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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans last time we completed our expanded translation of Rom 8:8; "In addition they who are in the flesh (under the authority of the OSN) are not able to please God."
This verse tells us that no one who is not indwelt by and filled with Spirit can please God no matter what they do because of OSN control of the soul.
Verses 9-10 describe the issue of the frustration that many Christians have regarding how to accomplish God's purpose for their life on the earth in time after being saved.
Rom 8:9; describes how the Christian way of life is executed and that our major logistical support for living the Christian way of life is the indwelling presence and filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit. "Hymeis de ou eimi en sarx" "but you are not in the flesh"
While the unbeliever continues to be dominated by the old sin nature because the sin nature is the ruler of biological human life, the believer through the baptism of the Holy Spirit is divorced from the OSN so the believer is freed from the subjugation of the OSN positionally so the believer is no longer under the domination of the OSN.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the basis for the divorce from the old sin nature the old ex-husband, through retroactive positional truth and the marriage to the Lord Jesus Christ, the new husband, through current positional truth.
It is the baptism of the spirit that satan and his leftist socialist utopian minions are trying to fake in the devil's world with their so called woke DEI policy because they have rejected Jesus Christ as their savior or God the Holy Spirit as their mentor.
The word "hymeis" translated "you" is the first word in the Greek text so it is proleptic. That makes it mutually exclusive so it means you and only you emphasizing that this refers exclusively to believers in Jesus Christ.
Plus the adversative conjunction "de" (but) that is an adversative conjunction because it joins two contrasting clauses.
The difference is the divorce of the OSN, the ex- husband, that took place at salvation through the baptism of the Spirit. The conjunction "de" (but) sometimes takes on an emphatic or an intensive meaning when it follows an emphatic or proleptic pronoun.
That means that the translation could start out, "In fact all of you," referring exclusively to believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then comes the present active indicative of "eimi" (are) followed by the negative "ou" (not). This is a retroactive progressive present tense that describes what started in the past at the moment of the believer's salvation and continues forever.
It is a reference to retroactive positional truth where the believer through the baptism of the Holy Spirit is identified with Jesus Christ in His spiritual death, that is the believer's spiritual separation and divorce from the OSN as the first husband.
Identifying believers with Jesus Christ in His physical death is the believer's physical separation from the OSN as the first husband, and identification with Christ in His burial is the believer's physical divorce from the OSN as the first husband.
This means believers are completely separated from the OSN even though the OSN still resides in the genetic cell structure of their physical body.
The active voice: the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ produces the action of the verb. The action occurs at the moment of salvation with the baptism of the Spirit.
The indicative mood plus the negative emphasizes the reality of the divorce and the believer's positional separation from the OSN through the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation.
The first phrase "However you are not" plus the preposition "en" (in) with the locative singular of "sarx" (flesh), referring to the OSN "in the flesh" that means "under the control of the OSN."
This statement views the Christian way of life in the context of the positional truth created by the baptism of God the Holy Spirit at salvation.
An adverse result that relates to this is the greater inner conflict in believers because the OSN that indwells the biological body is now fighting against the Holy Spirit who also indwells the biological body after salvation.
The battleground is the heart of the soul of the believer because the OSN and the Holy Spirit are waging war to determine who or what will influence the believer's choices in their life after salvation.
"But in the Spirit" in this phrase the adversative conjunction translated (but) is "alla" that sets up an emphatic contrast between the OSN as the divorced ex-husband, and the Holy Spirit as the marriage counselor and mentor in the believer's second marriage to Jesus Christ.
Plus the prepositional phrase "en" (in) plus the locative of "pneuma" (Spirit), referring to the fact that God the Holy Spirit permanently indwells the believer's body at salvation, and the mandate in God's Word of Truth for believers is to keep on being filled with or to be controlled by God the Holy Spirit and to walk in accord with the Spirit after salvation.
Next comes a phrase that indicates that the believer should understand the various ministries of God the Holy Spirit. In this verse the use of the word "if" doesn't create any doubts about a person being a believer it simply indicates what the emphasis will be in the passage.
"if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you." The compound conjunction "eiper" (if) can be translated (if indeed, if after all) or since). It is used in the first class condition that is assumed to be true in the context of a debate.
The assumption is based on the assumed reality that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer of the Church Age. The nominative subject is "pneuma" (spirit), with the possessive genitive "Theos" (God) j that emphasizes the deity the Holy Spirit who is the third person of the Trinity.
The present active indicative of "oikeo" (dwells) "oikeo" means to inhabit or indwell. The present tense is static present that describes a condition that perpetually exists. The active voice: God the Holy Spirit produces the action of the verb and the indicative mood is an emphatic statement of actual reality.
