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It is more than some men think to have been rocked in the same cradle and dandled on the same knee. The Secret Power in Prayer January 8, 1888 by . The thoughts are too great to need to be spun out, or you can do that in your private meditations. Every one knows that it is a disgrace to a matchless prayer-book, that such words should be permitted to stand there-words so infamously untrue that by their gross untruthfulness they cease to have the destructive effect which more cunning language might have produced, because the conscience of man revolts against the idea that the sprinkling of drops of water upon the infants's brow can ever make it a member of Christ, and a child of God. 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. "Sentimentalism!" This is a 12-16 week, in-depth study of Romans 8, averaging less than 3 verses per week (there are 12 weekly preparation guides, but leaders should allow some discussions to take one and a half or two weeks). I know that my obedience cannot save me, but I long to obey. Speak to him on the road, send out the apostle Peter to him, let Peter say, "Saul, why dost thou oppose Christ? I do not know a more beautiful sight to be seen on earth than a man who has served his Lord many years, and who, having grown grey in service, feels that, in the order of nature, he must soon be called home. He cannot perish who relies on Christ, and he who hath faith in Jesus may see the heavens pass away, but not God's Word. "Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen again." Then salvation cannot be by merit; it must be by grace. But we sit down very contented. Poor prodigal sinner, may our Father bring thee home, for there is an inheritance even for thee. What can you be at? "Brethren, we are debtors. So with the child; you may bind him with the green withes of education, you may do what you will with him, since you cannot change his heart, that carnal mind shall still be at enmity against God; and notwithstanding intellect, talent, and all you may give to boot, it shall be of the same sinful complexion as every other child, if not as apparently evil; for "the carnal mind is enmity against God.". Psalms 73:26 . I cannot of course picture what your precise trouble is. Again he speaks, and fixing his eyes full on the Judge himself, he cries, "Who is he that condemneth?" As the Carthaginian, who might tread the desolate site of his much-loved city, would shed many tears when he saw it laid in heaps by the Romans; or as the Jew, wandering through the deserted streets of Jerusalelm, would lament that the ploughshare had marred the beauty and the glory of that city which was the joy of the whole earth; so ought we to mourn for ourselves and our race, when we behold the ruins of that goodly structure which God had piled, that creature, matchless in symmetry, second only to angelic intellect, that mighty being, man when we behold how he is "fallen, fallen, fallen, from his high estate," and lies in a mass of destruction. His righteousness becomes our beauty. 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. Oh! We have some splendid specimens of what men could write, when they have been under the accursed influence of ardent spirits. 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." 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. There is a publican living in it, who is a hard, griping, grasping, miserly extortioner. 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? 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. 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. "Brethren, ye have been called into liberty." My soul hath made me like the chariots of Aminadib, and I have gotten me away to the hills of myrrh and the mountains of frankincense. In another place he calls himself the very chief of sinners; and yet it is this man who dares to ask the question, "Who is he that condemneth?" and no one dares to speak, for man himself cannot accuse; with all his malevolence, and acrimony, and malice, he can bring nothing against him; no charge can stand at the bar of God against the man whom he hath absolved through the merits of the death of Christ, and the power of his resurrection. He draws near to teach us how to pray, and in this way he helps our infirmity, relieves our suffering, and enables us to bear the heavy burden without fainting under the load. Into that matter, however, we will not dive lest we intrude where our knowledge would be drowned by our presumption. As surely as Jesus is a son, so surely are we, for the same Spirit bears witness to both, as it is written "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." We cannot be made like Christ unwillingly; a consenting will is essential to the likeness of Christ; unwilling obedience would be disobedience. "We are the children of God." No one has come to rescue him, and indeed he has fallen into a place from which escape is impossible. 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. I conclude by saying, see, my dear hearers, the absolute necessity of the Holy Spirit, for if the saints know not what they should pray for as they ought; if consecrated men and women, with Christ suffering in them, still feel their need of the instruction of the Holy Spirit, how much more do you who are not saints, and have never given yourselves up to God, require divine teaching! My fellow creature, dost thou not know that God sent his Son from his bosom, hung him on the tree, and there suffered him to die for sinners, the just for the unjust? There were no obedient creatures in the world of that sort, knowing good and evil, in the days of Eden's glory. 3. He never repents of what he gives, nor of what he calls. 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. Now, observe, that this conformity to Christ lies in several things. 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.". 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. it is forgotten! Do you know I am one of the best churchmen in the world; the very best, if you will judge me by the articles, and the very worst, if you measure me in any other way. "What!" I think it was Bishop Hall who once said, "I thank God I am not of his counsels, but I am of his court." And now, it may be, some of you are convinced of sin, by the Holy Spirit. Well, I wonder what is "to come." This is an instructive emblem of a great fact. We are like Adam now in weakness and pain, and we shall soon be like him in death, returning to the ground whence we were taken; but we shall rise again to a better life, and then shall we wear in glory and incorruption the image of the second Adam, the Lord from heaven. Sproul's Expositional Commentary Set - 8 Volumes. Consider again, I pray you, what a dignity God hath conferred upon you even upon you in making you his son. Dost thou love to pay him homage? Old Testament or Considerable Portions Thereof. The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. But, remember, Christ is coheir with you in this. If it be wisdom, it is hell's wisdom; if it be wisdom, it is a wisdom which is folly with God. In the previous chapter, Paul was writing to some who ought to have been teachers, but who needed still to be taught the first principles of the gospel; they were such babes in grace that they needed the milk of the Word, the very simplest elements of gospel truth, and not the strong meat of solid doctrine. I hear a note of holy praise; alas! "All things work." And he came before his Father's throne and said, "There it is; the full price: I have brought it all." I remember an old divine using a very pithy and homely metaphor, which I shall borrow to-day. All things work together for the Christian's eternal and spiritual good. Do I have fellowship with Christ? Oh! "God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." you might as well try to go to America in a paper boat!" This is condescension indeed! Yet more, I fancy that. Furthermore, this conformity to Christ lies in relationship as well as in nature. The whole of man is defaced. We are to be conformed to Christ Jesus as to character. I fear that some of you, seeing ye have never come and put your trust in Christ, will have to say, when your time comes to die, what Wolsey is said to have declared, with only one word of alteration: Had I but served my God with half the zeal. You can say, "God has given these souls to Christ, I am going to take them in Christ's name." But what I do not like is when they look down from those awful heights upon us poor Christians and say that they cannot believe in us because we are anxious, because we practice self-examination, because we have to struggle against sin. And you and I must be conformed to Christ in this respect. Has not thine heart ever desired, since there is a God, that he were a little less holy, a little less pure, so that those things which are now great crimes might be regarded as venial offences, as peccadillos? He hath not published the page whereon the actual names of the redeemed are written; but that page of the sacred decree whereon their character is recorded is published in his Word, and shall be proclaimed to thee this day. As I have already said, if in time of trouble a man can pray, his burden loses its weight. 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. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be." We read that, when David had cut off Saul's skirt. Tell even them that Christ died. If he were an uneducated man he would be in a poor plight. An unconverted man may love a God, as, for instance, the God of nature, and the God of the imagination; but the God of revelation no man can love, unless grace has been poured into his heart, to turn him from that natural enmity of the heart towards God, in which all of us are born. Such prayers will rise within us when the mind is far too troubled to let us speak. We are co-heirs; if he be truly an heir, so are we; and if he be not, neither are we. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, all the mighty ones that have gone before, tell out the tale of their history, write their autobiography, and they say, "We!" Now, do you hate God for sparing you? And the Father says, "Yes, my beloved Son, I will love them; Jesus, I will love them for thy sake.". 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