Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. 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). "The vine shall yield its fruit ten thousand fold, and on each, vine there shall be a thousand branches; and each branch shall, produce a thousand clusters; and each cluster produce a thousand, grapes; and each grape a cor of wine. Now here God is speaking of things concerning me that are not yet fulfilled. As Paul saw it, prayer, like everything else, is of God. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. Therefore, the keynote of the Christian life is always hope and never despair. 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? In addition to nature being pictured in human terms (it thinks and feels), God is also pictured in human terms. Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. To cement the alliance Nero wished to marry her. In different people that life will be differently described. ". But it is interesting how that we so often find ourselves in that place of seeking to offer to God the works of our flesh. Paul recognized his problem, and he ends chapter 7 with that cry, "O wretched man that I am! Surely we can trust a loyalty like that for anything. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Now if I am a child, I am an heir; I am an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together ( Romans 8:17 ). For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ). Sin was in the world between Adam and Moses, when the law was not. Their crowning glory was precisely what they would not hear of. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. Thus the proof was complete. 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. And this yoke (poor creatures) they bear in hope that it will not be so always. Pythagoras forbade his disciples to pray for themselves, because, he said, they could never in their ignorance know what was expedient for them. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. God, however, subjected mankind to this futility "in hope" from the beginning. Paul says to these haunted men of his age: "The stars cannot hurt you. This world that is dominated by the flesh, dominated by men who are dominated by the flesh. 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. instructive and interesting manner the links that grace practically forms and maintains between the saints of God. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? ", No malign influences (powers) will separate us from Christ. It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. Height (hupsoma, G5313) was the time when a star was at its zenith and its influence was greatest; depth (bathos, G899) was the time when a star was at its lowest, waiting to rise and to put its influence on some man. Hey, it is beginning to have its problems. Alas! The saints are heirs though in this world they are heirs under age; see Galatians 4:1; Galatians 4:2. We frankly confess it. From what? He is at work in all their affairs, right from his eternal choice of them to be his sons to his act of final glorification when they will share the likeness of Jesus Christ (28-30).Christians need have no doubts about any aspect of their salvation. You have got a sizeable deposit that is in escrow and, boy, my commission on this is going to be about $35,000 and all right. In sickness and in health, all of the way. If anyone does not possess the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to Christ. Romans 8 actually teaches us God is not interested in just "getting us into heaven", and heaven is not just a way of escape for us. There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. Paul says that creation was subjected to futility in Romans 8:20-21 ESV: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. In Hebrew it is ruach ( H7307) , and it has two basic thoughts. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. The people who owned the home had gone to Europe for the summer. This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. If that is true of nature, it is still truer of man. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. I can see how God is going to work." He was Emmanuel, yea, the Jehovah, God of Israel. 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. When you finally see it, it becomes then a rational reality. He who believes is not condemned" ( John 3:17-18 ). hope. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. The gospel means His glad tidings for man. May the Lord bless you. When he is talking of the Christians, he talks of the days when we were in the flesh (en ( G1722) sarki, G4561) ( Romans 7:5). Hence, therefore, it was in no way limited to any particular nation, such as those that had already been under the law and government of God. Now he observes an expectation of this glory. This the whole creation looks and longs for; and it may serve as a reason why now a good man should be merciful to his beast. 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. God has made it so simple. 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 . The notion that this passage (Romans 8:19-23) is a reference to all creation lower than the level of humanity "yearning in hope" is contrary to reason. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! It is a proper training for heaven. Because God created a way to save humanity, both man and creation itself have hope. He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." (4.) God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? The master plan of God called for the exercise of the latter option. I don't have to live as a subject to my flesh anymore. Thus, anything that happens to me only happens to me because God has allowed it to happen to me. (3) Their lot in life; their being subjected to this state of vanity, is the arrangement of God. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. And whenever my children would get a fever and become listless and sick, whatever, it would so tear me up inside to see them in that condition. We have reason to pity the poor creatures that for our sin have become subject to vanity. Bible Verse; Newest; Oldest; Most Viewed; Sermon. For the creature was made subject to vanity Mankind in general, and the whole visible creation, lost their original beauty, glory, and felicity; a sad change passed on man, and his place of abode; the whole face of nature was obscured, and all creatures were subjected to vanity and wretchedness in a variety of forms. I reckon--logizomai. They were probably added by a copyist who either made a mistake or thought he could "help" Paul by adding these words from Romans 8:4. The created order will therefore share the destiny of the sons of God. Thus the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against (not only the open ungodliness of men, but) the orthodox unrighteousness of those that hold the truth in unrighteousness. For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? It was as if they did not want to share God with anyone and had grudged man his share in him. Hope has reference to the future; and in this state of the Christian, he sighs for deliverance, and expects it. That is, that bondage to our flesh any longer. The grounds of this expectation in the saints. But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. (c) But he has a use of this word sarx ( G4561) which is all his own. more, nor shall there be any more drought throughout the land, no famine, or hail to work havoc on the crops" (Sibylline. It is possible that the name Alphaeus was a common name and that these men were not related. So if a man is controlled by his body appetites, if a man is living predominately after the flesh, then he has what is termed here the mind of the flesh. He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. Now the earliest creed of the Church, which is still the essence of all Christian creeds, ran like this: "He was crucified dead and buried; the third day he rose again from the dead; and sitteth at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." And the cities shall be full of good, things, and the fields rich; neither shall there be any sword, throughout the land or battle-din; nor shall the earth be, convulsed any more with deep-drawn groans. Where lies the value of belonging to the circumcised people of God? Sounds pretty wonderful, doesn't it? Future glory involves far more than just believers. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." And so God speaks, and this is what thrills me, He speaks of my being glorified, because God knows He is going to do it. Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi were of awful import for Israel; but, in presence of circumstances so disastrous, there should be not merely a people but sons of the living God, and then should Judah and Israel be gathered as one people under one head. That law of the Spirit of life that God has written in my heart.God accepts that which is in my heart. Paul is saying: "In this present world nothing can separate us from God in Christ; the day will come when this world will be shattered and the new age will dawn. Christ indeed did both; and so the word was nigh them, in their mouth and in their heart. The Jews were the last in the world to take such ground as this. Prayer is the instrument by which we cooperate with God in the accomplishing of His will upon the earth. Romans 8 is one of the most loved chapters in all of Scripture. FOR CREATION WAS CONDEMNED. Of these only a remnant would be saved. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. 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. 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. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. Following up with the teaching of the olive-tree, he carries out the same thought of a remnant that abides on their own stock, and points to a re-instatement of the nation, And I would just observe by the way, that the Gentile cry that no Jew ever accepts the gospel in truth is a falsehood. 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. Who is he that condemneth? It is only when we understand how serious and complicated a step Roman adoption was that we really under stand the depth of meaning in this passage. The consciousness of man is responsive to whatever controls the man. There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. He has declared me innocent of all charges. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? The spirit is groaning, waiting for that perfect work of God. Who hath subjected the same - Who has appointed his people to this condition. ( Romans 8:34 ). Did the call of God. It is the deep experience of the Christian that all is of God; that he did nothing and that God did everything. 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