Romans 8:26 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
With groanings which cannot be uttered. Some say that this is speaking in tongues. They say that this is "praying in the spirit." I would say to them no, you didn't catch it. It says groanings which cannot be uttered. The word uttered in the Greek means unspeakable. It's not words. The Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be spoken.
Romans 8:28 - 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.
The word good is AGATHOS, spiritual good. Human good is KALOS. That makes a big difference because if I'm looking at it religiously, humanly, and on a horizontal physical plain, when it says, "all things work together for good," that means in the human, God's going to work things out good for me in the human and in the flesh.
But this is spiritual good. Also, please notice that it doesn't say all things are good. It says that all things are going to be worked out for the good. What's good and bad in the human, that's our judgment system. To God, everything is good because He's doing everything. And when we have things "go wrong," in God's vocabulary, that's not even in there. To Him everything is going right. Why? Because everything's going to work out according to the will of God, so that when I do pray for the Lord's will to be done, I can know because this is a promise right from God, that all things work together for the good.
Romans 9:2 - That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
He says I have great grief. The term heaviness is the word LUPE for grief. The term sorrow is the same word used for birth pains, the labor pains that a woman goes through. So, in his heart he has great grief and unceasing birth pains.
Romans 8:11 - 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.
Notice that he's talking about the Spirit that's dwelling in you. The only life that comes through my body that is spiritual, and it literally says in the Greek text that it is by His indwelling Spirit. It's a title! Every person that has the Spirit of Christ has the indwelling Spirit and He is the one who energizes them.
Romans 8:13 - 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.
Taking this along with Verse 12, notice that it's God's Spirit that puts to death the deeds of the body. And again, that has to do with separation. You're going to live! I think that is interesting. The obligations that we think we have are what other people put on us. Family, friends, jobs, whatever! And we feel obligated. The word debtor is the word for obligation. We are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. You have no obligation to anybody other than Christ.
Romans 8:15 - 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.
Abba is the Aramaic word for dad or father. You see, it's by the Spirit of God in me that causes me to have a relationship with God that I can call Him my Father, not religiously, but literally. I'm adopted into His family. When I received Christ, I was adopted into the family of God. But it's by the Spirit of adoption, not by me.
Romans 7:24 - O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
First, he says "O wretched man that I am!" The word wretched means destitute. He sees himself as just a destroyed destitute person. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? He sees his body is the house that he lives in. Who's going to deliver me from this body of death? The term "body of death" is an interesting term within the Roman judicial system.
For some of the hardened criminals that committed murder, they would sentence them to serve their time with the dead body of the person that they killed strapped on their back. As it corrupted, and as it decayed, they corrupted and decayed with it. It eventually killed them.
Paul says that's what I feel like. I have died to sin. And I feel like I've got that old man, the old nature, the old life strapped on my back, reminding me and haunting me. It no longer lords it over me, but it just keeps working away, influencing and trying to get me away from the things of the Lord.
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.
The word sin has the definite article, the Sin Principle.
Romans 8:5 - 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 word mind has to do with the frame of mind, not individual thoughts, but just the direction that our thoughts flow. The people who are not saved and are walking according to the flesh are people whose minds are always governed by the flesh, but they that are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Only the Spirit of God can produce this frame of mind because we don't 100% in our thought processes think about the Lord. We've got "other things" to do! But it's the Spirit of God that gives us a frame of mind to participate with the Spiritual things of God. A non-believer doesn't have that.
Prayer Request for God to provide provision for my family so I can pay our bills and put food on our table I ask this according to John 14:14 In Jesus Christ Name i pray Amen
Thank You Father for Your righteousness and love for us. May we worship You according to Scripture and bless and praise Your name because You so richly deserve it.
Grant unto us the grace to be biblical followers of CHRIST; as we obey and trust in You in all things. Thank You LORD for the relative calm outcome of our national elections. We pray for CHRIST'S blessings of wisdom and peace upon them all.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to all. GOD to shine His face and gloriously bless everyone on this platform.
