Even of the animal creation this is true. (3) At their exit out of the world they meet with abundance of difficulty, so that though they be saved, yet it is with a scarcely; their enemies would not suffer it if they could hinder it. The false professor will be ruined by his hypocrisy.3. SHOW HOW AND WHY THE SALVATION OF THE WICKED IS IMPOSSIBLE. De Witt Talmage.Peter means this, "If Christians have such a hard tug to get into heaven, there is no chance at all for anybody else." God made these human hearts capable of love immortal, and even in their mourning capable of proving and deepening their power of love; He is faithful; He cannot deny Himself in the human hearts which He has made. We may also see why Christians are exhorted to separate themselves from the world. In a word, let them "work out their own salvation with fear and trembling," and "give all diligence to make their calling and election sure."(C. A. How terrible such an influence must inevitably be! Provided always that we neglect no lawful means of our preservation from sufferings, or our deliverance out of them.2. How many postpone conversion because they think that it is so easy to become religious — they can begin at any time! It is wonderful to see how much this difficulty is enhanced by the agency Satan and sin have had in the framework of society. For the difficulties of religion are not alike in all times, nor to all persons; for they are not like a geometrical measure, which is always exactly the same; but rather like a voyage at sea, which is to be managed by the same compass and to the same port; hut it sometimes proves calm and pleasant, and at other times stormy and tempestuous. It would seem that a bait is held before every man, whatever his position and circumstances may be. We must not commit our souls to God in idleness, doing nothing at all, nor yet in evil-doing, but in well-doing. Now, think how very much it means for us to know that God is methodical, whether in the realm of nature or of redemption. Sedgfield.To be saved is what the generality of persons in the world wish for. The faithful Creator is the God of regular habits, the God of system, the God who has His own time and place for everything. If they did, its discouraging effect might be disastrous. There is not a verse of prophet or apostle, there is not a word spoken by Jesus Christ, to lead us to suppose for an instant that God on high would avoid His responsibility for His world; or that He would for a moment put off upon any man the least of His Divine responsibility for affairs. And it is for matters better than life that God lets His children suffer here; for, alas! You were never quite comfortable in spiritual society on earth.5. Yet often, perhaps commonly, wicked men make no allowance for the faults of Christians, but assume that every Christian ought to be spotless, while every sinner may make so much apology for his sin as quite to shield his conscience from conviction of guilt.II. This one feature lifts it up above all the literature of the ancient times, as a clear mountain above a jungle; this feature renders it an inspiring Bible for the world, that it exalts the Lord God as having character — true, holy, righteous, merciful, supremely moral character. Some time since I stood looking with melancholy interest on the magnificent desolations of Kenilworth Castle. A faithful Creator! This is the purpose of God concerning them (2 Thessalonians 2:13). (2)To overcome the flesh from day to day. God is infinitely ready to forgive them if they will repent; but the great problem is to persuade them to do so. We must not commit our souls to God in idleness, doing nothing at all, nor yet in evil-doing, but in well-doing. God is not always chiding (Psalm 103:9), but hath times of intermission, which He vouchsafes His children for their good. The keeping of our souls. Should they live and die such, their destruction is inevitable.(T. Mark, also, why Christians are exhorted to spend the time of their sojourning here in fear, and to walk softly and carefully, as before God, through all the meanderings of their pilgrimage. He has more foes, in addition to those planted in the way of the Christian.5. How is it possible, then, that the ungodly and sinners can find favour before the judgment seat? It is so, indeed, for we must be new moulded before ever we can come to heaven. The faith in Christ of the righteous is maintained with difficulty. Finally, let us take this same truth into our daily thought of ourselves, and of those with whose lives ours are bound in this world and beyond. Series: 1 Peter. (1) With respect to accidental difficulties arising from the particular circumstances of times and persons. Thus they not only have not faith and seek not after it, but they yield themselves to be bound and fettered in infidelity. (2) Having thus showed what difficulties there are which arise from the different circumstances of times and persons, I am now to consider those which arise from the terms of salvation, which are common to all persons and times.Here we must suppose salvation to be the thing aimed at as the chief end or happiness of such men, and here are two kinds of difficulties to be inquired into. We reason from analogy — we say, in the common arrangements of society, that parentage involves the idea of obligation. If the righteous be "scarcely saved," where will the ungodly and sinner appear? With that he must be content; but it would not be surprising if he left it alone to the swift process of decay. Indeed, Christians never know themselves except as they see themselves in God's own light. Provided, likewise, that we do not attempt our own preservation or deliverance from suffering by evil and unlawful means.3. THE CHARACTER OF THE PERSONS HERE SPOKEN OF.1. Besides, sensible things ever surround