January 17, 2023. All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. The dream of the renovated world was dear to the Jews. Here the word has the sense of perishability (Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 3:423). What could be conceived closer or more even than this? And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. Lord, thank You. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. If the good news of God goes out to man, entirely blotting out the difference between a Jew and a Gentile, what becomes of His special promises to Abraham and to his seed? Spiritual life which results in that glorious peace. So then we who are still living in these bodies do often groan, for we ourselves also groan within ourselves. That law of the Spirit of life that God has written in my heart.God accepts that which is in my heart. It got awfully cold at night and there were disadvantages. The same idea that he is presenting here is presented there in II Corinthians 5 , of that groaning earnestly, desiring to be free from this body that is limited and restricted and often seeks to bring me into bondage, the bondage of corruption.So we ourselves groan, we who are in these bodies do often groan earnestly desiring to be delivered. It is not good that man shall live alone. Thank You, Lord. God delivered His Son to die for my sins. The creatures are often abused to the dishonour of their Creator, the hurt of his children, or the service of his enemies. We will not understand the passage at all unless we understand the way in which Paul is using these words. We are a minority group. There are going to be many things that will happen to you of which, though you do your best, you're not going to be able to understand it or figure it out. The sufferings of the saints are but sufferings of this present time, strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time (2 Corinthians 4:17), light affliction, and but for a moment. There were four main ones. Who is he that condemneth? Now Paul was as competent a judge of this point as ever any mere man was. They had their own stables, their own pools. It is through the help of the Spirit that we put to death the deeds of the body or that they become subservient and the spirit becomes dominant.I see the trinity of man in a storied area: upper story, middle story, lower story. For if you live after the flesh, you are going to die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, then you shall live ( Romans 8:12-13 ). The word is therefore appropriately used of the disappointing character of present existence, which nowhere reaches the perfection of which it is capable (208). How many times have you interpreted it that way? If we are children then we are also heirs; and if we are the heirs of God then we are joint-heirs with Christ. In the most binding legal way, he got a new father. What shall we say then to these things? Him who came in humiliation, according to their prophets, they might despise; but it was vain to deny that the same prophets bore witness to His divine glory. In this, as in other things, God hath made our present state a state of trial and probation--that our reward is out of sight. But what it could not do because of the weakness of my own flesh. Sanday and Headlam add: Vanity is the refrain of the Book of Ecclesiastes that is without result, ineffective, which does not reach its endthe opposite of complete or perfect. But on account of him, etc. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. "Not so," replies the apostle. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? He speaks of those who walk according to the flesh in contradistinction to those who live the Christian life ( Romans 8:4-5). If he accepted the things that God sent him, he knew peace. He shall come to Zion, says the other. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. The Bible tells me so. But oh, I am going to have an eternal weight of glory. He which has begun a good work in me shall surely continue to perform it. Thus the proof was complete. We are told to be careful lest we deceive ourselves. One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. Him who subjected it in hope is a reference to God, who alone had the authority and power to subject the creation to vanity, and also the option of totally destroying man because of sin, or subjecting him in hope of his redemption. Its characteristic is its absorption in the things that human nature without Christ sets its heart upon. The apostle writes with the full assertion of his own apostolic dignity, but as a servant also. Not just some of the things, but because you have been called according to His purpose you can rest in the confidence that God is in control and all things are working together for good. And that beautiful, sparkling, darling little gal wouldn't have to lie there listless and crying and thrashing in the bed. The word that Paul uses for other (heteros, G2087) has really the meaning of different. God is not his friend but his enemy, and no man ever won the last battle against him. In Romans 14:1-23 and the beginning ofRomans 15:1-33; Romans 15:1-33 we have the delicate theme of Christian forbearance in its limits and largeness. Is there no call, no mercy, of God for any besides? There were two steps. And we know that all things ( Romans 8:28 ). "God surely can't love me anymore. No fresh revelations from God can nullify those which preceded them; but as the prophets looked onward to what was coming, so is the gospel already come, supported by the past. For the creature was made subject to vanity The Gentile world were subject to vanity of mind; but how? To the limits of the holy land? Romans 16:1-27; Romans 16:1-27 brings before us in the most. God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. It was the logos ( G3056) which kept the stars in their courses and the planets in their appointed tracks. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. That is what Paul is thinking of here. This is fitly annexed to our sonship; for as the adoption of sons entitles us to that glory, so the disposition of sons fits and prepares us for it. Then if God is willing to do that much for you, the rest is easy.Nothing that you might need could possible come close to comparing what God has already demonstrated His willingness to give and do for you because He loves you so much. If man is acquitted by God, then he is saved from every other condemnation. Sermon. I really think that Jesus was talking about what Paul had been talking about in II Corinthians 5 , that mansion is that new body that He has prepared for you. Romans 8:18b Romans 8:20 2 Comments It could not happen to me unless God did allow it to happen to me, and God loves me and is working out what is best for me. I have rested in this verse over and over and over again. I can see how God is going to work." In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). We surrender our bodies, and our tongues, to the Holy Spirit in faith, and the Holy Spirit gives us the appropriate words in prayer through our tongues. In Romans 8:19 he uses a wonderful word for eager expectation. (iv) In the eyes of the law he was absolutely the son of his new father. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Obviously this made adoption into another family a very difficult and serious step. Once we were in the absolute control of our own sinful human nature; but God, in his mercy, has brought us into his absolute possession. You know, to me it is such a simple, beautiful thing. 10. I have no fellowship with God, because God will not deal directly with my body. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. Undoubtedly there are fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, and God values them I will not say from man, but from His saints; but here it is what, according to the apostle, God has for man. For those whom he knew long ago he long ago designed to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brothers. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. You can't put them in the same category. It does not yet appear what we shall be (1 John 3:2), but then the glory shall be revealed. Whosoever believed should not be ashamed; whosoever called should be saved. The world is one where beauty fades and loveliness decays; it is a dying world; but it is waiting for its liberation from all this and the coming of the state of glory. Hey, it is beginning to have its problems. The adoption ceremony was carried out in the presence of seven witnesses. This he reckons. The groaning denotes a very earnest and importunate desire, the soul pained with the delay. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:1 ). That is the problem of these people who never read the context, they just grab the phrase that they want out of a verse and never bother to look at the context of that particular verse, and we will see it in its context in a moment. Spirit, to Paul, represented a power which was divine. [Ktisis] (as used in Romans 8:19,20,21, and 22), CREATION, has the same signification here as in Mark 16:15: "Proclaim the glad tidings to the whole creation," that is, "all mankind;" and also Colossians 1:23, where a similar phrase occurs. God himself will be with them, and will be their God, Revelation 21:3. "By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith." A description of our present physical bodies "as frail and dying; as exposed to trials, temptations, and cares; as in the midst of conflicts" (Barnes). The apostle shows them with astonishing force at the starting-point that he was far from slighting their privileges. Verse 20. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. Sad that people even give the time of day to such a doctrine.Paul tells us in just a little bit what the manifestation of the sons of God really is. Jewish pretensions were therefore disposed of; not here by new and fuller revelations, but by this divinely skilful employment of their own Old Testament Scriptures. God is not reluctant to help you. It is only when we understand how serious and complicated a step Roman adoption was that we really under stand the depth of meaning in this passage. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." "The law is weak to us, because we are weak to it: the sun cannot give light to blind eye, not from any impotency in itself, but merely from the incapacity of the subject it shines upon." (Poole) c. In that it was weak through the flesh: The law is weak because it speaks to our flesh. for the mind of the flesh is not subject to the law of God, and neither indeed can it be. While things are still raging around me, while the outcome still seems to be very uncertain is to have the glorious victory and rejoicing, that is more than a conqueror. (a) God has acquitted us; therefore no one can condemn us. Of it nothing has been heard till now. Who is the one condemning? (b) NIV has "set me free", NAS "set you free.". First, we cannot pray aright because we cannot foresee the future. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven" ( Luke 6:22-23 ). The soul may feel the blood of Jesus to be a yet deeper want; but this alone does not give peace with God. There are some who still believe that; but the ancient world was really haunted by this supposed domination of a man's life by the influence of the stars. The first included thrones, cherubim and seraphim. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. But now the body appetites under the control of the spirit as God intended them to be. 22). The Holy Ghost, who now gives the soul its consciousness of deliverance from its place in Christ, is also the witness that the body too, the mortal body, shall be delivered in its time. When he gives a list of the works of the flesh in Galatians 5:19-21, he includes the bodily and the sexual sins; but he also includes idolatry, hatred, wrath, strife, heresies, envy, murder. Faith respects the promise, hope the thing promised. 2 Commentary On Romans 12 1 2 Ephesians 4 17 20 The 15-01-2023 eral gifts for the common benet. It is a proper training for heaven. Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? Daily devotional with John Piper. "All right, we conquered," and then was the great elation, rejoicing. He has subjected the same in hope because, or for we know. ", No other world can separate us from God. If I am ruled by my body I have the mind of the body which is death, spiritual death. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? He foreknew me, and then predestined that I should be conformed to the image of his Son, that Jesus might be the firstborn among many brethren. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. It may be that in Romans 8:34 Paul is doing a very wonderful thing. That would be a day of judgment when the world would be shaken to its foundations; but out of it there would come a new world. Lot Of 10 Chuck Missler Bible Commentaries-CD-ROM/Mixed Media With Bonus DVD . But it is amazing how sometimes these sure deals can fall out of escrow, and oh, what disappointment. In adoption a person had to pass from one patria potestas to another. But the Jew might argue that it was an unjust thing in principle this gospel, these tidings of which the apostle was so full; for why should one man affect many, yea, all? By the spirit I am receiving that sense of adoption where I am crying Abba Father, for it is the Spirit that is bearing witness to me that I am a child of God. (i) We can take them as two statements, followed by two questions which give the inferences to be made from these statements. So my dad had a little plaque made with the words "all things" and he had it there on his desk. Genesis 3:22-24. in hope -- Hope has a reference to the future, and the Christian sighs for deliverance from our corruptible, mortal bodies, and expects it. In addition to nature being pictured in human terms (it thinks and feels), God is also pictured in human terms. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. Now, because Jesus was fully a man, just as we were one with Adam, we are now one with him; and, just as we were involved in Adam's sin, we are now involved in Jesus' perfection. Law works wrath because it provokes transgression; grace makes the promise sure to all the seed, not only because faith is open to the Gentile and Jew alike, but because God is looked to as a quickener of the dead. To this then the apostle comes, after having spoken of the divine favour shown himself, both when a sinner, and now in his own special place of serving the Lord Jesus. Because they look around and they say, "Will you look at that baboon over there? ", No age in time can separate us from Christ. But this subjection is one that is contrary to it, and from which he desires to be delivered. But the fourth is different. They weren't quite sure though. Sounds pretty wonderful, doesn't it? Upon what ground? Thy Strong Word. Bible Study & Sermon Videos; romans 8:26-27 esv; Romans 8:26-27 Esv. Ep elpidi hoti kai, c.--in hope that the creature itself so many Greek copies join the words. In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. or who hath been his counsellor? Verse 20 appears to describe the fall of Adam and Eve. He was inalienably co-heir with them. The saints are spiritual priests, that have the Lord for their inheritance, Numbers 18:20. Thus the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against (not only the open ungodliness of men, but) the orthodox unrighteousness of those that hold the truth in unrighteousness. (iii) In law, the old life of the adopted person was completely wiped out; for instance, all debts were cancelled. hope. This is the essential point. The idols were a burden to the weary beast, Isaiah 46:1. Now if I am a child, I am an heir; I am an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together ( Romans 8:17 ). Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. 14, 15). Man is an inferior trinity: spirit, soul, and body. He means that from the beginning of time God marked us out for salvation; that in due time his call came to us; but the pride of man's heart can wreck God's plan and the disobedience of man's will can refuse the call. He is not complete. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. Yes, He suffered, but as He suffered He was looking forward to the glory of the kingdom and the joy of being able to redeem lost man. 3. It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. If nature had a will (desire), Paul affirmed that it would have chosen to maintain a harmonious relationship with mankind. And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. Claudius already had a daughter, Octavia. As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter ( Romans 8:35-36 ). And quickly they will plug it back in and say, "Well, we thought he was gone, but there is a slight movement." The expression means that righteousness which God can afford to display because of Christ's atonement. Man in this world is a body and a spirit; and in the world of glory the total man will be saved. [Note: See Don N. Howell Jr., "The Center of Pauline Theology," Bibliotheca Sacra 151:601 (January-March 1994):50-70.]. The reformer Martin Luther stated that this chapter is where Paul "comforts fighters" involved in an inner struggle between spirit and flesh : The Holy Spirit assures us that we are God's children no matter how furiously sin may rage within us, so long as we follow the Spirit and struggle against sin in order to kill it. . The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ( Romans 8:1-4 ). to deal with the whole posterity of Adam as involved in death because of one, their common father, who could deny the consistency of one man's saving? Having shown first, then, the sources and the character of the blessing in general as far as regards deliverance, the apostle sums up the result in the end of the chapter: "That as sin hath reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life," the point being justification of life now through Jesus Christ our Lord. In Romans 8:32 there is a wonderful allusion which would stand out to any Jew who knew his Old Testament well. And after that time I used to think, wouldn't it be wonderful if some day there would be a knock on the door and there would be a lawyer there and he would say, "Your uncle that you happened not to know who happened to be one of the wealthiest men in the world died, and you were left his fortune." But then it will be complete, when the Captain of our salvation shall bring the many sons to glory, Hebrews 2:10. We are told concerning Jesus, "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross despising the shame" ( Hebrews 12:2 ). Weakness In Transition (Romans 8:26-27) 11/20/11 : All Things? And who would be afraid then to suffer for Christ, who as he is before-hand with us in suffering, so he will not be behind-hand with us in recompence? They need not fear any accusations against them, because the one who has declared them righteous is God himself, and he has done so on the basis of the perfect work of Jesus Christ (33-34). Following up with the teaching of the olive-tree, he carries out the same thought of a remnant that abides on their own stock, and points to a re-instatement of the nation, And I would just observe by the way, that the Gentile cry that no Jew ever accepts the gospel in truth is a falsehood. Romans 8:20. 8:12-17 So then, brothers, a duty is laid upon us--and that duty is not to our own sinful human nature, to live according to the principles of that same nature; for, if you live according to the principles of sinful human nature, you are on the way to death; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you will live. God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. "The man has not got anything like settled peace with God; perhaps he hardly knows his sins forgiven; but at least he is a saved soul." Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. But now it is "the wrath of God from heaven;" and consequently it is in view of eternal things, and not of those that touch present life on the earth. It was the Lord giving us the profit of sorrow, and ourselves bowing to the way and end of God in it, so that the result of tribulation should be rich and fruitful experience. ". May the life, the joy, the love, the peace of Christ just keep your life as you walk in the Spirit, being lead by the Spirit in close communion with God, as His Spirit just bears witness with your spirit of that glorious relationship that you have as God's child, His heir for all eternity. They do not come to it as purchasers by any merit or procurement of their own; but as heirs, purely by the act of God; for God makes heirs. 