romans 8:20 commentary

Although many agree that God is spoken of here, Godet thought it was Adam who, through his rebellion, subjected the lower creation to the curse of God; and Hammond was quoted by him as applying the term "him". What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. Therefore, the keynote of the Christian life is always hope and never despair. Paul knew that, and here he, as it were, endows creation with consciousness. Not just some of the things, but because you have been called according to His purpose you can rest in the confidence that God is in control and all things are working together for good. There are passages that refer to Gods eyes and fingers (see Job 38:7 for an example). ed. This hope is related to the thought in verse 21. Well, Satan does. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? This designs the vanity and emptiness of the minds of the Gentiles, who were without God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain conceits they had of themselves, of their wisdom, knowledge, learning, and eloquence; likewise their vain philosophy, particularly their gross idolatry, their polytheism, or worshipping of many gods; together with their divers lusts and vices, to which they were addicted, to such a degree, that they might be truly said to be made subject thereunto, being under the government of these things, slaves unto them, and in such subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; though it is said. Ep elpidi hoti kai, c.--in hope that the creature itself so many Greek copies join the words. Romans 8:20. What could be conceived closer or more even than this? And I have been born again by the Spirit of God. [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. There are some who still believe that; but the ancient world was really haunted by this supposed domination of a man's life by the influence of the stars. It is evident, therefore, that dispensational position will not suffice for God, who holds to His own unchangeable estimate of good and evil, and who judges the more stringently according to the measure of advantage possessed. Hope has reference to the future; and in this state of the Christian, he sighs for deliverance, and expects it. But the fourth is different. That I could have that ear infection and I could somehow take her suffering and bear it for her so that she wouldn't have to suffer. Romans 8:20 Parallel Verses. There are two ways of taking them and both give excellent sense and precious truth. No, for in all of these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us ( Romans 8:37 ). Romans 13:1-14; Romans 13:1-14 urges their duties towards what was outside them, more particularly to the powers that be, but also to men in general. And, upon the view of both, he gives this judgment here. He sets before us an example of obedience in all created things, and adds, that it springs from hope; for hence comes the alacrity of the sun and moon, and of all the stars in their constant courses, hence is the sedulity of the earths obedience in bringing forth fruits, hence is the unwearied motion of the air, hence is the prompt tendency to flow in water. Romans 7:1-20. The same Spirit who gives hope for the future gives help in the present. As you look at your life, can you honestly say, "Yes, my life is led by the Spirit of God"? The Christian is involved in the human situation. The last verses of the chapter, however, bring in the deliverance not yet the fulness of it, but the hinge, so to speak. By the cross God has a deeper moral glory than ever a glory that He thus acquired, if I may so say. He is hostile to him, resentful of his law and his control. So they that have the mind of the flesh find themselves at enmity with God. Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Sounds pretty wonderful, doesn't it? Though they were willingly vain, yet they were not willingly made The first included thrones, cherubim and seraphim. The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20 by Homer (English) Paperback Book . Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. Children will dream. We are aliens because we live an entirely different lifestyle as we live after the Spirit. If he was called, so were they he an apostle, they not apostles but saints; but still, for them as for him, all flowed out of the same mighty love, of God. Thus the proof was complete. ENTRY INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD ( Romans 8:12-17 ). Far from denying or obscuring what they boasted of, he goes beyond them "Who are Israelites," says he, "to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever." For the creature - The renewed creature; the Christian mind. God is gracious, but holy; He is faithful, but righteous. As for the impotency of the law, that weakness of the law which resulted from the effects of our sinful human nature--God sent his own Son as a sin offering with that very same human nature which in us had sinned; and thereby, while he existed in the same human nature as we have, he condemned sin, so that as a result the righteous demand of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live our lives not after the principle of sinful human nature, but after the principle of the Spirit. 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. See Lightfoot. But there is another incompleteness of man. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. He dwells in the heart by faith. The created order will therefore share the destiny of the sons of God. 