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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans we are in Rom 8:4; on the word translated "requirement" that is the nominative singular subject "dikaioma" that means requirement or commandment. It refers to a legal act that corresponds to a law or mandate.
In English this refers to the execution of justice. "In order that the legal requirement of the law." The legal requirement of the law is that in order to receive blessing from God you have to be as good as God is, and God is perfect.
This is a legal requirement that cannot be fulfilled by keeping the Law in the relative righteousness of the energy of the flesh. God's perfect justice can only bless God's perfect righteousness and human energy of the flesh is never good enough so no matter how good someone is they can never be good enough in the energy of the flesh.
God's integrity that is composed of God's righteousness and justice is the guardian of all of God's other attributes. God's attributes cannot be compromised in God's dealings with His creatures. Therefore God's righteousness is the guardian of His justice, and God's justice is the guardian of all of His other attributes.
There must be no compromise of God's perfection of attributes in the function of God's essence. That is why God's righteousness always demands perfect righteousness and God's justice always demands perfect justice whenever God is dealing with mankind.
Because of this in order to avoid compromise and inconsistency a principle of doctrine becomes axiomatic: God's justice can only bless God's righteousness.
That means that without the imputation of God's righteousness to believers at salvation there could be no direct blessing from God to believers in time or eternity and no everlasting life with God.
Righteousness is the principle of God's integrity and justice is the function of God's integrity. That means that God cannot accept anything less than perfect righteousness, and God cannot bless anything less than perfect righteousness.
Therefore God's justice that is the source of all direct blessing from God is only free to provide blessing where God's righteousness resides. God's righteousness resides in the believer by judicial imputation at salvation. That imputation of God's righteousness is absolutely necessary for there to be any direct blessing from God's justice.
God loves His own integrity that is composed of His own righteousness and justice. Therefore, what God's righteousness rejects God's justice condemns and what God's righteousness accepts or approves of God's justice blesses. This fulfils the principle that God's justice administers what God's righteousness demands.
To initiate this system with mankind God gives every individual believer at the moment of faith in Jesus Christ God's righteousness by judicial imputation. I refer to this as priming a pump.
Next we have the ablative singular from "nomos" (law) plus the definite article "ho" (the) that makes "nomos" monadic so it refers exclusively to the Mosaic Law.
The ablative of means with the definite article makes it monadic so it denotes a specific previous reference, so it should be translated "In order that the legal requirement demanded by (or of) the Law."
The legal or righteous requirement of the Law is that the imputation of God's blessing requires perfect righteousness because God's justice can only bless perfect righteousness.
The Mosaic Law demands perfect righteousness for blessing from God. At salvation perfect righteousness is imputed to every believer in Jesus so that when the believer has capacity from metabolized doctrine blessings from God's justice must also be imputed to the believer.
The Law states many blessings that require perfect righteousness for fulfillment. God supplies the perfect righteousness (His own) through judicial imputation at salvation adjustment to God's justice on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ.
Therefore after salvation through logistical grace God supplies the necessary doctrinal information and the power of the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit that is perpetuated through the confession of any known sin to provide the real imputation of God's blessing.
Remember that a real imputation must have an object or a point of affinity that we refer to as a home or a target and a judicial imputation does not.
In this case that object is God's righteousness that was judicially imputed to every believer in Jesus Christ at salvation.
God's blessing has an affinity for God's righteousness so what God's righteousness demands God's justice executes on the basis of God's love and grace.
So at that point God's blessing that is the fulfillment of the legal requirement of the Mosaic Law, becomes a reality for the believer who has made maturity adjustment to God's justice from maximum metabolized doctrine resident in the soul's stream of consciousness or the heart.
The legal requirement of the law is the exploitation of God's imputed righteousness at salvation by the believer's advance to maturity through the filling of the Spirit and the perception of Bible doctrine that results in maturity adjustment to God's justice from metabolized Bible doctrine under the filling ministry of the Spirit.
The believer's advance to spiritual maturity results in God's justice imputing God's blessing to the God's righteousness in the believer. All of these blessings must flow through the grace pipeline, and only the status of maturity provides the capacity necessary for the appreciation of God as the actual source of blessing and for the glorification of Jesus Christ.
The next phrase "might be fulfilled in us" is from the aorist passive subjunctive from the verb "pleroo" "Pleroo" means to fill up a deficiency. At salvation the believer's deficiency is God's Word of truth in the thinking that is filled up with metabolized doctrine at maturity adjustment to God's justice.
At salvation the problem is that believers have the greater without the lesser. The greater is the imputation of God's righteousness; the lesser is capacity for direct blessing from God's justice in time.
The deficiency emphasizes the lack of balance that is implemented by "a fortiori" that means (with stronger reason).
The stronger reason is that God's justice can and will not withhold the lesser of blessings in time from maturity adjustment to God's justice because the imputation of God's righteousness has already provided the positional predicate for them to be conveyed and God is faithful so He cannot deny himself.
"Pleroo" also means to fully or completely possess. Maximum blessing from God's justice must fully possess the believer who is fully possessed by the Spirit and has a stream of consciousness filled with God's Word of Truth.
Another meaning of "pleroo" is to fully influence. When Bible doctrine fully influences the believer's life the believer has capacity direct blessing from God's justice.