18). So because of the weakness of my flesh it could not make me righteous before God. This was the father's power over his family; it was the power of absolute disposal and control, and in the early days was actually the power of life and death. Even as you have all had a fleshly birth, we are here, it is just as necessary that you have a spiritual birth, for man by nature is alienated from God. And this doctrine has a way of cycling. Paul recognized his problem, and he ends chapter 7 with that cry, "O wretched man that I am! The Christian is involved in the human situation. Any duration. Am I lead by the Spirit of God? The whole species of creatures is designed for, and is hastening to, a total dissolution by fire. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." The life of a salesman is a life of feast or famine, and potential great feast. What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! There is no need of dwelling now on "salvation" as employed in the Old Testament, and in some parts of the New, as the gospels and Revelation particularly, where it is used for deliverance in power or even providence and present things. Therefore, the keynote of the Christian life is always hope and never despair. Live with Rachel Mellema. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. And because God is for you, I don't care what forces of hell may be against you, they are nothing compared to God.Never think of Satan as the opposite of God. Then your principle is your condemnation. The bearing of this on the contents and main doctrine of the epistle will appear abundantly by-and-by. When all this was completed, the adoption was complete. This first shadow of the gospel of Jesus Christ (see gospel in the OT - Gal 3:8) provided the firm foundation for hope (absolute certainty that God would do good to us and to the creation in the future) and this hope was the basis for the creation's eager anticipation that Paul described in the previous verse (see note Romans 8:19) Romans 8:21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. . conceits they had of themselves, of their wisdom, knowledge, And his conversation is going to be addressed to spiritual things. "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation, the old things have passed away and all things become new" ( 2 Corinthians 5:17 ) and it is interesting how even our desires change so dramatically when we are in Christ. Because of that, to Paul life was not a despairing waiting for an inevitable end in a world encompassed by sin and death and decay; life was an eager anticipation of a liberation, a renovation and a recreation wrought by the glory and the power of God. 8:1 The Greek emphasizes the word "no.". He means that part of man which gives sin its bridgehead. January 15, 2023. . Hence it is wholly apart from the law, whilst witnessed to by the law and prophets; for the law with its types had looked onward to this new kind of righteousness; and the prophets had borne their testimony that it was at hand, but not then come. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. There. The consequences spiritually are blessed to the soul; how much more is it to Teach the source from which all flows! The past history of Israel was sketched inRomans 9:1-33; Romans 9:1-33; the present more immediately is before us inRomans 10:1-21; Romans 10:1-21. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. Then you really aren't a part of God or His kingdom. But the Bible says that if your consciousness is separated from God, that is, you don't have a real consciousness of God, that you are dead, because your consciousness is separated from God. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (ver. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. He lays down such a summary as no Jew ever gave since they were a nation. All the days of our appointed time we are waiting, till this change shall come, when he shall call, and we shall answer, and he will have a desire to the work of his hands, Job 14:14; Job 14:15. And God brought her to man and she became his wife. On both sides therefore the apostle is meeting the grand points he had at heart to demonstrate from their own Scriptures. If children, then heirs,Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17. And they watch that monitor, because if there is any life at all then the brain will start searching for oxygen, and you will see a little bit of movement. Hey, wait a minute. God has given to everything its charge; and he has not only by a distinct order commanded what he would to be done, but also implanted inwardly the hope of renovation. In biblical viewpoint, man and creation are so bound together that man's sin brought a curse on the created order. Still, it is "man" not yet exactly the Jew, but man who had profited, it might be, by whatever the Jew had; at the least, by the workings of natural conscience. My little granddaughter tonight has got an ear infection and not feeling well, and it just tears me up. He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. From what? Because. Paul is drawing a contrast between two kinds of life. Any man who lives controlled by his body needs is living as an animal and that is why the humanists today are so certain that they are related to the animal kingdom. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. People often do. 20 For . No Cause to Boast. 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