We see then that every step of Roman adoption was meaningful in the mind of Paul when he transferred the picture to our adoption into the family of God. Although many agree that God is spoken of here, Godet thought it was Adam who, through his rebellion, subjected the lower creation to the curse of God; and Hammond was quoted by him as applying the term "him". Just what do you mean?" For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor the present age, nor the age to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. That I could have that ear infection and I could somehow take her suffering and bear it for her so that she wouldn't have to suffer. All the curse and filth that now adhere to the creature shall be done away then when those that have suffered with Christ upon earth shall reign with him upon the earth. It shall then be rescued from the power of death and the grave, and the bondage of corruption; and, though a vile body, yet it shall be refined and beautified, and made like that glorious body of Christ, Philippians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 15:42. No angel, no principality, no power, nothing that has ever been before or shall ever come, things present, things to come, height, depth, any other created being will be able to separate you from God's love in Christ, because God's love for you is constant. The penalty of the past is removed and strength for his future is assured. Man had sinned deliberately; but it was involuntarily that nature was subjected. He put in everything he could think of, and yet, some poor timid soul stands there and quivers thinking God is going to forsake them now. What blindness! What fun it would be to be an heir of some wealthy person. (b) Christ is risen; therefore nothing can ever separate us from him. In other words, even though I am still living in this body I can begin to experience victory over my flesh. This designs the vanity and emptiness of the minds of the Gentiles, who were without God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain conceits they had of themselves, of their wisdom, knowledge, learning, and eloquence; likewise their vain philosophy, particularly their gross idolatry, their polytheism, or worshipping of many gods; together with their divers lusts and vices, to which they were addicted, to such a degree, that they might be truly said to be made subject thereunto, being under the government of these things, slaves unto them, and in such subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; though it is said. It is Jesus Christ who died, nay rather, who was raised from the dead, and who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Lot Of 10 Chuck Missler Bible Commentaries-CD-ROM/Mixed Media With Bonus DVD . There is laid down the most essential of all truths as a groundwork of salvation; namely, expiation. There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. It addresses moral, intellectual, social, and spiritual issues, but most importantly, it lays the theological foundation for the Christian faith: how God has made it possible through Christ for sinners to be made right before Him. Weakness In Transition (Romans 8:26-27) 11/20/11 : All Things? Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. I am not yet in my glorified state. As far as persons are concerned, there is no hindrance; Jew or Gentile makes no difference, as is expressly said, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the [passing over or praeter-mission, not] remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus" (verses 23-26). Observe again, it is not victory here; for that would give place to human pride. May we not say, it became vain willingly, but was made subject to vanity unwillingly? (ii) But there is another way to take it. They declare, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor, for You have created all things," listen carefully, "and for Your pleasure they are and were created." 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! Accordingly, in chapter 2 the Holy Spirit shows us man satisfying himself with pronouncing on what is right and wrong moralizing for others, but nothing more. Now the saints are God's hidden ones, the wheat seems lost in a heap of chaff; but then they shall be manifested. As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. more ways than one. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. (Romans 8:28) 12/04/11 : The "Ordo Salutis" (Romans 8:28-30) 12/11/11 : Sovereignty & Responsibility (Romans 8:28-30 Part 2) 12/18/11 : God is For Us! [4] Contents 1 Text "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 8:20 in all English translations. And, upon the view of both, he gives this judgment here. But a man whose spirit has come alive and who is living after the Spirit realizes that he is not related to the animal kingdom, he is related to God. It does not yet appear what we shall be (1 John 3:2), but then the glory shall be revealed. First, he raises the question, "Has God cast away his people?" When the Bible speaks of God knowing a man, it means that he has a purpose and a plan and a task for that man. Let it not be! He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. In hoping for this glory we have need of patience, to bear the sufferings we meet with in the way to it and the delays of it. There is nothing that proves this so convincingly as the book of Genesis; and the apostle, by the Spirit of God, calmly but triumphantly summons the Jewish Scriptures to demonstrate that which the Jews were so strenuously denying. If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. 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. That is, that bondage to our flesh any longer. And what is the world compared with God? 