Strutt. More consideration is shown to the lower animals. Adoption in Scripture-language is of a various consideration, and is taken three manner of ways. His second advent will perfect the reformation of your body, as His first did your soul.2. )Christian experience and aspirationF. Now here is all the con-flict. And so, again, with the saints in heaven. Thirdly, it is sometimes also from weakness and want of faith, especially there where it is in the excess and extremity of it. WHAT OUR STATE OF MIND IS. "We groan within ourselves." But are we ever kings over ourselves as supremely as we would be? by Jeremy Burrage based on Romans 8:31-39. Hero is the great result of the travail of the believer. This waiting of the saints thus declared, it is useful to sundry purposes to us: First, for the intent to which it is brought here in the text, and that it is to assure us that there is such a thing indeed as this is, namely, a time for Christian redemption from their present bondage, and enjoyment of a glorious liberty which shall be bestowed upon them. Secondly, here is a discovery of men's conditions what they are. It must be read at a different time or different era because of my experience you have kids sitting there wiggling in their beds wishing it was Christmas morning already. Romans 8:15,16 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father… Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. After clicking 'Register', you will receive an email with a link to verify your account and to complete your registration. For that reason we gave them up. in this world can set us free from suffering of this world. (3) They were always holy to the Lord. Like the facets of a diamond or ruby, each little wave and thread and blister becomes, by interference, refraction and reflection of the light which plays upon it, a new source of the gem-like brilliance, harmony, and beauty which distinguish the painted glass of former centuries." Some men groan after wealth, some because of their great losses or sufferings. (1) For the simple passion: we groan. That is groaning, which is here again considerable two manner of ways. (4) They were not the harvest. For in this hope we were saved. Paul, in the context, affirms that the pain and death of the creature form one loud prophetic wail for redemption, i.e., the whole creation joins the Christian cry for a world in which suffering and evil shall have vanished.III. Vaughan, M.A.I. The revelation of the Son of God in weakness and pain and death, had vindicated the title of sons of God for creatures enduring weakness, pain, and death. 24 For in this hope we were saved. That the guilty will be punished is reasonable, in this our consciences acquiesce. The last 3 verses of this paragraph begin to describe how we should wait. First, for the adoption of election, whereby God, before ever the foundations of the world were laid, did appoint us, and set us out to be in the number of His sons and daughters. WHEREIN ARE BELIEVERS DEFICIENT? "The glorious liberty" may be translated, "The liberty of glory." "Firstfruits" manifestly refers to the Jewish custom of presenting to God the earliest ears of corn or fruit as a thanksgiving and a prayer. Because he found a place where he could uniquely reach people for Christ. They pray in secret, and give in secret, and grieve in secret, The second is hearty and serious. All of us will groan together at some point in life. God's children they do wait for their redemption, that is they do look and long for it (thus Titus 2:13). The creation has been made subject to vanity; a very fitting phrase to express the apparent frustration of the end for which it has been called into existence. Patience means enduring the training program of God. We fancy that such lofty yearnings rise too far above the common highways to give us any strength in meeting the temptations and work of the everyday world. There is all the difference between the groan of death and the groan of life. )Adoption still futureT. The third is the adoption of glory, whereby we shall fully at last obtain the glorious inheritance of children together with Christ. 2. Now God's children they have their peculiar desires and aims and ends: as the glory of God, the good of the Church. Yet that hope is not a hope for himself, but for his kind. (2) By refusing to place your affections on the world. The second is in the additional illustration. It is God's order. Our liberty is incomplete. First, it is an expression of their patience. If you were a free man, and your wife a slave, the more you enjoyed the sweets of freedom, the more would you pine that she should still be in slavery. As the wave-sheaf was the first of the harvest, so the graces which adorn the spiritual life are the first gifts of the Spirit of God in our souls. And then, above all, the power of the body to perpetuate the influences of past sin renders it a hindrance to the man who feels the firstfruits of the Spirit. Of our body. But St. Paul did not intend that they should hug pain and sickness, because a deep truth might be learnt from them. Yet that hope is not a hope for himself, but for his kind.IV. Strutt. We stand like men on the summit of a lofty mountain, taking a transient view of the intermediate landscape and looking to the distant horizon for our intended dwelling. … I challenge us to face suffering not with fear and anger. This groaning, it is such as all men are not sensible or apprehensive of nor do take notice of it. He had been a drunkard, a spendthrift. And that effort will be your "groaning." Yes! - We are tempted to - ask questions like -. Secondly, as members of Christ, who is the Head and redeemed before them; "Christ is risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20). "We have the firstfruits of the Spirit." V. HIS TEACHING, taken fully and literally, INVOLVES A RENEWAL OF THE WHOLE ANIMAL CREATION. "FOR THE CREATURE WAS MADE SUBJECT TO VANITY, NOT WILLINGLY, BUT BY REASON OF HIM WHO SUBJECTED THE SAME." But in doing so he affirms two mighty propositions —. "FOR THE CREATURE WAS MADE SUBJECT TO VANITY, NOT WILLINGLY, BUT BY REASON OF HIM WHO SUBJECTED THE SAME." It takes fallible and incomplete ones, and glorifies them. That the guilty will be punished is reasonable, in this our consciences acquiesce. We must live them all.