Plus the preposition "en" (in) with the locative plural of "hymin" (you) that tells us that all believers are in the same status quo of being indwelt by God the Holy Spirit so we have "Spirit of God dwells in all of you."
"But if any man does have not the Spirit of Christ" again the emphatic use of the adversative conjunction "de" (but) that can be translated "In fact."
Then the conditional conjunction "ei" introducing the protasis of a first class condition of "if" that assumes reality, plus the enclitic indefinite pronoun "tis" (anyone) that is the subject of the sentence.
So we have "in fact or but if anyone." The category being described in this phrase is the unbeliever who does not possess the indwelling of Christ or God the Holy Spirit. Plus the present active indicative of "echo" plus the negative "ou" (not) "does not have."
The present tense is a static present that describes a condition that exists perpetually. That tells us that no unbeliever is ever or has ever been indwelt by God the Holy Spirit. The active voice: the unbeliever produces the action of perpetually never being spiritual.
This tells us that unbelievers cannot ever properly understand God's Word of truth so they are to be completely ignored or contradicted when they pontificate about what to do and believers should never ever accept anything that they say to do from the Bible. It is the believer's job to reject, resist and refute unbelievers when they try to pontificate on how to execute God's Word of Truth
The indicative mood plus the negative states the reality of the fact. The accusative singular direct object "pneuma" (the Spirit) plus the ablative of source from "Christos" (Christ), it was Christ who sent the Spirit "from Christ." So we have "In fact if anyone does not have the Spirit from Christ."
"this one (the unbeliever) does not belong to him" the nominative singular subject is the demonstrative pronoun "houtos," (this one), referring specifically to the unbeliever plus the present active indicative of "eimi" (is) with the negative "ou" (not), "is not."
This is a customary present that describes what does is not happening with the unbeliever. The active voice: the unbeliever produces the action. The indicative mood plus the negative states the reality of Gods Word of Truth.
Then a possessive genitive from the intensive pronoun "autos" (Him) used as a personal pronoun emphasizing the identity of God. This is an idiom that is translated "he (the unbeliever) does not belong to Him (God)."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:9; "In fact you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, assuming that the Spirit of God dwells in you. In fact if anyone [unbeliever] does not have Spirit from Christ (God the Holy Spirit), he (the unbeliever) does not belong to Him."
These verses tell us that the unbeliever has no relationship with God. In order to have a relationship with God the person must be indwelled by the Holy Spirit. The only way this can happen is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The indwelling of the Spirit occurs in the believer at the moment of salvation. Like the baptism of the Spirit the indwelling of the Spirit is a salvation blessing that flows from God's justice to the God's imputed judicial righteousness at salvation.
This verse tells us that the Christian way of life is a supernatural way of life that demands a supernatural means of execution. That means that anything the unbeliever says, does or accomplishes is not the Christian way of life.
The fact that the believer is indwelt by the Spirit and provided with logistical support to be filled with the Spirit emphasizes the grace provision for the believer's advance to maturity adjustment to God's justice.
To whom much is given much is expected. In the Church Age God the Holy Spirit is given to God's royal family in anticipation of their advance to spiritual maturity.
All of the commands of the Christian way of life come through the believer's relationship with God the Holy Spirit.
Apart from the ministry of the Holy Spirit to God's royal family there is no pleasing God and no accomplishing maturity adjustment to God's justice and producing glorification of Christ that are the objectives of the post salvation spiritual life of every Church Age believer on the earth.
That means that either frustration or fulfillment of God's plan depends upon the believer's relationship with God through the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit's communication of God's Word of Truth to the positive believer who is filled with the spirit.
The teaching of God's Word of Truth by the gift of pastor teacher is useless apart from the filling ministry of the Holy Spirit and the function of GASP because all accurate perception of God's Word requires the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
All proper application of God's Word of Truth depends upon the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit, all proper execution of God's commands and obedience to God's will depends upon the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit, and all attainment of God's objectives depend upon the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer.
The difference between the believer being frustrated and the believer's fulfillment of the God's plan in the believer's life depends upon the indwelling of God the Holy Spirit and the filling ministry that results from that indwelling.
Rom 8:10; the fulfilling of the same concept through the indwelling of Jesus Christ. "And if Christ be in you" the intensive use of the conjunction "de" (and or in fact) with the conditional particle "ei" (if) with the indicative mood verb introduces a first class condition that makes an assumption from the viewpoint of reality.
Then the prepositional phrase, the nominative singular "Christos" (Christ) is the subject, referring to the second person of the Trinity with "en" (in) with the locative of "hymeis" (you) "In fact if Christ is in you."
This is a first class condition that is assumed to be true for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in the Church Age.