Class Notes: 2/15/2024

The book of Romans part 202 Rom 5:5;

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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans last time we finished Rom 5:4;

Expanded Translation Rom 5:4; "And perseverance (courage under pressure) proven character (demonstrated integrity); and proven character hope (absolute confident expectation of blessing from God's justice)"

Rom 5:5; "And the hope does not disappoint" the verse begins with the definite article "ho" (the) that is not translated into the English followed by the connective use of the postpositive conjunctive particle "de" (and or but), plus the nominative singular subject with the definite article, "elpis" (hope or absolute confidence).

The definite article that is not translated makes it monadic and is used to refer to a previous reference in the context that is referring to that same hope, that discusses hope in God's integrity and the blessings that God's justice conveys to mature believers.

Plus the present active indicative of verb "kataischuno" (disappointed) or put to shame, dishonored, or disgraced plus the negative "ou" (not) so with the negative it means "never disappoints, never puts to shame or never dishonors or disgraces."

The present tense is a static present that describes a situation that exists perpetually to the point where it is assumed to be so true that it is taken for granted as a fact. With the strong negative "ou" (not) it means that there is no way that God's integrity can ever disappoint.

The active voice tells us that the hope that God's integrity produces never disappoints. The indicative mood is declarative for a dogmatic statement of reality.

"And the hope (related to God's integrity) never disappoints." This is telling us that God's integrity is so great and so perfect because it is so stabilized in God's immutability and so powerful from God's omnipotence, that it is impossible to be disappointed in any relationship you have with it.

Therefore when disappointment comes it is when the believer fails, or his friends or his loved ones fail; but God never fails because God cannot fail.

Under God's grace policy man does nothing so he cannot do anything or perform anything whereby he could be disappointed in himself or anyone else. Under grace man depends on God alone there is no dependence on any other person, so man is not disappointed when he himself fails or some other person fails or turns against him.

Under grace the believer depends exclusively on God's integrity that is the source of all blessings and cannot disappoint.

God's righteousness is satisfied with the righteousness of God that God imputed to the believer at the moment of salvation therefore God's righteousness demands blessing for the believer so God's justice provides what God's righteousness demands from His perfect integrity.

When the believer is in carnality and reversionism from control of the soul by the OSN God's righteousness demands discipline that God's justice administers but God still provides blessing because of God's irrevocable imputed righteousness.

When the believer is in fellowship under the ministry of the Spirit and positive toward doctrine, as demonstrated by the daily function of GASP, then God's righteousness demands more blessing from God's justice. This is called greater grace or super grace.

God's justice always administers what the God's righteousness demands.

Righteousness is the principle of God's integrity and justice is the function of God's integrity. Therefore either the believer adjusts to God's justice or God's justice will adjust to him. For the believer this is the difference between more or greater blessing and discipline with blessing from God's justice.

Adjustment to God's justice after salvation demands not only rebound but also the daily function of learning God's Word of truth under His GASP system for the acquisition of spiritual information.

God's justice adjusts to the believer in discipline when the believer fails to rebound by confessing his sins or when he rejects or resists the Holy Spirit's teaching of God's Word of truth.

This means that any disappointment that the believer in carnality or reversionism has is self induced because he is the source of his own disappointment that comes from his own unrealistic expectations in himself, his friends, his loved ones or his circumstances.

But the believer who is positive toward doctrine and advancing toward maturity, or the believer who has attained maturity adjustment to God's justice is never disappointed in his relationship with God's integrity and is therefore not vulnerable to disappointment when he or his friends or loved ones fail because he does not have unrealistic expectation.

God's justice never provides blessing without first providing the corresponding capacity for that blessing. With capacity from doctrine resident in the soul the blessing can never disappoint.

No direct blessing from God in life can be a source of disappointment because the corresponding capacity always comes first.

Occupation with the source always removes any disappointment. Capacity for blessing and occupation with Christ both come from maximum doctrine resident and circulating in the thinking.

This means that only doctrinal believers can actually have and understand "the hope." 1Cor 13:13;

When believers fail the prosperity test and they become disappointed it is because they do not have the doctrinal capacity for their prosperity to be a blessing rather than a curse because they are not occupied with Christ because they lack doctrine in their thinking.

