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not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. We were able to sit not on those hard metal chairs and not walk on the black asphalt, and not have to be subjected to that loud noise of those blowing heaters and smell the kerosene, but we were able to sit here in the upholstered pews, walk on the carpet, and enjoy the comforts of this more permanent home.Now there is a likening, but it falls short, because that house that God has for me in heaven is eternal. The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. "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. Not one of them is able to separate the Christian from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, Lord of every terror and Master of every world." But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." Upon what ground? If the first book in the Bible showed that it was only the call of God that made Israel what they were, its second book as clearly proved that all was over with the called people, had it not been for the mercy of God. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. So Paul goes on to think of human longing. The Emperor Claudius adopted Nero in order that he might succeed him on the throne; they were not in any sense blood relations. Gingrich and Danker (p. 858) say slavery of decay. Only one thing can help mankind: Jesus and His word! God knew that man's continuous struggle against corruption would mature and perfect the character needed to be in God's Family. This God has wrought in 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. 8:20-21: For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. . And he feels the close affinity to it, because the baboon is living just like he lives. This is the essential point. 1. But then he gives us the other side. But for the time it is held fast, though in unrighteousness. "[39] However, Locke's interpretation fails to give proper weight to Adam's responsibility. Hence, what he is here discussing is not remission of sins, but deliverance from sin. He dwells in the heart by faith. No Condemnation in Christ Jesus. 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. I can begin to live in victory over the flesh, because of that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, it makes me alive in Him. It is true, it is needful for man to learn; but in nowise is it good news. God said to Jeremiah, "I will make a new covenant with the people, no longer written on the tables of stone, but I will write my law in the fleshly tablets of their hearts." I think that all of us have experienced that very same struggle. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? You really don't belong to Him, unless you have had that second birth, the spiritual birth, which we term born again. Second, we cannot pray aright because in any given situation we do not know what is best for us. God does not have these body parts since He is spirit (John 4:24), but this imagery is used to help communicate important truths. Now this future glory is further spoken of as the reward of present sufferings and as the accomplishment of present hopes. Other than these references, the term can only be found in John 8:32; John 8:36 where Jesus spoke of freeing people through truth as well as Himself. 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. So God created the woman that man might have completeness, companionship, love, and beauty. According to the Rabbis there were three ranks of angels. And you are going to go over to Moscow and you are going to start pointing at the tanks and they are going to start dissolving. . He says that Jesus is the son of David kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) ( Romans 1:3), that is to say, on the human side of his descent. Interactive Bible study with John Piper. Satan is a finite created being. How do I know? It is quite clear, especially from the last instance, that Paul is not using flesh simply in the sense of the body, as we say flesh and blood. O how vastly different is the sentence of the word from the sentiment of the world concerning the sufferings of this present time! instructive and interesting manner the links that grace practically forms and maintains between the saints of God. To Paul life was not a weary, defeated waiting; it was a throbbing, vivid expectation. Thus, anything that happens to me only happens to me because God has allowed it to happen to me. The apostle shows them with astonishing force at the starting-point that he was far from slighting their privileges. subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the The flesh is the lower side of man's nature. But you are wrong; he is not there to be our prosecuting counsel but to be the advocate to plead our cause.". The last time it was popular was 1948, and it is beginning to get popular again, so thirty years. )_ 2. Of whom does it declare all this? 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. To this then the apostle comes, after having spoken of the divine favour shown himself, both when a sinner, and now in his own special place of serving the Lord Jesus. To Him be the glory forever! With a touch of imaginative insight, he says that the state of nature was even worse than the state of men. They should not at all deter and frighten us from the diligent and earnest pursuit of that glory. For those whom he knew long ago he long ago designed to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brothers. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! Not thus does God deal with souls. That is a yet future experience that I am to have. Not at all the opposite of God. What did they say to Ishmaelites as joint-heirs? Romans 12:9-18 Sundry practical duties re-commended, Romans 12:1 Commen-taries: Therefore I urge you, brethren . The gospel at its height in no wise weakens but maintains the moral manifestation of what God is. If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. Even the Greeks knew that. His letter, written to Romans, is considered one of the most important books in the Bible. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. Increase of privileges can never avail without the soul's self-judgment before the mercy of God. whereas the mind of the spirit is life and peace ( Romans 8:6 ). The Stoics had a great idea which may well have been in Paul's mind when he wrote this passage. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? Because they look around and they say, "Will you look at that baboon over there? Oh, if you only knew how much God loves you, you would never run away from Him again. The life of a salesman is a life of feast or famine, and potential great feast. Each CD has 20 to 40 hours a verse by verse, audio teaching, audio and MP3 format with audio slideshow presentation, and . The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. 