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acceptance. 2. He helps us to cry out to God as Father. 3. He testifies with our spirit that
we are children of God.
6. Hope in the Spirit (Rom 8:22-25)
The biblical concept represented by the English word 'hope' is so strong that it is almost
a synonym for 'eager expectation.' The focus of the expectation isn't that life will get
better here; it is absorbed with the glorious life to come. What is the role of the Holy
Spirit in all this? Rom 8:23 says: ' We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.'
Paul claims that it is becausewe have the Spirit, not despite it that we groan. In this
passage, it is precisely the presence of the Spirit within you that causes you to feel this
particular kind of sufferingthe longing for final redemption in the midst of a fallen
world. In this way, the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives reminds us of the stark
contrast between the wonderful things God has prepared for us who believe and this
fallen world that is so full of sin, suffering, and futility.
7. Pray in the Spirit (Rom. 8:26-28)
These two verses (Rom 8:26-27) are so rich and helpful in our lives in the Spirit. 1. We
learn that we are weak when we come to prayer. We often don't know what to pray for in
any given situation. The concern is not about themanner of prayer (the 'how'), but rather
the content of our prayerswhat do we actually pray about? 2. We learn that the Spirit
joins to help us when we are struggling to know how to pray by interceding for us with
wordless groaning. It is not, as some propose, that we should just pray whatever we want
since we don't have any idea how to pray, and that the Spirit fixes them up and prays on
our behalf to the Father. Rather, the verb often translated as 'helps' has a preposition
attached to the front of it, which suggests that it really means 'joins to help.' 3. The Spirit
is searching our hearts and knows that we have a mind-set that is focused on him, even if
we do not know exactly what we are supposed to pray. 4. The result is that our prayers
are prayed 'according to the will of God' because the Holy Spirit is moving us thus to
pray and is presenting the prayers that he is guiding us to pray to the Father.
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