He will establish that word unto his servants on which he has caused them to hope (Psalms 119:49), and heaven is therefore sweet; for, if hope deferred makes the heart sick, surely when the desire comes it will be a tree of life, Proverbs 13:12. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. We surrender our bodies, and our tongues, to the Holy Spirit in faith, and the Holy Spirit gives us the appropriate words in prayer through our tongues. 7). When Paul uses the phrase kata ( G2596) sarka ( G4561) , it always implies that he is looking at things from the human point of view. Consequently all turned, not on what man should be for God, but what God can be and is, as revealed in the gospel, to man. then, go out to Gentiles? Now by the spirit I am mortifying the deeds of my flesh. Luke 6:15-16 calls two other apostles (James and Judas) the sons of Alphaeus also. If one may so say, He thus holds the man, instead of letting the man presume that he is holding fast the truth. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. The figure of the relationship of husband and wife is introduced in order to make the matter plain. Future glory involves far more than just believers. Romans 8:18 is a well-known scripture written by Paul. If I don't know how to pray and I want to pray according to the will of God and here is my friend John over here and I don't know really how to pray for his situation. Much of this hope is found in the word delivered (eleutheroo), a word used in secular Greek to describe the freeing of slaves. We did nothing to bring that about; that is God's work. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? There is evil at work, and grace does not close the eye to danger; at the same time it is never under the pressure of the enemy, and there is the fullest confidence that the God of peace will break the power of Satan under the feet of the saints shortly. And those who have, hungered shall rejoice; moreover, also, they shall behold marvels, every day. They weren't quite sure though. In different people that life will be differently described. 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. It is getting uncomfortable. ENTRY INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD ( Romans 8:12-17 ). Death, so far from being a separation, is only a step into his nearer presence; not the end but "the gate on the skyline" leading to the presence of Jesus Christ. 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. 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. Man classifies death as the separation of man's consciousness from his body. Its characteristic is its absorption in the things that human nature without Christ sets its heart upon. What can we say to these things? The word that Paul uses for other (heteros, G2087) has really the meaning of different. And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. . Why? Thy Strong Word Exodus 37 . 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. It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. And we know that all things are working together for good to those that love God, and are the called according to his purpose ( Romans 8:28 ). Nonetheless, the Christian does not live only in the world; he also lives in Christ. But there is another incompleteness of man. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Here the word has the sense of perishability (Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 3:423). In having the first-fruits of the Spirit we have that which is very precious, but we have not all we would have. There is no hope for man otherwise; for the gospel is not all that is now made known. That final adoption will be the redemption of their bodies. The apostle shows them with astonishing force at the starting-point that he was far from slighting their privileges. 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. Why would they not allow such a pretension? He says that all things work together for good, but only to them that love God. Daily devotional with John Piper. 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? Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. I am not yet in my glorified state. Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake. God is in control. 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 could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. But if it were so, He had not done with them. Those that are in a carnal unregenerate state, under the reigning power of sin, cannot do the things that please God, wanting grace, the pleasing principle, and an interest in Christ, the pleasing Mediator. Thus the first argument shows that the rejection was not total; the second, that it was but for a season. 14, 15). Upon what ground? It does not matter; even then, when this world has passed and the new world come, the bond is still the same. 1. But oh, I am going to have an eternal weight of glory. God said to Abraham: "You have not withheld your son, your only son, from me" ( Genesis 22:12). There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. O how vastly different is the sentence of the word from the sentiment of the world concerning the sufferings of this present time! Therefore, it is constant and it remains. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 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. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. Who is he who condemns? 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. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. We are aliens because we live an entirely different lifestyle as we live after the Spirit. Hence the apostle does not, as in the early chapters of this epistle, take up our sins, except as proofs and symptoms of sin. It is his wise arrangement. already. First, there is no condemnation, at all, for those in Christ. Why it is, he has not seen fit to inform us fully. One that they cannot understand, and when a person cannot understand you, you will always become a threat to them. He doesn't keep a record of my mistakes, my sins, my failures. And as it is for obedience of faith, it was not in anywise restricted to the Jewish people "among all nations, for his (Christ's) name: among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ" (verses 5, 6). But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also make alive your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you ( Romans 8:10-11 ). There is no question of a people on earth, and of God's wrath breaking out in one form or another against human evil in this life. Jesus is in charge. In earthly inheritances this rule does not hold, only the first-born are heirs; but the church is a church of first-born, for they are all heirs. What is it we are thus desiring and waiting for? I mean the redemption of our body. 8:5-11 Those who live according to the dictates of sinful human nature are absorbed in worldly human things. 