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. It is enough; he has the cause, nor would we take it from his hand even if we could, Well did the apostle say, "To the very uttermost he is able to save them that come unto God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.". But if thou agreest with thy creditor, he will, for Jesus' sake, blot out all thy debts, and set thee at liberty, so that thou shalt never be amenable for thine iniquities. The effectual call may be illustrated in its sovereignty by the case of Zaccheus. It is a question often asked, "What part of man was injured by the fall?" Now, his fellow workman, who worked beside of him, as it was getting very late, wished himself at home, and therefore groaned. Then, beloved, I have reason to hope that thou hast been called of God, for it is a holy calling wherewith God doth call his people. You have had many mercies in your family, but you have felt that in them all there was a lack of something which could satisfy your heart, and you have felt that that something was God. So the enquirer asked him again, "But what is your persuasion?" Sometimes a bow of steel is not broken by our hands, for we cannot even bend it; and then the Holy Ghost puts his mighty hand over ours, and covers our weakness so that we draw; and lo, what splendid drawing of the bow it is them! Beloved, are ye brothers of Christ, and do ye think that ye owe him no love? I remember an old divine using a very pithy and homely metaphor, which I shall borrow to-day. "Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and now ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are against me," said the old Patriarch. First, in 8:37 he says that "we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.". For, first, if I am called then I am predestinated, there is no doubt about it. The other night, just before Christmas, two men who were working very late, were groaning in two very different ways, one of them saying, "Ah, there's a poor Christmas day in store for me, my house is full of misery." Much more, let me now tell you, is his life, much more the fact that he lives, and is at the right hand of the Father. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Sproul's Expositional Commentary Set - 8 Volumes. What contrasts we have in the seventh verse! The signature of the one will not avail to alienate the estate, nor can he sell it by his own right, nor have it all at his own separate disposal, or in his own sole possession or holding. Above all, commune much with Christ. He is a man of a loving heart and loves his sons, but there they stand. I beseech you then, beloved, wherever you see a poor saint, wherever you behold an aged Christian, recollect he cannot be so much in debt to you as you are to him, for you have much, and he has but little, and he cannot be in debt for what he has not. 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. says one; "a pleasant fiction, sir!" to be of that temper before described, Romans 8:5; to mind and affect the things of the flesh, doth cause death, or will end in it: the second or eternal death is chiefly intended. The more you search the Bible, the more sure will you be that sonship is the special privilege of the chosen people of God and of none beside. Will it ever be set free? If I did not know that I should win it, I might think that I would let discretion be the better part of my velour; but, being assured that Christ will be with me all through, I feel incited to war against all that is evil that I may overcome it in his strength. Prayer is a great outlet for grief; it draws up the sluices, and abates the swelling flood, which else might be too strong for us. The text says, "The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." One will wickedly say, "If I am a child of God, I may live as I like." "Oh," say you, "we never shall." What was to be done? Romans 8:35 Sermons: Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Say not, "In my baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, and a child of God." I believe that the apostle was persuaded that these two blessed links existed between him and the great God, and he was persuaded that neither of those two links would ever be broken. This is the part of the subject from which our craven spirit often shrinks, but if we were wise it would not be so. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Sailors throw their anchors downwards; we throw ours upwards. Is it not my duty, as well as my happiness, to ask whether there be a way to be reconciled to God? Is there a place into which your Master went that you would be ashamed to enter? Yea rather, is risen again; (much more) is even at the right hand of God." 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. I am now dead to the law. Now, suppose I should put the following question to any converted man in this hall. It was because they longed to enter it. Still, this foe is fierce and terrible. Behold it, wonder at it, and bless God for it. Bblia; Leia a Bblia; Verses da Bblia; . In a measure, through our ignorance, we never know what we should pray for until we are taught of the Spirit of God, but there are times when this beclouding of the soul is dense indeed, and we do not even know what would help us out of our trouble if we could obtain it. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Go into yonder house. Ah! I cannot be punished for my sin. Spurgeon takes us back to the previous verses in the opening remarks of his sermon on Romans 8:37 Look attentively at the champion. If he cannot afford to pay, he ought to keep at home till he can." 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. The bow bends so easily we wonder how it is; away flies the arrow, and it pierces the very centre of the target, for he who giveth have won the day, but it was his secret might that made us strong, and to him be the glory of it. So it is with your children when they look forward to their holidays; they are not unhappy or dissatisfied with the school, but yet they long to be at home. There is no opposition in God's providence; the raven wing of war is co-worker with the dove of peace. Now we must take the next words. sirs, if the unregenerate man could enter heaven, I mention once more the oft-repeated saying of Whitefield, he would be so unhappy in heaven, that he would ask God to let him run down to hell for shelter. There is much to sadden us in a view of the ruins of our race. So, then, it follows that if there be any flaw in the will, so that it be not valid, if it be not rightly signed, sealed, and delivered, then it is no more valid for Christ than it is for us. Paul points us to the cross in two ways. I will have one more illustration. "He was tempted in all points like as we are." 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. Suppose, too, that when he had to plead with the judge himself, this advocate at home should teach him how to behave and what to urge, and encourage him to hope that he would prevail, would not this be a great boon? Shall we not, in some degree, repay the immense debt of our obligation by seeking to make the future also debtors to us, that our descendants may look back and acknowledge that they owe us thank for preserving the Scriptures, for maintaining liberty, for glorifying God? "For 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 creatures, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Yes, as we look, we must confess that it is true, there is the sin. Paul is but giving us two sides of the truth, both equally true, the one needful for our warning, the other admirable for our consolation. A thousand sources of joy are opened in that one blessing of adoption. In preaching of this call this morning, I shall divide my sermon into three brief parts. Hast thou never said that, my heart? "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. Dear brethren, let us not wonder if we have to work too. There is a publican living in it, who is a hard, griping, grasping, miserly extortioner. 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. And this persuasion helped him to gain his aspiration. Lecture 2: On Commenting. I refer to the poets, men who stand aloft like Colossi, mightier than we, seeming to be descended from celestial spheres. Romans: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $22.80 $38.00. When you have been sitting on the judgment bench; there has been some favourite sin brought up, and you have, oh, let me blush to say it, you have wished to spare it, it was so near your heart, you have wished to let it live, whereas should you not as the son of God have said, "If my eye offend me, I will pluck it out and cast it from me, if my right hand offend me, I will cut it off, rather than I should in anything offend my God." A second consolation is drawn from the grand truth, that if a man be called he will certainly be saved at last. 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. It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. 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. Wherever we go, we gather fresh proofs of the common observation, that we are living in a most marvellous age. 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? 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. We have a sacred secret which belongs to Jesus, as the first-fruits belong to Jehovah. I fear many of us here must acknowledge that we do not charge the sin of it to our own consciences. 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. 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