In Romans 8:5-8, William Swan Plumer shows that before God, man is either in a state of sin and misery, or he is redeemed by grace through faith in Christ. There is no neutrality, for the mind is either carnal and at enmity with God, or it is spiritual, and desires to please God.
Has your prayer life grown cold and apathetic? In these reflections, taken from Benjamin Morgan Palmer's larger work on the Theology of Prayer, readers are provided a balm that will help invigorate and stir their affections toward God and toward prayer.
In Romans 8:3-4, William Swan Plumer shows the necessity of both justification and sanctification in the Christian life, and the believer’s relation to the law and the gospel.
In this devotional from William Plumer’s Commentary on Romans 8:2, Plumer explains Paul’s use of the “law of the Spirit of Life” and the freedom from sin and death that believer’s experience in and through their union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
This devotional, taken from William Plumer’s Commentary on Romans 8:1, shows the intimate and inseparable link between the believer’s justification and sanctification. Readers will be encouraged to rest in the finished work of Christ, and pursue holiness by God’s grace and the Spirit’s power.
