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 same energy of the Holy Ghost which had displayed itself in Jesus, when He walked in holiness here below, was demonstrated in resurrection; and not merely in His own rising from the dead, but in raising such at any time no doubt, though most signally and triumphantly displayed in His own resurrection. Let us remember that he began all this by saying that every man sinned in Adam. The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ). And this not willingly, not of their own choice. They do have a consciousness that is constantly absorbed with their body needs. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. It is the deep experience of the Christian that all is of God; that he did nothing and that God did everything. 3). Christ is come, and has changed all. That is what Jesus said, "You didn't choose me, I chose you." 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 ). But can the persecution, the peril, the nakedness, the sword, can these things separate me from the love of Christ? It was undeniable that the Gentiles did not seek the Lord, nor ask after Him; and the prophet says that Jehovah was found of them that sought Him not, and was made manifest to them that asked not after Him. 2. 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. God delivered His Son to die for my sins. God's unseen guiding is in our lives, but to the end of the day we can refuse it and take our own way. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. So my dad had a little plaque made with the words "all things" and he had it there on his desk. The threads are beginning to get a little old, rip a lot easier. We do not need to be very old to look back and see that things we thought were disasters worked out to our good; things that we thought were disappointments worked out to greater blessings. All Israel shall be saved. So they that have the mind of the flesh find themselves at enmity with God. The spirit is groaning, waiting for that perfect work of God. He means that from the beginning of time God marked us out for salvation; that in due time his call came to us; but the pride of man's heart can wreck God's plan and the disobedience of man's will can refuse the call. (b) He rose again. He is dead." They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. 8:18-25 For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present age cannot be compared with the glory which is destined to be disclosed to us. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death ( Romans 8:2 ). 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. Someone may object: "You say that the Spirit-controlled man is on the way to life; but in point of fact every man must die. It is "the power of God unto salvation." Glory! (3.) Verse Concepts.King James Version. I think that this particular verse has meant more to me than almost any other passage of scripture, because I lived so many years of my Christian life in constant condemnation. We surrender our bodies, and our tongues, to the Holy Spirit in faith, and the Holy Spirit gives us the appropriate words in prayer through our tongues. He speaks with a poet's vision. Man became the object, first, of general dealings of God under Noah; next, of His special ways in the calling of Abraham and of his family. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" When Paul uses the phrase kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) , it always implies that he is looking at things from the human point of view. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. Salvation supposes not this only, but a great deal more. $135.00 + $4.16 shipping . hope. He is interceding in your behalf. But with the vanity also came hope. God promised that a Savior would come (Genesis 3:15) and that this savior would help mankind. When man sinned, the ground was cursed for man's sake, and with it all the creatures (especially of this lower world, where our acquaintance lies) became subject to that curse, became mutable and mortal. And we know well that this does not take freewill away. "Behold I create new heavens and a new earth" ( Isaiah 65:17). Faith is the evidence, hope the expectation, of things not seen. It could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. For the creature - The renewed creature; the Christian mind. 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. (ii) It followed that he became heir to his new father's estate. It is not God seeking, or man bringing righteousness. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. It is His righteousness, or, in other words, His perfect consistency with Himself, which is always involved in the notion of righteousness. One that they cannot understand, and when a person cannot understand you, you will always become a threat to them. So God elected me. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. God knew Israel, but the day came when Israel refused the destiny God meant her to have. Thus, anything that happens to me only happens to me because God has allowed it to happen to me. All he thinks about is his body need. 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. He is body, mind, and spirit. How glorious it is to walk in the Spirit, to be in union with the Spirit of God, to be led by the Spirit of God, and to have that glorious assurance of God's Spirit bearing witness to mine. 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. To cement the alliance Nero wished to marry her. 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. At this particular time the Jews had a highly developed belief in angels. We are often so hard on ourselves and are in the position of condemning ourselves, but I can tell you one who is not condemning. Yes, He suffered, but as He suffered He was looking forward to the glory of the kingdom and the joy of being able to redeem lost man. Granted that it is so, at once and fully. Did they fall back on Abraham? But yet, God puts it in the past tense, which to me is quite interesting. After the fall, many things became frail and futile. Shall trial, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Because of the Fall God subjected the whole creation to "futility" or "frustration." I reckon that this present suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed ( Romans 8:18 ). Following up with the teaching of the olive-tree, he carries out the same thought of a remnant that abides on their own stock, and points to a re-instatement of the nation, And I would just observe by the way, that the Gentile cry that no Jew ever accepts the gospel in truth is a falsehood. Here we may observe. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." 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. The ancient world was haunted by the tyranny of the stars. In the most solemn way he appeals to man with the demand, whether he thinks that God will look complacently on that which barely judges another, but which allows the practice of evil in the man himself (Romans 2:1-3). But now to faith all this is gone not lightly, but truly in the sight of God; so that he may live on a Saviour that is risen from the dead as his new life. Her question to Jesus is, "Where do we worship God?" More or less, the Christian is brought under this influence; his joys are marred; his peace is discomposed; his affections wander; his life is a life of vanity and vexation. 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 They do not come to it as purchasers by any merit or procurement of their own; but as heirs, purely by the act of God; for God makes heirs. It is acknowledged that one of the principal graces of a Christian is hope (1 Corinthians 13:13), which necessarily implies a good thing to come, which is the object of that hope. Lord, thank You. For you did not receive a state whose dominating condition is slavery so that you might relapse into fear; but you received a state whose dominating characteristic is adoption, in which we cry, "Abba! Now the man who lives dominated by his body appetites is living like an animal, because animals are body-controlled beings. 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. Pleasing God is our highest end, of which those that are in the flesh cannot but fall short; they cannot please him, nay, they cannot but displease him. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. 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. When Adam and Eve sinned (Genesis 3:1-6), God subjected all of mankind to futility (Genesis 3:14-24), that is, Adam and Eve were separated from the tree of life. He was made in the image and the likeness of God, and it was from that image the he fell. God is the infinite, the eternal Creator. Justification is not from works of law. It is not only a blessing in its own direct character, or in indirect though real effects, but the Giver Himself is our joy, and boast, and glory. The first included thrones, cherubim and seraphim. And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. (b) Our belief is in a Christ who died and rose again and who is alive for evermore--that is the statement. No matter how old he was, he was still under the patria potestas, in the absolute possession and under the absolute control, of his father. God tells you that you ought to be putting the spirit first. All the days of our appointed time we are waiting, till this change shall come, when he shall call, and we shall answer, and he will have a desire to the work of his hands, Job 14:14; Job 14:15. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. 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. Probably God is in view as the one who subjected it, though Satan and Adam were instrumental in that action. The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. This is called the adoption. Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity He will cause sweet fountains of, white milk to burst forth. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" The Spirit-controlled life, the Christ-centred life, the God-focused life is daily coming nearer heaven even when it is still on earth. Each CD has 20 to 40 hours a verse by verse, audio teaching, audio and MP3 format with audio slideshow presentation, and . He knew that by no possible human effort can a man justify himself; and he also knew that by no possible effort of the human intelligence can a man know for what to pray. 3. It was so exciting reading every night. Thither He shall come, and thence, go forth. already. It does not matter; even then, when this world has passed and the new world come, the bond is still the same. So the mind of the flesh is death, because it is a consciousness that is separated from God and absorbed with the things of my own body and those needs. There is a new law that is working in me. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. On the contrary, it was the Jew provoked by the Gentiles "By them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you." In addition to nature being pictured in human terms (it thinks and feels), God is also pictured in human terms. Our happiness is not in present possession: We are saved by hope. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. 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 next question, actually, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? If anyone does not possess the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to Christ. The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. Nonetheless, the Christian does not live only in the world; he also lives in Christ. We did not achieve that; all is of God. So God has subjected us in hope as we hope for that day and we hope for that kingdom. 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. 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." But did this satisfy the apostle? Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. A slave to my own appetite. But they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Now when we get to the book of Revelation, chapter 4, and God is there upon the throne, surrounded by the twenty-four lesser thrones of the elders and those cherubim, those angelic beings are worshipping the eternal God, the Creator, and are saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which is, which was, and which is to come" and the elders fall on their faces, taking their golden crowns and casting them before the glassy sea, before the throne of God. Or is mindful of fleshly things, or body needs. 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. But there is another incompleteness of man. Plants, animals, rocks, and dirt cannot in any sense yearn in hope. It is no longer the realm of hope. The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. 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. It is foolish to fight God, because you're fighting against the very best for your own life.The next question, Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Will usually post within 20 business days of receiving cleared payment. Psalms 19:1-14 is used in the most beautiful manner to insinuate that the limits are the world. It is his wise arrangement. Verse 20. 