NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST JESUS edition by Octavius Winslow Religion Spirituality eBooks
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It would have been no difficult task to have expanded the following pages- the substance of which was originally delivered by the author in the course of his stated ministrations, and in his usual extemporaneous mode of address- much beyond their present limit. His dread, however, of inflicting upon the public a volume, overgrown and unreadable- precious and alluring as was its theme- constrained him greatly to curtail his work; thus, he fears, exposing himself to the charge of having swept lightly and rapidly over subjects the greatness and importance of which demanded profounder thought, and more elaborate discussion. The portion of Holy Writ he has undertaken- it may be deemed somewhat too presumptuously- to expound, must be regarded as a mine of sacred wealth, as inexhaustible in its resources, as those resources are indescribable in their beauty, and in their excellence and worth, priceless.
It would, perhaps, be impossible to select from the Bible a single chapter in which were crowded so much sublime, evangelical, and sanctifying truth as this eighth of Romans. It is not only all gospel, but it may be said to contain the whole gospel. In this brief but luminous space is embraced an epitome of all the privileges and duties, trials and consolations, discouragements and hopes of the Christian. Commencing with his elevated position of No Condemnation from God, it conducts him along a path where flowers bloom, and honey drops, and fragrance breathes, and music floats, and light and shade blend in beautiful and exquisite harmony to the radiant point of no separation from Christ. And amid the beauties and sweets, the melodies and sunshine of this glorious landscape of truth, thus spread out in all its panoramic
extent and magnificence before his eye, the believer in Jesus is invited to roam, to revel, and delight himself.
May the Holy and Eternal Spirit impart to the reader, and, through his prayers, increasingly to the writer, the personal possession and heart-sanctifying experience of the Divine treasures of this precious portion of God's Word. And, if this simple and imperfect outline may but supply a faint and glimmering light, guiding the reader to a more prayerful and thorough exploration of this mine of the "deep things of God," thus leading to the discovery of new and yet richer veins, the Author will not regret that the oil which fed the lamp has been drawn from his own exhausting, yet holy and delightful studies.
And now to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as unto the Triune Jehovah, be all honor and praise forever. Amen.
Leamington, April, 1862.
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‘No condemnation in Christ Jesus’ is the most encouraging declaration to the soul. It is found in Romans 8. It should be no wonder that this chapter is hugely popular among expositors. They all want to be first to tell the glorious news. “What a ground of rejoicing does it afford you who are the saints of God! You may see within and around you—in your soul, in your family, and your circumstances—much that saddens, and wounds, and discourages you; but behold the truth which more than counterbalances it all—your freedom from condemnation.” One more time, “How strong the consolation flowing from this truth to the believer in Jesus! No condemnation is the ground of all comfort to the suffering Christian. What a mighty breakwater is this condition to the rolling surge of sorrow, which else might flow in upon and immerse the soul!” That is how the comforting contents of Romans 8 should be rolled out. But I have quoted at large for another reason. It is necessary to quote Winslow generously in order to underline a characteristic of his composition that has long ago passed out of fashion. For some time I did not understand what biographers meant when they stated that this writer or that speaker could be noted for his fullness of expression. While reading this writing by Winslow, the characteristic struck me right away. He completes every thought by a kind of rounding off. The symmetry of his sentences partly accounts for the encouraging uplift that the reader experiences from his exposition. Style can accomplish a lot. If you’re going to read doctrine, why not get it in the form of stirring prose in order to maximize your joy in the truth that you learn? Why settle for dry, dull, colorless studies of the wonders of God’s word? That kind of material can do little more than make theology odious to you. If bland, flavorless, albeit biblical material is what you want, you can do no better than read the books of J. I. Packer or someone like that.
