The saints are spiritual priests, that have the Lord for their inheritance, Numbers 18:20. We are told concerning Jesus, "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross despising the shame" ( Hebrews 12:2 ). the glorious truth is this: God is for you tonight. 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. Three times the symbolism of sale was carried out. If you only knew that God's love for you is broader than the universe, and God's desires for you are only for your good, and it is foolish to run from God. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. If he was called, so were they he an apostle, they not apostles but saints; but still, for them as for him, all flowed out of the same mighty love, of God. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. To put it in another way, the Stoic believed that nothing could happen to a man which did not come from God and which was not part of God's plan for him. 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. Tempted or not, it was Adam's free will that consented to the deed that plunged all of his posterity into ruin. Paul is saying that, because of our weakness, we do not know what to pray for, but the prayers we ought to offer are offered for us by the Holy Spirit. Read full chapter. The contrast of Christ with Adam takes in man universally as well as the Christian; and man in sin, alas! Accordingly, in the end of the chapter, he shows that this is most true as applied to the moral judgment of the Jew; that uone so much dishonoured God as wicked Jews, their own Scripture attesting it; that position went for nothing in such, while the lack of it would not annul the Gentile's righteousness, which would indeed condemn the more unfaithful Israel; in short, that one must be a Jew inwardly to avail, and circumcision be of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is of God, and not of men. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? 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? God is a Spirit, so the place I meet God is the place of the spirit. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" $135.00 + $4.16 shipping . We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. 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? Man is incomplete without God. And when you come against that which you can't understand, it is important that you have certain foundations that you do understand and you fall back on the foundations. Shall trial, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? There were four main ones. It is our having received the first-fruits of the Spirit, which both quickens our desires and encourages our hopes, and both ways raises our expectations. At the moment creation is in bondage to decay. That is Paul's argument, and, to him and to those who heard it, it was completely convincing, however hard it is for us to grasp it. Faith is the evidence, hope the expectation, of things not seen. (ver. Will usually post within 20 business days of receiving cleared payment. But if it were so, He had not done with them. As David said, "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what man can do to me." 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. So that when some big deal would fall out of escrow he would just look at that little plaque, "all things are working together for good." 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. Alas! And what is the world compared with God? It comes to fleshly men and speaks to them as fleshly men. The past is cancelled and its debts are wiped out; we begin a new life with God and become heirs of all his riches. subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; When we pray in tongues, we give the Holy Spirit freedom to help us pray. For the creature [that is, man] was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope ( Romans 8:20 ); When God created man He created him incomplete . The remnant proves, then, that even under judgment the rejection of Israel is not complete, but rather a pledge of future favour. Before the cross there hung out the gravest question that ever was raised, and it needed settlement in this world; but in Christ sin is for ever abolished for the believer; and this not only in respect of what He has done, but in what He is. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. And I have been born again by the Spirit of God. The meaning is not what was executed on Christ, but what is in virtue. 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. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. Here I shall be very brief. . He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. He is, of course, the same absolutely perfect and unchangeable God of goodness; but His perfection has displayed itself in new and more glorious ways in Christ's death, in Him who humbled Himself, and was obedient even to the death of the cross. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. This is a very difficult passage because it is so highly compressed, and because, all through it, Paul is making allusions to things which he has already said. oh, man. And we know well that this does not take freewill away. 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. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. 2. 20.For to vanity has the creation, etc. The downfall of man, when he thus abandoned God, was most rapid and profound; and the Holy Spirit traces this solemnly to the end ofRomans 1:1-32; Romans 1:1-32 with no needless words, in a few energetic strokes summing up that which is abundantly confirmed (but in how different a manner!) I will read the Bible every day. The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which baffle speech to utter; but he who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because it is by God's will that he intercedes for those whose lives are consecrated to God. When he is talking of the Christians, he talks of the days when we were in the flesh (en ( G1722) sarki, G4561) ( Romans 7:5). 9. 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. Romans 16. 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? We heard the story of this wondrous love. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. He has no mind of his own; Christ is his mind. It's transient. But if Christ is in you, even if because of sin your body is mortal, your Spirit has life through righteousness. Gingrich and Danker (p. 858) say slavery of decay. Only one thing can help mankind: Jesus and His word! 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. Thus the right of the adopted person was guaranteed and he entered into his inheritance. 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. Because they were sons of Abraham. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. No, for in all of these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us ( Romans 8:37 ). It is no longer blood, but death Christ's death and resurrection. Not only is God's righteousness revealed, but also His wrath. Children will dream. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. Christians are subjected to this state to do good to their fellow sinners. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. 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. Though they were willingly vain, yet they were not willingly made subject to vanity; they willingly went into idolatrous and other evil practices, but the devil made them subject, or slaves unto them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, and to their lusts; for he seems to be designed, "by him who hath subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the world. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. 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. he died for me, yea rather, is risen again, in fact he is at the right hand of the Father, interceding for me ( Romans 8:34 ). No Condemnation in Christ Jesus. The trees shall, yield their proper fruits, and rich flocks, and kine, and lambs, of sheep and kids of goats. God help us to comprehend what is the length, the breadth, the depth, the height, and to know that love of Christ that God has for us in Him.Father, we thank You for Your Word and for the glorious blessings and hope and strength and comfort that is ours tonight because of Your Word. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. gospel of God. What gives glory to God like this? Neither life nor death can separate us from Christ. If anyone does not possess the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to Christ. " " /Origen Commentaries on Romans 5:9 A.D. 248) There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? They thought I was dead. Under that curse, all creation groans: the ground was cursed for Adam's sake, thorns and thistles and noxious weeds began to grow, all of Eve's daughters have labored painfully in childbirth, and death entered the world ( Genesis 3:14-19 ). Was it possible to limit this to Israel? John Locke insisted that Adam's disobedience was not of his own will, since it occurred "not through his own choice, but by the guile of the devil. Here, then, it is a comparison of the two great heads Adam and Christ, and the immeasurable superiority of the second man is shown. already. 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. And here it may be repeated that it is no question of pardoning the sinner, but of condemning the fallen nature; and this so as to give the soul both power and a righteous immunity from all internal anguish about it. This is the point in verse 21. For with his mind in his heart he wanted to serve the law of God, but as Jesus said concerning Peter, "The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak" ( Matthew 26:41 ). "Not that I would be unclothed or an unembodied creature, but that I might be clothed upon with the body which is from heaven. 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. At the same time the apostle does allude to that mystery which was not yet divulged at least, in this epistle; but he points from the foundations of eternal truth to those heavenly heights that were reserved for other communications in due time. He talks of this present age and of the glory that will be disclosed. The grounds of this expectation in the saints. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. more ways than one. Let the heavens rejoice before the Lord, for he cometh. The flesh is the lower side of man's nature. 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. Our present sufferings and future glory 8:18-25, Paul proceeded to expound on the thought that he introduced at the end of Romans 8:17. In the most solemn way he appeals to man with the demand, whether he thinks that God will look complacently on that which barely judges another, but which allows the practice of evil in the man himself (Romans 2:1-3). In adoption a person had to pass from one patria potestas to another. There is mutual confirmation. 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. Or, They are thus captivated, not for any sin of their own, which they had committed, but for man's sin: By reason of him who hath subjected the same. The creatures are often abused to the dishonour of their Creator, the hurt of his children, or the service of his enemies. 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. Thank You, Lord. Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. 8:1-4 There is, therefore, now no condemnation against those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:20, KJV: For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Then the domains of flesh and Spirit are brought before us: the one characterized by sin and death practically now; the other by life, righteousness, and peace, which is, as we saw, to be crowned finally by the resurrection of these bodies of ours. 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 . From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. No sooner has Paul said this than an inevitable objection strikes him. In the creatures Romans 8:19-22; Romans 8:19-22. It was as if they did not want to share God with anyone and had grudged man his share in him. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. This is called the adoption. the creation was subjected [by God] to futility [emphaticdevoid of good results], . And this is the state of the natural man apart from Jesus Christ. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. One such casualty of Paul's oversight was the stoning of . As a parent you would gladly take the place of your child and suffer for them. This word has a very definite Old Testament background. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. At the same time he connects, in a singularly interesting manner, this disclosure of the principles of the eternal judgment of God with what he calls "my gospel." 8, after thanking God through Jesus for their faith spoken of everywhere, and telling them of his prayers for them, he briefly discloses the desire of his heart about them his long-cherished hope according to the grace of the gospel to reach Rome his confidence in the love of God that through him some spiritual gift would be imparted to them, that they might be established, and, according to the spirit of grace which filled his own heart, that he too might be comforted together with them "by the mutual faith both of you and me" (vv. The first is Moses himself. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Well, again, Satan condemns, people condemn, and I condemn myself. We were able to sit not on those hard metal chairs and not walk on the black asphalt, and not have to be subjected to that loud noise of those blowing heaters and smell the kerosene, but we were able to sit here in the upholstered pews, walk on the carpet, and enjoy the comforts of this more permanent home.Now there is a likening, but it falls short, because that house that God has for me in heaven is eternal. This God has wrought in Christ. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Why should this be so strange and incredible to you? God loves me good or bad. 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. (verses 22-32.) It may be passion-controlled, or lust-controlled, or pride-controlled, or ambition-controlled. Thou shalt not desire thy neighbor's wife or anything that belongs to your neighbor, and he had realized that he had violated that. (3) Their lot in life; their being subjected to this state of vanity, is the arrangement of God. In biblical viewpoint, man and creation are so bound together that man's sin brought a curse on the created order. He says that Jesus is the son of David kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) ( Romans 1:3), that is to say, on the human side of his descent. subjected -- The word subject to means placed in such a state; subjected to it by the appointment of another, as a soldier has his rank and place assigned him in an army. May we not say, it became vain willingly, but was made subject to vanity unwillingly? What was it? He was "declared," says the apostle, "to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" ( , ver. 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 ). Scripture Romans 8 Sort Bible Verse. 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. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. This also is a most important truth, my brethren, to bear in mind. same in I. What we need freed from is bondage and corruption. Bondage (douleia) has been defined as held fast in a yoke of slavery (Gingrich and Danker, p. 205). And where? The righteousness of God is revealed from faith; and consequently, if there be faith in any soul, to this it is revealed, to faith wherever it may be. 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. (ii) But there is another way to take it. There are two things that might make insuperable difficulty: the one is the obstacle of sin in the nature to practical holiness; the other is the provocation and condemnation of the law. Satan is a finite created being. But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? THE TWO PRINCIPLES OF LIFE ( Romans 8:5-11 ). Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. He is body, mind, and spirit. I am groaning. Those that suffered with David in his persecuted state were advanced by him and with him when he came to the crown; see 2 Timothy 2:12. We will not understand the passage at all unless we understand the way in which Paul is using these words. 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. ", Not of its own will is understood by some commentators as meaning "not due to any act of its own"; but that interpretation confuses the reason of the subjection with the execution of the deserved punishment of man's rebellion. To cement the alliance Nero wished to marry her. In other words, even though I am still living in this body I can begin to experience victory over my flesh. Thus the subjection was "not of its own will.". Week after week I would promise God that I was going to do better next week. Romans 8:20-23 New International Version 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[ a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. My life is being ruled by the spirit, thus I am being led by the Spirit and in that I have then this joined together with God in the spirit as His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit. When the EEG reads flat for twenty-four hours they say, "Well, there is no brain movement or brain activity at all, lets pull the plug and see if anything happens on the monitor." Just as the sun in the heavens is not for one people or land alone, no more is the gospel. Paul speaks of things present and things to come. He was regarded as a new person entering into a new life with which the past had nothing to do. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. The application of this was more evident to the Gentile than to the Jew. There are passages that refer to Gods eyes and fingers (see Job 38:7 for an example). Romans 8:18b Romans 8:20 2 Comments 7). 5:1-11 Suffering with assurance of future glory 5:12-21 The basis for assurance in the work of Christ 6:1-23 Slavery to sin 7:1-25 The weakness of law Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. It surpasses all that we have yet seen and known: present vouchsafements are sweet and precious, very precious, very sweet; but there is something to come, something behind the curtain, that will outshine all. Shall be revealed in us; not only revealed to us, to be seen, but revealed in us, to be enjoyed. We did not achieve that; all is of God. He may be opposite to Michael or to Gabriel, but never to God. But God will no more accept the works of your flesh than He would Cain's, who sought to offer to God the works of his flesh and was rejected by God. There never can be solid peace with God without both. Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. 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. Romans 8:20. Oh, how grateful we are for that love of God for us tonight in Christ Jesus. It is not meant that Paul knew nothing of this; but that the ground of inference, and the general theory built up, are alike mistaken. It is God Himself who, infinitely glorified in the Lord that expiated our sins by His one sacrifice, remits them now, not looking for our victory, nor as yet even in leading us on to victory, but by faith in Jesus and His blood. He is dead." Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. Hence, therefore, it was in no way limited to any particular nation, such as those that had already been under the law and government of God. The subject terminates with the grand truth which must never be obscured by details that we are to receive, one another, as Christ has received us, to the glory of God. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. But they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Now when we get to the book of Revelation, chapter 4, and God is there upon the throne, surrounded by the twenty-four lesser thrones of the elders and those cherubim, those angelic beings are worshipping the eternal God, the Creator, and are saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which is, which was, and which is to come" and the elders fall on their faces, taking their golden crowns and casting them before the glassy sea, before the throne of God. Verse 20 appears to describe the fall of Adam and Eve. 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). It was the logos ( G3056) which put sense into the world. Christianity is not a system of promise, but rather of promise accomplished in Christ. And in the area of the spirit and God's Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit that I am a son of God.Thus, I am united with God and joined with God and I have fellowship with God in the realm of the spirit, only when the spirit is uppermost. God judged not only man but creation . In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). Nor does this in the slightest degree weaken the principle of law. (a) It is God who acquits men--that is the statement. On the contrary, the doctrine of faith establishes law as nothing else can; and for this simple reason, that if one who is guilty hopes to be saved spite of the broken law, it must be at the expense of the law that condemns his guilt; whereas the gospel shows no sparing of sin, but the most complete condemnation of it all, as charged on Him who shed His blood in atonement. It is not a question of creature-standing. Hence the depravity of the heathen found little or no cheek from conscience, because it was bound up with all that took the shape of God before their mind. Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake. For all things work together for good to those who love God, and are the called according to His purpose.My father was a salesman. Christ indeed did both; and so the word was nigh them, in their mouth and in their heart. Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. In different people that life will be differently described. the Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. 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. That would aspire to perfect holiness and peace. Hence, as is shown later in the chapter, Adam is a head characterized by disobedience, who brought in death, the just penalty of sin; as on the other hand we have Him of whom he was the type, Christ, the obedient man, who has brought in righteousness, and this after a singularly blessed sort and style "justification of life." ", No age in time can separate us from Christ. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope. We are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. The reproach of Christ appears riches to those who have respect to the recompence of reward, Hebrews 11:26. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:23 ). 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