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In our verse by verse study of Romans last time we completed our Expanded Translation of 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. Believers can only 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.
This 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 capacity for 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 under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
The law requires blessing for perfect righteousness. The law does not convey blessing itself it only states the requirement for blessing from God's justice. This requirement for blessing is fulfilled by God's justice at two points where adjustment to God's justice occurs.
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. This results in equality.
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. This results from Freedom.
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 the 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, confessing sins to God when necessary 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 authority 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. This is cosmic human viewpoint thinking,
"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 viewpoint from 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 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.
The believer's attitude toward Bible doctrine is the contrast that is made between the two clauses of verse 5. The thought pattern of the believer that pleases God depends on the believer's relationship with the Holy Spirit. This includes maximum doctrine resident in the soul's stream of consciousness.
This is the same as what is needed for the attainment of experiential sanctification, which is the filling of the Spirit plus maximum doctrine resident in the soul that results in maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Maturity and experiential sanctification are synonymous terms. These interchangeable terms for what Paul is describing in Romans 8.
Experiential sanctification occurs when the believer makes rebound and maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Rom 8:6; "For the mind set on the flesh death" begins with the inferential use of the conjunctive particle "gar" (for) that can be translated as for, consequently, or so then. Plus the nominative singular subject from the noun "phronema" (mind), referring to one's thinking or thought pattern so we have "consequently the thought pattern."
Then the possessive genitive singular from the noun "sarx" (flesh or carnal) that is sometimes is used for the human body and other times for what indwells the body. Here it refers to the old sin nature that indwells the cell structure of the biological body.
This is elliptical so we will include the present active indicative of the verb" eimi" (is), next is the predicate nominate singular from "thanatos" (death) used here to refer to the reversionistic believer who is under OSN control of the soul "is death " (carnal cosmic death that left unchecked results in the sin unto death).
This tells us that the human viewpoint of life results in the sin unto death. The sin unto death is maximum discipline from God's justice to the reversionistic believer. The reversionist is completely dominated by the old sin nature so God's justice must discipline such a believer.
"But the mind set on the spirit is life and peace" the postpositive conjunctive particle "de " (but) is used to connect the two antithetical clauses. In this case the contrast is the contrast between the human viewpoint thinking of the old sin nature and God's viewpoint that is the thought pattern of the Holy Spirit.
This is followed by a nominative singular noun "phronema" (thinking) that is used as the subject to refer to the thinking under the principle of we are what we think. We are given God's Word of Truth so we can think from God's viewpoint.
Satan is the ruler of the world and the old sin nature is the ruler of life, and we are easily caught up and destroyed by their propaganda and lies unless we learn and apply God's Word of Truth that tells us what's real.
Then comes the possessive genitive from the noun "pneuma" (spirit), used here for God the Holy Spirit so we have "but the thought pattern of the Spirit."
This is a reference to God's Word. The verb "eimi" (is) is inserted because this is the other side of the ellipse with the predicate nominative from "zoe" life) meaning the function of life that is a reference to God's plan for the believer after salvation in the devil's world in a sin infused biological body until God removes us by physical death or the exit resurrection.
This emphasizes the fact that there is capacity for life and prosperity from maximum doctrinal truth in the thinking of the heart of soul of the mature believer in time in the adversity of biological life in the devil's world.
Then a second predicate nominative from "eirene" (prosperity). "Eirene" can mean peace or prosperity in this case it means prosperity. God's purpose for keeping us in this biological life in the devil's world is to bless us.
God and Jesus Christ are glorified by the conveyance of real blessings through the grace pipeline to the mature believer on the basis of God's judicial righteousness that was imputed at salvation to the mature believer who has developed capacity from doctrinal truth for the real imputation of God's blessing after salvation.
Jesus Christ glorified when God's justice can impute a real imputation to God's imputed judicial righteousness that the believer received at salvation.
Expanded Translation Rom 8:6; "Consequently the thought pattern of the old sin nature is dead; but the thought pattern of the Spirit (from Bible doctrine resident in the soul) is life (capacity for life) and prosperity."
Rom 8:7; "Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God." The causal conjunction "dioti" (because) plus the nominative singular subject "phronema" (mind) that means "thought pattern," plus the possessive genitive of "sarx" (flesh) the old sin nature ex-husband, the culprit of the first marriage.
However, in the second marriage both Jesus Christ as the husband and God the Holy Spirit as the marriage counselor are perfect so the believer in carnality or reversionism who corresponds to the wife is always the culprit.
Then the predicate nominative "echthra" (hostile) that means hatred or animosity, plus the prepositional phrase "eis" (toward) plus "Theos" (God) with no definite article. So our expanded translation is "Because the thought pattern of the flesh (OSN) is hostile toward God."
We see there that the carnal reversionistic believer is not the believer who simply sins but is the believer who sins and then goes on to reject or neglect the rebound for recovery from sin nature control of the soul.
The carnal believer never rebounds, and therefore never recovers the filling of the Spirit, that is an absolute necessity for spirituality and having the correct viewpoint regarding life.
What you think is what you are. Without doctrinal truth in the soul your thinking is hostile to God. This hostility of thinking can only be fixed with maximum doctrinal truth resident and circulating in the heart of the soul.
There are three categories of thinking that are hostile to God: a) Sin. Mental attitude sins are hostile thinking toward God. Arrogance, jealousy, bitterness, hatred, fear, worry, implacability, vindictiveness, guilt complex, etc are all hostile to God.
b) Human good (doing good things in the energy of the OSN). c) The function of evil that combines with good to form the policy of satan as the ruler of this world and the function of the OSN as the ruler of life.
"For it is not subject to the law of God" the explanatory use of the postpositive conjunctive particle "gar" (for) is used as an explanation. The explanation combines what we have seen regarding mental attitude with emphasis on proper mental attitude.
Proverbs says, "What you think is what you are." The key word to mental attitude is the believer's concept of legitimate authority and his response to legitimate authority. It comes up in the present passive indicative of the verb "hupotasso" (subject) plus the negative "ou" (not)-"For it is not subordinate."
The thought pattern of the old sin nature is hostile toward God because it has rejected God's authority and will not subordinate itself to God. The present tense is retroactive progressive present describing what started in the past with sin and continues into the present with carnality or reversionism.
The carnal reversionistic believer receives the action of the verb. The negative "ou" (not) refers to the believer's continuous insubordination to God's policy.
The indicative mood is declarative so it describes verbal action from the viewpoint of reality. Principle: This insubordination to God's policy is based on negative volition toward God's Word of Truth and the neglect of rebound.
Insubordination is carnality and reversionism that rejects the ultimate authority of God Himself. Insubordination in one area always overflows into other areas. Reversionistic or carnal believers are disoriented to life because of their rejection of or resistance to legitimate authority.
"The law of God" is the dative singular indirect object from the noun "nomos" (law), that sometimes means law and sometimes means principle or mandate.
Here it refers to policy. It is God's policy that is in view here. Bible doctrine is God's policy. It is not ours; it belongs to God so we have a possessive genitive from the noun "Theos" (God) "of God."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:7; "Because the thought pattern of the old sin nature is hostile toward God, because it is not subordinate to the policy of God."