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. There. Someone may object: "You say that the Spirit-controlled man is on the way to life; but in point of fact every man must die. Don't marvel when I say to you, ye must be born again." 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. was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. Romans 12:9-18 Sundry practical duties re-commended, Romans 12:1 Commen-taries: Therefore I urge you, brethren . For years he was a sales engineer for the Southern County Gas Company, and then he went into the real estate business and was a realtor here in Santa Ana for many years. Broadly speaking, he uses it in three different ways. 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 is in Zion that He lays it. The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. H. G. Wells once said: "Man, who began in a cave behind a windbreak, will end in the disease soaked ruins of a slum." ". He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly: According to Louw and Nida, the word "vanity" (mataio/thti) means "pertaining to being useless on the basis of being futile and lacking in content" (Vol. God, I am going to do better." If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ): What I could not do for myself through the Mosaic Law, that is, have a righteous standing before God, God did for me through sending His Son in the flesh. It is so with us if we love God. He really means human nature in all its weakness and he means human in its vulnerability to sin. Here I shall be very brief. Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. Christ is come, and has changed all. I confine myself to its doctrinal import, and the full Christian sense of the word; and I maintain that salvation signifies that deliverance for the believer which is the full consequence of the mighty work of Christ, apprehended not, of course, necessarily according to all its depth in God's eyes, but at any rate applied to the soul in the power of the Holy Ghost. So I went up to spend some time with my cousin. He did nothing to deserve it; God, the great Father, in his amazing love and mercy, has taken the lost, helpless, poverty-stricken, debt-laden sinner and adopted him into his own family, so that the debts are cancelled and the glory inherited. (i) Sarx ( G4561) literally means flesh. So the mind of the flesh is death, because it is a consciousness that is separated from God and absorbed with the things of my own body and those needs. The creatures are often abused to the dishonour of their Creator, the hurt of his children, or the service of his enemies. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). For this I will defend thee before men.'" Hereupon he enters upon the direct proofs, and first cites Hosea as a witness. 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. He has justified me. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. You would never try to hide from Him again. There could be but one satisfactory answer. There was somewhat as yet lacking to the saints there; but even this was ordered of God to call forth from the Holy Ghost an epistle which more than any other approaches a complete treatise on the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and especially as to righteousness. It was a message that went out from God to sinners as such. Next, he enters upon another branch of the truth the Spirit not as a condition contrasted with flesh (these two, as we know, being always contrasted in Scripture), but as a power, a divine person that dwells in and bears His witness to the believer. But if children, we are His heirs. then, go out to Gentiles? But Paul goes on from there. It was the logos ( G3056) which kept the stars in their courses and the planets in their appointed tracks. As he breathes in the air and the air fills him, so Christ fills him. ( Romans 8:24 ). I am going to move from this tent into that new mansion, into that new building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Jesus said, "Woman, the day is coming, and now is, when they that worship God neither worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. He is the one who has the right to condemn--but so far from condemning, he is at God's right hand interceding for us, and therefore we are safe. Read Introduction to Romans 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; . The past is cancelled and its debts are wiped out; we begin a new life with God and become heirs of all his riches. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. Ep elpidi hoti kai, c.--in hope that the creature itself so many Greek copies join the words. 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 ). Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. "Behold I create new heavens and a new earth" ( Isaiah 65:17). The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. And mark the force of it whosoever." Nothing can separate you from that love of God which is in Christ Jesus. In both Old and New it is the same substantial testimony. Solid Joys. Jesus said, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Three items in Paul's statement and in the early creed are the same, that Jesus died, rose again, and is at the right hand of God. 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. It is a figurative expression. When Adam and Eve sinned (Genesis 3:1-6), God subjected all of mankind to futility (Genesis 3:14-24), that is, Adam and Eve were separated from the tree of life. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? All other solutions will fail. You know, to me it is such a simple, beautiful thing. The object of this expectation. And he gives his reason: "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith." He talks of this present age and of the glory that will be disclosed. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ). Observe, (1.) or who hath been his counsellor? It is quite clear, especially from the last instance, that Paul is not using flesh simply in the sense of the body, as we say flesh and blood. If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? The vision of God and the fruition of God make up the inheritance the saints are heirs to. . January 17, 2023. The logos ( G3056) was the reason and the mind of God in the universe, making it an order and not a chaos. We will not understand the passage at all unless we understand the way in which Paul is using these words. If I want to have a fulfilling life, a meaningful life, I must live after the Spirit. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 37a Acts 1-14* 37b Acts 15-28* John Nolland George R. Beasley-Murray Stephen J. Walton Stephen J. Walton 38a Romans 1-8 James D. G. Dunn 38b Romans 9-16 39 1 Corinthians* James D. G. Dunn Andrew D. Clarke 40 2 Corinthians, rev. Then, from ver. He means sinful human nature, apart from Christ, everything that attaches a man to the world instead of to God. I do not mean by this its truth merely, but its exquisite suitability; so that the opening address commences the theme in hand, and insinuates that particular line of truth which the Holy Spirit sees fit to pursue throughout. Now I take this opportunity of pressing on all that are here to beware of contracted views of "salvation." I groan often when I see the conditions and needs of people around me, because often I don't know how to pray. This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. Man is incomplete without God. If Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. It furnishes occasion for some interesting exhibitions of character - for hope, and faith, and love, and for increasing and progressive excellence. So if a man is controlled by his body appetites, if a man is living predominately after the flesh, then he has what is termed here the mind of the flesh. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? Any date. THESE ARE THE TIMES that try men's souls. In vain will you preach Romans 3:1-31, or even 4 alone, for souls to know themselves consciously and holily set free. Yet, he was fighting against his own spirit, his own mind. For in My Father's house there are many mansions, and I am going to prepare one for you. Heirs of God. Men are saved because they were once involved in Adam's sin but are now involved in Jesus' goodness. How I wish there was some way that I could suffer for her. But if a man does not love and trust God, he may well resent what happens to him and may well fight against God's will. Or is mindful of fleshly things, or body needs. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. Man was made for God. The fruits of it are not expanded here; but, in point of fact, to joy in God is necessarily that which makes praise and adoration to be the simple and spontaneous exercise of the heart. (a) It is not only the word for Spirit; it is also the word for wind. And this leads the apostle into the moral history of man the proof both of his inexcusable guilt, and of his extreme need of redemption. Man can never be satisfied until he is in union with God. But the spirit's groaning has a purpose within my life, as the Spirit helps my other weaknesses. And, of course, the tent blew over and it had holes in it. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" This the gospel is filled with the assurances of. He has declared me innocent of all charges. In adoption a person had to pass from one patria potestas to another. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. Scripture Romans 8 Sort Bible Verse. Their own Scriptures maintained, as nothing else could, that all the wretchedness which is now found in the world, and the condemnation which hangs over the race, is the fruit of one man, and indeed of one act. But in the days between the Testaments, when the Jews were oppressed and enslaved and persecuted, they dreamed their dreams of that new earth and that renovated world. and to their lusts; for he seems to be designed, "by him who hath For all who are guided by the Spirit of God, these, and only these, are the children of God. They were inclined to vanity, i.e. He concludes the sufferings not worthy to be compared with the glory--ouk axia pros ten doxan. 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. 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? 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. Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. Hence he infers (v. 8), Those that are in the flesh cannot please God. What the law says, it speaks to those under it. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. Paul speaks of things present and things to come. To the limits of the holy land? Romans 8:20English Standard Version. Into this world came Jesus; with a completely human nature; and he brought to God a life of perfect obedience, of perfect fulfilment of God's law. 1 Corinthians 2. I don't see how in this case." But this may be comparatively a light question. It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. Romans 1 Romans 1:1-17 Are You a Saint! Lot Chuck Missler 6CD and Books (Romans, Acts, Luke, John) Notes. The spirit is groaning, waiting for that perfect work of God. It is not a question of creature-standing. As a parent you would gladly take the place of your child and suffer for them. Man in this world is a body and a spirit; and in the world of glory the total man will be saved. (iv) In the eyes of the law he was absolutely the son of his new father. Those who live according to the dictates of the Spirit are absorbed in the things of the Spirit. Am I lead by the Spirit of God? Hence therefore, the apostle, with divine wisdom, opens this to us before the blessed relief and deliverance which the gospel reveals to us. If the first book in the Bible showed that it was only the call of God that made Israel what they were, its second book as clearly proved that all was over with the called people, had it not been for the mercy of God. 