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The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God January 1, 1970 The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."Romans viii. Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. 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. Look! 1 & 2 Peter: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $13.20 $22.00. He is evermore transforming the chosen, removing that defilement of sin, and moulding them after the perfect model of his Son, Jesus Christ, the second Adam, who is the firstborn amongst the "many brethren.". No; though you should be weary of your life, though you should never have a ray of light by the month together, there is nothing there to separate you from the love of Christ. At least, they seem to have lost their first love to him far sooner than they did to his servant. Well, certainly, you made no pretension to it six months ago; you were about as black as a man could be." Oh! 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. Is he full of love and grace? So it must be, "If so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together." We shall have no need to envy angels, for what are they but ministering spirits, servants in our Father's halls; but we are sons, and sons of no inferior order, no sons of a secondary rank like Abraham's children born of Keturah, or like the son of the bondwoman, but we are the Isaacs of God, born according to the promise, heirs of all that he hath, a seed beloved of the Lord for ever. 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. Thou in the midst of thy sickness and infirmity art girt about with robes of glory, which make the spirits in heaven look down upon the earth with awe. I fear many of us here must acknowledge that we do not charge the sin of it to our own consciences. You, that were going to thrash mountains, find that molehills cast you down. You must enter your suit against the Head if you would attack the members, for verily the action at law which can be pleaded against the member of the body must be pleaded against the Head itself, for no court can allow a distinction between the body and the head in an notion at law. 3. Romans 8 We can live by God's Spirit 1 Now we know this: God has forgiven those people who are united with Christ Jesus. He became a partaker of our infirmities and sicknesses that we might be partakers of the divine nature in all its excellence and purity. Yea, more, ye shall bring him to the house of prayer; ye shall make him sit constantly under the clearest preaching of the word, where he shall hear the doctrines of grace in all their purity, attended by a holy unction; but if that holy unction does not rest upon him, all shall be vain; he shall still come most regularly, but, like the pious door of the chapel, that turneth in and out, he shall still be the same; having an outside superficial religion, and his carnal mind shall still be at enmity against God. Note yet a little further concerning the special privilege of heirship, we are joint heirs with Christ. Can you now detect in your calling, the hand of God, and the voice of God? Then secondly, there is the secret mind of God, the will of his eternal predestination and decree, of which we know nothing; but we do know this, that the Spirit of God never prompts us to ask anything which is contrary to the eternal purpose of God. Therefore, our rights and our property extend to all things whatsoever they may be. Some esteem it nothing. 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. You not only sinned with your body, with your eyes, your lips, your hands; but you have sinned in imagination and desire very horribly." When thou art commanded to believe and repent, when thou art exhorted to flee from the wrath to come, the sin lies on thy own head if thou dost despise the exhortation, and reject the commandment. Another will say, "Ah, it is an insidious disease that will soon carry me to my grave!" Brethren, we are like warriors fighting for the victory; we share not as yet in the shout of them that triumph. Keep that groan in your ear, for I want you to hear another. As far as his own experience went I dare say he was right, but there may be some far inferior to the doctor in genius, who nevertheless were superior in nearness of fellowship with God, and who could therefore go a little farther than the eloquent divine. Once more I will appeal to his advocacy 'Who maketh intercession for us.' 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. Do you hate God because he loves you? "Ah!" This was thought to be a singular instance of his affability, and his kindness to his courtiers. All things work together for the Christian's eternal and spiritual good. Satan desires to have us and to sift us as wheat. Happy in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get the fulness of what is promised him. 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. Like a bird uncaged, how will it mount with more than eagles' wings! "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." Yet I have been upheld till now, who could hold me up but my God!" Oh! R.C. You went to some place, and asked the price, and thought it too high; then you went away to half-a-dozen other stablekeepers, and could not do any better, so you came back to the first; but he, displeased with you, very possibly said, "I do not want your custom. Paul has, in this case, only one answer to the question, "Who is he that condemneth?" God's power will be with her heralds, God's might shall be with her armies, and the earth shall soon submit, and Christ shall reign for ever and ever. Any one of them were all-sufficient. The Spirit is one with the Father, and the Father knows what the Spirit means. My spiritual distress robs me of the power to pour out my heart before my God. Waiting implies being ready. 