funeral sermon on romans 14:7-9

(2) The disposer of our being. "(2) This outward authority extends ever the "dead and living. I have to say, that I was completely wrong about Stan Valley. To live to self is to offer the greatest indignity to that soul whose relations are infinite, and whose sympathies were intended to compass the world. THE INFERENCE DEDUCED. A good man dies unto the Lord, because his removal may assume the aspect of a witness or a judgment, and so become a vindication to a faithless world of the rectitude of our Maker's ways. His loyal subjects have renounced self, and taken Him to be their supreme Lord (ver. He presides over all the acts of our being.2. Death is not the introduction to a new kingdom. Christ sits on His throne independent of the volitions of the universe. But why yield up our existence so entirely to the influence of another? WebAll the graves were lined up evenly, he says, covered by concrete slabs. This is seen in I. It is the world's loss; the loss of so many fervent prayers, so much of beneficent influence, so much of bright example to lure to heaven and lead the way.3. "Whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.". THE ADMINISTRATION OF THAT DOMINION1. S. The sun, the moon, the planets, and comets, are strictly connected, and combined into one system. The duty relating to man enjoined in the moral law is, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."2. (b) It suggests the whole sad history of our ruin and wretchedness. (1) This great intention pervades the Scriptures. Now, the Christian holds the principle of Divine rule within him supreme amidst all these changes, even in the greatest death itself. That the grand characteristic common to every grade in Christian attainment is devotedness to the Lord (ver. III. This testimony of Scripture is confirmed by the gregarious tendencies of man. None of us can do so. Note respecting this spiritual catalysis . were either of these two things otherwise, your case might not be so desperate as it is. There was a rough man at the other end of the room with a little girl in his arms. When we live for Christ we take Him as our pattern and live for humanity. But do but consider what it is to belong absolutely and helplessly to that very Lord who tells you that, live and die as you may, it is to Him and to His ends. THE SETTING ASIDE OF SELF. The richest man cannot live without the ministries of his poorer brethren: nor can he gain their help, except by making them in some measure sharers in his riches. Over the remaining province, paradise, Christ rules, but there He also is, and all who enter follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. A good man dies unto the Lord, because his removal may assume the aspect of a witness or a judgment, and so become a vindication to a faithless world of the rectitude of our Maker's ways. God's smile is the glory of heaven, and His frown the midnight of hell. But let one tell of a friend dying, or a battle raging, or a dreadful accident, and the child will at once drop his playthings and cease his sports to listen. NO CHRISTIAN MAN DIETH TO HIMSELF. "Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's." (c) As gifts terminating in yourselves, They have respect to something out of and beyond yourselves. Is this the explanation here? Is concerned for the temporal miseries of his suffering fellow-men. He might have come as the Son of God incarnate to assume His rightful sway, but that could only have been in wrath to vindicate His Father's violated law, and hence would have been the ruin of our race. When He came it was a King that angels worshipped. )Living and dying to the LordR. (1) It is founded on His death and resurrection. But the government He came to obtain demanded that man should be redeemed from another power and then brought back to his lost estate of obedience and love. 9).1. It may burn a haystack or a house nay, it helps me to read God's Word. CHRIST IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE CHRISTIAN'S INNER LIFE. Whilst it is the glory of man's nature that he cannot live unto himself, it is his shame that he will strive to do so. The duty relating to man enjoined in the moral law is, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."2. 2. Your hopeful death, like your holy life, you owe to Him. This is true in (1) The angelic world (Hebrews 1.). )The Divinity of the inner and outer life of the goodD. We know this is true because he rose again. In life. And, ironically, the only one who deserved to live with God forever in paradise, did die by himself. We are absolutely the Lord's. (2) His sovereignty over the inner life is a Christian virtue. (2) And to their death may this same consideration reconcile us. (1) His sovereignty over the inner life is dependent upon individual choice. Let us live to Him, and in our death we shall glorify God.III. The reason why, as society advances, men are set apart for different trades, is, because they will help each other far more than each man could ever help himself by following every trade at once.III. I give to the bee his honey, and to the insect his food; I help to clothe the earth in beauty." This inner sovereignty, then, is by the suffrage of mind. (2) And to their death may this same consideration reconcile us. Macleod, D.D. "It feels like a little piece of us is dying inside every day. H. Spurgeon)Influence, posthumousDa Vinci's famous painting of "The Lord's Supper," originally adorning the dining.room of a convent, has suffered such destruction from the ravages of time, war, and abuse, that none of its original beauty remains. And I cannot get rid of it. No; it is not. (2) Our original; of our kindred with immortal natures; of our designation to endless life. You belong to the Lord. In every state of being we belong to Christ. are those who are inspired and ruled by the benevolent spirit of Jesus.II. 1. 2. Christ sits on His throne independent of the volitions of the universe. B. Pope, D.D.When our Lord had reached the end of His redeeming work He announced to His Church, "All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth." II. The pastor confirmed, "Really? And I try to do all the good I can on my way. As the first thing the Holy Spirit does is to set aside self, in the matter of justification and acceptance, so His next is to present to us the Son of God as the true ground of our acceptance. It was the eternal purpose of the Trinity, the meaning of the first promise, the keynote of psalm and prophecy. 1. (a) "For to this end He died." Nor is there any power mighty enough to deliver us from the bonds of selfishness, except the free Spirit of Christ. There is a sense in which no man can live unto himself. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the It may be said, almost, that every man is indebted to every man, and that every man is to some extent the servant of the humblest man that lives. We "live unto the Lord" when we live for the good of His people, for the honour of His cause, for the extension of His Church, for the glory of His name. It would be paralysis, and paralysis is simply an incipient form of death. "Oh," you say, "it produced a momentary impression upon the mind of those who listened to it, and that is all." (2) Rich and poor have to combine for the accomplishment of given ends. (2) What dignity this imparts, both to life and death! I pray the Lord my soul to keep. Whatever power controls the soul is the true sovereign. "Whether we die, we die unto the Lord. "Whether we die, we die unto the Lord. God gets to Himself honour from the dying hours of a Christian by the blessing to survivors, often occasioned by the affecting circumstances of his removal. By His atoning death the Redeemer obtained for man the Spirit of a new life making him free from the law of sin and death.2. (b) It suggests the whole sad history of our ruin and wretchedness. That it is a principle of rule held supreme amidst all the variations of life. John was gradually declining from bad to worse, when one night a new apprentice arrived. The genius that wrought grandly in marble had unconsciously planted beauty by the wayside.Influence, unconscious, its powerMany years ago an intelligent youth was apprenticed in the town of Peele. Who delivered Israel from the Philistines? The mask worn for a purpose continually slips aside, and reveals the natural face behind. ITS CONSTANCY. The voluntary language of what I say or do is spasmodic, and liable to continual interruption; but the language of what I really am is as continuous as my life itself. 1. Death is part of our sum of duty.(W. And it is with nations as with individuals. "I live not wholly for myself," said a beautiful flower one fair morning, as it lifted to the sun its crest sparkling with dewdrops. The Christian 1. If you could live to yourselves, or die to yourselves, then indeed ye might have some apology for trifling as you now do with life's precious gift and death's awful doom. Name. "So, in our daily walk and life,We write and do and say the thingWe never can undo nor stayWith any future sorrowing.We carve ourselves on beating hearts!Ah! WebRomans 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no (KJV) 1. of this loved one's life. Such is the apostle's conclusion of the whole matter. CHRIST IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE CHRISTIAN'S INNER LIFE. That there is a variety of grades in Christian attainments "weak in faith" and the "strong." Nor is this work of charity obstructed by the most earnest concern for the salvation of men.II. (1) It is the only course congenial with our spiritual being. Our death is to be for His glory. For Jesus lived not to Himself, but to God, not seeking His own happiness, but the happiness of all mankind. 'Please, father, don't go.' That there is a variety of grades in Christian attainments "weak in faith" and the "strong." HE IS THEREFORE THE LORD'S IN LIFE AND DEATH, to do His will, to be acknowledged, guarded, blessed, and honoured as His. Of what use could it be but to beings formed for society? If the light is in him, it must shine; if darkness reigns, it must shade; if he glows with love, it will radiate its warmth; if he is frozen with selfishness, the cold will chill the atmosphere around him; and if corrupt and vile, he will poison it. Death here, to the good man, is but an out-birth to a higher life; and may it not be that holy souls will emerge into higher, and still higher, forms of being for ever? None of us can do so. A few years afterwards he began to preach to others. It is true of unbelievers that living and dying you are the Lord's. The text is but an amplification of this idea.I. 3. A few years ago a funeral such a funeral as is seldom seen took place in one of our great manufacturing towns. A few, indeed, here and there, are not unwilling to spend the odds and ends of their time for the good of others, who will eat the dinner themselves, and then call in their neighbours to pick up the crumbs under the table. The fall of a bullet (so says Mr. Grove) "changes the dynamical condition of the universe." It tells of (1) Our safety in all worldly changes. Regards the great end of his being. But don't end the prayer there. It may be in judgment to families who have refused admonition, and to unfaithful churches, and to nations. It is here implied that these facts occurred by Christ's own personal intention. And Paul gave them the motive and the power they needed to live to the Lord instead of to themselves when he reminded them of the Gospel. He himself may be as unconscious of this emanation of good or evil from his character, as he is of the contagion of disease from his body, or, if that were equally possible, of the contagion of good health; but the fact, nevertheless, is certain. All that we learn by reading we learn from others, most of whom have been long lying in their graves. All that we learn by reading we learn from others, most of whom have been long lying in their graves. Your new life and death, then, believers, are not to yourselves. "Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's." Where do we hear of any, labouring for the sake of gaining riches, pleasure, etc., for others? The Christian man has served in the outer apartments of the house; he is now called into the presence-chamber.(R. But the sovereignty of Christ over our outward circumstances is not to us a virtue. )The Christian's missionD. THE REDEEMER'S DOMINION OVER MEN. "Whether we live or die, we are the Lord's."1. A man may be permitted to win souls to Christ by his death, whom he could never win to seriousness in his life.2. (c) It is not, however, the living and the dead, but the dead and living. Over the remaining province, paradise, Christ rules, but there He also is, and all who enter follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. (b) We must now return to the living. (2) Asserts a great rule of duty. That there is a variety of grades in Christian attainments "weak in faith" and the "strong." (2) Our original; of our kindred with immortal natures; of our designation to endless life. To their unutterable sorrow the ungodly shall have meetings likewise, as well with those whom they have tempted, as with those who have tempted them.II. Now, in this sense of the phrase, many do live entirely to themselves and not at all to God. It looks through my eye: it speaks from my lips; it walks abroad with me. My dad used to tell people he worked for the mechanic down the street. To have both these sets of nerves constantly doing their duty to have my eye and ear and the nerves which are connected with them correctly reporting to me the beauty and the melody that are outside, and then to have lips and every organ of expression accurately transmitting to others the thought and purpose that are within this is life. "Influence, unconsciousIt is related that when Thorwaldsen returned to his native land with those wonderful marbles which have made his name immortal, chiselled with patient toil and glowing aspiration during his studies in Italy, the servants who opened them scattered upon the ground the straw in which they were packed. There is nothing accidental in human history. (a) I enter the busy hall of commerce or the haunt of gaiety and dissipation, and not one in either place is living really to himself. Everybody looked round, of course; but the man said no more, and the lecturer proceeded. But what the apostle means is, that we Christians live not to self as a supreme end. None of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. Am not I better than they?' There, in their mutable but unerring characters, mixed with the earliest as well as with the latest sighs of mortality, stand for ever recorded vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled, perpetuating in the united movements of each particle the testimony of man's changeful will.(Babbage. Unto a loving mother oftWe all have sent, without a doubt,Full many a hard and careless word,That now we never can rub out;For cruel words cut deeper farThan diamond on the window-pane;And, oft recalled in after-years,They wound her o'er and o'er again. However the tunes may change, the same keynote runs through them all self, self, self. We don't need to be worried anymore that we won't have enough if we give too much of ourselves away, that our needs won't be met if we only seek to meet the needs of others. Go your way, and let your rushlight so shine before men that they may glorify your Father in heaven. ", The pastor confirmed, "Really? (a) "For to this end He died." The Great Ruler of the universe has a property in us, and He will guard and keep His own. This is the most constant, uniform, and powerful. The Christian man has served in the outer apartments of the house; he is now called into the presence-chamber.(R. "Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not." Is the fountain of the purest and most permanent happiness.3. For what is it that happens at death? It is true of unbelievers that living and dying you are the Lord's. Nay, the more extensive are our powers, either for action or enjoyment, on that very account, the more multiplied and extensive are our wants; so that, at the same time that they are marks of our superiority to, they are bonds of our connection with, and signs of our dependence upon, the various parts of the world around us, and of our subservience to one another. "Pastor, we don't think we can do this anymore. It is true that this curiosity often degenerates into gossip. Upon each and all of these grounds God claims our conscious consecration.III. In death. And if thus living unto Him, you are so securely His, how, as regards your dying, may you cast all your care upon Him! For if we live, we live So many prayers are lost to the world; an influence is withdrawn; a light is quenched; one fewer is left to stand between the living and the dead. Thomas, D.D. Who was it gathered the people together to rout the Midianites? They were showing little concern for the way their actions would impact others. But wherein is the moral propriety of this? His miracles were wrought to illustrate His kingship, and His teaching was based upon it. Resolve to be in worship more than you were in 2015. Much less can the reality or the power of the social principle be doubted when a fellow-creature in distress calls forth the most exquisite feelings of compassion, attended with instant efforts towards his relief. Perhaps these variations are but the types of future changes. To die by self-resolution, what is it but suicide? In all cases God is glorified by his death. )The Christian's missionD. But the selfish man has no generous love within him; and because of this others have no heart to love him. 4. every tongue will confess to God.'". (2) Through the active employment of that moral power which faith in Christ gives to maintain that character, and to do those works which God approves.3. "We live unto the Lord." (b) He rose as well as died, by His own personal purpose. We had no power in raising Him to the throne, nor does His continuance there depend on us. (1) This great intention pervades the Scriptures. As the object for whom we live. Had this always been acted upon the Church would have been spared all acrimonious controversies, schisms, and persecutions.4. I am now a happy man, sir, and this little girl has done it all; and when you said that even she had influence I could not help saying, 'That's true, sir'; all have influence."(Freeman. he said, "That's exactly how it's supposed to be!" "Not My will, but Thine, be done." For the believer both life and death are invested with new character and value: and it must be with reference to this character and value that it is here said of him that he does not live or die to himself. God gets to Himself honour from the dying hours of a Christian by the blessing to survivors, often occasioned by the affecting circumstances of his removal. But every one of those cares touches some other life. We may anticipate the day when death shall be swallowed up in victory.(D. But the explanation is found in this, that none of them liveth to himself. It looks through my eye: it speaks from my lips; it walks abroad with me. A man cannot dwell apart; nor divest himself of the necessity of doing some good or harm every day.3. A man may be permitted to win souls to Christ by his death, whom he could never win to seriousness in his life.2. Properly, indeed, do we often pray that God would spare useful lives. Romans 8:19-23. Watson. Rejection of that sway seals every man's fate; while acceptance is the foundation of personal religion.2. (2) It is the only course agreeable to the universal law of right. The text is but an amplification of this idea.I. )Influence, inevitableN. He sold men's shoes at a department store to earn his paycheck. Strong and audible as they may be in the immediate neighbourhood of the speaker, and at the immediate moment of utterance, their attenuated force soon becomes inaudible to human ears. H. SpurgeonThe greatest works that have been done have been done by the ones. (2) The disposer of our being. "(3) It is the only course that will ensure the approbation of God. This inner sovereignty, then, is by the suffrage of mind. But the man who rebels against Him in his heart, writhes under His external authority. The same law which requires us to love our neighbour as ourselves, also requires us to love God supremely.2. WebBelonging Romans 14: 1 - 12 Intro: A man died and met St. Peter at the pearly gates. When dying or not dying to one's self is connected with living or not living to one's self, it is plain that states of being, not Seeds or actions, must be intended. Our benevolence, for instance, leads us immediately to relieve and oblige others. We believe in the joyous meetings of the redeemed. Mortals come and gaze on me, and breathe my fragrance, and go away better than they came; for I minister to their perceptions of the beautiful. Instead of its being discussed by subtle argumentation and a fine balance of small reasons for and against, the case is at once carried into a region of spiritual thought and duty, from whence there may be got both a nearer insight into heaven and a larger oversight of earth.I. HE IS THEREFORE THE LORD'S IN LIFE AND DEATH, to do His will, to be acknowledged, guarded, blessed, and honoured as His. Moore, M.A. The girl saw her mother nurse the baby, and must have a doll. He who lives to the Lord will follow His example in going about doing good. God's smile is the glory of heaven, and His frown the midnight of hell. were either of these two things otherwise, your case might not be so desperate as it is. It is deferred, in many cases, in mercy to others. But what the apostle means is, that we Christians live not to self as a supreme end. He has you in His grasp, and you cannot escape. "None of us liveth unto himself." Consider who this Lord