But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. If nature had a will (desire), Paul affirmed that it would have chosen to maintain a harmonious relationship with mankind. He has already glorified me as far as He is concerned and, who is going to lay anything to my charge? It is an ancient tradition among the Jews, that this tower was built on an idolatrous account. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" Now I take this opportunity of pressing on all that are here to beware of contracted views of "salvation." Not willingly, etc. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Because I will be led by the Spirit of God. Faith is the mother of hope. Birthright from the same father would let in Ishmael on the one hand, as from both parents it would secure the title of Esau on the other. God's unseen guiding is in our lives, but to the end of the day we can refuse it and take our own way. Christians, being saved by faith, do not yet experience all that God has promised, but they look to the future with patience and confidence (24-25). When Nicodemus said, "How can a man be born again when he is old? Corruption (phthora) is applied to the physical body in 1 Corinthians 15:42. Whenever you think of a tent you don't think of a permanent place to live. To move out of them. Thus, I can rest in the most uncomfortable places. 10 brothers, 1 my heart's desire and prayer to god for them is that they may be saved. (ii) There is the life that is dominated by the Spirit of God. With a touch of imaginative insight, he says that the state of nature was even worse than the state of men. All the days of our appointed time we are waiting, till this change shall come, when he shall call, and we shall answer, and he will have a desire to the work of his hands, Job 14:14; Job 14:15. Let us remember that he began all this by saying that every man sinned in Adam. How can I really know that I am a son of God? For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now ( Romans 8:22 ). For it may have been noticed from chapter 3 to chapter 5, that nothing but fitness for the glory of God will do now. We did nothing to bring that about; that is God's work. There is no question of a people on earth, and of God's wrath breaking out in one form or another against human evil in this life. Not so Paul. That I could have that ear infection and I could somehow take her suffering and bear it for her so that she wouldn't have to suffer. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Paul clearly wants us to know who the boss is. There followed a ceremony called vindicatio. This is called the adoption. And as that little remnant is ever sustained by the grace of God, it is the standing pledge of their final blessedness through His mercy, whereon the apostle breaks out into raptures of thanksgiving to God. The kingdom of God is within you, and will be so to eternity. The created order will therefore share the destiny of the sons of God. Now this future glory is further spoken of as the reward of present sufferings and as the accomplishment of present hopes. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. When the woman in Samaria said to Jesus, "Our fathers say we are to worship God in this mountain. 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." 07-12-2022 12. That new model or that new body that I am going to get is going to be my eternal house. It was Paul's picture that when a man became a Christian he entered into the very family of God. The apostle has come now to the nature. What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! Paul's basic thought is that the Christian is indissolubly one with Christ. But though we know not all the reasons why they are continued here in this state of vanity, we can see some of them: In hope - See the note at Romans 5:4. It is His righteousness, or, in other words, His perfect consistency with Himself, which is always involved in the notion of righteousness. 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. Since there is no reason in such creatures, their will is to be taken no doubt for their natural inclination, according to which the whole nature of things tends to its own preservation and perfection: whatever then is detained under corruption suffers violence, nature being unwilling and repugnant. 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. It had condemned him to death. Because that is where the mind of natural man is, because the body is in control, what he is thinking about constantly are those body needs, the body drives.But when a man is born again by the Spirit of God and the spirit, then, is in control in his life, that man, then, is concerned with spiritual things and he is going to be talking about God, his relationship, the work of God within his heart, the work of God, spirit, how to please the Lord, how to serve the Lord. The Spirit-controlled life, the Christ-centred life, the God-focused life is daily coming nearer heaven even when it is still on earth. He is going to complete that work in me. Lot Of 10 Chuck Missler Bible Commentaries-CD-ROM/Mixed Media With Bonus DVD . I hope that brethren in Christ will bear with me if I press on them the importance of taking good heed to it that their souls are thoroughly grounded in this, the proper place of the Christian by Christ's death and resurrection. 18). And they watch that monitor, because if there is any life at all then the brain will start searching for oxygen, and you will see a little bit of movement. It is a proper training for heaven. So they that have the mind of the flesh find themselves at enmity with God. Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. It will be observed therefore, that in this connection the apostle shows the place both of conscience and of the law, that God in judging will take into full consideration the circumstances and condition of every soul of man. But if a man does not love and trust God, he may well resent what happens to him and may well fight against God's will. I think that the second way of taking this is right. As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. Paul used figurative language to clarify and emphasize his point. The life of a salesman is a life of feast or famine, and potential great feast. 