I would like to ask all for prayer for the children at the Mexico/American border. Please pray for their safety. Too many times in a day we are reminded from MSM that we don't look or sound the same so we shouldn't like each other. But almost never are we reminded we are from the same parents Adam and Eve and should love each other.
Again I ask for prayer for these children. Thank you.
Amen! We see this in Romans 7:23. The sin that's in our flesh is warring against our mind that wants to serve God, and it wants to take us captive. We cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than our decision to serve it. But we can also not serve it anytime we want to because we're born of the Spirit of God.
"The sin" in the Bible is an expression of "the sin principle" or source of sin. I agree with what you say about the battle being in our flesh. Our flesh is in constant rebellion against the Spirit of God in us. We often think that our battle or fight is with Satan, but he's already been defeated.
As believers, I think most of our daily struggle is between our flesh and the Spirit which dwells within because our flesh wants nothing to do with the things of the Lord. We are given the freedom to choose to either serve the flesh or the Spirit. That's where it can become a struggle, is when we begin to stray from the Lord and fellowship in His word.
I like the way you explain it. In the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin."
This reminds me of " John 1:29" The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The book of Romans has a lot to present!
Paul gives us a clear picture of the battle within ourself in chapter 7!
This is not persecution from the world. It's a battle with the flesh. Our flesh!
When Paul says verse 23 there's sin in his members, he speaks for us all!
Paul said For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Similar to Jude 1:23... "hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Praise the Lord for Jude 1:24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy!
5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
NOT TO BITE ANOTHER AND DEVOUR
Not to be destructive and harm one another.
It can come back on you
Having Faith Scriptures
1 Thessalonians 1:3KJV
remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Galatians 5:6KJV
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Ways you can have faith in Jesus Christ Scriptures
Galatians 5:13-15KJV
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Psalm 25:8KJV
Good and upright is the LORD: Therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
I have used faith in serving others in the love of Gof not biting and devouring people.
Asking for extra strong protection and breakthrough for us and all in need. Also asking for protection and a powerful anointing of our prayer meeting and Live Nativity. Thank you.
I will keep you in prayer this week. Please check back with us and let us know how we can further pray for you.
God will find a way for you when it seems there is no way. He is with you in this low valley and will keep you close to Himself as you continue to abide in Him.
Please pray for my mother to find the right attorney for her needs, my nephew also, pray for him to be set free. I need prayers for my brother who's depressed and pray for my sister to come to the Lord and have a repented heart. Pray to have me be set free of my habitual sin, I am trying but keep failing, I love Jesus I just struggle against the flesh.
God bless all of you that pray for me and my family.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4:6 KJV
I Thank God for his goodness. Galatians 6:10 KjV, Psalms 145;9 KJV
1 John 3:2 KJV my faith believing confirmed in me holy the identity Christian that allows me to be shown to have no challenges in relations in life . Yes I agree, constantly seeking God allows me to have wisdom too to succeed Matthew 6:33 KJV
The testimony of Jesus Christ has blessed me - Psalm 112:3 KJV believing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ offering the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. ( 1 Peter 2:9, Hebrews 7:26, Joshua 1:8)
Romans 7:15 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
For that which I do, I don't understand. The term "I allow not" in the Greek means I don't understand. "What I'm doing, I don't even understand." For what I would, or wish to do, that do I not; but what I hate, that's what I'm doing! This man needs help, doesn't he?
He says what I'm doing, I don't know because what I want to do, I wind up not doing, but what I really hate to do, that's what I do.
Romans 7:18 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
The word "good" in the text is the word AGATHOS that has to do with Spiritual good, not human good.
Our flesh has a lot of good to it humanly. We can do some "good stuff." We can also mess up a lot too! But it does do some good. But that's not what it's talking about. There is no Spiritual good at all in our flesh. None!
Romans 7:23 - 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.
Now we have the law of the mind. It's the word NOUS, and it has to do with perception. It's not the PSUCHE, the psyche or the brain. It's the perceptive abilities of the mind. With the inner man, I take pleasure in the law of God, but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind.
The mind now, the NOUS, the perceptive processes, that is now the inner man.