is. )Influence, a child'sIn a cemetery a little white stone marked the grave of a dear little girl, and on the stone were chiselled these words "A child of whom her playmates said, 'It was easier to be good when she was with us'" one of the most beautiful epitaphs ever heard of.Influence, a child'sFreeman.A gentleman was once lecturing in the neighbourhood of London. This is declared to be the end of His ministry on earth.1. It was the eternal purpose of the Trinity, the meaning of the first promise, the keynote of psalm and prophecy. Please feel free to contact Pastor Guenther for more information or some spiritual counsel from God's Word. Again in after life, whatever we do, if we are to do it successfully, we must do patiently, obediently, conforming our will to nature, watching the course of the seasons, and ploughing and sowing accordingly, ministering to nature, to the end that nature may minister to us. No; it is not. "We are made willing." Foster, B.A. It may be said, almost, that every man is indebted to every man, and that every man is to some extent the servant of the humblest man that lives. He will provide all that we need and more. Death is part of our sum of duty.(W. The text is but an amplification of this idea.I. (2) Asserts a great rule of duty. I cannot look on a building or a vessel without being reminded that such works could not have been produced by any number of individuals working in a state of isolation. it was Shamgar, with his ex-goad; or it was an Ehud, who, with his dagger, put an end to his country's tyrant. ", "Yes," they both confirmed. Christopher B. Harbin. But here the light fails us, and the evangelical record which follows the Lord's passion to His final cry suspends its story till He opens His lips to Mary; and we do well to respect its silence. It is impossible for any person to live wholly for himself; at least unless he shuts himself up in a cell or a wilderness. What he meant was that all his money seemed to be going to the mechanic down the street, so it really seemed like he worked for him. Some hunt after riches, others after pleasure, others after ease and comfort, others after power, others after honour and a good name, a few after knowledge; but all for themselves. (2) The disposer of our being. Consider who this Lord is. 2. Is concerned for the temporal miseries of his suffering fellow-men. None of us ought to live to himself; for God has an original claim upon the service of every one of us, based upon the right of creation, the mercy of continued being, the mystery of redemption, the derivation from Him of a spiritual nature, gifts, and covenants, and revelations, and hopes of heaven.2. (3) The division of labour and union of workmen teaches me the same truth. (b) We must now return to the living. 2. That the lowest grades, who act in conformity with their sincere conviction, demand the generous respect of all. it was one Gideon, who cried, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!" But this is an act so contrary to our nature, that no one would frame such a design, unless with a purpose of living, not for himself, but for God. So is it with Miss Nightingale, Luther, Calvin, and Wesley. We "live unto the Lord" when we live for the good of His people, for the honour of His cause, for the extension of His Church, for the glory of His name. This principle is in the very heart of man, for God has put it there. The life you are living, whether in the pursuit of gold or pleasure, is not indeed to yourselves. There is nothing accidental in human history. It may burn a haystack or a house nay, it helps me to read God's Word. (a) He is the Lord of the world of disembodied spirits. Now, St. Paul intimates that living unto the Lord is the very opposite of this; it is to live as He lived who "pleased not Himself.". "He must reign"; to Him every knee shall bow. His death was a means to an end. A time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, A time to be silent and a time to speak, a time for love and a time for hate, A time for war and a time for peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) Our focus today is on the first of these classics, A time to BE BORN and a time TO DIE. The political Caesars are but impotent pretenders compared with this. Nor is this view to be limited to the present generation. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, Had this always been acted upon the Church would have been spared all acrimonious controversies, schisms, and persecutions.4. The man who enjoys His inner reign, exults beneath His outward sceptre. "I live not wholly for myself. I live not wholly for myself." 1. Man is a link in the vast chain of being. Why? Now, St. Paul intimates that living unto the Lord is the very opposite of this; it is to live as He lived who "pleased not Himself."2. (d) But it is the language of mortals. Nor is it possible for any one to occupy a neutral or indifferent position. God acts not in anything without design. He died for you. (3) His sovereignty over the inner life is limited. A man must live before he acts. Our death His government turns to life. dickinson ck212 accessories Message 3 - "Three Confessions Of A Believer" - "I Am a Steward" Series. Had the apostle believed that all that remained of the dead was the dust that lay in their graves, would he have spoken of Jesus as their Lord? Others may live and die to themselves, but not we who have been "bought with a price." This explained the whole mystery of His life on earth, and connected it with His future reign in heaven. His loyal subjects have renounced self, and taken Him to be their supreme Lord (ver. The life you are living, whether in the pursuit of gold or pleasure, is not indeed to yourselves. 'Please, father, don't go.' "None of us liveth unto himself." Its extent. 2. We may anticipate the day when death shall be swallowed up in victory.(D. The text suggests in relation to this inner sovereignty of Christ 1. Do it so that you might show more hospitality in serving others. There, in their mutable but unerring characters, mixed with the earliest as well as with the latest sighs of mortality, stand for ever recorded vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled, perpetuating in the united movements of each particle the testimony of man's changeful will.(Babbage. But wherein is the moral propriety of this? The man who enjoys His inner reign, exults beneath His outward sceptre. None of us ought to live to himself; for God has an original claim upon the service of every one of us, based upon the right of creation, the mercy of continued being, the mystery of redemption, the derivation from Him of a spiritual nature, gifts, and covenants, and revelations, and hopes of heaven.2. Is there a crime on the black scroll of human depravity that may not be traced to this source? But the sovereignty of Christ over our outward circumstances is not to us a virtue. We are brought into the world by others. These deaths may seem to be, many of them, premature. (Archdeacon Hare. No man dieth to himself. Let it not be supposed that He is the Sovereign of both in the same sense. The words "Lord of the dead and living. (2) Asserts a great rule of duty. So you know that if you die this year or this. The springs of an action determine its value, selfishness is adverse to usefulness. 