The very molecules are in ceaseless conflict, defeat, and victory, and yet everywhere an order and progress slowly evolve themselves out of all.2. Thirdly, here's matter of just abasement and mourning and humiliation when we shall consider the great mischief which we contract by our sins, not only to ourselves, but to others. This is a metaphor taken from a man with a heavy burden on his back, which so straitens him that he cannot freely draw his breath, and when he gets it it is a groan.2. In these mortal bodies, in which we begin to live and to be formed for immortality, the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. She still stands with her fresh crown and in her bridal dress, but her eyes are full of tears." (3) So with youth. And when all the various mechanical parts have been constructed and tested, they are carried to their destination and set up. THE GOSPEL GIVES US ASSURANCE OF A MOST EXCELLENT AND HAPPY STATE RESERVED FOR GOOD MEN IN ANOTHER LIFE, described in the text by these two characters; of its being the manifestation of the sons of God, and a state of the most glorious liberty.1. The second opinion is that which makes this deliverance of the creature to consist, not in abolition, but in alteration; not in destroying of the substance of it, but only in changing of the qualities. Not mere creatureship. The creature of its own accord is not subject to vanity, forasmuch as every thing naturally desires the preservation of itself. (1) In respect of the chief consequences of the fall, God does little more than leave things to produce their natural effects. The book is as it were sealed. But the amount of groaning, and whining, and screaming, the amount of tapping, and cutting, and driving up, and driving down, that was required before we got this noble organ in tune, no man could imagine who did not make the instrument, or who did not stand by and see the process by which it was brought into harmonisation. Watson. They, even now, see dimly, yet surely, reflected on the face of nature the image of the Creator. God gave Adam the great estate of the world. Each organism has its parasite that preys on it inwardly, and its natural foe that is born to pursue it. The first condition of liberty is harmony with the infinite will. The sun is a light to him, therefore it is overclouded; it nourishes his ground, therefore its influences are restrained. And I know I am not what God would have me to be, because I feel yearnings and longings within myself to be infinitely better, infinitely holier and purer, than I am now. IN THIS STATE OF VANITY, UNDER WHICH THE WHOLE MORAL CREATION OR WORLD OF MANKIND GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN TOGETHER, THE HUMAN RACE HAS AN EARNEST EXPECTATION OR DESIRE OF A CONDITION MORE PERFECT AND HAPPY.1. Its anticipations. Many things are estimated according to their price. By the same right one takes a sword from a man wherewith he is running at him. — "Whole creation groaneth," etc.1. And so it shall be also with the other creatures. As to the justice of God, the case to any one who rightly considers it is attended with no difficulty at all. It groans and travails in pain together. Thirdly, for their whole persons; there shall be a liberty of them also. You see, therefore, at what points St. Paul is in agreement with the results of scientific observation, and where he is hostile to philosophical theories which have been hastily erected on a scientific basis. And how long it may be to their delivery we know not. When we read of heroic achievements our eye flashes, our blood fires. The creatures have no intermission in their service (Ecclesiastes 1:5, 8). Yet, as God is said to "grieve and repent of the evil," when He doeth that which we should do out of our imperfect feelings, much more may the holy angels be said to groan and travail in birth-pain together with us, while they long for our immortal birth, which is yet delayed by our sins. The things that God has made reveal His eternal power and Godhead; but the creation is subject to vanity by the will of the Creator, and the bondage of corruption is upon all things.II. And yet there are lines and colours which reveal the skill of the immortal painter. But is there to be no compensation? "(3) As a scene of suffering. And so it is with you: you are not what God means you to be; you have only just begun to be what He wants you to be. It is our hope now.1. Any sin against them, any violation of these sacred human relations, touches something Divine. So much the more am I a witness to the necessity of a death and a resurrection. Look, as in a fruitful season the valleys are said to laugh with fatness (Psalm 65:12, 13); so on the other hand it doth, as it were, mourn (Jeremiah 12:4, 23. And in animal life we detect no forecast of immortality. We may dream of sweeter music, fairer flowers, and nobler fruits, etc., in the new creation than in the old. The whole Bible and this important passage rest on this profound idea.