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. Have not you found it so too? "Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands," poured out water, and began to wash his disciples' feet, and then went, with full knowledge of all that was before him, to pour out his blood to wash their souls from guilt. The children look up to the firstborn. His interpretation of it is a groan, and that is all. Bblia; Leia a Bblia; Verses da Bblia; . We always want to be putting in some little scrap of our own virtue; we want to be doing something. We cannot be condemned for "Christ hath died. Ah, brethren! Abel, the protomartyr, entering alone into heaven, shall not have a more secure title to the inheritance than he who, last of woman born, shall trust in Christ, and then ascend into his glory. Let us, then, weigh the words of the text, for they are solemn words. The world will, before long, understand what you mean by saying that Christ has made atonement for your sin; and, perhaps, here and there, a few of those who ridiculed you will be inclined to know more about this matter, and in private may come and ask you how the death of Christ has saved your soul. Conscience, I will put thee in the witness-box, and cross-examine thee this morning! 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. Without a solitary exception the answer would be this "If I am a Christian and he is not, unto God be the honor." A quaint old divine says, that "When God in his justice rose from his throne to smite the surety, he would make no concession whatever. "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. Forth it steps into the arena, and we behold the law of God. Recollections of the Rev. There was a young man here, who exactly answered to the description I gave, and who wrote home to his mother something like this (I have the letter): "I went to Spurgeon's Tabernacle on Sunday night, and I heard such a sermon. All things work together for a Christian's lasting good. But he says, "Get thee hence, Satan, I know I am the son of God." Dear brethren, let us not wonder if we have to work too. for thy Master's honor, and for thine own comfort, retain that consolation. Sit thee down; rest in peace; lift up thine eye of hope, and sing thy song with fond anticipation. We are deficient in those things for which we groan and wait. What if Christ died for all your past sins? Amen. Thine eternity, O God, is mine to keep me in existence, that I may ever be preserved. The cross and Christ are nailed together by four nails, and they will never be disassociated in the experience of any Christian. He is delivered and I am delivered too. Will he execute justice as a judge, or will he prefer his family to his country? Just a sentence upon another point. We are not at liberty to give or to refuse. It is called "first-fruits," again, because the first-fruits were always the pledge of the harvest. An exile, far away from his native country, has been long forgotten, but on a sudden a vessel brings him the pardon of his monarch, and presents from his friends who have called him to remembrance. Those who obey his promptings shall not walk in darkness. (+44) 01236 827 978. The inheritance cannot be divided; if you will have the glory, you must have the shame. He loved me to the death; and albeit that he foresaw and foreknew that I should reject him, yet he would not take "No" for answer from me; but he resolved that his true grace should conquer me truly, and make me willing in the day of his power. All God's children are heirs, however numerous the family, and he that shall be born of God last, shall be as much his heir as he who was born first. Now, if I understand the passage before us, it means this. I trust that even while I am speaking this morning, Christ may speak with me, and some word that may fall from my lips, unpremeditated and almost without design, shall be sent of God as a message of life unto some dead and corrupt heart here, and some man who has lived in sin hitherto, shall now live to righteousness, and live to Christ. Now this is the cause of our groaning and mourning, for the soul is so married to the body that when it is itself delivered from condemnation, it sighs to think that its poor friend, the body, should still be under the yoke. Again, notice the universality of this at all times. "Who is he that condemneth?" Look around you and learn your duty. He has discharged the debt; and we have still another assurance that it is all gone, for the apostle goes on to speak of Christ "who is even at the right hand of God." How will your broken leg work for your good?" So it is true; we constantly forget that salvation is by grace alone. I do not wonder, therefore, that in his epistles he often discourses upon the doctrines of foreknowledge, and predestination, and eternal love, because these are a rich cordial for a fainting spirit. The body is still subject to the evils which Paul mentions, when he says of it that it is subject to corruption, to dishonour, to weakness, and is still a natural body. If your heart pants to read its title clear it shall do so ere long. And hear ye this, John i. ", Now, my hearers, "the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants;" but whenever I find a certain book much held in reverence by our Episcopalian brethren, entirely on my side, I always feel the greatest delight in quoting from it. Second, being born in human likeness and living among us as a sinless man, Jesus "condemned sin in the flesh"beat sin on its own turf. Come with me, believer, to your estates, and behold, just on the edge of your Father's great inheritance, lies the swamp and morass of affliction. Who is Christ, and who is it with whom he intercedes. If it is robbing man to spend the money in pleasure wherewith we ought to pay our debts; it is robbing God if we employ our time, our talents, or our money, in anything but his service, until we feel we have done our share in that service. Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world! ", Paul was fully persuaded of this great truth. We know not what God is, nor the measure of his attributes. The practical part follows, wherein we find, 1. Let me attempt a second simile: he is as an advocate to one in peril at law. I have wished I might indulge in folly; I have wished there were no laws to restrain me; I have wished, as the fool, that there were no God." and what is election, but God's purpose to do what he does do? "It is Christ that died.". Romans 8:3-4. The beggar shivering in his rags, may owe thee something, if thou givest him alms; but thou owest him something more. He went about his Father's business; so should we ever be occupied. This detailed study of Romans 8 will encourage you to live free of sin's shackles and enjoy victorious, confident communion with Christ. Oh! Having once looked upon the city of David, they longed to carry the holy city by storm, to overthrow the crescent, and place the cross in its place. Gentlemen, the apostle Paul was well