It's cause: To bring me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members, not in my spirit. So, the sin that's in my flesh is warring against my mind that wants to serve God. It wants to take me captive. I cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than my decision to serve it. But I can also not serve it anytime I want to because I'm born of the Spirit of God.
Romans 6:22 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
But now, being made free from "the" sin, definite article, being free from the sin, and you have become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, again sanctification, and the end everlasting life.
Your life now produces a different kind of fruit. It's not sin and death anymore. It's not destruction anymore. You've been made free from the sin principle, and you have become servants to God.
And your fruit is now unto sanctification and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This summarizes the whole thing. The wages of "the" sin, (definite article). Sin pays wages! The Greek word for wages is what you pay a soldier with; except it's not money. It's rations. The wages of sin is death. How's that for a reward?
But the gift (CHARISMA) of God, and this is interesting because it gives us a good idea as to what the word charismatic means. It means the expression of God's grace. Charis is grace, Charisma is when grace is in action. The gift of God is God's grace blessing us with eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. But if you notice, it's not a wage, it is a gift.
Sin pays wages. God doesn't pay wages. He gives as a gift. We can never earn it, and we get full inheritance!
Romans 7:14 - For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Carnal is another word for flesh. The law is actually spiritual. But I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Romans 5:16 - And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Here we have two different Greek words for our English word "gift." It says, "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift:" That's DOREMA, a gift that is given.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift, the CHARISMA, is of many offences unto justification. Free gift! Sin brings condemnation and judgment. The free gift brings righteousness over the offence and judgment.
Romans 6:2 - God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
He says God forbid, which in the Greek language, it is the strongest expression of impossibility. May it not happen!
Where we see the word sin in this verse, in the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin." In the bible, from the Greek language, it is used to designate this principle of sin or source of sin, who is the devil. The sin in the bible is represented by the devil.
Romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:
And then the explanation because we have been commissioned:
For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants, or slaves, to righteousness unto holiness.
The word holiness is the Greek word from which we get the word sanctification from. Yield your members as slaves for sanctification, for production!
Romans 5:4 - And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And patience works experience; Now this is an interesting word. It is literally the word proof. That's why English translations have a difficult time finding out how to express this word. When God puts me in a designed tribulation that He has for me, He is proving Himself to me, and He's proving me to everybody else! It's not how I look in church, or how I look in bible study. It's the faithfulness of God that takes me through all of my situations.
And patience, experience; and experience works out hope: You see, my hope is certain. Hope, ELPIS in the Greek, does not mean a hope like, "I wish it will happen." It's an expectancy. You expect it to happen. You know it's going to happen. When God proves Himself to us, through all of our situations, that builds our hope because of experience in Christ.
Romans 5:11 - And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
It's interesting that the Greek word for atonement KATALLAGEN is the word reconciliation! We have received reconciliation. I have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe. If you told that to somebody on the street, they would think that you belong in the "loony farm." But it's true, and it's a relationship!
Romans 5:15 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. This word gift is the word CHARISMA. You see, it is not a talent. It is not an ability. It means expression of grace. It comes from the word CHARIS.
Romans 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
"Therefore being justified by faith." Even though the word "being" is in there which shows a condition or a state, literally in the Greek text it shows Past Tense. "After having been placed in a position of justification." You've now been justified. It's put in the past. It's a one-time thing, never to be taken back!
Romans 5:2 - By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The word rejoice is literally the word to boast or show boldness. We have boldness in hope of the glory of God. That is to say, "One day I am going to be in His presence." And that is the hope that my life is built on, not on the economic condition of the world, not on the condition of the worlds systems. Even though I get discouraged and I feel bad for people and the way things are in this world, my hope is not on this world getting straightened out. My hope is to one day be in the presence of God.
Romans 5:3 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Tribulations are those afflictions, and the word is THLIPSIS which means stress, pressure of the mind. In Acts 14:22, when Paul was re-circling through the cities that he had testified to in his first missionary journey, he went through confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorted them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
God allows tribulation and stress in order to direct us to Christ and to trust Him! We rejoice in tribulations. People think we're crazy! It says next, about the character of the believer, "And not only so but we glory in tribulations also:
Knowing (and that's the key), knowing what they are for. Knowing that tribulation works patience; Patience is the word HUPOMENO for remain under. It's the word endurance.
