And whenever my children would get a fever and become listless and sick, whatever, it would so tear me up inside to see them in that condition. Because you were not answering to the very basic cause of your existence. 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. The renovation of the world was one of the great Jewish thoughts. And this yoke (poor creatures) they bear in hope that it will not be so always. Yes, but this is another principle. 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. Observe, At the second coming of Christ there will be a manifestation of the children of God. 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." Well, Satan does. All the effects of sin will be removed, and believers will be raised from the dead in imperishable spiritual bodies suited to life in the coming age (23; cf. The Spirit controlled, Christ-possessed man is on the way to life; death is but an inevitable interlude that has to be passed through on the way. And so God speaks, and this is what thrills me, He speaks of my being glorified, because God knows He is going to do it. To be absorbed in worldly human things is death; but to be absorbed in the things of the Spirit is life and peace, because absorption in the things which fascinate our sinful human nature is hostility to God, for it does not obey the law of God, nor, indeed, can it do so. (3.) Because the carnal mind [or the mind of the flesh] is enmity against God ( Romans 8:7 ): It is opposed to God, because God has declared that the spirit is superior to the material. 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. (ii) It followed that he became heir to his new father's estate. Stated another way, this term denotes powers which aim to subjugate man and separate him from God (Kittle, 2:275). God judged not only man but creation . Did they fall back on Abraham? There are three statements in this verse: (1) the creation was subjected to vanity; (2) this subjection was not voluntary, but imposed by God; and (3) the very subjection is a basis of hope, for otherwise there would have been no point at all in granting to rebellious humanity any further tolerance at all. Salem Media Group. Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. 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? (iii) In law, the old life of the adopted person was completely wiped out; for instance, all debts were cancelled. Jewish thought divided time into two sections--this present age and the age to come. Though the soul be the principal part of the man, yet the Lord has declared himself for the body also, and has provided a great deal of honour and happiness for the body. "They said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, and let its head reach unto the top of heaven; and let us make a house of worship in the top of it; and let us put a sword in his hand that he may wage war for us against our enemies, before we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." He speaks with a poet's vision. (b) Christ is risen; therefore nothing can ever separate us from him. 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. Now it is the positive power of God in raising up from the dead Him that was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justifying. And because God has the foreknowledge, He can speak as Paul said of things as existing even though as yet they do not exist, because He knows they are going to exist. Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. And if it be objected, What use will they be of to glorified saints? 17.) world. The children of God shall appear in their own colours. (a) It is God who acquits men--that is the statement. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; the sin of the Jews, in crucifying Christ, set the earth a quaking under them. There is no language where their voice is not heard. learning, and eloquence; likewise their vain philosophy, . 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. Not willingly - Not voluntarily. May we not say, it became vain willingly, but was made subject to vanity unwillingly? 8:5-8 6 7 8 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. how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? But it should seem by the scripture that there will be some kind of restoration of them. Nor should they fear persecution or even martyrdom, because through Christ they are assured of final victory (35-37). Romans 8:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. (ii) In Romans 8:38-39 Paul makes a list of terrible things. The blazing truth that lit life for Paul was that the human situation is not hopeless. "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation, the old things have passed away and all things become new" ( 2 Corinthians 5:17 ) and it is interesting how even our desires change so dramatically when we are in Christ. This is one of the most lyrical passages Paul ever wrote. 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. 37a Acts 1-14* 37b Acts 15-28* John Nolland George R. Beasley-Murray Stephen J. Walton Stephen J. Walton 38a Romans 1-8 James D. G. Dunn 38b Romans 9-16 39 1 Corinthians* James D. G. Dunn Andrew D. Clarke 40 2 Corinthians, rev. The past prepared the way, as it is said here, "which God had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, [here we have the great central object of God's gospel, even the person of Christ, God's Son,] which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh" (ver. 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. Satan is condemning, but why should I worry about that? I have got it made. This passed away with man when he sinned. Then you really aren't a part of God or His kingdom. 