Death hath no more dominion over him and no more dominion over me; his deliverance is mine, his freedom mine for ever. We are all of us under obligations; let us consider the fact in the following manner: First, how are we to understand this? If my friend over yonder has paid my debt, it is gone. Catalogue of Commentaries & Expositions. When he was seized by the officers of Queen Mary, to be taken to the stake to be burned, he was treated so roughly on the road that he broke his leg; and they jeeringly said, "All things work together for good, do they? Man, unless thou art a stranger here, and heaven is thy home, thou hast not been called with a heavenly calling, for those who have been so called, declare that they look for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, and they themselves are strangers and pilgrims upon the earth. 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." 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. It is a pleasant and precious thing so to wait and so to hope. Let us take these things for granted, and never dispute about them any more, but go on to still higher matters. Psalms 16:5 . this is "to the uttermost;" what we thought, perhaps, to be the very smallest matter in the recital, is just the greatest. Speak the truth! Fourthly. We have the witness of the Spirit within, bearing witness with our spirits that we are born of God. Just a sentence upon another point. Look! And when Samuel knew it was the Lord, he said, "Speak; for thy servant heareth." Has the Spirit operated in my heart in a manner to which flesh and blood never can attain? Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, March 24th, 1872, by. We read of "the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." Did you ever want to hire a horse in a market-town? Ah, and blessed be God they will too, by the work of the Spirit. If we are joint heirs with him, we, too, must partake of the same. Is it prudent to despise the riches of his grace? Why, dying is the end of work; it is living that is hard work. And now I come to my last point, upon which briefly but I hope interestingly. "Begotten not made," says the Athanasian Creed, and it says truly too, "being of one substance with the Father." Sometimes I have thought that impossible. Amen. May he help us to expound, as he has already given us the passage to explain. But again, Matthew v. 9. 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. Let me attempt a second simile: he is as an advocate to one in peril at law. 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 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. 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. Regard the Holy Spirit as your prompter, and let your ear be opened to his voice. These are blessed subjects, though I cannot speak upon them as I would. Do not, therefore, fear death. 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.". Sin and death no longer have authority over you. Are you persuaded of this love of God to you? The apostle Paul puts this "first of all", and every true preacher of the good tidings of salvation will follow his example. Ah! As Paul's exposition in 5:12-21 has shown, "through one . The trial, too. "Well," cries one, "but what are the words which Christ uses when he calls a sinner from death?" The world's barque, it is true, is always tossed with waves, but these waves toss her first to the right and then to the left; they do not steadily bear her onward to her desired haven. The joint heirship reaches from the gloomy patina of deep affliction up to the bright ineffable splendor of the throne of bliss, nor can any man reverse the record. Is there not any word of special commendation to this? satanic enormity! I will shew you yet again. Hath he joy? The prophet cried, "My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart: my heart maketh a noise in me." 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." If it be wisdom, it is hell's wisdom; if it be wisdom, it is a wisdom which is folly with God. Christ's property extends to all, and we are co-heirs. How then am I to know whether I am predestinated by God unto eternal life or not? "'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above. Hebrews 6:20 . But our Lord has told us that greater works than his own shall we do, because he is gone to his Father; and these greater works we do. I heard of one who sat up at the end of last year to groan last year out; it was ill done, but in truth it was a year of groaning, and the present one opens amid turbulence and distress. This week, mother, thou mayest see thy first-born carried to the tomb. The law of God was a good law, a just and holy law. When he is about to favour an individual he casts the shadow of hopeful expectation over his soul. The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. And perhaps he goes to Eli to ask what he wants with him. 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. It is as if a poor man were called into court to prove his right to some piece of land which was disputed. We want the mind of the spirit in prayer, and not he mind of the flesh. Through many troubles you have passed, but you can say, they have all been for your good. In referring to the issue of servitude to sin ( katakrima ), Paul has reference to the problem discussed in the previous chapter and in 5:12-21. Amen. 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. Hark! In prayer we should often come to a dead stand, but he incites, suggests, and inspires, and so we go onward. Provision for Christian living is in the Person of the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:22-23 . And the heart, when we perceive not its ebullitions, when it belches not forth its lava, and sendeth not forth the hot stones of its corruption, is still the same dread volcano. 