aware of your objections; and therefore mark how confidently he asserts the doctrine. Is it wisdom, O my fellow-creatures, is it wisdom to hate your Creator? It is an unqualified statement, including every individual. When bowing before his throne we can boldly say "Abba Father." You are born with a body not deformed; you have had a tolerable share of health; you have been recovered many times from sickness; when lying at the gates of death, his arm has held back your soul from the last step to destruction. My brethren, we are debtors to the poor. As to our spirits, we have liberty to soar into the third heaven, and sit in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus; but as for our bodies, we can only roam about this narrow cell of earth, and feel that it is not the place for us. The traveller has reached the hospice. The angels of heaven veil their faces; and the angels of God on earth, his chosen people, must always veil their faces with humility, when they think of what they were. "Brethren, we are debtors.". However wise and advisable a human interpolation may be, it has no authority with us; we bow to holy Scripture, but not to glosses which theologians may choose to put upon it. That is, his great love in giving his dear Son to die for us. 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." When God said, "Let my Anointed go free, I am satisfied and content in him," then every elect vessel went free in him; then every child of God was released from durance vile no more to die, not to know bondage or fetter for ever. God's people are known by their outward mark: they love God, and the secret cause of their loving God is this God chose them from before the foundation of the world that they should love him, and he sent forth the call of his grace, so that they were called according to his purpose, and were led by grace to love and to fear him. My mind wanders: I chatter like a crane; I roar like a beast in pain; I moan in the brokenness of my heart, but oh, my God, I know not what it is my inmost spirit needs; or if I know it, I know not how to frame my petition aright before thee. 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." God is angry with them, and they know it. A dying Saviour brings more glory to the love of God, ay, and to the justice of God, than any mortal sinner could have done; more than any perfect man, though he lived throughout eternity, could have done. Oh! Speak we of his omniscience? Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon is remembered today as the Prince of Preachers. He gave to us his crown; he gave to us his throne; for "to him that overcometh will I give to sit upon my throne, even as I have overcome, and have sat down with my Father upon his throne." II. In Philippians 3:13-14 you find these words. The heathen may rage, and the kings of the earth take counsel together, but God saith, "I will declare the decree, yet have I set my Son upon any holy hill of Zion." O how much we owe them. If there were no future to this world as well as to ourselves, we might be glad to escape from it, counting it to be nothing better than a huge penal colony, from which it would be a thousand mercies for both body and soul to be emancipated. Do you feel the longings, the loves, the confidences of a child? Brethren, we are debtors to our covenant God; that is the point which swallows up all. Holland, Belgium, Russia, and Poland, belong not to their kings and czars, Christ is the King of kings, these lands belong to us. Oh, that you would come and learn it! 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. Now why call Zaccheus? "You have robbed God of his glory," another voice seems to say. 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. I showed you, just now, the difference between a groan and a groan. When we have broken his commandments, as we all of us have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him a vast amount of punishment, which we are not able to pay. 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." In praying for temporal things we plead with measured voices, ever referring our petition for revision to the will of the Lord. You have perhaps received an increase to your wealth, and after the first flush of pleasure which was but natural, you have said, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity; this is not my joy." As long as you go with evil companions, they will applaud you. The first is, that this body of ours is not delivered. The text says, "The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." 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? Let them "rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say rejoice.". What will the father do? An adversary in the court might plead against him, and overthrow him, for he could not answer him. 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. No separation: that is the end of the chapter. May he help us to expound, as he has already given us the passage to explain. do I converse with him, commune with him? There is no getting away from yourself, and when you yourself condemn yourself, then you are condemned indeed. 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. Stern justice swayed his spirit, and no other feeling could for a single moment make him turn aside. 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. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. Even as Christ had to drink the cup of suffering, for sin, we also have sipped of it. II. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," so runs our commission, Isa 40 1. 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." Cry, "Lord, melt me, pour me out like wax, and set thy seal upon me until the image of Christ be clearly there." And now as a matter of EXAMINATION let each man judge himself by certain characteristics of heavenly calling which I am about to mention. And may the love of Jesus be with you. I. It is not merely that our judgment leads us in that direction, though usually the Spirit of God acts upon us by enlightening our judgment, but we often feel an unaccountable and irresistible desire rising again and again within our heart, and this so presses upon us, that we not only utter the desire before God at our ordinary times for prayer, but we feel it crying in our hearts all the day long, almost to the supplanting of all other considerations. 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