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. Now likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself will make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered ( Romans 8:25-26 ). When the world was drowned, and almost all the creatures in it, surely then it was subject to vanity indeed. The adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. But now the body appetites under the control of the spirit as God intended them to be. Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. How glorious it is to walk in the Spirit, to be in union with the Spirit of God, to be led by the Spirit of God, and to have that glorious assurance of God's Spirit bearing witness to mine. Any man who lives controlled by his body needs is living as an animal and that is why the humanists today are so certain that they are related to the animal kingdom. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. This was not a direct and intrinsic effect, of course, but the result of spiritual dealing for the soul. We know that the Jews divided all time into this present age and the age to come. of He is at work in all their affairs, right from his eternal choice of them to be his sons to his act of final glorification when they will share the likeness of Jesus Christ (28-30).Christians need have no doubts about any aspect of their salvation. Alas! 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. It was human nature in all its sin and weakness; it was all that man is without God and without Christ. 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. But this is not all; and the objection of the Jew gives occasion for the apostle to bring out a fuller display of what God is. excellent gift of all" (Sibylline Oracles 3: 620-633). The one who really counts is not condemning me, because. "Cursed is the ground because of you," God said to Adam after his sin ( Genesis 3:17). Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Never think of him opposite of God. [Note: See Don N. Howell Jr., "The Center of Pauline Theology," Bibliotheca Sacra 151:601 (January-March 1994):50-70.]. (a) God has acquitted us; therefore no one can condemn us. Inevitably, therefore, all men die; but the man who is Spirit-controlled and whose heart is Christ-occupied, dies only to rise again. So he comes now into that life of victory that one can experience while still living in the flesh. THE LOVE FROM WHICH NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US ( Romans 8:31-39 ). For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ). 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). He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. Whenever you think of a tent you don't think of a permanent place to live. 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. It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. And it is not the least part of their vanity and bondage that they are used, or abused rather, by men as instruments of sin. Did Gentiles believe? Because of the Fall God subjected the whole creation to "futility" or "frustration." 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. Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. 7). But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. Paul has just been speaking of the glory of adoption into the family of God; and then he comes back to the troubled state of this present world. 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). This brings in the contrast with the other Head, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have here not as One bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, but as the spring and chief of a new family. 22). Search. Because they look around and they say, "Will you look at that baboon over there? Height (hupsoma, G5313) was the time when a star was at its zenith and its influence was greatest; depth (bathos, G899) was the time when a star was at its lowest, waiting to rise and to put its influence on some man. There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. . It furnishes occasion for some interesting exhibitions of character - for hope, and faith, and love, and for increasing and progressive excellence. Wait a minute. There are going to be many things that will happen to you of which, though you do your best, you're not going to be able to understand it or figure it out. The threads are beginning to get a little old, rip a lot easier. All devotionals for romans-8:19-21 free on BiblePortal.com. "I am not ashamed," etc. gospel of God. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. If I am ruled by my body I have the mind of the body which is death, spiritual death. This, accordingly, is the essential spring of worship. Scripture . Here, again, the apostle takes up what he had but announced in chapter 1 the righteousness of God. (2.) How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? That there is going to come in the last days a great power of God's Spirit upon the church and God is going to manifest Himself through you, His church, and you are going to be endowed with all kinds of supernatural powers. 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. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? 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. Many times I am willing to acknowledge, "Oh yes, God is going to work out good in this. This hope is related to the thought in verse 21. I can see how God is going to work." That's not what it says, is it? Solid Joys. He does not see only the world; he looks beyond it to God. And we know that all things ( Romans 8:28 ). The reproach of Christ appears riches to those who have respect to the recompence of reward, Hebrews 11:26. Our happiness is not in present possession: We are saved by hope. 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. The confusion of tongues, by which true religion was lost in the world, is a proof that the builders of this tower sinned against God in the highest degree. It is as if Paul said: "You think of Jesus as the Judge who is there to condemn; and well he might for he has won the right. When Nicodemus said, "How can a man be born again when he is old? The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. Romans 12:9-18 Sundry practical duties re-commended, Romans 12:1 Commen-taries: Therefore I urge you, brethren . them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in 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. Then they conquered. Two words keep occurring again and again in this chapter, flesh (sarx, G4561) and spirit (pneuma, G4151) . In the most literal sense, there is no future in it--because it is getting further and further away from God. I will read the Bible every day. Pretty tense there for a little bit. 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. how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 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 ). 