I believe that there have been some professors, such as Judas and Simon Magus, who have come very near to this condition, and others who are said, after a certain sort, to have believed, to have received the Holy Spirit in miraculous gifts, and to have been specially enlightened so as to have been able to teach others; but the work of grace did not affect their hearts, it did not renew their natures, it did not transform their spirits, and so it was impossible to renew them to repentance. Yet, further, to illustrate the full meaning of the joint heirship suppose, after the via had been proved and acknowledged to be right, it shall be found in winding up the affairs of the testator, that nothing is left to distribute suppose, after all this boast and talk about being heirs, the property should be nil, or there should even be found a debt against the estate what then? "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Ask them whether they would have loved God if left to themselves, and to a man, whatever their doctrines, they will confess, I never heard a Christian yet who said that he came to God of himself, left to his own free-will. 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." Get thee gone? They are by nature servants, and he is the Son, this is a wide distinction. Christ loved you when he died; he will love you when you die. The Necessity of the Spirit's Work Ezekiel 36:27 274. You see what you are predestinated to be: aim at it, aim at it every day. 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. Is thy calling of God? I pray you take the possession now. Sanctification is the Lord's work in 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." We are to be conformed to the image of his Son, fifthly, as to our inheritance for he is heir of all things, and what less are we heirs of, since all things are ours? Wherefore, be of good courage, and press forward in the divine life, for your work of faith and labor of love are not in vain in the Lord; so let us "lay hold upon the hope set before us:". Can you heartily say that you can never rest satisfied till you. Christ has died, and there is more than enough virtue in his death to atone for the blackest or most crimson sins ever committed by men. Well, certainly, you made no pretension to it six months ago; you were about as black as a man could be." Another will say, "Ah, it is an insidious disease that will soon carry me to my grave!" They love him as their King, they are willing to obey him, to walk in his commands is their delight; no path is so soft to their feet as the path of God's precepts, the way of obedience thereunto. and secondly, how ought it to affect us? Now, there are many things in which the worldly and the godly do agree, but on this point there IS a vital difference. 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. In Hebrews 1:2 ., we are told that God has appointed Christ heir of all things. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man" (Proverbs 8:4 ). "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. He guides us in prayer, and thus he helps our infirmity. you also shall bear a palm. A fine title indeed if it belongs to every man! Cast your arms around the cross of Christ, and give up your heart to God, and then, come what may, I am persuaded that "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come. So must we be, for we shall be made like him. Why, dying is the end of work; it is living that is hard work. 13:1-14. He had been a drunkard, a spendthrift, and had not a penny to bless himself with, and his house had become a little hell; he was groaning at the thought of going home to such a scene of quarrelling and distress. The rich man hoards wealth, the poor man makes it. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." This, then is God's great remedy for sin: "It is Christ that died.". I have no argument with which to convince the man who denies so strong and clear a witness. But in addition to his sermons, he regularly reading a Bible passage before his message and gave a verse-by-verse exposition, rich in gospel insight and wisdom for the Christian life. The believer continues to hope for the time when death and sin shall no more annoy his body; when, as his soul has been purified, so shall his body be, and his prayer shall be heard, that the Lord would sanctify him wholly, body, soul, and spirit. O my hearer, art thou a believer in Christ? Even if we were pure as Adam, we could not have any merit; for I do not think Adam had any desert before his Creator. "So he bringeth them to their desired haven," said the Psalmist by storm and tempest, flood and hurricane. says yet another accuser; "but you have sinned with delight. The other might have said, "Ah, you pretend to be a happy man, and here you are groaning." Our second point rises before us WHEREIN ARE BELIEVERS DEFICIENT? Sustained by distinguishing grace, a man learns to glory in tribulations also; and strengthened by electing love, he defies the hatred of the world and the trials of life. But let me say again to thee, hast thou ever felt that the Holy Ghost has borne witness with thy spirit in his word, and in his work, in thee; and in that secret whisper has he ever said to thee, "Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee." What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. If we, the children of God, are not valiant for truth now, if we maintain not the great standard of God's omnipotent truth, we shall be traitors to our liege Lord. He stands to us in the relationship of a Maker and Creator; and from that fact he claims to be our King. Now I must come to the third point, upon which with brevity. 