Luke 6:15-16 calls two other apostles (James and Judas) the sons of Alphaeus also. The soul may feel the blood of Jesus to be a yet deeper want; but this alone does not give peace with God. Paul is saying: "In this present world nothing can separate us from God in Christ; the day will come when this world will be shattered and the new age will dawn. "You only have I known of all the families of the earth," said God to Amos ( Amos 3:2). Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. When the EEG reads flat for twenty-four hours they say, "Well, there is no brain movement or brain activity at all, lets pull the plug and see if anything happens on the monitor." And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. They remain on earth for this purpose: and this should be their leading aim. In both Old and New it is the same substantial testimony. It is eternal. God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. "They said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, and let its head reach unto the top of heaven; and let us make a house of worship in the top of it; and let us put a sword in his hand that he may wage war for us against our enemies, before we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." It is only when we understand how serious and complicated a step Roman adoption was that we really under stand the depth of meaning in this passage. In the other scale he puts the glory, and finds that a weight, an exceeding and eternal weight: Glory that shall be revealed. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. In the creed the fourth is that Jesus will come to be the judge of the quick and the dead. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? The children of God shall appear in their own colours. We had to live in a tent for two years our church here, and it had its qualities, I guess. The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. Height (hupsoma, G5313) was the time when a star was at its zenith and its influence was greatest; depth (bathos, G899) was the time when a star was at its lowest, waiting to rise and to put its influence on some man. Jesus Christ came into this world; he lived; he went to the Cross; he rose again. Was he not himself, says Paul, a proof to the contrary? Not my will, but Thine be done.". Neither life nor death can separate us from Christ. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. It was not merely, that he had better light. II. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. No Cause to Boast. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. God has made prayer such a simple, beautiful thing. That the creature doth therefore earnestly expect and wait for the manifestation of the children of God,Romans 8:19; Romans 8:19. There is an enmity of one creature to another; they are all subject to continual alteration and decay of the individuals, liable to the strokes of God's judgments upon man. Man classifies death as the separation of man's consciousness from his body. I am as one with thee; I am thine; I flinch from nothing so long as thou dost think that it is good. If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. 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. Because of the fall of man, every part of God's creation was subjected to a curse ( Romans 8:20 ). Oh, what a fabulous time we had as we lived like rich boys. That final adoption will be the redemption of their bodies. The first included thrones, cherubim and seraphim. 1. God is a Spirit, so the place I meet God is the place of the spirit. 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. Sin came into this world and with sin came death, the consequence of sin. It is our having received the first-fruits of the Spirit, which both quickens our desires and encourages our hopes, and both ways raises our expectations. And as that little remnant is ever sustained by the grace of God, it is the standing pledge of their final blessedness through His mercy, whereon the apostle breaks out into raptures of thanksgiving to God. And it is interesting, you start spending the commission. Romans 8:20. 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. He talks of this present age and of the glory that will be disclosed. It shall then be rescued from the power of death and the grave, and the bondage of corruption; and, though a vile body, yet it shall be refined and beautified, and made like that glorious body of Christ, Philippians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 15:42. All Israel shall be saved. ENTRY INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD ( Romans 8:12-17 ). Although many agree that God is spoken of here, Godet thought it was Adam who, through his rebellion, subjected the lower creation to the curse of God; and Hammond was quoted by him as applying the term "him". "Well, I know, but not this case. There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. Any date. See Lightfoot. Upon what ground? 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. 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. He doesn't keep a record of my mistakes, my sins, my failures. 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! All Sermons Bible Studies Devotionals Prayers. When Paul was painting this picture, he was working with ideas that any Jew would recognize and understand. To allow the things of the world completely to dominate life is self extinction; it is spiritual suicide. 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. That act denoted not even the washing away of our sins by the blood of Jesus, which would not apply to the case, nor in any adequate way meet the question of nature. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. Oh, how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity. Because God created a way to save humanity, both man and creation itself have hope. That there is going to come in the last days a great power of God's Spirit upon the church and God is going to manifest Himself through you, His church, and you are going to be endowed with all kinds of supernatural powers. The Spirit-controlled life, the Christ-centred life, the God-focused life is daily coming nearer heaven even when it is still on earth. For, essentially associated as He is with the glory of God the Father, the full deliverance of souls from the realm of death was His also. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. It isn't that my spirit is not willing. (1) That the instinctive feelings of Christians lead them to desire a purer and a happier world, Philippians 1:23. 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? The answer is, that this will not do one whit better; for when we come down to the next generation, it is apparent that the two sons of Isaac were sons of the same mother; nay, they were twins. It is to be carefully noted that when Paul thinks of the kind of life that a man dominated by the sarx ( G4561) lives he is not by any means thinking exclusively of sexual and bodily sins. Romans 8:20, NIV: For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope. But there was far more in Jesus. 