Spurgeon. Dare we say otherwise than that Christian nations are not walking in newness of life? But that which Christ did for you comes to, and the Lord looks upon it as, the same thing. What is it, then, that we see in the multitude who in the spirit of Christ have turned their backs on a transitory world in preference for that which they seek as eternal? And that despised handful of artisans and fishermen was right, and the world, with all its powers, and splendours, was wrong. It is not written, "You hath He fostered, who had the germs of dormant life"; but, "You hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." NEWNESS OF POWER. Once risen with Christ we need die no more. The earliest of the prophets is Amos, and he begins his book by looking at the seven neighbouring nations, each of which he is compelled to condemn, and then turning to his own. The dying malefactor, even he repented and heard the gracious words, "This day shalt thou be with Me in paradise." But far Diviner was the miracle which He wrought upon the souls of all who received Him. Because of its sequel in reference to our Lord. The glorious beauty of the Lord our God is for us; His freshness, purity, the very bloom of newness of life, is ours. "Death hath no more dominion over Him." We get at the inmost meaning of what the gospel was intended to achieve when we ask, "What should the new life effect for each separate soul?"2. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk in Him. They say all this curse is irretrievable. 2. Farrar.1. They say all this curse is irretrievable. Does it make the life stronger, sweeter, more noble? It is we who must awake. We’ve been crucified with Christ. So, too, it was when Luther disinterred the true gospel from the heaped debris of priestly falsehoods. You do not love your sin; it may be that you loathe it, and yet you have become a slave to it. Christianity. Is Nero fiddling during the burning of Rome a sadder spectacle? And may we not be thankful that we have to do with a religion which is always giving grace through new opportunities, for new actions, whose very essence is a daily renovation, and whose keynote all along is resurrection?I. Secrecy. (2) Who can fail to see here a lesson and a law for Christian life? Taught in such a school, he was cruel to the last degree, and ferocious in the indulgence of his passions. Are there not in London alone a number equal to the whole population of Norwich of lost, degraded beings? Some have nothing but scorn and contempt. "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire"; but when men have ceased to believe that there is so much as a Holy Ghost, how shall spiritual miracles be wrought?2. Humanity may sometimes advance over ruins, but humanity advances still. Did he go there in newness of life? To very few in the long generations is it given to achieve a mighty work like this; but to every one of us it is given to help it forward and to carry it on. They admire the dignity of the mediatory Person, God manifested in the flesh: the attributes and, especially, the love of God in Him; the wisdom of the plan devised for our redemption through a covenant ordered in all things and sure; and His fitness in everything to our condition, in whom it pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell. He saves in many ways. He is emancipated from a long, dark bondage. His visible presence after His resurrection was the exception rather than the rule; and by this the disciples were gradually trained for their future. "I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me." There is a similar period in the religious life of man. God will certainly be true, and we have but to cling to Him and keep a tight hand upon ourselves. So then the first lesson is genuineness. We have peace like a river, and a secret joy which no man taketh from us. Louis XIV went year by year through his Lenten and Easter duties and then fell back into debauchery — a hideous libel on the teaching of Christ's resurrection. It saw things it never dreamed of.IV. Many a noble man in Church and State, who is too truthful to temporise, too independent to cringe, is kept in the background by envy. Are there not in London alone a number equal to the whole population of Norwich of lost, degraded beings?

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