of Oh, how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity. The reason for the subjection was certainly due to man's willful and rebellious act; but the execution of God's sentence upon man for that rebellion was no part of man's will. Did Gentiles believe? Bible Verse; Newest; Oldest; Most Viewed; Sermon. How I hurt to see my grandchildren suffer. 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. My little granddaughter tonight has got an ear infection and not feeling well, and it just tears me up. In the gospel there is revealed God's righteousness. 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. Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. (3.) Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. 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? The children of God shall appear in their own colours. The second included powers, lordships and mights. If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. 22). 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? He really means human nature in all its weakness and he means human in its vulnerability to sin. To allow the things of the world completely to dominate life is self extinction; it is spiritual suicide. It was the will of "him who subjected it," meaning God, humanity having had no choice whatever, except to submit to the subjection sentenced upon mankind by the Father. This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. God judged not only man but creation . Next, he enters upon another branch of the truth the Spirit not as a condition contrasted with flesh (these two, as we know, being always contrasted in Scripture), but as a power, a divine person that dwells in and bears His witness to the believer. 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. This is one of the most lyrical passages Paul ever wrote. I hope that brethren in Christ will bear with me if I press on them the importance of taking good heed to it that their souls are thoroughly grounded in this, the proper place of the Christian by Christ's death and resurrection. That would be a day of judgment when the world would be shaken to its foundations; but out of it there would come a new world. Thy Strong Word. Lot Chuck Missler 6CD and Books (Romans, Acts, Luke, John) Notes. Thus the proof was complete. Week after week I would promise God that I was going to do better next week. then, go out to Gentiles? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter ( Romans 8:35-36 ). "God surely can't love me anymore. This, however, will be put to the test by-and-by. but I have received the Spirit [of sonship,] adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father ( Romans 8:15 ). Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. If that is true of nature, it is still truer of man. 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. You believe in God, believe also in Me. How I hurt to see my children suffer. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. Romans 7:1-20. But this great work of Christ was not and could not be a mere vindication of God; and we may find it otherwise developed in various parts of Scripture, which I here mention by the way to show the point at which we are arrived. I understand that God is in control of all of the circumstances that surround my life. Not only all of creation, but ourselves also, which even have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body ( Romans 8:23 ). 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. Spiritual life which results in that glorious peace. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. There is no language where their voice is not heard. 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 ). . Surely we can trust a loyalty like that for anything. Second, we cannot pray aright because in any given situation we do not know what is best for us. The consciousness of man is responsive to whatever controls the man. Paul knew that, and here he, as it were, endows creation with consciousness. Was he not himself, says Paul, a proof to the contrary? He thinks of nature longing for the day when sin's dominion would be broken, death and decay would be gone, and God's glory would come. It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. This were indeed to deny the value of His death, and of that newness of life we have in Him risen, and a return to bondage of the worst description. I can't return again to my mother's womb and be born." 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. "[39] However, Locke's interpretation fails to give proper weight to Adam's responsibility. It brings out the Christian character, and fits it for the skies. 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 ). Then if God is willing to do that much for you, the rest is easy.Nothing that you might need could possible come close to comparing what God has already demonstrated His willingness to give and do for you because He loves you so much. 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. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope. In that state the law simply became something that moved him to sin and he went from bad to worse, a defeated and frustrated man. And the natural man I see as body, and the upper story ruling, the mind, the middle story always, but in the case where the body is uppermost, the mind being controlled and dominated by the desire and needs of the body, and the spirit dormant or dead. Many times the evil that he wouldn't do he was doing. And thus, though the forces of hell be gathered against you, they are nothing compared with that power that is available to you, because God is for you.How do I know God is for me? In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. 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. Let us remember that he began all this by saying that every man sinned in Adam. 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. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. As a man lives in the air, he lives in Christ, never separated from him. We are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. 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. 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. It is "the power of God unto salvation." "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" 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. Thus then, if Paul gave his own sense of Jewish privileges, there was no unbelieving Jew that rose up to his estimate of them. Many times I am willing to acknowledge, "Oh yes, God is going to work out good in this. How much soever then created things do naturally incline another way; yet as it has pleased God to bring them under vanity, they obey his order; and as he has given them a hope of a better condition, with this they sustain themselves, deferring their desire, until the incorruption promised to them shall be revealed. The blazing truth that lit life for Paul was that the human situation is not hopeless. (1-5) The promises are made good to the spiritual seed of Abraham. (b) Christ is risen; therefore nothing can ever separate us from him. How comfortable should this be to all the children of God, how little soever they have in possession, that, being heirs, they have enough in reversion! Therefore it is here for the first time that we find salvation spoken of in the grand results that are now brought before us in Romans 5:1-11. Now by the spirit I am mortifying the deeds of my flesh. There was an angel of the winds, of the clouds, of the snow and hail and hoarfrost. We have God and man in presence, so to speak. First, there is no condemnation, at all, for those in Christ. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. God has made prayer such a simple, beautiful thing. The Jews were the last in the world to take such ground as this. He has no desires of his own; the will of Christ is his only law. There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. The reproach of Christ appears riches to those who have respect to the recompence of reward, Hebrews 11:26. In their rising and their setting they are powerless to separate you from God's love. Their own Scriptures maintained, as nothing else could, that all the wretchedness which is now found in the world, and the condemnation which hangs over the race, is the fruit of one man, and indeed of one act. Now Christ died and rose again; and the man who is one with Christ is one with death's conqueror and shares in that victory. hope. See Lightfoot. From what? But Paul goes on from there. The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life. For you did not receive a state whose dominating condition is slavery so that you might relapse into fear; but you received a state whose dominating characteristic is adoption, in which we cry, "Abba! But on account of him, etc. . The past is cancelled and its debts are wiped out; we begin a new life with God and become heirs of all his riches. The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. All Videos Images Commentaries Devotionals Sermons Other Translations Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. Even the Greeks knew that. Observe, (1.) No fresh revelations from God can nullify those which preceded them; but as the prophets looked onward to what was coming, so is the gospel already come, supported by the past. Wouldst thou have me hold office or eschew it, stay or flee, be rich or poor? I will pray every day. Why should this be so strange and incredible to you? And, upon the view of both, he gives this judgment here. Now Paul was as competent a judge of this point as ever any mere man was. In short, it is what the words say "the righteousness of God," and this "by faith of Jesus Christ.". But this is not all; and the objection of the Jew gives occasion for the apostle to bring out a fuller display of what God is. The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. For it may have been noticed from chapter 3 to chapter 5, that nothing but fitness for the glory of God will do now. Now the Rabbis--and Paul had once been a Rabbi--believed that they were grudgingly hostile to men. H. G. Wells once said: "Man, who began in a cave behind a windbreak, will end in the disease soaked ruins of a slum." There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. For I know that as long as I am living in this body I am absent from the Lord, but I would rather be absent from this body and to be present with the Lord" ( 2 Corinthians 5:4-6 ). 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, Revelation 3:21. Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. The Rams conquered the 49ers today. "God, next week, I promise. But when I become inverted, born again by the Spirit of God, and I am spirit, soul, and body, now the superior Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit is joined with the inferior trinity of man. There were two steps. "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Satan is against us, the world is against us, but the idea is, what is Satan? In him mankind brought to God the perfect obedience, just as in Adam mankind brought to God the fatal disobedience. So my dad had a little plaque made with the words "all things" and he had it there on his desk. Of it nothing has been heard till now. God doesn't have any black book on me. 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. Broadly speaking, he uses it in three different ways. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. And he feels the close affinity to it, because the baboon is living just like he lives. 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. Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. We are told concerning Jesus, "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross despising the shame" ( Hebrews 12:2 ). 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