Romans 8 Jesus around us

I. When we are in Christ

In There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ it also Refers to the penalty for sin, which is separation from God. Paul’s assertion that there is no condemnation for believers summarizes the primary message of this chapter: Christ has brought life to those who deserved death and freedom to those who were guilty under the law.

there is no condemnation for justified believers in Christ because they have peace in God

The law of sin and death is deprived of it power to bring believers into bondage again.

Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

As Christ, who “knew no sin,” was, to all legal effects, “made sin for us,” so are we, who believe in Him, to all legal effects, “made the righteousness of God in Him” (); and thus, one with Him in the divine reckoning.

II. Spirit Has made us Free

Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 239). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Holy Spirit gives us life and empowers us to do what is right- conscious

“sets us free,” as soon as it takes possession of our inner man, “from the law of sin and death” that is, from the enslaving power of that corrupt principle which carries death in its bosom.

Christ jesus has made us free indeed.

Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 239). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

to be free ἐλευθερόω (eleutheroō), free; set free. Cognate words: ἀπελεύθερος, ἐλευθερία, ἐλεύθερος 37.135 (8) to free , ; , ; , ; ; to set free IPoly 4.3 Forms of ἐλευθερόω

BEB

ἐλευθερόω (eleutheroō), free; set free. Cognate words: ἀπελεύθερος, ἐλευθερία, ἐλεύθερος 37.135 (8) to free , ; , ; , ; ; to set free IPoly 4.3 Forms of ἐλευθερόω

LXGRCANLEX

1659. ἐλευθερόω ĕlĕuthĕrŏō, el-yoo-ther-ŏ´-o; from 1658; to liberate, i.e. (fig.) to exempt (from mor., cer. or mortal liability):—deliver, make free. ἐλεύθω ĕlĕuthō. See 2064.

III. What is impossible for the law

has set ... free NASB95, ESV, NIV, NRSV, LEB, RSV

The law could not help a person overcome sin or escape the penalty of sin

But God did

hath made ... free KJV 1900, AV 1873

Flesh

has made ... free NKJV

BEB

Text Comparison

ἠλευθέρωσέ ēleutherōse

σάρξ (sarx), flesh. Cognate words: σαρκικός, σάρκινος. Heb. equiv. fr. LXX: בָּשָׂר (120×); + 5 more. Aram. equiv. fr. LXX: בְּשַׂר (2x) 8.4 (88) flesh ;

LXGRCANLEX

ἐλευθερόω eleutheroōfree; set free

ελευθερος eleutheros free

4561. σάρξ sarx, sarx; prob. from the base of 4563; flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extens.) the body (as opposed to the soul [or spirit], or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by impl.) human nature (with its frailties [phys. or mor.] and passions), or (spec.) a human being (as such):—carnal (-ly, + -ly minded), flesh ([-ly])

Through Christ’s sacrificial death, God carried out His judgment upon sin, thereby breaking its power to control (; ).

VAAI3S verb, aorist, active, indicative, third person, singular

CDWGTHB

G1659 Greek Strong’s

,

IV We shall receive righteousness

B

Text Comparison

LN 37.135 Louw-Nida

Through the death of Christ, believers receive righteousness; through the Spirit, they are empowered to obey the essence of the law—to love (; ).

Paul contrasts two ways of living: The flesh leads people to oppose God, so they are unable to obey Him; the Spirit dwells within believers and empowers them to do God’s will.

to be set free verb

σαρκὸς sarkos

σάρξ sarxflesh

Letter, Community Romans

Body 1:16–15:13

σαρξ sarx flesh

NGSF noun, genitive, singular, feminine

Expositional Argument 7:1–11:36

Figure of Speech

G4561 Greek Strong’s

Name: Ellipsis

LN 8.63 Louw-Nida

Figure of Speech

humanity ⇔ flesh noun

Letter, Community Romans

Description: Parallel Lines

Name: Parallelism

Body 1:16–15:13

Figure of Speech

Expositional Argument 7:1–11:36

Name: Correspondence

Figure of Speech

Description: Parallel Lines

Figure of Speech

Description: Detailing

Name: Parallelism

Name: Prosapodosis

Figure of Speech

Figure of Speech

Name: Correspondence

Description: Insertion

Figure of Speech

Description: Detailing

Name: Parembole

Figure of Speech

Name: Prosapodosis

Description: Exchange of Parts of Speech

Figure of Speech

Description: Amplification

Name: Antimereia

Name: Epitasis

Figure of Speech

Description: Change of Noun

Figure of Speech

Description: Non-sequence

Name: Metonymy

Name: Anacoluthon

Figure of Speech

Figure of Speech

Description: Transfer

Name: Synecdoché

Description: Insertion

Figure of Speech

Name: Parembole

Description: Interrogating

Figure of Speech

Name: Erotesis

Description: Exchange of Parts of Speech

Name: Antimereia

Figurative Language

Figure of Speech

Category: Metaphor, Structural

Description: Change of Noun

Source: To Set Free

Target: To Rescue

Name: Metonymy

Figure of Speech

Type: To Set Free as To Rescue

Semantic Feature

Description: Transfer

Name: Synecdoché

Category: Reason

Figure of Speech

Law Cultural Concept

Description: Interrogating

Longacre Genre

Primary: Expository: What things are or were like

Name: Erotesis

Prepositional Phrase

Atonement, Death and Dying, Eschatology: Resurrection, Freedom, God: Power, God: Trinity, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit: Fruit, Jesus: Birth, Jesus: Resurrection and Ascension, Justification, Law, Peace, Righteousness, Salvation, Sin, Union With Christ, Weakness

Object Lemma: ὁμοίωμα

d ch. 7:24, 25. See ch. 7:4.

Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Preposition Lemma: ἐν

Object Case: Dative

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Figurative Language

e . So . & 10:1, 2, 10, 14. See ch. 3:20.

Category: Metaphor, Ontological, Container

and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

Source: Container

Target: Body

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Type: Container as Body

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

Figurative Language

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Category: Metaphor, Structural

Source: Sinful Flesh

For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Target: Person

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

f So . .

Type: Sinful Flesh as Person

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

Semantic Feature

For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

Category: Background-Action

g See .

Law Cultural Concept

Incarnation Cultural Concept

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Longacre Genre

|| Or, by a sacrifice for sin. , . Comp. , .

IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.

Primary: Expository: What things are or were like

After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),

“sinful flesh” refers to:

Body

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Atonement, Death and Dying, Eschatology: Resurrection, Freedom, God: Power, God: Trinity, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit: Fruit, Jesus: Birth, Jesus: Resurrection and Ascension, Justification, Law, Peace, Righteousness, Salvation, Sin, Union With Christ, Weakness

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

|| Or, by a sacrifice for sin. , . Comp. , .

IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.

After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

h See ch. 1:32.

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

a ver. 4. So , .

so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

i . Comp. .

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

j See . So ver. 6, 7.

But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,