This, then, is chiefly the groaning whereof St. Paul speaks. Therefore there is added to it another word, which signifies travail. )The coming deliverance of the creatureThomas Horton, D.D.We begin with the future estate and condition of believers, which is supposed in these words, "The glorious liberty of the children of God." A slave may be virtuous and kindly in character, but if his master be evil, he will have to be the instrument of many an unholy behest. LET US SURVEY THIS TRAVAIL.1. We are in that process of upbuilding.(H. So that this is that which is here observable of us, that the vanity of the creature, it is accidental and preternatural to it; and therefore is afterwards in this chapter called "bondage," which is an unwilling subjection. If we take away all the wretchedness that springs from depraved hearts, it is a very small minimum indeed that is left behind. If such be the first-fruits, what the whole? To you, when you look at it, there is a case outside. The second is its compassion. "For swearing, and lying, and stealing, and adultery, the land mourneth " (Hosea 4:2, 3); but doth the swearer or the adulterer mourn?" The kingdom suffers through the misconduct of an ill-regulated king. The wonderful dulness of man in the case of sin and misery; so that the creatures are fain to supply our room.6. We must not be always in our first elements and beginnings of goodness. Before man's fall things on earth were one; one, by reflecting His image who is One, by fulfilling His will. And this groaning, it does not so rest in itself, but it is carried to a further end, namely, to make the creature desirous of a better and happier condition, when it shall be freed from its present bondage. The whole visible creation is anticipating this blessed hope, when, with in its renewed inhabitants, it shall undergo renovation, and shall receive perfection.Conclusion: 1. B. Pusey, D.D.Highest and lowest are bound in one in Christ. The creatures' share of them, which makes them groan now, shall then be taken off, and they for ever made free.IV. 1. Making an idol of it.2. men see to sin more by it. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." (5) Hope in long sorrow. God's ends are reached, not by such laws as could create or maintain the world, but through His sons. It is a mighty power, though bound, and it sighs, and heaves, and tends, though blindly, to the good which it has forfeited. (Stopford A. No; but we must labour to come up to perfection, and to proceed from one measure and degree of grace to another. But then comes sorrow and disappointment, and hopes prove dreams that lie and disappear when one awakes, and the joy of youth departs, and nothing remains but the profound conviction that though all that was so pure and beautiful has a home somewhere, yet certainly it is not to be found upon earth, which is a place of sighing and earnest longings for deliverance.II. An Example of Godliness. To these poor wretches Nature will be tormentor rather than friend. (7) True, religion strengthens your social affections and heightens domestic enjoyment, but from those whom you love you have been, or you must be, severed. God forbid that I should undervalue this, but it has no remedy for our real evils. First, unlearn the love of self and of the world; secondly, contemplate God, His loving-kindness and His promised rewards. Not as though they can be thought to have pain and grief! Nature is linked with man. Only: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."2. (3)From indwelling sin. Their happiness is dashed by all the common sorrows of humanity; but more than this, they have a sorrow of which the men of this world know nothing. St. Paul says that "THE CREATION IS SUBJECT TO VANITY," AND IS UNDER "THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION." The old prophecies about the blossoming deserts are meant to teach the lesson that the life of regenerate man will connect itself with the regeneration of nature.IV. The main use which we are to make of this groaning which at present lies upon the creature, is still to make us sensible and apprehensive of the heavy burden and grievousness of sin. He claims this vanity as an evidence for hope — as a witness to the necessity of the reconstruction which Christ promises to us in His gospel.II. Has lost its original charm, beauty, durability, harmony, perfection.2. The day is coming when they will groan no more; nor shall you need to groan for them. And there was a great deal of tinkering, of opening and shutting, of fixing of the reeds. WHEN THIS DELIVERY OF THE CREATURES IS COME TO PASS. And such a belief has obtained in all ages.2. The first-fruits they are commonly and for the most part the best and choicest, so are the graces and comforts of the Spirit above anything else — above parts, above gifts, above riches, above all outward excellency (Proverbs 3:14, 15). We may dream of sweeter music, fairer flowers, and nobler fruits, etc., in the new creation than in the old. At or after the second advent. (3) True, there is the glorious attainment of a regenerate nature, but how many imperfections yet remain! "Not willingly," he says. Are we to suppose that they too are groaning under the same load, and that joy and gladness are not to be found with her, all whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace? )Glorious libertyW. It will never find a termination. God, that has appointed a set time