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. That law of the Spirit of life that God has written in my heart.God accepts that which is in my heart. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. Such is the doctrine and the fact. In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. Using Gods solution and only His solution results in liberty and glory if we are the children of God.. but I have received the Spirit [of sonship,] adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father ( Romans 8:15 ). In the same way the apostle disposes of all pretence on the score of ordinances, especially circumcision. He is hostile to him, resentful of his law and his control. Thus the deliverance is not merely for the joy of the soul, but also for strength in our walking after the Spirit, who has given and found a nature in which He delights, communicating withal His own delight in Christ, and making obedience to be the joyful service of the believer. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. And this leads us to see not only where there was an analogy with those who believe in a promised Saviour, but also to a weighty difference. 8:1 The Greek emphasizes the word "no.". The expression means that righteousness which God can afford to display because of Christ's atonement. 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. What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! Why it is, he has not seen fit to inform us fully. Not so Paul. They believed that a man was born under a certain star and thereby his destiny was settled. Daily devotional with John Piper. 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." God created man with this emptiness so that man would seek after God to find that fulfillment and meaning for life. What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). Paul says in effect: "God for us did not spare his own Son; surely that is the final guarantee that he loves us enough to supply all our needs." If he was called, so were they he an apostle, they not apostles but saints; but still, for them as for him, all flowed out of the same mighty love, of God. We are told to be careful lest we deceive ourselves. learning, and eloquence; likewise their vain philosophy, Man can never be satisfied until he is in union with God. That is why creation waits for this event with eager longing. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. If you only understood how much God loved you, that's all you need.Now Paul tells you a little bit about it. He shows the object of expectation from what is of an opposite character; for as creatures, being now subject to corruption, cannot be restored until the sons of God shall be wholly restore; hence they, longing for their renewal, look forward to the manifestation of the celestial kingdom. The Jews were the last in the world to take such ground as this. Spiritual life which results in that glorious peace. Paul used figurative language to clarify and emphasize his point. God, creation, and man all felt the dramatic effects of sin when the beautiful harmony in the world ended. It must not be, assumed too readily. Even as you have all had a fleshly birth, we are here, it is just as necessary that you have a spiritual birth, for man by nature is alienated from God. Now this should be to each of us tonight a very searching verse, and upon reading this, it is important that each of us now make a personal inventory and evaluation and ask ourselves the question: Is my life led by the Spirit of God? For all who are guided by the Spirit of God, these, and only these, are the children of God. There were two steps. Taxes; Taxes may be applicable at checkout. There is a general outcry of the whole creation against the sin of man: the stone crieth out of the wall (Habakkuk 2:11), the land cries, Job 31:38. The downfall of man, when he thus abandoned God, was most rapid and profound; and the Holy Spirit traces this solemnly to the end ofRomans 1:1-32; Romans 1:1-32 with no needless words, in a few energetic strokes summing up that which is abundantly confirmed (but in how different a manner!) All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. Paul is saying that, because of our weakness, we do not know what to pray for, but the prayers we ought to offer are offered for us by the Holy Spirit. Thus the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against (not only the open ungodliness of men, but) the orthodox unrighteousness of those that hold the truth in unrighteousness. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). 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. "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ," he says. 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. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. But natural conscience, although it may detect evil, never leads one into the inward possession and enjoyment of good never brings the soul to God. With a touch of imaginative insight, he says that the state of nature was even worse than the state of men. "There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus" ( Romans 8:1 ). How far? But there was far more in Jesus. (2.) That would be a day of judgment when the world would be shaken to its foundations; but out of it there would come a new world. . That is what Paul is thinking of here. What, then, is its voice? In life we live with Christ; in death we die with him; and because we die with him, we also rise with him. Scripture Romans 8 Sort Bible Verse. I think it would be good for all of us to make a little plaque and put it on our mirrors or someplace where we are reminded every day that all things are working together for good to those who love God. 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. Thy Strong Word. There is a disposition continually to imagine that what is frequently spoken of must be understood; but experience will soon show that this is not the case. 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. The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in That the creature doth therefore earnestly expect and wait for the manifestation of the children of God,Romans 8:19; Romans 8:19. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. 20 For . 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