Foreknowledge - to know before - in reference to people
Predestinate - to know before - in reference to events
A. Before foundation of world Ephesians 1:4-6
B. Two kinds - 1] Personal 2] Class or group
Firstborn - two kinds
A. The first in order of arrival
B. First in importance and prominance
Isaac was the "firstborn" of Abraham
Verse 29. _FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW_, c.] "In this and the following verse the apostle shows _how_ our _calling_ is an argument that all things work together to advance our eternal happiness, by show...
FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW - The word used here προέγνω proegnō has been the subject of almost endless disputes in regard to its meaning in this place. The literal meaning of the word cannot be a matt...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
THE CHRISTIAN ASSURANCE. Romans 8:28. One thing we do know, that all goes well for those that love God including their worst sufferings (Romans 8:18; cf. Romans 5:3)....
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
Even so, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray, if we are to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which baffle speech to utte...
DID FOREKNOW. foreknew. Greek. _proginosko_. App-132. ALSO DID PREDESTINATE. foreordained (Greek. _proorizo._ See Acts 4:28) also. CONFORMED. Greek. _summorphos._ Only here and Philippians 1:3;...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
_For_ The word introduces a fuller account of the "Call according to Purpose." _he did foreknow_ Same word as Romans 11:2; 1 Peter 1:20 (E. V. "foreordained"). The noun occurs Acts 2:23;...
The interpretation of the character and obligations of human life, under the power of the indwelling Spirit, in relation to creation and to GOD. (12) If then all this is true, that our spirit in its w...
ὌΤΙ because, explains πάντα συνεργεῖ, the whole long process of GOD’S good will to man, a will which is act. ΟΥ̓́Σ. The consideration is confined, here, to Christians = τοῖς�. τ. θ. as His children....
ΌΤΙ (G3754) потому что. ΟΫΣ _асс. pl. masc. от_ ΟΣ (G3739) rel. _pron._ тот, который. _асс._ как прямое дополнение. Он знал заранее не что, а кого. Выбор Бога не является неожиданностью для Него, ΠΡ...
DISCOURSE: 1878 PREDESTINATION CONSIDERED Romans 8:29. _Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. Mo...
FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW— The particle οτι is connective; and, this verse giving the reason or confirmation of what was spoken in the former, it seems necessary to interpret it thus: _Whom he foreknew...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:28-30. And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreor...
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. FOR - as touching this "calling according to His pur...
__ Conciliation-Individual 11 Mortal bodies are such as are dying, in a physical sense. Their vivification cannot refer to the future resurrection, but to the present power of God's Spirit to use an...
8:29 be (l-23) See Note h, ch. 4.11....
FOREKNOW] For paraphrase cp. Psalms 1:6; Amos 3:2; Matthew 7:23. DID PREDESTINATE] RV 'foreordained': cp. Acts 4:28;...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
(28-30) These verses contain a third reason for the patience of the Christian. He knows that whatever happens, all things are really working together for good to him....
FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW, HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE. — The process already summed up under these two phrases is now resolved more fully and exactly into its parts, with the inference suggested that to...
CHAPTER 19 THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN THE SAINTS: THEIR PRESENT AND ETERNAL WELFARE IN THE LOVE OF Romans 8:26 IN the last paragraph the music of this glorious didactic prophecy passed, in some solemn...
f. These verses give the proof that God in all things co-operates for good with the called. They show how His gracious purpose, beginning with foreknowledge and foreordination perfects all that concer...
Conclusion of the argument: the Apostle glories in the assurance of God's eternal and unchangeable love in Jesus Christ. οἴδαμεν δὲ = further, we know: in a sense this is one ground more for believing...
HOPING FOR THE COMPLETED REDEMPTION Romans 8:18 Creation groans for freedom from the serpent's trail. Like a captive maiden she sighs to be delivered from the curse which sin has brought upon her. Th...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son, in suffering with Christ, in following his doctrine, in imitating his life. This foreknowledge of God, accor...
“ _For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be a first-born among many brethren._ ” The _for_ bears on the principal idea of Romans 8:2...
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
NINETEENTH PASSAGE (ROMANS 8:18-30). COMPLETION OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MISERIES OF OUR PRESENT CONDITION. In speaking of the full victory gained by the Spirit of Christ over the...
_ On predestination as taught Romans 8:28-30_. Wherein consists the divine predestination undoubtedly taught by the apostle in this passage? Does it in his view exclude the free will of man, or, on th...
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manif...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
29._For whom he has foreknown_, _etc. _He then shows, by the very order of election, that the afflictions of the faithful are nothing else than the manner by which they are conformed to the image of C...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW,.... The foreknowledge of God here, does not intend his prescience of all things future; by which he foreknows and foretells things to come, and which distinguishes him from a...
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate _to be_ conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Ver. 29. _Conformed to the image_] In holiness, say s...