2. We are responsible, we say, for the influence that we desire to produce upon others; but for the voluntary effect of our life, we think we are no more responsible than we are for the involuntary beating of our hearts. To how many beside the draper for our clothing! Confused they looked at each other then back to him. (3) Our perseverance in faith and holiness, and of our final triumph over death and the grave. "(2) And as we cannot live, neither can we die to ourselves. All live to Him, as He told the Sadducees. Paul is talking to committed disciples and he told them to focus on peace, upbuilding and avoiding quarrels. And, with all its blessedness, it is unto the Lord. To die by self-resolution, what is it but suicide? (e) It prescribes the limits of the Redeemer's lordship which is to last while mankind are made up of dead and living. NO CHRISTIAN MAN DIETH TO HIMSELF. The air is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said, or woman whispered. Thomas, D.D.The context suggests 1. The waves of the air thus raised perambulate the earth and ocean's surface; and, in less than twenty hours, every atom of its atmosphere takes up the altered movement due to that infinitely small portion of the primitive motion which has been conveyed to it through countless channels, and which must continue to influence its path throughout its future existence. This inner sovereignty, then, is by the suffrage of mind. The dead must have the pre-eminence, for they are the bulk of our race, sanctified to our thought by their mystery and multitude. You heap up riches, and know not who shall gather them. His resurrection declared that His end was attained, and that His empire was won.II. Is it not He who, at a great price, has purchased this lordship over you, this ownership of you? You live in wantonness, but you live in vain. It deepened that man's disgust at godliness; and it sharpened the edge of that other man's sarcasm; and it shamed that half-convinced one out of his penitent misgivings; and it exerted an influence, slight but determining, upon the destinies of that immortal life. But Christ chose to die, whilst He might have avoided it for ever (John 10:17, 18). The nature of man echoes this verdict of inspiration. Thus considered, what a strange chaos is this wide atmosphere we breathe! 1. 2. The text is more especially meant as a warning against one particular branch of selfishness self-will. A doubtful disputation springs up, on a small and narrow point of casuistry, as to meats or days. Who was he that smote the enemy? This too is a lesson, which the whole order of our nature and condition in the world and the constitution of society are meant to teach us. Perhaps our death may be a calm dying into life; a summer wave gently rippling to the shore. The tea you drink comes from China; the cotton for your clothes from India or America. "My songs are a blessing to man. Every feeling which God gives a man is the property of the Church and of the world. THE ADMINISTRATION OF THAT DOMINION1. For what is our character? So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. John, who was busily preparing for rest, saw this. (2) It is the only course agreeable to the universal law of right. Now we know that if any of us should die in 2016, we die to the Lord. Nothing in the universe is self-contained. )Christian devotednessR. Who delivered Israel from the Philistines? are those who are inspired and ruled by the benevolent spirit of Jesus.II. Not more constantly is the sun shining, or a flower exhaling its fragrance, than the Christian is radiating or exhaling influence from his character upon those around him. You are not made spiritually alive merely for your own comfort and peace. Our death is to be His. "Not My will, but Thine, be done." In the agony of death He spoke in the spirit of a King. And each person will have to make his own answer.I. Instead they ought to look out for the best interest of others. WebRomans 14:7-9 None of us liveth unto himself Bp. cried the man. 'Please, father, don't go.' (1) It is the only course congenial with our spiritual being. Surely, then, to seek His favour is the highest dictate both of wisdom and duty. Eternity is not a scene of monotony. IT IS GOD'S DESIGN THAT WE SHOULD NOT CONFINE OUR REGARDS TO OURSELVES, BUT EXTEND THEM TO OUR FELLOW-MEN. For Jesus to force His way to power over the human heart would be to destroy human responsibility. Various considerations may be presented in support of this proposition.1. Now, the Christian holds the principle of Divine rule within him supreme amidst all these changes, even in the greatest death itself. The text is an echo of the Saviour's final saying.I. That it is a principle of rule which stands opposed to all personal aims. (2) Our original; of our kindred with immortal natures; of our designation to endless life. Habitually respects the approbation of God. Who was he that smote the enemy? (2) Asserts a great rule of duty. There is a sense in which no man can live unto himself. But the selfish man has no generous love within him; and because of this others have no heart to love him. the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Had this always been acted upon the Church would have been spared all acrimonious controversies, schisms, and persecutions.4. We say of children that they instinctively know those who love them, and go to such at once; while no kind words or sweet looks will allure them to the side of those who are not lovers of the little ones at heart. "I live not wholly for myself," said a wide-spreading tree. Our death is the testing-time of all our life, the thing that fixes the character of it all. Not because of any law of mortality or violence, but simply because He purposed it (Hebrews 2:14). Eternity is not a scene of monotony. We are a dying race, from generation to generation succumbing to our mortal enemy. The tree and the flower love my banks, for I give them life and nourishment; and even the grass which feels my influence has a greener hue. And it is with nations as with individuals. "(4) His sovereignty over the inner life is ever a blessing, but over the outer it is frequently a tremendous curse. THE ADVANTAGES RESULTING FROM AN UNRESERVED CONSECRATION OF INFLUENCE TO THE DIVINE SERVICE.1. Posted on June 25, 2016 by Jeff June 25, 2016 June 25, 2016 by Jeff June 25, 2016 So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. God has other ends to serve by it besides the believer's own peace, or even his salvation. (2) Through the active employment of that moral power which faith in Christ gives to maintain that character, and to do those works which God approves.3. A disinterested Christian life alleviates much moral and physical misery.2. (1) His sovereignty over the inner life is dependent upon individual choice. But our Redeemer is ruling over our ruin and translating it into salvation. That which degrades life is the introduction of self, but now life is lifted up into its true glory the position which God originally designed for man. Watson. B. Pope, D.D. God's smile is the glory of heaven, and His frown the midnight of hell. Christ sits on His throne independent of the volitions of the universe. It may be said that many men have been found willing to die; but their willingness was