"Pleroo' also means to fill with quality, to fill with a specific quality. The believer is filled with the highest quality of blessing as a result of God's righteousness being imputed at salvation, and God's direct blessings imputed at spiritual maturity.
"Pleroo" is a culminative aorist passive subjunctive verb. The aorist tense explains the fact that the legal requirement of the Law (the Mosaic Law) is God's righteousness with blessings to match.
We receive God's righteousness at salvation, and we must have blessings to match that righteousness at maturity. The only thing that will match God's righteousness is blessing in time from God's justice.
The culminative aorist views the advance to maturity in its entirety, it gathers into one event or bucket everything it takes to get to maturity but emphasizes the result of blessing in time at maturity.
The passive voice: the believer receives the action of the verb, from the filling of God the Holy Spirit plus the daily function of GASP, resulting in maturity adjustment to God's justice that resulting in the conveyance of maximum blessing from God's justice as a real imputation from God's justice to God's righteousness that the mature believer possesses in time.
The subjunctive mood is potential, because many believers are not even going to get close to spiritual maturity in time. The potential subjunctive depends on the consistent use of rebound when necessary along with persistence in function of GASP under the filling ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Usage is important, and in the Bible the verb "pleroo" gets a lot of usage. It is used to describe the believer who is controlled by the Holy Spirit in Eph 5:18. It is used for the pastor communicating doctrine to his congregation in Col 1:25.
The purpose of having the gift of pastor-teacher in every generation of the Church Age is to fill up a deficiency that all believers have after they are saved.
When starting out all believers have a large deficiency from a lack of God's Word of Truth in their thinking because they have not had the availability of the filling and teaching ministry of God the Holy Spirit under GASP until after salvation.
Another use of "pleroo" is found in our passage Rom 8:4; where it is used to describe the mature believer receiving the imputation of God's blessing at spiritual maturity. It is also used for maturity adjustment to God's justice through the construction of the edification complex of the soul.
It is used in Luke 2:40, where "becoming full of wisdom" is pleroo. The word translated increasing in the NAS is "pleroo." Wisdom is metabolized doctrine. Eph 3:19; "filled up with all the fullness from God." Col 1:9.
Another use of "pleroo" is capacity for the complete happiness of the mature believer because perception and understanding of doctrine creates capacity for happiness 1John 1:4. The word translated complete in the NAS is "pleroo."
It is used for the priestly function of giving in Phil 4:18. It is used for the mature believer's production of God's good in Philippians 1:11; Rev 3:2. The word translated completed in the NAS is "pleroo."
Expanded Translation so far: "so that the legal requirement of the law might be filled up in us."
Rom 8:4; Next we have the phrase "in us" from the preposition "en" (in) plus the locative plural from the personal pronoun "ego" (us).
The deficiency in believers at salvation is blessing from God's justice. There is an affinity between having blessing from God's justice and having God's righteousness so the imputation of God's righteousness at salvation by judicial imputation demands a real imputation.
God's imputed righteousness becomes the target that God has prepared for a real imputation that occurs at spiritual maturity whereby God's justice imputes blessings that function in accord with God's righteousness.
The imputation of God's righteousness demands the imputation of God's blessing for it to be completed. That is why these blessings from God are called the fullness of God.
The possession of God's righteousness that is also called justification demands the imputation of God's blessing that is the believer's deficiency at salvation.
This deficiency is filled up, or conveyed when the believer reaches spiritual maturity from maximum doctrinal truth resident in the believer's stream of consciousness.
This deficiency cannot be filled up if the believer is in carnality or reversionism so the next phrase emphasizes the fact that believers must be walking by means of the Spirit and not by means of the flesh.
If we refuse the control of the Holy Spirit for very long we are going to become involved with the sin, human good, and evil trends of the sin nature that are related to satan's cosmic system.
The Mosaic Law demands perfect righteousness for blessing from God's justice so we have "so that the legal requirement of the law might be filled up in us."
The legal requirement of the law is God's blessing that corresponds to God's imputed judicial righteousness at salvation so maturity adjustment to God's justice fills up the life of the believer with blessings a real imputation from God's justice.
"Who walk not after the flesh" here we have the locative plural from the definite article "hos" (who) used as a relative pronoun whose antecedent is the locative plural from the personal pronoun "ego" (us).
Plus the present active indicative from the verb "peripateo" (walk) that means to walk. The customary present tense describes what habitually occurs in the life of the believer who is positive towards God's Word of truth is consistent in its perception and rebounds when necessary.
The active voice: the positive believer produces a positive action that replaces the action of walking according to the flesh (OSN) by walking according to the Spirit. The indicative mood is declarative representing the verbal idea from the viewpoint of reality.
The negative particle "mh" (not) with the prepositional phrase "kata" (according) "plus the accusative of "sarx" (flesh) "not according to the flesh (the OSN)."
"But according to the Spirit" the adversative conjunctive particle "alla" (but) sets up a contrast between the old sin nature and the Spirit plus "kata" (according) with the accusative of "pneuma" (Spirit) but according to the Spirit."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:4; "so that the legal requirement of the Law might be filled up in us, who keep walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."