(E. THE QUESTION HOW THIS CONDITION OF SONSHIP IS CONSISTENT WITH SORROW COULD BE ANSWERED BY THOSE WHO BELIEVED THE SON OF GOD TO BE THE MAN OF SORROWS. That the "firstfruits of the Spirit" are a prayer for perfect adoption. The very greatness of that love — the very feebleness of our emotion in responding to it, make us pray to feel it more. Now God's children they have their peculiar desires and aims and ends: as the glory of God, the good of the Church. We will come again in a few days: as we are entering the first house we see weeping faces, a coffin, and a hearse. The revelation of the Son of God in weakness and pain and death, had vindicated the title of sons of God for creatures enduring weakness, pain, and death. How can that be just? This is expressed, rather than of our souls. By this the earthliness of the affections is refined, and the whole soul is changed into the image of God. The groanings of God's children they are not slight, or perfunctory, or superficial; but such as proceed from a deep sense and apprehension of their misery, and the condition in which they are. Our present body is the grand hindrance to the attainment of perfect sonship: thought wears out its energies; deep emotion exhausts its vigour; its infirmities, sicknesses, decays, hinder the prayers and aspirations of the soul. The consideration of this truth is very comfortable to the servants of God. Together we need to realize the suffering happens for a reason. Which is why Paul doesn’t point us to this world… In fact he points out what is wrong with this world. First, for the object propounded, and that is adoption. Conclusion: Here is a test for us all. Do not take this passage lightly today … because waiting for that day will be one of the hardest Spiritual battles you will face. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. If we use all arguments of fear, all arts of rhetoric to convince men that they ought to take care of their souls, a few may be startled out of a sleep to which they will return again. First, for the adoption of election, whereby God, before ever the foundations of the world were laid, did appoint us, and set us out to be in the number of His sons and daughters. Waiting implies being ready. For who hopes for what he sees? Waiting in Hope. Who has not cause to exclaim with Paul, "I delight in the law of God, after the inward man; but I see another law in my members," etc. The seed of life sown in death, the long hidden process, the dying first before there is life indeed, the maintenance of the original character, where, nevertheless, all is new, the likeness to Christ in both, the intention of all to serve, in all the perfect sovereignty of God. If it is not the full glow of summer yet, it is not winter, "If the early grapes be so sweet, what shall the vintage be?"II. Civil adoption was private and public. )Adoption still futureT. Less than this such language (vers. It is in sweetest harmony with the soul; it is not a whit less spiritual and heavenly than that which once it thwarted. VI. Those in a state of grace are said to be of the Spirit, to mind the things of the Spirit, to be spiritually-minded, to be led by and to walk in the Spirit.1. The heir of God has to remember that much of his good is future, and he must sketch out to himself those prospects where faith will be lost in sight, and hope in endless praise. over the man who carries out evil devices! We are to stand at the door expecting the Beloved to open it and take us away to Himself. The second is earnest expectation. We will come again in a few days: as we are entering the first house we see weeping faces, a coffin, and a hearse. Now, the first groan was deep and dreadful; that is the groan of the ungodly man as he perishes; but the second is more the note of desire than of distress. But this end being attained, all the forms of physical evil will also be overcome; the involuntary creation will be delivered from its fetters and its shame; the whole regenerated world, in its primal order and harmony, will offer up its sacrifices, through its High Priest and Restorer, to His Father.V. Whatever blessings the Spirit has bestowed, or whatever characters He has impressed, are pledges of the future possession. It is described as one of three cardinal virtues of the Christian character (1 Corinthians 13:13); as the great object of God's gift to us of His Holy Word (chap. We as evangelicals have often reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ to an insurance policy that protects us from God's holy anger. First, their peculiarity of employment; they have such businesses wherein they are exercised, as none have but they. In illustrating this we must dwell on the two phrases on which this nature depends. We need, we think, not grand anticipations of a future, but some help in combating the petty temptations of each day. As to our spirits, we have liberty to soar to the heavenly places with Jesus Christ; but as for our bodies, we can only roam about this narrow cell of earth.4. "Ye have need of patience, that after ye have suffered the will of God."2. We are all in this respect in one mass, "we also groan," etc.1. In football homes, Joe Namath is a household name. That this subjection is temporary, and contains the promise of a future emancipation, when the end for which it was ordained has been accomplished. It is not the pain of death we feel, but the pain of