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. That is what he is talking about, the manifestation of the sons of God, when I have a redeemed body. What do I understand? Thus it is a mistake to suppose that saints may not be benefited by a better understanding of the gospel, at least as Paul preached it. I was hanging on to a part of the ship for a night and a day out in the middle of the Mediterranean." Morning Prayer Sermonette. . Christians are subjected to this state to do good to their fellow sinners. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. (a) He died. It is no longer blood, but death Christ's death and resurrection. More than once Paul speaks of these angels ( Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:10; Colossians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 15:24). Those that are in a carnal unregenerate state, under the reigning power of sin, cannot do the things that please God, wanting grace, the pleasing principle, and an interest in Christ, the pleasing Mediator. He talks about living according to the flesh ( Romans 8:12). The believer, whosoever he might be, should not be ashamed. Groanings Too Deep for Words (Romans 8:26-28) 1. He will establish that word unto his servants on which he has caused them to hope (Psalms 119:49), and heaven is therefore sweet; for, if hope deferred makes the heart sick, surely when the desire comes it will be a tree of life, Proverbs 13:12. Latest Posts. In their rising and their setting they are powerless to separate you from God's love. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 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. Thus, having shown the Gentile in Romans 1:1-32 manifestly wrong, and hopelessly degraded to the last degree having laid bare the moral dilettantism of the philosophers, not one whit better in the sight of God, but rather the reverse having shown the Jew overwhelmed by the condemnation of the divine oracles in which he chiefly boasted, without real righteousness, and so much the more guilty for his special privileges, all now lies clear for bringing in the proper Christian message, the. All the creatures desire their own perfection and consummation; when they are made instruments of sin it is not willingly. . Now he observes an expectation of this glory. He shall come to Zion, says the other. Verses 20, 21. 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. Observe, At the second coming of Christ there will be a manifestation of the children of God. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. More or less, the Christian is brought under this influence; his joys are marred; his peace is discomposed; his affections wander; his life is a life of vanity and vexation. "God, next week, I promise. It was Paul's picture that when a man became a Christian he entered into the very family of God. Now the Rabbis--and Paul had once been a Rabbi--believed that they were grudgingly hostile to men. Nothing can be more simple and essential. Through the new birth there is an inversion, and man becomes then spirit, soul, and body. When believers prayers are unable to express their deepest thoughts and feelings, the indwelling Spirit pleads to God on their behalf. 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. Corruption (phthora) is applied to the physical body in 1 Corinthians 15:42. That the creature, that is now thus burdened, shall, at the time of the restitution of all things, be delivered from this bondage into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:21; Romans 8:21)-- they shall no more be subject to vanity and corruption, and the other fruits of the curse; but, on the contrary, this lower world shall be renewed: when there will be new heavens there will be a new earth (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1); and there shall be a glory conferred upon all the creatures, which shall be (in the proportion of their natures) as suitable and as great an advancement as the glory of the children of God shall be to them. Tempted or not, it was Adam's free will that consented to the deed that plunged all of his posterity into ruin. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." TEXTUAL SOURCE: JOEL 2:18-32; JOHN 10:10; 14:1-4; ACTS 2:37-47; 4:1-31; ROMANS 5:21; 6:22 Glory and honour be unto our God for the blessings of the previous lesson, where God specifically exposed to us some revival killers, and also showed to us ways . In our present state we come short, not only in the enjoyment, but in the knowledge of that glory (1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 John 3:2): it shall be revealed. Just as Abraham was so loyal to God that he was prepared to sacrifice his dearest possession, God is so loyal to men that he is prepared to sacrifice his only Son for them. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. 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. The gospel goes forth universally. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). Series: Colossians: Supreme!Title: "How To Build Your Family to Thrive During Chaotic Times"Scripture: Colossians 3:18-25, Ephesians 5:21-6:9, Matthew 7:24-27; 1 Cor 6:19-20; Romans 6:17-18(Commentary helps listed at the end)Last week's Bottom line: We exchange the gross life for the good life when we embrace God's peace and God's word as God's peoplewith thanksgiving.Bottom . Now as I have told you, you are not going to always understand your circumstances. It was the logos ( G3056) which put sense into the world. God, creation, and man all felt the dramatic effects of sin when the beautiful harmony in the world ended. 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