romans 8:20 commentary

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). It is, however, fully in keeping with the teachings of the Bible that God is said to do many things which, in a lesser sense, were done by others, as, for example, in the case of the crucifixion of Christ (see under Romans 3:26). We had to live in a tent for two years our church here, and it had its qualities, I guess. 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). The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. St. Paul's Des Peres Bible Study 1 Corinthians 14 KFUO Radio. Romans speaks to Christians today just as powerfully as it did in the first century. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. 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 If God is for us, who is against us? It is a figurative expression. 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. This type of figurative speech is frequently found in the Bible. That the creatures groan and travail in pain together under this vanity and corruption, Romans 8:22; Romans 8:22. Then you really aren't a part of God or His kingdom. It will then be put past dispute. Any man who lives controlled by his body needs is living as an animal and that is why the humanists today are so certain that they are related to the animal kingdom. As you look at your life, can you honestly say, "Yes, my life is led by the Spirit of God"? The old life has no more rights over us; God has an absolute right. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Now, that suffering saints may have strong supports and consolations from their hopes of heaven, he holds the balance (Romans 8:18; Romans 8:18), in a comparison between the two, which is observable. Interactive Bible study with John Piper. but contrary to it. First of all the apostle points out that death has come in, and that this was no consequence of law, but before it. In this, as in other things, God hath made our present state a state of trial and probation--that our reward is out of sight. In addition, after man ruined perfection, even nature had to bear some of the consequences. 40:1. If he will submit his life to the control of the spirit.Paul had felt the condemnation of the law. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. For those whom he knew long ago he long ago designed to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brothers. We, having received such clusters in this wilderness, cannot but long for the full vintage in the heavenly Canaan. As he breathes in the air and the air fills him, so Christ fills him. But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. Not at all the opposite of God. In Romans 8:19 he uses a wonderful word for eager expectation. higher, if so high, in this epistle. subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the Those that will deal with God must deal upon trust. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. then, go out to Gentiles? Accordingly, for the first time, the Spirit of God fromRomans 5:12; Romans 5:12 traces the mature of man to the head of the race. There is a new law that is working in me. Jesus said, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through Me might be saved. A wondrous way, but most blessed! I have rested in this verse over and over and over again. 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. we may suppose them of as much use as they were to Adam in innocency; and if it be only to illustrate the wisdom, power, and goodness of their Creator, that is enough. They too should live. For the creature was made subject to vanity The Gentile world were subject to vanity of mind; but how? . Broadly speaking, he uses it in three different ways. Now, if it was righteous in God (and who will gainsay it?) Jesus said, "Woman, the day is coming, and now is, when they that worship God neither worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. First, he raises the question, "Has God cast away his people?" He really means human nature in all its weakness and he means human in its vulnerability to sin. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. For if you live after the flesh, you are going to die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, then you shall live ( Romans 8:12-13 ). The sense of the apostle in these four verses we may take in the following observations:-- (1.) He is going to complete that work in me. "Not so," replies the apostle. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his ( Romans 8:9 ). We did nothing to bring that about; that is God's work. In the state of glory Paul did not think of man as a disembodied spirit. The gospel at its height in no wise weakens but maintains the moral manifestation of what God is. Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. This world that is dominated by the flesh, dominated by men who are dominated by the flesh. 7). What were the principles of it? "The just shall live by faith" (not by law). On both sides therefore the apostle is meeting the grand points he had at heart to demonstrate from their own Scriptures. It got awfully cold at night and there were disadvantages. That is, the redemption of our body. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. Am I lead by the Spirit of God? them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, In our present state we come short, not only in the enjoyment, but in the knowledge of that glory (1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 John 3:2): it shall be revealed. So because of the weakness of my flesh it could not make me righteous before God. Man is incomplete without God. He might have taken his people at once to heaven as soon as they are converted. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. 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. Romans 8:26-27 form one of the most important passages on prayer in the whole New Testament. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. That is what Jesus said, "You didn't choose me, I chose you." It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. This is based on Romans 16:1 and 16:23 along with 1 Corinthians 1:14. God, I am going to do better." 11, 12). It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. He speaks with a poet's vision. But such thoughts altogether vanish now, because, as the Gentile was unquestionably wicked and abominable, so from the law's express denunciation the Jew was universally guilty before God. All the effects of sin will be removed, and believers will be raised from the dead in imperishable spiritual bodies suited to life in the coming age (23; cf. He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. I can begin to live in victory over the flesh, because of that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, it makes me alive in Him. When the Bible speaks of God knowing a man, it means that he has a purpose and a plan and a task for that man. Thereby is identification with His death. God, creation, and man all felt the dramatic effects of sin when the beautiful harmony in the world ended. 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. The word is therefore appropriately used of the disappointing character of present existence, which nowhere reaches the perfection of which it is capable (208). Spirit, to Paul, represented a power which was divine. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. (ii) In Romans 8:38-39 Paul makes a list of terrible things. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. Verse Romans 8:28 : "And we know that most things work together for good to them that love God." Because I will be led by the Spirit of God. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." All Israel shall be saved. 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. 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. And this not willingly, not of their own choice. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. And this lies in the fact that Abraham believed God before he had the son, being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able to perform. Why? 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. But then he gives us the other side. A powerful finger. Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." (i) The adopted person lost all rights in his old family and gained all the rights of a legitimate son in his new family. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:4 ). Each CD has 20 to 40 hours a verse by verse, audio teaching, audio and MP3 format with audio slideshow presentation, and . 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). If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. On the contrary, the doctrine of faith establishes law as nothing else can; and for this simple reason, that if one who is guilty hopes to be saved spite of the broken law, it must be at the expense of the law that condemns his guilt; whereas the gospel shows no sparing of sin, but the most complete condemnation of it all, as charged on Him who shed His blood in atonement. Oh, what I wouldn't give if I couldn't take her place and suffer for her.Then I began to realize the pain the Father must have gone through to see His Son suffering, even more so than Him coming Himself. more ways than one. 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. This hope is related to the thought in verse 21. Its characteristic is its absorption in the things that human nature without Christ sets its heart upon. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? Their crowning glory was precisely what they would not hear of. He has already glorified me as far as He is concerned and, who is going to lay anything to my charge? It is in Zion that He lays it. 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. Thus it is a mistake to suppose that saints may not be benefited by a better understanding of the gospel, at least as Paul preached it. (ii) There is the life that is dominated by the Spirit of God. It pronounced on the Jew then. It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." God, however, subjected mankind to this futility "in hope" from the beginning. 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. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. There are two things that might make insuperable difficulty: the one is the obstacle of sin in the nature to practical holiness; the other is the provocation and condemnation of the law. Oh, what a fabulous time we had as we lived like rich boys. Last, nothing will ever be able to separate us from God's love for us in Christ. He has had it with me." There were two steps. The Stoics had a great idea which may well have been in Paul's mind when he wrote this passage. In Hebrew it is ruach ( H7307) , and it has two basic thoughts. After the first sin, however, God put man and nature at odds with each other. God has given to everything its charge; and he has not only by a distinct order commanded what he would to be done, but also implanted inwardly the hope of renovation. Ep elpidi hoti kai, c.--in hope that the creature itself so many Greek copies join the words. as I am often faced with situations that I can't understand. 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