Whether it was by mine or by any other wicked hands, yet it was by "the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God," that Jesus died, in the stead of all who believe in him: I believe in him, therefore he has died for me. First, there is the will declared in the proclamations of holiness by the Ten Commandments. If thou pantest, and criest, and groanest after Christ, even this is his gift; bless him for it. The sermons he preached touched the lives of thousands. They are his own intercession in some respects, for we read that the Holy Spirit not only helps us to intercede but "maketh intercession." True, many things are yet in the future, but even at this present moment, we have obtained an inheritance; we have already in our possession a heritage divine which is the beginning of our eternal portion. a. He said "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. I do feel that he loves me better than I love myself. how true it is that some who have had the best of parents, have been the worst of sons; that many who have been trained up under the most holy auspices, in the midst of the most favorable scenes for piety, have nevertheless, become loose and wanton! Now, conscience, answer another question! When he sits down, he has done his worst; and his witnesses also condemn you; but if the verdict is in your favour, and the judge says that you leave the court with a stainless character, you do not care about the condemnation of others. We are called "joint heirs with Christ" what meaneth this? But there are one or two doctrines which we will try to deduce from this. this is "to the uttermost;" what we thought, perhaps, to be the very smallest matter in the recital, is just the greatest. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," so runs our commission, Isa 40 1. Now why call Zaccheus? The help which the Holy Ghost renders to us meets the weakness which we deplore. Our first reason for knowing that we cannot be condemned is, because Christ has died for us. "I don't know," said he, "how it will, but for my good I know it will work, and you shall see it so." It is a great honor to any man to be like Christ; God does not intend that his children should have no honor, for he puts honor upon his own people; but, still, the true glory lies with him, since he has made us and not we ourselves. Let me show you that you have not been hearing strange doctrine. Turn thy tearful eye to yonder Mount of Calvary! If you, for fear of shame, and out of the love of the flesh, will not follow Christ through an evil generation, neither shall you follow him when he marches through the streets of heaven in triumph, amidst the acclamations of angels. No doubt, however, the text means that these will for ever love and honor the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, March 24th, 1872, by. The sister of that corrupt body stands at the side of the tomb, and she says, "Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days." Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals. I do really think I should be impatient to speak for myself. There is no fear of tempest, that grand old hospice has outstood many a thundering storm. it is a well-known truth, that if you want help you must go anywhere for it, save to your brother's house. They tell me, that they of old maintained the truth, and preached it, in the midst of fire and sword that they bore death in defence of the cause of God, that they might hand down his holy word inviolate to us! Here, I say again, is the pinch of faith. See what effectual calling can do. So, beloved friends, there is nothing in death to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Let us, who believe in inspired Scripture, unite our prayers that it may be even so. ", "But, interrupts another, "God must punish sin. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 7th, 1860, by the. The cross and Christ are nailed together by four nails, and they will never be disassociated in the experience of any Christian. They were, therefore, encouraged to take part and lot with Christ, the elder brother, with whom they had become joint heirs; and they were exhorted to suffer with him, that they might afterwards be glorified with him. 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. They bare their backs, the rod scourgeth them. I have no sort of sympathy with those who cannot enjoy the beauties of nature. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. I pray you take the possession now. Is he a King? They will say, "What! The children look up to the firstborn. Do you hate him because he spared your life by his tender mercy? Without faith prayer cannot speed, for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed, and such an one may not expect anything of the Lord; happy are we when the Holy Spirit removes our wavering, and enables us like Abraham to believe without staggering, knowing full well that he who has promised is able also to perform. Paul would turn round and laugh him to scorn "Get thee gone thou fisherman, get thee gone I a disciple of that imposter Jesus of Nazareth! ", I am anxious not to tarry over controverted matters, but to reach the subject of my sermon this morning. His early years had been spent in opposition to his Saviour. Believing supplications are forecasts of the future, He who prayeth in faith is like the seer of old, he sees that which is to be: his holy expectancy, like a telescope, brings distant objects near to him. He hears a sonnet. Paul points us to the cross in two ways. All things work together for the Christian's eternal and spiritual good. Naturally we never will towards good without God, but God works in us to will and to do. Another will say, "If I am a child of God, I shall not want to live as I like, but as God likes, and I shall be led by the grace of God into the path of holiness, and through divine grace I shall persevere in that way of holiness right to the end." was the means of his quickening. In this world, saints are God's children, but you cannot see that they are so, except by certain moral characteristics. Would you believe it, that the man whom Christ intends to call is the worst man in Jericho the extortioner? say you? Joyfully and cheerfully for ever shall it be our delight to do the Father's will. 