nothing more, at most, than a desire to die now rather than then. I live not wholly for myself." A Christian "dies unto the Lord," because he dies to the glory of the Lord; to the honour of His grace, to the vindication of His faithfulness, to the magnifying of His gospel, to the illustration of His unchanging love, to the swelling of His redeeming triumphs in the life of the world to come. That reserve and isolation are as definite a power in the world as the marching of a regiment. Its character (ver. SUCCESS, which can be secured only by co-operation. Inscribe it in your oratory as the life of your prayers "None of us liveth to himself.". Mark's thoughts: No, you can't do all things throu Sermon for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity - Mark's thoughts: Do you want your church to be pop Commemoration of Justinian, Christian Ruler and Co Sermon for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity Funeral sermon for Stanley Valley - Rom 14:7-9. Macleod, D.D. Negatively. THE ADVANTAGES RESULTING FROM AN UNRESERVED CONSECRATION OF INFLUENCE TO THE DIVINE SERVICE.1. (a) Sin had dominion over man in virtue of the penalty of violated law. So you know that if you die this year or this evening, you die to the Lord! M. Punshon.Look at those concentric rings growing wider and wider, rolling their fair ripples among the reedy sedge, tipping the overhanging boughs of yonder willow, stirring the nest of the startled water-hen, producing an influence, slight but conscious, to the farthest margin of the lake itself. (1) It is your comfort to know that, whether you live or die, you are the Lord's; and very specially to know this in connection with the assurance which goes before. Moore, M.A. and the look of gloom changed to one of cheerfulness and hope. Separate men-Davids with their slings and stones have done more than armies could accomplish.(C. Man is a link in the vast chain of being. To die by self-resolution, what is it but suicide? and are learning instead those wise words of a heathen, "I am a human being, and I feel that I have something to do with everything human!" "Christians can neither live useless lives, nor die useless deaths.1. The next summer, flowers from the gardens of Rome were blossoming in the streets of Copenhagen from the seeds thus accidentally planted. And who was the departed? This is declared to be the end of His ministry on earth.1. And if thus living unto Him, you are so securely His, how, as regards your dying, may you cast all your care upon Him! But why yield up our existence so entirely to the influence of another? And you can be confident that he will. On the other hand, there are Christians who produce in others a sense of their close relation to God, and breathe around them an atmosphere as healthy and exhilarating as the air on a mountain-top. Thus far the natural man may mount. Paul has been arguing for toleration, and showing that though men may differ on points short of the great essential doctrines of salvation, they may yet be conscientious and devoted Christians. The Reformation began at Cambridge University very early in the sixteenth century by Bilney, a solitary student, reading a Greek Testament with Latin translation and notes, which Erasmus had published. He ultimately devoted himself altogether to the ministry, and became one of the most laborious, successful, and honoured of God's servants. Our good or our evil deeds live after us. Clergymen, ministers, civic authorities, merchants, and thousands of men of all classes were paying honour to the departed. (d) But it is the language of mortals. The Lord's richest blessings to you this week and always in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. "Not My will, but Thine, be done." For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. The Christian man is the Lord's 1. To consecrate our all to Him is therefore our "reasonable service. It may be in judgment to families who have refused admonition, and to unfaithful churches, and to nations. Jesus didn't live to himself alone, but he lived to serve the Father and he lived to serve us. It may be said that many men have been found willing to die; but their willingness was nothing more, at most, than a desire to die now rather than then. But this great test is one that is thoroughly accepted by people who are not Christians, who hold very cheap the fair words of the man in whom all is tainted with the plague-spot of selfishness. His resurrection declared that His end was attained, and that His empire was won.II. Being confused for gods: Paul and Barnabas in Lystra . Negatively. and the look of gloom changed to one of cheerfulness and hope. Then resolve to live for him as you serve others. By his entire life he is saying, "One thing is needful: seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness"; or else, "All these things are very well to talk of, but give me the main chance. We gather about the grave of one who, while he lived, withdrew himself largely from contact with men, and from the activities of his generation; and we say of him, "There was a man who lived entirely to himself." "He must reign"; to Him every knee shall bow. I cannot look on a building or a vessel without being reminded that such works could not have been produced by any number of individuals working in a state of isolation. (b) As if for your own sakes and on your own account merely they were given to you. Now, these two facts are the basis of His mediatorial authority. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lords. So the genuine The same restraint is laid upon us when we speak of the nature of Christ's empire here. Mark's thoughts: Do you want your children to grow up to be Christians? His death was a means to an end. (1) Through faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ. "None of us liveth to himself," should be constantly before our minds as a restraining memory to keep us from evil, and an inspiring memory that will cheer us on to make the world better than we have found it. We cannot, however, thus repudiate our responsibility. And the consciousness that we are so living, and must so live, is one of the first indications of the renewed mind.2. God gets to Himself honour from the dying hours of a Christian by the blessing to survivors, often occasioned by the affecting circumstances of his removal. Pleasure, indeed, always attends generous actions, but the satisfaction we receive in our minds from having done kind offices to others is far less pure, and less perfectly enjoyed, if at all, when we had any private gratification in view before the action. The supreme love is ever this power. (1) It is your comfort to know that, whether you live or die, you are the Lord's; and very specially to know this in connection with the assurance which goes before. Had this always been acted upon the Church would have been spared all acrimonious controversies, schisms, and persecutions.4. H. SpurgeonThe greatest works that have been done have been done by the ones. We are brought into the world by others. "(2) This outward authority extends ever the "dead and living. S. Candlish.This is an instance of Paul's way of rising from a particular question to a general principle. At the close the man came up to the gentleman and said, "I beg your pardon, sir, but I could not help speaking. "I know that my tribute to the ocean is small, but still I am hastening to carry it there. There was a rough man at the other end of the room with a little girl in his arms. You live in wantonness, but you live in vain. It is plainly one of the reasons why we are born so helpless, and continue so long in childhood, in order that we may learn to obey, so that our stubborn will may be mortified and crushed. S. Candlish.This is an instance of Paul's way of rising from a particular question to a general principle. Have you anything analogous to this in the history of our world? 