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In our verse by verse study of Romans last we are in Rom 8:17; at the word "synkleronomos" (syn = a form of the preposition "with"; kleronomos = inheritor or heir), "fellow inheritors," plus an ablative singular of "Christos" (Christ)."
So we have "But if, on the one hand, we are the inheritors or heirs of God the Father, and on the other hand we are fellow inheritors with Christ."
We noted that heirship is related to the concept of blessing from God's justice in time and in eternity.
The imputation of God's perfect judicial righteousness at salvation is the predicate for God's justice providing direct blessing to believers in Jesus Christ from God's justice in time and eternity.
This means that all direct blessing from God's justice is made as real direct imputations from God's justice to God's imputed judicial righteousness in the believer in Jesus Christ.
To be a fellow heir and inheritor with Christ demands blessing, but that blessing also demands capacity.
Capacity for this blessing only comes to those who have God's Word of Truth resident in their soul and their human spirit.
Capacity for blessing in eternity from God's justice is a series of a fortiori principles that begin with and is predicated on the judicial imputation of God's perfect righteousness when we believed in Jesus Christ at salvation.
The next sentence is transitional so it introduces the next paragraph that describes the new life in Christ from suffering to glorification in verses 18-30. It begins with suffering of the present time and terminates with glorification in verse 30.
The first phrase of this transitional sentence reads, "if indeed we suffer with him." The compound conditional conjunction "eiper" is one of the connecting words that Paul uses is made up of two particles: "ei" (if) that is used with an indicative mood verb for a first class condition of if, and "per" with the intensive force so it is translated "if as it is assumed to be true" or "if indeed."
With it is the present active indicative from the compound verb "sumpascho" (sum is from the preposition "sun" = with; "pascho" = suffer), so it means to suffer with or to suffer along with someone.
Plato used this verb to describe to suffering t the same time, or to suffer with, or to suffer the same as, but primarily to suffer at the same time but not necessarily to the same degree or severity.
One idea that should be eliminated immediately because it is a stumbling block that people create out of this transitional sentence is that there is parallelism between the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross and the suffering of Christians in time.
The sufferings of Christ on the cross were absolutely unique, because of the impeccability of Jesus who was hanging there. Therefore there is no possibility that this verb refers to a common participation with Jesus Christ and the believer in a common suffering because that is impossible.
Ascetic believers and other subjective emotional people attempt to read themselves into the picture by using this idea. The sufferings of the mature believer cannot be compared with the suffering of the impeccable unique God-Man, our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.
In Phil 1:29; the believer is described as suffering for the sake of or on behalf of Christ, but not with Christ in the sense of the cross. Suffering on behalf of someone is not the same as sharing someone else's suffering.
Rom 8:17; What this transitional sentence is telling us is that capacity for blessing from spiritual maturity also means capacity for undeserved suffering for blessing.
"Sumpascho" (suffering together) is describing the underserved suffering of the believer in the status quo of spiritual maturity together with the underserved suffering of Jesus Christ in the status quo of impeccability.
Believers are not impeccable but believers can have undeserved suffering. Mature believers have capacity for life so the mature believer has the ability to meet any suffering, any disaster, any situation in life, and handle it perfectly in accord with God's Word of absolute Truth.
That means that while we will commit personal sin as long as we live in a biological body as mature believers we have capacity from God's Word under the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit not to sin even when we are experiencing underserved suffering from pressures and disasters from living in the devil's world.
The compound conjunction "eiper" assumes maturity adjustment to God's justice that not only provides capacity for blessing but it also creates capacity for undeserved suffering for blessing. So our translation is "if indeed we suffer with maturity status."
The principle is that capacity for blessing from maturity adjustment to God's justice means capacity for undeserved suffering in spiritual maturity. Therefore the compound verb "sumpascho" refers to believers who are suffering in the status quo of spiritual maturity.
The verb is in the retroactive progressive present tense that refers to the being in the status spiritual maturity in the past that results in the continuation of being spiritually mature at the present time.