Romans 8:26 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
With groanings which cannot be uttered. Some say that this is speaking in tongues. They say that this is "praying in the spirit." I would say to them no, you didn't catch it. It says groanings which cannot be uttered. The word uttered in the Greek means unspeakable. It's not words. The Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be spoken.
Romans 8:28 - 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.
The word good is AGATHOS, spiritual good. Human good is KALOS. That makes a big difference because if I'm looking at it religiously, humanly, and on a horizontal physical plain, when it says, "all things work together for good," that means in the human, God's going to work things out good for me in the human and in the flesh.
But this is spiritual good. Also, please notice that it doesn't say all things are good. It says that all things are going to be worked out for the good. What's good and bad in the human, that's our judgment system. To God, everything is good because He's doing everything. And when we have things "go wrong," in God's vocabulary, that's not even in there. To Him everything is going right. Why? Because everything's going to work out according to the will of God, so that when I do pray for the Lord's will to be done, I can know because this is a promise right from God, that all things work together for the good.
Romans 9:2 - That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
He says I have great grief. The term heaviness is the word LUPE for grief. The term sorrow is the same word used for birth pains, the labor pains that a woman goes through. So, in his heart he has great grief and unceasing birth pains.
Romans 8:11 - 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.
Notice that he's talking about the Spirit that's dwelling in you. The only life that comes through my body that is spiritual, and it literally says in the Greek text that it is by His indwelling Spirit. It's a title! Every person that has the Spirit of Christ has the indwelling Spirit and He is the one who energizes them.
Romans 8:13 - 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.
Taking this along with Verse 12, notice that it's God's Spirit that puts to death the deeds of the body. And again, that has to do with separation. You're going to live! I think that is interesting. The obligations that we think we have are what other people put on us. Family, friends, jobs, whatever! And we feel obligated. The word debtor is the word for obligation. We are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. You have no obligation to anybody other than Christ.
Romans 8:15 - 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.
Abba is the Aramaic word for dad or father. You see, it's by the Spirit of God in me that causes me to have a relationship with God that I can call Him my Father, not religiously, but literally. I'm adopted into His family. When I received Christ, I was adopted into the family of God. But it's by the Spirit of adoption, not by me.
Romans 7:24 - O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
First, he says "O wretched man that I am!" The word wretched means destitute. He sees himself as just a destroyed destitute person. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? He sees his body is the house that he lives in. Who's going to deliver me from this body of death? The term "body of death" is an interesting term within the Roman judicial system.
For some of the hardened criminals that committed murder, they would sentence them to serve their time with the dead body of the person that they killed strapped on their back. As it corrupted, and as it decayed, they corrupted and decayed with it. It eventually killed them.
Paul says that's what I feel like. I have died to sin. And I feel like I've got that old man, the old nature, the old life strapped on my back, reminding me and haunting me. It no longer lords it over me, but it just keeps working away, influencing and trying to get me away from the things of the Lord.
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.
The word sin has the definite article, the Sin Principle.
Romans 8:5 - 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 word mind has to do with the frame of mind, not individual thoughts, but just the direction that our thoughts flow. The people who are not saved and are walking according to the flesh are people whose minds are always governed by the flesh, but they that are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Only the Spirit of God can produce this frame of mind because we don't 100% in our thought processes think about the Lord. We've got "other things" to do! But it's the Spirit of God that gives us a frame of mind to participate with the Spiritual things of God. A non-believer doesn't have that.
I can't wait for chapter 8.
God bless.
Grant unto us the grace to be biblical followers of CHRIST; as we obey and trust in You in all things. Thank You LORD for the relative calm outcome of our national elections. We pray for CHRIST'S blessings of wisdom and peace upon them all.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to all. GOD to shine His face and gloriously bless everyone on this platform.
November 26, 2024 Psalms 116
Thank you and God bless you!
