For as many as are lead by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.There are a lot of people today who are making claims to being sons of God. Not so, says the apostle. That would aspire to perfect holiness and peace. Because. "We are saved by hope." But there is a third. The expression means that righteousness which God can afford to display because of Christ's atonement. ( Romans 8:32 ). He who believes is not condemned" ( John 3:17-18 ). All men die because they are involved in the human situation. All the world was guilty before God. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. Even as God pronounced the sentence upon Adam and all mankind, He gave humanity hope and the first prophecy of the coming Messiah in His rebuke of Satan: "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:15 NKJV). Using Gods solution and only His solution results in liberty and glory if we are the children of God.. We need not here enter into the details; but on the surface we see how the apostle brings all down to that which is of the deepest interest to every soul. By the cross God has a deeper moral glory than ever a glory that He thus acquired, if I may so say. His love is there and constant. ENTRY INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD ( Romans 8:12-17 ). Who then can condemn us) The answer is that the Judge of all men is Jesus Christ. Christ is come, and has changed all. As a Christian we will experience suffering, because in reality we have become an alien in the world in which we live. We are often in the position of a child who wants something which would be bound only to hurt him; and God is often in the position of a parent who has to refuse his child's request or compel him to do something he does not want to do, because he knows what is to the child's good far better than the child himself. 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. The remnant proves, then, that even under judgment the rejection of Israel is not complete, but rather a pledge of future favour. 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. I reckon--logizomai. 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. Consequently all turned, not on what man should be for God, but what God can be and is, as revealed in the gospel, to man. What shall we say then to these things? . But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. AU $80.05 . Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. The Spirit-controlled life, the Christ-centred life, the God-focused life is daily coming nearer heaven even when it is still on earth. Was it possible to limit this to Israel? If Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Thus, having shown the Gentile in Romans 1:1-32 manifestly wrong, and hopelessly degraded to the last degree having laid bare the moral dilettantism of the philosophers, not one whit better in the sight of God, but rather the reverse having shown the Jew overwhelmed by the condemnation of the divine oracles in which he chiefly boasted, without real righteousness, and so much the more guilty for his special privileges, all now lies clear for bringing in the proper Christian message, the. So my dad had a little plaque made with the words "all things" and he had it there on his desk. If he will submit his life to the control of the spirit.Paul had felt the condemnation of the law. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. We are more than conquerors through Him who loves 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. Besides this, which seems to be a most comprehensive expression for embracing every sort and degree of human iniquity, we have one very specifically named. He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. 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. It has always the idea of power about it, power as of a mighty rushing wind. Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible Romans 8. . As he breathes in the air and the air fills him, so Christ fills him. This is based on Romans 16:1 and 16:23 along with 1 Corinthians 1:14. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. He is, of course, the same absolutely perfect and unchangeable God of goodness; but His perfection has displayed itself in new and more glorious ways in Christ's death, in Him who humbled Himself, and was obedient even to the death of the cross. He talks of this present age and of the glory that will be disclosed. A wondrous way, but most blessed! As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. If man is acquitted by God, then he is saved from every other condemnation. There was somewhat as yet lacking to the saints there; but even this was ordered of God to call forth from the Holy Ghost an epistle which more than any other approaches a complete treatise on the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and especially as to righteousness. I confine myself to its doctrinal import, and the full Christian sense of the word; and I maintain that salvation signifies that deliverance for the believer which is the full consequence of the mighty work of Christ, apprehended not, of course, necessarily according to all its depth in God's eyes, but at any rate applied to the soul in the power of the Holy Ghost. 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. Into this world came Jesus; with a completely human nature; and he brought to God a life of perfect obedience, of perfect fulfilment of God's law. If that is true of nature, it is still truer of man. More than once Paul speaks of these angels ( Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:10; Colossians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 15:24). Romans 7:1-20. Of what then shall we be afraid? not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the (b) NIV has "set me free", NAS "set you free.". "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. First, as to practical holiness, it is not merely that Christ has died for my sins, but that even in the initiatory act of baptism the truth set forth there is that I am dead. It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. May we not say, it became vain willingly, but was made subject to vanity unwillingly? That there is none righteous, none that doeth good, none that understandeth. Of the Jew by his own confession. Who is the one condemning? Glory! Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. I hope that brethren in Christ will bear with me if I press on them the importance of taking good heed to it that their souls are thoroughly grounded in this, the proper place of the Christian by Christ's death and resurrection. This doctrine of the manifestation of the sons of God is sort of a heavy kind of a doctrine. Verse 21 may be correlated with the references previously given (Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 22:1-21 and Acts 3:1-26). And, of course, the tent blew over and it had holes in it. "Well, I know, but not this case. But this great work of Christ was not and could not be a mere vindication of God; and we may find it otherwise developed in various parts of Scripture, which I here mention by the way to show the point at which we are arrived. This is the first ground. . That is, the redemption of our body. If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? 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. 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. Even if other sons were afterwards born, it did not affect his rights. Here, then, it is a comparison of the two great heads Adam and Christ, and the immeasurable superiority of the second man is shown. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life. 4). But we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. And if it be objected, What use will they be of to glorified saints? It is a proper training for heaven. For, let us recur to the origin of Gentilism, the confusion of languages, by reason of the attempt to build the tower of Babel; and though there are some passages in the gloss of the Targumists upon this matter that are sufficiently ridiculous, yet as to their scope and design they are worthy of notice. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. In him mankind brought to God the perfect obedience, just as in Adam mankind brought to God the fatal disobedience. Think of the Christian experience. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. For you have not received the spirit of bondage ( Romans 8:15 ). Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. If children, then heirs,Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17. It is the going forth of His richest blessing. 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. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. Pretty tense there for a little bit. 14, 15). God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. He now, by a kind of personification, ascribes hope to them, as he did will before. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. Oh, how grateful we are for that love of God for us tonight in Christ Jesus. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.". Now the man who lives dominated by his body appetites is living like an animal, because animals are body-controlled beings. A description of our present physical bodies "as frail and dying; as exposed to trials, temptations, and cares; as in the midst of conflicts" (Barnes). 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 ). Our present sufferings and future glory 8:18-25, Paul proceeded to expound on the thought that he introduced at the end of Romans 8:17. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. The second plea is not that the rejection of Israel is only partial, however extensive, but that it is also temporary, and not definitive. 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. Thus the subjection was "not of its own will.". They would not hear of it. No, for in all of these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us ( Romans 8:37 ). The mind being synonymous with the soul, the consciousness of man. This could not be attained if they were removed at once to heaven. 2 for i bear them witness that b they have a zeal for god, c but not according to knowledge. 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. People often do. (b) Over and over again he uses the phrase kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) , literally according to the flesh, which most often means looking at things from the human point of view. In Hebrew it is ruach ( H7307) , and it has two basic thoughts. 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. A collections of bible studies from Randy White Ministries. he died for me, yea rather, is risen again, in fact he is at the right hand of the Father, interceding for me ( Romans 8:34 ). We groan earnestly desiring to be delivered" ( 2 Corinthians 5:1-2 ). For the law which comes from the Spirit and leads to life has in Christ Jesus set me free from the law which begets sin and leads to death. 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. It is not God seeking, or man bringing righteousness. Because I don't always know what God's particular will is in a particular situation. Lot Chuck Missler 4CD + 20 DVD Set and 6 Books (Romans, Acts, Luke, John) Notes. 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. 2. Sounds pretty wonderful, doesn't it? So then we who are still living in these bodies do often groan, for we ourselves also groan within ourselves. We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. According to the Rabbis there were three ranks of angels. The adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ). If he struggled against them, he was uselessly battering his head against the ineluctable purpose of God. He really means human nature in all its weakness and he means human in its vulnerability to sin. 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. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). "By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith." For the present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed. He which has begun a good work in me shall surely continue to perform it. This brings in the contrast with the other Head, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have here not as One bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, but as the spring and chief of a new family. It was the logos ( G3056) which controlled the ordered succession of night and day, and summer and winter and spring and autumn. (i) There is the life which is dominated by sinful human nature; whose focus and centre is self; whose only law is its own desires; which takes what it likes where it likes. Although circumcision began with Abraham, manifestly it had nothing to do with his righteousness, and at best was but the seal of the righteousness of faith which he had in an uncircumcised state. (2.) (a) It is God who acquits men--that is the statement. He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. (Romans 8:28) 12/04/11 : The "Ordo Salutis" (Romans 8:28-30) 12/11/11 : Sovereignty & Responsibility (Romans 8:28-30 Part 2) 12/18/11 : God is For Us! Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. Just as Abraham was so loyal to God that he was prepared to sacrifice his dearest possession, God is so loyal to men that he is prepared to sacrifice his only Son for them. See Lightfoot. But now the body appetites under the control of the spirit as God intended them to be. In different people that life will be differently described. ( Romans 8:35.) He speaks of physical circumcision, literally "in the flesh" ( Romans 2:28). Romans 1 Romans 1:1-17 Are You a Saint! This is a textual problem in the Greek manuscripts - some manuscripts have 'me', some 'you'. That I could have that ear infection and I could somehow take her suffering and bear it for her so that she wouldn't have to suffer. 