If that be so who can possibly condemn men? The man who, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Christian baptism, would assert any license to sin because it is in his nature, as if it were therefore an inevitable necessity, denies the real and evident meaning of his baptism. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." It addresses moral, intellectual, social, and spiritual issues, but most importantly, it lays the theological foundation for the Christian faith: how God has made it possible through Christ for sinners to be made right before Him. 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. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. 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. c. Who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit: These words are not found in the earliest ancient manuscripts of the Book of Romans and they do not agree with the flow of Paul's context here. To allow the things of the world completely to dominate life is self extinction; it is spiritual suicide. It was the will of "him who subjected it," meaning God, humanity having had no choice whatever, except to submit to the subjection sentenced upon mankind by the Father. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? 1 625). Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. We have Paul informing us that he transfers sometimes in a figure to himself that which was in no wise necessarily his own experience, and perhaps had not been so at any time. God has acquitted us. Not willingly, etc. Now Christ died and rose again; and the man who is one with Christ is one with death's conqueror and shares in that victory. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. 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. No fresh revelations from God can nullify those which preceded them; but as the prophets looked onward to what was coming, so is the gospel already come, supported by the past. God himself will be with them, and will be their God, Revelation 21:3. "All right, we conquered," and then was the great elation, rejoicing. Was it not sure and evident that Israel could not take the promise on the ground of mere connection after the flesh? If we are children then we are also heirs; and if we are the heirs of God then we are joint-heirs with Christ. 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. But we have to note that that experience comes only to those who love 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. The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. Christ, as Mediator, is said to be the heir of all things (Hebrews 1:2), and true believers, by virtue of their union with him, shall inherit all things,Revelation 21:7. Colonial style, surrounded by beautiful gardens. 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. Paul also used it in Galatians 5:1. But oh, I am going to have an eternal weight of glory. Romans 8:20English Standard Version. 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. Read full chapter. So those who have been born again, that born again is actually being born of the Spirit. Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. Because I will be led by the Spirit of God. Sounds pretty wonderful, doesn't it? The law demanded, but could never receive righteousness from man. A soul may as truly, no doubt, be put into relationship with God be made very happy, it may be; but it is not what Scripture calls "peace with God." The first was known as mancipatio, and was carried out by a symbolic sale, in which copper and scales were symbolically used. He is saying four things about Jesus. When the world was drowned, and almost all the creatures in it, surely then it was subject to vanity indeed. This doctrine of the manifestation of the sons of God is sort of a heavy kind of a doctrine. It is a proper training for heaven. In short, it is what the words say "the righteousness of God," and this "by faith of Jesus Christ.". Why should this be so strange and incredible to you? Jesus said, "Woman, the day is coming, and now is, when they that worship God neither worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Read Introduction to Romans 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; . 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). Our way is rough and long; but he that shall come will come, and will not tarry; and therefore, though he seem to tarry, it becomes us to wait for him. . We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. The disasters of the world do not separate a man from Christ; they bring him closer yet. He knew what the glory of heaven is; see 2 Corinthians 12:3; 2 Corinthians 12:4. But now the body appetites under the control of the spirit as God intended them to be. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). 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 ). For all who are guided by the Spirit of God, these, and only these, are the children of God. [4] Contents 1 Text The past is cancelled and its debts are wiped out; we begin a new life with God and become heirs of all his riches. 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. Heaven is an inheritance that all the saints are heirs to. Bible Study & Sermon Videos; romans 8:26-27 esv; Romans 8:26-27 Esv. Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. One such casualty of Paul's oversight was the stoning of . He speaks of the Jews being his kinsmen kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) ( Romans 9:3), that is to say, speaking of human relationships. At the same time he connects, in a singularly interesting manner, this disclosure of the principles of the eternal judgment of God with what he calls "my gospel." Hope is always in something not yet seen. 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. 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. Solid Joys. This were indeed to deny the value of His death, and of that newness of life we have in Him risen, and a return to bondage of the worst description. To move out of them. And it is not predicated upon you but upon His own nature of love. Spiritual life which results in that glorious peace. "The vine shall yield its fruit ten thousand fold, and on each, vine there shall be a thousand branches; and each branch shall, produce a thousand clusters; and each cluster produce a thousand, grapes; and each grape a cor of wine. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, Let us remember that he began all this by saying that every man sinned in Adam. I can say, "God, I bring John before you, oh, oh, oh . And we know that all things ( Romans 8:28 ). But he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God ( Romans 8:27 ). Not, of course, that the Roman saints were in this condition; but that God, writing by the apostle to them, seizes the opportunity to lay bare man's state as well as His own grace. What were the principles of it? 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ". "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (ver. in hope that) the creature (or, creation) also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. A slave to my own appetite. My little granddaughter tonight has got an ear infection and not feeling well, and it just tears me up. That the creature, that is now thus burdened, shall, at the time of the restitution of all things, be delivered from this bondage into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:21; Romans 8:21)-- they shall no more be subject to vanity and corruption, and the other fruits of the curse; but, on the contrary, this lower world shall be renewed: when there will be new heavens there will be a new earth (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1); and there shall be a glory conferred upon all the creatures, which shall be (in the proportion of their natures) as suitable and as great an advancement as the glory of the children of God shall be to them. Accordingly the apostle says that boast and works are completely set aside by this principle which affirms faith, apart from deeds of law, to be the means of relationship with God (verses 27, 28). There is the vindication of God in His ways with the Old Testament believers. It was not merely, that he had better light. The ancient world was haunted by the tyranny of the stars. God has already demonstrated His willingness to give His only begotten Son, deliver Him up. Such is the doctrine and the fact. He speaks of the Christian being adopted into the family of God. We have God and man in presence, so to speak. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. The believer, whosoever he might be, should not be ashamed. . It had its interest. Or the spirit and mind now being dominated by the spirit which is in control, and the body down here where God intended it to be, no longer controlling, no longer ruling, no longer exercising its hold over me. And they pull the plug and you began to have an oxygen deprivation, and so the heart no longer is being pumped artificially. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:23 ). In Romans 7:1-25 we have the subject of the law discussed for practice as well as in principle, and there again meet with the same weapon of tried and unfailing temper. To cement the alliance Nero wished to marry her. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 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. 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? So it is not fulfilled by us, but it is fulfilled in us by Jesus Christ. That is a yet future experience that I am to have. He shall come to Zion, says the other. But even as He spoke to Abraham concerning his seed in the past tense, because He knew that Abraham was going to have a son whom He did foreknow. Romans 8:20, KJV: For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, He could not have remitted heretofore. 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 ( Romans 8:29 ). I. 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. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." Romans 8:20 Parallel Verses. You believe in God, believe also in Me. 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. God is in control. But the Bible says that if your consciousness is separated from God, that is, you don't have a real consciousness of God, that you are dead, because your consciousness is separated from God. That is, it is the power of God unto salvation, not because it is victory (which at the beginning of the soul's career would only give importance to man even if possible, which it is not), but because it is "the righteousness of God." 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? That is what he is talking about, the manifestation of the sons of God, when I have a redeemed body. In Jesus' name. That is what Paul means here. The angelic powers cannot separate us from him. It has always the idea of power about it, power as of a mighty rushing wind. 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. The old life has no more rights over us; God has an absolute right. Jewish thought divided time into two sections--this present age and the age to come. . How comfortable should this be to all the children of God, how little soever they have in possession, that, being heirs, they have enough in reversion! Oh, if you only knew how much God loves you, you would never run away from Him again. The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. Even if other sons were afterwards born, it did not affect his rights. For the creature was made subject to vanity 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. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. But if children, we are His heirs. Let man be what he might, or where he might, God's good news was for man. Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . (6-13) Answers to objections against God's sovereign conduct, in exercising mercy and justice. 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. But there is another side to this picture. You really don't belong to Him, unless you have had that second birth, the spiritual birth, which we term born again. (i) The adopted person lost all rights in his old family and gained all the rights of a legitimate son in his new family. This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. The penalty of the past is removed and strength for his future is assured. The gospel goes forth universally. The same idea that he is presenting here is presented there in II Corinthians 5 , of that groaning earnestly, desiring to be free from this body that is limited and restricted and often seeks to bring me into bondage, the bondage of corruption.So we ourselves groan, we who are in these bodies do often groan earnestly desiring to be delivered. 