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." Beloved, if you would be saved, you must be persuaded of this truth; and when you are persuaded of it, you will know the joy of it. 12:1-21. 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. The trumpet of the gospel sounds aloud to every man in our congregations "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." It will be a terrible thing to have to answer to the great and mighty God for having so sinned." I do not find them either in the English version or in the Greek original. The Prince of Preachers, Charles H. Spurgeon (19th June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was not only a wonderful orator but also magnificent with his pen. and is it a call to heaven as well as from heaven? Satan was no friend to Christ, but finding him in the desert he came to him with this accursed "if" "If thou be the Son of God." Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Can you heartily say that you can never rest satisfied till you. 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! Then, consider our Lord's experience with regard to the prince of the power of the air. III. The Holy Spirit also divinely operates in the strengthening of the faith of believers. And oh, would you be ashamed to die for Christ; methinks, if you are what you should be, you will glory in tribulations also, and count it sweet to suffer for Christ. If all things are working, let us work too "work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work." The poor client would plead, but still, when he won the suit, he would trace it all to the advocate who lived at home, and gave him counsel: indeed, it would be the advocate pleading for him, even while he pleaded himself. Conscience must reply, "Thou hast." may seem too mean to pray about. The pinch of faith always lies in the present tense. Oh, what a glorious doctrine is that of election, when a man can see himself to be elect. Others of you who can do little yourselves, can this day assist by sending forth men of God to preach the gospel of Christ. If I may be allowed the simile, I would say that this represents in part the work of the Spirit of God in us, suggesting to us the right desire, and bringing all things to our remembrance whatsoever Christ has told us. Now I must come to the third point, upon which with brevity. If in your Bible you turn to 2 Timothy 1:9 , you will read these words "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling." "You know how you used to blaspheme his name." AP&A-c1970 lfpb. Keep that groan in your ear, for I want you to hear another. When the soldiers of Godfrey of Bouillon came in sight of Jerusalem, it is said they shouted for joy at the sight of the holy city. If it is a call that will suit the remarks which I am about to give you in the second part of the discourse, even though you may have thought that God's hand is not in it, rest assured that it is, for nature could never produce effectual calling. It resets the dislocated bones of society, rivets the bonds of friendship, and welds the broken metal of manhood into one united mass. Soul, this suggests to thee a solemn enquiry, "Art thou in Christ or not?" He is chosen Dictator, but as soon as ever his dictatorship is over he retires to his little farm of three acres, and goes to his plough, and when he is wanted to be absolute monarch of Rome he is found at his plough upon his three acres of land and his little cottage. Sproul's Expositional Commentary Set - 8 Volumes. And see what it is that we are heirs of. Condemn a man that is at the right hand of God! "Things present." believe that thou art secure; that voice which called thee, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours; Rest assured, the heart that called thee, beats with infinite love towards thee, a love undying, that many waters cannot quench, and that floods cannot drown. Again he speaks, and fixing his eyes full on the Judge himself, he cries, "Who is he that condemneth?" It is naught but "Look!" Romans 8:28 . Others of you have affliction in your children, many of you are tried in your business, and some of you in your bodies with chronic or acute diseases. It is an unqualified statement, including every individual. There is no getting away from yourself, and when you yourself condemn yourself, then you are condemned indeed. We, if left to ourselves at our very best, get too much of one ingredient or another, and spoil the sacred compound, but the Holy Spirit's intercessions have in them such a blessed blending of all that is good that they come up as a sweet perfume before the Lord. If the vessel tarries, he groans over the delay; and if the voyage be tedious, and adverse winds blow back the barque from the white cliffs of Albion, his thirst for his own sweet land compels him to groan. Debts of honor, as we call them which are no debts in some men's eyes we can discharge; but the great and solemn debt we owe to God is ofttimes passed by, neglected and forgotten. Suppose it to be a time of war centuries back. Spurgeon, Charles H. Owen, John; Ferguson, Sinclair B. Sproul, R.C. A groan then is a part of prayer which we owe to the Holy Ghost, and the same is true of all the prayer which wells up from the deep fountains of our inner life. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. 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? We are to be conformed to Christ Jesus as to character. Can you each one say, as you sit in your pew to-night, "God loves me, and that loved joins him to me;" and "I love God, and that love joins me to him"? Oh, before those days fully come, quit the service of the master who never can reward you except with death! The Holy Spirit helps us to bear the infirmity of our body and of our mind; he helps us to bear our cross, whether it be physical pain, or mental depression, or spiritual conflict, or slander, or poverty, or persecution. Then the apostle says we are "waiting," by which I understand that we are not to be petulant, like Jonah or Elijah, when they said, "Let me die," nor are we to sit still and look for the end of the day because we are tired of work; nor are we to become impatient, and wish to escape from our present pains and sufferings till the will of the Lord is done. 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. ", I. Is he everlasting? "For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of the light." "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." Never martyr suffered more for Christ than that man suffered for his word's sake. Boast not, if thou art in the true olive. 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. And now my hearers, let me just utter this personal appeal to you. If he had willed it, thou wouldst have been among the damned; if he had not willed thy salvation, all thou couldst do would have been utterly powerless to deliver thee from perdition. He declares it to be enmity against God. Look! It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. It finds the sinner dead, it gives him life, and he obeys the call of life and lives. My unknown sins are buried in the unknown deeps of his almighty sacrifice. There is in the death of Christ enough and more than enough. Suddenly the Goths, the old enemies of Rome, fell upon the city. If we could then sweep the telescope along the milky way, and see the millions upon millions of stars that lie clustered together there, and could cry, "All these are mine," yet these possessions were but a speck compared with that which is in the text. They seek in vain; for there is no Saviour to be found, except at Calvary; and after you have made the circuit of the globe, and compassed heaven and hell to find another way of salvation, you will have to come back to Christ. Yet for our strong consolation, that we may never tremble or fear, God hath been pleased to give us these four eternal rocks, these four immovable foundations upon which our faith may rest and stand secure. 1. It is true that God is great, but he cannot ask for more than divine righteousness, and in Christ I present that. Those of us who have passed through any spiritual conflicts know that Satan is a terribly real personage. The new life which God has given to us is not ours that we should ascribe its excellence to our own merit: the new nature is Christ's peculiarly; as it is Christ's image and Christ's creation, so it is for Christ's glory alone. Paul. You can hear it in the streets of the city. If you like to call it so, you may; but I would rather that you made the mistake of the good old Christian woman who did not know much about these things, and who said that she herself was "a high Calvarist." How will we, when we once get to heaven, love and adore him as our dear elder brother with whom we shall be on terms of the closest familiarity and most reverent obedience. III. Christ spoke of it as the putting of a well into us, and he said, "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." You see what you are to come to, therefore, set Christ before your eyes always. A shopmate asked, "What's the matter?" Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $18.00 . The idle man that folds his arms or lies upon the bed of sloth is an exception to God's rule; for except himself all things work. Our sighs are sacred things; these griefs and sighs are too hallowed for us to tell abroad in the streets. Is then your calling a high calling, has it lifted up your heart, and set it upon heavenly things? Are we not his sons, and is there not a debt the son owes to the father which a lifetime of obedience can never remove? Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. If he were an uneducated man he would be in a poor plight. I want to sit down, and suck all the sweetness out of this blessed truth: "It is Christ that died." He looked at me, and picked me out as if I was the only man there, and described me exactly." Today, also, we can preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, casting it about us as it were as our garment, and he that toucheth the hem thereof shall he not also be made whole to-day, even as when Jesus was among men? We are joint heirs. Hope operated spiritually upon our spiritual faculties, and so does the Holy Spirit, in some mysterious way, divinely operate upon the new-born faculties of the believer, so that he is sustained under his infirmities. Time and ability alike fail us to speak of this. He gave his Son for you; and for me. We teach every Sabbath day, that the whole shower of devine wrath was poured upon Christ's head, that the black cloud of vengeance emptied out itself upon the cross, and that there is not left in the book of God a single sin against a believer, nor can there possibly be even a particle of punishment ever exacted at the hand of the man that believeth in Jesus, for this reason, that Jesus has been punished to the full. When Christ was God's heir, and was here on earth, he was heir of the cross, heir of shame, and spitting, and cruel mockings, and scourgings. "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us, for I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life," and so on. I do consider that in this there is an argument why no believer ever can perish. The whole of man is defaced. 