them, try to press into their souls by every avenue of their senses, and exclusively, fill their affections and engage their thoughts; hence their disinclination to exercise faith would be proportionately increased. For the difficulties of religion are not alike in all times, nor to all persons; for they are not like a geometrical measure, which is always exactly the same; but rather like a voyage at sea, which is to be managed by the same compass and to the same port; hut it sometimes proves calm and pleasant, and at other times stormy and tempestuous. (2) Nor in the death and merit of Christ, which are infinite (Hebrews 2:9; 1 John 2:2). So much sin as gets in, so much peace will go out. The will of God is complete recovery, restoration to even greater glory in all its parts, and to this end nothing the Divine Father could expend that would serve this purpose has been withheld. This one feature lifts it up above all the literature of the ancient times, as a clear mountain above a jungle; this feature renders it an inspiring Bible for the world, that it exalts the Lord God as having character — true, holy, righteous, merciful, supremely moral character. THE CERTAIN AND DREADFUL MISERY THAT AWAITS THE UNGODLY SINNER. Nothing at all. No less than three theories have been propounded, in order to render an answer to this tremendous problem's utter extinction — eternal torment- ultimate restoration.II. We must carry ourselves generally well in all our sufferings.2. They should be characterised by well-doing. Human nature is ruined, but not left to decay, not simply kept from getting worse. You have served Me, says God to Israel, but after your own lusts. Here is the difficulty. God provides for His Church as His own house. They are such as remain in their native, unconverted state. For this Christ died. Let them commit the keeping of their souls to Him, etc.1. Provided always that we neglect no lawful means of our preservation from sufferings, or our deliverance out of them.2. Another aggravation of sins against the gospel is that they sin against the better covenant. So the fact that God has method, and must have it in order to be faithful, is reason enough why He does not vary the course of His providence to meet some of our desires, however much the good God might wish to gratify us. He has more foes, in addition to those planted in the way of the Christian.5. Trapp.The stormy shower lighteth first on the high hills, and having washed them, settleth with all the filth in the valleys.(J. There is much in a persuasion of the power of God. (1) Negatively, I shall show where they shall not appear. (The Evangelist. And now will heaven let you in? A great amount of labour will be requisite to push him forward in his heavenly pilgrimage.5. "Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"1. Persecution in olden times; spoiling of their goods; loss of custom; piety a bar to temporal promotion.4. Propose this question to yourselves in a less limited form, "Who can be saved?" (1) With respect to accidental difficulties arising from the particular circumstances of times and persons. Height of office will do no more than increase responsibility.IV. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? The righteous are saved personally, when their lives are preserved.3. They can shed sin as naturally as a bird his feathers, or a tree its bark. Owing to their strong remaining corruptions.2. We here and now cannot see what the design in the creation of mall is — that is, not to the full of what God purposes to make of us; how He intends by and by in another state of being to use us. ANOTHER INFERENCE. We here and now cannot see what the design in the creation of mall is — that is, not to the full of what God purposes to make of us; how He intends by and by in another state of being to use us. Many are not aware of the labour necessary to get rid of the influence of a bad education. But the ungodly and sinners have no living faith in Christ at all. To build a church is a good work; yet if the foundations of it be laid in the ruins of the poor, their children come not to pray for, but curse the builder.(T. Think of that in relation to your own personal being and life, as well as in relation to the affairs of God's world. The question in the text relating to such may refer —1. Which chiefly happens when a religion appears new, or goes about to reform the old; for then it is sure to meet with all the opposition which the passions and interests and prejudices of partial men can raise against it. They did not live to please themselves and gratify their own appetites. The answer, left here as a great hiatus, is fully given in other parts of Scripture —1. What should God do with a foul and polluted soul? The difficulty in the way of saving sinners is not simply that they have sinned, but that they will not now cease from sinning and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And as He is powerful, He is no less faithful, a faithful Creator, truth itself. Indeed, He only can keep our souls.IV. The question is a strong negation. The faithful Creator is the responsible One. The radical cause of the difficulty is with the righteous — original sin. (3) Nor in the influence of the Spirit (John 14:16, 17; John 16:7, 8). Then, suspect thyself to be in a bad estate, for every true Christian suffers in one kind or other, either from without or within. And there is no way but this to be quiet within, to be impregnable and immovable in all assaults, and fixed in all changes, believing in His free love. A. Clark.I. The ungodly sinner. "Not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father." Some, again, are very easily convinced of a fault, but very hardly reclaimed. Because there is much ado to get Lot out of Sodom, to get Israel out of Egypt.2. What sort of happiness, congenial to his heart, could the sinner hope to find there? P. Father.3. 