Alas! He doesn't keep a record of my mistakes, my sins, my failures. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. For you did not receive a state whose dominating condition is slavery so that you might relapse into fear; but you received a state whose dominating characteristic is adoption, in which we cry, "Abba! Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. Who is he that condemneth? Romans 1:1-32. I don't have to live as a subject to my flesh anymore. But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 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. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). If God is for us, who is against us? On the contrary, it was the Jew provoked by the Gentiles "By them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you." The faith of Christ has brought divine joy into his soul; but, in point of fact, he is traversing a world of infirmity, suffering, and grief. Romans 8:20, ESV: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. Paul speaks of things present and things to come. For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God ( Romans 8:19 ). Don't marvel when I say to you, ye must be born again." Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. The figure of the relationship of husband and wife is introduced in order to make the matter plain. . Now, God, you interpret that." Paul seems to say: "Think of the greatest human example in the world of a man's loyalty to God; God's loyalty to you is like that." The fire at the last day shall be a refining, not a destroying annihilating fire. That which Christ inherits, we also inherit. Why would they not allow such a pretension? This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. God loves you. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. 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. Future glory involves far more than just believers. Not willingly, etc. God pronounces against the unrighteousness of such; for if the knowledge, however exact, of God's revealed mind was accompanied by no renewal of the heart, if it was without life towards God, all must be vain. They weren't quite sure though. "We are saved by hope." Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. A man may go to a physician, and be prescribed a course of treatment which at the time is unpleasant or even painful; but if he trusts the wisdom of the man of skill, he accepts the thing that is laid upon him. was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God ( Romans 8:7-8 ). I can begin to live in victory over the flesh, because of that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, it makes me alive in Him. Most things do work together for good to those that love God. idolatry, WILLINGLY; but they were subjected to vanity UNWILLINGLY; for this proceeded from the just indignation and vengeance of God. From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. but contrary to it. 8:18-25 For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present age cannot be compared with the glory which is destined to be disclosed to us. But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual, then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death because, though he had physically kept the law, spiritually he had violated it. He had reasoned the case within himself, weighed the arguments on both sides, and thus at last resolves the point. They would not hear of it. 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 ). 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. ENTRY INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD ( Romans 8:12-17 ). So Paul, thinking in terms of his own day, says, "Not even the grudging, jealous angels can separate us from the love of God, much as they would like to do so. How glorious it is to be an heir of God, joint-heir with Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God has become mine. 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. God did it judicially; he passed a sentence upon the creatures for the sin of man, by which they became subject. 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". Subject to vanity - 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. As the accomplishment of the saints' present hopes and expectations, Romans 8:19; Romans 8:19, c. As the saints are suffering for it, so they are waiting for it. Verse Romans 8:28 : "And we know that most things work together for good to them that love God." Of these only a remnant would be saved. 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. The saints are heirs though in this world they are heirs under age; see Galatians 4:1; Galatians 4:2. Has God then no delivering power from this? Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." In the other scale he puts the glory, and finds that a weight, an exceeding and eternal weight: Glory that shall be revealed. In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. ed. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. My love for Him, my desires to please and serve Him. He has had it with me." Fasten your seatbelts as we take off.In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. All devotionals for romans-8:19-21 free on BiblePortal.com. There was a most important trial of man in the person of Adam; but after this, what dispensation was there? 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. And it is well for those ignorant of it to know that here, in verse 4, the apostle speaks first of "walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." I groan often when I see the conditions of the world around me. 8:5-11 Those who live according to the dictates of sinful human nature are absorbed in worldly human things. He is Spirit-controlled, Christ-controlled, God-focused. 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). I was constantly feeling condemnation. Whenever you think of a tent you don't think of a permanent place to live. Was he not himself, says Paul, a proof to the contrary? 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. It's transient. 8:5-8 6 7 8 Consequently the door is as open to the Gentile as to the Jew. At the moment creation is in bondage to decay. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. But this does not content the apostle, or rather the Spirit of God; for he goes on to point out that Isaiah "is very bold" in a similar way; that is, there is no concealing the truth of the matter. 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. But he introduces all parts of the world, by a sort of personification, as being endued with reason; and he does this in order to shame our stupidity, when the uncertain fluctuation of this world, which we see, does not raise our minds to higher things. Never think of him opposite of God. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. 15:20-22 9:6-8 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." But I always do not know what God's will is and therein is where the Spirit steps in and helps me, and He will make intercession for me with groanings which cannot be uttered.Have you ever groaned in the Spirit? For you do not yet see the glorified Chuck. Apologizing, repenting for my failure of the past week. Sep 9, 2001. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. God, creation, and man all felt the dramatic effects of sin when the beautiful harmony in the world ended. It is to be carefully noted that when Paul thinks of the kind of life that a man dominated by the sarx ( G4561) lives he is not by any means thinking exclusively of sexual and bodily sins. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. New International Version (NIV) 8 braids hairstyles boys 3. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. 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. 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." When it rains, it is starting to leak. Because (or, that; i.e. It is not a matter of choice. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. What could be conceived closer or more even than this? If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. (6-13) Answers to objections against God's sovereign conduct, in exercising mercy and justice. No man can tell. Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Volume 2: Romans 5:1--8:39 by Channing L. Cri . He speaks of physical circumcision, literally "in the flesh" ( Romans 2:28). There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; the sin of the Jews, in crucifying Christ, set the earth a quaking under them. He could reckon not by art only, but by experience; for he knew both. Now it was manifested, and not promised or predicted merely. That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. When God created Adam, God said, "It is not good that man should live alone." I don't see how in this case." All the effects of sin will be removed, and believers will be raised from the dead in imperishable spiritual bodies suited to life in the coming age (23; cf. This concern that God has for his people involves everything. Paul is only a servanta person under orderssomeone who does what he is told. subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the 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. by all that remains of the ancient world. But we have to note that that experience comes only to those who love God. 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 Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." To Paul life was not a weary, defeated waiting; it was a throbbing, vivid expectation. Formerly called Saul, he began as a notorious persecutor of Christians. That is why creation waits for this event with eager longing. (ii) In Romans 8:38-39 Paul makes a list of terrible things. I have not always done for God the things that I would do for God. Proud as you may be of that which distinguishes you, it is hard to make sin and death peculiar to you, nor can you connect them even with the law particularly: the race of man is in question, and not Israel alone. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. As Jesus said, "Not my will, but thy will be done," and that is always the real thrust of prayer. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. Because, though my spirit was indeed willing, my flesh was weak. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. Or the spirit and mind now being dominated by the spirit which is in control, and the body down here where God intended it to be, no longer controlling, no longer ruling, no longer exercising its hold over me. But oh, I am going to have an eternal weight of glory. It was so exciting reading every night. There may be inestimable advantages, all of which we may not see, in subjecting the Christian to a process of training in overcoming his sins, and in producing confidence in God, before he is admitted to his state of final rest. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. 2. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. (b) He rose again. If God be for me . Whatever sufferings believers may experience, they are of little significance when compared with the glory to be revealed on the day of final victory (18). Sin was in the world between Adam and Moses, when the law was not. I mean the redemption of our body. instructive and interesting manner the links that grace practically forms and maintains between the saints of God. As a result, they and all of their offspring were subjected to all the processes that lead inexorably to death. God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. 16). It pronounced on the Jew then. But when I become inverted, born again by the Spirit of God, and I am spirit, soul, and body, now the superior Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit is joined with the inferior trinity of man. He was made in the image and the likeness of God, and it was from that image the he fell. This is a state of mind, and not the necessary or immediate fruit of Romans 3:1-31, but is based on the truth of Romans 4:1-25 as well as 3. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified ( Romans 8:30 ). Some day there would come The Day of the Lord. O how vastly different is the sentence of the word from the sentiment of the world concerning the sufferings of this present time! Accordingly, then, he confronts the unquestionable truth, admitted by every Israelite, of the universal havoc by one man everywhere with the One man who has brought in (not pardon only, but, as we shall find) eternal life and liberty liberty now in the free gift of life, but a liberty that will never cease for the soul's enjoyment until it has embraced the very body that still groans, and this because of the Holy Ghost who dwells in it. Romans 16:1-27; Romans 16:1-27 brings before us in the most. He could not have remitted heretofore. 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, 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. 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? Jesus said, "Woman, the day is coming, and now is, when they that worship God neither worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. It got awfully cold at night and there were disadvantages. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. 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. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. That was never God's intention that prayer should be the instrument by which man can accomplish his will upon the earth. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God ( Romans 8:14 ). Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. The same Spirit who gives hope for the future gives help in the present. The whole work is done. He might have taken his people at once to heaven as soon as they are converted. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. (b) Christ is risen; therefore nothing can ever separate us from him. 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. So those who have been born again, that born again is actually being born of the Spirit. And a lot of times you even put a great deal in escrow. "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. See the gains of suffering for Christ; though we may be losers for him, we shall not, we cannot, be losers by him in the end. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. Now it is the positive power of God in raising up from the dead Him that was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justifying. Man is an inferior trinity: spirit, soul, and body. This word has a very definite Old Testament background. To live according to the flesh is to live a life dominated by the dictates and desires of sinful human nature instead of a life dominated by the dictates and the love of God. It is a proper training for heaven. What blindness! You really don't belong to Him, unless you have had that second birth, the spiritual birth, which we term born again. I was hanging on to a part of the ship for a night and a day out in the middle of the Mediterranean." All other solutions will fail. The Christian waits, not for death, but for life. Hence it is essentially founded on the gift not only of a Saviour who would interpose, in the mercy of God, to bear our sins, but of One who is already revealed, and the work done and accepted, and this known in the fact that God Himself has interposed to raise Him from among the dead a bright and momentous thing to press on souls, as indeed we find the apostles insisting on it throughout the Acts. [2.] No Cause to Boast. In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. In life we live with Christ; in death we die with him; and because we die with him, we also rise with him. we know how this was in Israel, how it might be, and has been, in Christendom. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and of course ardently desire to labour intelligently; and this not alone for the conversion, but for the establishment and deliverance of souls. Now this future glory is further spoken of as the reward of present sufferings and as the accomplishment of present hopes. 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. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. 7). "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. I reckon--logizomai. This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. What the law says, it speaks to those under it. 40:1. Oratio. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.". The Stoic went further. No sooner has Paul said this than an inevitable objection strikes him. 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. Men are saved because they were once involved in Adam's sin but are now involved in Jesus' goodness. "To all that be at Rome, beloved of God, called saints" (ver. And, of course, the tent blew over and it had holes in it. One that they cannot understand, and when a person cannot understand you, you will always become a threat to them. It is apokaradokia ( G603) and it describes the attitude of a man who scans the horizon with head thrust forward, eagerly searching the distance for the first signs of the dawn break of glory. 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. It is the thing which troubles a renewed conscientious soul above all, because of his surprise at finding the deep evil of the flesh and its mind after having proved the great grace of God in the gift of Christ. It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). Not one of them is able to separate the Christian from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, Lord of every terror and Master of every world." Paul begins and ends this passage with statements about the absolute security of those who are in Christ. Lord, thank You. Just what do you mean?" 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. It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. 8:2 (a) NAS "t he law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" is much more literal than the NIV rendering. 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. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.". My little granddaughter tonight has got an ear infection and not feeling well, and it just tears me up. Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. There wasn't much rejoicing until that field goal attempt was blocked in the last three seconds, and then they went wild. This is the point in verse 21. 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). tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword? In the most binding legal way, he got a new father. If I think of prayer as an instrument by which I can get my will done, I totally misunderstand prayer. Heirs of God. Nor should they fear persecution or even martyrdom, because through Christ they are assured of final victory (35-37). They should not at all deter and frighten us from the diligent and earnest pursuit of that glory. And whenever my children would get a fever and become listless and sick, whatever, it would so tear me up inside to see them in that condition. If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him. This is the essential point. 10 brothers, 1 my heart's desire and prayer to god for them is that they may be saved. 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. (i) Sarx ( G4561) literally means flesh. You know, He is through with me. God doesn't have to be begged to come to your assistance. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. And the cities shall be full of good, things, and the fields rich; neither shall there be any sword, throughout the land or battle-din; nor shall the earth be, convulsed any more with deep-drawn groans. "But if [for so it should be read] thou art named a Jew," etc. Thus the right of the adopted person was guaranteed and he entered into his inheritance. The mind being synonymous with the soul, the consciousness of man. It was undeniable that the Gentiles did not seek the Lord, nor ask after Him; and the prophet says that Jehovah was found of them that sought Him not, and was made manifest to them that asked not after Him. 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. He talks about living according to the flesh ( Romans 8:12). It is like Enoch who walked with God and God took him. Thus, anything that happens to me only happens to me because God has allowed it to happen to me. God has already demonstrated His willingness to give His only begotten Son, deliver Him up. He is the accuser of the brethren. higher, if so high, in this epistle. Nero and Octavia were in no sense blood relations; yet, in the eyes of the law, they were brother and sister; and before they could marry, the Roman senate had to pass special legislation. But can the persecution, the peril, the nakedness, the sword, can these things separate me from the love of Christ? In the experience of the Holy Spirit men had a foretaste, a first instalment, of the glory that shall be; now they long with all their hearts for the full realization of what adoption into the family of God means. Did the call of God. The third included angels and archangels and principalities. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. (b) NIV has "set me free", NAS "set you free.". Romans 8 concludes the second main section of the body of the letter, ' Living under grace '. 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. He is not coming physically or bodily, but He is going to be coming in His church to be manifested through His church to the world, and the whole world is just groaning and travailing as waiting for you to be manifested. Satan is condemning, but why should I worry about that? ( Romans 8:34 ). As a man lives in the air, he lives in Christ, never separated from him. There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. There is an impurity, deformity, and infirmity, which the creature has contracted by the fall of man: the creation is sullied and stained, much of the beauty of the world gone. Scripture . . "Well, I know, but not this case. Christ, as Mediator, is said to be the heir of all things (Hebrews 1:2), and true believers, by virtue of their union with him, shall inherit all things,Revelation 21:7. Pretty tense there for a little bit. 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