The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? But then Paul goes on to declare to the saints of God. All Videos Images Commentaries Devotionals Sermons Other Translations Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. 7). Weakness In Transition (Romans 8:26-27) 11/20/11 : All Things? Then comes a great saying. For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now ( Romans 8:22 ). Much of this hope is found in the word delivered (eleutheroo), a word used in secular Greek to describe the freeing of slaves. Never think of him opposite of God. Proof that this view is right is found in 20b where Paul said, not of its own will. This is another example of personifying nature (human emotions are applied to inanimate objects). But did this satisfy the apostle? It is not only a blessing in its own direct character, or in indirect though real effects, but the Giver Himself is our joy, and boast, and glory. Hope has reference to the future; and in this state of the Christian, he sighs for deliverance, and expects it. As for the impotency of the law, that weakness of the law which resulted from the effects of our sinful human nature--God sent his own Son as a sin offering with that very same human nature which in us had sinned; and thereby, while he existed in the same human nature as we have, he condemned sin, so that as a result the righteous demand of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live our lives not after the principle of sinful human nature, but after the principle of the Spirit. For, essentially associated as He is with the glory of God the Father, the full deliverance of souls from the realm of death was His also. The disasters of the world do not separate a man from Christ; they bring him closer yet. 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. But if we hope for what we do not see, then in patience we eagerly wait for it. The kingdom of God is within you, and will be so to eternity. Zechariah 4:10. . Romans 8:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. He says to his Christian friends, "You are not in the flesh" ( Romans 8:9). In life we live with Christ; in death we die with him; and because we die with him, we also rise with him. How we appreciate this marvelous position that we have in Christ Jesus where nothing can separate us from Your love. As it stands written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter." I mean the redemption of our body. He now, by a kind of personification, ascribes hope to them, as he did will before. The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God ( Romans 8:16 ): God is a superior trinity: Father, Son, and the Spirit. Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. but I have received the Spirit [of sonship,] adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father ( Romans 8:15 ). Pleasing God is our highest end, of which those that are in the flesh cannot but fall short; they cannot please him, nay, they cannot but displease him. Yet, he was fighting against his own spirit, his own mind. Rome was the center of civilization at the time of Paul's epistle. The condition of the Roman saints called for a setting forth of the gospel of God; but this object, in order to be rightly understood and appreciated, leads the apostle into a display of the condition of man. 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. We have reason to pity the poor creatures that for our sin have become subject to vanity. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). 8:5-8 6 7 8 But there is much more in Christ than that to which too many souls restrict themselves, not less to their own loss than to His dishonour. Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). Within he must battle with his own evil human nature; without he must live in a world of death and decay. The apostle's concern that his countrymen were strangers to the gospel. Now God must have reality in the man himself. It was the boast of the Jews that the law spoke about them; that the Gentiles had no right to it, and were but presuming on what belonged to God's chosen people. This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. He will cause sweet fountains of, white milk to burst forth. "God, next week, I promise. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. But there is one who isn't making any charges against me, and that is God. So God elected me. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. The Emperor Claudius adopted Nero in order that he might succeed him on the throne; they were not in any sense blood relations. The state of the church in this world always is, but was then especially, an afflicted state; to be a Christian was certainly to be a sufferer. It was human nature in all its sin and weakness; it was all that man is without God and without Christ. "Let's make a woman in order that man might be complete." There would be found a stumblingstone there. 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. Romans 8:18b Romans 8:20 2 Comments Heirs of God. All the world was guilty before God. But if I am being led by my flesh, dominated by my flesh, then I am only fooling myself if I say I am a son of God. And so I rest in the fact that God has already spoken in the past tense of my future state of glorified together with Jesus Christ. . God doesn't love me when I am good and hate me when I am bad. 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. Therefore, it is constant and it remains. For the creature was made subject to vanity The Gentile world were subject to vanity of mind; but how? Today we're going to be studying Romans 7:1-6 and its overall message/theme. He is interceding in your behalf. Has God then no delivering power from this? This is that which we expect, in hope of which our flesh rests, Psalms 16:9; Psalms 16:10. The Bible tells me so. There are two very obvious reasons why we cannot pray as we ought. as I am often faced with situations that I can't understand. I am not yet in my glorified state. As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. What shall we say then to these things? Wouldst thou have me hold office or eschew it, stay or flee, be rich or poor? I really don't know what God is doing in his life, but I know John needs prayer. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Salem Media Group. The discovery is made that the source of the internal misery was that the mind, though renewed, was occupied with the law as a means of dealing with, flesh. So he said that his problem was that the law was spiritual and he was carnal. Faith is the evidence, hope the expectation, of things not seen. Nothing less, I am persuaded, than this full blessing is the line that God has given to those who have followed Christ without the camp, and who, having been set free from the contracted ways of men, desire to enter into the largeness and at the same time the profound wisdom of every word of God. We are often so hard on ourselves and are in the position of condemning ourselves, but I can tell you one who is not condemning. higher, if so high, in this epistle. We have Paul informing us that he transfers sometimes in a figure to himself that which was in no wise necessarily his own experience, and perhaps had not been so at any time. Now, unfortunately, there are those radical groups that take a verse like this and a phrase "manifestation of the sons of God" and they use it to build a whole pernicious doctrine. 