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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:26

THE HOLY SPIRIT OF HELP‘And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity.’ Romans 8:26 (R.V.) Our Lord taught His disciples to pray, and promised another Advocate. So the Holy Ghost, as our Lord did, teaches us to pray, and is Himself, in a sense, our Advocate. But the mode of assistance is different. We humbly now inquire as to this mode. I. Let us seek to obtain a deeper realisation of the purport of that phrase: ‘We know not how to pray as we ought.’ Heathen philosophers gave as a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:1-39

Salvation To The Uttermost (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ’s activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the cross by means of the reckoning to us of His righteousness by faith), having been made known in Romans 3:24 to Romans 4:25, Paul now sets about demonstrating the consequences of this for all true believers (Romans 5:1 to Romans 8:39). He wants us immediately to recognise that being ‘accounted as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:5-17

The Contrast Between Flesh And Spirit Is Considered, Leading Up To The Assurance Of Life Through The Triune God And A Declaration Of Our Sonship And Heirship (8:5-17). Reference to ‘walking not after the flesh but after the Spirit’ now leads on to a deeper examination of what it means to be responsive to the Spirit in contrast with the flesh. It is the battle of Galatians 5:16 ff. continued, with the Spirit and flesh being in constant opposition. This contrast is prominent verse by verse in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:15

‘For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, “Abba, Father”.’ This is a call for them to recognise that they have not been called as servants (who were often beaten) but as sons (something made clear by Jesus in the parable of the prodigal son - Luke 15:0). Left to their own ideas they might well have seen themselves as ‘slaves of God’, cowering before a despotic Master ( a regular feature of life in those days), but the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:16

‘The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God,’ And all this is because the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, making us aware of the privilege and joy of such a position. It is through the Spirit’s illumination and encouragement that we take up and maintain our new position, continually rejoicing in it as the wonder of it is brought home to us more and more. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:17

‘And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.’ Furthermore the Spirit bears witness to even more. He bears witness to the fact that as children we are heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. He brings out that we are to share with Christ in all the gifts and glory of the Father. Thus will we receive the inheritance promised to Abraham (Romans 4:13-14; Genesis 12:3 ff. and often), an... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:18

‘For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed towards us.’ Paul now gives the assurance that no matter how great the sufferings of this present time they are not ‘worthy to be compared’ with the glory which is to be revealed towards us. ‘Our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory’ (2 Corinthians 4:17). This is why our minds must be set on things... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:18-27

The Whole Of Creation Is Groaning In Expectation Of Its Redemption. And God’s People Also Groan With It, As Does The Spirit Of God Himself On Our Behalf (8:18-27). In spite of the division necessarily made this passage very much connects up with the previous one and it is only the change in subject matter which causes us to make the division, for Romans 8:18 takes up Romans 8:17. Paul has just been speaking of the fact that we who are sons of God will also share in His sufferings. Now we learn... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:19

‘For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God.’ Paul vividly presents the whole of creation as waiting, as it were, with bated breath, for the time when the sons of God will be revealed. In Jewish tradition ‘creation’ can refer to either the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, or be seen as a term for mankind as a whole But while it is true that only mankind can wait with ‘earnest expectation’, (if we take what Paul says literally), it must be... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:20-21

‘For the creation was subjected to frustration (emptiness, vanity), not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope, that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.’ And the reason why it waits with bated breath is because it had been subjected to frustration and emptiness (‘vanity’). The thought here is of Genesis 3:0. Creation had been ‘very good’ even in God’s eyes (Genesis 1:31). It had... read more

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:1-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:5-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:16

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:18-27

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:20-21

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