persuaded that it is so with you, dear friends? Joint heirs with Christ Jesus! And if still another says, "I am a red-hot Methodist," answer him in the self-same way: "Christ has died." Now the apostle adds two more expressions, "nor height, nor depth." The time shall come when thou shalt yet be his disciple." and what is election, but God's purpose to do what he does do? There are different senses to the word "good." The doctrine that I am quite sure to gain the victory, makes me fight. There is the worldling's sense: "Who will show us any good?" God dwelleth in us, and we are one with Christ. 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. Brethren, we who know and love the Lord, are debtors, not to one creditor, but to many. Again, notice the universality of this at all times. Should another say, "I was baptized an adult," let your confidence remain the same: "Christ has died." "All things work together for good." All the prayers which the Spirit of God inspires in us must succeed, because, first, there is a meaning in them which God reads and approves. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Adam's death was not simply his own private loss, for in Adam all died, and Christ's life and all the consequences of his obedience are not merely his own, but the joint riches of all who are in him, of whom he is the federal head, and on whose behalf he accomplished the divine will. We are apt to think that the motion of the world and the different evolutions of the stars are but like the turning round of a child's windmill; they produce nothing. "All things work together for good." 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. When another says, "I am a sound, orthodox Presbyterian," you stick to this solid ground, "Christ has died." 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?" A shopmate asked, "What's the matter?" He loves Christ so much that he loves us notwithstanding our unloveliness, because Jesus Christ has covered us with his robe of righteousness, and he has said, "My Father, consider them as lost in me, hidden in me, made one with me." You could not doubt the affliction, for you smarted under it, but you might almost as soon have doubted the divine help, for your confidence was firm and unmoved. Inasmuch as we are of the seed of the woman, there must be enmity between us and the seed of the serpent. The will, if valid for one, is valid for all. Oh, what a glorious doctrine is that of election, when a man can see himself to be elect. We know not what God is, nor the measure of his attributes. We little know how many a blessing the poor man's prayer brings down upon us. Yea, I am certain that we do not. Say, "I count it to be my joy to be permitted to be a partaker of the sufferings of Christ. Two Sunday nights ago, when I stood here to preach about the longsuffering of God being salvation,* I spoke, in the middle of the sermon, as if personally addressing someone who was present, who had lately been ill with fever, and who had come to the Tabernacle, still weakly, and scarcely recovered. Regard the Holy Spirit as your prompter, and let your ear be opened to his voice. "Yes," he could say, "and a blessed thing it would be for you if you had the same thing to groan after that I have." Do I suffer with him, suffer for him? So it is with us to-day. For this very reason, that we are saved, we groan for something beyond. I will shew you yet again. Sanctification is the Lord's work in us. They are sternly holy; they are, like him, ready to forgive, but they can by no means tolerate iniquity, nor hear that sin should live in their presence." 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.". Here we have in the text conformity to Christ spoken of as the aim of predestination; we have, secondly, predestination as the impelling force by which this conformity is to be achieved; and we have, thirdly, the firstborn himself set before us as the ultimate end of the predestinations and of the conformity. She will retain evil, she will lose good. The apostle then turns to a third source of comfort, namely, the abiding of the Holy Spirit in and with the Lord's people. as the Lord liveth, there may be but a step between you and death; and if you have no Christ, and have never tasted of his love, you are running awful risks even in going one step further. 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. I would I could speak more powerfully, but my Master alone can impress upon you the enormous evil of this horrid state of heart. We see not yet all things put under man, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor; and in the person of Christ Jesus this day we, the men who are made in his image, have dominion over all things, being all made kings and priests unto God, and in Christ Jesus ordained to reign with him forever and ever. 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. If our title be true and just, so is his, and if his rights of heritage be true and just, so are ours. He has come on purpose to put away our sin, and when he died, he made an end of it. Even a depressed and desponding state of mind, whatever the cause of it is, whether weariness of brain or heaviness of heart, cannot separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. that cry is directed to a mass of putridity, to a body that has been dead four days, and in which the worms have already held carnival; but, strange to say, from that tomb there comes a living man; that mass of corruption has been quickened into life, and out he comes, wrapped about with graveclothes, and having a napkin about his head. 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. What a debtor thou art to Divine Sovereignty! 