As a shepherd loves his sheep, as a king loves his subjects, so Jesus loves to have his people around him; but deeper yet is the mystery, as it is not good for a man to be alone, and as for this cause doth a man leave his father and mother and is joined unto his wife, and they twain are one flesh, even so is it with Christ and his church. Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $18.00 . Behold his goodness that he hath spread before you! We repeat, a third time, it was the gospel which implanted in the soul of Paul the feeling of brotherhood, and removed every wall of partition which divided him from any of the Lord's elect. But the text, you see, furnishes us with a higher witness than this. We shall notice in our text, first, whereunto the saints have already attained; secondly, wherein we are deficient; and thirdly, what is the state of mind of the saints in regard to the whole of the matter. The various rebellions of nations, the heavings of society, the strife of anarchy, the tumults of war all, all these things, overruled by God, have but made the chariot of the church progress more mightily; they have not failed of their predestinated purpose "good for the people of God." Not we shall have, but we have. I do not wish for anything more than I have here, I am perfectly satisfied, so far as this goes, but I long to look upon my household, and to be once more in my own sweet home, and until I reach it, I shall not cease to groan." We are joint heirs. The apostle tells us that not only is there a groan from creation, but this is shared in by God's people. There is only one way to successfully resist the onset of the arch-enemy; but that one way ensures certain victory. Here, I say again, is the pinch of faith. 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. Think of thyself now, not as a man or separate individual, but as a member of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. He rose again, I must rise, and though I die yet shall I live again. you have had many troubles, have you not? Still, true as it is that we are free agents, yet the Lord is the potter and we are the clay upon the wheel, and it is his work, and not ours, that makes us like to Christ. To renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Some of you have a trouble perhaps, in her who is dearest to you. By three figures I will endeavour to describe the work of the Spirit of God in this matter, though they all fall short, and indeed all that I can say must fall infinitely short of the glory of his work. Can those eyes flash lightnings on the man whom once they saw in sin, and thence with rays of love they did lift him up to joy, and peace, and purity? Now, I consider these things as being a very mean display of wisdom, compared with what is to come in a hundred years, and very small compared with what might have been, if man's intellect had continued in its pristine condition. This is just what Jesus has to do. Unless we are the sons of God the Holy Spirit's indwelling shall not be ours: we are shut out from the intercession of the Holy Ghost, ay, and from the intercession of Jesus too, for he hath said, "I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me.". God will never say that they are guilty. He felt within him affinities with all the blood-bought race, and loved them all. I know this I believe God was at work with my heart for years before I knew anything about him. I fear, if all the truth were written, we should rise up from reading the lives of earth's mightiest heroes and proudest sages, and would say at once of all of them, "They are clean gone out of the way; they are altogether become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. I know it is good for me that my faith, my love, my every grace should grow and increase, and that I should be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Master." And if an angel could exalt a gnat to equal dignity with himself, yet would not the boon be such-an-one as that which God hath conferred on thee. "So then," he said, "we are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God." This day, if we do not break fish and barley loaves, we bring you better food; this day, if we cannot give to men opened eyes and unstopped ears, yet in the teaching of the gospel of Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, the mental eye is cleansed, and the soul's ear also is purged; so that in every child of God, in proportion as he labors in the power of the Spirit for Christ, the works which he does bear witness of him that he is the son of God. 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. Hear me, what remarkably beautiful language he used in prayer!" "For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's." It is Christ that died." Speak the truth! Can those lips say, "Depart, ye cursed," to the man for whom they once did intercede? Oh! The comforting truth of Romans 8:28 is based especially on God's sovereignty. When you sinned, you were not like the common people of the street, who know no better. Yes, and with that natural groan there may go up an unutterable groaning of the Holy Spirit. I have no sort of sympathy with those who cannot enjoy the beauties of nature. Young man, didst thou do more than thou oughtest to have done? Creation glows with a thousand beauties, even in its present fallen condition; yet clearly enough it is not as when it came from the Maker's hand the slime of the serpent is on it all this is not the world which God pronounced to be "very good." My soul would even now take her seat upon the throne; where my treasure is, there shall my heart be also. if thou art called, if thou art called truly, there will be a going out, and a going out alone. but you have aforetime refused Christ. We do not ask for these persecutions, but their might do us great good if they came. It is not a single carnal mind, or a certain class of characters, but "the carnal mind." It is impossible! Such a hope as this is "an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast"; and the man who has this anchor on board the barque of his life can never suffer spiritual shipwreck. Any one of them were all-sufficient. There are few people who sincerely believe this. And O my soul, thy portion cannot be slender nor thy dowry narrow, since it is the same inheritance which Christ has from his Father's hands. No cross no crown. Go into yonder house. II. This is a fact which he takes for granted because he has perceived it in the hearts of believers. Who will garnish my back with purple and make my table groan with plenty?" Who shall accuse the Redeemer? "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Stop HIM? Come, faith, and help me now to lay my fingers among the strings of the golden harp. You believe that all things will in the end work for your good. Take care then of that class, brethren, for we are debtors to them. 