1. First, there is no condemnation, at all, for those in Christ. The third included angels and archangels and principalities. It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. Father!" Because of the Fall God subjected the whole creation to "futility" or "frustration." To put it in another way, the Stoic believed that nothing could happen to a man which did not come from God and which was not part of God's plan for him. I am as one with thee; I am thine; I flinch from nothing so long as thou dost think that it is good. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 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. God doesn't have any black book on me. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Romans 8 20 Adam Clarke Bible Commentary Romans 8:20 Verse 20. 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 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. Hence the depravity of the heathen found little or no cheek from conscience, because it was bound up with all that took the shape of God before their mind. Did the call of God. 22). In adoption a person had to pass from one patria potestas to another. In the creatures Romans 8:19-22; Romans 8:19-22. But there is one who isn't making any charges against me, and that is God. 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. 8:1 The Greek emphasizes the word "no.". What is it we are thus desiring and waiting for? When mans sin broke the harmony between people and the planet, vanity was brought into the world. Amen.May the Lord be with you. It is the unanimous vote, the joint desire, of the whole church, all agree in this: Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Thus the proof was complete. There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. The New English Bible translates this phrase, "was made subject to frustration. (d) He makes intercession for us there. What becomes of the souls of brutes, that go downwards, none can tell. No sooner has Paul said this than an inevitable objection strikes him. Like it or not, God created you for His own good pleasure. ( Romans 8:35.) He is hostile to him, resentful of his law and his control. But if I am being led by my flesh, dominated by my flesh, then I am only fooling myself if I say I am a son of God. If the good news of God goes out to man, entirely blotting out the difference between a Jew and a Gentile, what becomes of His special promises to Abraham and to his seed? This would not have been just. But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. (2) That it is not what they desire, to be subjected to the toils of this life, and to the temptations and vanities of this world. The Gentiles the despised heathen were to be brought in; the self-satisfied Jews are left behind, justly and beyond question, if they believed the law and the prophets. This is based on Romans 16:1 and 16:23 along with 1 Corinthians 1:14. It is apokaradokia ( G603) and it describes the attitude of a man who scans the horizon with head thrust forward, eagerly searching the distance for the first signs of the dawn break of glory. And this is the state of the natural man apart from Jesus Christ. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein CHAPTER 8 In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. I can see how God is going to work." The kingdom of God is within you, and will be so to eternity. 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 is to be carefully noted that when Paul thinks of the kind of life that a man dominated by the sarx ( G4561) lives he is not by any means thinking exclusively of sexual and bodily sins. Now are we the sons of God, but it does not yet appear, the honour is now clouded; but then God will publicly own all his children. Sanday and Headlam add: Vanity is the refrain of the Book of Ecclesiastes that is without result, ineffective, which does not reach its endthe opposite of complete or perfect. For better or for worse, for richer for poorer. What fun it would be to be an heir of some wealthy person. 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. In the most literal sense, there is no future in it--because it is getting further and further away from God. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary AND WE KNOW - This verse introduces another source of consolation and support, drawn from the fact that all flyings are under the direction of an infinitely wise Being, who has purposed the salvation. "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. So creation is groaning. What do I understand? You may condemn yourself, but Jesus isn't. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. As a Christian we will experience suffering, because in reality we have become an alien in the world in which we live. The apostle has come now to the nature. If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? The whole work is done. The mind being synonymous with the soul, the consciousness of man. He foreknew me, and then predestined that I should be conformed to the image of his Son, that Jesus might be the firstborn among many brethren. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. ", 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. Now, God, you interpret that." Not willingly, etc. 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. Witness the common joy that grace gives an apostle with saints be had never seen, so that even he should be comforted as well as they by their mutual faith. It is fit and proper that he should engage here in the service of Him who has redeemed him. Accordingly, in the end of the chapter, he shows that this is most true as applied to the moral judgment of the Jew; that uone so much dishonoured God as wicked Jews, their own Scripture attesting it; that position went for nothing in such, while the lack of it would not annul the Gentile's righteousness, which would indeed condemn the more unfaithful Israel; in short, that one must be a Jew inwardly to avail, and circumcision be of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is of God, and not of men. Consequently the call of God, and not the birth simply makes the real difference. 