Or, They are thus captivated, not for any sin of their own, which they had committed, but for man's sin: By reason of him who hath subjected the same. Lord, what is man, that thou shouldst thus magnify him! For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for it? 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. And in the area of the spirit and God's Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit that I am a son of God.Thus, I am united with God and joined with God and I have fellowship with God in the realm of the spirit, only when the spirit is uppermost. What blindness! For you have not received the spirit of bondage ( Romans 8:15 ). He had reasoned the case within himself, weighed the arguments on both sides, and thus at last resolves the point. This was not a direct and intrinsic effect, of course, but the result of spiritual dealing for the soul. And so I rest in the fact that God has already spoken in the past tense of my future state of glorified together with Jesus Christ. This is what made the gospel to be so sweet and precious, and, what is more, absolutely necessary, if he would escape certain and eternal ruin. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. It is the thing which troubles a renewed conscientious soul above all, because of his surprise at finding the deep evil of the flesh and its mind after having proved the great grace of God in the gift of Christ. It had its smells of the kerosene heaters. In Romans 14:1-23 and the beginning ofRomans 15:1-33; Romans 15:1-33 we have the delicate theme of Christian forbearance in its limits and largeness. He was made in the image and the likeness of God, and it was from that image the he fell. January 15, 2023. "Well, I know, but not this case. 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. God said to Abraham: "You have not withheld your son, your only son, from me" ( Genesis 22:12). Oratio: United with Him in Resurrection. While he was a Pharisee he thought of the law as physical, intended to control man's outward actions. Although there is undoubtedly that profoundness which must accompany every revelation of God, and especially in connection with Christ as now manifested, still we have God adapting Himself to the very first wants of a renewed soul nay, even to the wretchedness of souls without God, without any real knowledge either of themselves or of Him. That which Christ inherits, we also inherit. He doesn't keep a record of my mistakes, my sins, my failures. Now Paul asks a series of questions: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Not to be an unembodied creature, but to be clothed upon or to move into that body which God has in heaven.Now interesting, Paul is likening this body to a tent. This is applied in the two chapters that follow. If anyone does not possess the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to Christ. To those that were under it, to be sure. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which baffle speech to utter; but he who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because it is by God's will that he intercedes for those whose lives are consecrated to God. There is an impurity, deformity, and infirmity, which the creature has contracted by the fall of man: the creation is sullied and stained, much of the beauty of the world gone. May we not say, it became vain willingly, but was made subject to vanity unwillingly? The same Spirit who gives hope for the future gives help in the present. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. 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. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. Week after week I would promise God that I was going to do better next week. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. Now God must have reality in the man himself. But did this satisfy the apostle? God created you for His pleasure. It is so with us if we love God. What shall we say then to these things? God has already demonstrated His willingness to give His only begotten Son, deliver Him up. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." The grounds of this expectation in the saints. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. . subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; Nero and Octavia were in no sense blood relations; yet, in the eyes of the law, they were brother and sister; and before they could marry, the Roman senate had to pass special legislation. 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. No Condemnation in Christ Jesus. Verse 21 may be correlated with the references previously given (Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 22:1-21 and Acts 3:1-26). Let man be what he might, or where he might, God's good news was for man. Through the new birth there is an inversion, and man becomes then spirit, soul, and body. Who hath subjected the same - Who has appointed his people to this condition. It is not, as in Ephesians 2:1-22, dead in sins, which would be nothing to the purpose. 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. Christ is come, and has changed all. (i) The adopted person lost all rights in his old family and gained all the rights of a legitimate son in his new family. The dream of the renovated world was dear to the Jews. 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. God elected me. There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. Last of all, the apostle links up this fundamental treatise of divine righteousness in its doctrine, its dispensational bearings, and its exhortations to the walk of Christians, with higher truth, which it would not have been suitable then to bring out; for grace considers the state and the need of the saints. This is a textual problem in the Greek manuscripts - some manuscripts have 'me', some 'you'. as I am often faced with situations that I can't understand. Because of sin, there were massive changes in nature. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? What did they say to Ishmaelites as joint-heirs? tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword? But God will no more accept the works of your flesh than He would Cain's, who sought to offer to God the works of his flesh and was rejected by God. Romans 3 Those whom he long ago designed for this purpose, he also called; and those whom he called he put into a right relationship with himself; and those whom he put into a right relationship with himself he also glorified. This section is about how Paul defended the doctrine of justification by faith. Paul is saying: "You can think of every terrifying thing that this or any other world can produce. He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. When the creatures are made the food and fuel of our lusts, they are subject to vanity, they are captivated by the law of sin. All other solutions will fail. He might have taken his people at once to heaven as soon as they are converted. without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain 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. In vain will you preach Romans 3:1-31, or even 4 alone, for souls to know themselves consciously and holily set free. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 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. I was constantly feeling condemnation. 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. [2.] (ver. Faith respects the promise, hope the thing promised. He has justified me. Most things do work together for good to those that love God. For it is by hope that we are saved; but a hope which is already visible is not a hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. When it rains, it is starting to leak. The saints are spiritual priests, that have the Lord for their inheritance, Numbers 18:20. 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. But if we hope for what we do not see, then in patience we eagerly wait for it. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? All the creatures desire their own perfection and consummation; when they are made instruments of sin it is not willingly. Twice the father symbolically sold his son, and twice he bought him back; but the third time he did not buy him back and thus the patria potestas was held to be broken. The object of this expectation. I can say, "God, I bring John before you, oh, oh, oh . And they pull the plug and you began to have an oxygen deprivation, and so the heart no longer is being pumped artificially. Man was not complete. Will usually post within 20 business days of receiving cleared payment. Jesus said, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through Me might be saved. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God ( Romans 8:7-8 ). "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." 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. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. He is consistent with Himself when He is justifying sinners, or, more strictly, all those who believe in Jesus. Scripture . The reason for the anticipation of creation of the glorification was that creation itself was subjected to "futility.". Therefore, the keynote of the Christian life is always hope and never despair. There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. They thought I was dead. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). Jesus Christ came into this world; he lived; he went to the Cross; he rose again. Romans 8 20 Adam Clarke Bible Commentary Romans 8:20 Verse 20. 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). After the first sin, however, God put man and nature at odds with each other. <p>Lot Of 10 Chuck Missler Bible Commentaries-CD-ROM/Mixed Media With Bonus DVD. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he will make even your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit indwelling in you. them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in But though we know not all the reasons why they are continued here in this state of vanity, we can see some of them: In hope - See the note at Romans 5:4. It is not here a question of how a man is to be saved, but of God's indispensable moral judgment, which the gospel, instead of weakening asserts according to the holiness and truth of God. "Let's make a woman in order that man might be complete." Heirs of God. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). . Our problem is that we just don't understand the depth of God's love for us. "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. (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. Romans 8:20. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. We, having received such clusters in this wilderness, cannot but long for the full vintage in the heavenly Canaan. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. As David said, "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what man can do to me." For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. 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." But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. He means sinful human nature, apart from Christ, everything that attaches a man to the world instead of to God. All men die because they are involved in the human situation. It was not merely, that he had better light. "If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by [or because of] his Spirit that dwelleth in you.". Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. 40:1. There are two ways of taking them and both give excellent sense and precious truth. But his body will no longer be the victim of decay and the instrument of sin; it will be a spiritual body fit for the life of a spiritual man. Inevitably, therefore, all men die; but the man who is Spirit-controlled and whose heart is Christ-occupied, dies only to rise again. 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. 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. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." Shall trial, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? If God be for us, who can be against us? The discovery is made that the source of the internal misery was that the mind, though renewed, was occupied with the law as a means of dealing with, flesh. So then we who are still living in these bodies do often groan, for we ourselves also groan within ourselves. God, therefore, had not cast off His people, but was employing the interval of their slip from their place, in consequence of their rejection of Christ, to call the Gentiles in sovereign mercy, after which Israel as a whole should be saved. God loves you. Here, then, it is not a question at all of pardon or remission. And you are going to go over to Moscow and you are going to start pointing at the tanks and they are going to start dissolving. My life is being ruled by the spirit, thus I am being led by the Spirit and in that I have then this joined together with God in the spirit as His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit. 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. To these then he wishes, as was his wont, the fresh flow of that source and stream of divine blessing which Christ has made to be household bread to us: "Grace and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ" (ver. One such casualty of Paul's oversight was the stoning of . And it is interesting, you start spending the commission. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein CHAPTER 8 In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. And after that time I used to think, wouldn't it be wonderful if some day there would be a knock on the door and there would be a lawyer there and he would say, "Your uncle that you happened not to know who happened to be one of the wealthiest men in the world died, and you were left his fortune." It is not a matter of choice. This world that is dominated by the flesh, dominated by men who are dominated by the flesh. So Jesus said, "Rejoice when you are persecuted for righteousness sake. So he said that his problem was that the law was spiritual and he was carnal. Romans 1:1-32. God has acquitted us. He takes their own books, and proves from one of them (Deuteronomy) that in the ruin of Israel the resource is not going into the depths, nor going up to heaven. Corruption (phthora) is applied to the physical body in 1 Corinthians 15:42. It was the boast of the Jews that the law spoke about them; that the Gentiles had no right to it, and were but presuming on what belonged to God's chosen people. Now the earliest creed of the Church, which is still the essence of all Christian creeds, ran like this: "He was crucified dead and buried; the third day he rose again from the dead; and sitteth at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." Much of this hope is found in the word delivered (eleutheroo), a word used in secular Greek to describe the freeing of slaves. So my dad had a little plaque made with the words "all things" and he had it there on his desk. Romans 8:20. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. 2 Commentary On Romans 12 1 2 Ephesians 4 17 20 The 15-01-2023 eral gifts for the common benet. Of these only a remnant would be saved. This he reckons. The consciousness of man is responsive to whatever controls the man. Let the heavens rejoice before the Lord, for he cometh. Now if I am living body, soul, and spirit, then I have no fellowship with God, as long as I'm being dominated by my body appetites and all. (2.) And it is not the least part of their vanity and bondage that they are used, or abused rather, by men as instruments of sin. Jesus said, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born of the spirit is spirit. God knew Israel, but the day came when Israel refused the destiny God meant her to have. Therefore, if I had a new mansion I wouldn't need any bedrooms. He shall come to Zion, says the other. He did nothing to deserve it; God, the great Father, in his amazing love and mercy, has taken the lost, helpless, poverty-stricken, debt-laden sinner and adopted him into his own family, so that the debts are cancelled and the glory inherited. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Accordingly, in the end of the chapter, he shows that this is most true as applied to the moral judgment of the Jew; that uone so much dishonoured God as wicked Jews, their own Scripture attesting it; that position went for nothing in such, while the lack of it would not annul the Gentile's righteousness, which would indeed condemn the more unfaithful Israel; in short, that one must be a Jew inwardly to avail, and circumcision be of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is of God, and not of men. We have God and man in presence, so to speak. His only concern is feeding himself, and of procreation, and so forth and he looks a little bit like me. $135.00 + $4.16 shipping . Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). We are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. 4). (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. Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? Then they conquered. All the world was guilty before God. 8:5-8 6 7 8 So what the law could not do because of my weakness in the flesh, that is because I violated it. Christians, being saved by faith, do not yet experience all that God has promised, but they look to the future with patience and confidence (24-25). Romans 16. Thou shalt not desire thy neighbor's wife or anything that belongs to your neighbor, and he had realized that he had violated that. Paul says that creation was subjected to futility in Romans 8:20-21 ESV: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. How can I really know that I am a son of God? He who believes is not condemned" ( John 3:17-18 ). The reproach of Christ appears riches to those who have respect to the recompence of reward, Hebrews 11:26. And that man ought to be more concerned with the spiritual realm than the material realm. His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. When he is talking of the Christians, he talks of the days when we were in the flesh (en ( G1722) sarki, G4561) ( Romans 7:5). In regard to his father, a Roman son never came of age. . Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. It is not the mercy of God., Many have contended that so it is, and to their own great loss, as well as to the weakening of the word of God. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. "You only have I known of all the families of the earth," said God to Amos ( Amos 3:2). Once it was far otherwise. Would we follow up the heights of heavenly truth, would we sound the depths of Christian experience, would we survey the workings of the Spirit of God in the Church, would we bow before the glories of the person of Christ, or learn His manifold offices, we must look elsewhere in the writings of the New Testament no doubt, but elsewhere rather than here. Paul in writing to the Corinthians, after telling them the whole ten yards that he had gone through, the many beatings and stonings, shipwrecks and imprisonments and all, he said, "But this light affliction which is but for a moment worketh an exceeding eternal weight of glory" ( 2 Corinthians 4:17 ). 2. 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. Paul is drawing a contrast between two kinds of life. By living it, a man is making himself totally unfit ever to stand in the presence of God. 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." Man is an inferior trinity: spirit, soul, and body. His love is there and constant. 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. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. If he will submit his life to the control of the spirit.Paul had felt the condemnation of the law. 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. 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). Those that suffered with David in his persecuted state were advanced by him and with him when he came to the crown; see 2 Timothy 2:12. First, there is no condemnation, at all, for those in Christ. It is not yet executed. In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. For the creature [that is, man] was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope ( Romans 8:20 ); When God created man He created him incomplete . Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! Now by the spirit I am mortifying the deeds of my flesh. While striving for holiness under the law, Paul had focused on the commands (e.g., "lust") so that his mind-set was fleshly: "I must steer clear of all lust." This fleshly orientation doomed him to commit the very sin he sought to avoid. Complete. is flesh, but the result of spiritual dealing for the common benet which Paul insisted. 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