BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. 1599-1645. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.’. He is given to us by Christ. Romans 8 When walking by the Spirit we are not condemned 1 Living by the flesh 5 When Christ is in you, the body is dead 10 Joint heirs with Christ 17 The Spirit helps us in weakness and in prayer 26 Foreknowledge and predestination 29 Who can be against us 31 ⦠].” See to it, then, that you avail yourselves of these immense advantages; and beg of God to “pour out his Spirit more and more abundantly upon you through Jesus Christ [Note: Titus 3:6. 4. Invalids, who shuddered at any other touch, asked Him to put His hand on their wounds. from the power of sin that leads to death. 1. Under this character, “the world know him not, neither can receive him: but believers do know him; for he dwelleth with them, and shall be in them [Note: John 14:16-17. All rights reserved. A plain, express declaration, which admits of no exception. Holy to us is any picture of our Redeemer, because it images to us, as man can conceive, His countenance of tender love. p. 834). That the Holy Spirit is here meant ought not to be doubted. If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. The Spirit is the Spirit of GOD because He is sent from GOD: He is the Spirit of Christ, because He comes as representative of Christ, and brings the living power, the life of the ascended Lord, into human lives: so as the result of His action Christ Himself dwells in man. BibliographyExell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "Romans 8:9". He who is in the flesh--, III. Adam is still in him, which he is to mortify and throw out, but he is not in Adam.” First, take it simply in itself, “ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit”; where we have signified to us the state and condition of the children of God and the opinion which St. Paul has of them; and that is, not to be “carnal, but spiritual.” That is, they are not wholly swayed by their own corruption, but by the Spirit of God in them. But although He performed mighty works and “spake as man never spake,” yet a more glorious dispensation was to succeed (John 1:50; Joh_14:12), which is to ultimate in the reign of grace on earth, in heaven itself, and in the finished glory of the saints. You will honour Christ, for the Spirit delights to glorify Christ by taking of the things of Christ and showing them to us. Once the right decision has been made by hearing and obeying the gospel invitation of Christ, God sends his Holy Spirit into the lives of his children, thereby enabling them to live "in the Spirit." First, the unchangeableness of His nature. When he contemplates the goodness of God, thus exercised; the holiness of God, thus honoured; and the truth of God, thus kept inviolate; and all the perfections of God, thus harmonizing and glorified; and all this for him; he is perfectly astounded; he knows not how to believe it; it seems to him all as “a mere parable [Note: Ezekiel 20:49. 1 2 For the law of h the Spirit of life i has set you 2 free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. It is plain that such an inhabitation brings the Christian into a state altogether new and marvellous, far above the possession of mere gifts, exalts him inconceivably in the scale of beings, and gives him a place and an office which he had not before (2 Peter 1:4; John 1:12; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John 4:4; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Timothy 2:21). But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. “If, on the other hand, any one have not the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him,” is not in communion of life with Christ, is not a true Christian; for αὐτοῦ refers to Christ, not to God (van Hengel). We cannot even say, therefore, with Umbreit: “the Spirit of Christ is the medium, through which man obtains the Spirit of God;” nor, with van Hengel, who compares Luke 9:55 : “si vero quis Spiritum, qui Christi est, cum eo non habet communem,” with which Paul would here be aiming at the (alleged) Judaism of the Romans. Signs and ordinances of religion derive all their force from the directness with which they are addressed by the Spirit of God to our intelligence, conscience, and affections. First, it was a Spirit of meekness and humility and lowliness of mind. 5. If. How little you and I have of a spirit like that! χριστοῦ is purposely selected in order to render very conspicuous the truth of the οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ. Where this vital bond does not exist between a soul and Christ, it remains a stranger to Him and His salvation. Every other bond of union with Christ is of no avail without this. . He is the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2). But there is a fourth kind of life, of which the Scripture speaks; viz. So through God indwelling the soul we have our spiritual, eternal life begun in us; we think all the good thoughts we have. & 128. Is there much of this spirit of gentleness and forbearance abroad in the world? ]: and as “God has not given the Spirit by measure unto him [Note: John 3:34. Romans 8:9. Copyright � Broadman Press 1932,33, Renewal 1960. BibliographyIce, Rhoderick D. "Commentary on Romans 8:9". It most commonly in the New Testament refers to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. Where one person is there is the whole. Those who have Christ’s Spirit do very much relish and favour the truths of Christ. ", i.e. True, his operations are not seen, except in the effects produced by them: but those effects infinitely exceed all human power: and in the unerring word of God they are ascribed to the Holy Spirit, whose peculiar office it is, not only to regenerate us at first, but progressively to form us after the Divine image, and to render us meet for our heavenly inheritance [Note: Titus 3:3; Titus 3:5.]