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He “maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Do you know what those groanings are? The body is still under the old law of death, and so we have pain and weakness, and we die; but the spirit, oh! Some of our brethren have gone ahead so tremendously that they have passed out of the world of groaning altogether; they are perfect. Hear them all, as with united voice they answer. The Greatest Chapter, Part 2 Some phrases are used so often in the Bible that we need to stop and do the work of understanding what they really mean. That is what we are waiting for: “ the redemption of our body; “ and we shall not wait in vain for it, for Christ is the Saviour of our body as well as of our soul, and the day shall come when even our bodies shall be free from pain, and weakness, and weariness, and sin, and death. In the mouth of these two witnesses the whole shall be established. That is why we have aches and pains, and infirmities, because the body is dead; that is, doomed to die, must die; it must see corruption unless the Lord come, and even in that case it must undergo a wondrous change; so we regard our body as dead. Who is he that condemneth? You will be mightily mistaken if you continue under that delusion until the last great day. God has embraced us with his love and favor far beyond any measure. Do what thou wilt to me. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. We are going to go back and look through those again. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. And the sons of God have the Spirit to work in them the disposition of children; they have not the spirit of bondage, which the Old Testament church was under, through the darkness of that dispensation. And he has found out a way of making us practically righteous, too, through the abundance of his grace, enabling us to walk no longer after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Which way go our plans and contrivances? Our manhood is not all soul: it is body, too. Christian, Christ is the golden key of God’s treasuries; you have but to use him aright, and whatever you need shall be yours. Mark, brethren, how the apostle speaks here; he does not say that all things shall work together for good; no, but that they do work together, they are now working for your present good. Christ offered once a complete atonement for all believers, and if I am a believer in him, there is no possible fear of my ever being condemned. What means this cold? What then is to be done with it? That which you live for is the true index of your nature. Every creature stands on tip-toe, looking for the coming of Christ and the manifestation of the redeemed. This is a different fatherhood altogether. We are eating it in four bites. What, then, shall we do in the meantime? The Spirit makes intercession to God, and the enemy prevails not.28-31 That is good for the saints which does their souls good. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:”. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? There is something better coming; but, meanwhile, it is troubled and perplexed, moaning and groaning. Romans 8:27. Have not the saints been beaten like wheat upon the threshing-floor? Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” up to this point, “That we may be also glorified together.”. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. The Spirit of the living God has entered into him, and become the master-power of his life. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: He did accomplish it. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. God is greater than thy heart. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. He “knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,” —. He was obliged to include it thus’, and so he puts it, “Ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” He wanted to intimate that he himself also was a partaker of this blessed spirit. If we had the tongues of men and angels, what could we say? There need be nothing else said, if this is true: “The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.” “Heirs of God,”. Blessed be God, this humbling truth is of far more use than the other doctrine, which puffs men up with pride, telling them that they can perform what most assuredly they cannot do. 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? “The creature itself was made subject to vanity,” but it “also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”. Romans 8:33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? Romans 8:13-14. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Jesus said, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.” “The carnal mind is enmity against God.” Men cannot come to Jesus, unless the Father draws them to him. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. But if ye through the Spirit—. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 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 8:24-25. Oh! What shall we then say to these things? ⦠But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (18-25) Their assistance from the Spirit in prayer. What must be the greatness of this thing which the whole creation has learned to expect? Romans 8:5-7. No,” says Paul, —, He is both just and the Justifier of all who believe in Jesus, and they are, “Why,” saith one, “Christ, the great Judge, will condemn.” No, that he will not, for —. Romans 8:17. It is a blessed thing to have hope. depart! He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also give us all things. 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. The great thing, then, is to be brought under the dominion of the Holy Spirit, and of that new nature which is the offspring of the Spirit. Romans 8:16. “If any man” — be he prince or magistrate, a member of Parliament or a doctor of divinity, — “ if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”. Which way do our thoughts move with most pleasure? What is the opposition of the world when God is on thy side? If we cannot do anything else, if we feel that we can pray, times are not so bad with us as we might think. Now, we are not over prone to controvert that point; but, at the same time, we do not understand the meaning of this verse if what they say is correct. The most potent motive for holiness is free grace. Woe to any of us if we can teach to others concerning the spirit of sonship, but never feel it crying in our own souls, “Abba, Father.”