Romans 8:27

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:27

‘And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to (the will of) God.’ The reference to ‘He Who searches the hearts’ confirms that the Spirit is praying as we pray. Whatever our outward words our Father knows all that is in our hearts (and all our needs, as Jesus made clear in Matthew 6:0), searching our hearts as we pray. And as the Spirit prays through us the Father ‘knows His mind’, that is knows precisely what He... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:18-27

Romans 8:18-Daniel : . The Birth-Pangs of Immortality. Romans 8:18 . These “ present sufferings” are “ light beyond comparison, in view of the glory awaiting us at the coming revelation.” “ The destined glory” is hidden under a fleshly veil (see Romans 8:10, Php_3:21 , Colossians 3:3 f.; also 1 John 3:2). Romans 8:19 ; Romans 8:22 . With this mystery “ all creation is pregnant, in strained expectancy awaiting the revelation of the sons of God, sighing and groaning in travail-pains.” Romans... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:27

He that searcheth the hearts; this phrase is a periphrasis of God, and is spoken of him after the manner of men. God doth not properly search or inquire into any thing; but because amongst men knowledge comes by searching, therefore, by way of resemblance, this is attributed to God, though that which is intended by it is only this, that God knoweth the heart, Jeremiah 17:10; Acts 1:24. Knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, both with the knowledge of apprehension and approbation. Maketh... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 8:26-27

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 8:26. The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us.—The divine Spirit works in the human spirit. ἐντυγχάνω, to light upon, to meet with a person. Then to go to meet a person for supplication. Hence to entreat, to pray; ὑπέρ, with genitive of person, to make intercession for any one.Romans 8:27.—Though the prayer be, as some interpret the words, indistinct and inarticulate groanings, yet the divine Spirit can interpret every prayer which is inspired by Him.MAIN HOMILETICS OF... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:23-27

Romans 8:23-27 Waiting in Hope. I. The unintelligent creatures wait, but not in hope. They travail as in pain with the burden of a future birth, of which they themselves are ignorant. We know what we wait for. The sons of God possess already an earnest of their coming inheritance. II. Sober this hope of Christian men in the final regeneration of all things may always be; confident it should be, for it is built on Divine facts. But how seldom can it reach a buoyant or cheerful tone! But the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:26-27

Romans 8:26-27 The word "likewise" with which my text begins institutes a comparison between what is set forth in the text and what had been said before. To grasp this comparison fully we must go back to the eighteenth verse. The Apostle there sets out with a declaration, the peculiar wording of which is meant to show that he is speaking, not with the exaggeration of eloquent appeal or excited feeling, but with the sobriety of simple and deliberate calculation. "For I reckon that the sufferings... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Romans 8:26-27

The Holy Spirit's Intercession -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 1532) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 11th, 1880, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should what pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-39

Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off.In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was a Pharisee he thought of the law as physical, intended to control man's outward actions. But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual, then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death because, though he had physically kept the law, spiritually he had violated it.So he... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:1-39

The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot extricate himself by any unavailing efforts of legal obedience that God has done for us by Jesus Christ what we could not do for ourselves that this liberation is obtained by union with Christ, which exempts us from condemnation and that those who are thus united to him, walk not after the flesh,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 8:26-27

Romans 8:26-27Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. God’s sympathies with man’s infirmitiesI. What is meant by infirmities. There is a wide difference between an infirmity and a sin. Sin is the deliberate choice of wrong. A man’s failure to comply with a Divine command is not always a sin. The failure may arise from inherent weakness or ignorance.1. Men and women come into life with physical infirmities. Some are born blind, some... read more

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