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ROMANS ROAD
to RIGHTEOUSNESS |
Romans
1:18-3:20
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Romans
3:21-5:21 |
Romans
6:1-8:39 |
Romans
9:1-11:36 |
Romans
12:1-16:27 |
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SIN
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SALVATION
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SANCTIFICATION |
SOVEREIGNTY |
SERVICE |
NEED
FOR
SALVATION |
WAY
OF
SALVATION |
LIFE
OF
SALVATION |
SCOPE
OF
SALVATION |
SERVICE
OF
SALVATION |
God's Holiness
In
Condemning
Sin |
God's Grace
In
Justifying
Sinners |
God's Power
In
Sanctifying
Believers |
God's Sovereignty
In
Saving
Jew and Gentile |
Gods Glory
The
Object of
Service |
Deadliness
of Sin |
Design
of Grace |
Demonstration of
Salvation |
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Power Given
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Promises Fulfilled |
Paths Pursued |
Righteousness
Needed |
Righteousness
Credited |
Righteousness
Demonstrated |
Righteousness
Restored to Israel |
Righteousness
Applied |
God's Righteousness
IN LAW |
God's Righteousness
IMPUTED |
God's Righteousness
OBEYED |
God's Righteousness
IN ELECTION |
God's Righteousness
DISPLAYED |
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Slaves to Sin |
Slaves to God |
Slaves Serving God |
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Doctrine |
Duty |
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Life by Faith |
Service by Faith |
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Modified from Irving
L. Jensen's excellent work "Jensen's
Survey of the NT" |
FOR ALL WHO ARE (continuously)
BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD: osoi gar pneumati theou agontai (3PPPI): (5,9;
Ps 143:10;
Pr 8:20;
Isa 48:16,17;
Gal 4:6;
5:16,18,22-25;
Eph 5:9)
The relation
of the Spirit to the sons of God is presented as being much like that of
a shepherd to his sheep. They are "led" by him as their guide and
protector. In Ga3:24 the law is pictured as having a responsibility to
"lead" men to Christ. Once this goal is achieved, the law must hand over
the guiding role to the Spirit, who guides into the truth (Jn16:13) and,
as in the present passage, into holiness. Unlike sin, which may at first
only gently seduce, then deceitfully begin to drive as a hard
taskmaster, the Spirit relies on persuasion rather than force. In fact,
Paul goes to some pains to avoid misunderstanding on this very point,
assuring us that the Spirit's leadership does not involve a new bondage
that is no improvement over the old in which fear ruled the life
(probably a fear of the consequences of sin and a fear of death, as in
Heb2:15).
The result of this "being led" is that the Spirit is progressively
sanctifying God's elect, setting them apart more & more from the world
and more & more unto God for His purposes and His glory (2Th 2:13). There
is the initial setting apart (sanctification the act ~ justification ~
past tense salvation) (Acts 20:32 26:18 Heb10:10) and then the progressive
continuous process of setting apart (sanctification the process ~
present tense salvation) (Heb10:14)
THESE ARE SONS OF GOD: houtoi huioi theou eisin (3PPAI):
(17;
2Cor 6:18;
Gal 3:26;
Eph 1:5;
1 Jn 3:1;
Rev 21:7)
Sons
is the Greek word huios used in
[Ga4:5] of a mature child of God in a legal standing as against a child
of God (teknon) in his minority (Ga4:1-3). God is the Father of all in
the sense that he created all and his love and providential care are
extended to all (see Mt5:45). But not all are His children. Jesus said
to the unbelieving Jews of his day, "You belong to your father, the
devil" (Jn8:44). People become children of God through faith in God's
unique Son (Jn1:12,13), and being led by God's Spirit is the hallmark of
this relationship.
The OT often comments that God “led” Israel thru the wilderness (Ex 15:13
Dt 3:2 Ps 77:20 78:52 106:9 136:16 Jer 2:6,17 Hos 11:4 Am 2:10; for the new
exodus, see Isa 48:20,21; Je23:7,8) and called Israel his “sons” or
“children” when he redeemed them from Egypt (Ex 4:22 Dt 14:1 32:5, 18-20
Ps 29:1 Isa1;2, 4 43:6 45:11 63:8 Jer 3:19, 22 Hos 1:10 11:1, 10). In both
devotional and historical language, God’s leading was sometimes
associated with his Spirit (Neh 9:20 Ps 143:10 Isa 63:14).