. 9. When the plague was raging in Marseilles, the College of Surgeons decided that there must be a post-mortem examination, in order that they might know how to meet and arrest that awful disease. "Commentary on Romans 8:9". But if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.". Weiss, bibl. ];” and “in proportion as any person’s afflictions abound, the Holy Ghost will make his consolations to abound” with still greater and more transcendent efficacy [Note: 2 Corinthians 1:5.]. But now it is like the desolate cities, in which the beasts of the desert lay, and their houses are full of doleful creatures, where owls dwell, and satyrs dance, where wild beasts cry, and dragons in the pleasant places (Isaiah 13:21-22; Jeremiah 50:39). He may have gold in his purse, but we have God in our hearts, the right owner of them, which is the top of our happiness. ];” for no human being could ever have hoped to possess them, if they had been committed to any other depository, or if the attainment of them had been suspended on the strength and fidelity of man. This, however, is a deviation from the specific strict sense of the πνεῦμα, which, in accordance with the context, can only be that Holy Spirit who is given to believers; and the concrete conception of the apostle receives the stamp of an abstraction. ].” He is in them a Spirit of adoption, enabling them to go to God with confidence, crying, Abba, Father [Note: Romans 8:15. Is it so indeed that the Spirit of God dwells in His children? θεοῦ above. The flesh that lusteth for vengeance had no rule in Him, but the Spirit of holiness and love. The Holy Spirit was still working. And so, much more it is true of the anthropomorphic expressions, such as fear, jealousy, anger; or the metaphysical expressions, each of which taken separately would lead us away from the spiritual, which is the essential nature of God. This is owing not to any goodness in them, or to any fitness and preparations of theirs to receive him; but to a federal union to Christ and relation to him, to our Lord's ascension and intercession, and to the love and grace of the Father; and this proves a man to be a regenerate man, to be in the Spirit, and not in the flesh; for the Spirit of God is never in this sense in an unregenerate man, nor is he in any such sense without his grace; so that the indwelling of the Spirit is the grand evidence of relation to God, of an interest in Christ and union to him, and of a man's state and condition God-ward; now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. The reign of the Spirit is the abolition of the flesh. BibliographyGodbey, William. This consideration suggests both the dignity of our Sanctifier and the infinite preciousness of His Office towards us. ].”, But “I hope better things of this assembly, though I thus speak [Note: Hebrews 6:9. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. It is Jesus Christ who gives to His people the Holy Spirit. The Structure of Romans 8. Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Is it out of the abundance of the heart that our mouth speaks in prayer? So also Ephesians 2:18; Eph_2:22. The Spirit of Christ for that Spirit of His, which did more eminently, and in a special manner, put forth itself in His own person, while He lived here upon earth as a pattern and example to us. All through His life the Spirit of God rested upon Him in fulness of power, for God “giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.”. The ability to establish an acceptable pattern of behavior in the sight of God is therefore dependent, first of all, upon a person's decision. It was meet for him to think this of them all, Philippians 1:7. On that head, therefore, I feel no occasion to dwell. Secondly, a Spirit of patience in the wrongs and injuries which He endured. And first of all, for the Spirit of Christ, to speak to that, what we are to understand by this. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/romans-8.html. For all things are yours; …. This is what St. John means, when he says, “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not [Note: John 1:5. But we must not rest content with knowing this, we must try to get the better of this sin. (Comp. Indeed, Paul insisted God was yet going to attain his goal. Do we attempt to realise that we ourselves are the temples of the Holy Ghost, little churches that are dedicated to the worship of God? To inhabit, dwell, indwell. The happiness of such. 2 John 1:9. This is the only decisive test. It's really that simple! Too many have forgotten to make their work God’s work by consecrating it to Him, and striving to perform it in the Spirit of Christ. What are “the deeds of the body?” (Colossians 3:5-10; Ephesians 4:22-32; Romans 13:12-14; Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Peter 4:3). There are idols in the heart, and these must be cleansed out. instances in Simcox, Language of the N.T., 171 f. Yet the possibility of the fact being otherwise in isolated cases, is admitted when he goes on: εἰ δέ τις πνεῦμα χριστοῦ οὐκ ἔχει κ. τ. λ. The coming of the Holy Ghost was the completion of God’s revelation of Himself to man. The written word is the medium by which the Spirit works, and the standard by which his agency must be tried: and, if his operations do not produce holiness, as well as light and comfort, they are no better than a delusion, a desperate and a fatal delusion. But a distinction between them is not required by Romans 8:10-11 (see on that passage), and is decisively forbidden by Galatians 4:6, compared with Romans 8:14-16. Köllner wrongly lays down a distinction between the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ; making the former the highest πνεῦμα, the source and perfection of all πνεῦμα, and the latter the higher God-resembling mind that was manifested in Christ. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kin according to the flesh. The rational life apprehends moral truth; but forms no just conception of things which are spiritual. The second is the consequent, in these words, “He is none of His”--none of His; that is, belongs not to Him, has no interest in Him, is no member of Him. 3. The ἐν πνεύματι, which is not to be taken as “in the spiritual nature” (Philippi), and the πν. 1. BibliographyBengel, Johann Albrecht. Are we trying to do good in our generation; to be about our Father’s business, and to finish the work which He has given us to do? Romans Chapter 8. "Commentary on Romans 8:9". Ro 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If the Spirit of God did not really dwell in any of those whom the Apostle addressed, they were still in the flesh, notwithstanding all their profession, and all their present appearances, and his persuasion respecting them. The apostle therefore adds, if so be the Spirit of God dwell in you. Everyone who trusts in Jesus Christ in the age in which we live possesses the indwelling Holy Spirit (cf. 4. It conveys an indirect incitement to self-examination. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/romans-8.html. 1 Corinthians 2:14-16. Thus it is “the Church fills up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.” (J. P. “The kingdom of God is … righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”. Now, when the Spirit of Christ enters into this vile, ruinous cottage, He creates a new light within, which makes a man behold the light shining in the gospel; and behold all things are new, himself new, the world new, and God new. Have we this spirit of endurance? Note the change to ‘Spirit of Christ’, important in context because the point is that central to being a Christian is our relationship to Christ. By His help we mortify the flesh (Romans 8:13). But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. He pours in both the oil of grace, and also the oil of joy and gladness into their hearts. This is one of the clearest statements in Scripture that corrects the false notion that baptism with the Spirit is a second work of grace for the Christian. There are, and will be, intervening obstacles, that will, at some times, and under peculiar circumstances, interfere with the believer’s progress [Note: Romans 7:18-19. This having of the Spirit of Christ is considerable in two particulars. He helps us to pray (Romans 8:26). εἴπερ] To take this word as quandoquidem, with Chrysostom and others, including Olshausen, is not indeed contrary to linguistic usage, since, like εἰ in the sense of ἐπεί (Dissen, ad Dem. "if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hdg/romans-8.html. That the Holy Ghost is called the Spirit of Christ passively, and by way of reception, as being bestowed upon him, and received by him; also actively, and by way of collation, as being bestowed by him, and conveyed from him. In the preceding verses the Apostle had given a description of carnal and spiritual mindedness. 6, § 55. 2. On the way to judgment and eternal condemnation. And He is a Spirit of consolation, and therefore of all the most worthy to be received into our hearts, for He is a bosom comforter (John 14:16). 1:7, the regenerated children of God. 2. d) the Spirit of Christ (= πν. p. 195), εἴπερ also is used in the sense of ἐπείπερ (see Kühner, ad Xen. [Note: Newell, p299.]. The Holy Spirit is compared to a dove, IV. not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, ( as in Romans 8:5), or not carnally, but spiritually minded. Christ’s Spirit--. Certainly we should not allow indwelling concepts to contradict clearly taught Bible truth." here that πν. The Spirit of Jesus is that of God Himself, which He has so perfectly appropriated here below as to make it His personal life, so that He can communicate it to His own. He went about doing good. This mode of speaking is quite accordant with Paul’s common habit (Ephesians 3:16-19). "Commentary on Romans 8:9". The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. This is not a prayerful age. "Commentary on Romans 8:9". The sending belongs to the economical Trinity; the eternally proceeding, to the ontological Trinity. "Mark Dunagan Commentaries on the Bible". (Dean Stanley.). Is none of his - Is not a Christian. The nature of this indwelling of the Spirit.—It is (a) personal; (b) privileged; (c) progressive. They are illuminated by the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-16). ]:” and the work in his soul is compared to the corn, which appears first in “the blade, then in the ear, and then as the full corn in the ear [Note: Mark 4:28. That was self-sacrifice. 1896. III. He who poured all the waters of the earth out of His hand begging a drink. ; 2 Corinthians 3:3-4. BibliographyWesley, John. His footstep would not have woke up the faintest slumber. He restores for us that broken bond which, proceeding from above, connects together into one blessed family all that is anywhere holy and eternal, and separates it off from the rebel world which comes to nought. Paul proceeds on their Christian profession to draw from it a sure consequence in the supposed case of their profession being serious. All the members of that body are distinguished by this--that they are spiritual men, and seek after spiritual things. If someone doesn't have the Spirit, he or she is not a Christian. ", "Nowhere in Scripture do we find a clearer indication that the Spirit enters a person"s life at the moment of conversion (cf. The Expositor's Greek Testament. 