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. If you only understood how much God loved you, that's all you need.Now Paul tells you a little bit about it. Don't marvel when I say to you, ye must be born again." I guess I am related to that baboon." They remain on earth for this purpose: and this should be their leading aim. May we not say, it became vain willingly, but was made subject to vanity unwillingly? And what led to the call of Abraham, of whom we hear much in the epistle to the Romans as elsewhere, was the departure of man into idolatry. And it is interesting, you start spending the commission. It is the adoption perfected and completed. We are a minority group. This world that is dominated by the flesh, dominated by men who are dominated by the flesh. What do I understand? Even if other sons were afterwards born, it did not affect his rights. When Nicodemus said, "How can a man be born again when he is old? He draws a great picture. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. These are astrological terms. He is at work in all their affairs, right from his eternal choice of them to be his sons to his act of final glorification when they will share the likeness of Jesus Christ (28-30).Christians need have no doubts about any aspect of their salvation. And the natural man I see as body, and the upper story ruling, the mind, the middle story always, but in the case where the body is uppermost, the mind being controlled and dominated by the desire and needs of the body, and the spirit dormant or dead. Where lies the value of belonging to the circumcised people of God? God delivered His Son to die for my sins. To whom, then, did the law address itself? And he gives his reason: "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith." and to their lusts; for he seems to be designed, "by him who hath My life is being ruled by the spirit, thus I am being led by the Spirit and in that I have then this joined together with God in the spirit as His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit. There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. I love it. Romans 8:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. And not knowing the will of God then it is difficult often to pray, because it doesn't really make sense to pray against the will of God.The purpose of prayer is never to accomplish my will; the real purpose of prayer is always to accomplish God's will. This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. So he said that his problem was that the law was spiritual and he was carnal. They were inclined to vanity, i.e. Thus the right of the adopted person was guaranteed and he entered into his inheritance. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. And mark the force of it whosoever." And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. 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 too should live. There never can be solid peace with God without both. It was the logos ( G3056) which controlled the ordered succession of night and day, and summer and winter and spring and autumn. 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. There wasn't much rejoicing until that field goal attempt was blocked in the last three seconds, and then they went wild. But it is the consequences of adoption which are most significant for the picture that is in Paul's mind. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. Lord, thank You. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. The gospel, instead of treating this as a light matter, alone vindicates God in these eternal ways of His, in that which must be in him who stands in relationship with God. He has no mind of his own; Christ is his mind. If His grace attract, His truth humbles, and leaves no room for vain boasting and self-confidence. I mean the redemption of our body. Then the apostle introduces the ground, certainty, and character of God's judgment (verses 4-16). Because. It was the logos ( G3056) which put sense into the world. 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 first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e. Romans 8:20 - The Bible Study New Testament. Thus, the true God being lost, all was lost, and man's downward career becomes the most painful and humiliating object, unless it be, indeed, that which we have to feel where men, without renewal of heart, espouse in pride of mind the truth with nothing but unrighteousness. . 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. 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. 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. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," so runs our commission, Isa. Paul clearly wants us to know who the boss is. Was he not himself, says Paul, a proof to the contrary? God created man with this emptiness so that man would seek after God to find that fulfillment and meaning for life. But this may be comparatively a light question. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven" ( Luke 6:22-23 ). Romans 8:20. When the Bible speaks of God knowing a man, it means that he has a purpose and a plan and a task for that man. There is no need of dwelling now on "salvation" as employed in the Old Testament, and in some parts of the New, as the gospels and Revelation particularly, where it is used for deliverance in power or even providence and present things. (Romans 8:31-39) 01/08/12 : Paul's Love for Israel (Romans 9:1-5) 01/15/12 : Defining "Israel" (Romans 9:6) (Donovan) Paul starts his letter to the Romans by identifying himself. I will read the Bible every day. The very sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, Prov 15 8. If he accepted the things that God sent him, he knew peace. There would be no remnant if justice took its course. Romans 12:1 - Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to pre-sent your bodies a living and holy sacrice,. Romans 9:1-33. 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. I have rested in this verse over and over and over again. (1) That the instinctive feelings of Christians lead them to desire a purer and a happier world, Philippians 1:23. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. All Sermons Bible Studies Devotionals Prayers. 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. The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. The righteousness of God means that God is just, while at the same time He justifies the believer in Christ Jesus. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. Grace is the first-fruits of glory, it is glory begun. Paul has the very same thought. "Not so," replies the apostle. 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. Zechariah 4:10. II. 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 He says that those who love God, and who are called according to his purpose, know well that God is intermingling all things for good to them. The adoption ceremony was carried out in the presence of seven witnesses. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. Now the Rabbis--and Paul had once been a Rabbi--believed that they were grudgingly hostile to men. In one scale he puts the sufferings of this present time. He who believes is not condemned" ( John 3:17-18 ). Nothing less, I am persuaded, than this full blessing is the line that God has given to those who have followed Christ without the camp, and who, having been set free from the contracted ways of men, desire to enter into the largeness and at the same time the profound wisdom of every word of God. as I am often faced with situations that I can't understand. It is "the power of God unto salvation." They thought I was dead. The resurrection is here called the redemption of the body. And you are going through the hospital and emptying them all, and the whole world is just waiting for you to be manifested and so the idea is to, "Let's just sit and get perfected and get the church perfected so that God can manifest Himself in the perfected church," and this is in reality the second coming of Jesus Christ. And if I go and prepare one for you, then I am going to come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am there you may be also" ( John 14:2-3 ). Has God then no delivering power from this? Of these only a remnant would be saved. 