I would like to ask all for prayer for the children at the Mexico/American border. Please pray for their safety. Too many times in a day we are reminded from MSM that we don't look or sound the same so we shouldn't like each other. But almost never are we reminded we are from the same parents Adam and Eve and should love each other.
Again I ask for prayer for these children. Thank you.
Amen! We see this in Romans 7:23. The sin that's in our flesh is warring against our mind that wants to serve God, and it wants to take us captive. We cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than our decision to serve it. But we can also not serve it anytime we want to because we're born of the Spirit of God.
"The sin" in the Bible is an expression of "the sin principle" or source of sin. I agree with what you say about the battle being in our flesh. Our flesh is in constant rebellion against the Spirit of God in us. We often think that our battle or fight is with Satan, but he's already been defeated.
As believers, I think most of our daily struggle is between our flesh and the Spirit which dwells within because our flesh wants nothing to do with the things of the Lord. We are given the freedom to choose to either serve the flesh or the Spirit. That's where it can become a struggle, is when we begin to stray from the Lord and fellowship in His word.
Blessings to you also!
Sin. "The sin"
I like the way you explain it. In the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin."
This reminds me of " John 1:29" The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The book of Romans has a lot to present!
Paul gives us a clear picture of the battle within ourself in chapter 7!
This is not persecution from the world. It's a battle with the flesh. Our flesh!
When Paul says verse 23 there's sin in his members, he speaks for us all!
Paul said For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Similar to Jude 1:23... "hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Praise the Lord for Jude 1:24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy!
Thanks and God bless.
I continue to pray for you and your requests. I know that the Word says that God is faithful and just so we can depend on Him always.
5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
NOT TO BITE ANOTHER AND DEVOUR
Not to be destructive and harm one another.
It can come back on you
Having Faith Scriptures
1 Thessalonians 1:3KJV
remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Galatians 5:6KJV
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Ways you can have faith in Jesus Christ Scriptures
Galatians 5:13-15KJV
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Psalm 25:8KJV
Good and upright is the LORD: Therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
I have used faith in serving others in the love of Gof not biting and devouring people.
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I will keep you in prayer this week. Please check back with us and let us know how we can further pray for you.
God will find a way for you when it seems there is no way. He is with you in this low valley and will keep you close to Himself as you continue to abide in Him.
I am happy to pray for you and your dad toight.
God bless all of you that pray for me and my family.
Philippians 4:6 KJV
I Thank God for his goodness. Galatians 6:10 KjV, Psalms 145;9 KJV
1 John 3:2 KJV my faith believing confirmed in me holy the identity Christian that allows me to be shown to have no challenges in relations in life . Yes I agree, constantly seeking God allows me to have wisdom too to succeed Matthew 6:33 KJV
The testimony of Jesus Christ has blessed me - Psalm 112:3 KJV believing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ offering the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. ( 1 Peter 2:9, Hebrews 7:26, Joshua 1:8)
Written and Spoken Word by REDAPPLETREATY4MEONLY
Romans 7:15 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
For that which I do, I don't understand. The term "I allow not" in the Greek means I don't understand. "What I'm doing, I don't even understand." For what I would, or wish to do, that do I not; but what I hate, that's what I'm doing! This man needs help, doesn't he?
He says what I'm doing, I don't know because what I want to do, I wind up not doing, but what I really hate to do, that's what I do.
Romans 7:18 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
The word "good" in the text is the word AGATHOS that has to do with Spiritual good, not human good.
Our flesh has a lot of good to it humanly. We can do some "good stuff." We can also mess up a lot too! But it does do some good. But that's not what it's talking about. There is no Spiritual good at all in our flesh. None!
Romans 7:23 - 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.
Now we have the law of the mind. It's the word NOUS, and it has to do with perception. It's not the PSUCHE, the psyche or the brain. It's the perceptive abilities of the mind. With the inner man, I take pleasure in the law of God, but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind.
The mind now, the NOUS, the perceptive processes, that is now the inner man.
It's cause: To bring me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members, not in my spirit. So, the sin that's in my flesh is warring against my mind that wants to serve God. It wants to take me captive. I cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than my decision to serve it. But I can also not serve it anytime I want to because I'm born of the Spirit of God.