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. All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. "We are saved by hope." It pronounced on the Jew then. Thus, the true God being lost, all was lost, and man's downward career becomes the most painful and humiliating object, unless it be, indeed, that which we have to feel where men, without renewal of heart, espouse in pride of mind the truth with nothing but unrighteousness. So creation is groaning. But then it will be complete, when the Captain of our salvation shall bring the many sons to glory, Hebrews 2:10. In adoption a person had to pass from one patria potestas to another. He means that part of man which gives sin its bridgehead. (a) He died. without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain Glory! And this is the state of the natural man apart from Jesus Christ. Verse 20 appears to describe the fall of Adam and Eve. You know the amazing thing to me is that God can interpret that as intercession according to His will. What becomes of the souls of brutes, that go downwards, none can tell. The creation was subjected to vanity (see verse 19 for information on this word as well as the word subjected). There followed a ceremony called vindicatio. In Hebrew it is ruach ( H7307) , and it has two basic thoughts. Here we pass out of the introduction of the epistle. The renovation of the world was one of the great Jewish thoughts. 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 there is another side to this picture. So they that have the mind of the flesh find themselves at enmity with God. I was constantly feeling condemnation. 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. There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. So Jesus, in the hour of suffering or persecution, points us to the glory of that kingdom that we are going to experience for eternity. Nature was not interested in becoming hostile towards humanity. Not my will, but Thine be done.". We are a minority group. "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". By living it, a man is making himself totally unfit ever to stand in the presence of God. 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. In regard to his father, a Roman son never came of age. This was no question of legal obedience, although the law came from Jehovah. Nothing can separate you from that love of God which is in Christ Jesus. His letter, written to Romans, is considered one of the most important books in the Bible. One of their great conceptions was the logos ( G3056) of God, which was God's mind or the reason. The apostle's concern that his countrymen were strangers to the gospel. He may be opposite to Michael or to Gabriel, but never to God. See Lightfoot. Jewish thought divided time into two sections--this present age and the age to come. A soul may as truly, no doubt, be put into relationship with God be made very happy, it may be; but it is not what Scripture calls "peace with God." ( Romans 8:32 ). In point of fact, as he had hinted before, their true tenure was the call of God, who was free, if He pleased, to bring in other people. (i) There is the life which is dominated by sinful human nature; whose focus and centre is self; whose only law is its own desires; which takes what it likes where it likes. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. And God knows what is going on and God is working even in this situation His good purpose in your life. Father!" Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. The quickening power of God therefore was here set forth, of course historically in a way connected with this life and a posterity on earth, but nevertheless a very just and true sign of God's power for the believer the quickening energy of God after a still more blessed sort. 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. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. Live with Rachel Mellema. 52:18. But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. We accordingly are dead, says he, to the law; not (as no doubt almost all of us know) that the law dies, but that we are dead to the law in the death of Christ. It is God who acquits. He now, by a kind of personification, ascribes hope to them, as he did will before. (Romans 8:1 . Hope has reference to the future; and in this state of the Christian, he sighs for deliverance, and expects it. The Bible tells me so. Because I don't always know what God's particular will is in a particular situation. This passed away with man when he sinned. We frankly confess it. ( Romans 8:35 ). (ii) But there is another way to take it. It could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. It is the experience of life for the Christian that all things do work together for good. Paul is saying: "You can think of every terrifying thing that this or any other world can produce. 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." 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. The Stoic went further. 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. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. That word delivered is speaking of the cross, delivered Him to die. Childbirth changed. If His grace attract, His truth humbles, and leaves no room for vain boasting and self-confidence. The rest of the epistle takes up the practical consequences of the great doctrine of God's righteousness, which had been now shown to be supported by, and in no wise inconsistent with, His promises to Israel. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. Paul used figurative language to clarify and emphasize his point. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. It is only to the man who loves and trusts that all things work together for good, for to him they come from a Father who in perfect wisdom, love and power is working ever for the best. God has made it so simple. It is fit and proper that he should engage here in the service of Him who has redeemed him. 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. From this old tent in which I am living. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Living By Faith: Commentary on Romans & 1st Corinthians, Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of. 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. And this lies in the fact that Abraham believed God before he had the son, being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able to perform. Who then can condemn us) The answer is that the Judge of all men is Jesus Christ. The object of this expectation. Then the apostle introduces the ground, certainty, and character of God's judgment (verses 4-16). But can the persecution, the peril, the nakedness, the sword, can these things separate me from the love of Christ? There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. There is no inconsistency in Ananias's word to the apostle Paul "wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord." But it is quite possible for the unconverted to be tenacious of the truth, yet unrighteous in their ways; and so much the worse for them. It is not good that man shall live alone. 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? 