(Prof. Boston, D.D.I. The passage before us teaches its connection with us, past and present, its actual condition, and its future destiny.I. This hope is raised into assurance by the Christian revelation. What makes all these facts the more appalling is that this apparent waste and suffering have been going on for millions of years. These illustrations fail to touch the mystery of the imperfection and pain of the universe; and yet they may suggest the blended dissatisfaction and rapture with which St. Paul thought of the works of God. Are we weak? The sun, the eye of the world, has often a veil drawn over it for many days, and he with the rest of the lights of heaven are covered with blackness, like mourners. Are they not happy? This, it serves to shame the Senselessness and hard-heartedness of many men and Christians in this particular, as wanting this fellow-feeling of the miseries of their brethren. Some men are free in some respects and slaves in others. Only: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."2. Mysterious efficacy of our Lord's atonement, that all things which shut not out God shall partake of the glory which He hath purchased!2. If beautiful, man loves and admires it, without or more than God, or worships it instead of Him. )Glorious libertyW. Not only that, but each stop had to be in accord with every other stop that was added. He was lord of sea and land. Can it be that God, the good and the great One, can suffer these blots and stains upon His own work to continue thus for ever? God is everywhere present, quickening, influencing, preserving, and governing all the creatures, according to their several natures (Acts 17:25; Hebrews 1:3). (1) In a way of supposition. We have not the following accomplishments of glory till we have received the first fruits of grace. It is a principle of life so true, and so strong to bear our faith, that you will allow me once more to endeavour to render this present deeply prophetic significance of human nature intelligible. Unimaginative races suffer comparatively little under appalling mutilations. Many a one takes a light lift because there are so many to bear a share of it. The first-fruits they are commonly and for the most part the best and choicest, so are the graces and comforts of the Spirit above anything else — above parts, above gifts, above riches, above all outward excellency (Proverbs 3:14, 15). (1) Not that they are mere productions of God. 2. The chorus just missed a sudden leap of exulting triumph, or they did not sink to the soft hush of harmony, or their voices were too coarse, or the instruments were not quite in tune, or the band and the voices parted company. Now, even if we granted that the drunkard or the impure had so effectually unstamped themselves of the image of God as to rejoice in the likeness of brutes, I should count them of all men the most miserable. When we have disposed of these two classes, we have removed the only exceptions to the sad statement in the text. So we may say the creature is worn out with hard labour to serve the uses of man; because it is in continual motion (Ecclesiastes 1:5; Job 37:11). (2) So with those few nobler things on which men set their hearts, the pursuit of power and influence over our fellow creatures, and the cultivation of knowledge. Yes, in these bodies so wonderfully made, yet so incomplete, we have nature's prophecy of the resurrection, and the earthly preparation for the perfect, spiritual body which shall be. The creation is subject to "vanity" and is under "the bondage of corruption." The inferior animals can suffer but not sin. We have thus far considered the fact that man himself in his own being is essentially a prophet of the Lord upon this earth, and also the truth that our human relations in their eternal worth, but present incompleteness, all bear witness of something diviner to come in which they shall be made perfect. The throes of our sorrow may be sharp; but the birth will occasion joy enough to countervail the tediousness of it.4. He commits it into the hands of servants, who are to be the channels of His bounty. These illustrations fail to touch the mystery of the imperfection and pain of the universe; and yet they may suggest the blended dissatisfaction and rapture with which St. Paul thought of the works of God. Thomas, dreading the privations that may come, keeps back that which should have been given to decrepit old men. (1)From the powers of darkness. Paul has seen nature's imploring look, and heard her complaining voice, and felt her yearning thought, and sympathised with her confession — of waste, as she brings one seed and one blossom to perfection out of ten thousand — of discord, as she is made to launch her thunderbolts, and to lift her waves, and to let loose her hurricanes — of cruelty, in her ruthless laws of consequence, and which take no account of innocence or penitence. Listen to your own soul. But the very poison plants borrow their terror either from our ignorance or from the character with which the secret murderer has clothed them; and with the renewal of the human race in knowledge and humanity they shall be known only as healing herbs. Attending to these three