“ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ”
For as many - Whosoever; all who are thus led. This introduces a new topic, illustrating the benefits of the gospel, to wit, that it produces a spirit of adoption, Romans 8:14-17 . As are led...
(16) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (16) A confirmation of this reason: for they are the children of God who are governed by his Spirit, therefore they will h...
So Christian men stand toward life and death ( Romans 8:1-13 ); how toward God? Romans 8:14 . Justified ( Romans 8:3-5 ) and sanctified ( Romans 8:6 ), they are Sons and Heirs of God, while...
led . See Romans 2:4 . the Spirit . See App-101. In this chapter we have pneuma Christou and pneuma Theou, both referring to the new nature.
14. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, etc. This is a confirmation of what has immediately preceded; for he teaches us, that those only are deemed the sons of God who are ruled by...
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For as many as are led by the Spirit, etc. - No man who has not Divine assistance can either find the way to heaven, or walk in...
They are the sons of God— Isaac, by his super-natural birth, being in a peculiar manner the son of God, the Israelites his children were called by God himself his son, Exodus 4:22 . But they we...
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God - `these are sons of God.' The reader will observe...
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...
(12-17) These verses form a hortatory application of the foregoing, with further development of the idea to live after and in the Spirit.
Chapter 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12-25 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his I...
Children and Heirs of God Romans 8:10-17 The Spirit here is of course the Holy Spirit, by whom Christ our Lord lives within us. It is passing wonderful that as the life which throbs in the hear...
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...
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....
FAITH IN THE HOLY GHOST ‘For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God.’ Romans 8:14 The miracles of nature prepare for the miracles of grace. The miracle of the huma...
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God ,.... Not by the spirit of the world, or of the devil, or by their own spirits: the act of leading ascribed to the Spirit is either in allusion to the lea...
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Ver. 14. For as many as are led ] As great men suffer their sons to go along with them, but set tutors to overlook and order...
For as many as are led , guided and governed, by the Spirit of God As a Spirit of truth and grace, of wisdom and holiness; they are the sons of God That is, they stand related to God, not merely...
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 decide...
The Believer's Privileges. A. D. 58. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead becaus...
This proves the latter part of the foregoing verse: Such as by the Spirit do mortify sin, shall live, for they are the sons of God; and that appears, because they are led by the Spirit of God. He...
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 af...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 8:14 Marks of God’s sons.—Led, and not driven. Led as the scholar by his teacher, the traveller by his guide, the soldier by his captain. So the Son of...
Romans 8:12-16 St. Paul is telling us here that there are two masters, either of whom we may serve, but one or other of whom we must serve. Christ is one, sin is the other. Christ is the Lord of o...
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 w...
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...
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. The leading of the Spirit We are led not as brute beasts, but as reasonable creatures; not as though we do nothing, but le...
EXPOSITION Romans 8:1-45 ( 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 ref...
The Spirit of adoption in the Christians:
1 John 3:1 ; 2 Corinthians 6:18 ; Ephesians 1:5 ; Ephesians 5:9 ; Galatians 3:26 ; Galatians 4:6 ; Galatians 5:16 ; Galatians 5:18 ; Galatians 5:22-25 ; Isaiah 48:16 ; Isaiah 48:17 ; Prov...
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God — In all the ways of righteousness. They are the sons of God — Here St. Paul enters upon the description of those blessings which he comprises, Romans 8...