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. There is evil at work, and grace does not close the eye to danger; at the same time it is never under the pressure of the enemy, and there is the fullest confidence that the God of peace will break the power of Satan under the feet of the saints shortly. One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. . And, upon the view of both, he gives this judgment here. I have no fellowship with God, because God will not deal directly with my body. When Paul was painting this picture, he was working with ideas that any Jew would recognize and understand. God said to Jeremiah, "I will make a new covenant with the people, no longer written on the tables of stone, but I will write my law in the fleshly tablets of their hearts." He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." For I know that as long as I am living in this body I am absent from the Lord, but I would rather be absent from this body and to be present with the Lord" ( 2 Corinthians 5:4-6 ). For the creature was made subject to vanity. Am I lead by the Spirit of God? And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. Colonial style, surrounded by beautiful gardens. Not at all the opposite of God. Hey, wait a minute. Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? It is for the saints to learn, of course; but it is that which goes out in its own force and necessary aim to the need of man a divine righteousness, which justifies instead of condemning him who believes. God has acquitted us. Compare verse 6 (where the margin, not the text, is substantially correct) with verse 4. How I wish there was some way that I could suffer for her. Not thus does God deal with souls. As a parent you would gladly take the place of your child and suffer for them. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. Read Introduction to Romans 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; . Not so, says the apostle. Here we may observe. Who hath subjected the same - Who has appointed his people to this condition. How can I really know that I am a son of God? It is the going forth of His richest blessing. Our problem is that we just don't understand the depth of God's love for us. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. I can say, "God, I bring John before you, oh, oh, oh . In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? 8:2 (a) NAS "t he law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" is much more literal than the NIV rendering. Oh boy, I'd go up an get me a house in Montecito, like that one where I stayed. He felt guilty, but now through the work of Jesus Christ he makes this astounding declaration. The word that Paul uses for other (heteros, G2087) has really the meaning of different. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). All Videos Images Commentaries Devotionals Sermons Other Translations Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. Within he must battle with his own evil human nature; without he must live in a world of death and decay. 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. 3 for, being ignorant of d the righteousness of god, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to god's righteousness. May the life, the joy, the love, the peace of Christ just keep your life as you walk in the Spirit, being lead by the Spirit in close communion with God, as His Spirit just bears witness with your spirit of that glorious relationship that you have as God's child, His heir for all eternity. For instance, he says that Abraham is our forefather kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) , from the human point of view. You see, he tells me that God foreknew me, and because He foreknew me, He chose me and then He justified me and then He glorified me. The flesh to him was not a physical thing but spiritual. This world that is dominated by the flesh, dominated by men who are dominated by the flesh. 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. I have rested in this verse over and over and over again. Even as you have all had a fleshly birth, we are here, it is just as necessary that you have a spiritual birth, for man by nature is alienated from God. He will cause sweet fountains of, white milk to burst forth. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. God judged not only man but creation . Because of that, to Paul life was not a despairing waiting for an inevitable end in a world encompassed by sin and death and decay; life was an eager anticipation of a liberation, a renovation and a recreation wrought by the glory and the power of God. Adam did it meritoriously; the creatures being delivered to him, when he by sin delivered himself he delivered them likewise into the bondage of corruption. . subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the And we know that all things are working together for good to those that love God, and are the called according to his purpose ( Romans 8:28 ). "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. He is Spirit-controlled, Christ-controlled, God-focused. There is a new law that is working in me. And those who have, hungered shall rejoice; moreover, also, they shall behold marvels, every day. Shall trial, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 1. This designs the vanity and emptiness of the minds of the but I have received the Spirit [of sonship,] adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father ( Romans 8:15 ). Moreover, He gave up the knowledge of God that had been handed down from father to son (ver. 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. But his body will no longer be the victim of decay and the instrument of sin; it will be a spiritual body fit for the life of a spiritual man. We do with patience wait. It is my flesh is weak. Even as God pronounced the sentence upon Adam and all mankind, He gave humanity hope and the first prophecy of the coming Messiah in His rebuke of Satan: "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:15 NKJV). If we take it as philosophy and theology and apply the standards of cold logic to it, it must mean that God chose some and did not choose others. ", 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. 2 for i bear them witness that b they have a zeal for god, c but not according to knowledge. The word vanity here mataiotes is descriptive of the present condition of the Christian, as frail and dying; as exposed to trials, temptations, and cares; as in the midst of conflicts, and of a world which may be emphatically pronounced vanity. We ought therefore to bear in mind, that if a soul be not brought into conscious deliverance as the fruit of divine teaching, and founded on the work of Christ, we are very far from presenting the gospel as the apostle Paul glories in it, and delights that it should go forth. Luke 6:15-16 calls two other apostles (James and Judas) the sons of Alphaeus also. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. The most cursory reading of Paul's letters will show how often he uses the word, and how he uses it in a sense that is all his own. [2.] Paul has argued this point at length already in Romans 5:12-21. but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope: Mankind did not desire to be subjected to these processes that lead to death, but this was the just consequence of Adams sin that passed upon all men universally. (iii) In law, the old life of the adopted person was completely wiped out; for instance, all debts were cancelled. It is no longer the realm of hope. But if we hope for what we do not see, then in patience we eagerly wait for it. 07-12-2022 12. For as many as are lead by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.There are a lot of people today who are making claims to being sons of God. 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