things we have been compelled to regard the word "creation" as intended to designate regenerated humanity. He projects upon her kind and radiant visage the shadow of his own tyranny and greed. A distant, though unapprehended, good attracts us. (4) God suits His government of man and dealings with him to the state he is now in. )Creation's groansI. Do not the heavens declare His glory, and all His works praise Him? There are two causes of groaning in sensitive creatures —(1) Labour and motion. Observe further in this connection how broken, partial, and tragic, often, these human relations and friendships seem in this world to be. In his fall and in his rise alike man carries with him the creation of which he is the head.III. These experiences of vanity are the birth-pangs of glory. A thing is, then, said to be vain when it does not reach its proper end, nor does that for which it was intended. Beet.Nature is prevented from putting forth its powers, from manifesting its real grandeur, and from attaining its original destiny. It is not often that we have indications in Paul's writings either of a painter's eye or a poet's fancy. Again, it teaches us also to take notice of God's hand, when it is at any time upon ourselves, and accordingly to be affected with it. WHO ARE THE HEIRS TO THIS LIBERTY? Imagination adds nine-tenths of the terror with which human suffering is invested. Why, truly, they got a large share of the curse to bear for man's sake (Genesis 3:17).1. Why, truly, they got a large share of the curse to bear for man's sake (Genesis 3:17).1. The ground of this dispensation does proceed from that near relation which is betwixt man and the creature. Each man of us has a prophecy of future rewards and punishments written in his own conscience. At or after the second advent. Why have we so little of the apostle's desire to be loosed from his bonds, to be dissolved and be with Christ? But the whole creation, above us and about us, are groaning and travailing together, and that for our sakes; yet a sinful generation has no ears to hear, no heart to be affected with it, and with sin which is the cause. Well grounded and confident hope.Liberty is not lawlessness. Man is not the only creature whose growth is often stunted, powers repressed, and glory obscured. The struggle of the slaves, the sacrifices of the patriot give value liberty. That every particular land fareth the worse for wicked men (Proverbs 11:10, 11).3. The state is to be brought into accord with the neighbouring states. There are things in an organ of which you have no conception. They, too, are liable to diseases, which are curiously similar to ours. And this truth casts a glorious lustre over all. The very lowest have in some way suffered by man's fall, and they, too, shall in his restoration gain in glory. 19, 21; Revelation 20:11; 2 Peter 3:10, 13).II. We are in that process of upbuilding.(H. The Scripture itself does expressly call it a restoration (Acts 3:22). Let us not abuse them to the service of our lusts, lest they witness against us at last. It is a mighty power, though bound, and it sighs, and heaves, and tends, though blindly, to the good which it has forfeited. The second is, the actions attributed to those persons, "Groan within ourselves, waiting," etc. (4) Man struggles against disease and death. The second opinion is that which makes this deliverance of the creature to consist, not in abolition, but in alteration; not in destroying of the substance of it, but only in changing of the qualities. "The children of God."1. That we must not ascribe the alterations and changes of the creature to chance or fortune, but to God's providence punishing man's sin.4. And it has its end; when the poor soul which has lived on shadows finds itself in the presence of realities more terrible than it has ever dreamed of, and God and eternity, and heaven and hell, supply for ever the place of the childish delights of vanity and the laughter of fools. Clark. At or after the second advent. It makes their hearts die within them, and their eyes fountains of tears to look at a perishing world.(J. There's a curse which belongs to everything which they deal withal, or have interest in, a curse upon their estates. Their groans shall never have an end.4. "Now is the winter of its discontent"; its spring has not yet come; the splendour of its summer is still far off.2. Garbett, M.A. A slave may be virtuous and kindly in character, but if his master be evil, he will have to be the instrument of many an unholy behest. They live by faith and not by sight — they have not received their reward, they have not entered into their inheritance. God created the life beneath us, with "a seed in itself," "put man into the garden, to dress it and keep it." And starving people themselves are reluctant to cut the tie that holds them to fatherland. There might have been no room for repentance after they had sinned, and the reward of their obedience, if they had persevered to the end, might not have been so great, as the reward of the virtuous now will be. They, too, are liable to diseases, which