Winslow’s composition is not only full. It is what some critics would call rich, by which they mean, nourishing. “Grace is the germ of glory, glory is the full-blown flower of grace. Grace is the first degree of glory—glory is the highest degree of grace. And what are the saints of God but the precious ‘vessels of mercy afore prepared unto glory?’” One more sample of this rich content, from a passage about grace and glory in the life of the Christian in a world of trouble “Binding in his bosom the green first-fruits of glory, there yet cling to him a thousand grievous infirmities…weary and heavy laden, he journeys homeward, amidst the fluctuations of hope and fear, joy and sorrow; sometimes foiled, then overcoming; often mourning, and anon praising; yet ever deeply conscious that the present home of his renewed and heavenly nature is a body of humiliation and death—constituting a perpetual and oppressive clog to the heaven-ascending tendency of his sanctified affections.” You see how the rich content is always attended with fullness and vice versa? Octavius Winslow is not sometimes eloquent and sometimes deep. He is always both together. His writings are certainly more than just eloquent. As stylistic as he is, I believe that he is more substance than style. He is more than able to fill a chapter whose head is as daunting to dilate on as Eternal Glorification and Earnest Expectation.
Winslow wraps all of this rich fullness up in a trinitarian framework. This is the noblest feat of all. No doubt it is a painstaking task to do this—always to be thinking about how to bring in the Three Persons of the Godhead. His composition is consistently and conspicuously trinitarian. “We are taught to adore the love of the Father, from whence each rill of mercy has its rise. We delight to dwell upon the love of the Son, through whose channel all redemption-blessing flows. And shall we overlook the love of the Holy Ghost?” He does it so smoothly that sometimes we almost miss it “Yes, the Spirit leads the sorrowful to all comfort. He comforts by applying the promises—by leading to Christ—by bending the will in deep submission to God—and by unveiling to faith’s far-seeing eye the glories of a sorrowless, tearless, sinless world.” He even does it in a nutshell “Has he [the Spirit] led us from ourselves to Christ—through Christ to God?” He brings the atonement in with it “Nor must we overlook the skill with which the Spirit enables us to urge in our approaches to God the sinner’s great plea—the atoning blood of Jesus.” The whole trinity is involved even in our prayers “God hears them—Jesus understands them—the Spirit creates them—and not one shall be uttered in vain.” That is the kind of comment that sits well with the ‘groanings which cannot be uttered’ that we read of in Romans 8.26.
Next, in addition to all of this, his exposition is Christ centered. “Are we guilty?—the Spirit leads us to the blood of Jesus. Are we weary?—the Spirit leads us to abide in Jesus. Are we sorrowful?—the Spirit leads us to the sympathy of Jesus. Are we tempted?—the Spirit leads us to the protection of Jesus. Are we sad and desolate?—the Spirit leads us to the tender love of Jesus. Are we poor, empty, and helpless?—the Spirit leads us to the fulness of Jesus. And still it is to the Saviour he conducts us. The Holy Spirit is our Comforter, but the holy Jesus is our comfort. And to Jesus—to his person, to his offices, and to his work, in life and in death, the Divine Guide ever leads us.” I guarantee you that no one is telling truth like this today.
While executing this multilateral chore, Winslow is always conscious of unbelievers in the midst of God’s Church. And so, just in case, he often gets pointedly evangelical. “Sinner! if the righteousness of the law is not fulfilled in you now, that righteousness will be exhibited in your just condemnation to all eternity! Flee to Christ Jesus, the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” He sounds like Spurgeon there. “None are rejected but those who bring a price in their hands. Salvation is by grace; and not to him that worketh, but to him that believeth, the precious boon is given. The turpitude of your guilt, the number of your transgressions, the depth of your unworthiness, the extent of your poverty, the distance that you have wandered from God, are no valid objections, no insurmountable difficulties, to your being saved.”
It is a wretched fact that this ‘much-loved study’ was ‘long out of print.’ It is too full, rich, trinitarian, Christ-centered, and evangelical to warrant such an absence from our shelves. Winslow felt constrained ‘greatly to curtail his work’ out of “dread…of inflicting upon the public a volume, overgrown and unreadable—precious and alluring as was its theme.” It is for this reason, maybe, that he is not as profound and comprehensive as Lloyd-Jones on the same Scripture chapter. It is for this reason, maybe, that his flowery fluency can seem to accentuate that lack just a bit. Notwithstanding some questions that I had and the few small slips that I noticed, it would be unjust to say anything negative about this book. It is a lavish presentation of “the beauties and sweets, the melodies and sunshine of this glorious landscape of truth.” There is No Separation from Christ in Romans 8. That is the central thought.