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How Slow I Wake!
Sweet will of God! How slow I wake
To hear your quiet word
That tells my inner man to go,
Uproot, depart, to leave my ways.
But I arise. I stand to find
Your Perfect way. And ah,
My heart, long trembling, now is still.
Sweet Spirit, Guide, I go to do Your will. |
Wayne Barber: explains
that...
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Paul repeats this truth in Gal
5:16-18 "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out
the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in
opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that
you please. But if you are LED BY THE SPIRIT, you are NOT UNDER
THE LAW." This is the clearest picture of what Paul is trying to
say in Ro8:14. You say I want to put to death the deeds of
body…Sin is controlling my life. How do I do it? You put yourself
in the presence of God, the Spirit Who lives within you. You get
into His Word. And you let Him rule & reign - you do whatever He
says. Wayne tells about the little sign he had in his study "YES,
LORD." And that settles it. It's yea, but…So the Lord speaks and
He says "Wayne…don't watch that program." And Wayne says "Yes,
but…" Look out. Our answer needs to be "Yes" to the Spirit leading
us. Just say "Yes" to what the Spirit of God says to your heart
and you develop that SENSITIVITY as you walk with Him. |
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8:15 For
you have not
received a
spirit of
slavery
leading to
fear
again, but you have
received a
spirit of
adoption as
sons by
which we
cry out,
"Abba !
Father !"
(NASB:
Lockman) |
Greek:
ou
gar
elabete (2PAAI)
pneuma
douleias
palin
eis
phobon,
alla
elabete (2PAAI)
pneuma
huiothesias,
en
o
krazomen, (1PPAI)
Abba
o
pater;
Amplified:
For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of
slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received
the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss
of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father! (Amplified
Bible - Lockman)
NLT: So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You
should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his
family--calling him "Father, dear Father." (NLT
- Tyndale House)
Phillips: Nor are you meant to relapse into the old slavish
attitude of fear - you have been adopted into the very family circle
of God and you can say with a full heart, "Father, my Father".
(Phillips:
Touchstone)
Wuest: For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again with
resulting fear, but you received the Spirit who places you as adult
sons, by whom we cry out with deep emotion, Abba, [namely] Father. (Erdmans)
Young's Literal: for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage
again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we
cry, 'Abba -- Father.' |
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FOR YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED A SPIRIT OF SLAVERY LEADING TO FEAR AGAIN: ou gar elabete (2PAAI) pneuma douleias palin eis phobon: (Ex20:19;
Nu17:12;
Lu8:28,37;
Jn 16:8;
Ac2:37;
16:29;
1 Co2:12;
2 Ti1:7;
Heb2:15;
12:18-24;
Ja2:19;
1 Jn4:18)
Paul has been discussing the FLESH, so this must have reference to those
who are IN THE FLESH, ie, unbelievers, who are enslaved to SIN & the LAW
& receive the wages of SIN ~ DEATH.
That is, “The Holy Spirit, whom you have received, does not produce a
slavish and anxious state of mind, such as those experience who are
under the law, but he produces the filial feelings of affection,
reverence, and confidence and enables us, out of the fullness of our
hearts, to call God our Father.”
No matter how cleverly they may manage to mask or deny the reality of
it, sinful men are continually subject to fear because they continually
live in sin and are therefore continually under God’s judgment— that is,
they were governed by a slavish and anxious apprehension of such
punishment (ultimately fear of eternal death). Slavery to SIN brings
slavery to fear, and one of the gracious works of the Holy Spirit is to
deliver God’s children from both. All unconverted men, whether Jews or
Gentiles, are in this state of enslavement to their fear because they
are all under the LAW or the slavery of a legal system & the Law kills
(Ro7:11).
Paul reminded Timothy that our heavenly Father “has not given us a
spirit of timidity [or, fear], but of power and love and discipline”
(2Ti1:7). John assures us that “there is no fear in love; but perfect
love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who
fears is not perfected in love” (1Jn4:18).
