2023 0723 Romans 8 Help of the Spirit
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Creation Of God
Creation Of God
Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
Whole Creation
Whole Creation
Romans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
Spirit Helps Us
whole creation groaning
this is exactly what the Spirit does
Spirit is our helper
need to understand how the Spirit works
there is a necessity to understand our weakness
Strength vs Weakness
we are made in God’s image
we have the corrupted nature inherited from Adam
we have God given strengths
we have man-induced weaknesses
we must recognized what mode we are in
Strength
when we work in our god given strength
we are being led by the Spirit
not led by Spirit makes it a weakness
Prayer in Weakness
what we should pray for ?
anything that takes us away from God
pray is not a formal process
this is working out our salvation
Spirit intercedes with wordless groans
Spirit Intercedes
firstly in promoting and enlarging our hope
second through our inabilities in prayer
these groans are our utterances as we struggle with our prayer
it is deep expression of going further into God
there is more to a situation
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
Nature of the Spirit
God searches our hearts
like David and many others he desires a person whose heart is after him
we have a new heart that is God intentional
God sees our strengths and weaknesses
God and the Spirit is one
he knows the mind of the Spirit - the mind of Christ , the mind of God
these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Will of God
we have the mind of Christ
the Spirit lines us up with the will of God
what is required from us
what is expected of us
how we should react or respond in a given situation
natural man in the flesh is against God
we the believers have this new heart or God stuff
let us not grow tired