for everything, has also appointed the time for this, viz., at the end of the world (vers. All this is beautiful, and if a thing would last for ever because it was lovely, this would certainly. WHAT DELIVERY THE WORLD SHALL THEN GET. But are the sufferings of the brute creatures as great as we think? The whole creation was made to be a book, wherein men might read the name of God; a stringed instrument, by which men were to praise Him; a looking-glass in which to behold His glory (Romans 1:20). (Thomas Horton, D.D. Is not this nothingness, this bondage of corruption, proof enough of the true character of this present as a mere birth-pang of the true, the satisfying, the everlasting? It falls and rises again with the fall and rise of man. Stop by stop, department by department, was put in separately. It is a mercy God deals not with ourselves as with the creatures for our sake (Lamentations 3:22).IV. They teach us(1) the vanity of the creature, which is now often changed, and must at length be dissolved. It is the best thing on this earth; there is nothing among all material things more wonderful than the brain of man. (4) What glorious things will be the new heaven and the new earth! (Stopford A. He describes it —(1) As a scene of vanity. On use of comfort to the serious and godly, who notice the groans of the creatures under sin, and join their own groanings with theirs. The time wasted in a generation by the idle and dissolute would be sufficient to turn the Sahara into a fruitful field. From the whole take these corollaries:1. But a day of manifestation cometh — a day of public adoption in the presence of the whole intelligent universe, a day of adoption in the day of "the redemption of the body," when, invested with the similitude of their glorious Head, they shall stand forth, confessed of all to be the sons of God. (2) The evil of sin; it is the burden of the whole creation, of which it would fain be eased. It is the best thing on this earth; there is nothing among all material things more wonderful than the brain of man. Some have held a resurrection of animals. If the earth were forced to render up all its treasures it could neither feed the soul nor satisfy one single noble desire or real want of the heart. John teaches that as well as Paul. BUT ST. PAUL DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THE IMPERFECTION OF CREATION IS TO CONTINUE FOR EVER. (2) They mourn over it in others. In the swarming lands of the East millions cling to the soil on which they were born, and risk death by famine every decade, rather than move to unoccupied lands that can be reached without crossing the sea. And, being thus enthralled by corruption, it is made "subject to vanity." In the deluge, in Sodom, in Egypt they were destroyed with him. The creature at its highest, by a last and crowning effort, brings forth the human form; man at his highest, by the supreme act of travail, in and through God, brings forth the new man. I have not yet in these statements led you to lay hold, as one may, of the strong principle of reason underlying this prophetic interpretation of our present human relations. For in some sense all are "made subject to vanity, not willingly." They are burnt up by heat. And yet there is an inverted truth in the grotesque conception. In a use of information. To the revealed hope of the believer, to which all his longings are directed (ver. Are we to suppose that they too are groaning under the same load, and that joy and gladness are not to be found with her, all whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace? There plays everywhere the light of a glad and victorious life. Just as Christ was raised to the glory of the Father, and the sons of God to the glory of Christ, so will be the redeemed creation to the glory of the sons of God.3. The street Arab wilt not think very gratefully of the kindliness of nature, even if he should be taken for a day into the country, and see the ripe cornfield, or fruit orchard, or vinery. When they do not prove so serviceable to us in some cases and at some times as we expect and desire they should. But I need not grant so much as this. Any sin against them, any violation of these sacred human relations, touches something Divine. or the many disagreeable accidents and mournful events to which we are continually exposed, and which so often befall us in the course of life?3. The whole creation, by man's sin, has come far short of its ultimate end, the glory of God. Again, as Holy Scripture says of us, "the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed," so in their measure of them; "as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed." They have not only desired it, but hoped for it. When we have disposed of these two classes, we have removed the only exceptions to the sad statement in the text. Boston, D.D. This shows us the long continuance of this vanity and misery upon the creature. What a fearful thing is sin, that it casts its dark shadow over the whole universe of God! Just as the law gives to the parent the custody of his own child, so God gives to man power over the world to modify it for good or evil at his will. Nature waits for the coming of a higher life. Its immunities. "Behold, I make all things new." Here a mean presence may conceal a beautiful personality; there the body shall be the out-flashing glory of the perfected spirit, as at the Transfiguration the soul of Christ in its intensity tinged with splendour the very skirts of his garments. I would tear the bosom open and look upon the heart, and at the bottom of that I see wretchedness. We insist upon dealing with chronic pauperism by pittances and palliatives. St. Paul calls this vanity as a witness to the hope. Mysterious power of sin, that it should so defile the very creation which itself partakes not of it! IMPROVEMENT.1. Let us consider this future happy state which the gospel describes as the manifestation of the sons of God. UPCOMING WEEKS True, they are reconciled to God. By the same right one takes a sword from a man wherewith he is running at him. We are only the chalk crayon, rough drawings of men; yet when we come to be filled up in eternity we shall be marvellous pictures, and our latter end, indeed, shall be greatly increased.(C. Immortality will extend to the body as well as the soul.II. (2) They mourn over it in others. (2) They mourn over it in others. The creatures, they are not only sensible of their own particular bondage, but also of the bondage of each other, and of us to ourselves. MINISTRY OF SERMONAUDIO. THIS AFFILIATION IS CONNECTED WITH "GLORIOUS LIBERTY."1. IMPROVEMENT.1. When I see a block of marble half chiselled, with just, perhaps, a hand peeping out from the rock, no man can make me believe that that is what the artist meant it should be. The first-fruits were consecrated to God, and given to Him; so should all the gifts and graces of God's Spirit which He bestows upon us, we should devote them, and consecrate them, and improve to His honour and glory.. And that is the second part here observable, that the Spirit of God in believers is in them, in the nature of first-fruits. God gave Adam the great estate of the world. )Spiritual libertyJ. The creatures' share of them, which makes them groan now, shall then be taken off, and they for ever made free.IV. The interest of Greek philosophy centres round a cell where an old man lies cheering his friends with the hope of the welcome which awaits him "in some happy state," while the poison steals up to his heart. (ver. (2) As thou wilt be deserted of God, so thou wilt be deserted of the creatures in thy misery (Isaiah 8:21, 22). Perhaps, in a measure, both.3. Where is the creature that has no evil about it now? If the creature be not willingly subject to vanity in reference to naturals, what a shame is it for men and women to be so in reference to morals! In the swarming lands of the East millions cling to the soil on which they were born, and risk death by famine every decade, rather than move to unoccupied lands that can be reached without crossing the sea. THE HOLY ANGELS. Will ye by petty ineffectual efforts and cold prayers or heartless apathy, still, year by year, delay the time of their redemption?IV. (2) There are others who tell us that the great movement must be at last arrested. THE MOURNFUL CONCERT THEY MAKE. In hope, that is, not irrecoverably, but reserving to it a possibility of returning to its former estate. If they had reason, they would be thus affected. Before man's fall things on earth were one; one, by reflecting His image who is One, by fulfilling His will. Yet, as God is said to "grieve and repent of the evil," when He doeth that which we should do out of our imperfect feelings, much more may the holy angels be said to groan and travail in birth-pain together with us, while they long for our immortal birth, which is yet delayed by our sins. Now, even if we granted that the drunkard or the impure had so effectually unstamped themselves of the image of God as to rejoice in the likeness of brutes, I should count them of all men the most miserable. What weariness to those who love, to be absent from Him they love; to dwell in banishment by the streams of Babylon, while they remember the heavenly Jerusalem. It seems to echo the groans of his more conscious pain. "Not willingly," he says. (5) Hope in long sorrow. Now in this respect, amongst others, they cannot but be subject to a great deal of trouble and vexation. But this liberty has cost infinitely more. But now that matters are reversed with him their situation is also reversed.II. Substitute the word, regenerated humanity, for "creation" throughout the whole passage, and you will give it a consistency both with itself and the aim of the writer. J. P. Eyre, M.A. St. Paul might have read one of Mr. Darwin's books, for this is what Mr. Darwin has made certain: "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now."2. )Life a prophecyN. The chorus just missed a sudden leap of exulting triumph, or they did not sink to the soft hush of harmony, or their voices were too coarse, or the instruments were not quite in tune, or the band and the voices parted company. But remember, O impenitent sinner, the day is coming when the creature shall escape, and leave thee in the lurch for all. The rivers flow, and the sea hath its ebbs and tides; all things in the lower world are full of labour; and so the creature is wearied and worn out to serve man. They care not for beholding His glory, therefore the looking-glass is overlooked, and very little use is made of it. Are we weak? THE HOLY ANGELS. And this is another sweet encouragement likewise to all the servants of God, especially such as groan under their present weaknesses and imperfections and the bondage of a distracted spirit, which cannot perform holy duties with that freedom and enlargement as they desire. Here, however, we see that he has observed nature — yes, as only poets read her. (1) In a way of supposition. These statements rest upon the prophetic principle which we find in nature pervading all growth, and pointing ever on from partial good, and lower types, towards the better things to come. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. And besides, the creature is often blasted in its greatest glory and beauty. Out of the earth, where he is to get his meat, sometimes he meets with poisonous herbs.4. We are only the chalk crayon, rough drawings of men; yet when we come to be filled up in eternity we shall be marvellous pictures, and our latter end, indeed, shall be greatly increased.(C. He describes it —(1) As a scene of vanity. Out of all the struggle and wreck nobler and more beautiful things and beings are continually being born.1. St. Paul might have read one of Mr. Darwin's books, for this is what Mr. Darwin has made certain: "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now."2. She can only find that life through the regeneration of man.II. "For swearing, and lying, and stealing, and adultery, the land mourneth " (Hosea 4:2, 3); but doth the swearer or the adulterer mourn?" But oh, where is the profit of it all? We have no thoughts for breaking hearts and desolated homes. Nature can only be "very good," as at first, with man's full redemption.VI. How is that will made known? We live in a groaning world, and must expect to bear our share in the common concert. Its immunities. And this is another sweet encouragement likewise to all the servants of God, especially such as groan under their present weaknesses and imperfections and the bondage of a distracted spirit, which cannot perform holy duties with that freedom and enlargement as they desire. Less painful are watchings and lastings, though these, if too lengthened, would wear out the frame. THIS SUBJECTION IS ALLEVIATED BY HOPE. (2) There are others who tell us that the great movement must be at last arrested. We are told that the fierce struggle for existence is the condition of the development of higher and yet higher forms of life. And yet a gleam of beauty lies upon it all, prophetic of the glory in which all the gloaming shall issue at last.3. This is not so to be understood as if we should rest ourselves satisfied with these. Sermon - Reformation Day (Observed) - Romans 3:19-28 Romans 3:19-28 “Reformation Superlatives” A Blessed Reformation Day to you. There was an enmity and kind of reluctancy in their entirest being, and by the law of their first creation they were subject to change and alteration, so that this transitoriness of them is thus far as it were natural to them; but in this sense it is said to be preternatural, so far forth as they do naturally desire the preservation of themselves. This the children of God come to be partakers of upon a twofold account. Secondly in regard of their quantity; that is, their smallness and imperfection; we know how the first-fruits under the law, they were but a handful in comparison of the whole, but a small and little portion. Now in this respect, amongst others, they cannot but be subject to a great deal of trouble and vexation. It is the purchase of an immense cost. Listen to that sigh of thankless satiety which echoes from the pampered child of fashion to that other sigh from the heart of the sorrow-laden. We live in a groaning world, and must expect to bear our share in the common concert. H. The assertion will sound strangely to many ears, and there are certain outward appearances at variance with it. The idea was not a vain dream. 2, p. 987). But more! You are single pipes in one stop — in a family. That whatever meaning we attach to the word, it should be the meaning that the word will carry through the whole passage. ALMOST ALL THE FORCES OF NATURE WAIT TO RECEIVE THE MORAL IMPRESS THEY ARE TO REAR FROM THE CHARACTER OF MAN. It is very observable that the prophets often turn from men and speak to creatures (Lamentations 2:18; Micah 6:1, 2; Jeremiah 22:29).2. If any brings outward evil, man, on occasion of it, murmurs against its Maker. And so it is with you: you are not what God means you to be; you have only just begun to be what He wants you to be. Look at what fruit and flower may become under the most skilful culture. What from the beginning upwards was one constant prophecy of man's coming is now our history. Secondly in regard of their quantity; that is, their smallness and imperfection; we know how the first-fruits under the law, they were but a handful in comparison of the whole, but a small and little portion. And does not human love have always hidden it in heart a prophetic hope of the future and its completions? When this organ was set up, all these stops could not be put in at once. On use of comfort to the serious and godly, who notice the groans of the creatures under sin, and join their own groanings with theirs. 