Rom. 8:29 Rom. 8:29. "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." This is the sum of what the elec...
_For whom he did foreknow_ As truly repenting, believing, and obeying the gospel; _he also did predestinate, to be conformed to the image of his Son_ That is, it was his foreappointment, or predetermi...
WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW; as his people. He did not simply foreknow that they would be his people, but his foreknowledge of them as his people included the gracious purpose of bringing them into a state o...
FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRST-BORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN....
The assurance of God's eternal decree:...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
FOR WHOM HE FOREKNEW, HE ALSO FOREORDAINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN: "FOR" -connects with verse 28. Here is the ground of assurance f...
28-31 That is good for the saints which does their souls good. Every providence tends to the spiritual good of those that love God; in breaking them off from sin, bringing them nearer to God, weaning...
Having let fall a word in the former verse concerning the _purpose_ of God, he thinks good, in what follows, to pursue that subject, and a little to enlarge upon it. WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW; i.e. with a...
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren :...
Epistle of Barnabas but according as the Spirit had prepared them.[260] Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas Jesus Most High, voice arising from perfect compassion, Saviour of all, the right hand of the...
Romans 8:29 For G3754 whom G3739 foreknew G4267 (G5656) He G4309 also G2532 predestined G4309 (G5656) conformed...
THE BELIEVER CAN REST IN TOTAL ASSURANCE BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSES OUT FROM BEGINNING TO END. HE CAN THEREFORE REST IN THE CERTAINTY OF HIS LOVE WHATEVER BEFALLS (8:28-39). Now...
‘For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers, and whom he foreordained, those he also called, and whom he cal...
2. GROUNDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, ATTESTING THE BELIEVER'S SECURITY. The life in the Spirit involves fellowship with Christ in suffering and glory (Romans 8:17). The sufferings are present, while the glory...
Romans 8:28-39. The _third_ ground of encouragement; the Christian has nothing to fear, for nothing can separate him from the love of God (see analysis above)....
Romans 8:29. This verse and the next prove the statement of Romans 8:28, showing how the calling agrees with God's purpose, forming part of His plan; the successive steps of the unfolding of this purp...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
FOREKNEW (προεγνω). Second aorist active indicative of προγινωσκω, old verb as in Acts 26:5. See Psalms 1:6 (LXX) and Matthew 7:23. This fore-knowledge and choice is placed in eternity in...
Romans 8:28 I. Five Divine acts, through each of which in regular succession the purpose of salvation advances to its accomplishment, are linked by St. Paul into one golden chain, of which one end is...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is that...
The words we are about to read follow a passage in which the Apostle describes the conflict of his soul. It is rather singular that it should be so. To catch the contrast, let us just begin at the en...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Not those who say they are «the sons of God,» but those who undoubtedly prove that they are, by being led, influe...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
Romans 8:15. _For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;_ You did receive it once. You needed it. You were in sin, and it was well for you when sin became bondage to you. It was gr...
Romans 8:18. _For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us._ Paul made «the sufferings of this present time» into a...
Romans 8:19. _For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ The whole creation is in a waiting posture, waiting for the glory yet to be revealed. Rom...
Romans 8:23. _And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body._...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
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 utt...
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Our weaknesses, our insufficiencies, our inabilities: the Spirit of God comes in to be a helper to the children of God. Romans 8:26....
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Oh, how many these are! Want of memory, want of faith, want of earnestness, ignorance, pride, deadness, coldness of heart, these are s...
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. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
HAD ALREADY CHOSEN. _Lipscomb_ understands this in the sense of Hebrews 11:39-40_.That_ is, the men of the Old Testament who _"would be made perfect only with us."_ Add to this the men of old who rais...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:29 God has always been doing good for his people. FOREKNEW. In the OT, the word “know” emphasizes God’s special choice of his people (e.g., Genesis 18:19
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:18 Paul began this major section of the letter (Romans 5:1) by emphasizing the final hope of believers (Rom
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:29.—Foreknowledge communicates the strength of grace to those to whom it refers. Romans 8:30. CALLED.—The cause of it God’s love, the act of calling; the effect, bestowal o...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
1 Corinthians 15:49; 1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:20;...
Did foreknow [π ρ ο ε γ ν ω]. Five times in the New Testament. In all cases it means foreknow. Acts 26:5; 1 Peter 1:20; 2 Peter 3:17; Romans 11:2. It does not mean f
SOME THINGS WE KNOW Romans 8:26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the realms of the humanly unknowable and unknown, the Word of God is sure and steadfast. We can say, "I know this," or, "I know that," when God...
Whom he foreknew, he also predestinated conformable to the image of his Son — Here the apostle declares who those are whom he foreknew and predestinated to glory; namely, those who are conformable to...
St. Paul in these verses, lays before us. chain of the causes of salvation inseparably linked together, the first of which was before all time, namely, God's foreknowledge of us from all eternity, and...