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. The apostle, however, desires that the Hebrew believers should understand the sublimer doctrines of the gospel, and so be like men of full age who can eat strong meat. 6. Look again at that noble youth, Mutius Scoevola. Gentlemen, the apostle Paul was well aware of your objections; and therefore mark how confidently he asserts the doctrine. We heard of a certain clergyman who was said to have given forth "the finest prayer ever offered to a Boston audience." If you were a free man, and had married a wife, a slave, you could not feel perfectly content, but the more you enjoyed the sweets of freedom yourself, the more would you pine that she should still he in slavery. Have I passed from death unto life by the quickening agency of the Holy Ghost? If the call be effectual, and you are brought out and brought in brought out of sin and brought to Christ, brought out of death into life, and out of slavery into liberty, then, though thou canst not see God's hand in it, yet it is there. It is true that death was the payment of the debt, but resurrection was the public acknowledgment that the debt was paid. There are some brethren who dwell in the heights; I am rather pleased to meet with dear friends who never have any doubts or fears, but are always full of joy and ecstasy, and who go on to tell us that they have left all these things behind, and have risen to the heights of bliss. Into predestination itself I will not now pry. Christian men, do you feel this with regard to your sins. He covers his face for a moment with his hands, and then looking down at his sons, and finding that the testimony is complete against them, he says, "Lictors, do your work." If he adds anything at all, it is still something about that same Christ "yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Or look you at Cincinnatus. I can foil him with that, for he sits there to judge him and to condemn him for ever. 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. It is a fact which any man must be a fool who would dare to deny that God does give to one man more grace shall to another; we cannot account for the salvation of one and the non-salvation of another but by believing, that God has worked more effectually in one man's heart than another's unless you choose to give the honor to man, and say it consists in one man's being better than another, and if so I will have no argument with you, because you do not know the gospel at all, or you would know that salvation is not of works but of grace. Cataracts of trouble descend if you will, and you, ye floods of affliction, roll if so it be ordained, for God has written my name in the book of life. "Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved. We have love, which sweetens all the rest. Many a Jonah, who now rejects the doctrines of the grace of God, only needs to be put into the whale's belly and he will cry out with the soundest free-grace man, "Salvation is of the Lord." If this be not yours, neither are the rest, for they are in the same indenture, and they are beg seethed to you in the same will. As a further test, keeping close to scripture this morning, for when we are dealing with our own state before God there is nothing like giving the very words of scripture, we are told in the first epistle of Peter, the second chapter, and the ninth verse, that God hath called us out of darkness into marvelous light. says the accuser "but you sinned against light and knowledge. it is a glorious truth. Is it not a wonderful thing that God loved me, and loved you, (let us individualize it,) that God so loved us that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him might not perish, but have everlasting life? Is not the wretch smitten dead? He can arouse us from our lethargy, he can warm us out of our lukewarmness, he can enable us when we are on our knees to rise above the ordinary routine of prayer into that victorious importunity against which nothing can stand. There was a table for the shew-bread, an altar, and a brazen lover; yet there was no seat. Nor can any creature accuse his saints, nor can heaven, or earth, or hell disprove our rights or infringe upon our title so long as his title stands undisputed and indisputable. Rowland Hill. III. Is he a victor? The tug of war is now with us. Exactly so, therefore if we be heirs, as Christ Jesus is the heir of all things, we are "joint heirs with Christ." 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. What says Christ? He has been charitably received, he has been warmed at the fire, he has received abundant provision, he is warmly clothed. Is there anything here that can console me? The blood of heaven runs in thy veins; thou art one of the blood royal of eternity a son of God, descendant of the King of kings. There is real prayer in these "groanings that cannot be uttered." Memory is fallen. There once was chaos and confusion, but the Holy Spirit brooded over all, and His mind is the originator of that beautiful arrangement which we so admire in the visible creation. A wife waiting for her husband's footsteps; a child waiting in the darkness of the night till its mother comes to give it the evening's kiss, are portraits of our waiting. All that the Church wants to-day is courage and devotion. Added to this you must also be the heir of persecution. "Brethren, we are debtors;" what I have is not my own, but God's; and if it be God's, then it belongs to God's poor. Adam in this world was in liberty, perfect liberty; nothing confined him; paradise was exactly fitted to be his seat. He gave to us hi inmost heart; he loved us even to the death. 