are curiously similar to ours. To the groans and expectations of the creature, i.e.,, the whole race of fallen and unrecovered men. "When riches increase, set not your heart upon them" (Psalm 62:10). "They have the first-fruits of the Spirit." God is One, and that oneness He impressed on His creation. It is subject to vanity thus, not willingly, or of its own accord neither. Thirdly, here's matter of just abasement and mourning and humiliation when we shall consider the great mischief which we contract by our sins, not only to ourselves, but to others. The very molecules are in ceaseless conflict, defeat, and victory, and yet everywhere an order and progress slowly evolve themselves out of all.2. Thomas, D.D.1. (2) The evil of sin; it is the burden of the whole creation, of which it would fain be eased. There are two things which make hard service —(1) Continual toil without profit. The winter's cold kills the songsters of the summer. Look as there is a great deal of difference between the first-fruits and the full vintage, between the gleanings and the full harvest. A thing is, then, said to be vain when it does not reach its proper end, nor does that for which it was intended. The vines howl, and the fig tree languisheth" (Isaiah 24:7); but doth the drunkard mourn, because God is provoked by his excess? Epidemics sweep them away, They are tormented by diseases precisely analogous to our own. By imitation. (1) The mournful spectacle of the creatures which you see to-day, if that day were come, ye shall see no more for ever. The whole creation falls in man, and is to rise again in his moral uplifting. First, because the things themselves have so much sweetness and delightfulness in them. LET US SURVEY THIS TRAVAIL.1. A metaphor taken from a woman bringing forth a child.III. "The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly." It begins very low down in the scale of creation. That whatever meaning we attach to the word, it should be the meaning that the word will carry through the whole passage. Surely they may be excused for longing and sighing after this.2. The graces and comforts of the Spirit of God here in this life. There is no difference here with regard to condition or circumstances.3. The seeds of lovely and goodly things in her perish by millions. The reason of it is this, because they are but small and imperfect. There is no single pipe in an organ that is not made in the shop. Judas slips into his capacious bag the food he should have distributed to a hungry woman and her babes. Take notice of that, the very unreasonable creature itself, it does in a sort lament and bewail the sin of man. Its imperfections are explained by his. It involves the entire freedom of man. Sermon Romans 13:8-14 A Community Learning To Love By The Rev. That is the great lesson for us.(T. The winter's cold kills the songsters of the summer. Fourthly, it is not probable neither that such a special monument of God's power as the heavens and earth indeed are should be absolutely and totally abolished, and turned into nothing; but rather that they should still remain as so many pillars of His greatness and goodness to all eternity, as they prove to be in their excellent variety. I speak of squandering away noble capacities in baubles and playthings, which is just as absurd as giving pearls and diamonds for feathers or stones. When God looked on His creatures He saw that they were very good (Genesis 1:31). On use of comfort to the serious and godly, who notice the groans of the creatures under sin, and join their own groanings with theirs. The creature, it is subjected to vanity for man's sin. They shall be free in their names from those reproaches which are here cast upon them. Because of the slavery we put them into they groan for vengeance (Habakkuk 2:11).III. )The universal travailJ. Contemporancively, as denoting the time of this deliverance. If some exquisite porcelain painting had been spoiled in the after-firing, you would not judge the artist by the blunder of a drunken furnace-man. Let us not abuse them to the service of our lusts, lest they witness against us at last. They shall no more be abused by sinners (vers. Boston, D.D. And the selfish capitalist cries out too: "We can have no emigration schemes. )The universal travailJ. You are to be attuned, each in himself — voiced; and you are to be attuned with each other. He will stand at bay in the presence of famine rather than run that risk. This may therefore serve as a trial of our state. We believe in development. Now, these being excepted, it remains that by the whole creation we understand the creatures made for the use of man. The creatures groan under their vanity, but we laugh and sing under ours, which is the highest degree of madness and distemper that can possibly be thought of. Beet.Nature is prevented from putting forth its powers, from manifesting its real grandeur, and from attaining its original destiny. That sinful man is an enemy to all the creatures, as well as to himself. The more we would find rest in any, the more they weary. Some of them are in heaven, and groan