The active voice explains that mature believers produce the action of the verb of advancing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ by their application of God's Word of Truth under pressure from adversity from suffering for blessing.
The indicative mood is declarative so it describes maturity adjustment to God's justice as reality.
This is telling us that from this verse until we get to the end of verse 30 spiritually mature believers are being described.
It is telling us what mature believers can expect from life in the devil's world after they reach spiritual maturity, and how to properly handle those situations as a mature believer.
That a mature believer will have undeserved suffering is a supposition that is made from the viewpoint of reality. It is a protasis of a first class condition so it is telling us that it will happen.
The protasis makes two assumptions: Maturity adjustment to God's justice through maximum doctrinal truth resident and circulating in the heart of the soul and the human spirit results in the real direct imputation of God's blessing to God's imputed judicial righteousness.
The mature believer's undeserved suffering is for the purpose o creating greater capacity for even greater blessing from God than can be developed from the normal sufferings of life in a weak sin infused biological body in the devil's world.
This is how God turns the curse into a blessing and overcomes satan's evil with divine good.
The undeserved suffering of Jesus Christ was in the status of impeccability. The undeserved suffering of the believer in Jesus is in the status of spiritual maturity.
There is a huge difference between the impeccability of Christ and the maturity of the believer. The difference includes imputed sin, the old sin nature, and the function of the sin nature trends of sin, human good, and evil.
The undeserved suffering of the impeccable Lord Jesus Christ is unique.
The undeserved suffering of the mature believer is designed to demonstrate that capacity for blessing (from metabolized doctrine in the soul and the spirit) also means capacity for suffering from that same doctrine that is resident in the soul.
Capacity means the ability to suffer without the adversity being paramount because it is having God's viewpoint from God's Word of Truth in the heart of the soul that supersedes the adversity that is paramount.
Therefore the undeserved suffering of the mature believer contributes to the rewards and blessing of eternity. All undeserved suffering is God's down payment on future blessing from God. It is God telling the believers in time that they have great rewards in heaven.
Just as the blessing imputed from God's justice is the basis for blessing beyond ultimate sanctification in eternity, so the suffering from God's permissive will to the mature believer in time is the basis for reward beyond ultimate sanctification in eternity.
Maturity status in time is the result of the filling of the Spirit plus maximum doctrine resident in the soul and spirit. Maturity status is the place of occupation with Christ and the resultant capacity for life and suffering.
Occupation with Christ in blessing means capacity for that blessing. Occupation with Christ in undeserved suffering means capacity for that suffering. God's justice provides what you have the capacity to handle from God's Word.
That means that for mature believers undeserved suffering is a blessing because spiritual maturity means capacity for the potential of undeserved suffering.
"That we may be glorified together," describes the other side of the coin. Undeserved suffering in the status of spiritual maturity in time results in glorification in eternity.
The word " hina" (that) with the subjunctive mood verb introduces a final clause to denote an objective, aim, or goal. The adjunctive use of "kai" (also) is used as an adverb.
Plus the aorist passive subjunctive from the compound verb "sundoxazo" (glorified with someone or to be fellow-glorified ones). It also means to share in someone else's glory so we have "that also we might be glorified together."
The aorist tense is a culminative aorist, that views the glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ in its entirety but regards it from the viewpoint of existing results so the culminative aorist tense describes the attainment of an objective.
The fact that Christ is glorified means that the way is now open for any believer as a member of God's royal family to share in His glory. But the believer must be mature and God's justice must permit the underserved suffering.
The passive voice: the believer receives the action of the verb, including the rewards and blessings of eternity that are above and beyond a resurrection body.
The subjunctive mood is the potential subjunctive that tells us that this depends on the believer attaining maturity adjustment to God's justice in time. 2Tim 2:12;
Expanded Translation Rom 8:17; "Now if we are children, we are also heirs; on the one hand heirs of God the Father, and on the other hand fellow-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with maturity status, that also we might be glorified together."