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). You must carefully guard against the notion of its being a question of Paul's own experience, because he says, "I had not known," "I was alive," etc. And it is well for those ignorant of it to know that here, in verse 4, the apostle speaks first of "walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Why it is, he has not seen fit to inform us fully. I have not always done for God the things that I would do for God. God loves me good or bad. 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. In Hebrew it is ruach ( H7307) , and it has two basic thoughts. 14, 15). Lord, what is man, that thou shouldst thus magnify him! This to me is an interesting statement, because so often men are seeking to offer to God the works of their flesh, and seeking that God would accept the works of their flesh. Three times the symbolism of sale was carried out. It will then be put past dispute. Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. Shall trial, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? "The vine shall yield its fruit ten thousand fold, and on each, vine there shall be a thousand branches; and each branch shall, produce a thousand clusters; and each cluster produce a thousand, grapes; and each grape a cor of wine. Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. He was regarded as a new person entering into a new life with which the past had nothing to do. Any duration. Paul begins and ends this passage with statements about the absolute security of those who are in Christ. It is God who acquits. The created order will therefore share the destiny of the sons of God. Colonial style, surrounded by beautiful gardens. Who shall impeach the elect of God? 21). Romans 8 actually teaches us God is not interested in just "getting us into heaven", and heaven is not just a way of escape for us. The consequences are thus pursued; first, the general place of the believer now, in all respects, in relation to the past, the present, and the future. 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. And God has written His law in my heart by which God now directs and controls even my desire--this new life in the Spirit in Christ. 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. For you have not received the spirit of bondage ( Romans 8:15 ). Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. This is that which we expect, in hope of which our flesh rests, Psalms 16:9; Psalms 16:10. How rich, how broad, how expansive is God's love for you tonight. Now the earliest creed of the Church, which is still the essence of all Christian creeds, ran like this: "He was crucified dead and buried; the third day he rose again from the dead; and sitteth at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." 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 ). 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. The reason for the subjection was certainly due to man's willful and rebellious act; but the execution of God's sentence upon man for that rebellion was no part of man's will. But can the persecution, the peril, the nakedness, the sword, can these things separate me from the love of Christ? In other words, that we might be made the sons of God, but the firstborn is first in prominence, Jesus first in prominence, but He is the firstborn of many brethren. 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. Wait a minute. On the contrary, the doctrine of faith establishes law as nothing else can; and for this simple reason, that if one who is guilty hopes to be saved spite of the broken law, it must be at the expense of the law that condemns his guilt; whereas the gospel shows no sparing of sin, but the most complete condemnation of it all, as charged on Him who shed His blood in atonement. Now the man who lives dominated by his body appetites is living like an animal, because animals are body-controlled beings. 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. And after that time I used to think, wouldn't it be wonderful if some day there would be a knock on the door and there would be a lawyer there and he would say, "Your uncle that you happened not to know who happened to be one of the wealthiest men in the world died, and you were left his fortune." It is the adoption perfected and completed. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. This was no question of legal obedience, although the law came from Jehovah. It was the logos ( G3056) which controlled the ordered succession of night and day, and summer and winter and spring and autumn. 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life. Such is the principle. The words Paul uses of God are the very words God used of Abraham when Abraham proved his utter loyalty by being willing to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. But what it could not do because of the weakness of my own flesh. The notion that this passage (Romans 8:19-23) is a reference to all creation lower than the level of humanity "yearning in hope" is contrary to reason. January 17, 2023. First, we cannot pray aright because we cannot foresee the future. There is mutual confirmation. 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. Even the Greeks knew that. It is eternal. This was not suitable to the character of the epistle; but the glory of God he does. 