That always amazes me, but it shouldn't surprise me because He knows everything. Now Paul asks a series of questions: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Living By Faith: Commentary on Romans & 1st Corinthians, Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of. No sooner has Paul said this than an inevitable objection strikes him. For, let us recur to the origin of Gentilism, the confusion of languages, by reason of the attempt to build the tower of Babel; and though there are some passages in the gloss of the Targumists upon this matter that are sufficiently ridiculous, yet as to their scope and design they are worthy of notice. It may be passion-controlled, or lust-controlled, or pride-controlled, or ambition-controlled. There is no language where their voice is not heard. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. It should be understood that nature does not literally think and experience emotions. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. There was a most important trial of man in the person of Adam; but after this, what dispensation was there? The very sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, Prov 15 8. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. First, we cannot pray aright because we cannot foresee the future. He is consistent with Himself when He is justifying sinners, or, more strictly, all those who believe in Jesus. It is not a question of creature-standing. The man who, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Christian baptism, would assert any license to sin because it is in his nature, as if it were therefore an inevitable necessity, denies the real and evident meaning of his baptism. Paul has just been speaking of the glory of adoption into the family of God; and then he comes back to the troubled state of this present world. Because of the Fall God subjected the whole creation to "futility" or "frustration." To put it in another way, the Stoic believed that nothing could happen to a man which did not come from God and which was not part of God's plan for him. Romans 8 William Barclay's Daily Study Bible The Liberation Of Our Human Nature The Two Principles Of Life Entry Into The Family Of God The Glorious Hope All Is Of God The Love From Which Nothing Can Separate Us A seven-car garage and all kinds of fancy cars; we would go out and sit in them and pretend that we were driving them. Salem Media Group. It is the appointment of God, who has chosen to place his people in this condition; and who for wise purposes retains them in it. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. AU $80.05 . Those whom he long ago designed for this purpose, he also called; and those whom he called he put into a right relationship with himself; and those whom he put into a right relationship with himself he also glorified. 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 . 1. (ii) There is the life that is dominated by the Spirit of God. The groaning denotes a very earnest and importunate desire, the soul pained with the delay. (ver. Roman adoption was always rendered more serious and more difficult by the Roman patria potestas. God pronounces against the unrighteousness of such; for if the knowledge, however exact, of God's revealed mind was accompanied by no renewal of the heart, if it was without life towards God, all must be vain. Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake. He saw man's sin and the state of the world; but he also saw God's redeeming power; and the end of it all for him was hope. More or less, the Christian is brought under this influence; his joys are marred; his peace is discomposed; his affections wander; his life is a life of vanity and vexation. We do not need to be very old to look back and see that things we thought were disasters worked out to our good; things that we thought were disappointments worked out to greater blessings. God's unseen guiding is in our lives, but to the end of the day we can refuse it and take our own way. Because of that, to Paul life was not a despairing waiting for an inevitable end in a world encompassed by sin and death and decay; life was an eager anticipation of a liberation, a renovation and a recreation wrought by the glory and the power of God. If we are ever to understand it we must grasp the basic fact that Paul never meant it to be the expression of theology or philosophy; he meant it to be the almost lyrical expression of Christian experience. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. As the reward of the saints' present sufferings; and it is a rich reward: If so be that we suffer with him (Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17), or forasmuch as we suffer with him. At the moment creation is in bondage to decay. Second, we cannot pray aright because in any given situation we do not know what is best for us. That there is going to come in the last days a great power of God's Spirit upon the church and God is going to manifest Himself through you, His church, and you are going to be endowed with all kinds of supernatural powers. And mark the force of it whosoever." Therein God is both vindicated and glorified. Latest Posts. Here, then, it is not a question at all of pardon or remission. Sanday and Headlam add: Vanity is the refrain of the Book of Ecclesiastes that is without result, ineffective, which does not reach its endthe opposite of complete or perfect. Last, nothing will ever be able to separate us from God's love for us in Christ. The adoption ceremony was carried out in the presence of seven witnesses. That is what Paul is thinking of here. The first was known as mancipatio, and was carried out by a symbolic sale, in which copper and scales were symbolically used. day clouds distilling the dews of health" (Baruch 29:5). "Yea verily, their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." All the days of our appointed time we are waiting, till this change shall come, when he shall call, and we shall answer, and he will have a desire to the work of his hands, Job 14:14; Job 14:15. 