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. Those in heaven, have, as it were, stolen there. If you have faith enough brethren, you may this mourning be raised up to sit together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. "All things work together for good," but not to all men; they only work together for the good of "them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. We know that young lions, when tamed and domesticated, still will have the wild nature of their fellows of the forest, and were liberty given them, would prey as fiercely as others. "If Satan bring an accusation before God against any of the Lord's redeemed, that accusation is made against the Redeemer himself, for God's people are so one with Christ, that you must first bring the charge against Christ himself ere you dare to lay it against any of his elect. Let us notice in the first place, how it is that our spirit is able to bear witness; and as this is a matter of experience, I can only appeal to those who are the true children of God; for no others are competent to give testimony. Side by side with you there sits an ungodly person; you two have been brought up together, you have lived in the same house, you have enjoyed the same means of grace, you are converted, he is not; will you please to tell me what has made the difference? Not we shall have, but we have. He would say, "My labor is all thrown away on such a plot of ground as this, nothing more can be done with it, for after having done my utmost nothing but weeds is produced, so now it must be left to itself." Where are your hearts, then? Now I must call your attention to this clause, remarking that in other passages of God's Word, Christ is said to have sat down for ever at the right hand of God. 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? So strange and startling a doctrine as this asserted with such dogmatic impudence? "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should what pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. IV. Did not Jesus say, "Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of these things before you ask them"? We have the witness of the Spirit within, bearing witness with our spirits that we are born of God. "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth no righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." We may understand it in a thousand sense, for indeed we are debtors. He beckons me, and I must be brought at length to see his face, and to be with him where he is. If ye continue in sin, if ye walk according to the course of this world, according to the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience, then are ye still dead in your trespasses and your sins; but as he that hath called you is holy, so must ye be holy. What Paul are you at? So it may by possibility be this morning; so it will be if the Spirit of God shall be our instructor, and fulfil his gracious promise to "lead us into all truth.". Here are two sorts of children, therefore all are not the children of God. Fire such as martyrs felt at the stake were but a plaything compared with the flames of a burning conscience. weary slaves of sin, are not your ways the paths of folly? You were murmuring at the dispensations of God. 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. By God's grace, the man who trusts in Christ's eternal love, and believes in the immutability of the divine purpose, and therefore is persuaded that he can never be separated from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, he is the man to win a glorious victory by his faith in his great God. And now as a matter of EXAMINATION let each man judge himself by certain characteristics of heavenly calling which I am about to mention. That shows that this is used as an argument drawn from something mentioned before. Let the gospel be really felt in the mind and it will toll the knell of selfishness, it will bring down the proud from their elevated solitude, and it will restore the down-trodden to the rights of our common manhood. They think that if they cry, "Lord, have mercy upon me," when they lay a-dying, they shall go to heaven directly. If you have the Spirit of God in your soul, you may rejoice over it as the pledge and token of the fulness of bliss and perfection "which God hath prepared for them that love him.". When the poor man was baffled by a question asked in court, he would run home and ask his adviser, and he would tell him exactly how to meet the objector. When the Spirit of God writes a prayer upon a man's heart, the man himself may be in such a state of mind that he does not altogether know what it is. The traveller has reached the hospice. "We know," and the apostle lifts his hand to where the white-robed hosts are praising God for ever. "He was tempted in all points like as we are." To have anything to do with a great man is thought by some persons to be a distinguished mark of honor; to be set down in a will as co-heir with some great prince or noble would be considered indeed a great thing; but what honor is conferred on thee, believer, to be joint heir with the King of kings, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace! I. It may have seemed to him, as it does to some of us, to be almost too good to be true, and therefore the Holy Spirit so shed abroad this truth in the apostle's mind that he yielded to it, and said, "I am persuaded." In verses 1-11, Paul contrasted those "who live according to the flesh" with . In that light he makes the promise shine in all its truthfulness, certainty, sweetness, and suitability, so that we, poor trembling sons of men, dare take that word into our mouth which first came out of God's mouth, and then come with it as an argument, and plead it before the throne of the heavenly grace. Then, remember, thy head must deny itself the pleasure of wearing the crown. It resets the dislocated bones of society, rivets the bonds of friendship, and welds the broken metal of manhood into one united mass. They are ever working too, in opposition to the word play. (+44) 01236 827 978. The man is perfectly safe, and quite content, so far as that goes, and exceedingly grateful to think that he has been rescued; but yet I hear him groan because he has a wife and children down in yonder plain, and the snow is lying too deep for travelling, and the wind is howling, and the blinding snow flakes are falling so thickly that he cannot pursue his journey. I am a debtor to God's love, I am a debtor to God's grace, I am a debtor to God's power, I am a debtor to God's forgiving mercy; but I am no debtor to his justice for he, himself, will never accuse me of a debt once paid. Hebrews 6:20 . They never had any seats to sit on. Browse all categories; New Books; Used Books "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be praise." Having thus, as far as I can, established my point, that the privilege of our text is a special one, let me dwell upon it for a moment and remark that, as a special one, it is an act of pure unmistakeable grace. Some of you have a trouble perhaps, in her who is dearest to you. Hope is the grand anchor by whose means we ride out the present storm. It was because they longed to enter it. Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles." Again, I repeat it, the believer should take strong draughts of consolation here. IN VIEWING THE ESTATES we must remark that to our present apprehension they are divided into two parts, the first part of the inheritance is one which flesh and blood would fain do without it is the inheritance of suffering. He said to himself, "If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." No. Some men groan because of their great losses or sufferings; well, this may be nothing but a rebellious smarting under the rod, and if so, no blessing will come of it. What will you do if you are out of God and out of Christ at the last pay-day, when the whole roll of your debts to God shall be opened, and you have no Christ to give you a discharge? The pinch of faith always lies in the present tense. I think it was Bishop Hall who once said, "I thank God I am not of his counsels, but I am of his court." Happy, happy man! === Sample: Romans 8:1-3 === Romans 8 Some people talk about "getting out of the 7th chapter, into the 8th." If we suffer orthodoxy to fail, or God's truth to be dishonored, future generations will despise and execrate our name. Our text begins by the expression, "Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate," and many senses have been given to this word "foreknow" though in this case one commends itself beyond every other. He gave to us his person, it has become our meat and our drink; we eat his flesh and drink his blood. We may sum it up as referring to God, to men, to the devil, and to all evil. God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. I thought Christians were a humble, timid people." So it must be, "If so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together." Wherefore, let us be encouraged to go on, and fight against everything that is evil, especially in ourselves, and tread down all the powers of darkness, since nothing can stand against us while Christ is sor us; and for us he must be for ever and ever. Now, believer, thou mayest be very poor, and very sick, and very much unknown and despised, but sit thee down and review thy calling this morning, and the consequences that flow from it. It goes into the region of things unknown; it goes beyond the knowable; for flesh and blood will never be able to comprehend what Jesus suffered when the great flood of human sin came rushing down upon him, and filled his spirit to the brim. No suit in law can stand against Christ; it were idle to dream it for a moment He has satisfied God's law, magnified it and made it honorable; he has discharged all the debts which as surety he took upon himself. Yet was he stern in the denunciation of all evil; so should we be. Wherefore, seek the Lord now ere it be too late. He never repents of what he gives, nor of what he calls. This is called the first-fruit because it comes first. There is not only enough to put our sins to death, but enough to bury them and hide them out of sight. "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. This is one of his frequent operations upon the mind of the believer: "he shall teach you all things." 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. 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." "You know how you used to blaspheme his name." It does not always follow in human reasoning "if children, then heirs," because in our families but one is the heir. Can ye say, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I desire to keep all thy commandments, and to walk blamelessly in thy sight. He argued that, if the death of Christ reconciled God's enemies to himself, the life of Christ will certainly preserve safely those who are the friends of God; that was good argument, was it not? Condemn a man that is at the right hand of God! Oh! There be others of acute intellect, who, searching into mysteries of science, discover things that have been hidden from the creation of the world; men of keen research, and mighty erudition; and yet of each of these poet, philosopher, metaphysician, and great discoverer it shall be said, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." Our little debts we can pay. When at any time then the Holy Spirit comforts you sheds a sweet calm over your disturbed spirit; when at any period he instructs you, opens to you a mystery you did not understand before; when at some special period he inspires you with an unwonted affection, an unusual faith in Christ; when you experience a hatred of sin, a faith in Jesus, a death to the world, and a life to God, these are the works of the Spirit. "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. Oh! You may cast your eye to the remotest star, or send your thoughts beyond into the untraversed leagues of space, but look where you will, as all is Christ's, so all is yours. Who will feed my belly with hid treasures? Who among us would change with Gabriel? Romans 8:3-4. and is it a call to heaven as well as from heaven? You will be "a jolly good fellow" while you join them in their folly; but when you give up their ways, their habits, and their society, then they will say that you are melancholy, and no longer fit company for such, "hail fellows, well met", and they will turn away from you. The Spirit of God never prompts us to ask for anything that is unholy or inconsistent with the precepts of the Lord. "But thou hast stained thyself with lust." who is fully assured of his interest in the covenant of grace, in the blood of atonement, and in the glories of heaven! And mark, every