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.". The promises are yea and amen to thee, but only in Christ Jesus, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh at things after the counsel of his own will. Ay, and when Christ would have pulled you away, you held hard on to your sin! Even so we also were born of the Spirit without human observation; men of this world saw no glory whatsoever in our regeneration, for it was not performed by mystic rites, or with sacerdotal pomp. The words which Jesus uses are various in different cases. We are to work with God in the matter of our becoming like to Christ. "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man" (Proverbs 8:4 ). Oh! This is something more than helping us to pray, something more than encouraging us or directing us, but I venture no further, except to say that he puts such force of his own mind into our poor weak thoughts and desires and hopes, that he himself maketh intercession for us, working in us to will and to pray according to his good pleasure. Suddenly the Goths, the old enemies of Rome, fell upon the city. "But hush! you also shall bear a palm. If I be called I must have been elected, and I need not doubt that. First, then, my brethren, a SPECIAL PRIVILEGE mentioned in the text. So the Spirit confirms the witness of my spirit that I am born of God. They are blessed, but they have not had their public entrance. "Things present." No! The alternative of this bond, if not paid, was, that we should be sold for ever under sin, and should endure the penalty of our transgressions in unquenchable fire. This poor man knows very little about law, and is quite unable to meet his cunning opponent. Commentary on Romans 12:3-8 (Read Romans 12:3-8) Pride is a sin in us by nature; we need to be cautioned and armed against it. You think you can do wondrous things; you say. 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 might have sent you to hell; but you are here. One blow might, we should have imagined, have been enough to have smitten to death our unbelief for ever; the cross ought to have been enough for the crucifixion of our infidelity, yet God, foreseeing the strength of our unbelief, hath been pleased to smite it four times that it might be razed to rise no more. "We know," and the apostle lifts his hand to where the white-robed hosts are praising God for ever. Therefore, beloved, all the glory must be unto God and not to us. "Now," says Paul, "yea rather, he is risen from the dead." Do I have fellowship with Christ? "Who is he that condemneth? Ah, my hearers, what would you give if you could obtain this confidence? So far as mere prescience goes, every man is foreknown, and yet no one will assert that all men are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus. 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. I do believe that there is a supernatural way in which apart from means, the Spirit of God communicates with the spirit of man. Brethren, we are like warriors fighting for the victory; we share not as yet in the shout of them that triumph. "There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life," that there is so much longer time for temptation and trial. Coming events cast their shadows before them, and when God is about to bless his people his coming favour casts the shadow of prayer over the church. Then again I say to you, "Tell it not in Gath and publish it not in Askelon, then has a heathen eclipsed a Christian." Is this true or not? There is not a star though it seemeth to sleep in the deep blue firmament, which doth not travel its myriads of miles and work; there is not an ocean, or a river, which is not ever working, either clapping its thousand hands with storms, or bearing on its bosom the freight of nations. Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? I never felt anything like it before. Our spirit bears witness that we are the children of God, when it feels a filial love to God. A mother will say, "It is rebellious children who are breaking my heart." They will say, "What! III. Enemies in the children's house? 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. Suppose, my dear friends, that any of you were about to be tried for your life, do you think you could trust your advocacy with any man you know? Moreover, the Holy Spirit's intercession creates prayers offered in a proper manner. And now, it may be, some of you are convinced of sin, by the Holy Spirit. And if thou be called, it follows as a natural inference thou art predestinated. Here is A CHALLENGE TO ALL COMERS. So in regard to God. 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.". I will say no more; only may God give us all an interest in these four precious things. "What an intellectual treat his prayer was! Prayers which are the offspring of great desires, sublime aspirations, and elevated designs are surely the work of the Holy Spirit, and their power within a man is frequently so great that he cannot find expression for them. But here we have a more uncommon and a sublimer theme. Oh! And, believer, there is no fear that Christ shall be the possessor of nothing or heir of little things. This glorious truth is most sweet when earth's honeyed words are taken away, and most lustrous when we no longer attempt to illuminate her with human language. But this should not be so. says the accuser "but you sinned against light and knowledge. Conscience, I will put thee in the witness-box, and cross-examine thee this morning! Thus he was persuaded of this truth by revelation, by argument, and by experience; and I should like you to notice that he was not only persuaded that none of the powers he mentions will separate us from the love of Christ, but that they cannot do it. In Romans 11:2 , we read, "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknow," where the sense evidently has the idea of fore-love; and it is so to be understood here. May God help me, this morning, solemnly to prefer this indictment against all! 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. 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." I must not speculate, for I know nothing about it; but it is no speculation to say that we look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness; and that there will come a time when the lion shall eat straw like an ox, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. What the wealthiest man has is not his own, but God's, and if it be God's then it is Christ's, and if Christ's, then his children's; and Christ's children are often those who are hungry, and thirsty, and destitute, and afflicted, and tormented. 