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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans last time we completed our expanded translation of Rom 8:9; "In fact you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since 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 because 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 judicial righteousness that God imputed to the believer 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 because regardless of what they think they know they don't know.
The fact is that the believer is indwelt by God the Holy Spirit and provided with the logistical support necessary to be filled with the Spirit emphasizes that God's grace provision for the believer's advance to maturity adjustment to God's justice comes exclusively from God.
To whom much is given much is expected so 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 God's Word of Truth that is enabled by the believer's relationship with God the Holy Spirit.
Apart from the ministry of God the Holy Spirit to God's royal family there is no pleasing of God and no accomplishing maturity adjustment to God's justice and production of glorification of Christ that are the objectives of the post salvation spiritual life of every Church Age believer while they are still on the earth in the devil's world in a biological body.
That means that whither the believer is frustrated or is fulfilling 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 and teaching ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
All proper application of God's Word of Truth depends upon the filling and teaching ministry of God the Holy Spirit, all proper execution of God's commands and obedience to God's will depends upon the filling and teaching ministry of God the Holy Spirit, and all attainment of God's objectives depend upon the filling and teaching 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 believer's being filled with the Holy Spirit that results from that indwelling.
Verse 10 goes on to explain that the indwelling in of the Spirit of God is linked to the indwelling of Jesus Christ.
Rom 8:10; "And if Christ in you" the intensive use of the conjunction "de" (and or in fact) with the conditional particle "ei" (if) with the missing indicative mood verb "to be" (is) because of the ellipsis from Paul's excitement 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 in you."
The verb "to be" that is supplied because of the ellipsis is a first class condition that is assumed to be true for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in the Church Age."
Though the body dead because of sin" The first two words in the Greek are "men" "de" that is translate in the NASB as (though) it can also be translated "on the one hand, and on the other hand."
Then the nominative singular subject "soma" (body) with the definite article "ho" (the) referring specifically to the biological human body that is the headquarters of the old sin nature, the ex-husband.
With it is a predicate nominative neuter singular of the adjective "nekros" (death) that describes the believer's status in OSN control of the soul that is also referred to as temporal carnal death or being out of fellowship with God the Holy Spirit and not recovering by using rebound.
The cause is either carnality or reversionism. Rom. 8:10; Luke 15:24, 32; Eph. 5:14; James.1: 15; Rev. 3:1.
Rom 8:10; Then "dia" (because of) plus the accusative of "hamartia" (sin) "because of sin," referring to the old sin nature, the ex-husband.
Formerly the believer as an unbeliever was spiritually dead from being married to the old sin nature at biological birth but through salvation the believer is divorced so believers are positionally separated from the old sin nature when they believe in Jesus Christ.
When the believer who is now married to Christ returns to the old sin nature the status is described as death (temporal carnal death) that is the status of being out of fellowship with God the Holy Spirit.
"But the Spirit life" "de" (but) that is used correlatively with men, so it is describing the alternative "on the other hand." Then the nominative singular neuter subject "pneuma" (spirit) that used here for God the Holy Spirit who believers receive at salvation. Another ellipsis omits the verb.
This is a reference to the indwelling of the Spirit. With the predicate nominative from "zoe" (life) referring to the indwelling and the filling of the Spirit that is a new life that is compatible with Jesus Christ.
A new marriage means a new life. The first marriage with the old sin nature was tyranny by the sin nature; the second marriage is great blessing because the new life is a life of freedom in Christ.
"Because of righteousness" "dia" (because of) plus the accusative of "dikaiosune" (righteousness" referring to the judicial imputation of God's righteousness to the believer at salvation.
Everywhere we go in the Scripture we always see references to the fact that the biggest and the greatest thing that is the predicate for everything God does for us was to judicially give us His own righteousness.
Imperfection cannot please perfection. But through the judicial imputation of God's righteousness at salvation we are now in a position to please Him because we have the perfect means of doing so.
