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. It is the appointment of God, who has chosen to place his people in this condition; and who for wise purposes retains them in it. 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. It is a figurative expression. They were probably added by a copyist who either made a mistake or thought he could "help" Paul by adding these words from Romans 8:4. Each CD has 20 to 40 hours a verse by verse, audio teaching, audio and MP3 format with audio slideshow presentation, and . I was hanging on to a part of the ship for a night and a day out in the middle of the Mediterranean." God is not reluctant to help you. God has condemned the flesh. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. Here the word has the sense of perishability (Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 3:423). No Condemnation in Christ Jesus. Now that God has revealed Himself in the gospel, it is not what will suit man on earth, but what is worthy of the presence of the glory of God. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. As the child said: "Enoch was a man who went on walks with God--and one day he didn't come back.". The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20 by Homer (English) Paperback Book . But did this satisfy the apostle? He says that the mind of the flesh is death, and that it is hostile to God ( Romans 8:6; Romans 8:8). 18). 2. How I wish there was some way that I could suffer for her. The question then is raised in the beginning ofRomans 3:1-31; Romans 3:1-31, If this be so, what is the superiority of the Jew? Oh, what I wouldn't give if I couldn't take her place and suffer for her.Then I began to realize the pain the Father must have gone through to see His Son suffering, even more so than Him coming Himself. Paul is saying: "In this present world nothing can separate us from God in Christ; the day will come when this world will be shattered and the new age will dawn. 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. When you have got it in escrow you are feeling pretty good about it. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. January 17, 2023. The last time it was popular was 1948, and it is beginning to get popular again, so thirty years. And that man ought to be more concerned with the spiritual realm than the material realm. 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." 20.For to vanity has the creation, etc. (3) Their lot in life; their being subjected to this state of vanity, is the arrangement of God. 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. You know, to me it is such a simple, beautiful thing. without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain 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. Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. He begins with the great epoch of the dispensations of God (that is, the ages since the flood). I am an heir to God's kingdom. We are often in the position of a child who wants something which would be bound only to hurt him; and God is often in the position of a parent who has to refuse his child's request or compel him to do something he does not want to do, because he knows what is to the child's good far better than the child himself. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. 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. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. Or is mindful of fleshly things, or body needs. That new model or that new body that I am going to get is going to be my eternal house. 10. God created you for His pleasure. 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. But this may be comparatively a light question. It is an ancient tradition among the Jews, that this tower was built on an idolatrous account. Any duration. Therein God is both vindicated and glorified. 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. 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. Joint-heirs with Christ. Wouldst thou have me hold office or eschew it, stay or flee, be rich or poor? Was it possible to limit this to Israel? Nature did not want man to sin. 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. 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. Now he observes an expectation of this glory. The second included powers, lordships and mights. But natural conscience, although it may detect evil, never leads one into the inward possession and enjoyment of good never brings the soul to God. Thou shalt not desire thy neighbor's wife or anything that belongs to your neighbor, and he had realized that he had violated that. 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 same Spirit who gives hope for the future gives help in the present. 3). Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. But it should seem by the scripture that there will be some kind of restoration of them. 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 . We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. ( Romans 8:31 ). Neither life nor death can separate us from Christ. Beware that you do not confound it with souls being quickened, or even brought into joy. While striving for holiness under the law, Paul had focused on the commands (e.g., "lust") so that his mind-set was fleshly: "I must steer clear of all lust." This fleshly orientation doomed him to commit the very sin he sought to avoid. Alas! The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). Now by the spirit I am mortifying the deeds of my flesh. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. oh, man. He which has begun a good work in me shall surely continue to perform it. So he comes now into that life of victory that one can experience while still living in the flesh. Those that now partake of the Spirit of Christ, as his brethren, shall, as his brethren, partake of his glory (John 17:24), shall sit down with him upon his throne, Revelation 3:21. He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. Here we may observe. We are often taught that heaven awaits the Christian, but if we don't understand how the Bible presents it, it wouldn't be desirable or our hope. This is called the adoption. Jesus said, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through Me might be saved. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. And he feels the close affinity to it, because the baboon is living just like he lives. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. It is a proper training for heaven. 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. . If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him. And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. of Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. 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. how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! Clearly this was a serious and an impressive step. Not, of course, that the Roman saints were in this condition; but that God, writing by the apostle to them, seizes the opportunity to lay bare man's state as well as His own grace. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. It is like Enoch who walked with God and God took him. He means that from the beginning of time God marked us out for salvation; that in due time his call came to us; but the pride of man's heart can wreck God's plan and the disobedience of man's will can refuse the call. He is saying four things about Jesus. But now to faith all this is gone not lightly, but truly in the sight of God; so that he may live on a Saviour that is risen from the dead as his new life. Proof that this view is right is found in 20b where Paul said, not of its own will. This is another example of personifying nature (human emotions are applied to inanimate objects). The Stoic believed that this world was permeated with that logos ( G3056) . 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. 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). Genesis 1:28-30; Genesis 3:17-18), will enter its full glory along with redeemed human life (19-22). It is getting uncomfortable. (a) It is not only the word for Spirit; it is also the word for wind. To allow the things of the world completely to dominate life is self extinction; it is spiritual suicide. "Well, I know, but not this case. Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. ", 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. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. 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? Paul in writing to the Corinthians, after telling them the whole ten yards that he had gone through, the many beatings and stonings, shipwrecks and imprisonments and all, he said, "But this light affliction which is but for a moment worketh an exceeding eternal weight of glory" ( 2 Corinthians 4:17 ). Our way is rough and long; but he that shall come will come, and will not tarry; and therefore, though he seem to tarry, it becomes us to wait for him. 3. 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. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. Because he had violated that spiritual aspect of the law, though he had never committed adultery, yet he found that he desired his neighbor's wife and he realized that the desire was sin. Sep 9, 2001. He talks of this present age and of the glory that will be disclosed. evil practices, but the devil made them subject, or slaves unto 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." It would have been then wholly inconsistent that the earnest of the Spirit should be less efficacious in the children of God than hidden instinct in the lifeless parts of creation. Oh, how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity. It is no longer the realm of hope. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. Thus corruption not only overspread morals, but became an integral part of the religion of men, and had thus a quasi-divine sanction. Lord, thank You. "Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ" an apostle "called," not born, still less as educated or appointed of man, but an apostle "called," as he says "separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets." I really think that Jesus was talking about what Paul had been talking about in II Corinthians 5 , that mansion is that new body that He has prepared for you. But this great work of Christ was not and could not be a mere vindication of God; and we may find it otherwise developed in various parts of Scripture, which I here mention by the way to show the point at which we are arrived. Consequently it never reaches the perfection that He originally intended it to achieve. The angelic powers cannot separate us from him. It is not, as in Ephesians 2:1-22, dead in sins, which would be nothing to the purpose. THE LOVE FROM WHICH NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US ( Romans 8:31-39 ). The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children 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. Isaiah says: "I was found of them who sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me." This were indeed to deny the value of His death, and of that newness of life we have in Him risen, and a return to bondage of the worst description. 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. I can say, "God, I bring John before you, oh, oh, oh . These studies were broadcast on a Thursday. 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. 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. ed. It is the adoption perfected and completed. 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? That is what Paul is thinking of here. The threads are beginning to get a little old, rip a lot easier. Scripture . It furnishes occasion for some interesting exhibitions of character - for hope, and faith, and love, and for increasing and progressive excellence. And thus, though the forces of hell be gathered against you, they are nothing compared with that power that is available to you, because God is for you.How do I know God is for me? There wasn't much rejoicing until that field goal attempt was blocked in the last three seconds, and then they went wild. Henry Drummond who wrote that classic book "The Natural and The Supernatural", declares in that book that there is within the very protoplasm of man those little tentacles that are reaching out for God. Verse 21 may be correlated with the references previously given (Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 22:1-21 and Acts 3:1-26). 