2 Corinthians 5:5. Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit (i.e., ‘the Spirit as the earnest'). This “groaning” is not the mere feeling which nature forces out from many a weary spirit, especially under the manifold ills of life; it is that instinct of the new nature, “wrought of God,” which is eternal life itself begun in the souls of all that believe (John 5:24; John 11:26), and the earnest of all that this will yet be we have in the Spirit given unto us. This last thought is one the apostle often dwells on (see Ephesians 1:13-14; Romans 8:23),

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