5:1-11 Suffering with assurance of future glory 5:12-21 The basis for assurance in the work of Christ 6:1-23 Slavery to sin 7:1-25 The weakness of law Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. God is not his friend but his enemy, and no man ever won the last battle against him. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God ( Romans 8:14 ). His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. Wonderful to think the Spirit of God associates Himself with us in it all, deigning to give us divine feelings even in our poor and narrow hearts. is the double prophecy. The Spirit controlled, Christ-possessed man is on the way to life; death is but an inevitable interlude that has to be passed through on the way. Who hath subjected the same - Who has appointed his people to this condition. whereas the mind of the spirit is life and peace ( Romans 8:6 ). Why it is, he has not seen fit to inform us fully. 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 no longer the realm of hope. 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. Thus then, if Paul gave his own sense of Jewish privileges, there was no unbelieving Jew that rose up to his estimate of them. The grounds of this expectation in the saints. Oh, but I have done this." It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. 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. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. This was the father's power over his family; it was the power of absolute disposal and control, and in the early days was actually the power of life and death. Verse 20. (b) NIV has "set me free", NAS "set you free.". They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. 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. It must not be, assumed too readily. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." But he introduces all parts of the world, by a sort of personification, as being endued with reason; and he does this in order to shame our stupidity, when the uncertain fluctuation of this world, which we see, does not raise our minds to higher things. God help us to comprehend what is the length, the breadth, the depth, the height, and to know that love of Christ that God has for us in Him.Father, we thank You for Your Word and for the glorious blessings and hope and strength and comfort that is ours tonight because of Your Word. So Paul, thinking in terms of his own day, says, "Not even the grudging, jealous angels can separate us from the love of God, much as they would like to do so. 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 And what is the world compared with God? 16). 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. The reason for the anticipation of creation of the glorification was that creation itself was subjected to "futility.". 3). He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. He had one of the most fabulous electric trains, a huge one. A wondrous way, but most blessed! 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 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. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. Any duration. First, we cannot pray aright because we cannot foresee the future. This light affliction . was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. He is talking here of the Mosaic Law, which he said was holy, just and good, but what it could not do, what was the limitation of the law of Moses, or what could it not do, the law of Moses could not make a man righteous before God. . For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities [which are ranks of angelic beings], nor powers [other ranks], not things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord ( Romans 8:38-39 ). I really don't know what God is doing in his life, but I know John needs prayer. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. ", Not of its own will is understood by some commentators as meaning "not due to any act of its own"; but that interpretation confuses the reason of the subjection with the execution of the deserved punishment of man's rebellion. That word delivered is speaking of the cross, delivered Him to die. God's unseen guiding is in our lives, but to the end of the day we can refuse it and take our own way. 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." So therefore it addressed itself to the obedience of faith; not by this meaning practice, still less according to the measure of a man's duty, but that which is at the root of all practice faith-obedience obedience of heart and will, renewed by divine grace, which accepts the truth of God. 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. He is consistent with Himself when He is justifying sinners, or, more strictly, all those who believe in Jesus. God delivered His Son to die for my sins. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. 7). God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? You must carefully guard against the notion of its being a question of Paul's own experience, because he says, "I had not known," "I was alive," etc. The majority of the people in the world are living after the flesh. What could be conceived closer or more even than this? . People often do. Compare with this Psalms 96:10-13; Psalms 98:7-9. For the creature was made subject to vanity Mankind in general, and the whole visible creation, lost their original beauty, glory, and felicity; a sad change passed on man, and his place of abode; the whole face of nature was obscured, and all creatures were subjected to vanity and wretchedness in a variety of forms. hope. He is the one who has the right to condemn--but so far from condemning, he is at God's right hand interceding for us, and therefore we are safe. Still, it is "man" not yet exactly the Jew, but man who had profited, it might be, by whatever the Jew had; at the least, by the workings of natural conscience. Don't marvel when I say to you, ye must be born again." 11, 12). It is the appointment of God, who has chosen to place his people in this condition; and who for wise purposes retains them in it. This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. What the law says, it speaks to those under it. 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