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 was the will of "him who subjected it," meaning God, humanity having had no choice whatever, except to submit to the subjection sentenced upon mankind by the Father. He speaks of physical circumcision, literally "in the flesh" ( Romans 2:28). He could not have remitted heretofore. This was not suitable to the character of the epistle; but the glory of God he does. If I want to have a fulfilling life, a meaningful life, I must live after the Spirit. Then if God is willing to do that much for you, the rest is easy.Nothing that you might need could possible come close to comparing what God has already demonstrated His willingness to give and do for you because He loves you so much. "We are saved by hope." Romans 8:20. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. Pretty tense there for a little bit. 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." His love is there and constant. The reformer Martin Luther stated that this chapter is where Paul "comforts fighters" involved in an inner struggle between spirit and flesh : The Holy Spirit assures us that we are God's children no matter how furiously sin may rage within us, so long as we follow the Spirit and struggle against sin in order to kill it. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. 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. The apostle has come now to the nature. He is going to complete that work in me. In the creatures Romans 8:19-22; Romans 8:19-22. There. Nor is there only the manifest call of the Gentiles in this, but with no less clearness there is the rejection, at any rate for a time, of proud Israel. 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Shall trial, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But the Bible says that if your consciousness is separated from God, that is, you don't have a real consciousness of God, that you are dead, because your consciousness is separated from God. Man in this world is a body and a spirit; and in the world of glory the total man will be saved. But with the vanity also came hope. God promised that a Savior would come (Genesis 3:15) and that this savior would help mankind. 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. He is dead." 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. If I am thus pitied of God, if so truly and completely a justified man, if I am really an object of God's eternal favour, how can I have such a sense of continual evil? 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). 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. Hence it is, as he says, herein revealed "from faith," or by faith. Now the saints are God's hidden ones, the wheat seems lost in a heap of chaff; but then they shall be manifested. Sep 14, 1980. The past is cancelled and its debts are wiped out; we begin a new life with God and become heirs of all his riches. 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. That there is, of course, a grain of truth in such views, stems from the fact that both Adam and Satan had a part in it, Satan as the provocateur, and Adam as the rebellious instrument. . Her question to Jesus is, "Where do we worship God?" How glorious it is to be an heir of God, joint-heir with Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God has become mine. 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. . The believer, therefore, unwittingly though really, dishonours the Saviour, if he be content to walk short of this standard and power; he is entitled and called to walk according to his place, and in the confidence of his deliverance in Christ Jesus before God. 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. Thus, this kind of a verse should be a very searching verse and one that we should allow to search out our hearts today. 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). So I went up to spend some time with my cousin. "God, next week, I promise. Now Paul asks a series of questions: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" No man can tell. 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. . For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit ( Romans 8:5 ). I understand that God loves me. 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. 1. 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." No sooner has Paul said this than an inevitable objection strikes him. Communism is saying just the opposite, man ought to be more concerned with the material realm than the spiritual realm, so the conflict between man and God. Pythagoras forbade his disciples to pray for themselves, because, he said, they could never in their ignorance know what was expedient for them. 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. To move out of them. Now that new body doesn't grow tired. 13). This section is the start of looking at how exactly should we stop doing bad things, without turning to legalism (meaning that we start believing that we can become holy and please God just by obeying the law, therefore . Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. By the creature here we understand, not as some do the Gentile world, and their expectation of Christ and the gospel, which is an exposition very foreign and forced, but the whole frame of nature, especially that of this lower world--the whole creation, the compages of inanimate and sensible creatures, which, because of their harmony and mutual dependence, and because they all constitute and make up one world, are spoken of in the singular number as the creature.
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