BUT YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SPIRIT OF ADOPTION AS SONS (Ga4:5 Ep1:5 not
slaves Ga4:7): alla elabete (2PAAI) pneuma huiothesias: (16;
Is56:5;
Je3:19;
1 Co2:12;
Ga4:5-7;
Ep1:5,11-14)
Warren Wiersbe comments
that...
To live in the flesh or under
law (and to put yourself under law is to move toward living in the
flesh) leads to bondage; but the Spirit leads us into a glorious life of
liberty in Christ. Liberty to the believer never means freedom to do as
he or she pleases, for that is the worst kind of slavery! Rather,
Christian liberty in the Spirit is freedom from law and the flesh so
that we can please God and become what He wants us to become. “Adoption”
in the NT does not mean what it typically means today, the taking of a
child into a family to be a legal member of the family. The literal
meaning of the Greek word is “son-placing” —the taking of a minor
(whether in the family or outside) and making him or her the rightful
heir. Every believer is a child of God by birth and an heir of God
through adoption. In fact, we are joint-heirs with Christ, so that He
cannot receive His inheritance in glory until we are there to share it
with Him. Thank God, the believer has no obligation to the flesh, to
feed it, pamper it, obey it. Instead, we must “put to death” (mortify)
the deeds of the flesh by the power of the Spirit (see notes
Romans 8:13,
see
Colossians 3:9ff)
and allow the Spirit to direct our daily lives. (Wiersbe,
W. W. Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the New Testament. Wheaton, Ill.:
Victor Books)
"Adoption"
(huiothesia ) bears a relationship to justification in that it is
declarative and forensic (inasmuch as it is a legal term). Adoption
bestows an objective standing, as justification does; like
justification, it is a pronouncement that is not repeated. It has
permanent validity. Like justification, adoption rests on the loving
purpose and grace of God (Ep 1:5). Though the term is used of Israel in
relation to God (9:4 Ho 11:1), it is doubtful that adoption was practiced
in OT days. Much more likely is the conclusion that Paul was drawing on
the background of Roman law both here and in [Gal 4:5]. The readers of
both Epistles would be familiar with adoption in their own society
Huiothesia is
not so much a word of relationship as of position. In regeneration a
Christian receives the nature of a child of God; in adoption he receives
the position of a son of God. Every Christian obtains the place of a
child and the right to be called a son the moment he believes (Ga3:25,26
4:6 1Jn3:1,2). The indwelling Spirit gives the realization of this in
the Christian's present experience (Ga4:6) but the full manifestation of
his sonship awaits the resurrection, change, and translation of saints,
"the redemption of the body" (Ro8:23 Ep1:14 1Th4:14-17 1Jn3:2).
Marvin
Vincent quotes a Mr. Merivale,
“The process of legal adoption by which the chosen heir became entitled
not only to the reversion of the property but to the civil status, to
the burdens as well as the rights of the adopter—became, as it were, his
other self, one with him … this too is a Roman principle, peculiar at
this time to the Romans, unknown, I believe, to the Greeks, unknown, to
all appearance, to the Jews...We have but a faint conception of the
force with which such an illustration would speak to one familiar with
the Roman practice; how it would serve to impress upon him the assurance
that the adopted son of God becomes, in a peculiar and intimate sense,
one with the heavenly Father.”
F. F. Bruce says that...
The term “adoption” may smack somewhat of
artificiality in our ears; but in the first century A.D. an adopted son
was a son deliberately chosen by his adoptive father to perpetuate his
name and inherit his estate; he was no whit inferior in status to a son
born in the ordinary course of nature and might well enjoy the father’s
affection more fully and reproduce the father’s character more worthily.
BY WHICH WE CRY OUT
ABBA! FATHER: en o krazomen (1PPAI)
abba o pater: (Mark
14:36;
Luke
11:2;
22:42;
John 20:17)
Refers to a loud cry or
vociferation, expressing deep emotion. The sign of a child of God is
that he knows the Father. That is always a sign that you belong to the
family -- you know the father.