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. 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. Obviously this made adoption into another family a very difficult and serious step. Lord, what is man, that thou shouldst thus magnify him! Satan is condemning, but why should I worry about that? And I have been born again by the Spirit of God. There is another emptiness in man and this emptiness only God can fill.Dr. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. Glory! 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. Sin was in the world between Adam and Moses, when the law was not. Apologizing, repenting for my failure of the past week. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. Not only they--not only the creatures which are not capable of such a happiness as the first-fruits of the Spirit, but even we, who have such present rich receivings, cannot but long for something more and greater. particularly their gross idolatry, their polytheism, or (b) He rose again. 40:1. Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. It does not yet appear what we shall be (1 John 3:2), but then the glory shall be revealed. how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! As previously stated, this word meant things like futility, frailty, aimlessness, the inability to reach a goal or achieve results. by all that remains of the ancient world. It could not happen to me unless God did allow it to happen to me, and God loves me and is working out what is best for me. Man in this world is a body and a spirit; and in the world of glory the total man will be saved. God created you for His pleasure. We cannot see a year or even an hour ahead; and we may well pray, therefore, to be saved from things which are for our good and we may well pray for things which would be to our ultimate harm. No war shall be any. The Rabbis had a legend that when God appeared on Sinai to give Moses the law he was attended by his hosts of angels, and the angels grudged Israel the law, and assaulted Moses on his way up the mountain and would have stopped him had not God intervened. Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. Romans 8:20, ESV: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. . Hence therefore, the apostle, with divine wisdom, opens this to us before the blessed relief and deliverance which the gospel reveals to us. Now the saints are God's hidden ones, the wheat seems lost in a heap of chaff; but then they shall be manifested. Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein CHAPTER 8 In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. The children of God have bodies as well as souls; and, till those bodies are brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God, the adoption is not perfect. Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . He knew that by no possible human effort can a man justify himself; and he also knew that by no possible effort of the human intelligence can a man know for what to pray. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. Not willingly - Not voluntarily. The little kid there had a whole room full of big little books, and you young people won't understand that at all. To cement the alliance Nero wished to marry her. God elected me. The whole work is done. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. (2.) 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. 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. The Stoic went further. 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? And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. I understand that God is wiser than I am. 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). It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. The Old Testament speaks of it without elaboration and without detail. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. We ourselves which have the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves as we wait for this work of God. But the honour and happiness of an heir lie in the value and worth of that which he is heir to: we read of those that inherit the wind; and therefore we have here an abstract of the premises. No angel, no principality, no power, nothing that has ever been before or shall ever come, things present, things to come, height, depth, any other created being will be able to separate you from God's love in Christ, because God's love for you is constant. The resurrection is here called the redemption of the body. He believed that the logos ( G3056) not only had an order for the universe, but also a plan and a purpose for the life of every individual man. Romans 1 Romans 1:1-17 Are You a Saint! The Spirit has spoken expressly that in the latter times some should depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. I groan often when I see the conditions of the world around me. If a man loves and trusts and accepts God, if he is convinced that God is the all-wise and all-loving Father, then he can humbly accept all that he sends to him. So my dad had a little plaque made with the words "all things" and he had it there on his desk. You say we are supposed to worship God in Jerusalem, and you say we are supposed to worship God in Jerusalem," as does Stanley Goldfoot. God, creation, and man all felt the dramatic effects of sin when the beautiful harmony in the world ended. You know the amazing thing to me is that God can interpret that as intercession according to His will. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. Oh boy, I'd go up an get me a house in Montecito, like that one where I stayed. I don't have to live as a subject to my flesh anymore. But now it is "the wrath of God from heaven;" and consequently it is in view of eternal things, and not of those that touch present life on the earth. who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? We heard the story of this wondrous love. 