8 Thats why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. 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. Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travailgroans that are symptoms of life, not of death. WebBut what does it say? 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. WebA verse-by-verse Bible study class. The mind is the forge of thoughts. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[ b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a You can also change some of your preferences. It is the death of the soul; for it is its alienation from God, in union and communion with whom the life of the soul consists. How Christ appeared: In the likeness of sinful flesh. Helpeth, synantilambanetaiheaves with us, over against us, helps as we help one that would lift up a burden, by lifting over against him at the other endhelps with us, that is, with us doing our endeavour, putting forth the strength we have. The Spirit of adoption is another privilege belonging to those that are in Christ Jesus, v. 14-16. If he had died, and not risen again, we had been where we were. The Book of Romans: 1. This great truth, thus laid down, he illustrates in the following verses; and shows how we come by this great privilege, and how we may answer this character. The state of the church in this world always is, but was then especially, an afflicted state; to be a Christian was certainly to be a sufferer. III. Having the Spirit of Christ is the same with having the Spirit of God to dwell in us. Romans 8:18 - Suffering and Glory p.13 9. The bodies of the saints are the temples of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor 3 16; 6 19. The Spirit in the world helps; many rules and promises there are in the word for our help. The apostle's triumph herein, in the name of all the saints, ver 31 to the end. In our patiently bearing these trials we are not only conquerors, but more than conquerors, that is, triumphers. 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. Eccl 6 12. Web35 min Romans 13:8-14 - Verse by Verse Bible Study Scripture Studies in Romans - A Verse-by-Verse Bible Study Christianity A verse-by-verse Bible study class. NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. It will not, it cannot, separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The help of the Spirit in prayer. You know not what you ask, Matt 20 22. By examining what we mind, the things of the flesh or the things of the spirit. whether are we more wise for the world or for our souls? Things present separate us from things to come, and things to come separate and cut us off from things present; but neither from the love of Christ, whose favour is twisted in with both present things and things to come. Romans 8:19-22 The Creation In Childbirth p.14 10. He speaks as one amazed and swallowed up with the contemplation and admiration of it, wondering at the height and depth, and length and breadth, of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. [3.] All these troubles are very consistent with the strong and constant love of the Lord Jesus. That salvation has been provided by God through Jesus Christ and his redemptive work on the cross. God having manifested his love in giving his own Son for us, and not hesitating at that, can we imagine that any thing else should divert or dissolve that love? This is that which we expect, in hope of which our flesh rests, Ps 16 9, 10. Here is the Spirit interceding with groans that cannot be uttered. A daring challenge to all the enemies of the saints to separate them, if they could, from the love of Christ. Topics covered: The never-ending debt to love one another -- Who is the creditor for this debt? Is the devil, the accuser of the brethren, accusing them before our God day and night? This takes in the whole of sanctification, of which Christ is the great pattern and sampler. WebChrist is the firstborn with respect to all creatures in general; he was begotten of the Father before all creatures were; he is the first cause of them all, the governor, basis, and support of them: and he is the firstborn with respect to the saints; who are of the same nature with him, are made partakers of the divine nature, are sons in the (1.) 1:1617, the power of God to save the just shall live by All that God performs he performs for them, Ps 57 2. Displaying all worksheets related to - Romans 8. Do their own consciences accuse them? Now this arises from their being in Christ Jesus; by virtue of their union with him through faith they are thus secured. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. It could neither justify nor sanctify, neither free us from the guilt nor from the power of sin, having not the promises either of pardon or grace. The Holy Spirit is the spring of all our desires and breathings towards God. This the gospel is filled with the assurances of. 1. Were his favours intermitted? Them he called, that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand: we are called to that to which we were chosen. The vision of God and the fruition of God make up the inheritance the saints are heirs to. The particular instances of Christians' privileges, ver 1-28. lacks as a sacrifice Romans 8:32 Lit. Now we are here told what becomes of the bodies and souls of those in whom Christ is. They work together, as several ingredients in a medicine concur to answer the intention. They kill the Christians to please themselves, to be food to their malice. Killed all the day long, that is, continually exposed to and expecting the fatal stroke. What becomes of the souls of brutes, that go downwards, none can tell. I. That are spirited as he was spiritedare meek, and lowly, and humble, and peaceable, and patient, and charitable, as he was. Ep elpidi hoti kai, etc.in hope that the creature itself; so many Greek copies join the words. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. In Christ, God does not only not condemn them, but is well pleased with them, Matt 17 5. The righteousness of Christ imputed to them secures the soul, the better part, from death; the righteousness of Christ inherent in them, the renewed image of God upon the soul, preserves it, and, by God's ordination, at death elevates it, and improves it, and makes it meet to partake of the inheritance of the saints in light. What was done by this appearance of his: Sin was condemned, that is, God did therein more than ever manifest his hatred of sin; and not only so, but for all that are Christ's both the damning and the domineering power of sin is broken and taken out of the way. Mentoring from Jen, AJ and other experienced Bible teachers. WebRomans 8 English Standard Version Life in the Spirit 8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Secondly, Of that spirit of bondage which many of the saints themselves were under at their conversion, under the convictions of sin and wrath set home by the Spirit; as those in Acts 2 37, the jailer (Acts 16 30), Paul, Acts 9 6. He hath overcome the world for us (John 16 33), both the good things and the evil things of it; so that we have nothing to do but to pursue the victory, and to divide the spoil, and so are more than conquerors. Or, We groan among ourselves. We have reason to pity the poor creatures that for our sin have become subject to vanity. Observe here. That must needs be a great, a transcendent glory, which all the creatures are so earnestly expecting and longing for. We have here from the apostle. Being delivered from so great a death by so great a ransom, we are deeply indebted to our deliverer. Faith is the evidence, hope the expectation, of things not seen. All the saints have flesh and spirit in them; but to be in the flesh and to be in the Spirit are contrary. We owe no suit nor service to our carnal desires; we are indeed bound to clothe, and feed, and take care of the body, as a servant to the soul in the service of God, but no further. The Argument from Contingency: A Proof for God, 6 Verses to Cling to When You Are Overwhelmed. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in The creatures are often abused to the dishonour of their Creator, the hurt of his children, or the service of his enemies. When Abraham was dead, yet God was the God of Abraham, for even then his spirit was life, Matt 22 31, 32. shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? I. We cannot say but that the body is dead; it is a frail, mortal, dying body, and it will be dead shortly; it is a house of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. Let not our life be after the wills and motions of the flesh. Now the saints are God's hidden ones, the wheat seems lost in a heap of chaff; but then they shall be manifested. 1. Here are life and death, blessing and cursing, set before us. Whom he called those he also justified. We, having received such clusters in this wilderness, cannot but long for the full vintage in the heavenly Canaan. When the body dies, and returns to the dust, the spirit if life; not only living and immortal, but swallowed up of life. Afflicted: It is to work for them this exceeding and eternal weight of glory. We are not competent judges of our own condition. his smiles any whit suspended? (2.) Of particular concern to Paul were those to whom this letter was writtenthose in Rome who were loved by God and called to be saints (). WebRomans 8 starts with a therefore. The therefore indicates that Paul is stating an important summary and conclusion related to all that he previously stated in chapters 1-7. 2. A direct and positive conclusion of the whole matter: For I am persuaded, v. 38, 39. Heaven is an inheritance that all the saints are heirs to. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. We are not to continue continue in sin ( Rom. What does Paul say regarding those who are in Christ Jesus (i.e., Christians) (Romans 8:1)? Use a dictionary if necessary. Hope supposes desire, and that desire offered up to God is prayer; we groan. None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification (2 Thess 2 13), and surely it cannot be a temptation to any to be conformed to the world to believe that they were predestinated to be conformed to Christ. 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Why, the Spirit itself makes intercession for us, dictates our requests, indites our petitions, draws up our plea for us. 1 4. Which of these do we mind, for which of these doe we make provision, by which of these are we governed, which of these do we take part with? This includes all, that God is for us; not only reconciled to us, and so not against us, but in covenant with us, and so engaged for usall his attributes for us, his promises for us. He is for them, even when he seems to act against them. They work, as physic works upon the body, various ways, according to the intention of the physician; but all for the patient's good. The first verse of Romans 8 is the declaration of hope and rejoicing that is unfortunately broken by the chapter break. The LXX. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. 1. If God be for us, who can be against us? How should this humble us for and warn us against, carnal-mindedness! Grace in the soul is its new nature; the life of the saint lies in the soul, while the life of the sinner goes no further than the body. (1.) 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. The Spirit in the heart helps, dwelling in us, working in us, as a Spirit of grace and supplication, especially with respect to the infirmities we are under when we are in a suffering state, when our faith is most apt to fail; for this end the Holy Ghost was poured out. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. But it should seem by the scripture that there will be some kind of restoration of them. 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Called? Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. See 1 Cor 6 19, 20. WebROMANS Chapter Ten -5. Not only theynot 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. The object of this expectation. III. 34 Who is he that condemneth? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. In the eternal glorification of all the elect, God's design of love has its full accomplishment. So that the only way to make our election sure is to make sure our calling, 2 Pet 1 10. Folly, and weakness, and distraction in prayer, are what all the saints are complaining of. Context A. 6:3-7) We have died with Christ ( Rom. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Christ is the express image of his Father, and the saints are conformed to the image of Christ. It is our love to God that makes every providence sweet, and therefore profitable. To whom did the law speak? If nothing less will save man, rather than man shall perish let him go, though it were out of his bosom. (1.) The apostle closes this excellent discourse upon the privileges of believers with a holy triumph, in the name of all the saints. [1.] The power of corruption being broken in effectual calling, and the guilt of sin removed in justification, all that which hinders is taken out of the way, and nothing can come between that soul and glory. Their property: They are led by the Spirit of God, as a scholar in his learning is led by his tutor, as a traveller in his journey is led by his guide, as a soldier in his engagements is led by his captain; not driven as beasts, but led as rational creatures, drawn with the cords of a man and the bands of love. (1.) Save: $14.99 (30%) Buy Now. The agreeableness of this to our present state, v. 24, 25. He dwells in the heart by faith, Eph 3 17. These precious privileges are conveyed to us by the charter of the covenant, but they are founded in the counsel of God, which infallibly secures the event. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. To make the sense of the words clear, which in our translation is a little intricate, we may read it thus, with a little transposition:God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and a sacrifice for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, etc., v. 4. (3.) It is not only the alienation of the soul from God, but the opposition of the soul against God; it rebels against his authority, thwarts his design, opposes his interest, spits in his face, spurns at his bowels. We had become unable to keep the law, and, in case of failure, the law, as a covenant of works, made no provision, and so left us as it found us. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. [2.] The present calamities of Christ's beloved ones supposedthat they meet with tribulation on all hands, are in distress, know not which way to look for any succour and relief in this world, are followed with persecution from an angry malicious world that always hated those whom Christ loved, pinched with famine, and starved with nakedness, when stripped of all creature-comforts, exposed to the greatest perils, the sword of the magistrate drawn against them, ready to be sheathed in their bowels, bathed in their blood. Or, We shall not be separated from that love either in death or in life. The first-fruits did both sanctify and ensure the lump. It does not yet appear what we shall be (1 John 3 2), but then the glory shall be revealed. 9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. Observe, The love that exists between God and true believers is through Christ. The sure success of these intercessions: He that searches the heart knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, v. 27. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. No, by no means. But God himself hath undertaken the doing of it from first to last, that we might abide in a constant dependence upon him and subjection to him, and ascribe all the praise to himthat every crown may be cast before the throne. All that are effectually called are justified, absolved from guilt, and accepted as righteous through Jesus Christ. It is a great matter what our savour is, what truths, what tidings, what comforts, we do most relish, and are most agreeable to us. 2. 