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. That final adoption will be the redemption of their bodies. As He has given us through the blood of Jesus full remission, as we shall be saved by this life, as He has made us know even now nothing short of present conscious deliverance from every whit of evil that belongs to our very nature, as we have the Spirit the earnest of the glory to which we are destined, as we are the vessels of gracious sorrow in the midst of that from which we are not yet delivered but shall be, so now we have the certainty that, whatever betide, God is for us, and that nothing shall separate us from His love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. One day I am going to be free from this old body in this bondage of corruption and I am going to come into that glorious liberty of freedom. The Old Testament speaks of it without elaboration and without detail. The sufferings are small and short, and concern the body only; but the glory is rich and great, and concerns the soul, and is eternal. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. They too should live. What was it? "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. God pronounces against the unrighteousness of such; for if the knowledge, however exact, of God's revealed mind was accompanied by no renewal of the heart, if it was without life towards God, all must be vain. C. H. Dodd puts it in this way. Oh, if you only knew how much God loves you, you would never run away from Him again. Was it possible to limit this to Israel? For all who are guided by the Spirit of God, these, and only these, are the children of God. 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? That is what Jesus said, "You didn't choose me, I chose you." Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." Second, we cannot pray aright because in any given situation we do not know what is best for us. It is his wise arrangement. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? 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. Claudius already had a daughter, Octavia. 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. He says that the mind of the flesh is death, and that it is hostile to God ( Romans 8:6; Romans 8:8). He really means human nature in all its weakness and he means human in its vulnerability to sin. 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. There was an angel of the winds, of the clouds, of the snow and hail and hoarfrost. [Note: See Don N. Howell Jr., "The Center of Pauline Theology," Bibliotheca Sacra 151:601 (January-March 1994):50-70.]. Of it nothing has been heard till now. They do have a consciousness that is constantly absorbed with their body needs. He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. Compare with this Psalms 96:10-13; Psalms 98:7-9. 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. Man is incomplete without God. From this time the world lay under heathenism till the bringing in of the Gospel, upwards of 2000 years after. conceits they had of themselves, of their wisdom, knowledge, God is more willing to give than we are to receive. Christianity is not a system of promise, but rather of promise accomplished in Christ. Here we may observe. Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. Alas! We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. If Christ had to suffer, we also inherit that suffering; but if Christ was raised to life and glory, we also inherit that life and glory. Now Paul asks a series of questions: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" "God, next week, I promise. 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 ). 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). "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." He says, that they have been subjected to vanity, and for this reason, because they abide not in a constant and durable state, but being as it were evanescent and unstable, they pass away swiftly; for no doubt he sets vanity in opposition to a perfect state. Of what then shall we be afraid? Right now I am living in a tent, this body. Bible Verse; Newest; Oldest; Most Viewed; Sermon. Satan is a finite created being. God has acquitted us. Thank You, Lord. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. Hereupon he enters upon the direct proofs, and first cites Hosea as a witness. They believed that they had been angry when God created man. He is body, mind, and spirit. $135.00 + $4.16 shipping . subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; idolatry, WILLINGLY; but they were subjected to vanity UNWILLINGLY; for this proceeded from the just indignation and vengeance of God. Jesus said, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through Me might be saved. 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. He concludes the sufferings not worthy to be compared with the glory--ouk axia pros ten doxan. To allow the things of the world completely to dominate life is self extinction; it is spiritual suicide. So I went up to spend some time with my cousin. It is done. Now by the spirit I am mortifying the deeds of my flesh. If that is true of nature, it is still truer of man. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. He may be opposite to Michael or to Gabriel, but never to God. We have God and man in presence, so to speak. Paul clearly wants us to know who the boss is. It isn't that I am not willing. 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. But then Paul goes on to declare to the saints of God. Here we pass out of the introduction of the epistle. 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