. Romans 8:13. We could not keep it. I’ll spend a long eternity In pleasure and in praise.”. Romans 8:22-25 and Romans 8:1. How many of you are there who are talkatives, who can talk religion, and give us as much as we like of it, but whose life and conversation are not such as become godliness! Now, again, he doesnât tell us when it was subjected to futility, but we already know when. Romans 8:9-10. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God;” this is a special privilege that belongs only to those who are spiritual. Romans 8:5. But its time of glorifying is coming. “All things work together for good,” say people. Romans 8:23. Microcosms, — to use a harder word; for as there are groanings and travailings in the whole creation, so are there such in the little world of our own heart. The predestinated are called, and the called are justified, and the justified are glorified. He condemned sin in the flesh, but we escaped. We were in bondage, and we have come out in a measure into the liberty of the children of God. If God be for us, who can be against us? But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. For I delight in the law off God alter the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. But have they divided the saints from the love of Christ? Romans 8:9-10. Romans 8:29-30. Let it be buried with Christ in baptism. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; The grace of God has not changed that body; it still remains earth, dust, worms’ meat, and it must die unless Christ should come, and transform it by his coming. Romans 8:29. What shall we then say to these things? Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Look at the Book: Romans 8:28-30. shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? “Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” Dear friends, hearing these words, can you respond to them? Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. what a rise is this from groaning under, “O wretched man that I am! And heaven shall be a mirror chamber, wherein Christ shall be seen in every one of his people. 19 The context of the passage itself is that chapter 8 of Romans is almost a companion or answer to Romans 7. Oh, blessed, blessed state of heart to feel that now we are born into the family of God, and that the choice word which no slave might ever pronounce may now be pronounced by us, “Abba”! Romans is a big elephant. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? The spirit of bondage is the spirit of servants, not of sons; but that servitude is ended for us who are made free in Christ Jesus. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. “Quis separabit?” That shall be our motto in every time of trial: “who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”. It is a dying thing, and “ye shall die” if ye live after its dying fashion.. Romans 8:13. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Romans 8:3-4. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. These are joined in one, stud if thou hast either of these, thou mayest know thy predestination and thy future glorification. No; but you may find that they will work together for your banishment from life and from the presence of God. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Deep groans are in the world. There have been mighty pangs within you telling of the presence of this wrestling spirit. Those that have never been born again, so as to be “in the Spirit,” are still just as they were born “in the flesh,” so they cannot please God. “We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”. Therefore, our heart is glad, and our glory rejoicing. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. Paul made “the sufferings of this present time” into a matter of simple arithmetic and careful reckoning. We could not fulfill the conditions of life laid down under it. Ye did receive it once, and it was a great blessing to you. Can they separate us from the love of Christ? Mark the tempests, tornadoes, hurricanes, and all kinds of ills that sweep over the globe, leaving devastation in their track; and the globe itself is wrapped in swaddling bands of mist, and shines not out like its sister stars in its pristine brightness and splendour. 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. That all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Improve it? We are to take the rough and the smooth, the bitter and the sweet, with Christ; and who will make any demur to that? Romans 8:31. First, he spends a couple minutes helping you make the most of Look at the Book. What, die for them, and then condemn them? He added them all up, and saw what the total was, he seemed to be about to state a proportion sum, but he gave it up, and said that the sufferings were “not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed.” Did they stand as one to a thousand? Hast thou trusted in his precious blood? For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come. Is thine own heart against thee? Do what they may, there is an essential impurity about their nature so that they cannot be well pleasing unto God. Be it ever so beautiful in model and finish it is not what it should be. Where there is the “foreknowledge,” which is alias the “forelove,” there is also “elect” — there must be “called” — there shall certainly be “justification,” and where that is, there must be “glory.”. But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:1. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 31 What shall we then say to these things? Are they true of you? From hence we see how much it is our duty to walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. In this lab, John Piper explains how the work of Christ wars against and defeats Satanâs schemes to accuse and condemn us. These have been tried on the saints for ages. Think not so strangely of the Christ of God, who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever, and who will never condemn those who trust in him. 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