We are told to be careful lest we deceive ourselves. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. The first included thrones, cherubim and seraphim. 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. God's love for me is uncaused on my part. It is one thing to be a conqueror. Thus it is a mistake to suppose that saints may not be benefited by a better understanding of the gospel, at least as Paul preached it. "There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus" ( Romans 8:1 ). He talks about living according to the flesh ( Romans 8:12). But it is amazing how sometimes these sure deals can fall out of escrow, and oh, what disappointment. That the brute and inanimate creation is not here . (c) He is at the right hand of God. To move out of them. If I want to have a fulfilling life, a meaningful life, I must live after the Spirit. 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. Grace Evangelical Church Buzzsprout-648864 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:00:00 -0600 2313 Wednesday Night full false Women's Bible Study | Hebrews 4:14-6:12 | Paula Hedgepeth Women's Bible Study | Hebrews 4:14-6:12 | Paula Hedgepeth Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. Who is the one condemning? There is an enmity of one creature to another; they are all subject to continual alteration and decay of the individuals, liable to the strokes of God's judgments upon man. Therefore, if I had a new mansion I wouldn't need any bedrooms. (ii) There is the word Spirit; in Romans 8:1-39 it occurs no fewer than twenty times. How I wish there was some way that I could suffer for her. Groanings Too Deep for Words (Romans 8:26-28) The downfall of man, when he thus abandoned God, was most rapid and profound; and the Holy Spirit traces this solemnly to the end ofRomans 1:1-32; Romans 1:1-32 with no needless words, in a few energetic strokes summing up that which is abundantly confirmed (but in how different a manner!) A slave to my own appetite. And quickly they will plug it back in and say, "Well, we thought he was gone, but there is a slight movement." As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. 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. 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. What gives glory to God like this? May the Lord bless you. 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. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. If children, then heirs,Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17. As a man lives in the air, he lives in Christ, never separated from him. 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. That's not what it says, is it? Second, we cannot pray aright because in any given situation we do not know what is best for us. The ground taken by a Jew for supposing God exclusively for Israel was, that they had the law, which was the measure of what God claimed from man; and this the Gentile had not. It is eternal. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." . By their remaining here the power of the gospel is shown in overcoming their sin; in meeting their temptations; in sustaining them in trial; and in thus furnishing living evidence to the world of the power and excellency of that gospel. But then Paul goes on to declare to the saints of God. 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. Would we follow up the heights of heavenly truth, would we sound the depths of Christian experience, would we survey the workings of the Spirit of God in the Church, would we bow before the glories of the person of Christ, or learn His manifold offices, we must look elsewhere in the writings of the New Testament no doubt, but elsewhere rather than here. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. 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. There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. I mean the redemption of our body. It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. You can't put them in the same category. 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. 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. Of whom does it declare all this? God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ): What I could not do for myself through the Mosaic Law, that is, have a righteous standing before God, God did for me through sending His Son in the flesh. Before the cross there hung out the gravest question that ever was raised, and it needed settlement in this world; but in Christ sin is for ever abolished for the believer; and this not only in respect of what He has done, but in what He is. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope. And God brought her to man and she became his wife. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? It is exquisite the delicate love with which he singles out distinctive features in each of the saints, men and women, that come before him. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? Week after week I would promise God that I was going to do better next week. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. Mark 2:14 calls Matthew the son of Alphaeus. Paul says in effect: "God for us did not spare his own Son; surely that is the final guarantee that he loves us enough to supply all our needs." Oh, how grateful we are for that love of God for us tonight in Christ Jesus. Oratio. Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. When the creatures are made the food and fuel of our lusts, they are subject to vanity, they are captivated by the law of sin. He who believes is not condemned" ( John 3:17-18 ). Then they conquered. It is not said to be revealed in the gospel. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; the sin of the Jews, in crucifying Christ, set the earth a quaking under them. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? I rest in faith that God is even going to use this for my good and His glory.Now if you will just take this and file it up here to where you will live by it, you won't have to come to Romaine and get his hammer on your head. Zechariah 4:10. Romans 8 William Barclay's Daily Study Bible The Liberation Of Our Human Nature The Two Principles Of Life Entry Into The Family Of God The Glorious Hope All Is Of God The Love From Which Nothing Can Separate Us All Sermons Bible Studies Devotionals Prayers. 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the Or, They are thus captivated, not for any sin of their own, which they had committed, but for man's sin: By reason of him who hath subjected the same. For it may have been noticed from chapter 3 to chapter 5, that nothing but fitness for the glory of God will do now. Or, We groan among ourselves. So Paul goes on to think of human longing. Was he not himself, says Paul, a proof to the contrary? He may be opposite to Michael or to Gabriel, but never to God. And his conversation is going to be addressed to spiritual things. 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. Romans 1 Romans 1:1-17 Are You a Saint! Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi were of awful import for Israel; but, in presence of circumstances so disastrous, there should be not merely a people but sons of the living God, and then should Judah and Israel be gathered as one people under one head. I reckon that this suffering of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed. God has made prayer such a simple, beautiful thing. "Not that I would be unclothed or an unembodied creature, but that I might be clothed upon with the body which is from heaven. So those who have been born again, that born again is actually being born of the Spirit. Much of this hope is found in the word delivered (eleutheroo), a word used in secular Greek to describe the freeing of slaves. It is not the mercy of God., Many have contended that so it is, and to their own great loss, as well as to the weakening of the word of God. And we who are in these bodies do often groan earnestly desiring to be delivered, not to be unembodied, but to be clothed upon with the body which is from heaven. And mark the force of it whosoever." Those that suffered with David in his persecuted state were advanced by him and with him when he came to the crown; see 2 Timothy 2:12. 