21). God, not Adam, as some think. Unrenewed man takes the chemical forces of nature and manipulates them into charges which shall create a chaos of carnage and flame. Nature grows more stern and savage daily unless mastered by man. Stop by stop, department by department, was put in separately. That all the effects of the curse are to be gathered together, and confined for ever with the wicked in the lake (Revelation 20:14, 15). Man's sovereignty over animate nature is not so obvious as his power over inanimate nature, And yet there is proof that THE DIFFERENT CIRCLES OF LIFE IN SEA AND FOREST AND AIR RISE AND FALL IN HIS RISE AND FALL. Sermon Name. They care not for beholding His glory, therefore the looking-glass is overlooked, and very little use is made of it. They groan and travail together. A slave may be virtuous and kindly in character, but if his master be evil, he will have to be the instrument of many an unholy behest. THE HOLY ANGELS. Thirdly, in regard of their signification. H. Spurgeon.We are quite certain that what we are cannot be the end of God's design. ALMOST ALL THE FORCES OF NATURE WAIT TO RECEIVE THE MORAL IMPRESS THEY ARE TO REAR FROM THE CHARACTER OF MAN. Because of their relation to sinful man, who has a subordinate interest in them, and that by the same justice that the whole which a malefactor has smarts with him (Joshua 7:24). "We," believers, hear the mournful ditty. )The vanity of the creatureJ. Did we not take into account the life of future blessedness that awaits us, our present trials and afflictions would shake our faith in the wisdom and love of God's government of the world.2. Select options . Thomas, D.D.I. )Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of GodThe bondage of corruptionProf. That our Lord Jesus is the heir of all things (Hebrews 1:2). The third and last thing is the discovery of it, in these words, We know it. That is the great lesson for us.(T. (2) If that day were come ye shall also be delivered. TO THE INFERIOR CREATION.1. To these poor wretches Nature will be tormentor rather than friend. The dream is realised in Christ's "kingdom of heaven"; where the healing, helping, saving ministries are strong, where the weak have a stay, the poor a shield, the gentle honour and the good power, where all that is precious grows and flourishes.5. (1) To vanity (see Ephesians 4:17; 1 Peter 1:18; Ecclesiastes 1:2, 14; Psalm 62:9; Psalm 39:5). Unimaginative races suffer comparatively little under appalling mutilations. The inanimate creatures suffer with him also (Deuteronomy 28:23; Job 37:10; Hosea 2:21).III. They shall serve God's enemies no longer. The second is, the actions attributed to those persons, "Groan within ourselves, waiting," etc. (2) As thou wilt be deserted of God, so thou wilt be deserted of the creatures in thy misery (Isaiah 8:21, 22).3. Then they put in another stop, and tried to see how it sounded relative to itself. First the natural, then the spiritual, is the Divine order. HOW, AND BY WHAT RIGHT, CAN THE HARMLESS CREATURES BE MADE TO GROAN FOR OUR SAKES?1. The race is to the swift and the spoil to the strong everywhere. It groans and travails in pain together. But in the craft, selfishness, and vices of man, a file of demon-terrors have been planted about the table, that effectually ward off the famished crowds. It is farther represented as a state of glorious liberty. Of their number, which now we possess no mean of calculating.2. The earth is digged, rent, and deprived of its sabbaths. First, their bodies shall be free from those evils and infirmities which they are here subject unto. Select options. Creation. First, the creatures do groan and travail in pain together; that is, they do so with us, who have the lordship and dominion over them. 21). 3. Thousands of artisans prefer starvation wages to the life of the health-giving prairie. 19, 21; Revelation 20:11; 2 Peter 3:10, 13).II. The creature, in its original ordination and the first appointment of it, was ordained for two ends. What even now is not, even by Christians, offered to some Baal of pride, or luxury, or "covetousness, which is idolatry"? (2) Since such is the glory of that future state, in which there shall be a manifestation of the sons of God, it should be a powerful motive with them to hasten more towards it in their desires and preparations. That is the great lesson for us.(T. Nature waits for the coming of a higher life. The present is a state of suffering. Judge God's work in man by all that man may be trained to, and judge God's work in nature by the potential excellence that sleeps in its mysterious depths. THERE ARE SOME MEN WHO ARE ACTUALLY AFFILIATED TO GOD. "They are the sons of God." The state is to be brought into accord with the neighbouring states. Will ye by petty ineffectual efforts and cold prayers or heartless apathy, still, year by year, delay the time of their redemption?IV. THE EXCELLENCY OF THIS LIBERTY YOU will not expect a full development of it. The creatures, they are not only sensible of their own particular bondage, but also of the bondage of each other, and of us to ourselves. This the children of God come to be partakers of upon a twofold account. In the swarming lands of the East millions cling to the soil on which they were born, and risk death by famine every decade, rather than move to unoccupied lands that can be reached without crossing the sea. It is the hope of mankind. And then cometh the crowning triumph. That all the effects of the curse are to be gathered together, and confined for ever with the wicked in the lake (Revelation 20:14, 15). It means the possession of the true FILIAL SPIRIT. "(3) It is a scene devoutly anticipated. Now, suppose any soul fails of its higher capacities and remains stunted and unrevealed: is that merely a personal loss of happiness or of salvation? (3)To what entertainment! 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