life. Those in a state of nature are described as in the flesh, aa carnally minded, etc. Even while they wait in paradise the redemption of that body, still perfect, is going on, and they stretch on with ardent desire for the moment when He shall bring forth the whole man in the integrity of his being. These emotions are to be considered in connection with similar emotions through the creation. Lastly, as together with the soul they do make up the whole person which God hath taken into court with Himself (Matthew 22:32). The proneness and inclination to evil which is in the heart. In the next there is a smiling cherub, and a mother who joys that a man is born into the world. He plucks from the tree of truth a holy feeling, it is the "firstfruit" of the rich abundance of a matured saintliness. The second is in the additional illustration. (2) There are two things especially which are the ground and occasion of this groaning, whereof we now speak, in the children of God; and that is, first, the burden of sin. The second is the adoption of vocation, whereby we being effectually called by the preaching of the gospel, and justified by faith, are by the spirit of adoption incorporated into Jesus Christ and confirmed in the inheritance of sons. Has the Spirit destroyed the love of sin, induced a desire for purity — inspired faith, hope, love? With uplifted and outstretched head does the "creature" wait to decry the long-desired event. This serves to confute that opinion which prevails with some kind of people, as if a justified person were exempted from all grief for sin. Princes, heirs to the throne, may be for a season in poor habiliments and amid mean surroundings; but they are to be brought forth like Joash, to be crowned as kings and priests unto God. We groan within ourselves; that is within our own compass and in our own capacity. But the mere part will feel that you are bidding them forget the real earth for the sake of a heaven which they can only dream of. As proneness to evil, so on the other side indisposedness to good. The children of God they therefore grieve by themselves because indeed they joy by themselves. The discrepancy that seems to exist between the endowment and the service to which it is here devoted. It is called the redemption of the body. The second thing here attributed to the godly and true Christians is waiting, in these words, "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body." St. Paul feels the difficulty, and this is the refuge. THE WHOLE CREATION IS INTERESTED IN THIS UNVEILING. Did you hear that groan? So the Christian has a good Father, a blessed home, and groans to get to it, and there is more joy in the groan of a Christian than in all the mirth of the ungodly.III. Oh, when shall these pangs cease! First, that it is secret and hidden, it is not always discerned; we groan in ourselves, that is we groan to ourselves. 14-16; Galatians 4:4-6:1 John 4:1, 2). c) What does a Godly patience in suffering look like? This world with all its beauty is fitted rather for a school of discipline than a home of purified spirits, and hence we hope for another and purer world for our final abode. A worldling is all for the present and to have his contentments here; but a Christian is not so satisfied. But the time shall come when all the redeemed shall appear with Christ in glory. His second advent will perfect the reformation of your body, as His first did your soul.2. Let a man lower his hopes and limit his aspirings, and he will easily decline into a low spiritual life in which he will be "like a reed shaken by the wind," before temptation. It is designed to place students in circumstances where they must do those things which seem completely beyond th… But in doing so he affirms two mighty propositions —1. Romans 1. Romans 8:23. Such is the groan of the believer, who, though rescued and brought into the hospice of Divine mercy, is longing to see his Father's face.II. All you have to do now with the body is to hold it down and keep it under. Because we believe this world is everything … we forget that there is something better to come. In ourselves, that is by ourselves. But the time shall come when all the redeemed shall appear with Christ in glory.2. Then the apostle speaks of the children of God, and he declares that they are not in a higher sphere. We will come again in a few days: as we are entering the first house we see weeping faces, a coffin, and a hearse. But the mere part will feel that you are bidding them forget the real earth for the sake of a heaven which they can only dream of. Nor is this little, for the body has a depressing effect upon the soul, and its appetites have a natural affinity to that which is sinful. The redemption. And that is in ourselves. A Christian's experience is like the rainbow, made up of drops of the griefs of earth, and beams of the bliss of heaven.1. Peculiar employments breed peculiar distractions and cumbrances which are attendant upon them, because they have still some miscarriage which these are liable unto, and miscarriage is a cause of grief. In illustrating this we must dwell on the two phrases on which this nature depends. Now God's children they have other businesses and employments than other men have, and which they seriously give themselves to. Spurgeon. If there is to be a restitution of all things, such as God, who cannot lie, promised by His holy prophets since the world began, I cannot understand how that element should be wanting to it. By this the earthliness of the affections is refined, and the whole soul is changed into the image of God. There is our proximity to the evil around us. Again, we are not only sinners but sufferers. "We groan within ourselves," etc. )The yearning of the good for deliveranceThomas Horton, D.D.1. And the promise of being saved from suffering. And any message less than this has been powerless to satisfy the necessities of men, and has produced no permanent moral effect upon them. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. In the next there is a smiling cherub, and a mother who joys that a man is born into the world. This likewise, as well as that other term of adoption, does admit of a different signification, either namely, as taken for the paying and laying down of the price, or else for the receiving of the thing itself for which the price is paid. Because we have the firstfruits of the Spirit, "WE GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION, TO WIT, THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY." It was the filial token (Hebrews 13:8). But because that so soon fades, who does not long for the sabbath of eternity?2. and every cloud that darkens, and every affliction that troubles, and every injury which brute sustains from brute, and the rolling of the storm, and the belchings of the volcano, and the commotions of the deep, and the tremblings of the earthquake, are to be all considered as the pangs of nature passing onwards to that end. Let a man lower his hopes and limit his aspirings, and he will easily decline into a low spiritual life in which he will be "like a reed shaken by the wind," before temptation. The groaning soul of the believer, carrying the burden of the flesh, looks there. First, that it is secret and hidden, it is not always discerned; we groan in ourselves, that is we groan to ourselves. Under which phrase and manner of expression we have divers things intimated to us as concerning this sighing and groaning of the children of God, three things especially. Our glory is not yet revealed, and that is another subject for sighing. For that reason we gave them up. And in those at this moment who lie in the grave, out of our sight, it is that holy, blessed work which is going on. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance. "We ourselves groan within ourselves" till we see them again. The dawn heralds a cloudless day. And there, again, "the firstfruits of the Spirit" are a longing for a perfected adoption. The revelation of the Son of God in the glory of His Father would reveal them in the glory for which they had been created. I have such a happy house, I do not like to be out of it." - Am I allowing my flesh to control me, waiting with bitterness, besetting sins, and fear. This groaning, it is such as all men are not sensible or apprehensive of nor do take notice of it. (. But only" till He comes." That which is done within a man, it is done without the privacy of another, because no man knows the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is within him. I look on the world around me; it came from the hand of God; it abounds with beautiful views; but still it affords cause for mourning. The body is redeemed by price, but it has not yet been redeemed by power. But how with the body? Thirdly, peculiarity of design; they have proper and peculiar ends and aims which they propound to themselves. This peculiarity of grief, and so consequently of groaning in God's children, is founded in these considerations. As to our spirits, we have liberty to soar to the heavenly places with Jesus Christ; but as for our bodies, we can only roam about this narrow cell of earth.4. - Am I waiting patiently by living with joy, endurance, Godly character, and hope. The emotion in reference to this fact, "we wait for it." Robinson, D.D. It prompts the same desires, it leads on to the same sins. We are often literally at the weakest point of our faith -. The second is in the additional illustration. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His."2. Thus does many a godly parent groan for the miscarriages of his children. Must the creatures which have ministered to man's wants and delights be shut out from the renovation of our race, by whose degeneracy they are so deeply affected? Presently, it comes forth; it is another, and yet the same, identical to be known, to be loved, to be embraced, and yet how changed! ver. (2) There are two things especially which are the ground and occasion of this groaning, whereof we now speak, in the children of God; and that is, first, the burden of sin. Where we have two things exhibited to us. But there is a more obvious force in the expression. Spurgeon. 3. THE QUESTION HOW THIS CONDITION OF SONSHIP IS CONSISTENT WITH SORROW COULD BE ANSWERED BY THOSE WHO BELIEVED THE SON OF GOD TO BE THE MAN OF SORROWS. For the reason that we are saved, we groan for something beyond. Sometimes it inflames us, sometimes it drags us. 4. Thirdly, it is sometimes also from weakness and want of faith, especially there where it is in the excess and extremity of it. I. St. Paul tells the Roman Church that HE AND THEY WERE WAITING FOR THEIR ADOPTION, or their full recognition as sons of God. Righteous Lot vexed his soul with the filthy conversation of the wicked. Our sighs are sacred things. 2. HIS TEACHING, taken fully and literally, INVOLVES A RENEWAL OF THE WHOLE ANIMAL CREATION. The first ears of corn were offered to the Most High, and surely our new nature, with all its powers, must be regarded by us as a consecrated thing. Now every child of God is adopted privately at the time of conversion; but there is a day appointed for his public adoption when he will be declared as a son of God. Adoption in Scripture-language is of a various consideration, and is taken three manner of ways. They are waiting till their Lord shall descend from heaven, and the whole of the blood-washed host, wearing their white robes, and bearing their palms of victory, shall march up to their thrones. So far from being exempt from them, Paul knew more of them than any, but the blessing of the firstfruits of the Spirit; is the possession of a clearer, stronger hope than others. 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