Charles Spurgeon

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without…

“‘So that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful.’Romans 1:20, 21 THOSE who boast of their knowledge betray their ignorance.”

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

“GOD is often exceedingly good to those who are utterly unworthy of such treatment. "He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good." Indeed, sometimes the evil seem to have more of the sunshine than the good have!”

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

“The apostle is intensely personal in his address. This verse is not spoken to us all in the mass, but to some one in particular. The apostle fixes his eyes upon a single person, and speaks to him as “Thee” and “Thou.””

What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar.

“THE seed of Israel had great privileges even before the coming of Christ. God had promised by Covenant that they should have those privileges and they enjoyed them.”

And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

“THE Apostle here says that "there is no difference," yet he does not mean that all men are alike in all respects. There are very many and important variations among men.”

but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

“FAITH—true, saving faith—is in all ages the same. It may exercise itself upon different things, but the faith of Abraham is the same faith as that which was in the heart of Paul—and the faith of Paul was precisely the same faith as that which…”

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

“THE Apostle sets before us a ladder like that which Jacob saw—the foot rests upon the earth, but the top ascends to Heaven. Tribulation is the foot, but we mount as we see that it works patience. And we climb again, for patience works experience.”

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

“PENTECOST is repeated in the heart of every Believer. Let me give you a little bit of historical analogy to illustrate the text. The Lord's disciples were made to sorrow at His Cross.”

Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.

“I am not going to speak at length about the Doctrine of the Federal Headship of the first Adam and of the second Adam, which is, to my mind, indisputably taught in this chapter.”

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

“I shall not pretend to enter into the fullness of this text, but merely select that topic, "Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." Our Apostle represents man as being subject to two great kings.”

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

“EVERY new man is two men—every Believer in Christ is what he was and not what he was—the old nature and the new nature exist at the same time in each regenerate individual.”

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

“THE apostles never traveled far from the simple facts of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, ascension, exaltation, and second advent. These things, of which they were the witnesses, constituted the staple of all their discourses.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“IN the fifth chapter of this Epistle, Paul had shown, at considerable length, our justification from sin through the righteousness of Jesus Christ our Savior.”

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

“IF I chose to occupy your time with controversial matter, I might prove to a demonstration that the apostle Paul is here describing his own experience as a Christian.”

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

“You are well aware, dear Friends, that the division into chapters has only been made for convenience sake and is not a matter of Inspired arrangement.”

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

“CHILDREN are expected to bear some likeness to their parents. Children of God, born of the grandest of all parents, regenerated by the almighty energy of the Divine Spirit, are sure to bear a high degree of likeness to their heavenly Father.”

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

“MY brethren, what a contrast there is between the present and future estate of the child of God! The believer is here the brother to the worm; in heaven he shall be next of kin to the angels.”

For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?

“ACCORDING to our version "we are saved by hope," but that is scarcely in accordance with other parts of Holy Scripture. Everywhere in the Word of God we are told that we are saved by faith.”

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

“I. WE have here the description of a true Christian, and a declaration of that Christian’s blessedness. We have him first very succinctly, but very fully described in these words—“Them that love God, them who are the called according to his purpose.””

And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

“WELL said the Apostle in another place, "All things are of God." And here in this passage all works of Divine Grace are evidently so. The pronoun, "He," is repeated yet again and again, as if to set the Lord always before us.”

What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

“THE Truth of God here asserted is indisputable. Even heathens have taken this for their motto and emblazoned it upon their standards of war. "God is for us!"”

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

“We have selected this verse as our theme, but our true text you will find in the 22nd chapter of Genesis, the narrative which we read to you this morning at full length and upon which we spoke in detail in our discourse.”

Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for…

“HERE are two very wonderful challenges thrown out by the Apostle Paul. First, he boldly defies anyone to charge the chosen of God with sin—"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?"”

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

“DO NOT IMAGINE for an instant that I pretend to be able thoroughly to elucidate the great mysteries of predestination. There are some men who claim to know all about the matter.”

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

“EVEN concerning those who have heard the Gospel, it can still be said, "They have not all obeyed the Gospel." And this, dear Friends, is one of the plainest proofs of the deep depravity of human nature.”