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. The word is therefore appropriately used of the disappointing character of present existence, which nowhere reaches the perfection of which it is capable (208). Or is mindful of fleshly things, or body needs. Did Gentiles believe? Horribly offensive as sin is to God, and inexcusable in the creature, it is sin which has given occasion to the astonishing display of divine righteousness in justifying believers. No war shall be any. 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. This is a textual problem in the Greek manuscripts - some manuscripts have 'me', some 'you'. It is quite clear, especially from the last instance, that Paul is not using flesh simply in the sense of the body, as we say flesh and blood. Paul says in effect: "God for us did not spare his own Son; surely that is the final guarantee that he loves us enough to supply all our needs." There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. 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. In other words, that we might be made the sons of God, but the firstborn is first in prominence, Jesus first in prominence, but He is the firstborn of many brethren. 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. Thy Strong Word. Lot Chuck Missler 6CD and Books (Romans, Acts, Luke, John) Notes. But if Christ is in you, even if because of sin your body is mortal, your Spirit has life through righteousness. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. 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. What were the principles of it? 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. But if we hope for what we do not see, then in patience we eagerly wait for it. The majority of the people in the world are living after the flesh. The flesh is the lower side of man's nature. But there is another side to this picture. 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? For God did not intend for man to live after the flesh and be a slave to his flesh, but God intended that man should live and walk after the Spirit.You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if the Spirit of God is dwelling in you. This observation in these verses has some difficulty in it, which puzzles interpreters a little; and the more because it is a remark not made in any other scripture, with which it might be compared. Christ is come, and has changed all. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. Once we were in the absolute control of our own sinful human nature; but God, in his mercy, has brought us into his absolute possession. higher, if so high, in this epistle. God loves me good or bad. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. So that when some big deal would fall out of escrow he would just look at that little plaque, "all things are working together for good." He first sums up what is disbursed for Christ in the sufferings of this present time, and finds they come to very little; he then sums up what is secured to us by Christ in the glory that shall be revealed, and this he finds to be an infinite sum, transcending all conception, the disbursement abundantly made up and the losses infinitely countervailed. The first of these phrases, "from faith," excludes the law; the second, "to faith," includes every one that has faith within the scope of God's righteousness. Satan is a finite created being. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. The shedding of His blood was absolutely necessary: without that precious expiation all else had been vain and impossible. 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. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" 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. "The just shall live by faith" (not by law). Under the bondage of corruption,Romans 8:21; Romans 8:21. (3) Their lot in life; their being subjected to this state of vanity, is the arrangement of God. While man and his environment will never be completely reconciled in time, man can be restored to a perfect environment and fellowship with God in eternity. It is my flesh is weak. The renovation of the world was one of the great Jewish thoughts. Now as I have told you, you are not going to always understand your circumstances. It is as if Paul said: "You think of Jesus as the Judge who is there to condemn; and well he might for he has won the right. <p>Lot Of 10 Chuck Missler Bible Commentaries-CD-ROM/Mixed Media With Bonus DVD. Far beyond. 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. I can say, "God, I bring John before you, oh, oh, oh . If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him. But besides this he adds "to faith." And when you come against that which you can't understand, it is important that you have certain foundations that you do understand and you fall back on the foundations. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven" ( Luke 6:22-23 ). Oh, what a fabulous time we had as we lived like rich boys. 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. The Jews were the last in the world to take such ground as this. 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." It is the adoption manifested before all the world, angels and men. You see, he tells me that God foreknew me, and because He foreknew me, He chose me and then He justified me and then He glorified me. 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. 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. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. So then we who are still living in these bodies do often groan, for we ourselves also groan within ourselves. As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. And mark the force of it whosoever." In hoping for this glory we have need of patience, to bear the sufferings we meet with in the way to it and the delays of it. But by reason - By him dia. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. And thus, though the forces of hell be gathered against you, they are nothing compared with that power that is available to you, because God is for you.How do I know God is for me? 4). 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