No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. And we know well that this does not take freewill away. "Cursed is the ground because of you," God said to Adam after his sin ( Genesis 3:17). Hence it is wholly apart from the law, whilst witnessed to by the law and prophets; for the law with its types had looked onward to this new kind of righteousness; and the prophets had borne their testimony that it was at hand, but not then come. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. There is a new law that is working in me. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. The last time it was popular was 1948, and it is beginning to get popular again, so thirty years. What do I understand? Formerly called Saul, he began as a notorious persecutor of Christians. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. He uses still another picture from Roman adoption. God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? But if it were so, He had not done with them. It was Paul's picture that when a man became a Christian he entered into the very family of God. God is gracious, but holy; He is faithful, but righteous. It was not merely, that he had better light. All devotionals for romans-8:19-21 free on BiblePortal.com. Thereby is identification with His death. Right now I am living in a tent, this body. For with his mind in his heart he wanted to serve the law of God, but as Jesus said concerning Peter, "The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak" ( Matthew 26:41 ). ( Romans 8:35.) As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God ( Romans 8:7-8 ). And so the creature, God created him subject to this emptiness by reason of Him who created him that he might be subjected in hope. Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. He was regarded as a new person entering into a new life with which the past had nothing to do. Justification is not from works of law. The blazing truth that lit life for Paul was that the human situation is not hopeless. But we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. 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? His letter, written to Romans, is considered one of the most important books in the Bible. 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. There wasn't much rejoicing until that field goal attempt was blocked in the last three seconds, and then they went wild. He begins with the great epoch of the dispensations of God (that is, the ages since the flood). He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? The Christian is involved in the human situation. ( Romans 8:31 ). And if I go and prepare one for you, then I am going to come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am there you may be also" ( John 14:2-3 ). A wondrous way, but most blessed! The downfall of man, when he thus abandoned God, was most rapid and profound; and the Holy Spirit traces this solemnly to the end ofRomans 1:1-32; Romans 1:1-32 with no needless words, in a few energetic strokes summing up that which is abundantly confirmed (but in how different a manner!) If that be so, is there anything in this or any other world that can separate us from our Risen Lord? And now it is falling out of escrow and oh God, what are we going to do now? 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. The Holy Ghost, who now gives the soul its consciousness of deliverance from its place in Christ, is also the witness that the body too, the mortal body, shall be delivered in its time. Within he must battle with his own evil human nature; without he must live in a world of death and decay. It was as if they did not want to share God with anyone and had grudged man his share in him. We, by the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, and thus, experience spiritual life. By living it, a man is making himself totally unfit ever to stand in the presence of God. And this leads the apostle into the moral history of man the proof both of his inexcusable guilt, and of his extreme need of redemption. How I wish there was some way that I could suffer for her. Hence the apostle does not, as in the early chapters of this epistle, take up our sins, except as proofs and symptoms of sin. Verse 20 appears to describe the fall of Adam and Eve. And whenever my children would get a fever and become listless and sick, whatever, it would so tear me up inside to see them in that condition. Scripture Romans 8 Sort Bible Verse. He speaks of those who walk according to the flesh in contradistinction to those who live the Christian life ( Romans 8:4-5). 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. The consequences are thus pursued; first, the general place of the believer now, in all respects, in relation to the past, the present, and the future. The reason for the anticipation of creation of the glorification was that creation itself was subjected to "futility.". It is not good that man shall live alone. The second included powers, lordships and mights. I was hanging on to a part of the ship for a night and a day out in the middle of the Mediterranean." Will usually post within 20 business days of receiving cleared payment. ( Romans 8:34 ). Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . So it is not fulfilled by us, but it is fulfilled in us by Jesus Christ. 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. 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. As He has given us through the blood of Jesus full remission, as we shall be saved by this life, as He has made us know even now nothing short of present conscious deliverance from every whit of evil that belongs to our very nature, as we have the Spirit the earnest of the glory to which we are destined, as we are the vessels of gracious sorrow in the midst of that from which we are not yet delivered but shall be, so now we have the certainty that, whatever betide, God is for us, and that nothing shall separate us from His love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 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. There may be inestimable advantages, all of which we may not see, in subjecting the Christian to a process of training in overcoming his sins, and in producing confidence in God, before he is admitted to his state of final rest. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. So, Paul is saying, it is the Holy Spirit himself who is the witness to our adoption into the family of God. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. That there is none righteous, none that doeth good, none that understandeth. The past history of Israel was sketched inRomans 9:1-33; Romans 9:1-33; the present more immediately is before us inRomans 10:1-21; Romans 10:1-21. </p><br /><p>The lot includes MP3 cd ROM commentaries on the books of exodus, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy, John, acts, Romans, first and second Corinthians, Galatians, and Revelation. But this does not content the apostle, or rather the Spirit of God; for he goes on to point out that Isaiah "is very bold" in a similar way; that is, there is no concealing the truth of the matter. We heard the story of this wondrous love. Now man today, humanism and all is saying just the opposite. Not only they--not only the creatures which are not capable of such a happiness as the first-fruits of the Spirit, but even we, who have such present rich receivings, cannot but long for something more and greater. Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? 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 ). But besides this he adds "to faith." Any duration. You know, I have found such rest and comfort in this verse when I am faced . It does not yet appear what we shall be (1 John 3:2), but then the glory shall be revealed. At the moment creation is in bondage to decay. It had its interest. Romans 9:1-33. Just the bottom is knocked out. In vain will you preach Romans 3:1-31, or even 4 alone, for souls to know themselves consciously and holily set free. 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. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. No man can tell. It comes to fleshly men and speaks to them as fleshly men. The soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. Nature did not want man to sin. There is a general outcry of the whole creation against the sin of man: the stone crieth out of the wall (Habakkuk 2:11), the land cries, Job 31:38. God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. But it is interesting how that we so often find ourselves in that place of seeking to offer to God the works of our flesh. Now the saints are God's hidden ones, the wheat seems lost in a heap of chaff; but then they shall be manifested. The Christian waits, not for death, but for life. Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. 20.For to vanity has the creation, etc. Jesus said, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through Me might be saved. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. And a lot of times you even put a great deal in escrow. But more than this "Whosoever shall call." He concludes the sufferings not worthy to be compared with the glory--ouk axia pros ten doxan. I will pray every day. He speaks with a poet's vision. Hence it is, as he says, herein revealed "from faith," or by faith. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. In the creed the fourth is that Jesus will come to be the judge of the quick and the dead. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. "Every thing seems perverted from its intended use: the inanimate creatures are pressed into man's rebellion; the luminaries of the heaven give him light . For the creature was made subject to vanity What was to be the stumbling-stone? It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. This is the essential point. In regard to his father, a Roman son never came of age. how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. 8:18-25 For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present age cannot be compared with the glory which is destined to be disclosed to us. Plants, animals, rocks, and dirt cannot in any sense yearn in hope. 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. The world may be condemning me, but why should I worry about that? Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. 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 Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. We did not achieve that; all is of God. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:23 ). The words Paul uses of God are the very words God used of Abraham when Abraham proved his utter loyalty by being willing to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. All men die because they are involved in the human situation. The doctrine of faith therefore, which reposes on the cross, establishes law, instead of making it void, as every other principle must (verses 27-31). For instance, he says that Abraham is our forefather kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) , from the human point of view. (3.) The last verses of the chapter, however, bring in the deliverance not yet the fulness of it, but the hinge, so to speak. He put in everything he could think of, and yet, some poor timid soul stands there and quivers thinking God is going to forsake them now. Broadly speaking, he uses it in three different ways. That is Paul's argument, and, to him and to those who heard it, it was completely convincing, however hard it is for us to grasp it. Into this world came Jesus; with a completely human nature; and he brought to God a life of perfect obedience, of perfect fulfilment of God's law. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." The Rams conquered the 49ers today. This would not have been just. Love woke within our hearts; the conviction of sin came, and with it came the experience of forgiveness and of salvation. (2) That it is not what they desire, to be subjected to the toils of this life, and to the temptations and vanities of this world. No matter how old he was, he was still under the patria potestas, in the absolute possession and under the absolute control, of his father. 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. It is getting uncomfortable. This could not be attained if they were removed at once to heaven. Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. Paul recognized his problem, and he ends chapter 7 with that cry, "O wretched man that I am! Sep 14, 1980. In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. The people who owned the home had gone to Europe for the summer. Apologizing, repenting for my failure of the past week. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. How, then, is he using it? First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. It was a message that went out from God to sinners as such. 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. The soul may feel the blood of Jesus to be a yet deeper want; but this alone does not give peace with God. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him. This was not a direct and intrinsic effect, of course, but the result of spiritual dealing for the soul. They cannot merit that glory; and, if suffering for Christ will not merit, much less will doing. Sad that people even give the time of day to such a doctrine.Paul tells us in just a little bit what the manifestation of the sons of God really is. To the limits of the holy land? Now he observes an expectation of this glory. If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. That is what we are told here. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. 4 for e christ is the end of the Zechariah 4:10. 8:1-4 There is, therefore, now no condemnation against those who are in Christ Jesus. This first shadow of the gospel of Jesus Christ (see gospel in the OT - Gal 3:8) provided the firm foundation for hope (absolute certainty that God would do good to us and to the creation in the future) and this hope was the basis for the creation's eager anticipation that Paul described in the previous verse (see note Romans 8:19) Romans 8:21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. To be absorbed in worldly human things is death; but to be absorbed in the things of the Spirit is life and peace, because absorption in the things which fascinate our sinful human nature is hostility to God, for it does not obey the law of God, nor, indeed, can it do so. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. . Lot Chuck Missler 4CD + 20 DVD Set and 6 Books (Romans, Acts, Luke, John) Notes. Because I don't always know what God's particular will is in a particular situation. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. "God surely can't love me anymore. 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. He is saying: "Suppose that by some wild flight of imagination there emerged another and a different world, you would still be safe; you would still be enwrapped in the love of God.". C. H. Dodd defines prayer in this way--"Prayer is the divine in us appealing to the Divine above us.". or who hath first liven to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. He says that God's spirit witnesses with our spirit that we really are his children. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; the sin of the Jews, in crucifying Christ, set the earth a quaking under them. While things are still raging around me, while the outcome still seems to be very uncertain is to have the glorious victory and rejoicing, that is more than a conqueror. They are going to be talking to you about new recipes, exotic new desserts, or they are going to be talking to you about drinks, or they're going to be talking to you about sex, or things that relate to the body appetites. In the rest of chapter 15 the apostle dwells on the extent of his apostleship, renews his expression of the thought and hope of visiting Rome, and at the same time shows how well he remembered the need of the poor at Jerusalem. But it is the consequences of adoption which are most significant for the picture that is in Paul's mind. And it is interesting, you start spending the commission. [Ktisis] (as used in Romans 8:19,20,21, and 22), CREATION, has the same signification here as in Mark 16:15: "Proclaim the glad tidings to the whole creation," that is, "all mankind;" and also Colossians 1:23, where a similar phrase occurs. God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ): What I could not do for myself through the Mosaic Law, that is, have a righteous standing before God, God did for me through sending His Son in the flesh. Cursed is the spring of our joy, he is the witness to our adoption into the very family God... 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