The combined use of
the Aramaic ("Abba") & Greek means something like "dear Father", "Daddy"
"Papa." In NT times adopted sons enjoyed the same privileges as
natural-born sons. So, instead of cowering in slave-like fear,
Christians can approach God in an intimate way calling Him Abba, Father.
God the Father of Believers—God is the Father of all who believe in
Christ in a special sense not shared by unbelievers. God is called their
Father, first of all, because they have a new standing before Him. While
unbelievers are the offspring of God because He created them (Acts
17:28, 29), they do not have the standing of sons. Their standing is
rather as condemned sinners before God the Judge (John 3:18; Rev.
20:11). When we believe in Christ as Savior, our estate is wonderfully
changed from grim condemnation to privileged sonship. This new standing
grants to all believers the legal right and spiritual privileges of
divine sonship: “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ” (Rom. 8:17).
God is the Father of believers also in the sense that He gives them new
life (John 3:3). This relationship then is a family one involving many
of the same realities that exist between an earthly father and child:
birth of the child (John 3:3); partaking of the father’s nature (2 Pet.
1:4); the father’s care for the child (Matt. 6:32, 33; 7:9–11); and the
father’s discipline of the child (Heb. 12:6–8). Furthermore, this new
Father-child relationship carries with it new brothers and sisters (Heb.
13:1).
To obtain God as Father is not a result of one’s own merit but a result
of Christ’s. The one who believes in Christ as Savior enters into the
blessed Father-child relationship with God solely on the grounds of
Christ’s sonship (Rom. 8:17; Heb. 2:17). It is the grand privilege and
calling of those who know God as Father to graciously invite unbelievers
to meet God as Father and not as Judge.
Wayne Barber explains
that...
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The family tree of
Adam had nothing but sinners and the destiny of them all was
eternal separation from God. But we have a brand new family tree
and it begins from the Cross where Christ died. When you are IN
CHRIST, you look back at the Cross and then you turn and look
ahead and all you can see is eternal life and living with Him -
what a marvelous family God has birthed us into. He took us out of
the family of Adam and placed us into the family of God, in
Christ. Do you know beyond a shadow of doubt that you are a part
of the family of God? This new relationship involves a NEW
DISPOSITION. Paul says we have NOT (ou = absolute negative = no
possibility) received a spirit of slavery. Now "spirit" here is
with a "small s" and some people take this to be "demonic" or
"demons". No way! The word here means DISPOSITION or MINDSET or
TEMPERAMENT. For example in Ro11:8 Paul says God gave Israel a
"spirit of stupor" speaking of an attitude or a disposition,
something so deep on the inside of you that it translates outside
of you.
In Adam we were subject to FEAR (phobos), and phobos is a word
used for lost people. What do they fear? They say they don't fear
God but we know this is a façade and that there is a sense in
which all men do fear God. Why? Because they fear death and if you
fear death you fear God because you know there is something on the
other side of death that you don't understand. Heb2:14 "Since then
the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also
partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless
him who had the power of death, that is, the devil 15 and might
deliver those who through FEAR OF DEATH were subject to slavery
all their lives." Death is the end of everything that they hope
for & want. In Christ we are no longer slaves out of fear but out
of love. There is a new kind of fear that manifest itself in
reverential awe and devotion. Now you are a child of God and a
child does not fear his parent (usually this is true). There is a
new disposition toward God we never had before. We can trust Him.
The phrase "adoption as sons" is one word in Greek (huios = sons)
and (tithemi = to place). Son's are noted earlier means fully
grown & mature son with full privileges in the family. All of
these privileges and all of this sonship are IN JESUS CHRIST.
Never separate PRIVILEGE or POSITION from the Lord Jesus Christ -
we are NOTHING apart from Him. When we surrender to Him out of a
love relationship we enjoy the Son's privileges to the fullest!
Abba is Aramaic and comes from the first word that a little child
ever says…like our English "Da Da". The disposition of fear of
punishment is gone and replaced by a reverential awe. And now our
spirit can cry out "Abba…Father…I need help. Daddy…I'm going
through a difficult time." A beautiful picture for the son of God.
This ought to affect your attitude to whatever the Lord is
allowing to go on in your life. You are a child of God and He is
control of everything that you are experiencing…and you can cry
out to Him and run to Him and He is always there. |
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