The Three Groanings

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Not Enabled Word Wise: Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Paul is simply saying that nature groans in the hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage of decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

All nature is singing, but it is a song of bondage. Yet, it sings in hope—looking forward to the day, Paul says, when it shall step into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. The groaning will become louder and louder.

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Human nature is groaning as well. The media is shouting it to us—hatred, prejudice, war, murder, rape, abortion, terrorism and the like are on the rise.

If one has an ear to hear, one can listen to the groaning of the unsaved. Everything that lives is subject to disease—animals, birds, fish, flowers, trees. Everything living is tainted to some degree. And yet we know that because of the Fall, this earth is under a curse from God. Look at verse One of the commentators, who writing I have enjoyed because he has a very happy way of putting things, is the Swiss commentator Volta Lute, and he has pointed out that a coat soaked with blood and sweat is promised to those who are allowed to wear the dress of glory here on this earth, so it is not surprising then that believers should experience suffering.

This passage is a very important passage in my opinion because it gives us an inkling of insight into the true significance of Romans chapter 7. I laid a little bit of stress when we dealt with Romans 7: Now, there is a sense in which we may experience joy. Our Lord Jesus was probably the most joyful human being who ever lived, but it was joy in the midst of great suffering. Now, the Bible does not promise us a life in which we do not have struggle, in which we do not have trial, in which we do not have suffering, in which we do not have to wrestle with powers that are stronger than we are.

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Romans 7 made that plain, and I tried to stress that because I do think often that Bible teachers make that mistake of telling individuals that they can live that kind of life, and then when they discover that the life that are called upon to live is a life of struggle, then they despair, and become defeated, and the tendency of some is to turn away from serious consideration of the word of God. He gave us the assurance of the presence of the Holy Spirit, but the presence of the Holy Spirit in the midst of struggle.

Now, these groanings are a source of hope for us in this sense that they testified to us that the best is yet to be. The path of the just is as a shinning light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day, but it is not yet.

In the mean time, groaning. God has the power, God does care, but in his will, he desires for us to pass through sufferings in order that we may learn some significant truths useful for us. Well, we look first at the groaning of the creation.

Then we shall look at the groaning of the children and finally at the groaning of the comforter the Holy Spirit himself. In verse 26 and verse In other words these verses are designed to support us in the midst of our suffering. It may be therefore rendered rather freely. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory. They are not worthy to be mentioned with the glory, someone has said.

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So in other words that apostle is saying you are going to have to suffer, but I want to support you in your sufferings by reminding you that those sufferings are not worthy to be mentioned, not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in you. Now one was not the Apostle Paul if he were to say that, well it would be much more understandable perhaps, and also the stress upon the glory might not be so significant as it is when we remember who it is who wrote this.

It is doubtful that there is any Christian who ever suffered as the Apostle Paul suffered. Just listen to some of the things that were said with reference to him. Tradition is that he was finally martyred, but we are not certain of that. However these are some of the things that he says of his own life.

Now, he says this in a boastful way, he admits, but he said it because he was combating false teachers, and he found it necessary to this, but he apologized for it. I speak as fool. I am more, in labors more abundant in stripes above measures, in prisons more frequently. They are preaching that one may believe in Jesus Christ, but one must also be circumcised in order to be saved, and thus the salvation by grace is reduced to a salvation by works, which the natural man wants to hear.

He wants to think that he can do something to earn salvation, for that in effect says that merit is therefore possible to arise from man. Thrice was I beaten with rods. Once was I stoned. Thrice I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I have been in the deep in journeying often and perils of waters and perils by mine own countryman, and perils by the gentiles, and peril in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren in weariness and painfulness and watching often in hunger and thirst and feastings often in cold and nakedness, beside those things that are without.

Three Groanings for Glory

That which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Now, that needs some explanation, and that of course is what the apostle gives it. He said, in effect suffering is a drop. Glory is an ocean. This is a personification of the creation as if it were personal this creation about us, so he goes on to explain.

He refers to the fall in the Garden of Eden, and the judgment that was pronounced upon the creation.

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The firmament showeth his handiwork, we can see the hand of God in creation. Well, I want you to know, those great manifestations of the glory of God stand under the curse. The creation is longing to be delivered from the curse. It brings forth thorns and thistles now, but it is truly to be beautiful in the future. Tourist business must be good during the millennial kingdom. The apostle is explaining. Not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same. When man finally enters into the blessing of the Kingdom of God upon the earth, the whole creation shall enter into that blessing too, shall be renewed.

We speak of this as the golden age. Now, if you have eyes to see, you can look around in this creation and see that groaning. You see a sobbing black bird. The earthquakes that take place, in evidence of the groaning, the broken dams that cause tragedy, the divorces that cause personal tragedies. All the human tragedy is part of this groaning, and travailing together in pain until now. Now, the apostle uses a word here I would like to stress there, in verse So the apostle says that the creation not only groans, which has reference to the past, but also is travailing in pain because a new creation, a renewed earth is to result, so that there is a new birth that is to take place of the creation itself, so there are not only death pangs, but birth pangs.

One is reminded of the fact that this has been the incentive of poets in their expression of some of the human yearnings for deliverance from the pains and sorrows of an obviously incomplete and imperfect existence.

The glory and freshness of a dream it is not now as it hath been of yore. Turn where so ever I may by night or day the things, which I have seen I now can see no more. Waters on a starry night are fair. It so happens that in Rabbinic literature, the days of the Messiah are spoken of as the days of the birth pang of the Messiah. For in Jewish thought the Messiah was going to come. He would establish his kingdom upon the earth, and the birth pang of the Messiah was the time of tribulation preceding that Kingdom of God upon the earth. I think this is a verse that pre millenialists can rejoice in because I believe the apostle is speaking of that Kingdom of God upon the earth.

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