man that is saved, is always saved by an overcoming call which he cannot withstand; he may resist it for a time, but he cannot resist so as to overcome it, he must give way, he must yield when God speaks. Go to the next house, and hear another groan. It still lingers in the realm of bondage, and is not brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God. I must close this point time goes much too swiftly this morning when descanting upon this delightful theme by observing that we are to be conformed to Christ in his glory. Without a solitary exception the answer would be this "If I am a Christian and he is not, unto God be the honor." The angels in heaven had known good, and only good, and preserved by grace had not fallen; the evil spirit had fallen, and he knew evil, but he had forgotten good, and was incapable of ever choosing it again; he is now for ever banished from hope of restoration. They are his own intercession in some respects, for we read that the Holy Spirit not only helps us to intercede but "maketh intercession." Now, to come to what is evidently in the text, and to dwell upon it for a little while, Paul being thus persuaded that there was a love of God, and that there was a union through love between the soul and its God, now says that HE IS PERSUADED THAT NOTHING CAN EVER BREAK THOSE BONDS. In this world, saints are God's children, but you cannot see that they are so, except by certain moral characteristics. Are you persuaded that it is so with you, dear friends? Is that your call? I now come to finish up with CONSOLATION. Sometimes, too, the spirit feels that God is its Father not only by love but by trust. "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." And lastly, I see here, an answer to every accusation arising from sin. It speaks of the regenerate, of a special class me as having a claim to be God's children. In us the living and incorruptible seed abode and grew. Christ himself, the great and mighty God is the "Interpreter, one among a thousand", able to stand between me and God. To renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. We are willing now to be conformed to the image of Jesus, yea, we are more than willing, we are anxious and desirous for it; but still the main and first motive power lay not in our will, but in his will, and to-day the immutable force which is best to be depended upon does not lie in our fickle, feeble will, but in the unchanging and omnipotent will of God. I pray you never think lightly of the supplications of your anguish. This one thing I know, I am sure that there is nothing in those heights that can separate me from the love of Christ; I will stick to that, whatever revelations there may be to the enthusiastic, whatever raptures and ecstasies and extreme delights any may have, they cannot separate me from Christ. Oh, the bitterness of that cry "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" I do not find them either in the English version or in the Greek original. Yet here are Christian men, who, if they are a little sneered at, or snubbed, or get the cold shoulder for Christ's sake, are half ashamed of their profession, and would go and hide it. Whether you take it up or not, your murmuring will not lighten your afflictions. God has punished sin; and when men say, "God must punish sin," we answer, "Sin has been punished, for Christ has died.". Hear David: he was none of those who boast of a holy nature and a pure disposition. but if it be an effectual call, and if salvation shall be the result thereof, what matters it though thou dost go to heaven alone? He hears a sonnet. No hint is given in the text of foreseen virtue any more than of foreseen sin, and, therefore, we are driven to find another meaning for the word. Oh, where there is real cause for fighting, there cannot be victory without striving! is this the cause of thine enmity? Can it be supposed that those who are the children of the devil are nevertheless the children of God? He said "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. It appears from the text that this groaning is universal among the saints: there are no exceptions; to a greater or less extent we all feel it. we may look around and defy all our sins to destroy us. Take another passage. 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. It may be read, "Nor anything in creation, nor anything that ever is to be created," nothing shall ever separate us-from the love of Christ. What a trial to Abraham's faith, when he had to leave all that was so dear to him, and go he knew not whither! Come let us at the sovereignty which has called us, and let us remember the words of the apostle, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. And now my hearers, let me just utter this personal appeal to you. Soul, this suggests to thee a solemn enquiry, "Art thou in Christ or not?" By the grace of God, the apostle stands defiantly in the midst of all the believer's foes, and flings down the gauntlet before them all. "All things are yours, for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.". You were not as some who were mere drudges to sin. When he died for them they had rest; when he rose again for them, they had liberty; when he was received into his Father's favour, yet again, and sat at his own right hand, then had they favour, and honour, and dignity. Ask him whether he is happy and content. And so if a man walk through the earth and lift up his head because of what God has given him, and say, "I am not to notice the poor, I am not to shake hands with the ignorant, because I am so great and mighty," you may with equal reason say, "Take away that poor creature, his pride is his insanity; put him in safe custody, and let him learn that all he has is his debt, and that he has no cause for pride. The adoption is not manifested yet, the children are not yet openly declared. and hence he is "a very present help in time of trouble.". for who hath resisted his will? Then again I say to you, "Tell it not in Gath and publish it not in Askelon, then has a heathen eclipsed a Christian." It is Christ that died." 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