posted Oct 22, 2016, 12:56 PM by Grant Garber
- The whole creation groans (v. 22).
- We ourselves groan inwardly (v. 23).
- To have joy and inward groans is the tension in which the Christian daily lives; joy at this personal salvation groans at a world adrift from God.
- Suffering Humanity
- The Half-Impotent Church
- Ourselves
- The Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express (v. 26).
- At the center of the universe there is a loving God.
- In my view, the most awful thing any human mind can conceive is atheism. There is nothing to believe in!
- All true progress in this world is by the echo of the groan of God in the heart of humankind.
- Is the groan in the heart of God the answer to the groan in creation?
- Paul bound sinful humanity and the groaning universe together. He said that when humankind is free from sin, the agony of the universe will be over.
- God last word is not a groan, but joy, joy, joy!
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