The Sinner's Sanctuary: Being Forty Sermons on the Eighth Chapter of Romans (eBook)

by Hugh Binning

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There are three things which concur to make man miserable,—sin, condemnation, and affliction. Every one may observe, "that man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward;" that his days here are few and evil;—"he possesses months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed for him," Job 5:6, 7; 7:3. "He is of few days and full of trouble," Job 14:1. Heathens have had many meditations of the misery of man's life; and in this have outstripped the most part of Christians. We recount, amongst our miseries, only some afflictions and troubles, as poverty, sickness, reproach, banishment, and such like. They again have numbered even those natural necessities of men amongst his miseries,—to be continually turned about, in such a circle of eating, drinking, and sleeping. What burden should it be to an immortal spirit to roll about perpetually that wheel! We make more of the body than of the soul. They have accounted this body a burden to the soul. They placed posterity, honour, pleasure, and such things, which men pour out their souls upon, amongst the greatest miseries of men, as vanity in themselves, and vexation, both in the enjoying and losing of them; but, alas! they knew not the fountain of all this misery,—sin; and the accomplishment of this misery,—condemnation. They thought trouble came out of the ground and dust, either by a natural necessity, or by chance; but the word of God discovereth unto us the ground of it, and the end of it. The ground and beginning of it was man's defection from God, and walking according to the flesh; and from this head have all the calamities and streams of miseries in the world issued. It hath not only redounded to men, but even to the whole creation, and subjected it to vanity, ver. 20 of this chapter. Not only shalt thou, O man, (saith the Lord to Adam) eat thy meat in sorrow, but thy curse is upon the ground also, and thou who wast immortal, shalt return to that dust which thou magnifiedst above thy soul, Gen. 3:17. But the end of it is suitable to the beginning. The beginning had all the evil of sin in it, and the end hath all the evil of punishment in it. These streams of this life's misery, they run into an infinite, boundless, and bottomless ocean of eternal wrath. If thou live according to the flesh, thou shalt die: it is not only death here, but eternal death after this. The miseries then of this present life, are not a proportionable punishment of sin; they are but an earnest given of that great sum, which is to be paid in the day of accounts; and that is condemnation, "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power." Now, as the law discovers the perfect misery of mankind, so the gospel hath brought to light a perfect remedy of all this misery. Jesus Christ was manifested to take away sin, and therefore his name is Jesus, "for he shall save his people from their sins." This is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. Judgment was by one unto condemnation of all, but now "there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus;" so these two evils are removed, which indeed have all evil in them. He takes away the curse of the law, being made under it; and then he takes away the sin against the law by his holy Spirit. He hath a twofold virtue, for he came by blood and water, 1 John 5:6, 7,—by blood, to cleanse away the guilt of sin; and by water, to purify us from sin itself. But in the meantime, there are many afflictions and miseries upon us, common to men: why are not these removed by Christ? I say, the evil of them is taken away, though themselves remain. Death is not taken away, but the sting of death is removed. Death, afflictions, and all, are overcome by Jesus Christ, and so made his servants to do us good. The evil of them is God's wrath and sin, and these are removed by Jesus Christ. Now they would be taken away indeed, if it were not good they remained, for "all things work together for the good of those that love God," ver. 28. So then we have a most complete deliverance in extent, but not in degree. Sin remains in us, but not in dominion and power. Wrath sometimes kindles because of sin, but it cannot encrease to everlasting burnings. Afflictions and miseries may change their name, and be called instructions and trials,—good, and not evil: but Christ hath reserved the full and perfect delivery till another day, which is therefore called "the day of complete redemption," and then all sin, all wrath, all misery shall have an end, and "be swallowed up of life and immortality," ver. 23. 

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Table of Contents

I Verse 1.—There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, &c.

II Verse 1.—Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

III Verse 1.—Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

IV Verse 1.—Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

V Verse 1.—Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

VI Verse 2.—For the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

VII Verse 2.—For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

VIII Verse 2.—For the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

IX Verse 3.—For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.

X Verse 3.—For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.

XI Verse 3.—For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son, &c.

XII Verse 3.—And for sin condemned sin in the flesh.

XIII Verse 4.—That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.

XIV Verse 4.—That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.

XV Verse 4.—That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.

XVI Verse 4, 5.—Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh, &c.

XVII Rom. 8:5—For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, &c.

XVIII Verse 5, 6. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace

XIX Verse 6—For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace

XX Verse 7—Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be

XXI Verse 7, 8—The carnal mind is enmity against God: For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God

XXII Verse 8—So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God

XXIII Verse 9—But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his

XXIV Verse 9—If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his

XXV Verse 9—Same Text

XXVI Verse 10—And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness

XXVII Verse 10—And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin

XXVIII Verse 10—And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is life because of righteousness

XXIX Verse 10—Same Text

XXX Verse 11—But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you

XXXI Verse 11—Same Text

XXXII Verse 12—Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh, &c.

XXXIII Verse 12, 13—Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh; for if ye live after the flesh ye shall die, &c.

XXXIV Verse 13—For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live

XXXV Verse 13, 14—For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God

XXXVI Verse 14, 15—For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, &c.

XXXVII Verse 14, 15—For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear: but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father

XXXVIII Verse 15—But ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father

XXXIX Verse 15—Whereby we cry, Abba, Father

XL Verse 15—Same Text

 

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