4. A lazy man cannot Bet to heaven. A real distinction exists, and will eventually be manifested. They only are said to suffer according to God's will, who suffer first innocently, then patiently.III. When they suffer for the open profession and defence of truths not necessary.II. (3) It was the ultimate end of Christ's sufferings (Hebrews 2:10). (5) O ye swearers! Will not heaven be worth all the efforts he has yet to make?2. But, positively, one difficulty is found in the nature of God's government, and in the nature of free agency in this world. "Where shall they appear?" Hannam. (Pulpit Studies. (5) O ye swearers! Who is like unto Him? Everlasting happiness depends upon committing the soul to God now.III. "But," say others, "God is infinitely merciful, and the very idea of eternal suffering is opposed to that attribute." To death (Psalm 9:17).3. We take the third step in the inquiry, and look at the facts of life. He may have yet more corruptions. The righteous are saved, when the existence of the Church is preserved.2. Their chief concern is, that whatsoever be lost, this may not; this is the jewel, and therefore the prime care is of this. ANOTHER INFERENCE. A faithful Creator! If He crosses your wishes and thwarts your projects, this may be simply because He is unwilling to let you ruin yourself. Certain limitations are fixed in the divine wisdom to the amount of moral influence which God shall employ in the case of a sinner. Poverty; Christ so suffered; so did His disciples; bodily affliction, etc.2. And the successful merchant remembers crises in his history when he found himself on the brink of ruin, when the last straw only was wanting to precipitate the catastrophe. In the threats which it utters.2. Afflictions cannot break in upon it to break it, but sin doth. And His will is not that we should always suffer, though generally our estate be so in one kind or other. "Where shall they appear?" WHEN MEN DO SUFFER REALLY AND TRULY FOR THE CAUSE OF RELIGION AND GOD'S TRUTH, they may with confidence commit themselves (their lives and all that is dear to them) to the more especial care of His providence. (3) Nor in the influence of the Spirit (John 14:16, 17; John 16:7, 8). (6) The work of salvation in the righteous is already begun (Philippians 1:6).2. H. Coleman.1. Our chief care must be over our souls. We are enjoined to suffer, and they are permitted to wrong us. When men may be said to suffer truly for the cause of religion and God's truth, and when not.1. The other particular which I would bring out from this general truth of the methodicalness which the faithful Creator observes is this: a good method, as we know, is not to be set aside every now and then because it may seem not to meet exactly all cases and contingencies. THE BOLDNESS OF THIS COMFORT.1. Because He is a faithful Creator. How terrible such an influence must inevitably be! At other times, when its exercise or its nourishment is neglected through a worldly spirit, its injury will be gradual and imperceptible, like that of a plant which, while it is left uncultivated, has a worm at its roots. It is a mystery that God should be pleased to subject His people to suffering.2. The righteous are saved with difficulty, secondly, because, in consequence of the general causes mentioned, their holiness is exposed to some degree of failure. "The house of God." )The difficulty of salvationR. (2)They are such as have believed in Christ, are pardoned and justified (Romans 3:25, 26).2. What should God do with a foul and polluted soul? no! (2) They must suffer also in regard of themselves; for the best of us all have many lusts to be subdued, and a great deal of corruption to be purged out, before we can come to heaven, that holy place into which no unclean thing can enter. )A solemn appealThe Christian Magazine.I. Hannam.I. (2) They must suffer also in regard of themselves; for the best of us all have many lusts to be subdued, and a great deal of corruption to be purged out, before we can come to heaven, that holy place into which no unclean thing can enter. There is a man chained to a wife who is a constant source of temptation and trial to him. He who trusted to mere orthodoxy of creed will come to a fall5. The other particular which I would bring out from this general truth of the methodicalness which the faithful Creator observes is this: a good method, as we know, is not to be set aside every now and then because it may seem not to meet exactly all cases and contingencies. Comfort is nothing else but reasons stronger than the evil which doth afflict us; when the reasons are more forcible to ease the mind than the grievance is to trouble it. A faithful life resembles the sure, unceasing roadway, which runs on and on over the hills, and through the woods, and by the homes of men, into which we may always come back at evening time, no matter how far we may have wandered afield or how long we may have followed the winding brook, at our own sweet will during the day. L. Holiness of life and zeal in religion will provoke the ungodly (Matthew 11:18; Luke 7:33; Hebrews 11:25, 26).3. Their duty in this estate, namely, to commit the keeping of their souls to God.In the duty we have these particulars comprehended —1. Therefore, God will have it a hard matter to be saved, to frustrate the vain hopes of such wretches. Thus may their faith decline and waver through defect in spiritual appetite or neglect of spiritual food. )The end of the ungodlyPryce Thomas.This is a verse of implication. What construction ought to be put on the little difference made between the righteous and the wicked in the dispensations of Providence. It lies in this, committing the soul unto God in well-doing. Further, the righteous