The only thing that we have that is perfect is God's perfect righteousness. The whole issue of the Christian way of life after salvation is the imputation of God's blessing to the target or the home that is God's righteousness.
Expanded Translation Rom 8:10; "In fact if Christ is in you, on the one hand the body is dead (carnal or reversionistic death) because of the sin nature; but on the other hand the Spirit is life because of imputed righteousness."
This phrase is describing imputed judicial righteousness not experiential righteousness.
Capacity from spiritual maturity is the link between the judicial imputation of God's righteousness at salvation and blessing from God's justice to experiential righteousness at spiritual maturity.
The link for blessing from God between salvation and maturity is capacity for life from God's Word of Truth. The imputation of God's judicial righteousness at salvation primes the pump by establishing the grace pipeline that is encapsulated by God's perfect integrity.
On the source end of the pipeline is God's justice. On the receiving end of the pipeline is the judicial imputation of God's righteousness. His justice conveys blessing to His judicial righteousness that was imputed to the believer at salvation.
The combined attributes of God's justice and righteousness form God's holiness or integrity. Since righteousness and justice demand justice, and since God's justice does what God's righteousness demands, it follows that this pipeline is necessary for blessing from God's justice to the believer.
These blessings can be provided to the believer without any compromise to God's attributes. In fact, these blessings given to the believer at spiritual maturity are given to God's righteousness, thereby avoiding any compromise.
Next Paul takes us from the discussion of the inner conflict of the believer, as well as some of the objectives of the Christian life into the future.
Eventually we will all have to face the fact that unless the Exit Resurrection occurs while we are physically alive in our biological bodies in time we are going to have to exit this biological body through physical death.
Jesus Christ has appointed a way for each one of us to die gracefully. Dying is no problem provided that we have lived our life with God's Word of Truth because God provides blessings in dying that are even greater than the blessings that we have in living.
So in verse 11 Paul takes us beyond death and into a view of the eternal future so we can understand how all of these things relate. We have been discussing the judicial imputation of God's righteousness, the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit, and the inner conflict that is created in our mental attitude that is based on God's viewpoint versus human viewpoint.
Now all of these things come together in an application of ultimate sanctification, the future possession of a resurrection body without the old sin nature and human good.
Rom 8:11; "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you" the transitional use of the conjunction "de" (but) with the conditional conjunction "ei" (if) in the first class condition; "But if."
With the nominative singular subject "pneuma" (spirit) referring to God the Holy Spirit with the ablative singular of source from the definite article "ho" (the one) that is used as a personal pronoun for God the Father who sent the Holy Spirit.
So we have "but if the Spirit from Him." Then a reference to resurrection; the aorist active participle of "egeiro" (raised) in the constantive aorist tense that describes the instantaneous action of the resurrection of the humanity of Jesus Christ.
The active voice tells us that God the Holy Spirit produced the action of raising Jesus Christ from the dead. We see here that God the Holy Spirit had a part in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This was a part of the Holy Spirit's sustaining ministry of Jesus during His earthly ministry. The name "Jesus" is the accusative singular direct object from "Iesous" (Jesus) with the generic use of the definite article "ho" (the) so we have "the Jesus" that emphasizes Jesus Christ's humanity since Jesus Christ's deity was not resurrected.
The article makes it monadic so it emphasizes the fact that Jesus' humanity is absolutely unique because it was different from every other member of the human race.
Then the preposition "ek" (from) plus the ablative plural "nekros" (deaths) the plural of death with no definite article so we have "from deaths." No definite article makes it anarthrous indicating the quality of Jesus' two deaths on the cross so we have "from deaths."
The resurrection being described is from His spiritual as well as His physical death. When our Lord's humanity was raised from the dead the Father and the Spirit both raised Him, so both are agents of Jesus Christ's resurrection.
The fact that God the Father is the agent of resurrection is found in Col 2:12; 1Thes 1:10; 1Peter 1:21.
The fact that God the Holy Spirit is also the agent of resurrection is found in Rom 1:4; Rom 8:11;