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. To move out of them. It may be passion-controlled, or lust-controlled, or pride-controlled, or ambition-controlled. So those who have been born again, that born again is actually being born of the Spirit. It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." If anyone does not possess the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to Christ. By their remaining here the power of the gospel is shown in overcoming their sin; in meeting their temptations; in sustaining them in trial; and in thus furnishing living evidence to the world of the power and excellency of that gospel. It is an ancient tradition among the Jews, that this tower was built on an idolatrous account. From this time the world lay under heathenism till the bringing in of the Gospel, upwards of 2000 years after. tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword? There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? verse 30, cf. Jesus Christ came into this world; he lived; he went to the Cross; he rose again. The ground taken by a Jew for supposing God exclusively for Israel was, that they had the law, which was the measure of what God claimed from man; and this the Gentile had not. 38. On that day the physical creation, which from the time of Adam has suffered because of human sin (cf. And because God is for you, I don't care what forces of hell may be against you, they are nothing compared to God.Never think of Satan as the opposite of God. Because we possess the capacity to sin, when it is coupled with the determination to resist temptation to sin, the resultant God did it judicially; he passed a sentence upon the creatures for the sin of man, by which they became subject. In the gospel there is revealed God's righteousness. Who is he that condemneth? Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? 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 ). This difficulty has perhaps been We cannot see a year or even an hour ahead; and we may well pray, therefore, to be saved from things which are for our good and we may well pray for things which would be to our ultimate harm. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. Because they look around and they say, "Will you look at that baboon over there? Nature did not want man to sin. but because of Him who subjected it -- Perhaps a reference even back to Gods action of driving Adam out of the garden and away from the tree of life and thereby bringing "aging" and "death" to all mankind. 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. 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.". This is the point in verse 21. The bearing of this on the contents and main doctrine of the epistle will appear abundantly by-and-by. The creation was subjected to vanity (see verse 19 for information on this word as well as the word subjected). For as many as are lead by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.There are a lot of people today who are making claims to being sons of God. It pronounced on the Jew then. Those whose life is a purely worldly thing cannot please God; but you are not dominated by the pursuits which fascinate our sinful human nature; you are dominated by the Spirit, if so it be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. He is not coming physically or bodily, but He is going to be coming in His church to be manifested through His church to the world, and the whole world is just groaning and travailing as waiting for you to be manifested. 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 . It was the logos ( G3056) which kept the stars in their courses and the planets in their appointed tracks. Salem Media Group. We had to live in a tent for two years our church here, and it had its qualities, I guess. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. Beware that you do not confound it with souls being quickened, or even brought into joy. He says that those who love God, and who are called according to his purpose, know well that God is intermingling all things for good to them. The last time it was popular was 1948, and it is beginning to get popular again, so thirty years. And they pull the plug and you began to have an oxygen deprivation, and so the heart no longer is being pumped artificially. (a) It is God who acquits men--that is the statement. [1.] Who is he who condemns? The fire at the last day shall be a refining, not a destroying annihilating fire. It is my flesh is weak. You would never try to hide from Him again. But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. Right now I am living in a tent, this body. It was a glorious day when we moved out of that tent and into this new sanctuary. Alas! And mark the force of it whosoever." Probably God is in view as the one who subjected it, though Satan and Adam were instrumental in that action. When Nicodemus said, "How can a man be born again when he is old? "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." more ways than one. God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. Not that any part of the truth has escaped: it is the fatal brand of that "great house" that even the most elementary truth suffers the deepest injury; but as to this truth, it seems unknown altogether. There is laid down the most essential of all truths as a groundwork of salvation; namely, expiation. In point of fact, as he had hinted before, their true tenure was the call of God, who was free, if He pleased, to bring in other people. 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. Under the bondage of corruption,Romans 8:21; Romans 8:21. All men die because they are involved in the human situation. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. Thus one could not fail to see these two weighty inferences: the bringing in to be God's sons of those that had not been His people, and the judgment and destruction of the great mass of His undoubted people. "I am not ashamed," etc. 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. One day I am going to be free from this old body in this bondage of corruption and I am going to come into that glorious liberty of freedom.
B. Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. And as that little remnant is ever sustained by the grace of God, it is the standing pledge of their final blessedness through His mercy, whereon the apostle breaks out into raptures of thanksgiving to God. But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. Romans 8:1-11; Romans 8:12-25; Romans 8:14-17; Romans 8:22-27; Romans 8:26-39; Romans 8:28-30; Romans 8:31b But by reason - By him dia. In the beginning ofRomans 2:1-29; Romans 2:1-29 we have man pretending to righteousness. I am going to move from this tent into that new mansion, into that new building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. We did not make the story; we only received the story. (a) It is not only the word for Spirit; it is also the word for wind. By the spirit I am receiving that sense of adoption where I am crying Abba Father, for it is the Spirit that is bearing witness to me that I am a child of God. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven" ( Luke 6:22-23 ). It had its smells of the kerosene heaters. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? The third included angels and archangels and principalities. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. It is the going forth of His richest blessing. Hence, as is shown later in the chapter, Adam is a head characterized by disobedience, who brought in death, the just penalty of sin; as on the other hand we have Him of whom he was the type, Christ, the obedient man, who has brought in righteousness, and this after a singularly blessed sort and style "justification of life." Joint-heirs with Christ. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ( Romans 8:1-4 ). What we are going to do today is begin to walk through some chapters in the book of Romans. ISBN: 9780758638823 Author: Michael Paul Middendorf Matthew 21 1 28 20 Concordia Commentary. The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. All things here refers to glorification in eternity. To whom, then, did the law address itself? Sin is a burden to the whole creation; the sin of the Jews, in crucifying Christ, set the earth a quaking under them. How we appreciate this marvelous position that we have in Christ Jesus where nothing can separate us from Your love. He knew what the sufferings of this present time were; see 2 Corinthians 11:23-28. The righteousness of God, then, could now go forth in virtue of His blood. Because of the Fall God subjected the whole creation to "futility" or "frustration." The chapter closes with the day of the Lord in its practical force on the Christian walk. 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. And this yoke (poor creatures) they bear in hope that it will not be so always. Reference-Verse. If you only understood how much God loved you, that's all you need.Now Paul tells you a little bit about it. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. This is the essential point. 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. He who believes is not condemned" ( John 3:17-18 ). Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. There is an enmity of one creature to another; they are all subject to continual alteration and decay of the individuals, liable to the strokes of God's judgments upon man. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified ( Romans 8:30 ). Then they conquered. The Old Testament has an illuminating use of the word to know. 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. WebAccess full book title Romans 1 8 Concordia Commentary by Michael Paul Middendorf. The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. If we are children then we are also heirs; and if we are the heirs of God then we are joint-heirs with Christ. God knew Israel, but the day came when Israel refused the destiny God meant her to have. This type of figurative speech is frequently found in the Bible. 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. Not my will, but Thine be done.". (c) But he has a use of this word sarx ( G4561) which is all his own. We will encounter themes in these chapters; themes like faith, grace, law, (3) Their lot in life; their being subjected to this state of vanity, is the arrangement of God. Romans. 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. And it is not predicated upon you but upon His own nature of love. WebEllicott's Commentary for English Readers. See the gains of suffering for Christ; though we may be losers for him, we shall not, we cannot, be losers by him in the end. God is more willing to give than we are to receive. In adoption a person had to pass from one patria potestas to another. The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. There is nothing that proves this so convincingly as the book of Genesis; and the apostle, by the Spirit of God, calmly but triumphantly summons the Jewish Scriptures to demonstrate that which the Jews were so strenuously denying. My love for Him, my desires to please and serve Him. Such men have never been wanting since the truth has shone on this world; still less are they now. If I am ruled by my body I have the mind of the body which is death, spiritual death. I am as one with thee; I am thine; I flinch from nothing so long as thou dost think that it is good. --The Apostle gives the reason for this earnest expectation in the present state of nature; pointing out what creation is. There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. But there is a third. Not willingly, etc. Prayer is the instrument by which we cooperate with God in the accomplishing of His will upon the earth. Wouldst thou have me hold office or eschew it, stay or flee, be rich or poor? The ground changed. There were two steps. 