Romans 8:26,27

The human spirit - has a role in our life

In pain - we do not WHAT to pray for or HOW to pray

Our spirit - takes our groans - intercedes for us

NOTE: This is NOT the Holy Spirit because:

This spirit cannot express it self in words.

Holy Spirit can do this. 2 Timothy 4:1

NOTE: Who is groaning? Fleshly self

Who is interceeding? Our spirit

How does it do it? v. 27

QUOTES : "The "Spirit" of this passage that makes intercession with groans that cannot be uttered is the human spirit.

The context of the two verses indicates clearly that the groaning is done by the spirit of the one who is praying. The word ‘groanings' indicates ‘yearning' - - our own spirit groans with yearning which we cannot utter, which we cannot make vocal, or put into words: For we know not what we should pray for as we ought."

The entire context is based on the initial statement: "For we know not what we should pray for as we ought." The ‘infirmity' mentioned is the inability of the mind to put into works our yearnings and our own spirit ‘helpeth our infirmities' by making intercession through the groaning, and Christ who searches the heart knows the mind of the one who is praying - - who know the yearnings and the desires which the spirit of the supplicant is unable to express - - he (Christ, our mediator) bears the intercession of our own spirit to God "because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God." There is but one divine Intercessor, one Mediator - - Jesus Christ, not the Holy Spirit." A Review of the New Versions, Foy E. Wallace, Jr., pages 416-417"Now if we exercise this patience in our corporeal sufferings, the spirit helps us sustain these bodily infirmities; for we do not know when oppressed with bodily pains and infirmities, what we should pray for as suitable to our condition. I, Paul, when groaning under these infirmities, have repeatedly prayed to be delivered from some trials, but the Lord did not deliver me as I expected, or as I prayed, but in a way which I did not expect. I say, then, the spirit itself speaks for us to God; it intercedes for our deliverance by groans which cannot be expressed in words. For although our spirit groans under these bodily afflictions and infirmities, and cannot give utterance to its own desires; yet when patiently bearing these trials, its groans have a meaning which is understood." Millennial Harbinger, Alexander Campbell, Vol. 1, page 111

27 Our spirit - Searches our heart (soul)

Knows the mind (intellect)

Makes intercession (see also v. 34)

According to the will of God