Romans 6:22 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
But now, being made free from "the" sin, definite article, being free from the sin, and you have become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, again sanctification, and the end everlasting life.
Your life now produces a different kind of fruit. It's not sin and death anymore. It's not destruction anymore. You've been made free from the sin principle, and you have become servants to God.
And your fruit is now unto sanctification and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This summarizes the whole thing. The wages of "the" sin, (definite article). Sin pays wages! The Greek word for wages is what you pay a soldier with; except it's not money. It's rations. The wages of sin is death. How's that for a reward?
But the gift (CHARISMA) of God, and this is interesting because it gives us a good idea as to what the word charismatic means. It means the expression of God's grace. Charis is grace, Charisma is when grace is in action. The gift of God is God's grace blessing us with eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. But if you notice, it's not a wage, it is a gift.
Sin pays wages. God doesn't pay wages. He gives as a gift. We can never earn it, and we get full inheritance!
Romans 7:14 - For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Carnal is another word for flesh. The law is actually spiritual. But I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Romans 5:16 - And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Here we have two different Greek words for our English word "gift." It says, "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift:" That's DOREMA, a gift that is given.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift, the CHARISMA, is of many offences unto justification. Free gift! Sin brings condemnation and judgment. The free gift brings righteousness over the offence and judgment.
Romans 6:2 - God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
He says God forbid, which in the Greek language, it is the strongest expression of impossibility. May it not happen!
Where we see the word sin in this verse, in the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin." In the bible, from the Greek language, it is used to designate this principle of sin or source of sin, who is the devil. The sin in the bible is represented by the devil.
Romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:
And then the explanation because we have been commissioned:
For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants, or slaves, to righteousness unto holiness.
The word holiness is the Greek word from which we get the word sanctification from. Yield your members as slaves for sanctification, for production!
Romans 5:4 - And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And patience works experience; Now this is an interesting word. It is literally the word proof. That's why English translations have a difficult time finding out how to express this word. When God puts me in a designed tribulation that He has for me, He is proving Himself to me, and He's proving me to everybody else! It's not how I look in church, or how I look in bible study. It's the faithfulness of God that takes me through all of my situations.
And patience, experience; and experience works out hope: You see, my hope is certain. Hope, ELPIS in the Greek, does not mean a hope like, "I wish it will happen." It's an expectancy. You expect it to happen. You know it's going to happen. When God proves Himself to us, through all of our situations, that builds our hope because of experience in Christ.
Romans 5:11 - And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
It's interesting that the Greek word for atonement KATALLAGEN is the word reconciliation! We have received reconciliation. I have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe. If you told that to somebody on the street, they would think that you belong in the "loony farm." But it's true, and it's a relationship!
Romans 5:15 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. This word gift is the word CHARISMA. You see, it is not a talent. It is not an ability. It means expression of grace. It comes from the word CHARIS.
Romans 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
"Therefore being justified by faith." Even though the word "being" is in there which shows a condition or a state, literally in the Greek text it shows Past Tense. "After having been placed in a position of justification." You've now been justified. It's put in the past. It's a one-time thing, never to be taken back!
Romans 5:2 - By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The word rejoice is literally the word to boast or show boldness. We have boldness in hope of the glory of God. That is to say, "One day I am going to be in His presence." And that is the hope that my life is built on, not on the economic condition of the world, not on the condition of the worlds systems. Even though I get discouraged and I feel bad for people and the way things are in this world, my hope is not on this world getting straightened out. My hope is to one day be in the presence of God.
Romans 5:3 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Tribulations are those afflictions, and the word is THLIPSIS which means stress, pressure of the mind. In Acts 14:22, when Paul was re-circling through the cities that he had testified to in his first missionary journey, he went through confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorted them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
God allows tribulation and stress in order to direct us to Christ and to trust Him! We rejoice in tribulations. People think we're crazy! It says next, about the character of the believer, "And not only so but we glory in tribulations also:
Knowing (and that's the key), knowing what they are for. Knowing that tribulation works patience; Patience is the word HUPOMENO for remain under. It's the word endurance.