Once more, we continue our study
\nwith the knowledge that we are leaning on the Lord Jesus for
\nunderstanding and guidance. Blessed Lord, speak what you will…I know
\nthat the readers are immensely well versed in the subject we are
\nundertaking and pray that I merely can have some fruit among them.
\nAmen. <\/p>\n
In my zeal, I realized too late that in my previous post
\nI dove right into verse 3. Today, we touch on the first (and a
\ncomparatively minor) difficulty in the book of Romans, found in verse
\n4. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n What is the verse saying? Is it saying, perhaps, that Jesus Christ After all, Acts 10:38 points out that Jesus of Nazareth was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with power<\/em> or 2 Corinthians 13:4 explaining that Jesus Christ was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God.<\/em> Elsewhere (1 Cor 6:14 ) we see how God has both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power. <\/em><\/p>\n The resurrection was indeed a powerful event, and made that much Remember the examples that Paul is using here to illustrate the Thank be to God that his earthly credentials were not the end of His The verse is pointing out, not only His own resurrection but the This is what makes the gospel of God so utterly amazing. Paul points What an astounding gospel we have here. This is not man-made or Next we'll touch on a group of verses from 1:8 – 1:17. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once more, we continue our study with the knowledge that we are leaning on the Lord Jesus for understanding and guidance. Blessed Lord, speak what you will…I know that the readers are immensely well versed in the subject we are undertaking and pray that I merely can have some fruit among them. Amen. In my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
Speaking of Jesus Christ, verse 4 tells us that He was "declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:<\/em>" <\/p>\n
\nwas declared, by means of the Holy Spirit, to be the Son of God by the
\nvery powerful event of his resurrection from the dead? <\/p>\n
\nmore powerful that the triune God was working in that moment in finite
\ntime to perform an event that would ripple through time…and yet, is
\nthis what the verse is talking about? <\/p>\n
\nimportance of this good news of God, promised afore, which concerns
\nJesus Christ our Lord. Paul highlighted the fleshly, earthly descent of
\nJesus (as well as the prophetic fulfillment therein) by pointing out
\nthat He was of the seed of David. What an amazing thing it is to
\nconsider that the second person of the trinity, eternal and all
\npowerful intervened in humanity and became weak flesh. God walked among
\nmen and was subsequently tortured and killed by men! <\/p>\n
\ndescent. Jesus Christ our Lord was declared to be not only the Son of
\nDavid, but also the Son of God. Although He was the Son of David
\nwithout a throne and without authority among men, He was the Son of God
\nwith power, and not only the authority aspect. His very spirit of
\nholiness declared this?not so much the Holy Spirit?but the very spirit
\nof Jesus, the second person of the trinity attested to Him being the
\neternal, Son of God with power by means of the very fact that the dead
\nresurrect! <\/p>\n
\nresurrection of anyone from the dead. Be it Lazarus, a young girl,
\nvarious saints during the crucifixion, a young man falling out of a
\nwindow, any of those events even reaching into the future where the
\nvery dead in Christ will rally to the trump of the Lord, Jesus Christ
\ndeclared to be the Son of God by the fact of the resurrection of The
\nDead. <\/p>\n
\nout that it is this very person of the trinity (this very Son of David
\nAND Son of God, forever eternal, became flesh, died, rose again,
\ndeclared by the fact that the dead actually rise up) is the one who
\ndoles out both grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among
\nall nations, for His name (v5). This same person being the very one who
\ncalls the Roman saints (v6)?how easily they can understand that they
\nare beloved of God, called to be saints. With such a calling, they most
\nassuredly, have Grace and peace from God our Father AND the Lord Jesus
\nChrist (v.7). <\/p>\n
\nman-reliant, but God-reliant. If the eternal God can show such grace
\nand mercy toward us, wretched sinners who have pinned His Son to the
\ntree, let us shudder with the understanding that yes, Grace and Peace
\nare towards us from God our Father AND the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n