The enemies of truth are more numerous and subtle than ever, and the needs of the Church are greater than at any preceding time. I take it that it is the meaning of the text, that the Lord would have Christ to be the first of a nobler order of beings. In these words I see first, a challenge to all comers: "Who is he that condemneth?" We shall be called upon to notice, this morning, first, the truthfulness of this assertion; secondly, the universality of the evil here complained of; thirdly, we will still further enter into the depths of the subject, and press it to your hearts, by showing the enormity of the evil; and after that, should we have time, we will deduce one or two doctrines from the general fact. 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. Now I want your attention while I try to show that this blessed sentence, "It is Christ that died," is AN ANSWER TO EVERY ACCUSATION which, under any circumstances, may arise from sin. "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." I can look upward without distressing fear." 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. Here is a youth who is to be initiated in the art of archery, and therefore he carries a bow. 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. Who would be the pleader in such a case? Two Sunday nights ago, when I stood here to preach about the longsuffering of God being salvation,* I spoke, in the middle of the sermon, as if personally addressing someone who was present, who had lately been ill with fever, and who had come to the Tabernacle, still weakly, and scarcely recovered. Now, who is he that condemns the people that have such a head as this? "Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee," and "by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." You see what you are predestinated to be: aim at it, aim at it every day. saith he, "I do not call gold good, but I call faith good! why art thou at enmity with God? Make thou thyself assured, then, that thou art in union with Christ, for out of him thou hast no rights whatever. All men are called by the ministry, by the Word, by daily providence, to love God, there is a common call always given to men to come to Christ, the great bell of the gospel rings a universal welcome to every living soul that breathes; but alas! The law has, therefore, more than it asked for, and I am thus not afraid of the anger of the great God. 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. And men of every kindred, and of every tribe, shall see in the face of every man, a relative allied to them by ties of blood. He is in an enemy's house; for he is at enmity with God. Why some of you can do so by preaching the gospel to poor sinners in the streets. Ah! The beggar shivering in his rags, may owe thee something, if thou givest him alms; but thou owest him something more. And wilt thou think, yet again, what cause there is that thou shouldest realize to-day thy union with Christ, since thou art joint heir with him. Shall we not want to have our voices made more loud till they become as thunders, or like many waters, or surely we shall not be able to praise him as we would? We see not yet all things put under man, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor; and in the person of Christ Jesus this day we, the men who are made in his image, have dominion over all things, being all made kings and priests unto God, and in Christ Jesus ordained to reign with him forever and ever. I hear a note of holy praise; alas! Having reaped handfuls, we long for sheaves. He shall joy in their joy, and be glad in their gladness. Do observe with care the fact that he is always described in heaven as sitting down. (2) They may have thought him to teach that we should sin in order to get more grace (6:1) and, therefore, may have made his teaching of justification by faith an excuse for immoral conduct. The mind of God is one and harmonious; if, therefore, the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and he move you to any desire, then his mind is in your prayer, and it is not possible that the eternal Father should reject your petitions. There is enough in that one truth to include all that is excellent in the others, and to answer all the accusations that may be brought against you. It makes all brethren who feel its power. His early years had been spent in opposition to his Saviour. The law of God says, "Thou shalt not," and we have done exactly what we were forbidden to do. God can do all things, but I see not any way by which he could give to his only-begotten Son beings that should be akin to himself, except through the processes which we discover in the economy of grace. This is styled by our new philosophers as old cumbersome scheme of theology, and it is proposed that it be swept away a proposition which will never be carried out, while the earth remaineth, or while God endureth. But let us consider a second phase of it. Oh! Now, there is but one Judge the man Christ Jesus. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Here is A CHALLENGE TO ALL COMERS. There is such a thing on earth as an infallible assurance of our election. We are saved by hope. Conecte-se Inscrever-se; Incio. Do not you recollect how, in your schoolboy days, you used to make a little almanack with a square for every day, and how you always crossed off the day as soon as ever it began, as though you would try and make the distance from your joy as short as possible? Is he a King? Then all thy love, as though there were not another to be loved, is mine, O God, and all thy grace, as though there were never another sinner to partake of it, is mine. Does he contribute anything to his new life? That is in opposition to their apparent confliction. He surely doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of man for nought; and when in these dark gloomy times we have looked up to a Father's face, and have said, "Though thou slay me, yet will I trust in thee; thy blows shall not drive thee from me; they shall but make me say, "Show me wherefore thou contendest with me, and purge me from my sin."" Did not they, by bitter suffering, achieve our liberty for us? Better to be a solitary pilgrim to bliss, than one of the thousands who throng the road to hell. I can recollect evil things far better than those which savor of piety. "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus," declaring as it seems to me, and rightly enough, that all believers, all who have faith in Christ are the children of God, and that they become actually and manifestly so by faith in Christ Jesus, and implying that those who have no faith in Christ Jesus, are not God's sons, and that any pretence which they could make to that relationship would be but arrogance and presumption. When Napoleon was on the island of St. Helena, he was watched by many guards, but after many complaints, he enjoyed comparative liberty, and walked alone. Is he not very God of very God, Jehovah's only begotten Son, Most High and glorious, though he bowed himself to the grave and became the Servant of servants, yet God over all, blessed for ever. Look at his gore, as it distils from his body in Gethsemane and on the accursed tree. It sends a shiver through some when we begin to speak of death, and the bravest man who ever lived may well tremble at the thought that he must soon meet the king of terrors; but, brothers and sisters, if Christ loves us, and we love Christ, we may well be persuaded that death will not break the union which exists between us. Let any man hear and judge. Christ was in his death the hostage of the people of God. Behold his goodness that he hath spread before you! Christ himself, the great and mighty God is the "Interpreter, one among a thousand", able to stand between me and God. I am glad that you have them, brother, may you always keep them; and if I cannot have them, I shall sit down in my struggles and temptations, and still say that there is nothing in the heights, in high doctrine or in high living, that can separate me from the love of Christ. God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. Some men groan because of their great losses or sufferings; well, this may be nothing but a rebellious smarting under the rod, and if so, no blessing will come of it. 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. Now here is a proof that the Christian cannot be condemned, because the blood is on the mercy-seat. "If thou be the Son of God." 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." Grant me that the child is carnal, and my text says, "the carnal mind is enmity against God." The doctrine that I am quite sure to gain the victory, makes me fight. He can make the zeal for God's house to eat us up, and the passion for God's glory to be like a fire within our bones; and this is one part of that process by which in inspiring our prayers he helps our infirmity. How can we do that, say you? But Christ determined that he would call the man. It is a question in which my eternal interests are involved; am I among that unhappy number who shall be left to live in sin and reap the due reward of their iniquity; or do I belong to that goodly company, who albeit that they have sinned shall nevertheless be washed in the blood of Christ, and shall in white robes walk the golden streets of paradise? "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." Oh! 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. If you are now led to repent of sin; if you will now cast yourself on the blood and righteousness of Christ, your eternal salvation shall be as sure as your present existence. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. He attacked the Shepherd, and he will never cease to worry the sheep. You have no right to heaven in yourself; your right lieth in Christ. Old English warfare was then conducted by bowmen to a great extent. Series (High Quality) Series (Low Quality) Buy CD Album This sermon series includes the following 12 messages: The Spirit Takes Us from Sin to Righteousness Romans 8:1-11 Apr 24 1983 45-57 Audio So the enquirer asked him again, "But what is your persuasion?" You may come on, battalions of the adversary, with all your terrible might sweeping hypocrites and deceivers before you, like chaff before the wind, but as many as are linked to Christ by his eternal love shall stand firm against you, like the solid rocks against the billows of the sea." Our first birth gave us humanity; our second birth allies us with Deity. In English history, the days of Mary, when the saints at Smithfield bore witness for Christ at the stake, were grand days; and in Madagascar, did you ever read a more thrilling story than the record of the bravery of those Christian men and women who suffered the tyrant's cruelty? Therefore hath God, as it were, enlarged his arguments. Then who should be proud of having paid only a part of his debt, when, after all, he owes a great deal more than he is worth? Will any one who believes in the Prayer Book dissent from the doctrine that "the carnal mind is enmity against God?". Spirit-taught prayers are offered as they ought to be. 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