romans 8:20 commentary

When Paul was painting this picture, he was working with ideas that any Jew would recognize and understand. Him who subjected it in hope is a reference to God, who alone had the authority and power to subject the creation to vanity, and also the option of totally destroying man because of sin, or subjecting him in hope of his redemption. We did not make the story; we only received the story. They had their own stables, their own pools. Verse 20. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. Paul is introducing us to another of the great metaphors in which he describes the new relationship of the Christian to God. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his ( Romans 8:9 ). Before the cross there hung out the gravest question that ever was raised, and it needed settlement in this world; but in Christ sin is for ever abolished for the believer; and this not only in respect of what He has done, but in what He is. 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. Broadly speaking, he uses it in three different ways. God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ( Romans 8:3 ): What I could not do for myself through the Mosaic Law, that is, have a righteous standing before God, God did for me through sending His Son in the flesh. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren ( Romans 8:29 ). The word vanity here mataiotes is descriptive of the present condition of the Christian, as frail and dying; as exposed to trials, temptations, and cares; as in the midst of conflicts, and of a world which may be emphatically pronounced vanity. God, however, subjected mankind to this futility "in hope" from the beginning. . Christianity is not a system of promise, but rather of promise accomplished in Christ. "There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus" ( Romans 8:1 ). It is through the help of the Spirit that we put to death the deeds of the body or that they become subservient and the spirit becomes dominant.I see the trinity of man in a storied area: upper story, middle story, lower story. He means that from the beginning of time God marked us out for salvation; that in due time his call came to us; but the pride of man's heart can wreck God's plan and the disobedience of man's will can refuse the call. Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. Not only they--not only the creatures which are not capable of such a happiness as the first-fruits of the Spirit, but even we, who have such present rich receivings, cannot but long for something more and greater. But then again he intimates that the nature of the gospel is involved in the publishing of the glad tidings. 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). Man was not complete. WebRomans 8:20-21 New International Version 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[ a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom The first is Moses himself. Unwittingly she was involved in the consequences of the sin of man. Father!" See the gains of suffering for Christ; though we may be losers for him, we shall not, we cannot, be losers by him in the end. Satan is condemning, but why should I worry about that? or who hath first liven to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? It surpasses all that we have yet seen and known: present vouchsafements are sweet and precious, very precious, very sweet; but there is something to come, something behind the curtain, that will outshine all. Paul goes further; he goes on to speak of the spiritual experience of every Christian. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. Through the new birth there is an inversion, and man becomes then spirit, soul, and body. This is applied in the two chapters that follow. There is no condemnation for those in Christ, and nothing will ever be able to separate us from His love. Nature was not interested in becoming hostile towards humanity. Not willingly - Not voluntarily. It is God Himself who, infinitely glorified in the Lord that expiated our sins by His one sacrifice, remits them now, not looking for our victory, nor as yet even in leading us on to victory, but by faith in Jesus and His blood. 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. 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? But we are hoping for that which we see not, then with patience we are waiting for it. 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. God delivered Jesus up for us all, how much more then shall He not freely give us all things? WebRomans 8 begins and ends with declarations of the Christian's absolute security before God. While things are still raging around me, while the outcome still seems to be very uncertain is to have the glorious victory and rejoicing, that is more than a conqueror. The world may be condemning me, but why should I worry about that? He was God over all blessed for ever, as well as their Messiah. The whole species of creatures is designed for, and is hastening to, a total dissolution by fire. In the other scale he puts the glory, and finds that a weight, an exceeding and eternal weight: Glory that shall be revealed. It is like Enoch who walked with God and God took him. 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. "I am not ashamed," etc. And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. What blindness! Thus the right of the adopted person was guaranteed and he entered into his inheritance. And God brought her to man and she became his wife. Who is the one condemning? 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). It doesn't require sleep. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. (b) He rose again. 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). And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. 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 soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? Clearly this was a serious and an impressive step. He has justified me. And you are going through the hospital and emptying them all, and the whole world is just waiting for you to be manifested and so the idea is to, "Let's just sit and get perfected and get the church perfected so that God can manifest Himself in the perfected church," and this is in reality the second coming of Jesus Christ. There is a general outcry of the whole creation against the sin of man: the stone crieth out of the wall (Habakkuk 2:11), the land cries, Job 31:38. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit ( Romans 8:5 ). 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. Glory! WebIn this episode of The Bible Study, Steven Lawson preaches through Romans 15:20-21. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:23 ). Thereby is identification with His death. He believed God and His word, with special approval on God's part; and his faith was counted as righteousness (ver. That is what we are told here. 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? He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. There are three statements in this verse: (1) the creation was subjected to vanity; (2) this subjection was not voluntary, but imposed by God; and (3) the very subjection is a basis of hope, for otherwise there would have been no point at all in granting to rebellious humanity any further tolerance at all. The kingdom of God is within you, and will be so to eternity. 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. 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