Cry out to God for him. Without faith it is impossible to please God, but with faith we become "accepted in the Beloved." Not now do I see them lift up the great iron door, and let loose the monsters that come forth roaring, hungry for their prey. 'The Pilgrim's Longings ' and 'Go Back? They may call him a brother. Well, be it what it may, we will go forth, not knowing whither we go, but yet knowing that since he is with us, passing through the gloomy vale, we need fear no evil. They say, "There is no hope. If God be God to-morrow he is God to-day; if Christ be worth having next week he is worth having to-day. Cry to him in the secret of your soul, and you will bear your load; yes, you will bear it calmly, and you will win those who hate you. You see his clothes, you see not him; you see but his earthly tabernacle, but the Spirit, twice born immortal and divine, you see not that. Again, there is another thing; you have joined yourself to an ancient fraternity that has something more than rules to guide or legends to captivate; for it has a combination of both, seeing it is rich in poetic lore. They achieved everything that was necessary in the form of service, and they bore up gloriously under the most fearful pressure of suffering, simply and only by faith in God, who became their Helper. I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, and so I will have my fling, and go into sin even as I please." Believe for yourself, because God has said it; and speak as the Lord guides you. We have gone too far in sin already to dream of pardon and favour. The solitary place shall be glad for you, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. They say, "The thing is likely, therefore I believe it." Man of business, dare you do the right thing in business, and play the Christian, though around you the various methods of trading render it hard for you to be unflinchingly honest? That which believers in past ages have accepted as truth, is not believed in many places nowadays; and so it comes to pass that one brings to us a bit of sceptical science which he has picked up from Huxley or Tyndall; another comes with a criticism that he has found in some of the modern divines, who are the devil's instruments for spreading infidelity; and a third appears with a vile blasphemy from one of the coarser assailants of religion, and each one demands an immediate answer to his quibble, or his difficulty. Does he not himself sometimes say of them, "How can I put them among the children?" Hold the truth, if you stand alone. The fountain filled with blood was opened for black ones; the robe of Christ was woven for naked ones; the balm of Calvary was compounded for sick ones; life came into the world to raise the dead. we answer, "We buy the truth." To be weak in prayer is a disease which will bring on many other maladies. They are mad." Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. They are so highly "cultured" that they prefer to be original, and map out their own way. Art thou literally one of Rahab's sisters in guilt? have you not often strong inducements, if it were not for the grace of God, to become as they are. We must be going to our Father's house, be that where it may. Here is one that can never be diminished, much less exhausted. there hath no sorrow befallen thee but what thy noble ancestors have celebrated in cheery tones, and set to music in cheerful strains. And, without doubt, her salvation was not merely of a temporal nature, not merely a deliverance of her body from the sword, but redemption of her soul from hell. If God bids us do, we should do at once. Here, indeed, all our strength must come to us by faith in the thrice-holy God. "He hath prepared for them a city"--that is, for such as are strangers and foreigners--for such as have faith, and, therefore, have left the world, and gone out to follow Christ. "What! The departures from the faith of those whom we highly esteem are, at least while we are young, very severe trials to us. If you feel incapable, throw yourself upon the infinite capacity of God. Such a sublime life recompensed a thousandfold all the sacrifice he was led to make. Do you not? Oh! He did not know where his way would take him, but he knew that the Lord had bidden him go. This is . If not, thou art nothing as to spiritual things. I suppose you think you are poor yourselves, though you have got some thousand pounds odd a year, and so you keep it yourself, under the notion that "he that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." I feel much the same myself, and would do nothing of which God would not approve." The infinite rolls, like Noah's flood, over the tops of the hills of the present and the finite. His whole life may be thus summed up: "By faith Abraham obeyed." God will hear your prayer and bless Ishmael also. Yet he devises means, and brings about the purposes of his grace. We have faith, in another place, wresting with time; Noah, warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, wrestled with time, which placed his deluge a hundred and twenty years away; and yet, in the confidence of faith, he believed against all rational expectation, against all probability, and his faith was more than a match for probability and time too. Take heed of rushing to perdition over your mother's prayers! Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 14, 1856, by the REV. It will be something else that will prevent you, for these opportunities are plentiful indeed. Believe the threat, even though it should chill your blood; believe, though nature shrinks from the overwhelming doom; for, if you do not believe, the act of disbelieving God about one point will drive you to disbelieve him upon the other parts of revealed truth, and you will never come to that true, child-like faith which God will accept and honour. What! Remember, "By faith Abraham obeyed." III. Obedience which is not cheerfully rendered is not the obedience of the heart, and consequently is of little worth before God. How splendidly he bore himself; no king ever behaved more royally. What poor people God's people are--poor, many of them, in circumstances, but how many of them I might very well call poor as to spiritual things. If so, thou mayest hope to be saved. He knows better than we do when to strike for victory. What grand life ever was easy? Perhaps their views on baptism may have changed, and seeing nothing in Scripture to warrant infant sprinkling, they have come out with a determination to practice believer's baptism. For this a man must have faith in God; and he must be sure that his trials, endured through his office, will have great recompense of reward. Oh! These opportunities to return are meant to try your faith, and they are sent to you to prove that you are a volunteer soldier. Who wants to be a child and do easy things? They have stronger, sharper, and more vehement desires, for they have a nobler life within them, and they desire a better country, and even if they get entangled for awhile in this country, and in a certain measure identified with citizens of it, they are ill at ease--their citizenship is in heaven, and they cannot rest anywhere but there. Amen. I said, "I am glad to hear it." Said that renowned preacher, Whitefield, "As soon as I was converted, I wanted to be the means of the conversion of all that I had ever known. Now, our position is very similar to theirs. We are all in heavenly things so weak, that the idea of being made strong should be very attractive to us. Noah had no evil fear. If you trust the living God, you will do the right, and bear the loss or the shame; but if your faith fail you, self-love will create such respect for your own good name, such fear of ridicule, such unwillingness to be singular, that you will slide from your integrity, and choose a smooth and pleasing road. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and in the power of the ever-blessed gospel. When I think of the strength of divine grace, I do not marvel that saints should persevere; but, when I remember the weakness of their nature, it seems a miracle of miracles that there should be one Christian in the world who could maintain his steadfastness for a single hour. There are some things which are quite customary with them which you will not endure. those are the most likely to slip. "O! I met with a little incident in company, the other day, after preaching. By no means. Faith is that handful of corn, the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon. Let us not forget those members of Christ's mystical body that are in the fire: "his feet are like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." Has not the Lord said, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness"? Into the unknown land he made his way; through fertile regions, or across a wilderness; among friends or through the midst of foes, he pursued his journey. "His honor is engaged to save The meanest of his sheep; All that his heavenly Father gave His hands securely keep.". Men are seldom equally skilled in the use of the two hands of doing and bearing. Neither will we admit into our minds a suspicion of the incorrectness of the Word of God in any matter whatever, as though the Lord himself could err. There were no carnal arguments between God and Abraham, for God has not invited his people to reason with him with human arguments. This woman's faith was A SELF-DENYING FAITH. Let us think of heaven, of Christ, and of the blessings of the covenant, and let us thus keep our desires wide awake, and stimulate them to active exercise. Do I speak to a youth here who fears God, and who lives in an ungodly family? He must seek out the world's fashionable church and join in it to get a share of the respectability and prestige that will always gather there, and he has turned aside from the faith--if not altogether, in his heart at least, in the defence of it in his life. Just Published. Do you the same. I wished to clear myself if any sin remained upon me, but I could not discover any evil which I was tolerating. O! "He hath prepared for them"--not "for all of you"--only for such of you as answer the description on which we have been meditating has he prepared "a city.". Faith and fear together led Noah to do as God commanded him. Obedience arises out of a faith which is to us the paramount principle of action . You don't need no baggage, you just get on board. If you attempt his conversion apart from heavenly power, you might as well try to take leviathan with a hook! Gathering together such substance as he had he exiled himself that he might be a sojourner with his God, and took a journey in an age when travelling was infinitely more laborious than now. Did not you find very soon that there was a thorn in the flesh? For us henceforth our leader is the Lord alone. We see faith dauntless in courage when Moses forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, and equally patient in suffering when he endured as seeing him who is invisible. May it be said of everyone here that by faith he obeyed! 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