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. This would not have been just. It is not only a blessing in its own direct character, or in indirect though real effects, but the Giver Himself is our joy, and boast, and glory. Series: Colossians: Supreme!Title: "How To Build Your Family to Thrive During Chaotic Times"Scripture: Colossians 3:18-25, Ephesians 5:21-6:9, Matthew 7:24-27; 1 Cor 6:19-20; Romans 6:17-18(Commentary helps listed at the end)Last week's Bottom line: We exchange the gross life for the good life when we embrace God's peace and God's word as God's peoplewith thanksgiving.Bottom . "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ," he says. It was a glorious day when we moved out of that tent and into this new sanctuary. Verse Concepts.King James Version. The creation was subjected to vanity (see verse 19 for information on this word as well as the word subjected). It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." As a result, they and all of their offspring were subjected to all the processes that lead inexorably to death. Though they were willingly vain, yet they were not willingly made subject to vanity; they willingly went into idolatrous and other evil practices, but the devil made them subject, or slaves unto them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, and to their lusts; for he seems to be designed, "by him who hath subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the world. The idols were a burden to the weary beast, Isaiah 46:1. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? Claudius already had a daughter, Octavia. God was not satisfied alone. They had their own stables, their own pools. 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. Because the creature himself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God ( Romans 8:21 ). 8:5-11 Those who live according to the dictates of sinful human nature are absorbed in worldly human things. For the creature was made subject to vanity The Gentile world were subject to vanity of mind; but how? 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. He is talking here of the Mosaic Law, which he said was holy, just and good, but what it could not do, what was the limitation of the law of Moses, or what could it not do, the law of Moses could not make a man righteous before God. ( Romans 8:35 ). Pretty tense there for a little bit. It was human nature in all its sin and weakness; it was all that man is without God and without Christ. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. 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. As the accomplishment of the saints' present hopes and expectations, Romans 8:19; Romans 8:19, c. As the saints are suffering for it, so they are waiting for it. Would we follow up the heights of heavenly truth, would we sound the depths of Christian experience, would we survey the workings of the Spirit of God in the Church, would we bow before the glories of the person of Christ, or learn His manifold offices, we must look elsewhere in the writings of the New Testament no doubt, but elsewhere rather than here. There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. Thus the discussion of Abraham strengthens the case in behalf of the uncircumcised who believe, to the overthrow of the greatest boast of the Jew. I groan often when I see the conditions of the world around me. Did they fall back on Abraham? He breaks the objections down into 3 main ones: 1) If God's grace increases whenever we sin then we should just continue to sin so that we might experience more grace 2) If we're not under the old law in the old testament then we should be free to live however we want Part of the suffering experienced by creation is to remind man that all sin exacts too great a price (CBL, Romans, p. 131). God, I am going to do better." (14-24) This sovereignty is in God's dealing both with Jews and Gentiles. Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein CHAPTER 8 In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. Luke 6:15-16 calls two other apostles (James and Judas) the sons of Alphaeus also. 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. Taxes; Taxes may be applicable at checkout. We are told concerning Jesus, "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross despising the shame" ( Hebrews 12:2 ). 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. Whatever sufferings believers may experience, they are of little significance when compared with the glory to be revealed on the day of final victory (18). I have got it made. Oh, how grateful we are for that love of God for us tonight in Christ Jesus. The confusion of tongues, by which true religion was lost in the world, is a proof that the builders of this tower sinned against God in the highest degree. There are two very obvious reasons why we cannot pray as we ought. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. . As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. They need not fear any accusations against them, because the one who has declared them righteous is God himself, and he has done so on the basis of the perfect work of Jesus Christ (33-34). The book of Genesis shows that God created the earth to be kind to man. As previously stated, this word meant things like futility, frailty, aimlessness, the inability to reach a goal or achieve results. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? 