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). (a) It is not only the word for Spirit; it is also the word for wind. 3). . Romans 8:26-27 form one of the most important passages on prayer in the whole New Testament. The saints are spiritual priests, that have the Lord for their inheritance, Numbers 18:20. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. "You only have I known of all the families of the earth," said God to Amos ( Amos 3:2). This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. The Rabbis had a legend that when God appeared on Sinai to give Moses the law he was attended by his hosts of angels, and the angels grudged Israel the law, and assaulted Moses on his way up the mountain and would have stopped him had not God intervened. Wait a minute. The second included powers, lordships and mights. Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. . No sooner has Paul said this than an inevitable objection strikes him. Children will dream. (1) That the instinctive feelings of Christians lead them to desire a purer and a happier world, Philippians 1:23. THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ( Romans 8:1-4 ). Three items in Paul's statement and in the early creed are the same, that Jesus died, rose again, and is at the right hand of God. "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ," he says. All Israel shall be saved. But there is one who isn't making any charges against me, and that is God. But, when he became a Christian, into his life there came the surging power of the Spirit of God, and, as a result, he entered into victorious living. The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Because they look around and they say, "Will you look at that baboon over there? If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. C. H. Dodd puts it in this way. How, then, is he using it? for the mind of the flesh is not subject to the law of God, and neither indeed can it be. Paul clearly wants us to know who the boss is. 8, after thanking God through Jesus for their faith spoken of everywhere, and telling them of his prayers for them, he briefly discloses the desire of his heart about them his long-cherished hope according to the grace of the gospel to reach Rome his confidence in the love of God that through him some spiritual gift would be imparted to them, that they might be established, and, according to the spirit of grace which filled his own heart, that he too might be comforted together with them "by the mutual faith both of you and me" (vv. There is nothing that proves this so convincingly as the book of Genesis; and the apostle, by the Spirit of God, calmly but triumphantly summons the Jewish Scriptures to demonstrate that which the Jews were so strenuously denying. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? That the brute and inanimate creation is not here . Therefore, if I had a new mansion I wouldn't need any bedrooms. But can the persecution, the peril, the nakedness, the sword, can these things separate me from the love of Christ? There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. 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. Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. It is a figurative expression. Matthew was also a Jew, and that made his affinity with the Romans a traitorous act in the eyes of the Jews. same in Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The apostle's concern that his countrymen were strangers to the gospel. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Thus the latter portion of the chapter is not doctrine exactly, but the proof of the difficulties of a soul who has not realised death to the law by the body of Christ. Zechariah 4:10. The creatures are often abused to the dishonour of their Creator, the hurt of his children, or the service of his enemies. I was always feeling guilty because I was always breaking my vow before God. Who shall impeach the elect of God? 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. "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. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." Those that will deal with God must deal upon trust. With one tremendous leap of thought Paul has seen Christ, not as the Judge but as the lover of the souls of men. "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. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. But there is another side to this picture. He says to his Christian friends, "You are not in the flesh" ( Romans 8:9). Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. It is not a matter of choice. It is not said to be revealed in the gospel. We saw how the Jewish conception of solidarity made it possible for him to argue that, quite literally, all men were involved in Adam's sin and in its consequence--death. He is saying four things about Jesus. That the creatures groan and travail in pain together under this vanity and corruption, Romans 8:22; Romans 8:22. Romans 8:20English Standard Version. From the first verse we have the application of the dead and risen Christ to the soul, till in verse 11 we see the power of the Holy Ghost, which brings the soul into this liberty now, applied by-and-by to the body, when there will be the complete deliverance. So Paul goes on to think of human longing. 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. 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. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:4 ). The vision of God and the fruition of God make up the inheritance the saints are heirs to. This section is the start of looking at how exactly should we stop doing bad things, without turning to legalism (meaning that we start believing that we can become holy and please God just by obeying the law, therefore . Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. That is a yet future experience that I am to have. The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. Hence, what he is here discussing is not remission of sins, but deliverance from sin. What the apostle had given him in fulness was the great truth, however fundamental it may be, that I am entitled, and even called on in the name of the Lord Jesus, to know that I am dead to sin; not that I must die, but that I am dead that my baptism means nothing less than this, and is shorn of its most emphatic point if limited merely to Christ's dying for my sins.

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