7 For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. He cannot move without influencing others. Regards the great end of his being. This too is a lesson, which the whole order of our nature and condition in the world and the constitution of society are meant to teach us. We have duties to discharge, which it must be to the injury of others if we neglect; a moral example to hold up, which must influence, either for good or evil, some subordinate mind. We die to the Lord. Perhaps in extreme suffering we may show a power of patience, a great triumph, an abundant entrance into the kingdom of our Lord. Every Christian is producing two sets of influences. We have duties to discharge, which it must be to the injury of others if we neglect; a moral example to hold up, which must influence, either for good or evil, some subordinate mind. Perhaps in extreme suffering we may show a power of patience, a great triumph, an abundant entrance into the kingdom of our Lord. And those who now, and at the last day, will secure the "Well done!" surely "it is hard for you to kick against the pricks!" Peter offered to give the man a tour of heaven. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. This is declared to be the end of His ministry on earth.1. 3. God takes his cause into His own hands, and binds up his death with His own plans. Yes, my friend, there are some who could not do well for a while yet without you. )Every man has a good or evil influenceThe fact that no man can evade the responsibility of living either for good or for evil in this world, is strikingly set forth by Dr. Chalmers in the following weighty paragraph: "Every man is a missionary now and for ever, for good or for evil, whether he intends it or designs it or not. II. He died this past July; this is the homily he would have given for the funeral of his friend. (b) Sin had dominion over man through the law of evil ruling in his nature. A man may be permitted to win souls to Christ by his death, whom he could never win to seriousness in his life.2. HE IS THEREFORE THE LORD'S IN LIFE AND DEATH, to do His will, to be acknowledged, guarded, blessed, and honoured as His. (3)The period in which we are to be trained up for the maturity of holiness.2. But now you're his. The man-nature died, and the God-nature revived it. Had the apostle believed that all that remained of the dead was the dust that lay in their graves, would he have spoken of Jesus as their Lord?3. Negatively. Mark's thoughts: Brother pastor, Ive got your back, Mark's thoughts: No gowns at Confirmation this year. He dies to the Lord who dies in the Lord. )The end of lifeW. His will is subordinated to God's; his great end is not to get on in life, but rather "to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever." Is there a crime on the black scroll of human depravity that may not be traced to this source? Watson. None of us ought to live to himself; for God has an original claim upon the service of every one of us, based upon the right of creation, the mercy of continued being, the mystery of redemption, the derivation from Him of a spiritual nature, gifts, and covenants, and revelations, and hopes of heaven. Your new life and death, then, believers, are not to yourselves. None of us ought to live to himself; for God has an original claim upon the service of every one of us, based upon the right of creation, the mercy of continued being, the mystery of redemption, the derivation from Him of a spiritual nature, gifts, and covenants, and revelations, and hopes of heaven.2. (b) He rose as well as died, by His own personal purpose. You see all its internal organs and the processes of life as you see the works of a watch through the glass. He is sometimes to endure the evil to come, and his private feelings are to give place to the public good. (c) As gifts terminating in yourselves, They have respect to something out of and beyond yourselves.2. 7). The man who enjoys His inner reign, exults beneath His outward sceptre. This expression (1) Implies the possession of a life derived from, centred in, devoted to Christ. Our conviction is strengthened when we survey the external world.(W. There is nothing accidental in human history. For the fact that you live and die unto the Lord, makes you the Lord's in respect of your obligation, whether you live or die, to feel and own yourselves to be His, and to seek not your own ends, but His.(R. When He came it was a King that angels worshipped. What am I? To live to self is to offer the greatest indignity to that soul whose relations are infinite, and whose sympathies were intended to compass the world. No; it is not. Look back through all history. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lords. Next morning we learned that he had died in the night, alone, and without any one to speak to him of a Saviour. A man cannot isolate himself in this great and goodly universe of being. (2) Our original; of our kindred with immortal natures; of our designation to endless life. In the course of his address he said, "All have influence." MEN SHOULD NOT LIVE TO THEMSELVES, BUT TO GOD. "Who cares what they think? These deaths may seem to be, many of them, premature. (2) His sovereignty over the inner life is a Christian virtue. (b) And how awfully true is it of the ungodly that none of them dieth unto himself! Because there are common bonds which unite us all, and because we are not made to live to ourselves. You heap up riches, and know not who shall gather them. B. Pope, D.D. Romans 14:7 Sermons; Romans 14:7 Prayers; Romans 14:7 Images; Romans 14:7 Devotionals; Choose Chapter. It is not said that He was revived, but that He revived. Now, the Christian holds the principle of Divine rule within him supreme amidst all these changes, even in the greatest death itself. One consolation we have in the assurance that for themselves to be with Christ is far better; but the text suggests that their death is not for their own sakes merely, but to advance the Lord's cause and promote the Lord's ends.II. Additional confirmation of this truth may be found in our social relations. Christ has no dead subjects. Is there a crime on the black scroll of human depravity that may not be traced to this source? Shops were closed, and the whole town seemed wrapt in mourning, as though some great prince had fallen. The Great Ruler of the universe has a property in us, and He will guard and keep His own. The Redeemer died to atone for sin, to absorb its sentence in Himself, and thus to reign in the bestowment of pardon and peace. Another is Pharisaically strict, and makes sad the heart that God has not made sad. "(1) Place the whole race under Christ's feet. By His atoning death the