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? Is there anything here that can console me? I doubt not that God at first supernaturally revealed it to him; but yet, in order that he might be still more sure of it, God was pleased to reveal it to him again and again, till his trembling heart was more and more completely persuaded of it. "It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again." He allows nothing to mar the glory of this one blessed fact, "It is Christ that died." Thus much upon the sacred end of predestination. "We know it. God requires us to remember the poor, and their poverty is a claim upon our generosity. This is a good seaworthy vessel: "It is Christ that died." Let these few sentences suffice for a preface. Mark that Paul does not say that all this could ever happen; but that, if it could, the person concerned would be like apiece of ground which brought forth nothing but thorns and briers. If the aegis of the Almighty covers thee, what sword can smite thee? He called them, mark you. A New Interpretation of Pilgrim's Progress. It is as though one bartered a diamond to buy a common pebble from the brook, or gave away an empire to purchase some foul thing not worthy of being picked off a dunghill. So the enquirer asked him again, "But what is . 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." But if thou art no lover of God, but a stranger to him, I beseech thee do not pilfer to-day and steal a comfort that was not intended for thee. Romans 8:16-17 . But I feel a darkness coming down over my spirit, and in the darkness there is a fiendish voice that says, "But you have committed unknown sins, sins that nobody else knows, and there have been sins which you yourself did not know. 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:". It was said of king Cyrus, that he was a prince of so amiable a disposition, that when at any time he sat down at meat, if there were aught that pleased his appetite, he would order it to be taken away and given to his friends with this message, "King Cyrus found that this food pleased his palate, and he thought his friend should feed upon that which he enjoyed himself." Such men there are here this very day. It is Christ that died. And he goes to Eli, and it is not till afterwards, perhaps, that he finds that Eli had nothing to do with the impression, but that the Lord had called him. 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. That is, his great love in giving his dear Son to die for us. "This world is ours," says the apostle in another place, and ours because it is Christ's by right of inheritance. Sanctification is the Lord's work in us. There were no obedient creatures in the world of that sort, knowing good and evil, in the days of Eden's glory. Suppose you have been enabled to believe in Jesus Christ for your salvation; that faith has produced love to Christ; that love to Christ has led you to work for Christ; you come to the Bible, and you find that this was just the very thing which was felt by early believers; and then you say, "Good Lord, I am thy son, because what I feel is what thou has said by the lips of thy servant must be felt by those who are thy children." Stay awhile; that horny hand of labor shall soon grasp the palm branch. The Eternal Son desired association with beings who should be sons as he was, towards whom he could stand in a close relationship as being like to them in nature and Sonship, and the Father therefore ordained that a seed whom he has chosen should be conformed to the image of the Son, that his Son might head up and be chief among an order of beings more nearly akin to God than any other. He instructs us as to our need, and as to the promises of God which refer to that need. 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. We see the mercy-seat, and we perceive that God will hear us: we have no doubt about that, for we know that we are his own favoured children, and yet we hardly know what to desire. We heard of abundant harvests, but we soon discovered that they were all a dream, and that there would be scant in the worker's cottage. If there be work to do for him in future ages we will be the first to volunteer for service; if there be battles to be fought in times to come with other rebellious races, if there be wanted servants to fly over the vast realms of the infinite to carry Jehovah's messages, who shall fly so swiftly as we shall, when once we feel that in his courts we shall dwell not as mere servants, but as members of the royal family, partakers of the divine nature, nearest to God himself. Even so did our Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle then turns to a third source of comfort, namely, the abiding of the Holy Spirit in and with the Lord's people. To atone for the sin of my soul there is the sorrow of his soul; if I poured out my soul in sin, he poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors. Say not, "There are giants in the land," ye are strong enough to smite them. The effectual call may be illustrated in its sovereignty by the case of Zaccheus. God's grace will be sufficient for us; his strength will be made perfect in weakness. Yes, he quickens sinners into spiritual life, and he strives with them to overcome their sinfulness and turn them into the right way; but in the saints he works with us and enables us to pray after his mind and according to the will of God. I have affirmed, and I am sure most Christians will bear witness, that what I said was the truth, that if any man loveth God he loves him because God gave him grace to love him. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who sitteth on the right hand of God, who maketh intercession for him. What wise and admirable desires must those be which the Spirit of Wisdom himself works in us! How I wish every one here had a share in the text: I mourn that some have not, for he that believeth not on the Son hath not life, and therefore cannot have conformity to a living Christ. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 8:14-39 . There is a third thing in which we are deficient, namely, liberty, the glorious liberty of the children of God. Paul himself counted not his life dear unto him that he might win Christ, and be found in him; wherefore he says that he is persuaded that neither death, nor life, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. We are joined to him by a living, loving, lasting union that never shall be broken. Look at our memory; is it not true that the memory is fallen? 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? I can always believe the past, and always believe the future, but the present, the present, the present, that is what staggers faith. Not only is our sin punished, but the sin is gone. This calling forbids all trust in our own doings and conducts us to Christ alone for salvation, but it afterwards purges us from dead works to serve the living and true God. 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. So they are, but he that is with you is mightier far. 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