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). Why it is, he has not seen fit to inform us fully. Satan is a finite created being. Hence it is essentially founded on the gift not only of a Saviour who would interpose, in the mercy of God, to bear our sins, but of One who is already revealed, and the work done and accepted, and this known in the fact that God Himself has interposed to raise Him from among the dead a bright and momentous thing to press on souls, as indeed we find the apostles insisting on it throughout the Acts. When it rains, it is starting to leak. We frankly confess it. I can't return again to my mother's womb and be born." It will be observed therefore, that in this connection the apostle shows the place both of conscience and of the law, that God in judging will take into full consideration the circumstances and condition of every soul of man. In writing to the Corinthians, the second epistle, chapter 5, Paul said, "For we know when this earthly tent, our body, is dissolved, that we then have a building of God that is not made with hands that is eternal in the heavens. Man can never be satisfied until he is in union with God. It is not good that man shall live alone. This is that which we expect, in hope of which our flesh rests, Psalms 16:9; Psalms 16:10. Thither He shall come, and thence, go forth. The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith; and consequently, if there be faith in any soul, to this it is revealed, to faith wherever it may be. This is one of the most lyrical passages Paul ever wrote. Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. But then it will be complete, when the Captain of our salvation shall bring the many sons to glory, Hebrews 2:10. Having believed the gospel, we now live in the Spirit of God. As do so many evangelists today. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man," etc. (verses 22-32.) You were expected to honor that god by attending banquets in that gods temple, dining on food offered in sacrifice to the god. But there was far more in Jesus. Let the heavens rejoice before the Lord, for he cometh. He means that part of man which gives sin its bridgehead. One of their great conceptions was the logos ( G3056) of God, which was God's mind or the reason. "They said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, and let its head reach unto the top of heaven; and let us make a house of worship in the top of it; and let us put a sword in his hand that he may wage war for us against our enemies, before we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." (ii) In Romans 8:38-39 Paul makes a list of terrible things. The adopting father went to the praetor, one of the Roman magistrates, and presented a legal case for the transference of the person to be adopted into his patria potestas. . 1. He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. He speaks of the Christian being adopted into the family of God. And a lot of times you even put a great deal in escrow. No war shall be any. I was hanging on to a part of the ship for a night and a day out in the middle of the Mediterranean." A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. WebFootnotes. And you are going through the hospital and emptying them all, and the whole world is just waiting for you to be manifested and so the idea is to, "Let's just sit and get perfected and get the church perfected so that God can manifest Himself in the perfected church," and this is in reality the second coming of Jesus Christ. 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. You know things start going wrong, "Oh, I need to talk to someone," you know. If man is acquitted by God, then he is saved from every other condemnation. How many times have you interpreted it that way? Now the Rabbis--and Paul had once been a Rabbi--believed that they were grudgingly hostile to men. 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Because the creature himself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God ( Romans 8:21 ). "By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith." The book of Genesis shows that God created the earth to be kind to man. Such is the doctrine and the fact. He doesn't keep a record of my mistakes, my sins, my failures. Our happiness is not in present possession: We are saved by hope. It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. 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. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. Then there is another and crowning part of the blessing: "And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation." Paul goes on with a poet's fervour and a lover's rapture to sing of how nothing can separate us from the love of God in our Risen Lord. 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. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. He is body, mind, and spirit. He felt guilty, but now through the work of Jesus Christ he makes this astounding declaration. Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. It is foolish to fight God, because you're fighting against the very best for your own life.The next question, Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? What can we say to these things? We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God ( Romans 8:19 ). Who is going to make charges against me? Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Proverbs 9 Commentary. 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. It is not said that all things shall work for good, but that , they work now in the behalf of him who loveth now, ; for both verbs are in the present tense. 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. 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. The people who owned the home had gone to Europe for the summer. Because of the fall of man, every part of Gods creation was subjected to a curse (Romans 8:20). . Then who is going to lay anything to my charge, because God elected me? But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. The gospel, instead of treating this as a light matter, alone vindicates God in these eternal ways of His, in that which must be in him who stands in relationship with God. (ii) There is the life that is dominated by the Spirit of God. You say, "Oh, but I have failed God so miserably. This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. 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. Why should this be so strange and incredible to you?
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