Redeemer obtained for man the Spirit of a new life making him free from the law of sin and death. (1) They often have a troubled course in life. It is not long since we commenced life: not far hence we shall close it. Powered by, And Paul gave them the power to do it: As they focused on the Lord and how he lived and died for them, as they remembered that they belonged to him, as they found comfort knowing that when they died they would die in him, they would find the motive, the courage, and strength to. Had the apostle believed that all that remained of the dead was the dust that lay in their graves, would he have spoken of Jesus as their Lord?3. This expression (1) Implies the possession of a life derived from, centred in, devoted to Christ. God's Holy Spirit strove with him: it was the turning-point in his life. (2) His sovereignty over the inner life is a Christian virtue. II. III. The richest man cannot live without the ministries of his poorer brethren: nor can he gain their help, except by making them in some measure sharers in his riches. And if thus living unto Him, you are so securely His, how, as regards your dying, may you cast all your care upon Him! I live not wholly for myself." (2) And so also as to death. The end of life in its holiest and highest form is answered. Over the remaining province, paradise, Christ rules, but there He also is, and all who enter follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. III. We know this is true because he rose again. It is the probation of every man who hears the gospel to accept or reject His sway. Man is a link in the vast chain of being. And your being enabled thus to die is unto Him. His miracles were wrought to illustrate His kingship, and His teaching was based upon it. (1) Men cannot marry within certain limits of consanguinity without their offspring becoming degenerate. there might be many reformers, but there was but one Luther: there might be many teachers, but there was but one Calvin. On being pointed to his little bed, the youth put down his luggage, and then, in a very silent but solemn manner, knelt down to pray. HOW STRANGE THAT MEN SHOULD LIVE TO THEMSELVES! Better far to leave the wrong undone than afterwards to regret the doing of it. He entered this world and Death yielded Him the keys which had been His from the beginning, but now became His by another right. As I came near the public-house one night, hearing a great noise inside, she said, 'Don't go, father.' Moore, M.A.I. (1) It is the only course congenial with our spiritual being. CHRIST IS THE SOVEREIGN OF HIS OUTERLIFE (ver. "For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living." Various considerations may be presented in support of this proposition.1. Every atom, impressed with good and with ill, retains at once the motion which sages and philosophers have imparted to it, mixed and combined in ten thousand ways with all that is worthless and base. What are the dispositions of our minds which are called forth into action in private or public prayer, but reverence for true greatness, humility, gratitude, love, and confidence in God, as the greatest and best of beings; qualities of the most admirable use and effect in social life. The situation of man in this world, or the external circumstances of human nature, oblige us to assert, with Paul, that no man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 3. "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord." RELIGIOUS LIFE. Feels an interest in the cause of Christ. We may anticipate the day when death shall be swallowed up in victory. He who lives to the Lord will follow His example in going about doing good. Now, St. Paul intimates that living unto the Lord is the very opposite of this; it is to live as He lived who "pleased not Himself."2. "Another who is weak, eateth herbs."3. But is it not with most of us, my wants, my sorrows, my difficulties, my soul? Instead of its being discussed by subtle argumentation and a fine balance of small reasons for and against, the case is at once carried into a region of spiritual thought and duty, from whence there may be got both a nearer insight into heaven and a larger oversight of earth.I. B. Pope, D.D.When our Lord had reached the end of His redeeming work He announced to His Church, "All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth." Too often I act in a way that is pleasing to me with little concern of what the impact will be on others. 1. And I cannot get rid of it. )The Christian's missionD. The strength of some, and the sagacity of others, are as much at our command, and are as effectually employed for our use, as if they belonged to ourselves. "Another who is weak, eateth herbs."3. CHRIST IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE CHRISTIAN'S INNER LIFE. The life you are living, whether in the pursuit of gold or pleasure, is not indeed to yourselves. To be ruled by the benevolent spirit of Christ has ever been felt and acknowledged praiseworthy. selves who have least contributed to the enjoyment of others. Readings Isaiah 25:6-9 Romans 5:5-11 Psalm 27:1,4,7-9,13-14 Matthew 11:25-30 If your life and death were unto yourselves; or if you, living and dying, were still your own, you might have some apology for your unconcern, and for living and dying as you please. Perhaps in extreme suffering we may show a power of patience, a great triumph, an abundant entrance into the kingdom of our Lord. Isaac Taylor has well said, "On principles even of mathematical calculations each individual of the human family may be demonstrated to hold in his hand the centre lines of an interminable web-work on which are sustained the fortunes of multitudes of his successors. were either of these two things otherwise, your case might not be so desperate as it is. It is not long since we commenced life: not far hence we shall close it. It may be in judgment to others. Take any church, there are multitudes in it; but it is some two or three that do the work. What is this but just the impression which a true character is making upon a heart gifted, by virtue of its simplicity, with an insight unknown to the wise and prudent? Death is part of our sum of duty.(W. the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Jesus "having loved His own which were in the world, loves them unto the end."'(D. Now, St. Paul intimates that living unto the Lord is the very opposite of this; it is to live as He lived who "pleased not Himself."2. 2. Even they die unto the Lord, who endures with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. (2) The disposer of our being. None of us ought to live to himself; for God has an original claim upon the service of every one of us, based upon the right of creation, the mercy of continued being, the mystery of redemption, the derivation from Him of a spiritual nature, gifts, and covenants, and revelations, and hopes of heaven.2. God takes his cause into His own hands, and binds up his death with His own plans.1. Think of the hardening effect of a death of which you say, "Ah, he's gone; no great loss to anybody but himself"; and then think of the effect of a death about which you say, "Well, religion must be a real and wonderful thing to have kept a man up in suffering as it did there!" 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