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. His pathway follows; and he shows that the very troubles of the road become a distinct matter of boast. But can the persecution, the peril, the nakedness, the sword, can these things separate me from the love of Christ? Granted that it is so, at once and fully. What can we say to these things? He will cause sweet fountains of, white milk to burst forth. That is the problem of these people who never read the context, they just grab the phrase that they want out of a verse and never bother to look at the context of that particular verse, and we will see it in its context in a moment. It could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. The gospel goes forth universally. Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. day clouds distilling the dews of health" (Baruch 29:5). Romans 8:20, ESV: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. Christ is come, and has changed all. 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. If he struggled against them, he was uselessly battering his head against the ineluctable purpose of God. 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 law is weak to us, because we are weak to it: the sun cannot give light to blind eye, not from any impotency in itself, but merely from the incapacity of the subject it shines upon." (Poole) c. In that it was weak through the flesh: The law is weak because it speaks to our flesh. And God knows what is going on and God is working even in this situation His good purpose in your life. 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. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. But there is much more in Christ than that to which too many souls restrict themselves, not less to their own loss than to His dishonour. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren ( Romans 8:29 ). "But if [for so it should be read] thou art named a Jew," etc. Next, he enters upon another branch of the truth the Spirit not as a condition contrasted with flesh (these two, as we know, being always contrasted in Scripture), but as a power, a divine person that dwells in and bears His witness to the believer. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. Paul begins and ends this passage with statements about the absolute security of those who are in Christ. This is the point in verse 21. The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20 by Homer (English) Paperback Book . 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. Now I take this opportunity of pressing on all that are here to beware of contracted views of "salvation." He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.". There wasn't much rejoicing until that field goal attempt was blocked in the last three seconds, and then they went wild. That is what Paul is thinking of here. 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. The wrath of God could not possibly be glad tidings. 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. Let us remember that he began all this by saying that every man sinned in Adam. God, however, subjected mankind to this futility "in hope" from the beginning. 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. I don't see how in this case." 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. We, by the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, and thus, experience spiritual life. ( Romans 8:33 ). Through the new birth there is an inversion, and man becomes then spirit, soul, and body. (b) He rose again. It is, however, fully in keeping with the teachings of the Bible that God is said to do many things which, in a lesser sense, were done by others, as, for example, in the case of the crucifixion of Christ (see under Romans 3:26). One that they cannot understand, and when a person cannot understand you, you will always become a threat to them. If that be so who can possibly condemn men? There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. Their present state is a state of education and preparation for the inheritance. Those who live according to the dictates of the Spirit are absorbed in the things of the Spirit. ", No malign influences (powers) will separate us from Christ. When man sinned, the ground was cursed for man's sake, and with it all the creatures (especially of this lower world, where our acquaintance lies) became subject to that curse, became mutable and mortal. 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. Part of the suffering experienced by creation is to remind man that all sin exacts too great a price (CBL, Romans, p. 131). Nothing can be more simple and essential. 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. (iii) In law, the old life of the adopted person was completely wiped out; for instance, all debts were cancelled. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. What shall we say then to these things? No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? 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. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. 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. You have got a sizeable deposit that is in escrow and, boy, my commission on this is going to be about $35,000 and all right. Romans 1:1-32. I mean, he had some nice deals that if he just could have put together the commission that was just . He speaks with a poet's vision. The consciousness of man is responsive to whatever controls the man. Whenever you think of a tent you don't think of a permanent place to live. Last, nothing will ever be able to separate us from God's love for us in Christ. This the whole creation looks and longs for; and it may serve as a reason why now a good man should be merciful to his beast. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. This is applied in the two chapters that follow. The future must be brought in by the grace of God; and this he accordingly gives us at the close of Romans 11:1-36. When Nicodemus said, "How can a man be born again when he is old? 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. Whosoever believed should not be ashamed; whosoever called should be saved. Why should this be so strange and incredible to you? But that is not what it means. If he accepted the things that God sent him, he knew peace. Because of sin, there were massive changes in nature. And this leads the apostle into the moral history of man the proof both of his inexcusable guilt, and of his extreme need of redemption. (2.) 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. If I don't know how to pray and I want to pray according to the will of God and here is my friend John over here and I don't know really how to pray for his situation. When man sinned, the ground was cursed for man's sake, and with it all the creatures (especially of this lower world, where our acquaintance lies) became subject to that curse, became mutable and mortal. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. It's transient. For the truth is that God has in Christ condemned sin, and this for sin definitely; so that He has nothing more to do in condemnation of that root of evil. They do not come to it as purchasers by any merit or procurement of their own; but as heirs, purely by the act of God; for God makes heirs. Now, what do you picture when Jesus says that? Sep 14, 1980. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. Here is a vision to take away all loneliness and all fear. 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. Romans 8:18b Romans 8:20 2 Comments They do have a consciousness that is constantly absorbed with their body needs. Two words keep occurring again and again in this chapter, flesh (sarx, G4561) and spirit (pneuma, G4151) . The Emperor Claudius adopted Nero in order that he might succeed him on the throne; they were not in any sense blood relations. Just what do you mean?" For the creature [that is, man] was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope ( Romans 8:20 ); When God created man He created him incomplete . The 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. 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). 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. It is a proper training for heaven. This is a very difficult passage because it is so highly compressed, and because, all through it, Paul is making allusions to things which he has already said. 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