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosenIt is God who justifies. Whom he justified those he also glorified. To a hypocrite, all whose religion lies in his tongue, nothing is more dreadful than that God searches the heart and sees through all his disguises. To be Christ's (that is, to be a Christian indeed, one of his children, his servants, his friends, in union with him) is a privilege and honour which many pretend to that have no part nor lot in the matter. And if it be objected, What use will they be of to glorified saints? In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. Words of knowledge often in scripture denote affection; so here: Elect according to the foreknowledge of God, 1 Pet 1 2. 9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. Many of the people of God have, accordingly, found this chapter a well-spring of comfort to their souls, living and dying, and have sucked and been satisfied from these breasts of consolation, and with joy drawn water out of these wells of salvation. What could have been done more for the comfort of the Lord's people, in all their addresses to God? He is their advocate, and brings them off. [2.] The children of God shall appear in their own colours. The foundation of this freedom is laid in Christ's undertaking for us, of which he speaks v. 3, God sending his own Son. This includes all the out-goings of the soul's affections towards God as the chief good and highest end. WebRomans 8:37-39, For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And the great question is, What is the principle of the walk, the flesh or the spirit, the old or the new nature, corruption or grace? Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. The assistances which the Spirit gives us in that duty. Can it be imagined that he should do the greater and not do the less? Christ comes to do that which the law could not do. His being circumcised, redeemed, baptized with John's baptism, bespeaks the likeness of sinful flesh. WebROMANS 8:1-11. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. Romans 6 speaks about our identification with Christ in baptism and being dead to sin and alive in Christ. We groan within ourselves, which denotes the strength and secrecy of these desires; not making a loud noise, as the hypocrites howling upon the bed for corn and wine, but with silent groans, which pierce heaven soonest of all. By the merit of his death he paid our debt; and the surety's payment is a good plea to an action of debt. To all the hard censures, the malicious calumnies, and the unjust and unrighteous sentences of men, we may with comfort oppose our justification before God through Christ Jesus as that which doth abundantly countervail," 1 Cor 4 3, 4. Thus may we by faith argue against our fears of want. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Who then dares fight against us, while God himself is fighting for us? Nothing less than that glory would make up the fulness of his covenant relation to them as God; and therefore, in all he does for them, and in them, he has this in his eye. If children, then heirs, v. 17. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Why, they lose that which the gold loses in the furnace, nothing but the dross. 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. Secondly, With great gain. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means. Death to the saints is but the freeing of the heaven-born spirit from the clog and load of this body, that it may be fit to partake of eternal life. [2.] of Which interest has the ascendant? (3.) It is the undoubted character of all true believers that they are led by the Spirit of God. There may be praying in the Spirit where there is not a word spoken; as Moses prayed (Exod 14 15), and Hannah, 1 Sam 1 13. Men may give a charter of adoption; but it is God's prerogative, when he adopts, to give a spirit of adoptionthe nature of children. O grave, then, where is thy victory? An enemy may be reconciled, but enmity cannot. Observe, If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. II. 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 worldthe 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. He that hath designed us for the inheritance of sons when we come to age will not let us want necessaries in the mean time. his visits more shy? 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. It is God that justifieth. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life, 10 and I died. Holiness consists in our conformity to the image of Christ. Having submitted themselves in believing to his guidance, they do in their obedience follow that guidance, and are sweetly led into all truth and all duty. And those that are the sons of God have the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. The Spirit dwelling in us is the best evidence of our being in the Spirit, for the indwelling is mutual (1 John 4 16): Dwelleth in God, and God in him. They are the called according to his purpose, effectually called according to the eternal purpose. 