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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans we are in Rom 8:4; on the word translated requirement that explains the legal requirement of the Mosaic Law.
This compliance becomes a reality for the believer who has made maturity adjustment to God's justice from maximum metabolized doctrine resident in the heart of the soul's stream of consciousness that has been developed with the filling ministry of Go the Holy Spirit under God's GASP system.
The legal requirement of the law is the exploitation of the judicial imputation of God's 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 real blessing to the capacity created by the judicial imputation of 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 judicial imputation of God's righteousness; the lesser is capacity for real 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 real blessings in time from maturity adjustment to God's imputed justice because the imputation of God's righteousness has already provided the positional predicate for the real blessings to be conveyed and God is faithful so He cannot deny himself.
"Pleroo" also means to fully or completely possess. Maximum real 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 for real 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 real 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 imputed 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 at spiritual maturity in time.
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 results 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 have received the judicial imputation of God's righteousness and 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 they were saved.
Another use of "pleroo" is found in our passage Rom 8:4; where it is used to describe the mature believer receiving the real imputation of God's blessing at spiritual maturity. It is also used for maturity adjustment to God's justice through the construction of doctrinal norms and standards in the heart of the soul from metabolized doctrine.
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; "filled with of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding."
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; and in Rev 3:2; where the word translated completed in the NAS is "pleroo."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:4; so far: "so that the legal requirement of the law might be filled up..."
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 real blessing from God's justice. There is an affinity between having real blessing from God's justice and having God's righteousness so the judicial imputation of God's righteousness at salvation demands a real imputation.
God's judicially imputed righteousness becomes the target that God has prepared for a real imputation that occurs at spiritual maturity whereby God's justice imputes real blessings that function in accord with the judicial imputation of God's righteousness at salvation.
The judicial imputation of God's righteousness demands the real imputation of God's blessing for it to be completed. That is why these blessings from God are described as the fullness of God.
The possession of God's judicial righteousness that is also called justification demands the imputation of God's blessing that fills 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 real 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 from a real imputation from God's justice.
"Us not by the flesh walk" here we have the locative plural from the definite article "hemeis" (us)) from the personal pronoun "ego" plus the negative "me" (not) plus "kata" (by or according to).
With the present active indicative from the verb "peripateo" (walk) that means to walk. The customary present tense describes what a person habitually does or in this case does not do because the positive believer applies God's Word of truth from consistent perception of doctrine 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 that presents the verbal idea from the viewpoint of reality.
The negative particle "mh" (not) with the prepositional phrase "kata" (by or 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 control of the old sin nature and the control of 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."
We see here that believers cannot keep or meet the standards demanded by the Law by trying to keep the Law directly. Believers can only keep the Law or meet the standards demanded by the Law by being filled with the Spirit combined with the daily function of GASP along with rebound when necessary that eventually results in the believer reaching spiritual maturity and maturity adjustment to God's justice from doctrinal capacity.
Spiritual maturity or experiential sanctification fulfils the legal requirement of the law and results in real direct blessing from God's justice. In this case the blessing from God's justice is a real imputation not a judicial imputation.
The source is God's justice. The target is God's righteousness where capacity from doctrinal inculcation exists. This imputation cannot occur without maximum doctrinal truth resident and circulating in the heart of the believer's soul.
The law requires blessing for perfect righteousness. The law does not convey blessing it only state the requirement for blessing from God's justice. This requirement for blessing is fulfilled by God's justice at two points in the adjustment to God's justice.
God prepares the first home by the judicial imputation of His own perfect righteousness that is provided when a person believes in Jesus Christ for salvation. So the first part of the provision is the judicial imputation of God's righteousness for salvation.
The second home that receives the real imputation from God's justice is the metabolized doctrine that is in the heart of the soul of the believer at maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Under the principle of a fortiori the greater is provided at salvation, the lesser is provided at spiritual maturity.
If God has provided the greater of justification at salvation and He has it follows a fortiori that at the point of spiritual maturity He will definitely provide the lesser.
Maturity adjustment to God's justice completes the requirement for God to bless perfect righteousness that is stated in the Law. God's justice can only bless perfect righteousness so the believer in spiritual maturity has fulfilled the Law.
We see here that believers keep the Law by being filled with the Spirit and metabolizing God's Word of Truth.
Rom 8:5; "ho gar kata sarka eimi ho tes sarx phroneo" (For those who are according to the flesh think of the flesh) is a literal translation, "kata" means to be under the authority of so our expanded translation is, "For those believers who are dominated by the old sin nature keep thinking abut the things of the old sin nature;
"ho de kata pneuma ho tou pneuma" (but those believers who are dominated by the Holy Spirit keep thinking about the things of the Spirit). The things of the Spirit refer to God's Word of Truth.
Rom 8:5; Expanded Translation: "For those believers who are dominated by the old sin nature keep thinking abut the things of the old sin nature; but those believers who are dominated by the Holy Spirit keep thinking about the things of the Spirit."
What or who the believer thinks about and depends upon is what or who dominates the believer's life. (What is the OSN; Who is the Holy Spirit).
At any given moment of time the believer is either dominated by the old sin nature and concentrating on sin, human good and evil, or is dominated by the Holy Spirit and concentrating on God's Word and God's viewpoint.
The old sin nature dominates the believer through negative volition toward Bible doctrine and the rejection of rebound. The Holy Spirit dominates the believer through consistent positive volition toward Bible doctrine combined with rebound when necessary.