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." View the Saviour in his agonies, with streams of blood purchasing thy soul, and with intensest agonies enduring thy punishment. weary slaves of sin, are not your ways the paths of folly? Dost thou abide in his commandments, and desire to be conformed unto his Image? What fiery lips shall ever speak of his possessions, of his riches, the unsearchable riches of God in Christ Jesus. "We know it. Can you now detect in your calling, the hand of God, and the voice of God? I repeat it again, any one of them is all-sufficient. And now we may rest assured, since we can see a sitting Christ in heaven, that the whole atonement is finished, the work is over, he hath made an end of sin. Into that matter, however, we will not dive lest we intrude where our knowledge would be drowned by our presumption. 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. We know right well that there are many things that happen to us in our lives that would be the ruin of us if we were always to continue in the same condition. Is not the free air we breathe the purchase of their death? It sweetly appears that the ULTIMATE END OF ALL THIS IS CHRIST. Beloved, if God be a father, where is honor? Who quarrels with this sacred regulation? This, then is God's great remedy for sin: "It is Christ that died.". 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. You must endure persecution; but then, remember, he will be joint heir with you. Upon looking carefully at my Bible again I do not perceive such a statement. Where are your hearts, that ye can still despise God, and be at enmity with him? So that what seemed to be against him, even in temporal matters, was for him. Will you be willing to endure the revilings of slanderous tongues? Within this narrow house of my body, this tenement of clay, if I be a true believer, there dwells the Holy Ghost, and when I desire to pray I may ask him what I should pray for as I ought, and he will help me. 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. Hear all those holy men who have written in the inspired volume, and ye shall find them all confessing that they were not clean, no not one; yea, one of them exclaimed, "O wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death? What shall we say then? If you follow after Christ, and find eternal life, when they hear of it, they will sneer at you, and bring up all your past life against you. You must be chastened, you must feel the goad; will you kick against the pricks and so wound yourself more than you would have been by the goad itself? Ah! I have called it, "A Carillon of Bells," because its one aim and object is to summon the Lord's people to bless and praise His Holy Name; and every note, from the highest to the lowest, is meant to peal forth the melody of "free grace and dying love." Yea, thy law is within my heart. And this infection of nature doth remain, yea, in them that are regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in the Greek, phronema sarkos, which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. "Yes," saith he, "I will. I have once more preached the gospel to you as plainly and as simply as I can. Oh! You remember the case of Samuel; the Lord called Samuel, and he arose and went to Eli, and he said, "Here am I, for thou calledst me." There is no difficulty in our believing that as one human mind operates upon another mind, so does the Holy Spirit influence our spirits. The surety paid the debt." Well did the apostle say of this "much more much more than dying and rising again from the dead, he lives at the right hand of God.". The saints in heaven are perfectly free from sin, and, so far as they are capable of it, they are perfectly happy; but a disembodied spirit never can be perfect until it is reunited to its body. He first of all stirred up their pure minds by way of remembrance as to their sonship, for saith he "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." 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. Illustration, examination, consolation. Do you not remember that the two sons of Zebedee asked to sit, one on the right hand and the other on the left? Then, remember, thy head must deny itself the pleasure of wearing the crown. Consider what thou owest to his immutability. When another says, "I am a sound, orthodox Presbyterian," you stick to this solid ground, "Christ has died." But he says, "Get thee hence, Satan, I know I am the son of God." You can make your wooden cross into an iron one, if you choose, by being of a fretful disposition. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. We may say of the prayers which the Holy Spirit works in us that they are prayers of knowledge. This is the Christian's brightest hope. Who can condemn? He replies, "Youth! Christ's cross is entailed on all heirs of God. I want, I want; I cannot tell thee what I want: but I seem to want all things. "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." 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