romans-8:15

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:12-17

Romans 8:12-17 From Present Life to Future Glory. I. The leading of the Holy Spirit is no leading at all unless it be efficacious. If we are led by the Spirit, that means that to some extent we are day by day amending our ways, exerting ourselves successfully to do right, and making substantial progress in virtue. II. Wherever you find submission to Divine guidance, you have evidence of a Divine truth. We have no other mark of that sacred and lofty relationship, the noblest belonging to our... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:15

Romans 8:15 The Thought of God the Stay of the Soul. I. The thought of God is the happiness of man; for though there is much besides to serve as subject of knowledge, or motive for action, or means of excitement, yet the affections require a something more vast and more enduring than anything created. He alone is sufficient for the heart who made it. We do not give our hearts to things irrational, because these have no permanence in them. We do not place our affections in sun, moon, and stars,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 8:15

DISCOURSE: 1870THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE AND OF ADOPTIONRomans 8:15. Ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.OUR blessed Lord in his last discourse with his Disciples, promised to send down from heaven the Holy Spirit, who should “convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment:” and accordingly, on the day of Pentecost he did send down the Holy Spirit, who instantly wrought in the most powerful... 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 8:15

Romans 8:15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage … but … the Spirit of adoption.The spirit of bondage and of adoptionI. The spirit of bondage. Much of the bondage of our fallen nature is not the work of the Spirit of God at all. Bondage under sin, the flesh, worldly customs, the fear of man--this is the work of the devil.1. But there is a sense of bondage which is of the Spirit of God. The bondage of--(1) Conviction of sin.(2) Assurance of punishment for sin from which there is no... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 8:15

15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Ver. 15. The spirit of bondage ] Δουλειας , as 2 Timothy 1:7 , Δειλειας . The law will convince the judgment; but it is the gospel that convinceth the lust and the affection, and so sendeth us to treat with God as a Father, by fervent prayer. The Spirit is here called a "spirit of bondage;" because by the law he enlighteneth a man to see his bondage and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 8:15

the spirit: Exodus 20:19, Numbers 17:12, Luke 8:28, Luke 8:37, John 16:8, Acts 2:37, Acts 16:29, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 2 Timothy 1:7, Hebrews 2:15, Hebrews 12:18-Jeremiah :, James 2:19, 1 John 4:18 the Spirit: Romans 8:16, Isaiah 56:5, Jeremiah 3:19, 1 Corinthians 2:12, Galatians 4:5-Judges :, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:11-2 Chronicles : Abba: Mark 14:36, Luke 11:2, Luke 22:42, John 20:17 Reciprocal: Genesis 22:7 - My father Deuteronomy 32:6 - thy father 1 Chronicles 29:10 - our father Psalms... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 8:15

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.For ye — Who are real Christians.Have not received the spirit of bondage — The Holy Ghost was not properly a spirit of bondage, even in the time of the Old Testament. Yet there was something of bondage remaining even in those who then had received the Spirit.Again — As the Jews did before.We — All and every believer.Cry — The word denotes a vehement speaking,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:15

15. Again After having once been emancipated from it. Spirit of adoption Being adopted as children into God’s family, God has breathed into us the humble confidence of the child feeling himself at home in his father’s house. Abba, Father For the Hebrew and for the Greek our apostle furnishes this blessed word in both languages to indicate that both may claim the same divine paternity. read more