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 ). was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. That there is a present vanity to which the creature, by reason of the sin of man, is made subject, Romans 8:20; Romans 8:20. The Gentiles the despised heathen were to be brought in; the self-satisfied Jews are left behind, justly and beyond question, if they believed the law and the prophets. His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. He was regarded as a new person entering into a new life with which the past had nothing to do. Those that now partake of the Spirit of Christ, as his brethren, shall, as his brethren, partake of his glory (John 17:24), shall sit down with him upon his throne, Revelation 3:21. To move out of them. Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . "Earth, the universal mother, shall give to mortals her best, fruit in countless store of corn, wine and oil. I understand that God is in control of all of the circumstances that surround my life. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. But the thing that amazes me is that foreknowing me He predestined that I should be one of His children, that is the thing that amazes me most. 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? Last, nothing will ever be able to separate us from God's love for us in Christ. Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. And this leads us to see not only where there was an analogy with those who believe in a promised Saviour, but also to a weighty difference. God loves me good or bad. Scripture Romans 8 Sort Bible Verse. God did it judicially; he passed a sentence upon the creatures for the sin of man, by which they became subject. 9. He knew that by no possible human effort can a man justify himself; and he also knew that by no possible effort of the human intelligence can a man know for what to pray. The past is cancelled and its debts are wiped out; we begin a new life with God and become heirs of all his riches. How I hurt to see my children suffer. Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. Here is a vision to take away all loneliness and all fear. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. Well, Satan does. (a) God has acquitted us; therefore no one can condemn us. And you are going through the hospital and emptying them all, and the whole world is just waiting for you to be manifested and so the idea is to, "Let's just sit and get perfected and get the church perfected so that God can manifest Himself in the perfected church," and this is in reality the second coming of Jesus Christ. Not only man, but all of creation is groaning under the curse of sin. "Not so," replies the apostle. For God did not intend for man to live after the flesh and be a slave to his flesh, but God intended that man should live and walk after the Spirit.You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if the Spirit of God is dwelling in you. Not only they--not only the creatures which are not capable of such a happiness as the first-fruits of the Spirit, but even we, who have such present rich receivings, cannot but long for something more and greater. And he feels the close affinity to it, because the baboon is living just like he lives. This is the essential point. C. H. Dodd puts it in this way. From the first verse we have the application of the dead and risen Christ to the soul, till in verse 11 we see the power of the Holy Ghost, which brings the soul into this liberty now, applied by-and-by to the body, when there will be the complete deliverance. Therefore, the keynote of the Christian life is always hope and never despair. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. And if I go and prepare one for you, then I am going to come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am there you may be also" ( John 14:2-3 ). (ii) There is the word Spirit; in Romans 8:1-39 it occurs no fewer than twenty times. Lot Of 10 Chuck Missler Bible Commentaries-CD-ROM/Mixed Media With Bonus DVD . Because we possess the capacity to sin, when it is coupled with the determination to resist temptation to sin, the resultant effort becomes a spiritual exercise.Like a man training with dumbbells, the repeated resistance builds strength over time. Those whose life is a purely worldly thing cannot please God; but you are not dominated by the pursuits which fascinate our sinful human nature; you are dominated by the Spirit, if so it be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. He says that the mind of the flesh is death, and that it is hostile to God ( Romans 8:6; Romans 8:8). But there is another side to this picture. That is what Paul is thinking of here. 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 writing to the Corinthians, the second epistle, chapter 5, Paul said, "For we know when this earthly tent, our body, is dissolved, that we then have a building of God that is not made with hands that is eternal in the heavens. My little granddaughter tonight has got an ear infection and not feeling well, and it just tears me up. You really don't belong to Him, unless you have had that second birth, the spiritual birth, which we term born again. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. Their present state is a state of education and preparation for the inheritance. Love woke within our hearts; the conviction of sin came, and with it came the experience of forgiveness and of salvation. instructive and interesting manner the links that grace practically forms and maintains between the saints of God. The word is therefore appropriately used of the disappointing character of present existence, which nowhere reaches the perfection of which it is capable (208). This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God ( Romans 8:14 ). 3. I was constantly feeling condemnation. Other than these references, the term can only be found in John 8:32; John 8:36 where Jesus spoke of freeing people through truth as well as Himself. Did this seem to treat the law that condemned as an evil thing? God, creation, and man all felt the dramatic effects of sin when the beautiful harmony in the world ended. The wrath of God could not possibly be glad tidings. For the law which comes from the Spirit and leads to life has in Christ Jesus set me free from the law which begets sin and leads to death. The apostle is therefore plainly in presence of the broadest possible grounds of comparison, though we shall find more too. As the reward of the saints' present sufferings; and it is a rich reward: If so be that we suffer with him (Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17), or forasmuch as we suffer with him. But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? There is mutual confirmation. Of the Jew by his own confession. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). He is not complete. The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? So Paul says in this passage that there was a time when the Christian was at the mercy of his own sinful human nature. Through the new birth there is an inversion, and man becomes then spirit, soul, and body. There could be but one satisfactory answer. And a lot of times you even put a great deal in escrow. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. (a) He uses it quite literally. Let man be what he might, or where he might, God's good news was for man. So what the law could not do because of my weakness in the flesh, that is because I violated it. Here, then, it is a comparison of the two great heads Adam and Christ, and the immeasurable superiority of the second man is shown. Paul speaks about height and depth. We will not understand the passage at all unless we understand the way in which Paul is using these words. 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