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. So the mind of the flesh is death, because it is a consciousness that is separated from God and absorbed with the things of my own body and those needs. "And earth, and all the trees, and the innumerable flocks of, sheep shall give their true fruit to mankind, of wine and of, sweet honey and of white milk and corn, which to men is the most. Any date. worshipping of many gods; together with their divers lusts and It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:4 ). Within he must battle with his own evil human nature; without he must live in a world of death and decay. It is not what is congenial to his renewed nature. But, when he became a Christian, into his life there came the surging power of the Spirit of God, and, as a result, he entered into victorious living. (6-13) Answers to objections against God's sovereign conduct, in exercising mercy and justice. For the present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. (i) There is the life which is dominated by sinful human nature; whose focus and centre is self; whose only law is its own desires; which takes what it likes where it likes. But this subjection is one that is contrary to it, and from which he desires to be delivered. We are told to be careful lest we deceive ourselves. "Yea verily, their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. Thus, anything that happens to me only happens to me because God has allowed it to happen to me. He was made in the image and the likeness of God, and it was from that image the he fell. I shall live in that kingdom, the kingdom of light, and love, joy and peace, an heir of God, joint-heir with Jesus Christ.Then Paul said. In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. 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? We are often so hard on ourselves and are in the position of condemning ourselves, but I can tell you one who is not condemning. As far as persons are concerned, there is no hindrance; Jew or Gentile makes no difference, as is expressly said, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the [passing over or praeter-mission, not] remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus" (verses 23-26). Jesus is in charge. This section is the start of looking at how exactly should we stop doing bad things, without turning to legalism (meaning that we start believing that we can become holy and please God just by obeying the law, therefore . The dream of the renovated world was dear to the Jews. 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. You can't put them in the same category. 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 ). Sep 9, 2001. He knew what the glory of heaven is; see 2 Corinthians 12:3; 2 Corinthians 12:4. So Paul, thinking in terms of his own day, says, "Not even the grudging, jealous angels can separate us from the love of God, much as they would like to do so. When God ceases to bring things to your mind to pray for, finish by praising and thanking Him for what He has done, reminding yourself of Romans 11:36, "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. . In the experience of the Holy Spirit men had a foretaste, a first instalment, of the glory that shall be; now they long with all their hearts for the full realization of what adoption into the family of God means. Of these only a remnant would be saved. Paul's answer is this. So, Paul is saying, it is the Holy Spirit himself who is the witness to our adoption into the family of God. There is no hope for man otherwise; for the gospel is not all that is now made known. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. He is, of course, the same absolutely perfect and unchangeable God of goodness; but His perfection has displayed itself in new and more glorious ways in Christ's death, in Him who humbled Himself, and was obedient even to the death of the cross. Nothing can separate you from that love of God which is in Christ Jesus. 17.) Abraham is the proof of the value of faith in justification before God. Here we may observe. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. (1-5) The promises are made good to the spiritual seed of Abraham. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. But then Paul goes on to declare to the saints of God. How glorious it is to be an heir of God, joint-heir with Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God has become mine. 4). Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. Because he had violated that spiritual aspect of the law, though he had never committed adultery, yet he found that he desired his neighbor's wife and he realized that the desire was sin. He says that those who are in the flesh cannot please God ( Romans 8:8). "There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus" ( Romans 8:1 ). Still, it is "man" not yet exactly the Jew, but man who had profited, it might be, by whatever the Jew had; at the least, by the workings of natural conscience. It is possible that the name Alphaeus was a common name and that these men were not related. Even if other sons were afterwards born, it did not affect his rights. (a) He died. ". The threads are beginning to get a little old, rip a lot easier. For this I will defend thee before men.'" 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. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope. It is a life which is such a steady progress to God that the final transition of death is only a natural and inevitable stage on the way. So God elected me. Law works wrath because it provokes transgression; grace makes the promise sure to all the seed, not only because faith is open to the Gentile and Jew alike, but because God is looked to as a quickener of the dead. Undoubtedly there are fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, and God values them I will not say from man, but from His saints; but here it is what, according to the apostle, God has for man. It is His righteousness, or, in other words, His perfect consistency with Himself, which is always involved in the notion of righteousness. not willingly -- Not as a matter of choice. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. Lord, thank You. )_ 2. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" 8:12-17 So then, brothers, a duty is laid upon us--and that duty is not to our own sinful human nature, to live according to the principles of that same nature; for, if you live according to the principles of sinful human nature, you are on the way to death; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you will live. And so I rest in the fact that God has already spoken in the past tense of my future state of glorified together with Jesus Christ. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. And God brought her to man and she became his wife. Who is he who condemns? He did nothing to deserve it; God, the great Father, in his amazing love and mercy, has taken the lost, helpless, poverty-stricken, debt-laden sinner and adopted him into his own family, so that the debts are cancelled and the glory inherited. Faith respects the promise, hope the thing promised. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. In Jesus' name. He uses still another picture from Roman adoption. In the saints, who are new creatures, Romans 8:23-25; Romans 8:23-25. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. But he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God ( Romans 8:27 ). It is not the awakening of conscience, however real; neither is it the attraction of heart by the grace of Christ, however blessed this may be. Romans 12:1 - Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to pre-sent your bodies a living and holy sacrice,. But for the time it is held fast, though in unrighteousness. Childbirth changed. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. When man sinned, the ground was cursed for man's sake, and with it all the creatures (especially of this lower world, where our acquaintance lies) became subject to that curse, became mutable and mortal. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. more ways than one. 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. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. He has declared me innocent of all charges. 11, 12). Here I had all my bills paid and I became current and we had the new living room furniture practically delivered, you know. (Romans 8:1 . Just as the sun in the heavens is not for one people or land alone, no more is the gospel. That must needs be a great, a transcendent glory, which all the creatures are so earnestly expecting and longing for. But we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. 8:2 (a) NAS "t he law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" is much more literal than the NIV rendering. This, accordingly, is the essential spring of worship. He speaks of those who walk according to the flesh in contradistinction to those who live the Christian life ( Romans 8:4-5). The faith of Christ has brought divine joy into his soul; but, in point of fact, he is traversing a world of infirmity, suffering, and grief. Hey, wait a minute. There is no language where their voice is not heard. He speaks of physical circumcision, literally "in the flesh" ( Romans 2:28). 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? Who shall deliver me from this life controlled by the body?" Here was the very truth that every Jew, as such, denied. 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. 22). But the spirit's groaning has a purpose within my life, as the Spirit helps my other weaknesses. 1. It is God who acquits. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. So here, with a poet's eye, Paul sees nature waiting for liberation from the death and decay that man's sin had brought into the world. 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. It will then be put past dispute. Yes, but this is another principle. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. Paul is saying: "You can think of every terrifying thing that this or any other world can produce. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. 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. 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." One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." When it rains, it is starting to leak. He takes their own books, and proves from one of them (Deuteronomy) that in the ruin of Israel the resource is not going into the depths, nor going up to heaven. The Bible tells me so. Because we possess the capacity to sin, when it is coupled with the determination to resist temptation to sin, the resultant effort becomes a spiritual exercise.Like a man training with dumbbells, the repeated resistance builds strength over time. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" 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. (b) NIV has "set me free", NAS "set you free.". When he gives a list of the works of the flesh in Galatians 5:19-21, he includes the bodily and the sexual sins; but he also includes idolatry, hatred, wrath, strife, heresies, envy, murder. God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. As the child said: "Enoch was a man who went on walks with God--and one day he didn't come back.". Observe, (1.) It was the Son of God not merely as dealing with the powers of the earth, Jehovah's King on the holy hill of Zion, but after a far deeper manner. Most Popular. Our way is rough and long; but he that shall come will come, and will not tarry; and therefore, though he seem to tarry, it becomes us to wait for him. 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