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. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. God is gracious, but holy; He is faithful, but righteous. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. He is going to complete that work in me. But on account of him, etc. Our present sufferings and future glory 8:18-25, Paul proceeded to expound on the thought that he introduced at the end of Romans 8:17. But they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Now when we get to the book of Revelation, chapter 4, and God is there upon the throne, surrounded by the twenty-four lesser thrones of the elders and those cherubim, those angelic beings are worshipping the eternal God, the Creator, and are saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which is, which was, and which is to come" and the elders fall on their faces, taking their golden crowns and casting them before the glassy sea, before the throne of God. He now, by a kind of personification, ascribes hope to them, as he did will before. Stated another way, this term denotes powers which aim to subjugate man and separate him from God (Kittle, 2:275). But besides this he adds "to faith." Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. Man became the object, first, of general dealings of God under Noah; next, of His special ways in the calling of Abraham and of his family. There would be no remnant if justice took its course. Is there no call, no mercy, of God for any besides? This present age was wholly bad, subject to sin, and death and decay. Heaven is therefore sure for God by his Spirit would not raise and encourage those hopes only to defeat and disappoint them. of the thunder and the lightning, of cold and heat, of the seasons. Our happiness is not in present possession: We are saved by hope. Man had sinned deliberately; but it was involuntarily that nature was subjected. 2. . Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. Everything had its angel. 8:26-30 Even so, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray, if we are to pray as we ought. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. It is not meant that Paul knew nothing of this; but that the ground of inference, and the general theory built up, are alike mistaken. The ground changed. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. It will then be put past dispute. But even as He spoke to Abraham concerning his seed in the past tense, because He knew that Abraham was going to have a son whom He did foreknow. We will not understand the passage at all unless we understand the way in which Paul is using these words. 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." Thus, this kind of a verse should be a very searching verse and one that we should allow to search out our hearts today. Or the spirit and mind now being dominated by the spirit which is in control, and the body down here where God intended it to be, no longer controlling, no longer ruling, no longer exercising its hold over me. . We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. Then, from ver. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. But this subjection is one that is contrary to it, and from which he desires to be delivered. It is not the mercy of God., Many have contended that so it is, and to their own great loss, as well as to the weakening of the word of God. Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Volume 2: Romans 5:1--8:39 by Channing L. Cri . "You only have I known of all the families of the earth," said God to Amos ( Amos 3:2). He has justified me. And in the area of the spirit and God's Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit that I am a son of God.Thus, I am united with God and joined with God and I have fellowship with God in the realm of the spirit, only when the spirit is uppermost. Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. What baptism sets forth is more than that, and is justly found, not in Romans 3:1-31, but inRomans 6:1-23; Romans 6:1-23. Groanings Too Deep for Words (Romans 8:26-28) Week after week I would promise God that I was going to do better next week. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. Romans 8:20, KJV: For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, We did not achieve that; all is of God. Paul knew that, and here he, as it were, endows creation with consciousness. You know things start going wrong, "Oh, I need to talk to someone," you know. But there is a third. This could not be attained if they were removed at once to heaven. Consequently it never reaches the perfection that He originally intended it to achieve. The rest of the chapter (7-25) is an instructive episode, in which the impotence and the misery of the renewed mind which attempts practice under law are fully argued out, till deliverance (not pardon) is found in Christ. This is fitly annexed to our sonship; for as the adoption of sons entitles us to that glory, so the disposition of sons fits and prepares us for it. Well, again, Satan condemns, people condemn, and I condemn myself. For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? - For the creature (or, creation, as before) was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected it in hope. As Christ was, so the saints will be, declared to be the sons of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead, Romans 1:4; Romans 1:4. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? Nor is there only the manifest call of the Gentiles in this, but with no less clearness there is the rejection, at any rate for a time, of proud Israel. Like it or not, God created you for His own good pleasure. It is that body consciousness, and you talk to the average person apart from Jesus Christ and they are going to be talking to you about things that relate to the body. Colonial style, surrounded by beautiful gardens. It surely appeals to a person's flesh, because basically what this doctrine declares is that the whole world is waiting for you to be manifested as the sons of God. Romans 7:1-20. Since there is no reason in such creatures, their will is to be taken no doubt for their natural inclination, according to which the whole nature of things tends to its own preservation and perfection: whatever then is detained under corruption suffers violence, nature being unwilling and repugnant. I don't see how in this case." We did not make the story; we only received the story. Thy Strong Word. Verse 21 may be correlated with the references previously given (Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 22:1-21 and Acts 3:1-26). But there was far more in Jesus. There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. He means sinful human nature, apart from Christ, everything that attaches a man to the world instead of to God. Did Gentiles believe? You say, "Oh, but I have failed God so miserably. For the creature - The renewed creature; the Christian mind. When you finally see it, it becomes then a rational reality. And when you come against that which you can't understand, it is important that you have certain foundations that you do understand and you fall back on the foundations. January 17, 2023. The sufferings are small and short, and concern the body only; but the glory is rich and great, and concerns the soul, and is eternal. (2) That it is not what they desire, to be subjected to the toils of this life, and to the temptations and vanities of this world. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (14-24) This sovereignty is in God's dealing both with Jews and Gentiles. "I was beaten five times with rods and stoned three times and dragged out of the city. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." Once we were in the absolute control of our own sinful human nature; but God, in his mercy, has brought us into his absolute possession. It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. It is only through the second birth, the spiritual birth when man's spirit comes alive that man really understands what God intended when He created man. THE TWO PRINCIPLES OF LIFE ( Romans 8:5-11 ). 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. 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; Read full chapter. 18). Did they fall back on Abraham? Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. Hey, it is beginning to have its problems. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. . The vision of God and the fruition of God make up the inheritance the saints are heirs to. And, of course, the tent blew over and it had holes in it. For if you live after the flesh, you are going to die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, then you shall live ( Romans 8:12-13 ). I think that all of us have experienced that very same struggle. Thank You, Lord. But you know what it is to be more than a conqueror? 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. This designs the vanity and emptiness of the minds of the 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. Paul was no pessimist. When Nicodemus said, "How can a man be born again when he is old? Nonetheless, the Christian does not live only in the world; he also lives in Christ. The most cursory reading of Paul's letters will show how often he uses the word, and how he uses it in a sense that is all his own. He is saying four things about Jesus. Many times I am willing to acknowledge, "Oh yes, God is going to work out good in this. (Romans 8:28) 12/04/11 : The "Ordo Salutis" (Romans 8:28-30) 12/11/11 : Sovereignty & Responsibility (Romans 8:28-30 Part 2) 12/18/11 : God is For Us! Gingrich and Danker (p. 858) say slavery of decay. Only one thing can help mankind: Jesus and His word! This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. 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. Paul says in effect: "God for us did not spare his own Son; surely that is the final guarantee that he loves us enough to supply all our needs." While striving for holiness under the law, Paul had focused on the commands (e.g., "lust") so that his mind-set was fleshly: "I must steer clear of all lust." This fleshly orientation doomed him to commit the very sin he sought to avoid. 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. not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. The words Paul uses of God are the very words God used of Abraham when Abraham proved his utter loyalty by being willing to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. He is not complete. In having the first-fruits of the Spirit we have that which is very precious, but we have not all we would have. So God has subjected us in hope as we hope for that day and we hope for that kingdom. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. It was human nature in all its sin and weakness; it was all that man is without God and without Christ. 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? This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. c. Who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit: These words are not found in the earliest ancient manuscripts of the Book of Romans and they do not agree with the flow of Paul's context here. Romans 8:20, NIV: For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope. You know, to me it is such a simple, beautiful thing. Don't marvel when I say to you, ye must be born again." "Not so," replies the apostle. It is fit and proper that he should engage here in the service of Him who has redeemed him. As David said, "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what man can do to me." This occupies the central part of the chapter, which then closes with the unfailing and faithful power of God for us in all our experiences here below. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. What the apostle had given him in fulness was the great truth, however fundamental it may be, that I am entitled, and even called on in the name of the Lord Jesus, to know that I am dead to sin; not that I must die, but that I am dead that my baptism means nothing less than this, and is shorn of its most emphatic point if limited merely to Christ's dying for my sins. There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. The world may be condemning me, but why should I worry about that? In regard to his father, a Roman son never came of age. in hope that) the creature (or, creation) also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God. 