romans 8:20 commentary

Just as Abraham was so loyal to God that he was prepared to sacrifice his dearest possession, God is so loyal to men that he is prepared to sacrifice his only Son for them. (1) That the instinctive feelings of Christians lead them to desire a purer and a happier world, Philippians 1:23. Accordingly, in chapter 2 the Holy Spirit shows us man satisfying himself with pronouncing on what is right and wrong moralizing for others, but nothing more. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also make alive your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you ( Romans 8:10-11 ). (i) No affliction, no hardship, no peril can separate us. If he accepted the things that God sent him, he knew peace. That is what Jesus said, "You didn't choose me, I chose you." In vain will you preach Romans 3:1-31, or even 4 alone, for souls to know themselves consciously and holily set free. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual, then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death because, though he had physically kept the law, spiritually he had violated it. As previously stated, this word meant things like futility, frailty, aimlessness, the inability to reach a goal or achieve results. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. In addition, after man ruined perfection, even nature had to bear some of the consequences. higher, if so high, in this epistle. As a result, they and all of their offspring were subjected to all the processes that lead inexorably to death. 4). Such is the doctrine and the fact. It is the going forth of His richest blessing. This is a textual problem in the Greek manuscripts - some manuscripts have 'me', some 'you'. 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). He believed God and His word, with special approval on God's part; and his faith was counted as righteousness (ver. Romans 12:1 - Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to pre-sent your bodies a living and holy sacrice,. This passage gives a very wide perspective of Gods great plan of redemption, which is the heart of Pauls theology. Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). If a man loves and trusts and accepts God, if he is convinced that God is the all-wise and all-loving Father, then he can humbly accept all that he sends to him. And it is not predicated upon you but upon His own nature of love. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. Never think of him opposite of God. Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. And when we look back upon our Christian experience, all we can say is, "I did not do this; I could never have done this; God did everything." Because they look around and they say, "Will you look at that baboon over there? Like it or not, God created you for His own good pleasure. He uses still another picture from Roman adoption. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Now this should be to each of us tonight a very searching verse, and upon reading this, it is important that each of us now make a personal inventory and evaluation and ask ourselves the question: Is my life led by the Spirit of God? Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. But now the body appetites under the control of the spirit as God intended them to be. Oh, but I have done this." What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! Not only is God's righteousness revealed, but also His wrath. Henry Drummond who wrote that classic book "The Natural and The Supernatural", declares in that book that there is within the very protoplasm of man those little tentacles that are reaching out for God. God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? There is nothing like a believing view of the glory which shall be revealed to support and bear up the spirit under all the sufferings of this present time. Lord, what is man, that thou shouldst thus magnify him! The second included powers, lordships and mights. If the good news of God goes out to man, entirely blotting out the difference between a Jew and a Gentile, what becomes of His special promises to Abraham and to his seed? To cement the alliance Nero wished to marry her. So I went up to spend some time with my cousin. All Sermons Bible Studies Devotionals Prayers. of it. I understand that God is in control of all of the circumstances that surround my life. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. Wonderful to think the Spirit of God associates Himself with us in it all, deigning to give us divine feelings even in our poor and narrow hearts. we may suppose them of as much use as they were to Adam in innocency; and if it be only to illustrate the wisdom, power, and goodness of their Creator, that is enough. Sep 9, 2001. God doesn't have any black book on me. 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. I guess I am related to that baboon." We did not make the story; we only received the story. "I am not ashamed," etc. Pythagoras forbade his disciples to pray for themselves, because, he said, they could never in their ignorance know what was expedient for them. Satan is a finite created being. "Let's make a woman in order that man might be complete." "All right, we conquered," and then was the great elation, rejoicing. Now it was manifested, and not promised or predicted merely. 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. "To all that be at Rome, beloved of God, called saints" (ver. 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. 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? Yea, from heaven, shall come a sweet draught of luscious honey. world. At the same time the apostle does allude to that mystery which was not yet divulged at least, in this epistle; but he points from the foundations of eternal truth to those heavenly heights that were reserved for other communications in due time. Because you were not answering to the very basic cause of your existence. It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. "Well, I know, but not this case. 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. Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:18b Romans 8:20 2 Comments It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. 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. Children will dream. 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. Now that new body doesn't grow tired. Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. 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. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. Romans 1 Romans 1:1-17 Are You a Saint! What could be conceived closer or more even than this? Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. 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 travail--groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. 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. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. The Spirit has spoken expressly that in the latter times some should depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. (c) He is at the right hand of God. The gospel, as now revealed in the New Testament, has linked with it, though not contained in it, the revelation of divine wrath from heaven, and this, you will observe, according to Paul's gospel. It is "the power of God unto salvation." It is the deep experience of the Christian that all is of God; that he did nothing and that God did everything. Vanity describes the wretchedness, sufferings, disappointments, frustrations, futilities and general tragedy of mortal life in a state of separation from God, due to man's sin. 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. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and of course ardently desire to labour intelligently; and this not alone for the conversion, but for the establishment and deliverance of souls. Future Thursday broadcasts will appear in this playlist as well. I really don't know what God is doing in his life, but I know John needs prayer. Scripture Romans 8 Sort Bible Verse. For the creature - The renewed creature; the Christian mind. 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