1. They do not come to it as purchasers by any merit or procurement of their own; but as heirs, purely by the act of God; for God makes heirs. Men may justify themselves, as the Pharisees did, and yet the accusations may be in full force against them; but, if God justifies, this answers all. They cannot merit that glory; and, if suffering for Christ will not merit, much less will doing. The resurrection is here called the redemption of the body. Freedom From Fear - Romans 8:31-39 We are more than conquerors. Dying indeed is the soul's dying: the death of the saints is but a sleep. It is spiritual death, the certain way to eternal death. A strange way of conquering, but it was Christ's way; thus he triumphed over principalities and powers in his cross. As to the manner, we know not how to pray as we ought. We see the Old-Testament saints had the same lot; so persecuted they the prophets that were before us. There are three things in this chapter: I. It is death, v. 6. The sufferings of the saints are but sufferings of this present time, strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time (2 Cor 4 17), light affliction, and but for a moment. Ouk epheisatohe did not abate him a farthing of that great debt, but charged it home. (3.) The primitive Christians had many black crimes laid to their chargeheresy, sedition, rebellion, and what not? Who is he that condemneth? II. All that God did from eternity predestinate to grace and glory he does, in the fulness of time, effectually call. (2.) The inability of all these things to separate us from the love of Christ. Give four descriptions of the filth and blasphemy out of men's mouths found in Romans 3:13-14. "God as a Judge," says Dr. Manton, "by the spirit of bondage, sends us to Christ as Mediator, and Christ as Mediator, by the spirit of adoption, sends us back again to God as a Father." Who knows what is good for a man in this life? They are recti in curiaright in court; no sin that ever they have been guilty of shall come against them, to condemn them. There is still every day, and all the day long, one or other of the people of God bleeding and dying under the rage of persecuting enemies. Compare v. 17. All this will not cut the bond of love and friendship that is between Christ and true believers. We may know our state and character. Now, to caution us against this carnal-mindedness, he shows the great misery and malignity of it, and compares it with the unspeakable excellency and comfort of spiritual-mindedness. (32-39) And this because of righteousness. The fears of the saints lest they should lose their hold of Christ are often very discouraging and disquieting, and create them a great deal of disturbance; but here is that which may silence their fears, and still such storms, that nothing can separate them. The strength and fervency of those desires which the Holy Spirit works are hereby intimated. But, on the other hand, You shall live, live and be happy to eternity; that is the true life: If you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, subdue and keep under all fleshly lusts and affections, deny yourselves in the pleasing and humouring of the body, and this through the Spirit; we cannot do it without the Spirit working it in us, and the Spirit will not do it without our doing our endeavour. WebSOJO MEMBERSHIP MONTHLY OPTION. It was in the first-born that all the children were dedicated to God under the law. Now Paul was as competent a judge of this point as ever any mere man was. Shall we harbour and indulge that which is enmity to God our creator, owner, ruler, and benefactor? Who can be against us, to strip us, to deprive us of our comforts? In chapter 7 Paul has described the Christian conflict. II. WebWe have seen how naturally a doctrine of salvation by pure grace may lead to a doctrine of predestination but a doctrine of predestination (given that God loves all men) leads at least equally naturally to a doctrine of universal salvation. 3. The veil signified bondage, 2 Cor 3 15. He will establish that word unto his servants on which he has caused them to hope (Ps 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, Prov 13 12. 11 2. He helps our infirmities, meant especially of our praying infirmities, which most easily beset us in that duty, against which the Spirit helps. Those that now partake of the Spirit of Christ, as his brethren, shall, as his brethren, partake of his glory (John 17 24), shall sit down with him upon his throne, Rev 3 21. Now you are not under that dispensation, you have not received that spirit. It is God who justifies! Whom he did predestinate those he also called, not only with the external call (so many are called that were not chosen, Matt 20 16; 22 14), but with the internal and effectual call. He worketh all things together for good; so some read it. The eternal life of the soul consists in the vision and fruition of God, and both assimilating, for which the soul is qualified by the righteousness of sanctification. Proud member The Lord himself is the portion of the saints' inheritance (Ps 16 5), a goodly heritage, v. 6. And Infinite Wisdom shall be the judge whether it be good for us and needful for us or no. He knows what we have need of before we ask, Matt 6 8. We are under another covenant, another master, another husband, under the law of the Spirit, the law that gives the Spirit, spiritual life to qualify us for eternal. Awake, O sword. It is to an inheritance incorruptible. And who would be afraid then to suffer for Christ, who as he is before-hand with us in suffering, so he will not be behind-hand with us in recompence? [1.] They should not at all deter and frighten us from the diligent and earnest pursuit of that glory. When the world was drowned, and almost all the creatures in it, surely then it was subject to vanity indeed. A sanctified soul bears the image of God, as the child bears the image of the father. You can check these in your browser security settings. I refer to Ps 17 15, I will behold thy face in righteousness. Our Price: $35.00. (2.) (2.) [2.] And neither shall do it. 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