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. I was always feeling guilty because I was always breaking my vow before God. "The just shall live by faith" (not by law). 40:1. The consciousness of man is responsive to whatever controls the man. Love woke within our hearts; the conviction of sin came, and with it came the experience of forgiveness and of salvation. Epictetus writes: "Have courage to look up to God and to say, 'Deal with me as thou wilt from now on. Such men have never been wanting since the truth has shone on this world; still less are they now. 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. That is the problem of these people who never read the context, they just grab the phrase that they want out of a verse and never bother to look at the context of that particular verse, and we will see it in its context in a moment. Thus, having shown the Gentile in Romans 1:1-32 manifestly wrong, and hopelessly degraded to the last degree having laid bare the moral dilettantism of the philosophers, not one whit better in the sight of God, but rather the reverse having shown the Jew overwhelmed by the condemnation of the divine oracles in which he chiefly boasted, without real righteousness, and so much the more guilty for his special privileges, all now lies clear for bringing in the proper Christian message, the. 21). "Not that I would be unclothed or an unembodied creature, but that I might be clothed upon with the body which is from heaven. Any date. 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. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. You must carefully guard against the notion of its being a question of Paul's own experience, because he says, "I had not known," "I was alive," etc. God created man with this emptiness so that man would seek after God to find that fulfillment and meaning for life. He was inalienably co-heir with them. He spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all ( Romans 8:32 ). The life of a salesman is a life of feast or famine, and potential great feast. I don't have to live as a subject to my flesh anymore. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven" ( Luke 6:22-23 ). There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. Man was not complete. The bearing of this on the contents and main doctrine of the epistle will appear abundantly by-and-by. . Let me call your attention again to its force. For with his mind in his heart he wanted to serve the law of God, but as Jesus said concerning Peter, "The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak" ( Matthew 26:41 ). That is why creation waits for this event with eager longing. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ then he is none of His. 3 for, being ignorant of d the righteousness of god, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to god's righteousness. There are two things that might make insuperable difficulty: the one is the obstacle of sin in the nature to practical holiness; the other is the provocation and condemnation of the law. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. 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. 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. ", No malign influences (powers) will separate us from Christ. The saints are spiritual priests, that have the Lord for their inheritance, Numbers 18:20. All devotionals for romans-8:19-21 free on BiblePortal.com. (b) In the Old Testament, it always has the idea of something that is more than human. It is like Enoch who walked with God and God took him. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:23 ). "God, next week, I promise. Gentiles, who were without God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, But his body will no longer be the victim of decay and the instrument of sin; it will be a spiritual body fit for the life of a spiritual man. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. It is for the saints to learn, of course; but it is that which goes out in its own force and necessary aim to the need of man a divine righteousness, which justifies instead of condemning him who believes. Now careful note of that, because they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Thus, if you are living in the flesh and after the flesh your life is doomed to this emptiness and frustration, because you are not answering to God for the very basic purpose of your existence. God knew that man's continuous struggle against corruption would mature and perfect the character needed to be in God's Family. At the same time he connects, in a singularly interesting manner, this disclosure of the principles of the eternal judgment of God with what he calls "my gospel." In other words, even though I am still living in this body I can begin to experience victory over my flesh. You may condemn yourself, but Jesus isn't. There is no question of a people on earth, and of God's wrath breaking out in one form or another against human evil in this life. Here is a vision to take away all loneliness and all fear. We saw how the Jewish conception of solidarity made it possible for him to argue that, quite literally, all men were involved in Adam's sin and in its consequence--death. What blindness! 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). Then who is going to lay anything to my charge, because God elected me? In addition, after man ruined perfection, even nature had to bear some of the consequences. subject to vanity; they willingly went into idolatrous and other This is given as a reason for its aspiring to the full privileges of adoption, that the present state is not one of choice, or one which is preferred, but one to which it has been subjected for wise reasons by God. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. 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