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(θεω αρεσα ου δυναντα). Because of the handicap of the lower self in bondage to sin. This does not mean that the sinner has no responsibility and cannot be saved. He is responsible and can be saved by the change of heart through the Holy Spirit.
Verse Romans 8:8. _SO THEN_] Because this carnal mind is enmity against God, _they that are in the flesh_-who are under the power of the workings of this carnal mind, (which every soul is that has not...
SO THEN - It follows; it leads to this conclusion. THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH - They who are unrenewed sinners; who are following supremely the desires of the flesh; Romans 7:18. Those are meant here...
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 NEW MAN IN CHRIST JESUS. Romans 8:1. Therefore now sin's captive escapes! No condemnation: Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20; Romans 7:14 was _all_ co
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
Those who live according to the dictates of sinful human nature are absorbed in worldly human things. Those who live according to the dictates of the Spirit are absorbed in the things of the Spirit. T...
SO, &C. Compare Romans 7:15; Galatians 1:5; Galatians 1:17. CANNOT. are not (Romans 8:7) able to....
_So then_ Lit. BUT; and perhaps better thus. The _opposition_is to the _idea implied_by the _previous clauses_of a condition which _can_love and submit. _in the flesh_ Of course in the _moral_sense of...
The power is the indwelling spirit. (1) It follows from this examination of man’s state under law, that in our present state, as effected by GOD, those who are made one with Christ Jesus are not under...
ΟἹ ἘΝ ΣΑΡΚῚ ὌΝΤΕΣ, those whose being is wholly involved in flesh, not = those who are living in this passing life....
ΌΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. Part, в роли _subst._ выражает характерную особенность. _Praes._ выражает идею длительности, ΆΡΈΣΑΙ _aor. inf. act. от_ ΆΡΈΣΚΩ (G700) доставлять удовол...
DISCOURSE: 1861 VILENESS AND IMPOTENCY OF THE NATURAL MAN Romans 8:7. _The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in...
SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH, &C.— This is the conclusion drawn from what went before; and _in the flesh_ here, must mean the same as _to be carnally-minded,_ &c. above;—to be under the governme...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:1-11. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of deat...
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. SO THEN ('AND SO;') THEY THAT ARE IN (AND, THEREFORE, UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF) THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD - having no obediential principle,...
__ Conciliation-Individual 13 From the supposition that the law being holy and just and good, involved him in death. it seems that what is good may become the cause of death. But such is not the cas...
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...
IN THE FLESH] cp. Romans 7:5. PLEASE GOD] cp. Malachi 3:4....
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...
(5-8) Further description of the antithesis between flesh and spirit in regard to (1) their object, Romans 8:5; (2) their nature, Romans 8:7; (3) their end, Romans 8:6....
SO THEN ... — Rather, _and._ Neither can it be expected that those who are absorbed in the things of sense should be able to please God....
(1-11) A result is thus attained which the law of Moses could not accomplish, but which is accomplished in the gospel. The Christian is entirely freed from the law of sin and death, and from the conde...
CHAPTER 17 THE JUSTIFIED: THEIR LIFE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT Romans 8:1 THE sequence of the eighth chapter of the Epistle on the seventh is a study always interesting and fruitful. No one can read the tw...
The Spirit as the principle of righteousness and life....
NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT Romans 8:1 This may fitly be called the “chapter of the Holy Spirit.” The Apostle has carefully kept this great theme in the background till he has well prepared the ground, by...
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...
(10) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (10) The conclusion. Therefore they that walk after the flesh cannot please God: by which it follows that they are not grafted into Christ....
SEVENTEENTH PASSAGE (8:1-11). THE VICTORY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OVER SIN AND DEATH....
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...
“ _Because the aspiration of the flesh is enmity against God: for it doth not submit itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it. And they that are in the flesh cannot please God._ ” The flesh ten...
On the other hand, God is no more the friend of the flesh than the flesh is of Him. The δέ has been understood in all sorts of ways, from Meyer, who understands it in the sense of _now then_, to Calvi...
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. ...
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...