no more, and those on earth must also be excepted (ver. Every pauper in our unions might be a lord of wide acres without confiscating any one's property. And how long it may be to their delivery we know not. We see how far some of them have gone in renouncing their service to him (Job 39:7, 8).5. God forbid that I should undervalue this, but it has no remedy for our real evils. First, because this future estate of the creature, which is here mentioned in the text, it is expressed to be such as is earnestly desired by the creature; but now there is no creature whatsoever which doth naturally desire the extinction of itself, but rather the contrary. "For swearing, and lying, and stealing, and adultery, the land mourneth " (Hosea 4:2, 3); but doth the swearer or the adulterer mourn?" Secondly, by common sense, and daily and frequent observation. )Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of GodThe bondage of corruptionProf. For who ever heard the groaning of the whole creation?1. Mankind have always been possessed with the hope of a better state of things than the present. They shall be free in their names from those reproaches which are here cast upon them. Of the bondage of one another (Hosea 2:21). Are they not happy? They care not for beholding His glory, therefore the looking-glass is overlooked, and very little use is made of it. And not only they but we, who have the first-fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves, etc. First, in regard of the order, and beginning, and first appearance of them. The creature at its highest, by a last and crowning effort, brings forth the human form; man at his highest, by the supreme act of travail, in and through God, brings forth the new man. (3) So with youth. It is our happiness, however, to know that all our sufferings are parturitional; they are all travailing together; they will give birth to a higher order of things that will be more than a compensation for the throes.2. This deliverance is "the redemption of the body" and "the manifestation of the sons of God."2. First, the creature is sanctified on God's past by His word; and there is a threefold word of His, which is considerable to this purpose. Secondly, God's counsel that hath so ordained it. Our present embodiment, in other words, is prophetic — wonderfully and profoundly prophetic of what shall be. On use of terror to the wicked. And besides, the creature is often blasted in its greatest glory and beauty. It is very observable that the prophets often turn from men and speak to creatures (Lamentations 2:18; Micah 6:1, 2; Jeremiah 22:29).2. This expression may be taken three manner of ways. Much of the earth is desert, and the most fertile lands produce what is noxious more freely than what is good. And yet there are lines and colours which reveal the skill of the immortal painter. And this they may be conceived to do in sundry respects. The creatures have no intermission in their service (Ecclesiastes 1:5, 8). That all the effects of the curse are to be gathered together, and confined for ever with the wicked in the lake (Revelation 20:14, 15). The air often sickens and kills him. The covetous oppressor's money groans (James 5:4). They teach us(1) the vanity of the creature, which is now often changed, and must at length be dissolved. The creature has a vanity upon it, so far as it is opposite to either, in the improvement of it. But the whole creation, above us and about us, are groaning and travailing together, and that for our sakes; yet a sinful generation has no ears to hear, no heart to be affected with it, and with sin which is the cause. The use which we are to make of it is, that seeing there is such a blessed estate as this is to be expected, that therefore we would for our parts labour to have a share in it. Never did a beast speak but once (Numbers 22:28, 30), and that was a complaint on man for abusing it to an end for which God never made it. And therefore, as God elsewhere saith that the whole earth is oppressed and loatheth and" vomiteth forth her inhabitants, through whom she is defiled," so now that regenerate man panteth after his heavenly home, "all creation groaneth and travaileth together" with him, that having, with him and for his sake, been "made subject to vanity" and corruption, it may, with him, be made partaker of incorruption and of glory.4. (3) If it has pleased God to subject the race of mankind to a state of vanity and corruption, it does, in many respects, better answer the ends of a state of trial. He will go on with His chisel of affliction, using wisdom and the graving tool together, till by and by it shall appear what you shall be; for you shall be like Him, and you shall see Him as He is. )Subjected -- in hopeDean Vaughan.See how all things testify to the Christian's hope.I. Before the angels' fall all things in heaven were one. Conclusion. HOW WE KNOW IT? This is not Pentecost. If God should open the mouth of the creature, as he did that of Balaam's ass, it would groan under its hard servitude (2 Peter 2:16). 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