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. He means that, if we were tempted by the love of life to deny Christ' we should be strengthened so that we should not deny him even to save our lives, for his people have been brave enough in this respect in all times. "All things are yours, for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.". $140.00 $258.00. Christ will not belie himself. First, then, for ILLUSTRATION. The first witness is our spirit; the second witness is The Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, who beareth witness with our spirit. The fact is, brethren, that the relationship of a son of God belongs only to those who are "predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of the Father's will:" Ephesians 1:5 . We all know that the word "carnal" here signifies fleshly. I shall now pass on to my third point. you a saint? Does he stand in the presence of God he appears in the presence of God for us; Hebrews 9:24 . I have thus illustrated effectual calling. Now, as long as he was in prison, although there might be ground of hope, it was but as light sown for the righteous; but when the hostage came out, behold the first fruit of the harvest! Oh, it is no hard task to plead, when you are pleading with a Father for a brother, and when the advocate can say, "I go to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God." If I be called I must have been elected, and I need not doubt that. If the believer can take anything and everything to God, then he learns to glory in infirmity, and to rejoice in tribulation; but sometimes we are in such confusion of mind that we know not what we should pray for as we ought. Oratory may stand back, and eloquence may hold her tongue. Well, the good angels cannot separate us from the love of God; we are sure that they would not wish to do so, and whatever spiritual creatures may frequent the earth, they cannot separate us from the love of Christ. Will you take the cross? The debt is paid, and Christ is at the right hand of God. He may know it as surely as if he read it with his own eyes; nay, he may know it more surely than that, for if I read a thing with my eyes, even my eyes may deceive me, the testimony of sense may be false, but the testimony of the Spirit must be true. Think not that thou canst ever be a partaker of the fullness of God Unless thou art in Christ with him vitally and personally, one. The city has turned me out; let it rue the day that it ever drove me away." The second time the Lord called him, and said, "Samuel, Samuel," and he arose again, and went to Eli, and said, "Here am I, for thou didst call me," and then it was that Eli, not Samuel, first of all perceived that the Lord had called the child. You see, my dear hearers, if it were possible for the work of grace in your souls to be of no avail, nothing more could be done for you. ----- "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." Romans 8:16-17. "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Oh what riches! And now I must return to the word "work" to notice the tense of it. Here are beings that know evil, and know also good, beings placed under infinite obligations by bonds of love and gratitude to choose for ever the good, beings with a nature so renewed that they always must be holy beings; and these beings can commune with the incarnate God upon spurring as angels cannot, upon the penalty of guilt as angels cannot; upon heart-throes, conflicts, reproaches, and brokenness of spirit as angels cannot: and to them the Lord Jesus can reveal the glory of holiness, the bliss of conquering sin, and the sweetness of benevolence as only they can comprehend them. Then did his Father stamp the atonement with his own image and his own superscription. Oh! He does not say, "I am persuaded;" he does not say, "I believe;" but with unblushing confidence he appears before you and says, "We" (I have many witnesses) we know that all things work together." "Brethren, we are debtors. He comes within the gates. He that is most endowed with worldly goods, and he who has the fewest; he that is blessed in health, and he who is racked with sickness; we all have in our measure an earnest inward groaning towards the redemption of our body. People have said there is no faith in heaven, and no hope; they know not what they say in heaven it is that faith and hope have their fullest swing and their brightest sphere, for glorified saints believe in God's promise, and hope for the resurrection of the body. He standeth up and beareth his own faithful testimony; but some great one of the land some nobleman who lives near rises, stands in the witness box, and confirms his witness. "Yea rather," said the apostle; as if he would have it, that this is a still more powerful argument. 