_ON PLEASING GOD_ ‘They that are in the flesh cannot please God.’ Romans 8:8 In the second collect for Evening Prayer we ask that ‘our hearts may be set to obey’ God’s commandments. It is a thoroug...
8._They then who are in the flesh, etc. _It is not without reason that I have rendered the adversative δὲ as an illative: for the Apostle infers from what had been said, that those who give themselves...
"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...
SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH,.... They that are in the flesh are the same who are said to be after it, Romans 8:5, and are there described. Such CANNOT PLEASE GOD; men, whilst unregenerate, and...
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Ver. 8. _Cannot please God_] Their best works are but dead works, saith the author to the Hebrews; but silken sins, saith Augustine. Lombard cite...
_So then_, &c. The inference to be drawn from the principles just laid down, is, _they that are in the flesh_ In the sense explained in the preceding verses, and especially Romans 7:5, where see the n...
THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH; in a fleshly state; the same as "they that are after the flesh," as verse Romans 8:4. CANNOT PLEASE GOD; because a fleshly state is contrary to that spiritual state which G...
The difference between the carnal mind and the spiritual mind:...
SO, THEN, THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD....
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...
Now - present tense no condemnation - conditional walk- multiple choice a] after Spirit b] after flesh 2 Two laws - Spirit of life, Sin and death 3 The law - (of sin and death) weak in the flesh Go...
AND THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD....
1-9 Believers may be chastened of the Lord, but will not be condemned with the world. By their union with Christ through faith, they are thus secured. What is the principle of their walk; the flesh o...
SO THEN; this verse is a consectary, or it follows from that which went before. THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH; not they which are married, as a pope once expounded it; the next verse refels such an absur...
and they that are in the flesh cannot please God....
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V In other passages also he is accustomed to put the natural condition instead of the works that are done therein, as when he says, that "they who are in the flesh can...
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‘Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.' And this is because having the m...
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...
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...
1. _The Life in the Spirit contrasted with the Life after the Flesh._ The Christian is free from condemnation (Romans 8:1), because he is freed from the law of sin (Romans 8:2), a result which the law...
Romans 8:8. AND. Not, ‘so then,' but a simple continuation of the thought of Romans 8:7. THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH. Substantially the same as: ‘they that are according to the flesh' (Romans 8:5), bu...
Romans 8:1 In the verses before us three points are touched on regarding the gospel as God's power to sanctify. These are: (1) The preliminary work which had to be done by the coming of Christ, or the...
Romans 8:8 Man's Inability to Please God. I. How comes it to pass that man in his natural state cannot please God? We reply that the very fact of our being creatures of God, as we undoubtedly are, pl...
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...
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,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
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...
This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which...
This wonderful chapter is the very cream of the cream of Holy Scripture. What a grand key-note the apostle strikes in the first verse! Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them whic...
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._ My hearers, we are each of us, by nature, under the condemn...
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...
CANNOT PLEASE GOD. No one, in all ages of time, could ever please God by allowing the evil desires of human nature to control himself....
_Because the carnal mind is enmity against God._ THE CARNAL MIND I. Its attitude towards God. 1. Enmity. (1) Hating the thought of God. (2) Resisting the grace of God. 2. Insubordination--transg...
_So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God._ PLEASING GOD Men’s happiness is to please them upon whom they depend, and upon whose favour their wellbeing hangs. It is the servant’s happines...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:8 Because unbelievers (THOSE WHO ARE IN THE FLESH) are captured by sin and unable to do what God commands, they fail to please God. ⇐
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:1 Paul celebrates the new life of the Spirit that Christians enjoy as a result of Christ’s saving work. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:5.—The state is indicated in Romans 7:25, when the mind can serve the law of God, and only the flesh is subject to the law of sin. Romans 8:6. CARNALLY MINDED (φρόνημα τῆς σ...
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 7:32; 1 John 3:22; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; Colossians 1:10;...
They who are in the flesh — Under the government of it....
To be IN THE FLESH, is not barely to have the flesh in us, but prevailing in us: to be wholly possessed by the flesh, to be drenched and drowned in sin; instead of fighting under Christ's banner again...