1851. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rwp/romans-8.html. Further, to have the Spirit is to have Christ, because it is only through the Spirit that Jesus can take up His residence within. 1. 1905-1909. Finally, consider—. The Spirit came especially to “glorify” Christ; and vouchsafes to be a shining light within the Church and the Christian, reflecting the Saviour. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/romans-8.html. We read of those who “received the word with much affliction, and joy of the Holy Ghost [Note: 1 Thessalonians 1:6. Lastly, it is not Christian alliance, or relation to those who have grace and godliness and goodness in them. Theol. The Holy Ghost is called the Spirit of Christ in this respect also, and that for two reasons more. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. It is universal, and therefore is the work of a universal Spirit. . Does that promise bring comfort to us—‘He that endureth to the end shall be “saved”’? "Commentary on Romans 8:9". 8 and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. ), Every Christian possesses the Spirit of Christ, 1. And, what follows from this, defile not those living temples wherein He dwells. He is none of his; he is not interested in the blessings of His salvation. (Comp. (32-39) Commentary on Romans 8:1-9 Nor is it only like that overpowering grace to which the long-resisting soul at length yields and ends its weary rebellions, and casting itself at its Father’s feet, is again enfolded in His arms; “the dead is again alive, the lost is found.” The office which God the Holy Ghost vouchsafes to take towards Christians is indwelling. See Romans 8:16. It matters not what else he may have. Respecting the matter itself and the conception, see 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 6:17; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Timothy 1:14; John 14:23. 2. Thom. There is however this difference between them: in temporal warfare, proficiency is the result of human ingenuity; whereas, in the spiritual warfare, it is the Spirit of God alone that can inspire us with the knowledge and address, whereby we are to vanquish the legions of spirits that are combined against us [Note: Ephesians 6:17-18.]. The believer is supposed to entertain One of boundless intelligence, who is continually unfolding the sublimest truths, and arousing his mental energies by new and startling discoveries of the great Christian verities; and it is impossible for him to be under such tuition without greatly enlarged mental capacities for knowing and interpreting the Scriptures, whose author is the Holy Spirit. Spurgeon. Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. [Note: Mounce, pp178-79.]. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. In a certain battle there was a wounded soldier who cried, ‘Roll me out of the way, and go on with the gun!’ We should have a like enthusiasm in Christ’s cause if the miracle of Pentecost were repeated. 2. often speak of רוח המשיח, or רוחא דמשיח "the spirit of the Messiah". 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, a who 1 do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. . "Commentary on Romans 8:9". But ye, etc. 1 Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 1974. The Apostle, in order to confirm those to whom he wrote in the assurance of their happy condition, now calls their attention to the evidence of being in a converted state, namely, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The results of this indwelling.—Romans 8 enumerates them, but see especially life for the spirit and resurrection for the body. So also, when we ask, what God is? To have, hold, possess. Is identical with that of the great God. And so our Lord expresses the loving communication of the Father and the Son to those who do His commandments and love Him (John 14:23). After His resurrection Ha breathed on His disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,” and having procured Him by His ascension poured Him out at Pentecost. . How we may know if we have the Spirit (see verse 13). What astonishing views has he of the wisdom of God in devising such a plan, whereby God’s own justice might be duly satisfied, and his mercy flow down to man in perfect consistency with all his other attributes! De W. See Winer, edn. He speaks to those who have been set free from the law of sin and death. BibliographyRobertson, A.T. "Commentary on Romans 8:9". St. John adds, after speaking of “our fellowship with the Father and His Son”: “These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” What is fulness of joy but peace? . As the Holy Spirit is the promise of the Father, emphatically (Acts 1:4), so also of the Son (Luke 24:49; John 14:1-31; Joh_15:1-27; Joh_16:1-33.). Many rich and costly ornaments hang over it and adorn it, to make it like the king’s wife, all glorious within; such as the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit (1 Peter 3:4); the clothing of humility, simple in show, but rich in substance (1 Peter 5:5). Now if. There are not ten thousand ways, but only two. Do we realise this? The Scriptures are very plain with reference to this: (1) It occurs "after that ye heard the word of truth" (Ephesians 1:13); (2) It comes after people have believed in Christ (Ephesians 1:13); (3) the indwelling begins after believers have become sons of God and as a consequence of their being so (Galatians 4:6); and (4) the blessed Spirit is promised as a gift contingent upon and following the believer's repentance and baptism (Acts 2:38f). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/egt/romans-8.html. We could translate the first "if" as "since" (first class condition in Greek) because here it represents a condition that Paul assumed was true to reality. II. At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.”). Hence it appears that the merely rational man labours under a twofold disadvantage in comparison of the spiritual man: he looks through a dense medium of sense, which distorts, or altogether conceals, the objects before him; and he wants that peculiar glass of faith, which would present them truly, and bring them, if I may so say, directly upon the retina of his mind. As a substitute Jesus suffered with man in his sins; He “Himself bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” And if any man have the Spirit of Christ he will have something of that vicarious sympathy for man’s redemption. It is no longer in the salt water, but the salt water is in it. The dove is the emblem of peace, and meekness, and gentleness. "Commentary on Romans 8:9". The want of this is enmity to Christ. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. We must never forget that the Holy Spirit unites with the Lord Jesus Christ in the whole of his mediatorial office, though each sustains and executes in a more appropriate way that part which has been assigned him by the Father: and, if any of us be “washed, and justified, and sanctified, it is in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God [Note: 1 Corinthians 6:11. BibliographyCoke, Thomas. is that element in human nature by which man is capable of communion with GOD and that communion reaches its culminating point when it is mediated by the life in and of Christ: then the Spirit of GOD not only speaks to or influences occasionally but dwells in the human spirit; and this is re-created, becomes new, as the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus; of. “The life everlasting “is the undying vitality of those affections and graces which are part of the essence of the Holy Spirit of God. The flesh desires things of this earth, but the spirit is stayed upon God's will in our lives. The Spirit of Christ is a spirit of gentleness and forbearance, III. 19. Romans 3:30, Romans 8:17; and the excellent examination of other N.T. This places in their proper light all those words and phrases which are used to describe the Divine nature. Inseparable is the Trinity. Rock, fortress, shield, champion, shepherd, husband, king, and the great name of Father, these are all admirable words, so far as they express the spiritual relations of the Almighty towards us, but they would mislead if they were taken in gross, literal sense. If any of us lack moral courage to bear insult or contempt for Christ’s sake, if we are tempted to hide our religion away when we are in the company of the ungodly, then let our prayer be that God would grant us the Spirit of Christ, the spirit of endurance. ], and to kindle in our hearts an inextinguishable flame of love towards his blessed name! This is the constant battle of the believer’s life; and in its full extent it is not the battle of life to any but a Christian. Ver. Or the Church is regarded to-day by a great many people as merely a department of the State, whose business is good works and philanthropy, instead of a spiritual society which contains, in the whole body, the indwelling Spirit of Christ.’. 1700-1703. And here two things more. 1. Thus He vouchsafes to edify the whole man in faith and holiness (2 Corinthians 10:5). Paul"s readers were not those who only had a sinful human nature. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead ⦠],” that so, by his effectual teaching, “we may know all things [Note: 1 John 2:20. By "the Spirit of Christ", is not meant the human soul of Christ; nor his divine nature; nor his Gospel, which is the Spirit that gives life; but the Holy Ghost, the third person in the Trinity, the same which is called the Spirit before; and proves Christ to be God, he proceeds from him as from the Father, is sent by him, and with which Christ's human nature was fitted and filled. St. Paul speaks of another possession. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. The condescension of the blessed Spirit is as incomprehensible as that of the Son. The effects of these are illumination, sanctification, supplication, and consolation. Here he applies what he had laid down more generally to the believing Romans in particular. The one expression is interchanged with the other: ‘If the Spirit of God dwell in you, you are true Christians; for if the Spirit of Christ be not in you, you are none of his.' 2 Thess., where, however, as here, the meaning is, ‘if so be that,’ ‘if at least.’ That this is the meaning here is evident by the exception which immediately follows). Compare 1 John 5:12. He is in the Christ-sea forever. Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament. The Scripture, the life of Christ, the ministry, etc. If so, we shall find that every thorny crown of sorrows, sharp though it be, is gilded with the light of heaven, and transfigured into a crown of glory. Are new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:21-24), and it is impossible we should be so without His Spirit (Titus 3:5). It is the Holy Spirit who unites them to Christ the Lord. But ye are not in the flesh, &c.— The word Ειπερ, rendered if so be, may here stand for the word επειδηπερ, as it does 2 Thessalonians 1:6. 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