GOD’s SPIRIT Quickens Our Body!
Romans
8:11 KJV
“But if The SPIRIT of Him that
raised up JESUS from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up CHRIST from the
dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal bodies by His SPIRIT Who dwelleth
in you.” What is Paul saying? What is the context here?
Romans 8:1-17 (NKJV condensed) “There
is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in CHRIST JESUS, who do
not walk according to the flesh, but according to The SPIRIT. For The Law of
The SPIRIT of Life in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and
death…So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD. But you are not in
the flesh but in The SPIRIT, if indeed The SPIRIT of GOD dwells in you…And if
CHRIST is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but The SPIRIT
is Life because of Righteousness. But if The SPIRIT of HIM Who raised JESUS
from the dead dwells in you, He Who raised CHRIST from the dead will also give
Life to your mortal bodies through (Or because of) His SPIRIT Who dwells
in you…For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by The
SPIRIT you put to death the deeds of the body, you will Live…The SPIRIT Himself
bears witness with our spirit that we are Children of GOD, and if Children,
then Heirs – Heirs of GOD and joint Heirs with CHRIST, if indeed that we suffer
with Him, that we may be also Glorified together.” (Later go back and
read all 17 verses.)
Many Christians have been taught
that Romans 8:11 says that The HOLY SPIRIT will heal your body because you are
a Believer in JESUS*.
There are two Greek words for
quicken in The KJV – zōŏpŏiĕō from the same as zōŏn and pŏiĕō
meaning: to (re-) vitalize (literally or figuratively):-make alive, give life,
quicken.
And – suzōŏpŏiĕō from suzētĕō
and zōŏpŏiĕō meaning: to reanimate conjointly with (figuratively):-quicken
together with.
JESUS only used zōŏpŏiĕō!
The following are from NKJV with (KJV in parentheses).
John 5:20-21, JESUS is being criticized
for healing on the Sabbath and making Himself equal with GOD, so He says: “For
The Father Loves The Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He
will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as The Father
Raises the dead and gives Life to them (quickeneth them), even so The Son gives
Life to (quickeneth) whom He Will.”
John 6:62-63, JESUS is losing
disciples because of His teaching about He is The Bread of Life and Believers
have to eat His flesh (this is for another teaching), so He says: “What
then if you should see The Son of Man ascend where He was before? It is The
SPIRIT Who gives Life (that quickeneth); the flesh profits nothing. The Words
that I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life.”
So JESUS is saying that the HOLY
SPIRIT gives Life to our flesh! He is not talking about healing the body He is
talking about our new Spiritual body that we get when out present mortal bodies
dies.
JESUS said this a couple of times
in a different manner, Mark 8:34-38 (NKJV condensed): “…Whoever desires to come
after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever
desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My Sake
and The Gospel’s will Save it…For whoever is ashamed of Me and My Words in this
adulterous and sinful generation, of him The son of Man will be ashamed when He
comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels (Luke 14:25-33 – there is
a cost to serving JESUS).”
The point is that Eternal Life is
more important to the Christian than healing! JESUS used healing, deliverance
and raising the dead to get people’s attention to what He was Saying; and
Christians should be doing the same. JESUS made this point when He said, “If
your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It
is better for you to enter into Life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands
or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire. And if your eye causes you
to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter
into Life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.”
Matthew 18:8-9 (Matthew 5:27-30; Mark 9:43-48).
Paul uses zōŏpŏiĕō five
times, in Romans 4:17, 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:45; Ephesian 2:1 and 1 Timothy
6:13.
Paul’s use in 1 Corinthians 15:45 of
zōŏpŏiĕō: “And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a Living
Being.’ The last Adam became a Life-giving SPIRIT.”
is quoting Genesis 2:7**: “And
JEHOVAH GOD formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
The Breath of Life; and man became a Living Being (Living Soul).”
How did Adam become a Living
Being? JEHOVAH breathed into his nostrils The Breath of Life (His SPIRIT)
Peter uses zōŏpŏiĕō one
time in 1 Peter 3:18, where he says: “…that He (JESUS) might bring us to GOD, being
put to death in the flesh but made Alive by The SPIRIT.”
Paul uses suzōŏpŏiĕō two
times, in Ephesians 2:5 and Colossians 2:13.
* I am not saying that The HOLY
SPIRIT does not heal people, especially Believers; I am saying that this
passage is not about healing it is about Eternal Life which requires a new
spiritual eternal body! We are healed by JESUS’ scourging before His crucifixion
(Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:21-24). GOD is our healer; His Name is JEHOVAH Raphah (Exodus
15:26; 2 Chronicles 7:13-14).
** In the Old Testament there is
only one word for quicken: châyâh = a primary root; to live, whether figuratively
or literally; causative to revive:-keep (leave, make) alive and more.
it is translated 14 times in the
KJV as quicken and is only used in The Psalms (71:20; 80:18; 119:25, 37, 40, 50,
88, 93, 107, 149, 154, 156, 159; 143:11); it is also translated as life seven
times in the KJV (2 Kings 8:1, 5; Job 33:4, 36:6; Ecclesiastes 7:12, 15; Ezekiel
13:22).
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