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. Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. What gives glory to God like this? He is saying four things about Jesus. [Note: See Don N. Howell Jr., "The Center of Pauline Theology," Bibliotheca Sacra 151:601 (January-March 1994):50-70.]. Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. He has no mind of his own; Christ is his mind. The life of a salesman is a life of feast or famine, and potential great feast. Childbirth changed. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. Hey, wait a minute. 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. 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. "Earth, the universal mother, shall give to mortals her best, fruit in countless store of corn, wine and oil. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. This passed away with man when he sinned. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. The Bible tells me so. In the creatures Romans 8:19-22; Romans 8:19-22. It is not here believing on Jesus, but on God who has proved what He is to us in raisin, from among the dead Him who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification (verses 13-25). God, I am going to do better." It becomes popular about every forty years. But the fourth is different. Not only does the created world do so, but so do we, even though we have received the first-fruits of the spirit as a foretaste of the coming glory, yes, we too groan within ourselves earnestly awaiting the full realization of our adoption into the family of God. Roman history provides an outstanding case of how completely this was held to be true. We are a minority group. God doesn't love me when I am good and hate me when I am bad. Now if I am a child, I am an heir; I am an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together ( Romans 8:17 ). The majority of the people in the world are living after the flesh. the Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. For in the sad disorder which followed the fall of Adam, the whole machinery of the world would have instantly become deranged, and all its parts would have failed had not some hidden strength supported them. Oh boy, I'd go up an get me a house in Montecito, like that one where I stayed. So what the law could not do because of my weakness in the flesh, that is because I violated it. It is that body consciousness, and you talk to the average person apart from Jesus Christ and they are going to be talking to you about things that relate to the body. It was Paul's picture that when a man became a Christian he entered into the very family of God. day clouds distilling the dews of health" (Baruch 29:5). 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. If I am ruled by my body I have the mind of the body which is death, spiritual death. One day I am going to be free from this old body in this bondage of corruption and I am going to come into that glorious liberty of freedom. This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. 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. The first-fruits did both sanctify and ensure the lump. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. The old life has no more rights over us; God has an absolute right. Now, God, you interpret that." Paul knew that, and here he, as it were, endows creation with consciousness. Because you were not answering to the very basic cause of your existence. "All right, we conquered," and then was the great elation, rejoicing. God himself will be with them, and will be their God, Revelation 21:3. By the spirit I am receiving that sense of adoption where I am crying Abba Father, for it is the Spirit that is bearing witness to me that I am a child of God. Now it is the positive power of God in raising up from the dead Him that was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justifying. (iv) In the eyes of the law he was absolutely the son of his new father. He is not coming physically or bodily, but He is going to be coming in His church to be manifested through His church to the world, and the whole world is just groaning and travailing as waiting for you to be manifested. And they watch that monitor, because if there is any life at all then the brain will start searching for oxygen, and you will see a little bit of movement. 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. In their rising and their setting they are powerless to separate you from God's love. These two lives are going in diametrically opposite directions. 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. higher, if so high, in this epistle. Because, though my spirit was indeed willing, my flesh was weak. Nor is there only the manifest call of the Gentiles in this, but with no less clearness there is the rejection, at any rate for a time, of proud Israel. "Behold I create new heavens and a new earth" ( Isaiah 65:17). Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. The same Spirit who gives hope for the future gives help in the present. Three times the symbolism of sale was carried out. Obviously this made adoption into another family a very difficult and serious step. But the thing that amazes me is that foreknowing me He predestined that I should be one of His children, that is the thing that amazes me most. 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. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. To put it in another way, the Stoic believed that nothing could happen to a man which did not come from God and which was not part of God's plan for him. He says that those who are in the flesh cannot please God ( Romans 8:8). "Yea verily, their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." For you have not received the spirit of bondage ( Romans 8:15 ). how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 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. Who is he who condemns? He may be opposite to Michael or to Gabriel, but never to God. we know how this was in Israel, how it might be, and has been, in Christendom. As He has made all, so He is heir of all. Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. 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 ). As Christ was, so the saints will be, declared to be the sons of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead, Romans 1:4; Romans 1:4. Paul recognized his problem, and he ends chapter 7 with that cry, "O wretched man that I am! Rome was the center of civilization at the time of Paul's epistle. How many times have you interpreted it that way? You believe in God, believe also in Me. When the world was drowned, and almost all the creatures in it, surely then it was subject to vanity indeed. But if it were so, He had not done with them. The subject terminates with the grand truth which must never be obscured by details that we are to receive, one another, as Christ has received us, to the glory of God. The Gentiles the despised heathen were to be brought in; the self-satisfied Jews are left behind, justly and beyond question, if they believed the law and the prophets. C. H. Dodd puts it in this way. You know, He is through with me. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. That was never God's intention that prayer should be the instrument by which man can accomplish his will upon the earth. Romans 8 20 Adam Clarke Bible Commentary Romans 8:20 Verse 20. Man is an inferior trinity: spirit, soul, and body. It surely appeals to a person's flesh, because basically what this doctrine declares is that the whole world is waiting for you to be manifested as the sons of God. And a lot of times you even put a great deal in escrow. To live according to the flesh is to live a life dominated by the dictates and desires of sinful human nature instead of a life dominated by the dictates and the love of God. Let it not be! Latest Posts. Now likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself will make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered ( Romans 8:25-26 ). And when we look back upon our Christian experience, all we can say is, "I did not do this; I could never have done this; God did everything." Faith respects the promise, hope the thing promised. Gentiles, who were without God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. Now the man who lives dominated by his body appetites is living like an animal, because animals are body-controlled beings. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." The law demanded, but could never receive righteousness from man. 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. The very sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, Prov 15 8. We accordingly are dead, says he, to the law; not (as no doubt almost all of us know) that the law dies, but that we are dead to the law in the death of Christ. Then, from ver. Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein CHAPTER 8 In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. From what? It is like Enoch who walked with God and God took him. 3 for, being ignorant of d the righteousness of god, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to god's righteousness. (3.) Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). (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! 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. Is there no call, no mercy, of God for any besides? 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. He says, that they have been subjected to vanity, and for this reason, because they abide not in a constant and durable state, but being as it were evanescent and unstable, they pass away swiftly; for no doubt he sets vanity in opposition to a perfect state. 2 for i bear them witness that b they have a zeal for god, c but not according to knowledge. Sin was in the world between Adam and Moses, when the law was not. 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. 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. Now I take this opportunity of pressing on all that are here to beware of contracted views of "salvation." Observe, (1.) Paul made the case just as airtight as he possibly could. If God be for me . We see then that every step of Roman adoption was meaningful in the mind of Paul when he transferred the picture to our adoption into the family of God. As previously stated, this word meant things like futility, frailty, aimlessness, the inability to reach a goal or achieve results. (Romans 8:1 . The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. 07-12-2022 12. Man was not complete. 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]. They weren't quite sure though. is the double prophecy. What is it we are thus desiring and waiting for? to deal with the whole posterity of Adam as involved in death because of one, their common father, who could deny the consistency of one man's saving? Not only man, but all of creation is groaning under the curse of sin. Satan is a finite created being. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." There is no language where their voice is not heard. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.". . 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." Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. Hey, wait a minute. Though they were willingly vain, yet they were not willingly made subject to vanity; they willingly went into idolatrous and other evil practices, but the devil made them subject, or slaves unto them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, and to their lusts; for he seems to be designed, "by him who hath subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the world. But then again he intimates that the nature of the gospel is involved in the publishing of the glad tidings. When you have got it in escrow you are feeling pretty good about it. [4] Contents 1 Text If I am thus pitied of God, if so truly and completely a justified man, if I am really an object of God's eternal favour, how can I have such a sense of continual evil? But this is not all; and the objection of the Jew gives occasion for the apostle to bring out a fuller display of what God is. If a man loves and trusts and accepts God, if he is convinced that God is the all-wise and all-loving Father, then he can humbly accept all that he sends to him. The ancient world was haunted by the tyranny of the stars. 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. Consequently the door is as open to the Gentile as to the Jew. We are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. That there is, of course, a grain of truth in such views, stems from the fact that both Adam and Satan had a part in it, Satan as the provocateur, and Adam as the rebellious instrument. Here, again, the apostle takes up what he had but announced in chapter 1 the righteousness of God. 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, 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. If he accepted the things that God sent him, he knew peace. Consequently the call of God, and not the birth simply makes the real difference. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? Free postage . The adoption ceremony was carried out in the presence of seven witnesses. But it is amazing how sometimes these sure deals can fall out of escrow, and oh, what disappointment. This designs the vanity and emptiness of the minds of the Gentiles, who were without God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain conceits they had of themselves, of their wisdom, knowledge, learning, and eloquence; likewise their vain philosophy, particularly their gross idolatry, their polytheism, or worshipping of many gods; together with their divers lusts and vices, to which they were addicted, to such a degree, that they might be truly said to be made subject thereunto, being under the government of these things, slaves unto them, and in such subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; though it is said. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. To the limits of the holy land? And where? There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. 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