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; Read full chapter. I am going to move from this tent into that new mansion, into that new building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For if you live after the flesh, you are going to die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, then you shall live ( Romans 8:12-13 ). Pythagoras forbade his disciples to pray for themselves, because, he said, they could never in their ignorance know what was expedient for them. "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. You know things start going wrong, "Oh, I need to talk to someone," you know. (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. The New English Bible translates this phrase, "was made subject to frustration. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. Each CD has 20 to 40 hours a verse by verse, audio teaching, audio and MP3 format with audio slideshow presentation, and . Hope is always in something not yet seen. So in suffering we should not be looking at the suffering, but at the glorious kingdom that shall come when our Lord comes to claim His own. That is, the redemption of our body. C. H. Dodd puts it in this way. So I went up to spend some time with my cousin. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. Oh, how grateful we are for that love of God for us tonight in Christ Jesus. Romans 12:9-18 Sundry practical duties re-commended, Romans 12:1 Commen-taries: Therefore I urge you, brethren . You believe in God, believe also in Me. This section is about how Paul defended the doctrine of justification by faith. The creation was subjected to vanity (see verse 19 for information on this word as well as the word subjected). Because I don't always know what God's particular will is in a particular situation. The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. The latter clause in the first verse of the authorised version mars the sense. Verse Concepts.King James Version. What can we say to these things? But did this satisfy the apostle? (b) Over and over again he uses the phrase kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) , literally according to the flesh, which most often means looking at things from the human point of view. Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Volume 2: Romans 5:1--8:39 by Channing L. Cri . The idols were a burden to the weary beast, Isaiah 46:1. 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. Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. But he seeks to relate himself again to God, because he is living after the Spirit.So Paul declares, "They that are after the flesh are constantly mindful of the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, then, are mindful of the things of the Spirit." 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, Tempted or not, it was Adam's free will that consented to the deed that plunged all of his posterity into ruin. That was never God's intention that prayer should be the instrument by which man can accomplish his will upon the earth. He is not complete. My love for Him, my desires to please and serve Him. In the creatures Romans 8:19-22; Romans 8:19-22. I guess I am related to that baboon." The adopting father went to the praetor, one of the Roman magistrates, and presented a legal case for the transference of the person to be adopted into his patria potestas. It was a glorious day when we moved out of that tent and into this new sanctuary. I have rested in this verse over and over and over again. ( Romans 8:31 ). And so I rest in the fact that God has already spoken in the past tense of my future state of glorified together with Jesus Christ. If I think of prayer as an instrument by which I can get my will done, I totally misunderstand prayer. I think that this particular verse has meant more to me than almost any other passage of scripture, because I lived so many years of my Christian life in constant condemnation. It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. What baptism sets forth is more than that, and is justly found, not in Romans 3:1-31, but inRomans 6:1-23; Romans 6:1-23. The people who owned the home had gone to Europe for the summer. The apostle allows this privilege to be great, specially in having the Scriptures, but turns the argument against the boasters. Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. Jesus is in charge. Observe, At the second coming of Christ there will be a manifestation of the children of God. Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. The dream of the renovated world was dear to the Jews. Did Gentiles believe? Verse Romans 8:28 : "And we know that most things work together for good to them that love God." 4 for e christ is the end of the (ii) In Romans 8:38-39 Paul makes a list of terrible things. Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. How much soever then created things do naturally incline another way; yet as it has pleased God to bring them under vanity, they obey his order; and as he has given them a hope of a better condition, with this they sustain themselves, deferring their desire, until the incorruption promised to them shall be revealed. This great chapter is, in a sense, the heart of Romans, being a shout of victory contrasting with the wail of despair which closed the seventh, the transition from the bleak and depressing condition of the unregenerated there, to the enthusiastic and joyful optimism of the eighth, being signaled by the adverb "now." They should not at all deter and frighten us from the diligent and earnest pursuit of that glory. And gals, we are just not complete without you. He has justified me. It was not merely, that he had better light. The ground changed. If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. A variety of commentators pick the date of writing anywhere from 53 to 58 A.D. ii. That is what Paul means here. (a) It is not only the word for Spirit; it is also the word for wind. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man," etc. 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. (verses 22-32.) And this doctrine has a way of cycling. Lot Chuck Missler 6CD and Books (Romans, Acts, Luke, John) Notes. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? This is one of the most lyrical passages Paul ever wrote. for on your own showing, according to that word to which we all bow, you must admit that one man's sin brought in universal moral ruin and death. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. 8:1 The Greek emphasizes the word "no.". Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. The life that is dominated by the desires and activities of sinful human nature is on the way to death. And this redemption of the creature is reserved till then; for, as it was with man and for man that they fell under the curse, so with man and for man they shall be delivered. 1 625). 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. But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. 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. Read full chapter. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. So God created the woman that man might have completeness, companionship, love, and beauty. 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. Such is the doctrine and the fact. Then your principle is your condemnation. Undoubtedly divine judgment fell on Him; but this is not "the righteousness of God," as the apostle employs it in any part of his writings any more than here, though we know there could be no such thing as God's righteousness justifying the believer, if Christ had not borne the judgment of God. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. It is Jesus Christ who died, nay rather, who was raised from the dead, and who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ( Romans 8:1-4 ). The contrast of Christ with Adam takes in man universally as well as the Christian; and man in sin, alas! I understand that God is in control of all of the circumstances that surround my life. ed. In biblical viewpoint, man and creation are so bound together that man's sin brought a curse on the created order. As for the impotency of the law, that weakness of the law which resulted from the effects of our sinful human nature--God sent his own Son as a sin offering with that very same human nature which in us had sinned; and thereby, while he existed in the same human nature as we have, he condemned sin, so that as a result the righteous demand of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live our lives not after the principle of sinful human nature, but after the principle of the Spirit. Did they fall back on Abraham? It was the logos ( G3056) which kept the stars in their courses and the planets in their appointed tracks. We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. For in the sad disorder which followed the fall of Adam, the whole machinery of the world would have instantly become deranged, and all its parts would have failed had not some hidden strength supported them. My little granddaughter tonight has got an ear infection and not feeling well, and it just tears me up. Observe again, it is not victory here; for that would give place to human pride. whereas the mind of the spirit is life and peace ( Romans 8:6 ). idolatry, WILLINGLY; but they were subjected to vanity UNWILLINGLY; for this proceeded from the just indignation and vengeance of God. How I hurt to see my grandchildren suffer. (a) God has acquitted us; therefore no one can condemn us. After the first sin, however, God put man and nature at odds with each other. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God ( Romans 8:14 ). What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? And God brought her to man and she became his wife. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Verse 20. Taxes; Taxes may be applicable at checkout. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. 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. Many times I am willing to acknowledge, "Oh yes, God is going to work out good in this. There is nothing like the grace of God for producing the truest humility, the humility that not only descends to the lowest level of sinners to do them good, but which is itself the fruit of deliverance from that self-love which puffs itself or lowers others. 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." 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. Roman adoption was always rendered more serious and more difficult by the Roman patria potestas. It had its smells of the kerosene heaters. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he will make even your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit indwelling in you. Men are saved because they were once involved in Adam's sin but are now involved in Jesus' goodness. (i) Sarx ( G4561) literally means flesh. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:23 ). "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" Thy Strong Word. That's the basic purpose for your existence. Then comes a great saying. He had reasoned the case within himself, weighed the arguments on both sides, and thus at last resolves the point. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. That would aspire to perfect holiness and peace. In Romans 7:1-25 we have the subject of the law discussed for practice as well as in principle, and there again meet with the same weapon of tried and unfailing temper. TEXTUAL SOURCE: JOEL 2:18-32; JOHN 10:10; 14:1-4; ACTS 2:37-47; 4:1-31; ROMANS 5:21; 6:22 Glory and honour be unto our God for the blessings of the previous lesson, where God specifically exposed to us some revival killers, and also showed to us ways . 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