In conclusion, I promise you that no one today, especially not Max Lucado, is writing devotional material on this level. Octavius Winslow’s No Condemnation in Christ Jesus is beyond reproach and beyond all post-19th century abilities. This is heavenly theology that is fit to extol the King of Kings. I relished every line of it.
The premise of the entire book is the exposition of Romans chapter 8. Heck, go ahead and write down Romans 8 on paper and that alone is worth more than diamonds. Paul's words are more than sufficient to explain the awe and wonder of the summit of the Mount Everest that is Chapter 8 within the Himalayas of the Bible that is the Epistle to the Romans.
This is where Octavius Winslow separates himself from the pack of scholars and theologians. I feel like it wasn't that Winslow had to explain the depth and weight of Romans 8 for the scholarly purposes but he had to write this book because if he did not, his heart would have burst in worship and love to our sweet God and Lord. Let me contend that his heart did burst and this book was the result.
Winslow's love for God drips and flows over every single page of this book. If you love to highlight important passages, you will soon be wishing for a device that will highlight entire pages. (I thought it might be more convenient just to dip pages into a vat of highlighter ink. But I digress.)
That's what makes this book so special. You start with the chapter that is the richest source of the plenary doctrines of our Christian and dare I say the framework of our Biblical theology. Romans 8 covers it Gospel, Trinity, Perfect Atonement, Justification, Regeneration, Adoption, Redemption, Grace, Law, Creation, Fall, Depravity, Sin, Suffering, Intercession and Love. Not that Romans 8 is complete in these things but when the reader, blessed with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit or even the non-believer blessed with being pursued by the same Holy Spirit, that you have suddenly realized the glitter in the ground are not mere shards of glass but a path leading to a gem mine that knows no depths and knows no limit on the treasure that can be only in found in Jesus Christ. This book written by a man of God who has descended into the depths of that mine shaft and has only come back to the surface to share with the world with what he has found in Him.
I ask you, dear reader, have you read this book yet? No? Then why are you not doing so now.
To the Christian, it is a full-blown out description of Christ as the path of life, the fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore (Psalm 1611). This is a book that cries out, "See what God has done! Come to Him, one who gives great love and sweet rest for your tiresome soul!"
For here is love "I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel." Genesis 315
And here is love "She shall bare a son and you shall call his name Jesus for He will save His people from their sins." Matthew 1611
And here is love "For our sake, He made Him to be sin who knew no sin so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 521
And here is love "And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God." Ezekiel 1119-20
And here is love
"... Those who were not my people I will call `my people,'
and her who was not beloved I will call `beloved.'"
"And in the very place where it was said to them, `You are not my people,'
there they will be called `sons of the living God.'" Romans 925-26
And here is love "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 316
And here is love "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Romans 81
And here is love "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 838-39
To the non-believer who denies the Triune God, this book displays the empirical evidence that you have been seeking that, yes, God does exists and He is not far. May the Holy Spirit show you the power of God by which you can be saved if you would only trust in Him!
To those who are strong in the faith, it book will only serve to prepare your heart to anchor in Christ alone against any stormy gale and fill your heart with such sweet truths.
To those who are weak in the faith, it serves as the sweet, joyous rest for your soul as you lay your head against the bosom of God and rest in the His finished work.
Among my other favorite books, I cannot recommend any one of them to every single person. Yet, "No Condemnation in Christ Jesus" by Octavius Winslow, is the first Christian book I have read outside of the Bible that I can fully recommend to anyone who can read English.
Likewise, most of the modern Christian self-help books have fallen short in displaying the marvelous and weighty beauty and majesty of our sweet Savior, King and Lord. Those self-help books are just that about self, in vain and encourages no one. This book is godly encouragement that is rooted in the very breath of God himself (2 Timothy 316).
Read this if you don't feel like praying. Read this if you don't feel joy. Read this if you aren't seeing magnificence in the Bible. Even reading a few pages will jump start your faith. It sings with joy, hope, and freedom!
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