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. II. He meets it by the blessed fact that "It is Christ that died." O brethren, what honors are ours! And yet once more, another precious means of test in the first of Corinthians, the first chapter, and the ninth verse. As for my own convictions, I never can doubt it, I am fully persuaded concerning it. But again, everything that is good in a Christian you know to be the work of God the Holy Ghost. On this I shall speak very briefly. I, too, am persuaded by a thousand arguments, and persuaded beyond all question, that nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. It does not strike man upon the head; it penetrates into his heart; it lays the axe at the root of the tree, and pronounces him "enmity against God," against the person of the Godhead, against the Deity, against the mighty Maker of this world; not at enmity against his Bible or against his gospel, though that were true, but against God himself, against his essence, his existence, and his person. As this is a legal question, and as in matters of wills everything should be proven and sworn to, let us have, concerning our inheritance, the evidence of God: that cannot lie. In praying for temporal things we plead with measured voices, ever referring our petition for revision to the will of the Lord. Therefore, let the future bring with it what it may, all will be well with him. And if we be his sons, are we not thereby bound to love, serve, and obey him? There are two things that join God and a believer together; the first is, God's love to the believer, and the second is, the believer's love to God. "Well!" And then suppose that, in winding up the estates, it should be found that, though there be something left, yet it be a mere trifle, scarcely worth an acknowledgment: enough to excite appetite but not sufficient to satisfy it what if it should come out at last, that heaven is not the infinite joy we have been taught to expect; suppose its bliss should be but inferior joy, such as might be found even in this world below suppose that the harps have no melody, the crowns but little glory, and heaven's streets but slight magnificence what then? Wait awhile; that weary head shall soon be girt with a crown. 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. ", If we all believed this, how much easier it would be to get our churches into good order! Some men are the cisterns that hold God's rain; but other men are those who pray the rain from heaven, like very Elijahs, and many of these are to be found in the lower ranks of society. My cause is quite safe in his hands, especially when I remember again that he pleads with my father, and that he is his own Father's beloved Son, and that he is my brother and such a brother a brother born for adversity. For which of these works do ye hate God? It was not long ago there came unto this hall, a man who was without God and without Christ, and the simple reading of the hymn. It shall work, it is working for thy good. Be persuaded of that truth, and you are indeed happy men and happy women; what more could you wish to say than to be able truthfully to say that? If you are joint heir and would claim one part of the estate, you must take the rest. So is it with our text. "He that believeth on the Son hath the witness in himself," so that he can with his brethren say plainly "we know that we have passed from death unto life." Ah! As long as you go with evil companions, they will applaud you. I do feel that he loves me better than I love myself. Dost thou love to hold communion with him? Thank him for little grace, and ask him for great grace. Has it lifted up the constant tenor of your life, so that you spend your life with God in prayer, in praise, and in thanksgiving, and can no longer be satisfied with the low and mean pursuits which you followed in the days of your ignorance? Let us now notice these four stupendous doctrines. We were once an undistinguished part of the creation, subject to the same curse as the rest of the world, "heirs of wrath, even as others." The co-heir is heir to the entire estate; and if he says, "No, not to that portion," then he is not heir to any; and if he makes exemption anywhere, he makes exemption to the whole. Thine eternity, O God, is mine to keep me in existence, that I may ever be preserved. Here the heir of heaven is unknown; he is in disguise, full often clad in the habiliments of poverty, but there his princely character shall be discerned and acknowledged, he shall be waited upon by angels, and shall share in the admiration which the universe shall pour upon the glorified Redeemer. Do I love God? It will cost you many a pang to keep that confidence; but oh! While sense is grovelling down below, faith with eagle wing cuts through the cloud and mounts to heaven. III. "We have," says the text, not "we hope and trust sometimes we have," nor yet "possibly we may have," but "we have, we know we have, we are sure we have." 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. What! And, then O ye people of God, let this last thought abide with you, what condescension is this that Divine Person should dwell in you for ever, and that he should be with you to help your prayers. A few winged hours must fly; a few more billows must roll o'er thee, and thou wilt be safely landed on the golden shore. To us, indeed, the things are scarcely comparable, since we are deeply interested in one, though not in the other. But if he could have read God's secrets, he might have found that Simeon was not lost, for he was retained as a hostage that Joseph was not lost but gone before to smooth the passage of his grey hairs into the grave, and that even Benjamin was to be taken away by Joseph in love to his brother. From the first, and now, and to the last, "he that hath wrought us to the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit." But another bitter taunt comes to me, "You have sinned in spirit. We are to be like him then in nature, in relation, in experience. An enemy may possibly make himself a friend; but enmity cannot. "The carnal mind," he says, "is ENMITY against God." And lastly, I see here, an answer to every accusation arising from sin. He puts it thus, they are not able to separate us. I am afraid none of us feel enough how much we are debtors to God. He did not bring the mercy-seat outside the veil, to carry the mercy-seat to the blood. Didst thou never hear the heart say, "I wish there were no God?" We are thankful to have such a groaning. Here is an argument which hath much more power, much more strength, much more force than even Christ's death. Ah, and blessed be God they will too, by the work of the Spirit. Dost thou love God, not with lip-language, but with heart-service? 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