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." However, just or unjust as man may choose to think it, God has done it, and the fact stands in man's face, let him reject it as he pleases. If so, then I have a hope that I may be among the called host whom God has predestinated. Now the Spirit never did work effectually in any but the children of God; and inasmuch as the Spirit works in you, he doth by that very working give his own infallible testimony to the fact that you are a child of God. It is Christ that died. Brethren, let us advance to take the property. Commentaries; Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible; Romans 8; Verses 38-39 - Romans 8:38-39. . The Lord in boundless grace has resolved that a company whom no man can number, called here "many brethren," shall be restored to his image, in the particular form in which his Eternal Son displays it. Go to www.ccontario.com for an . you shall not be uncrowned. Glory be unto thee, O God, glory be unto thee; my soul is in heaven, I with the cherubim and seraphim would bow, and sing, and rejoice with them I veil my face in this most joyful moment wiping every tear from my poor eyes, I bid them look upon thy glory in Christ. He ruleth over all. The next argument for making us sure that they will speed is this that they are "the mind of the Spirit." 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." Some say that children learn sin by imitation. He was fighting evil in the high places and evil in the low, evil among the priests and evil among the people, evil in a religious dress, in Pharisaism, and evil in the dress of philosophy amongst the Sadducees; he fought it everywhere: he was the foe of everything that was wrong, false, selfish, unholy or impure. Our second point rises before us WHEREIN ARE BELIEVERS DEFICIENT? 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. Christ loved you when he died; he will love you when you die. he assures and consoles directly, by coming into immediate contact with the heart. Last of all, I have another practical point. Every one knows that it is a disgrace to a matchless prayer-book, that such words should be permitted to stand there-words so infamously untrue that by their gross untruthfulness they cease to have the destructive effect which more cunning language might have produced, because the conscience of man revolts against the idea that the sprinkling of drops of water upon the infants's brow can ever make it a member of Christ, and a child of God. The first witness is our spirit; the second witness is The Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, who beareth witness with our spirit. Tell conscience that Christ has died for your sins, according to the Scriptures, and it will be perfectly satisfied: it will not go to sleep, but it will use its voice for other purposes, and it will no longer seek to condemn you. The true son of God will never blush to acknowledge that he is in subjection to the Father of spirits. Paul summons all our foes, and sets them in battle array against us, and when he has added up the total of all their legions, he says that he is persuaded that they shall not be able shall not be able, mark you, to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. "I have been sick for many a day, and wife and children, dependent on my daily labor, are crying for food: will this work together for my good?" If so, then the sweet things which we shall have to say this morning are thine. Oratory may stand back, and eloquence may hold her tongue. By this expression it cannot be meant that the Holy Spirit ever groans or personally prays; but that he excites intense desire and created unutterable groanings in us, and these are ascribed to him. O Paul, the thunderbolt of God will smite thee! 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. ", If we all believed this, how much easier it would be to get our churches into good order! 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?". Scripture everywhere represents the chosen people of the Lord, under their visible character of believers, penitents, and spiritual men, as being "the children of God," and to none but such is that holy title given. When the Emperor Charles the Fifth went to war with Francis the First, King of Naples, he sent a herald to him, declaring war in the name of the Emperor of Germany, King of Castille, King of Aragon, King of Naples, King of Sicily, and he went on with many more titles, giving his sovereign all the honours that were his due. "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Notice, our difficulty is that we know not what we should pray for; but the Holy Spirit does know, and therefore he helps us by enabling us to pray intelligently, knowing what we are asking for, so far as this knowledge is needful to valid prayer. Well, that wish to change God, proves that thou art not in love with the God that now is, the God of heaven and earth; and though thou mayest talk of natural religion, and boast that thou dost reverence the God of the green fields, the grassy meads, the swelling flood, the rolling thunder, the azure sky, the starry night, and the great universe though thou lovest the poetic beau ideal of Deity, it is not the God of Scripture, for thou hast wished to change his nature, and in that hast thou proved that thou art at enmity with him. Being the father of lies, he will accuse us of things of which we are not guilty, or, when it suits his purpose, he will exaggerate our guilt, and make it appear worse than it is, in order that he may drive us to despair. Brethren, we are like warriors fighting for the victory; we share not as yet in the shout of them that triumph. do thy shoulders forbid, and refuse themselves the pain of bearing it? You said to yourselves, "We have no doubt we ought to be there; that is our debt; nevertheless we should like to gratify our curiosity for once, by hearing this singular preacher, who will be sure to say something extravagant that will furnish the occasion for a joke for the next fortnight." I pray you never think well of fine prayers, for before the thrice holy God it ill becomes a sinful suppliant to play the orator. Edited by C. H. SPURGEON. This would be a very bold challenge even for a man who had been righteous from his youth up. Now, observe that PREDESTINATION IS THE IMPELLING FORCE TOWARDS THIS CONFORMITY. It is a bold, brave challenge; but it never could have been uttered by Paul if it had not been accompanied by the next sentence, "It is Christ that dies." The whole creation is said to be groaning for its share in that freedom. 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