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Romans 10 juridical and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 10 Home Romans 11 → Romans Chapter 10 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together Israel does not fail here for lack of zeal. It fails by establishing a righteousness of its own. The chapter does not ask for a new body. It asks for submission to the righteousness of God. Israel and the righteousness of God · J 1–4 Desire that they may be saved. Zeal without knowledge. They sought to establish their own righteousness and did not submit to the righteousness of God. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Submission and end of the law are case language. J . The righteousness of faith · J 5–7 The righteousness of the law: the one who does these things will live by them. The righteousne...
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Romans 11 juridical and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 11 Home Romans 12 → Romans Chapter 11 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together The case of Romans 1–11 ends here: God has not cast off his people. Grace, not works. Branches cut and grafted. A covenant that takes away sins. Then the doxology. A remnant by grace · J 1–6 Has God cast off his people? May it never be. A remnant according to election of grace. If by grace, no longer of works. The people are not saved by Abraham’s flesh. They are reserved by election and grace. J . 7–10 The elect obtained it; the rest were hardened. Eyes that do not see. That is a sentence that falls on perception. Hardening is juridical and is felt in what is real. Exclusion and admission · J+S 11–15 They did not stumble so as to...
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Romans 9 juridical and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 9 Home Romans 10 → Romans Chapter 9 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together Israel’s flesh is real. Paul names it with grief. But the seed that counts is not that flesh. It is the seed God puts on the books of promise. Grief according to the flesh · J 1–5 Kinsmen according to the flesh. Adoption, covenants, law, worship, promises. Christ according to the flesh. None of that is fictitious. None of it is the final verdict by itself. The list is of juridical and covenantal privileges. J . Counted as seed · J 6–8 Not all who are of Israel are Israel. Not the children of the flesh are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as seed. λογίζεται again. Birth does not decide the account. Promise d...
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Romans 8 juridicial and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 8 Home Romans 9 → Romans Chapter 8 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together Romans 8 answers the cry of 7:24 without mixing the planes. First: no condemnation. Then: the mortal body will be made alive. The case is closed. The flesh still waits. No condemnation · J+S 1 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. That is the verdict. J . 2–4 The law of the Spirit of life set free from the law of sin and death. God condemned sin in the flesh of his Son. The verdict fell on sin, not on the one who is in Christ. Walking according to the Spirit is the fruit. J+S . 10–11 The body is dead because of sin; the spirit is life because of righteousness. Then: the one who raised Jesus will also give life...
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Romams 7 juridical and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 7 Home Romans 8 → Romans Chapter 7 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together The chapter opens with a marriage in the code. It closes with a body of death. If you read it as one thing, the cry of v. 24 seems to cancel v. 4. It does not. They are two planes. Released from the law · J+S 1–3 The law rules a man as long as he lives. The married woman is bound; if the husband dies, she is released. That is marriage statute. J . 4–6 You died to the law through the body of Christ, to belong to another: the one raised from the dead. The old bond is broken by death. The aim is fruit and service in newness of spirit, not oldness of letter. Legal death to the first husband; real fruit to the second. J+S . The law and sin ·...
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Romans 6 juridical and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 6 Home Romans 7 → Romans Chapter 6 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together Here many read “dead to sin” as if the body had already changed species. Paul does not say that. He says we were united to Christ’s death, and then: reckon yourselves . Baptized into his death · J+S 1–2 Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? May it never be. We who died to sin — how shall we still live in it? That is a change of dominion, not a license. J . 3–5 The water of baptism does not cease to be water. The rite does not transform the element. It unites the baptized to the death of Christ. Buried with him; the aim is to walk in newness of life. The sign is covenantal. Newness of life already asks for a real walk. J+S . 6–...
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Romans 5 juridical and substantial

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Text size: A- Reset A+ ← Back to Romans 5 Home Romans 6 → Romans Chapter 5 Juridical and substantial Reading key · not a replacement chapter Legend J — juridical transformation: changes standing before God S — substantial transformation: changes the person, the life, or the body J+S — both together Romans 5 opens in court and ends with two heads. Peace is the fruit of a verdict. The death that passes to all is the fruit of the same kind of bond: one man’s act binds the many. Peace with God · J 1–2 Justified by faith, we have peace with God. Access into grace. We stand. That is position, not yet a new body. J . 5 The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Spirit given to us. Here the inward reality appears. It does not erase the verdict of vv. 1–2. It seals it from inside. That is why this verse touches J+S . 6–11 Christ died for the ungodly. Already justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath. We were enemi...
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