romans 8:20 commentary

( Romans 8:33 ). "Cursed is the ground because of you," God said to Adam after his sin ( Genesis 3:17). (i) Sarx ( G4561) literally means flesh. The word is therefore appropriately used of the disappointing character of present existence, which nowhere reaches the perfection of which it is capable (208). Now Paul asks a series of questions: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" The agreeableness of this to our present state, Romans 8:24; Romans 8:25. 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. Future Thursday broadcasts will appear in this playlist as well. Twice the father symbolically sold his son, and twice he bought him back; but the third time he did not buy him back and thus the patria potestas was held to be broken. 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. Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . So therefore it addressed itself to the obedience of faith; not by this meaning practice, still less according to the measure of a man's duty, but that which is at the root of all practice faith-obedience obedience of heart and will, renewed by divine grace, which accepts the truth of God. January 17, 2023. world. He sets before us an example of obedience in all created things, and adds, that it springs from hope; for hence comes the alacrity of the sun and moon, and of all the stars in their constant courses, hence is the sedulity of the earths obedience in bringing forth fruits, hence is the unwearied motion of the air, hence is the prompt tendency to flow in water. If man is acquitted by God, then he is saved from every other condemnation. The shedding of His blood was absolutely necessary: without that precious expiation all else had been vain and impossible. (c) He is at the right hand of God. Here we pass out of the introduction of the epistle. By the cross God has a deeper moral glory than ever a glory that He thus acquired, if I may so say. First, we cannot pray aright because we cannot foresee the future. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. I have not always done for God the things that I would do for God. Sin came into this world and with sin came death, the consequence of sin. 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. All the curse and filth that now adhere to the creature shall be done away then when those that have suffered with Christ upon earth shall reign with him upon the earth. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." In earthly inheritances this rule does not hold, only the first-born are heirs; but the church is a church of first-born, for they are all heirs. (4.) In this book this term is used to describe freedom from things like death and the law in places like Romans 6:18; Romans 6:22; Romans 8:2. He may be opposite to Michael or to Gabriel, but never to God. Paul has just been speaking of the glory of adoption into the family of God; and then he comes back to the troubled state of this present world. They should not at all deter and frighten us from the diligent and earnest pursuit of that glory. There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. Many times the evil that he wouldn't do he was doing. In the beginning ofRomans 2:1-29; Romans 2:1-29 we have man pretending to righteousness. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. I was hanging on to a part of the ship for a night and a day out in the middle of the Mediterranean." 2 for i bear them witness that b they have a zeal for god, c but not according to knowledge. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Living By Faith: Commentary on Romans & 1st Corinthians, Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of. He is body, mind, and spirit. It is not yet executed. Bible Study & Sermon Videos; romans 8:26-27 esv; Romans 8:26-27 Esv. That is Paul's argument, and, to him and to those who heard it, it was completely convincing, however hard it is for us to grasp it. Wouldst thou have me hold office or eschew it, stay or flee, be rich or poor? In addition, after man ruined perfection, even nature had to bear some of the consequences. It got awfully cold at night and there were disadvantages. Then if God is willing to do that much for you, the rest is easy.Nothing that you might need could possible come close to comparing what God has already demonstrated His willingness to give and do for you because He loves you so much. We ought therefore to bear in mind, that if a soul be not brought into conscious deliverance as the fruit of divine teaching, and founded on the work of Christ, we are very far from presenting the gospel as the apostle Paul glories in it, and delights that it should go forth. Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. 3. The little kid there had a whole room full of big little books, and you young people won't understand that at all. 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." There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. government of these things, slaves unto them, and in such If I think of prayer as an instrument by which I can get my will done, I totally misunderstand prayer. Because (or, that; i.e. c. Who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit: These words are not found in the earliest ancient manuscripts of the Book of Romans and they do not agree with the flow of Paul's context here. Not only all of creation, but ourselves also, which even have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body ( Romans 8:23 ). Romans 13:1-14; Romans 13:1-14 urges their duties towards what was outside them, more particularly to the powers that be, but also to men in general. Paul speaks of things present and things to come. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. Thus the right of the adopted person was guaranteed and he entered into his inheritance. (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. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. So they that have the mind of the flesh find themselves at enmity with God. 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? 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. He is saying four things about Jesus. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. Now man is composed of three parts, an inferior trinity. If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. They believed that a man was born under a certain star and thereby his destiny was settled. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. It is a life which is such a steady progress to God that the final transition of death is only a natural and inevitable stage on the way. We are often taught that heaven awaits the Christian, but if we don't understand how the Bible presents it, it wouldn't be desirable or our hope. Nothing can separate you from that love of God which is in Christ Jesus. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. 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. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified ( Romans 8:30 ). Romans 8:26-27 form one of the most important passages on prayer in the whole New Testament. In point of fact, as he had hinted before, their true tenure was the call of God, who was free, if He pleased, to bring in other people. 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. Most things do work together for good to those that love God. The Christian is involved in the human situation. In regard to his father, a Roman son never came of age. If you only understood how much God loved you, that's all you need.Now Paul tells you a little bit about it. Was it possible to limit this to Israel? God does not have these body parts since He is spirit (John 4:24), but this imagery is used to help communicate important truths. A variety of commentators pick the date of writing anywhere from 53 to 58 A.D. ii. God elected me. or who hath first liven to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? He was inalienably co-heir with them. 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 the most binding legal way, he got a new father. Broadly speaking, he uses it in three different ways. Once it was far otherwise. Hence it is, as he says, herein revealed "from faith," or by faith. 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. But this may be comparatively a light question. As do so many evangelists today. 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. 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. Just what do you mean?" . Not so Paul. He says that those who are in the flesh cannot please God ( Romans 8:8). the creation was subjected -- Understanding that here the "creation" is speaking of "us" (v.18) as "aspiring to the full privileges of adoption, that the present state is not one of choice" [BN]. He now, by a kind of personification, ascribes hope to them, as he did will before. 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. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. All the world was guilty before God. Now he observes an expectation of this glory. Who shall impeach the elect of God? He does not see only the consequences of man's sin; he sees the power of God's mercy and love. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. You know things start going wrong, "Oh, I need to talk to someone," you know. 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. That was said to Paul, rather than what was taught by Paul. (3.) Oh, what a fabulous time we had as we lived like rich boys. [Ktisis] (as used in Romans 8:19,20,21, and 22), CREATION, has the same signification here as in Mark 16:15: "Proclaim the glad tidings to the whole creation," that is, "all mankind;" and also Colossians 1:23, where a similar phrase occurs. With a touch of imaginative insight, he says that the state of nature was even worse than the state of men. Neither of those views, however, takes into account the revelation here that the subjection was effected "in hope," a motive far from Satan, and likewise a stranger to Adam. They cannot merit that glory; and, if suffering for Christ will not merit, much less will doing. The children of God shall appear in their own colours. The world is one where beauty fades and loveliness decays; it is a dying world; but it is waiting for its liberation from all this and the coming of the state of glory. 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. Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. So God foreknew me. (ii) There is the life that is dominated by the Spirit of God. God doesn't have to be begged to come to your assistance. 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. As David said, "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what man can do to me." Shall be revealed in us; not only revealed to us, to be seen, but revealed in us, to be enjoyed. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. If I am ruled by my body I have the mind of the body which is death, spiritual death. Oftentimes, the good that he would do he didn't do. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. Just the bottom is knocked out. When it rains, it is starting to leak. It is not merely a call then; but as we have by our Lord Jesus Christ our access into the favour wherein we stand, so there is positive boasting in the hope of the glory of God. This word has a very definite Old Testament background. 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. God knew that man's continuous struggle against corruption would mature and perfect the character needed to be in God's Family. 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 ). "But if [for so it should be read] thou art named a Jew," etc. . There. All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. The life of a salesman is a life of feast or famine, and potential great feast. Don't marvel when I say to you, ye must be born again." But it is the consequences of adoption which are most significant for the picture that is in Paul's mind. So Paul says in this passage that there was a time when the Christian was at the mercy of his own sinful human nature. The apostle allows this privilege to be great, specially in having the Scriptures, but turns the argument against the boasters. God said to Abraham: "You have not withheld your son, your only son, from me" ( Genesis 22:12). 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. . And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. Now it was manifested, and not promised or predicted merely. of the thunder and the lightning, of cold and heat, of the seasons. It is like Enoch who walked with God and God took him. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. 8:26-30 Even so, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray, if we are to pray as we ought. Heaven is an inheritance that all the saints are heirs to. ", No other world can separate us from God. Not willingly, etc. All the creatures desire their own perfection and consummation; when they are made instruments of sin it is not willingly. The threads are beginning to get a little old, rip a lot easier. Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible Romans 8. . It is not, as in Ephesians 2:1-22, dead in sins, which would be nothing to the purpose. And if it be objected, What use will they be of to glorified saints? There is mutual confirmation. Thereby is identification with His death. This section is about how Paul defended the doctrine of justification by faith. For winds shall go forth from before me to bring every, morning the fragrance of aromatic fruits, and at the close of the. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor the present age, nor the age to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Now, because Jesus was fully a man, just as we were one with Adam, we are now one with him; and, just as we were involved in Adam's sin, we are now involved in Jesus' perfection. Abraham is the proof of the value of faith in justification before God. how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? But to have to see your child suffer . Because God created a way to save humanity, both man and creation itself have hope. 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." God doesn't have any black book on me. As the reward of the saints' present sufferings; and it is a rich reward: If so be that we suffer with him (Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17), or forasmuch as we suffer with him. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. Because they were sons of Abraham. Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. I can say, "God, I bring John before you, oh, oh, oh . This passage gives a very wide perspective of Gods great plan of redemption, which is the heart of Pauls theology. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. 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. 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. He means that part of man which gives sin its bridgehead. 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. . In the other scale he puts the glory, and finds that a weight, an exceeding and eternal weight: Glory that shall be revealed. If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? It's transient. was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. It doesn't require sleep. But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. Hey, it is to have the victory in the midst of the battle. "I am not ashamed," etc. The fire at the last day shall be a refining, not a destroying annihilating fire. We know that the Jews divided all time into this present age and the age to come. 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. You say, "Oh, but I have failed God so miserably. Nothing can be more simple and essential. I am an heir to God's kingdom. How far? These are astrological terms. (2.) I guess I am related to that baboon." In life we live with Christ; in death we die with him; and because we die with him, we also rise with him. And we know well that this does not take freewill away. "[39] However, Locke's interpretation fails to give proper weight to Adam's responsibility. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 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. Faith is the mother of hope. God did it judicially; he passed a sentence upon the creatures for the sin of man, by which they became subject. 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 Let me refer in passing to a few points more in the introduction, in order to link them together with that which the Spirit was furnishing to the Roman saints, as well as to show the admirable perfectness of every word that inspiration has given us. Then, from ver. There are going to be many things that will happen to you of which, though you do your best, you're not going to be able to understand it or figure it out. 07-12-2022 12. I think that the second way of taking this is right. Therefore, it is constant and it remains. He is dead." There are two very obvious reasons why we cannot pray as we ought. Week after week I would promise God that I was going to do better next week. Romans 8 concludes the second main section of the body of the letter, ' Living under grace '. There followed a ceremony called vindicatio. Not that any part of the truth has escaped: it is the fatal brand of that "great house" that even the most elementary truth suffers the deepest injury; but as to this truth, it seems unknown altogether. One that they cannot understand, and when a person cannot understand you, you will always become a threat to them. It had its interest. Paul is drawing a contrast between two kinds of life. The first of these phrases, "from faith," excludes the law; the second, "to faith," includes every one that has faith within the scope of God's righteousness. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! What the law says, it speaks to those under it. God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. 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. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. It has always the idea of power about it, power as of a mighty rushing wind. No, they cry, it is in Isaac's seed that the Jew was called. 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. THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ( Romans 8:1-4 ). Or they say "state of being without use or value, emptiness, futility, purposelessness, transitoriness the creation was subjected to frustration Romans 8:20" (BDAG 621). Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail--groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. Moreover, He gave up the knowledge of God that had been handed down from father to son (ver. It should be understood that nature does not literally think and experience emotions. 21). I reckon that this present suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed ( Romans 8:18 ). Thus, anything that happens to me only happens to me because God has allowed it to happen to me. If that is so, we become joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, God's own Son. "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." When believers prayers are unable to express their deepest thoughts and feelings, the indwelling Spirit pleads to God on their behalf. He speaks of the Jews being his kinsmen kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) ( Romans 9:3), that is to say, speaking of human relationships. 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