are saved with difficulty, because they are exposed to failure, in measure, in holiness, through difficulty in certain parts of obedience. Hence learn —1. God's people, like those in the shipwreck with Pard, escape all safe to land, yet it is with a scarcely, they get over the turbulent sea of this world. To get there costs toil and labour. OBSERVE BOTH THE MYSTERY AND THE MERCY OF THE BELIEVER'S SUFFERINGS IN THIS WORLD.1. Now their being scarcely saved is not for want of power in God, for "He is able to save to the uttermost," nor is it for want of will, for He win give grace and glory (Psalm 84:11), nor is it for want of an appointment, for He hath not "appointed them to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:9); but the difficulty lies in the things they meet with in the way to salvation. THERE IS ONE SUPREME SUBJECT WHICH IN ALL OUR SUFFERINGS SHOULD BE OUR CHIEF CARE — THAT IS THE SOUL.1. (6) The influence of evil example which abounds in the world (John 15:19). Their parents have held erroneous opinions, and they have had their moral constitution saturated with this influence from their cradle and upwards. When Adam and Eve were created their appetites were doubtless mild and moderate. These sufferings are for the trial of faith (vers. (Newman Smyth. If Satan have always ruled it, God will not embrace it.2. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on 1 Peter 4:19. He was always to be found where others had reason to expect to find him. It would seem that a bait is held before every man, whatever his position and circumstances may be. For infidelity in sonic degree, practical or avowed, is everywhere manifest. I mean such as are involved in the following sayings of the Master: — "If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. The false professor will be ruined by his hypocrisy.3. Considering therefore that it is Satan's aim to unloose our hold from God, by defiling our souls with sin, oh! The righteous are saved personally, when their lives are preserved.3. Persecution in olden times; spoiling of their goods; loss of custom; piety a bar to temporal promotion.4. One incentive is a sense of sin. (4)Neglecting, perhaps rejecting, the only way of salvation by Jesus Christ (Hebrews 2:3; Hebrews 10:28, 29).II. An object, what we must commit, the soul.3. It seems, then, there is some excuse for those that persecute the saints. When men suffer for not renouncing the true religion, and because they will not openly declare against it, and apostatise from it.2. They should be characterised by well-doing. Further, the righteous are saved with difficulty, because they are exposed to failure, in measure, in holiness, through difficulty in certain parts of obedience. Oh, what a work is this which Christ undertakes that He may save His people from their sins! (The Lay Preacher. In their liberty and life. We should have an eye to God, and an eye to ourselves, and an eye to others, and an eye to the cause in hand; so we shall do well. There is not a verse of prophet or apostle, there is not a word spoken by Jesus Christ, to lead us to suppose for an instant that God on high would avoid His responsibility for His world; or that He would for a moment put off upon any man the least of His Divine responsibility for affairs. )The soul's refugeT. Here is the difficulty. Indeed, Christians never know themselves except as they see themselves in God's own light. THE COMFORT OF THIS INTEGRITY. Therefore, whatsoever estate thou art in, let thy first care be for thy soul, that it may go well with that. Were a man to meet disgraces and sufferings for Christ, how easily would he go through them, yea, and rejoice in them, were he rid of the fretting impatience, the pride, and self-love, of his own carnal heart! Oh, what a work is this which Christ undertakes that He may save His people from their sins! Besides, sensible things ever surround them, try to press into their souls by every avenue of their senses, and exclusively, fill their affections and engage their thoughts; hence their disinclination to exercise faith would be proportionately increased. And His will is not that we should always suffer, though generally our estate be so in one kind or other. We should have an eye to God, and an eye to ourselves, and an eye to others, and an eye to the cause in hand; so we shall do well. It is not because God is implacable and hard to be appeased. It is readily admitted that they are surrounded also with the helps of the Church. (8) The remains of corruption within. It is so, likewise, in the kingdom of heaven. God gave you and them power to live together in common affections and pursuits. For regular habit, or methodical action, is a quality of faithfulness. Besides, it is a hard matter in regard of Satan; for he is a great enemy to the peace of God's children. We must take God here as a Creator of our whole man, body and soul, and of the new creature in us. With that he must be content; but it would not be surprising if he left it alone to the swift process of decay. (3) At their exit out of the world they meet with abundance of difficulty, so that though they be saved, yet it is with a scarcely; their enemies would not suffer it if they could hinder it. There is much in a persuasion of the power of God. No wonder that the devil flatters himself that he has got the race of depraved men into his snares and can lead them captive at his will. He has more foes, in addition to those planted in the way of the Christian.5. Sibbes.Wherein consider —1. Some have formed habits and have confirmed them until they have become immensely strong, and it becomes exceedingly difficult to induce them to break away. That it may not be saved, '' where will the ungodly and sinners should be pleased SUBJECT... 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