Disappointed believers with unrealistic expectations are susceptible to the propaganda and lies that come from the demonic influence of satan's cosmic systems. This is why arrogant envious or guilt-ridden tyrants in the name of equity are attacking truth, equality and freedom in our country.

The only remedy for this is the application of doctrinal truth that is recalled from metabolized doctrine in the thinking of mature believers.

Rom 5:5; "because the love of the God has been poured out within our hearts" the love of the God is deployed into the thinking of those who have doctrine. It is the doctrine that makes this possible.

"Because" is a causal conjunction, "hoti" (because). Then the nominative singular subject of the "agape" (love) that is personal love that God directs toward us because of His imputed righteousness forms the subjective genitive from "Theos" (God) that initiates the process.

See Net note 5 and 1John 4:19; This is a plenary genitive because our response to the God's love for us creates an objective mental attitude love that has no subjective emotion connected with it.

Rom 5:5; "Because the love of "The God" (Jesus Christ) creates the response of occupation with Christ when His Word of truth is metabolized under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit that develops maturity adjustment to God's justice from metabolized doctrine.

Plus the perfect passive indicative of "ekehynono" (has been poured out) this indicates saturation of doctrine from the daily function of GASP under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit

The perfect tense is a dramatic perfect that is the rhetorical use of the intensive perfect that indicates the action has been completed in the past and continues into the future as the result of the believer's daily function under God the Holy Spirit in Gods GASP system.

The passive voice" the love of the God receives the action of the verb of having been poured out. The indicative mood is declarative for the reality of the God's love being poured out; "en" (into) plus the locative of "kardia" (heart) that is the right lobe of the soul where "epignosis" or spirit taught doctrine is stored.

The kardia" (heart) where we think is the place where spiritual growth happens, it is where we become aware of God's integrity and develop an awe and respect for it, and where it turns to hope, the first stage of awareness of the integrity of God through metabolized doctrine that is the source of having occupation with Christ that is our response of love for the God.

"And the hope (spirit taught metabolized doctrine aka epignosis) never disappoints because the love of the God has been poured out into our thinking "kardia" (heart).

"through the Holy Spirit who was given to us" "dia" (through) plus the genitive of "pneuma hagiou" (Holy Spirit), correctly translated "though (or by means of) the Holy Spirit."

The third person of the Trinity teaches us the doctrine. When we believe the doctrine under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit it goes into our heart as "epignosis" that is the basis for having hope.

The same Holy Spirit who converts the doctrine (faith) into cognizance in our souls as epignosis or spirit taught doctrine is the source of the hope or confidence that we have in God converts it into love when we deploy or express it.

Love resides in the heart or in the soul; love is expressed from the heart or the soul. Doctrine goes in, hope and love are developed and love comes out, all three, faith, hope and love are products of the ministry of God the Holy Spirit.

Then comes the genitive singular from the definite article "ho" (the) that is used as a relative pronoun, plus the aorist passive participle of "didomi" (has been given). This is a constantive aorist tense that refers to the momentary action of believing in Jesus Christ that is salvation adjustment to God's justice.

At that moment God the Holy Spirit came to dwell inside of us. The passive voice refers to the indwelling and filling of God the Holy Spirit that was received at the moment of salvation.

The participle is circumstantial. Plus the dative plural indirect object from the personal pronoun "hemeis" (us). The dative of indirect object indicates believers in whose interest the giving of the Spirit occurred at the moment of salvation.

Rom 5:5; Expanded Translation: And the hope never disappoints; because the love of the God has been poured out by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."

This verse emphasizes the ministry of God the Holy Spirit as being active in our thinking, the ministry of the Holy Spirit in perception of Bible doctrine, the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the application of doctrine to our thinking in life and applying the truth of God's Word that superimposes God's viewpoint over human viewpoint.

Stability in life occurs when the of God's Word of truth aka divine viewpoint is superimposed over our limited human perception of life aka human viewpoint.

John 14:26; explains that believers have a helper who helps them to recall the doctrine they have heard and teaches it to them.

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