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. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. Romans 3 I was not doing those things that I promised God I would do. It is not, as in Ephesians 2:1-22, dead in sins, which would be nothing to the purpose. They cannot merit that glory; and, if suffering for Christ will not merit, much less will doing. I do not mean by this its truth merely, but its exquisite suitability; so that the opening address commences the theme in hand, and insinuates that particular line of truth which the Holy Spirit sees fit to pursue throughout. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. of it. Oh, how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity. 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. 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. (3.) He is saying four things about Jesus. 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. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. particularly their gross idolatry, their polytheism, or 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. Now it was manifested, and not promised or predicted merely. There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. The soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. 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. For the creature - The renewed creature; the Christian mind. It should be understood that nature does not literally think and experience emotions. God is more willing to give than we are to receive. Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. It may be passion-controlled, or lust-controlled, or pride-controlled, or ambition-controlled. The Stoic believed that this world was permeated with that logos ( G3056) . Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. And the cities shall be full of good, things, and the fields rich; neither shall there be any sword, throughout the land or battle-din; nor shall the earth be, convulsed any more with deep-drawn groans. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. 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. God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. 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. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:4 ). Under that curse, all creation groans: the ground was cursed for Adam's sake, thorns and thistles and noxious weeds began to grow, all of Eve's daughters have labored painfully in childbirth, and death entered the world ( Genesis 3:14-19 ). He thinks of nature longing for the day when sin's dominion would be broken, death and decay would be gone, and God's glory would come. When you have got it in escrow you are feeling pretty good about it. The gospel, as now revealed in the New Testament, has linked with it, though not contained in it, the revelation of divine wrath from heaven, and this, you will observe, according to Paul's gospel. It was not merely better light in the conscience, which might be elsewhere, as is supposed in the early verses of our chapter; but the Jew's position was directly and unquestionably one of divine tests applied to man's estate. Just as the sun in the heavens is not for one people or land alone, no more is the gospel. His pathway follows; and he shows that the very troubles of the road become a distinct matter of boast. The first-fruits did both sanctify and ensure the lump. God knew Israel, but the day came when Israel refused the destiny God meant her to have. Within he must battle with his own evil human nature; without he must live in a world of death and decay. There is nothing like a believing view of the glory which shall be revealed to support and bear up the spirit under all the sufferings of this present time. 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 . That there is a present vanity to which the creature, by reason of the sin of man, is made subject, Romans 8:20; Romans 8:20. Just what do you mean?" One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. God doesn't have any black book on me. In addition, after man ruined perfection, even nature had to bear some of the consequences. I shall live in that kingdom, the kingdom of light, and love, joy and peace, an heir of God, joint-heir with Jesus Christ.Then Paul said. But then it will be complete, when the Captain of our salvation shall bring the many sons to glory, Hebrews 2:10. It was the Son of God not merely as dealing with the powers of the earth, Jehovah's King on the holy hill of Zion, but after a far deeper manner. The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20 by Homer (English) Paperback Book . It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. The word vanity here mataiotes is descriptive of the present condition of the Christian, as frail and dying; as exposed to trials, temptations, and cares; as in the midst of conflicts, and of a world which may be emphatically pronounced vanity. The angelic powers cannot separate us from him. He now, by a kind of personification, ascribes hope to them, as he did will before. We had to live in a tent for two years our church here, and it had its qualities, I guess. Inevitably, therefore, all men die; but the man who is Spirit-controlled and whose heart is Christ-occupied, dies only to rise again. Still, it is "man" not yet exactly the Jew, but man who had profited, it might be, by whatever the Jew had; at the least, by the workings of natural conscience. It is eternal. Because of what Jesus did, there opens out to the Christian a life no longer dominated by the flesh but by that Spirit of God, which fills a man with a power not his own. If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him. But there is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 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. 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 . Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. Here we may observe. Through the new birth there is an inversion, and man becomes then spirit, soul, and body. Verse Romans 8:28 : "And we know that most things work together for good to them that love God." And we know that all things are working together for good to those that love God, and are the called according to his purpose ( Romans 8:28 ). Paul begins and ends this passage with statements about the absolute security of those who are in Christ. Oh boy, I'd go up an get me a house in Montecito, like that one where I stayed. Therefore, if I had a new mansion I wouldn't need any bedrooms. 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? In biblical viewpoint, man and creation are so bound together that man's sin brought a curse on the created order. But there is one who isn't making any charges against me, and that is God. (verses 22-32.) 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. 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